MY SISTER'S LOVER

MY SISTER'S LOVER

CHAPTER 16

"Agnes I'm leaving you. I'm moving in with Judy, and I will go with Shirleen." Sam said.
"Are you mad or something? My daughter will part from me only when am dead. Gets that into your thick skull!"
So these guys had planned to take my baby away from me all this while? This was too much to bear.
"Yes Agnes, whether you like it or not, Shirleen is my daughter and we are leaving with her."
Said Judy.
"And when did you five birth to her Judy?"
The question itself even surprised me.
She went for her purse and produced a certain paper. She handed it over to me.
"Here is her birth certificate. It shows that I am the biological mother and Sam is the father!"
Whaaat!? I couldn't believe my eyes.
"How did you get this birth cert? I still have her notification with me. You guys are mad. Your madness is actually on another level. Kindly leave my house before I do something we will all regret!"
I said with finality.
How can someone come and claim my own daughter, whom I carried in my womb for nine months is her daughter? I breastfed her, was with her all through, how was that even possible?
"We are leaving Agnes, and we are taking Shirleen with us. We have to start bonding with our daughter. As for the house, you can keep it. I will prepare the paperwork for this house to be under your name!"
Sam said.
"Nobody is gonna bribe me with anything to take my daughter away, I will fight you people with everything that I hold dear. Nobody will take Shirleen away from me. Now, whether this house is mine or not, I want you to leave now or I call the police on you. And as for you Judy, you will feel the wrath of our parents. I promise you. Now get out,!out!out ..!"
I paused to take in some air.
"And as for you Robert, weren't you ashamed to be an accomplice to all this atrocity? What came over you anyway!?"
"Money talks Aggy, money talks"
That's all he could say.

I rose up from the bed and pushed Sam with all my might, leading him towards the door. When I made sure he was out, I pushed Judy and Robert followed suit. "Come back here and see if you will live to tell the tale. Fools!"
I locked the door from inside and slumped on the couch, crying my heart out.
"We will be back!"
I heard Judy saying.
I called my nanny who was with Shirleen in her room to bring her to me. I cuddled her like my life depended on it. I gave her several smudges everywhere on her face and told her how much I loved her. I swore to my self that I was gonna shift from that house And they were never gonna see me, ever again.

As I was sitting there meditating on what to do, a text popped up in my phone. It was from Judy.
"We will pick our daughter on her first birthday. Till then, nobody will disturb you"
It read.
That was two weeks from now.
I was gonna show them they I was always ahead of them.
I had yo strategize on what to do because I wasn't ready to engage my sister on any court battle.
I couldn't stop wondering how these people went ahead of me and applied for a birth cert for my gal. How naive was I?
Naive and gullible. I was blindly in love to smell the burning coffee.
That night I couldn't sleep at all. Shirleen slept so well. Most of the times I would wake up and touch her side of the bed to make sure she was still with me. I had to act fast if I needed to be with her. I decided to go to the hospital where I gave birth at, to pick another notification because I had misplaced the previous one.
That was the first thing I would do the following day.
It was high time I took my life and that of my baby serious.
I woke up that day and left strict instructions to my house help. She wasn't supposed to open the door for anybody else and not even Judy and she was to remain indoors through out till I came back.
I drove my car to a Motor selling firm and sold it at almost half the price Sam bought it.
I passed by  the boutique and gave all my sales girls a day off. I called a friend who had shown interest in buying it And she came immediately. We did the paper work and the boutique changed hands. She promised to hire the girls back because they were good at their job.
I was really mad and I was doing everything to salvage the situation. My baby was mine and I was going to protect her with all I had. I then went to the hospital and got the birth notification, went to sheria house, pulled some strings  here and there and I got the birth certificate the same day.
I called my house help and told me that everything was okay. Nobody had showed up at all.
I took a cab and went home a satisfied woman. I had one more thing to do.....
And that was to be done the following day.....