DESTINED

Chapter 32

*Don't be mad at me. It's just a book but there are people out here who are going through the same thing.*

Fatima: Well? I'm waiting, we're married Zac.

Zac: Promise me you won't get mad or hate me?

Fatima: I won't hate you, I can't promise about not getting mad.

Zac: Fair enough. I don't know where to start.

Fatima: From the beginning.

Zac: I have a guy named Ricky, who does things for me. I got in an accident - let me put it properly, I asked Ricky to kill me but he couldn't.

Fatima: You were suicidal?

Zac: Kind off. The accident was planned but I somehow woke up at your hospital, I don't know how. Fast forward to me being discharged, I started building a life here in Atlanta, I got my fresh start. Then Ricky shows up at my rental home and tells me about a shipment that's worth millions, so we took it, it belonged to your father.

Fatima: What? (She sat up).

Zac: Yes, I think it was supposed to be shipped out of the country or something. After researching who he was, that's when I saw you, his daughter, my doctor.

Fatima: I was part of your plan?

Zac: Let me finish. We took the shipment before I came to your cafe. After my morning run, one day, the smell of coffee hit me and your cafe became my stop after every run. I won't lie, I knew your dad was in town the day Duke roughed me up.

Fatima: Why not tell me this from the get go?

Zac: How?

Fatima: Just say it.

Zac: I was planning to but then I found out about Naila and so on and so on. I started doing these criminal things at 17 years old, Ricky was my high school best friend. I smuggled and sell gun, cocaine, gold or diamond for a living. Real estate is just my side hustle that I use to launder money.

Fatima: Zachary! (She shifted away for him).

Zac: What Karen and those Pilates friends were saying about me is all true. I can be a monster if I want to but all that changed when I met you. The night I saw you at the bar in D.C, I followed you there, I told you I was booked in a hotel opposite the bar but I lied, I own parts of that hotel. I was not planning on sleeping with you.

Fatima: The one night stand we had?

Zac: Yes, I came to D.C for "business" and I saw Duke pick you up from the airport, we were on the same flight. I followed you, I saw you have sex with Duke -

Fatima: Stop -

Zac: I don't know what took over me, I watched you, I saw your mom go in that day.

Fatima: You stalked me.

Zac: Unintentionally, I sent Ricky the picture of your ID and he ran you, that's when I found out about Naila, Ian and more. I pretended not to know anything.

Fatima: It is all a game.

Zac: No, I fell in love with you. Everything about you and I is real, my feelings, my love and our family. Your father's shipment is still at the harbour.

Fatima: You planned all this? I thought that night was genuine, I know it was supposed to be a one night stand but -

Zac: I couldn't let it be a one night stand. Also, I've been keeping an eye on Ian since the beginning, I know him more than you do.