Forced to love

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    "What is the meaning of this?" Grace yelled at the cooks who were already shivering both hands and feet before her arrival.

"Don't worry ma'am, I'll take care of this," Luke responded walking inside the kitchen."

Grace turns around to see what had caused such smoke which was slowly scrambling into the hall.

"Friend fish! Did you burn a fall catfish?" Grace asked.

"We are very sorry ma'am, we were just excited about Mum's party and at that cause, we forgot the fish was on fire," one of the cooks apologized.

"This isn't a matter of being sorry, you almost burnt down the whole building, would you tell that to mother; would you tell her, you were excited about her birthday and burnt down her house? Better watch what's you're doing," Grace responded "yes ma'am, I promise this would never occur again," the head cook apologized. Grace turns to her getting the frying spoon and frying the remaining fish herself.

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Alfred wakes up at hearing his phone ring.

"Hello my love," Alfred greeted immediately he answered the phone.

"Why are you calling so early?" Alfred added

"Can't I check up on you again?" She replied sounding a bit angry.

"No, no sorry, I was surprised, you stopped calling me this early.

I saw you talking to mum yesterday, is there any plan to get that b***h out of my bed?" Alfred asked.

"Relax babe" Cynthia responded.

"You won't believe Grace was all over me last night. I woke up so many times to push her down from my body, her hands over my chest and her legs crossed over mine. I think she is doing it on purpose." Alfred responded.

"Okay babe, maybe she probably has a bad sleeping habit," Cynthia said laughing.

"How do you explain when her hand was on my private part, can that still be a bad sleeping posture?" Alfred asked.

" you are very funny Alfred," Cynthia responded.

"By the way, I have a plan although I haven't told it to mum," Cynthia added.

"If you didn't tell it to mum then what were you two discussing?" Alfred asked eagerly to know what is going on.

" I only wanted to know how much mom loves Grace and how she would react if our plan works out," Cynthia said.

"I don't understand," Alfred said, confused.

"You should know that if mom loves Grace, you are trapped with her for ever," Cynthia said.

"Then ?" Alfred asked.

" She doesn't like Grace too and I think mom hates Grace more than you do. She said Grace is always trying to be smarter than everyone in the whole mansion, she also said that Grace had won the heart of your father, what so ever she needed, Mr. Jerome will do it for her," Cynthia said.

"Wow that sounds like an advantage or should I say a victory on our side," Alfred muttered.

" what do you mean?" Cynthia asked.

"My mom hardly tells who she hates to someone else but if she does, it means she prefers you to the other person so I can now say we are officially back together as finance," Alfred said.

Tell me, when we get married, where would you like to spend your honeymoon?" Alfred added.

"Let's not celebrate yet, we still have hours until she lives."

"I already consider her out of my life so answer my question," Alfred insists.

"Okay then, Peurto Rico in the United States, I'll love to hear them speak Spanish," Cynthia responded.

After her response, they both went mutes for a minute, saying nothing to each other than listening to each other's breath from the phone.

"Why aren't you saying anything?" Alfred asked.

"I don't know, you should first say something, or are you still happy with your dream girl around?" Cynthia responded.

"No way babe, who in the world do I dream about if not you? It's only you and you alone, you know I couldn't lose the position as the managing director of Danford, that wouldn't be good for both of us.

I am sorry babe. The hasn't been a day I was up without remembering your loving attitude, the way you used to wake me up in the morning, the way we played, the way we talk with each other, the way we..." Alfred froze, not knowing what next to say.

"The way we kissed even the way we think similarly. We make good couples," Cynthia concluded.

"I love you so much my love," Alfred said.

"I love you too a lot, more than you can ever imagine, bye let me get prepared for the party, I have to choose carefully, the type of gift to give to mom. " Cynthia responded ending the call.

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"What's color is this, I thought I had told you the color to use for this occasion?" Amanda asked the stage designer. Her voice was very loud calling the attention of everyone close to the hall including Grace who was approaching the hall.

"It was Mrs. Jerome who asked me to change the color," the designer responded.

Grace walks in and finds Amanda in the hall.

"It's quite a surprise that you are awake today before eight o'clock," Grace said.

" I am not here to c***k jokes with you, how could you tell her to change the color, you always try to be the best, same as everyone else. Stop all your craziness before you get in my bad records." Amanda responded walking back to her room.

Grace smiled turning around to the workers.

"Go back to work, and you," she turns to the custom designer, "sorry for the stress, but I think you should do what she said, I don't want to have any misunderstanding with my sister-in-law.

"It is preferable we do what is right. The colors were awful but I did as she said, it is better to use this color you choose." The designer said walking out of the hall.