It's been 2 weeks since Mia has been in the hospital. Contractors have visited to create another room that is meant to be the baby's room once it is born. Lately work has consumed my day and my two loved ones consumed my nights. It's almost like clock work, a cycle even the same repetitive routine everyday.
"Devon." My father called me angrily, I snapped out of my daze remembering where I was. The board room with different business tycoons relating to the same monopoly.
"I apologize gentleman. As I was saying, the annual revenue has decreased 0.9% just this month, a solution has to be made. There is a worker in one of the top fields in this oil division that has been causing this and this needs to be tracked down."
"Well what do you expect we do?" One of the men asked.
"Monitor better, so many of you take so many days off you don't pay attention to your workers, they could be stealing money right under our noses and we turn a blind eye!" I roared angrily. This was infuriating me, the business I was forced in i now how to worry about when there is so many other things to think about."
"Dismissed." I stated as everyone rushed out.
"We need to talk son." My father called to me, I remained seated waiting for him to speak.
"You can't just leave Cindy, you know we-"
"You need this. I don't want this I never did." I told him deadpan
He sighed with wrinkles creasing on his face, "I know she's pregnant" I was shocked, who could've told him?
"Cindy told me, she refuses to marry you if she has that child.."
"Excuse me?" I yelled. "You want your grandchild to be aborted for your damn company. I stood up abruptly and laughed humorously.
"It's a good thing moms dead because she'd never be able to stomach what became of you." And with that I left.
As I walked to my nearby condo paparazzi flooded the place
"Devon is it true you have a child?"
" Devon is it true you're dating two girls at the same time?"
"Devon are you having a baby with your fiancé and mistress?"
"Is the wedding off?"
I Beat my way through the crowd pushing and shoving as I was quickly escorted into the condo by the security guards.
In an angry haste I went to my apartment, to my home office and started trashing it. Shredded business plans, ruined bills, threw everything away till there was nothing left.
And then I heard a gasp.
Cindy was standing in the doorway, "I didn't know we were trashing all the rooms.." She said astonished. I turned to her questionably.
"What do you mean?" She smirked and hummed, curving her slender manicured finger indicating me to follow.
That's when I lost it.
The walls were adulterate with marks and dirt, the white crib broken to pieces, the toys and clothes burned and a meticulous smirk on Cindys face.
I slammed her into the wall, hand on her throat squeezing her wind pipe.
"What're you gonna do Devon?" She wheezed out.
"Kill me?" She bitterly laughed.
"That baby is gonna die anyway. And you know-"
That was the first time I ever laid my hands on a woman.
I loosened my hand on Cindy's cheek as she cried and fell to the ground holding her cheek. I didn't know what to say... What could I say?
"I'm happy you chose to stay with that tramp who can't keep her legs closed. Id never stay with an abuser like you."
I left the room, left the condo where fortunately there was no more paparazzi. I drove my car to the nearest bar I found and drunk shot after shot until a sense of nostalgia grew on me.
I missed the times me and mother would watch family feud when I was younger, when we had the deepest conversations when I was nearing adolescents about things going on. When my father actually said he was proud of me. I missed when me and Mia would just sleep in, enjoy each other's company without the riches, materialistic things. Just me and her in solitude.
In the distance I heard a ring that apparently wasn't far away, right in my pocket actually. I answered it while downing a bit of scotch and I heard heavy crying
"Hey" the voice croaked.
I knew that voice from anywhere.
It was my Mia.
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I haven't wrote in a while, I apologize for that especially not mentioning that this story will be on hold.
Thank you for all my dedicated readers and the ones who will give this story a new or second chance.
