I'M YOUR BETTER HALF

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JENNIE

Our bundle of joy has become the talk of the country when Lisa keeps posting photos of him in social media. Until I stopped her. She did. I just wanted our son to enjoy his childhood and keep his life private until he's at the right age. Good thing Lisa listened and agreed to me.

I came back to work but made sure I manage my time as I don't want to depend my son to his nanny most of the time. I see to it that I spend four hours with him in the morning and give my time to him in the afternoon til evening. Of course, my time with my Lisa too. As much as possible, I would cook our dinner. It's the only time of the day that my partner smiles. She really loves when I cook our food.

There were times too when we make love, our son would cry in the middle of the night and interrupts us. Lisa would just joke around and tell her son that she misses me. We still both look after him, give him his needs and just continue when he gets back to sleep.

At dawn, Lisa wakes up too when I get up every time André's hungry or he wants to be carried. Lisa lets me sleep and she's the one taking care of him. But I am also worried. Lisa has a job in the morning and we're talking about serving the whole country here. Sometimes, I notice she's so tired when she goes home.
Should I lessen my work again? I don't want my wife to struggle with her time, and of course, her health is my priority too.

André turned 8 months old and I felt something is happening to my body again. I experienced all the symptoms before I had my son.
And here comes another one. Yes, I am pregnant again.
We're actually so happy because we really planned for this. We want our first two children to just have a short age gap so they will have a great bond as they grow up.

I thought my second pregnancy would be easy, but it's not what I expected it to be. I had more bleedings, dizziness and body pains. Lisa would shorten her time at the palace to make sure she's beside me all the time.

Time came that the country encountered major problems we didn't expect.
We surpassed the virus. Lisa put the economy in good shape.
And here's this one big stone that hit us and brought damage literally.
Terrorism and Police failures.

People started to bash the President.
It hurts me so much seeing her at night drinking until she fall asleep. I am trying to talk to her. Sometimes she listens. Sometimes she doesn't want to talk about it.

One day, Lisa called up a close door meeting to all high ranking officials and government individuals.
I became part of it because I am the founder of majority of org groups that protect our people.

"Now look, the H Square was bombed recently after the Malcom Park incident. How many died?"
Lisa asked the Police representative with disappointment.

"24 people died and 13 are in the hospital right now, President."
The Police investigator said and Lisa looked down and shook her head. I held her hand above her thigh and gripped it tight.

She took a deep breath.

"How did the terrorist enter our country?"
She asked. No one is answering.

I noticed all of them are trembling because Lisa is already angry. So angry.

"Babe, stay calm. Compose yourself."
I whispered and she looked at me and held my hand tighter.

"I just noticed General Vaux is not around. Where is he? He should be the one answering the President's question right now."
I already spoke up because we can't resolve this without the Chief General's explaination.

Everyone looked around. Even Lisa. And there they all realized he is not around.

"Where is General Vaux? Call him up and tell him he must be here asap."
Lisa ordered and she is really so angry right now.

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