Beyond The Scars (Rewriting As FINDING HER PACK)

Chapter 4

'I just wanted a baby and she couldn't deliver that,' Daniel shouted as his uncles cornered him about his infidelity. Things were getting heated up as the story hit the fan. Dayo sat opposite me with her head bowed down acting like an innocent virgin bride as if she and that selfish person I called my husband were the root cause of this hurricane.

'Did you inform me about that? Did you? No, you didn't, all you did was pretend like everything was okay, as if you were happy without a baby in the picture. If you had told me we could've found other means,' I countered

'What other means Natacha? Adoption? No, I wouldn't go for that. I am not the kind of man who will raise another man's child and pretend like it's mine, no that is not me,'

I chuckled in disappointment, 'For a graduate, you are really stupid Daniel, you know that?'

'Don't insult my child in front of me,' his mother shouted from the other corner.

'I am not insulting anyone, I am just stating facts. If he isn't dumb as he is, he would have known that there is something called surrogate or manual implantation, that way he could have a child of his own. Or maybe you are right, he is not stupid, he is just a selfish idiot. Cause now when I look at it closely, why did he take her to bed when she was already pregnant. Were you intending to make her pregnant again?' I raised one eyebrow towards Daniel, 'Were you hoping for twins or maybe triplets?' He couldn't answer, all he did was look down and drill the floor with his eyes. Good, because if he had answered he would have proved to be more of an idiot.

'Aiii, this woman got a rotten mouth, who raised you to talk back to your husband and elders like that, no respect at all,' his mom interrupted again, trying to push away the platter that was currently on the table. If she thought I will back down, she was wrong. I had the upper hand I was going to take advantage of that.

'Respect is a two-way street, madam if your mother didn't teach you that, then she didn't know anything about respect. And when it comes to raising children, then spare my mom because you too you did a bad job in that, you couldn't raise your child to be a man enough so as to keep his and stick by his word,'

'Don't you dare insult me in my son's house,' she shouted

'Your son and I's house you mean?' I looked and at her and cocked an eyebrow.

'You.....,'

'Hold it there Sarah,' his eldest uncle interrupted, 'We are not here to argue and blow this issue into a bigger problem,' The room went silent for a moment but you could hear and see his mom fuming with anger.

'Natacha, we all know that our son here wronged you and we are sorry for that and he too is sorry for that,' his eldest uncle continued, drawing everyone's attention, 'He came to me and told me what he had done and what has been going during the course of this week. I know it is hard for you to accept this but this is how things turn out to be and we have to find a way forward, so before anyone lay his or her suggestion on how we are going to move on from this, I suggest you give us your suggestion but before that, you have to know, our son still loves you and he is sorry for what he put you through and he wants to make things right between you and have his wife back,'

Coward, a bloody coward, putting his uncles in the fore-front and let them fight his battles for him. But I am going to pretend that hasn't crossed my mind and voice out my mind because he is a coward that I love, the coward my heart chose and the coward I still want to grow old with.

'I will adopt the child,' I said without hesitation. It is something that has been on my mind and I have made up my mind about it.

'No,' Dayo screamed, letting us hear her voice for the first time.

'Haii, you want to rip where you did not sow,' the mother whispered but loud enough for everyone to hear.

'Sarah,' one of his uncles warned and she looked away.

'As I was saying, this is my husband's child, it is here and there is no going back, so as his wife, I will accept the child, whether it is going to be a boy or a girl, I will raise it as my own,'

'No, I am not going to give up my baby,' Dayo voiced.

'I will give you money, a house, a car, I will sponsor you for the rest of your life, if you give me this baby,'

'No, I won't. What if this is the only baby I will ever carry no way,'

'Dayo, I am not saying I will cut you off totally. Just let me mother the baby. You can visit him or her, maybe as his or her aunt and maybe when she is around eighteen we can tell her the truth,'

'No, I won't give up my motherly rights. I want to raise my own baby, I want to hear my baby call my mom, not aunt or any other ridiculous names,'

'Dayo...,'

'She said she doesn't want to give up her child. True nature of a mother.Something that you may never experience. And what money are you going to sponsor her with, my son's money, you want my son to buy his own child?'

I have tried to understand where this woman's hatred for me comes from but I had failed so for the past seven years, I have tried to look past her hatred and ignore her words. Just like everyone, she saw a trophy wife who stays at home and spent her husband's money, her son's money not knowing where we started. I dated Daniel when he had nothing in his name, boosted his courage and encouraged him to turn his talent into money. His first designed, I marketed them. By then, I was merely a student pursuing her degree in physiology and as he moved up the ladder, I helped him make deals with his suppliers and his customers. His very first business plan, I was the one who made it. By the time I graduated, he was someone and he had marked his place in the industry and that is when we said the I dos. So she probably thinks she didn't get to enjoy her son's money because I took him away as soon as he became successful. 

That star needs some lovemaking