Sake of Love (Billionaire's obsession)

Secrets

Roshana’s P.O.V

 Once Edward left, I ran into his room to find Adrian, but he was not there. Two of his servants opened the next room where Adrian was sleeping peacefully. Adrian was taken by me in my arms. He hugged me around my neck and laid his head on my shoulder.  I started weeping and walking out of Edward’s house. Though the house was affluent and as quite as a holy place, it was still lonely and sick.

I started walking towards the front gate which was at least half a kilometer from the house. I was lost in thoughts about what he had said about the law that child’s custody will be given to the richer party. A car stopped by, the driver lowered the window and asked gently, “Please get in ma’am. I will drop you”.

“No thanks,” I sniffled and replied in a low voice.

The driver’s age must be more than 50 and he was so polite and well-mannered in speaking, “It’s okay you cannot carry the child. He will be heavy after some time. Please get in I will drop you.”

Since he insisted so politely, I got into the car and sat next to the driver's seat.

“What is your name, my child," he asked.

“Roshana”

“He is Edward’s son, right? He looks exactly like Edward when he was young”

“He is my son” I snarled.

“Edward is very sensitive and kind. He may look arrogant, but he is gentle in heart. He is longing for love.”

"Why are you saying this to me?" I snapped.

“I just want you to know. Your son could help Edward to be happy again.”

“I don’t care about any b*stard”

He didn’t speak anything for a long time until we had reached our home. I felt guilty for speaking to the driver like that. whatever It was I should at least respect his age. I said, “I am sorry, I had a bad day. so”.

“It’s okay my dear. take care” he smiled and said with concern.

I smiled back bitterly and went inside my home. I wanted to call the police and inform this kidnapping. I locked all the doors of my home and put Adrian in bed as he sleeps. I called,” Mom, mom”.

I told everything to her that happened. I thought she would be angry about the kidnapping and would help me to complain to the police. Instead, she started laughing loudly. I was extremely flustered to her reaction. She chuckled and even started to cough. I stared her face in confusion.

“mom why you are even laughing. I am saying Adrian has been kidnapped by some b*stard and you are laughing”. I sneered.

“His name is Edward. He is the biological father of Adrian. He is also one of the richest businessmen in our country”

“Mom! enough of Edward’s history. I have heard enough. How the hell you know that he is the father?”

“After you left for Los Angeles.” she started and told me everything that had happened about the surrogate mother's plan, I took their car by mistake and Edward’s mother’s death.

I listened to her silently and nodded slowly. How come my mother knows everything and did not even give a clue to me.

“I spoke to him just now” she added.

“What did you speak to him? He is trying to take Adrian from me” I hurled.

“Listen, Adrian needs a father. You cannot bring him up all alone. You are not strong enough like me moreover Adrian will go to a great school and grow like a rich kid. Your savings money will be over by next month and you don’t even have money to pay his fees”

“what? Are you saying that I should give Adrian to him?”

“No, I am saying stay in Edward’s house. Maybe you can marry him…  just for Adrian”

“Mom, what are you even speaking?”

“See I am old. I really want your life to be safe after me”

“Mom you are good. There is nothing wrong with you”

“Maybe you don’t know”

I was puzzled by her words. What was she speaking? I didn’t know? But she always conceals her sufferings from me. I just lowered my eyelids and stood without saying a word.

“And also, Adrian will go to private school.” She added.

“Adrian can study in public school and I can bring him up by doing some job”.

She stopped me abruptly, "shh, whatever I said is good for your future and Adrian's future. This is just for the sake. You are just going to stay in that house. If you didn’t like it, you can come back to me anytime you want”.

“Mom I am going to the police now”

She laughed and replied "Police can do nothing to rich people. And I will go to the police and say my daughter is crazy, don't believe her"

“Mom” I shouted back.

She smirked and turned back.

I was surprised by my mothers’ words. I didn’t know what to do. I remembered Hannah and even missed her a lot. I badly wanted to see Hannah. She was the coolest person I had ever known. She had the power to make my life's most complicated stuff into just dust. She was my happy pill but I didn’t even know where she was.

I peeked out from my window and saw two expensive cars standing in front of my home and some security guards were standing. Of course, I could not run, and I could not go to the police unless I knew who would win if I sue him legally. I was totally confused and was not sure what to do?

I opened my laptop and did a small research on the child’s custody law. This scenario had already happened to many other people and I took one such case and started reading. When I was reading I could not control my tears because the law clearly says the rich parent was the one who would get the custody of the child. Moreover, I was jobless at that time. I wept for so long, hugged Adrian, and slept that night.

…

A week later.

One night, After the dinner I and Adrian laid in my room. It was past 11 and I could not sleep that night, turned all sides, and was trying hard to sleep. I took my phone and started to see some web series. I heard a hard-slapping sound from downstairs and some men speaking.

I opened my room door to see and noticed my living room’s light was on. At that time of the night, what my mother was doing at late at night? I went down and saw two men who seemed like bad people, were threatening my mother and they spoke so coldly, “This is the last warning. You should leave the home within a week.”, I heard a few of their words. Before I reach downstairs, they left.

“Mom, what is happening?”

Seeing me she cried,” Roshana, you go and sleep”

How could I sleep seeing my mother crying? She was treating me like a child., “Mom! Who all are those people? Did they slap you?”

“No no” she sniffles.

“who all are those people? Tell me, Mom, I want to know,”

She started to weep. My heart was broken to see my mother crying. I did not say a word, let her sit on the sofa, and brought her some water.

She held my hands and said, “There is something you should know but I am afraid to say.” I stared at her sad and weak face.

“It’s okay mom. tell me. Whatever the problem is. We will face it together”

“I am sorry for not telling this to you earlier. Your father did not die when you were a baby.” I was shocked to hear about this. What? These may days I had been said that my father had died when I was three years old.

“He is not alive now. Your father was having a mistress and I found it when you were 2 or 3 years old. So, I left him and went to this town. Your father felt so guilty and bought this home for me. I didn’t accept but he begged me to stay here and take care of you. The home is in his name. That mistress name is Rose, and she has a son whose name is David who is the same as your age. Two months back your father died, and his son wants this home. So, he is threatening me to leave the house”

I was flustered after hearing this and turned my lips. I was angry at my mother also for not telling the truth these many years. I wanted to shout at her, but she was already sad, and I did not want to make her feel worse. All these years I believed something which was a total lie. Why she had to hide this from me? I stayed silent for a moment and asked, “We will buy this house. Ask him how much?”

“No, they are not going to sell. They want us to suffer. They just want us to leave this house”

“We had lived these many years. How can we suddenly move? moreover, this is my father’s house.”

“your father would never allow this bastard to do this. But he is no more” she put her head on my shoulder with tears.

“Mom! there has to be some way.”

“No, his son David belongs to some Mafia gang and they are very bad people and they will do anything for money. We will leave this house Roshana.” I could see the fear in her voice.

I tried to compromise my mother, but she cried a lot. We both were sad and helpless. We had no one to help in that situation.

Two days later, we rented a small one-bedroom house which was on the next street and started moving things to that house. Adrian was so small to understand what was happening.

On the day when my mother handed over the house key to David, I saw his evil smile as my mother was crying. I stood beside my mother and stared at him, “Oh, I never imagine my half-sister will be so pretty”. He took the key with great happiness and said this in a smirk.

“Oh, sister I also heard that you got pregnant before marriage and you don’t even know your son’s father's name,” he said this and laughed with his two friends who were standing next to him. They all seemed to be unruly people.

I clenched my fist and was about to say something, but my mother held my wrist, “Let’s go”, I saw her wet eyes and stayed silent. I really wanted to slap him for making my mother cry. But I did not do anything and left the place silently.

When we were returning to our new home in a taxi, my mother held her chest tightly,” Roshana, it is paining”. I got so panicked, “Mom, Mom are you alright? Driver, please go to a hospital”. I realized something was not right.

Hearing my tensed tone, the driver understood, he hurried to a hospital and stopped in front of the emergency section. Two doctors and nurses came running and took my mother to the operating room. I asked the doctor whether she was okay, but no one responded properly. I stood outside the ward with anxiety. One nurse came out of the room and asked her whether my mother was okay, then she replied,” Ma’am it’s a severe heart attack. Please stay calm. We are trying our best to do”. Oh my god, heart attack, I was more frightened.  It was all because of that b*stard David. If he did not force my mother, she would have not got a heart attack.

I called Adrian’s school's primary teacher’s phone, “Lilly, my mother got a heart attack. I am in the hospital. Please take care of Adrian. I will come and pick up later,”

“Oh my god, is she okay?”

“I don’t know. Doctors are treating her” I cried.

“Don’t worry. She will be alright. I will take care of Adrian. Let me know if you need any help”

“Sure, thanks”

After three hours, the Doctor came out in a sad face and said, “I am sorry Roshana. Your mother is no more”. I didn’t even hear clearly what the doctor had said, but I fainted.

When I woke up after 2 hours, I saw Edward and his secretory Mark were standing next to me, “Ma’am you woke up”, Mark said.

“Where is my mother?”

Both stood silently without speaking and Mark lowered their head. It could not be real. I was just dreaming. I could not control myself from crying. I could not believe she was speaking to me casually just now and the next moment they were saying she was no more.

“Mark, I beg you please take me to my mother”

“I am sorry ma’am”

“No, I won’t believe this” I shouted and cried a lot for a long time. Edward stood silently lowering his eyelids and sometimes staring all my outbursts in a sad face.

The next day was my mother’s funeral, I still did not even believe that she was no more. I still feel like she was near to me. I peered at Edward’s sad and lonely face at my mother’s funeral and looked away as soon as I saw him.

After the funeral, I went to my home and let Adrian laid on the sofa as he was sleeping. My doorbell rang. It was past 10, I wondered who would come at this time. Was that David? He again came to pester me. I was wondering, opened the door and saw Edward. He handed me a key, “Your house key”.

He gave me the key which my mother gave it to David. It was my father’s house. How come he got the key. I looked at him in a confusion, “But this house belongs to...” I stammered and took a deep breath.

“Hereafter it belongs to you. Don’t worry about David”.

After seeing the key, I could not control myself from crying. My mother was so worried because of what David had done. If this happened two days back, my mother would be alive by then. Until I finished weeping, Edward stood next to me without saying a word and looking away. When he was about to get into the car, I quickly said, “Thanks”. He just nodded and left.

I shifted back to my mother’s home which had full of my mother’s memory. I really could not stay there. Wherever I close my eyes, I only remembered my mother. I was exhausted from crying. Every small thing around me provokes me to think about my mother and I cried a lot.

Edward’s P.O.V

After her mother died, I started worrying about Roshana. I felt sorry for her loss. As soon as I came to know about David and his father’s house, I bought the house and handed the key Roshana. They lived for many years and the house belonged to them. “Her mother must have told this David issue before, I could have helped her.”

…

After a few days, Mark asked, “Adrian's room is ready long before. When is he coming? And what about Roshana?”

“Make a room for her also”

With both eyes wide opened, Mark asked, “Sorry”

“Yeah, I have decided to make Roshana stay in my home”

I could see his face became so bright, “If your mother was alive, she would be so happy”, He said this with a grin.

I smiled bitterly, “This is just for Adrian. Please make an agreement for her to sign. It is just a contract marriage” I also added the conditions to include in the agreement.

I added one of the conditions in the agreement that Roshana was not allowed to sit in the Dining table unless I called for Because I did not want her to speak to me. I know this was rude. she might make me annoy or mad. So, I did not want any clumsiness in my home.

Somehow, my secretory and guards managed to get her to sign in the agreement.

Contract day.

I came to my living room from my room. I saw a small kid sitting on the couch. I narrowed my eyes and rushed to see the face. Yes, it was Adrian. I looked at him as he was eating, and he reminded me of my mother. His smile, his eyes, and his curly hair everything about Adrian reminds me of my mother who was meant for Love. I rushed, hugged him, and took him in my arms. He was a little nervous about the new place and my action. I murmured in a low voice, “I promise you, Adrian, I will never let you down and will take care of you until my death”.

"What is your name" I smiled and asked Adrian.

“Adrian” his voice was so cute.

“Do you know what my name is?”

“no”

“My name is Edward. But you should Call me dad. Okay?”

He nodded innocently. That was the happiest day of my life. I wanted him to have a cheerful and delightful life. I wanted to give him all my love.

After a few minutes, I peered at Roshana as she entered into my living room with an angry face to sign the contract marriage and all my conditions. She was simple but still elegant. I felt exasperating when I was aware that she was in my home. I sighed and murmured myself, “She is going to stay here all the time from now”.  Thinking that would give me a headache, so I just ignored my feelings. I shut my eyes tightly and left the room with a deep sigh.

"Always have an eye on her," I said to my secretary as I took the car to my office.

It had been years that I was all alone in my home except few maids, but now I was really annoyed that Roshana was going to stay in my home and all I did was just for Adrian. At that moment I didn’t know that one day I would fall in love with that irritating woman.