Saving Amina

Twelve.

"Chad, baby...I'm home!" Monica said, walking into the house, later than she usually did when we "worked late". Usually when Monica worked, she would find Chadwick waiting for her to get home in the living room. "We had so much work to get done, we lost  track of time completely. She kicked off her heels by the door, and set her purse down on the table, before noticing he wasn't there. Thinking he probably just went to bed, since it was late, she went to the kitchen, grabbed some water, and slowly made her way up the stairs.

She walked into the bedroom and saw that her husband wasn't there either. "Chad!" She called out, thinking he was in their bathroom, but the light was off. Thinking he was probably just in his office downstairs, she went into the bathroom, took a shower and got ready for bed.

After coming out of the bathroom, she saw that Chadwick still wasn't in bedroom, so she made her way back downstairs and went to the office that Chadwick had in their house. When she saw he wasn't in their either, she started to get frustrated. There's no way he would leave to house and not let her know. That would be completely unlike him. Finally, she decided to check the nursery. She knew that sometimes Chadwick would go in their and work on something in the room, so it can be ready for when the baby got here.

She made her way back upstairs, walked down the hallway, and opened the door to an empty room. "Where the hell is he?" She said out loud to herself. She walked closer into the room and noticed something sitting on the dresser. She picked up the paper and unfolded it and began reading.

In the letter, Chadwick wrote to Monica saying that he knew all about the affair. He went to the office that she worked out and since no one was there, he just went up to her office and saw through the window her and her co-worker having sex. He said that he was going out of town for a while to take some time to think about things, and wasn't sure when he would be back. After reading the letter, Monica noticed that his wedding ring was sitting on the dresser as well, and she picked it up, looking at it in shock. She ran as quickly as she could, which wasn't very fast due to her big belly, and grabbed her phone off of the right stand, and started calling Chadwick.

"Chadwick, baby...please answer the phone. We need to talk, let me at least explain before you go anywhere." She said, crying while leaving him another voicemail.

Chadwick on the other hand was currently sitting in a hotel room for the night, until his flight in the morning. He decided that he was going to take this time to visit Amina and Nova. He let a message with him boss, telling him how he was going to need sometime off for a few weeks, due to personal reasons.

Chadwick was going to just get a hotel room, but Amina insisted on him staying with her since she had a guest bedroom, and have to spend unnecessary money, since he wasn't sure how long he was going to be staying there.

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"Chadie!" Nova yelled, running to Chadwick after seeing him in  the airport. He put his luggage down, and got down on his knees and embraced Nova and picked her up, and she planted a kiss on his cheek.

"Hey my Nova Star, how are you doing?" He asked, with the biggest smile on his face.

"I'm very good, the best actually since you're FINALLY here. Mommy and I missed you." She exclaimed, making both Amina and Chadwick laugh.

"Yes, we did. We missed you a lot." Amina said, giving Chadwick a hug as well. She could tell that he was hurting, even though he was genuinely happy to see them. She just wished it wasn't under these circumstance. "Are you hungry or anything? We can stop and get you something?"