His Forever Love (West Family) Book1

Chapter 17

Iris’s POV

Back in Arizona…

After taking the pregnancy test and it coming out positive I called my doctor to make an appointment for I can get a confirmation because the at home pregnancy tests aren’t also 100% truthful. After the doctor confirmed that I was indeed pregnant, she wanted to do an ultrasound to determined how far along I am and to detach a due date. I was surprised when she told me I was at the end of my 1st trimester. I been so focused on the situation that happened with Milo and trying to get him back, I didn’t realize I missed my period.

There wasn’t any reason for me to think I was pregnant because I was still doing all of the normal stuff I been doing, I didn’t have any cravings or weird cravings and I wasn’t sleeping a lot and if I was I didn’t notice it. When I was pregnant with Kenny I had all the symptoms, I was craving everything, I was craving weird s**t, I was moody a lot and I was sleeping a lot. Being pregnant with Kenny wasn’t hard I just had all the symptoms. I hope and pray this pregnancy will be just as smooth. So far it has been, I only had dizziness and that one time when I threw up, other than that it has been smooth sailing.

I left the doctors office excited and with a plan in mind. This is the perfect way to get Milo back. When I got in my car I called Milo to see if we could meet to talk but he didn’t answer. I figured he was in a meeting and would call me back when he wasn’t busy but that never happened. After waiting a few days the call or text still never came so I decided to call him again and he still wasn’t answering, at this point I started to get pissed off because now I knew he was ignoring me on purpose.

After another day went by without hearing from him, I went to his job to force him to talk to me. I got out the car and walked through the sliding doors and headed for the first floor receptionist desk, the young gentleman looked up from the book he was reading when I approached him, “Hi, how many I help?” he said giving me a warm smile. I gave him a smile back, he must be new because I never seen him here before maybe I can sweet talk him into buzzing me into Milo’s office, I thought to myself, “Hi, I’m here to see Milo West, can you please buzz me into his office?” He looked at me with suspicion written all over his face. Maybe I won’t be able to sweet talk this one, I thought to myself, “And what’s your name?” he asked.

“Iris Moore, I’m his wife. Can you please buzz me into his office, I just want to surprise him.” I lied giving him my best puppy dog eyes. His eyes widen when I said my name, “I’m sorry ma’am but I was given strict orders not to let you in.” My smile turned into a frown, who in the hell gave him strict orders not to let me in, I am the mother of Milo’s babies and I’m not allow to come up, I was fuming at this point.

“What’s your name?” I asked the young gentleman.

“Derrick. Derrick Strong.” He said in his deep raspy voice.

“Well, Derrick I am Milo’s wife and the mother of his babies, I demand you to buzz me up right now.” I screamed into is face.

“No ma’am no can do. I just started this job and I’ll be damn if I lose it over something so petty but I will be more than happy to call up there to see if he is available.” I nodded my head and sighed as I watched him pick up the phone to call the receptionist on Milo’s floor. “Yes Mrs. Brenda how are you?” I heard him ask because I can only hear one side of the conversation. “I’m doing well, Mrs. Brenda. Look, I have a lady downstairs by the name of Iris Moore and she is claiming to be Mr. West wife and mother of his babies. She is demanding for me to buzz her up to his floor.” He looked over at me and frowned. I don’t know what Mrs. Brenda is telling him but by the looks of it, it doesn’t look good. When he got off the phone he looked sternly at me, “Look ma’am I don’t know what type of games you are trying to play but I’m not for it at all. I was just informed that you are NOT Milo’s wife but his baby’s momma and by the way he isn’t here. You are NOT allowed on these premises, now you better leave before I call security.” I screamed so loud and walked out of the door.

How dare he ban me from his building? We have a child together and one on the way, how can he treat me like this, like I mean nothing to him. I walked to my car crying not knowing what to do next. I banged my hands against the steering wheel in frustration. I pulled out my phone trying to call him again but it went straight to voicemail this time. Where in the hell could he be, it was the middle of the work day and he isn’t here, what the f**k.

A few days went by and I still haven’t heard from him. He is starting to piss me off to the max. I called and text him multiple times and he haven’t responded back. We were suppose to set a time and date for I can come see Kenny but not once have he reached out to me. After a few days without hearing from him I decided to give him a call again myself but he still didn’t pick up.

Today I decided I’m going to show up at his parents’ house. If he wasn’t going to talk to me willingly then I’m going to make him talk to me. I pulled up to the West Estate and got out of the car and walked to the door. I took a deep breath before ringing the door bell. A few seconds later Mrs. West answer the door wearing a flawless light blue dress, I swear this lady do not look her age, she always look stunning to me but regardless of her looks I still couldn’t stand her.

“Yes, Iris what can I do for you?” she asked with a little attitude in her tone, like she knew I was there to be on some bullshit. Which I was because her b***h ass son has been ignoring my calls. “Is Milo here?” I asked with my hands on my hips and a whole lot of attitude. She looked outside like she was looking for something, “Do you see his car outside?” she asked while pointing out the door, I shook my head no. “OK then, that means he’s not here.” She said while rolling her eyes.

“Look here lady…”

“No you look here…” she said cutting me off and pointing her fingers in my face, “You came over here to start your bullshit and I’m not having it at all. Now, my son has been nice to you and super generous to you and all you did was take advantage of that. Now you want to come over here and act a fool no that’s not about to happen. Milo will call you when he is ready now get off my doorstep and don’t come back.” She said and slammed the door in my face. I went back to my car screaming in frustration. Why can’t anybody be on my side for once? After releasing my frustration I picked up the phone to call my home girl LaToya, she answered on the second ring, “Hello?” she said sounding like she just woke up.

“LaToya, girl what are you doing? You sound like you just woke up.”

“Because I did.” She said with a little bit of attitude in her tone.

“It’s the middle of the afternoon. Why are you just now getting up?”

“Because I had a long night. Look is there something that you want because I would like to go back to sleep.”

“Yes, I need somebody to talk to. I’m going through a lot right now.”

“What are you going through now, Iris?”

It took me 20 minutes to tell her everything that is going on in my life. She sat there quite on the phone for a few minutes; I had to check to make sure she didn’t hang up.

“Are you going to say something?” I asked her when she still hasn’t spoken yet.

“OK, let me get this straight. You missed your period but you didn’t realize you missed it because you were so focused on getting Milo to do what you wanted him to do? Then you found out that you are pregnant and you are at the end of your 1st trimester. And you been blowing him up and he’s not answering and since he don’t want to answer your calls or texts you decided to show up at his job and his parents house to force him to talk to you.”

“Yes, that about sums it up.”

“Iris you are dumb as hell. How the hell did you think that was going to work? You been trying to get Milo to do what you want him to do since y’all been in this relationship and it haven’t worked then and it’s not going to work now. Let the s**t go and move on.”

“I thought you suppose to be on my side. You suppose to be my girl. You’re turning your back on me too.” She sighed into the phone. “Look Iris I’m not trying to gang up on you but what you doing isn’t right at all. I know I had some bad things to say about Milo in the past and that I encouraged a lot of the stuff that you did and that you are doing but I’m trying to turn my life over so I’m telling you as a friend this isn’t right.”

“But I need him back LaToya.” I said whining.

“No you don’t. You only want him back for what he can do for you and that s**t isn’t right, nobody deserves to be used like that.” I sat quiet on the phone. I didn’t know what to say to that. LaToya has always been my go to person ever since I moved here. She is the only person that knows about my plans for Milo and his family and the only person I know here outside of Milo’s group of family and friends. “Look Iris I’m going to say this last thing and then I’m getting off this phone. The whole time I heard you speak, not once did you mention Kenny’s name. You went over to Milo’s parents’ house looking for him but you didn’t ask can you see Kenny the whole time you were standing there. And now you want to pen another baby on Milo that’s not right Iris. Don’t put that baby on Milo because you know good and damn well that’s not his baby, that’s Corey’s baby and I find it wrong and selfish that you would even do that. And another thing you can stop looking for Milo he isn’t even in Arizona right now he’s out of town.” She said and hung up in my face before I got the chance to say anything else. How the hell did she know where Milo was? Is she f*****g him now? I knew that b***h wanted to be me. She was always jealous of our relationship. I swear, if I find out that b***h is f*****g him, I’m going to kill her. I guess our friendship is over. I was so mad I drove home in complete silence.

LaToya’s POV

That b***h had me f****d up. I was tired of Iris’s s**t, she is so damn selfish. She had a good man who loved her and would do anything for her and they’re son and she took advantage of that s**t. I didn’t feel bad for her at all because she bought all of this upon herself. I think it’s really f****d up how she just going to pen this baby on Milo when he’s not the baby father, Corey is. But I’m not going to say nothing because it’s not my business.

A few weeks ago I decided it was time to get myself together. I looked back on everything that has been happening in my life and I didn’t like living like this anymore. I wanted a husband, kids, the white picket fence, the whole nine yards, I want it all. I want to be somebody my future kids will be proud to call their mom.

For the past few weeks I been filling out applications for different jobs and I had a few interviews but they decided to go with another candidate, which was fine but I wasn’t giving up yet. I had an interview with Milo’s company this week but he had his secretary call to reschedule because he was out of town this week. They is looking for a part time receptionist, which is great for me because I plan on going back to school for my business degree.

I finally decided to get up out of bed and go fix me something to eat, it was the middle of the afternoon and I’m just now getting up. I got home around 4am this morning because I been working part time at this club downtown as a bartender until I can find something better and that pays more. When I do I’m out this b***h. I’ll be so happy when I don’t have to deal with old rusty ass man that think they still can get it up.

I went into the kitchen when I heard my phone ringing on the table, I looked at the caller ID and it was my twin sister LaTonya calling. LaTonya and I were separated at birth and we also have two older brothers Lucas and Grayson but we don’t know where they are, a private investigator she hired is still trying to locate them. LaTonya and I just found each other recently or should I say she found me. LaTonya grew up with a different background then I had. She was adopted into a rich family where as I was in the foster care system hopping from home to home, I didn’t know if I was eating one or two meals or any meals at all but I don’t resent her for it. I’m glad she had a better up bringing then I had because who knows how she would’ve turned out. She is one of the reasons I decided to change my life for the better. Looking at her and talking to her made me want to do better.

“Hey, what’s up Tonya?” I said when I picked up the phone.

“Hey Toya, how are you?”

“I’m good, just woke up. I had a long night at the club last night.”

“Oh, I’m sorry did I wake you?” she said sounding so sincere.

“No not at all, I was getting up to fix me something to eat.”

“Oh, good I was calling to see if you wanted to do a late brunch.”

“Sure, let me grab a quick shower. Text me where you want me to meet you at.”

“OK, cool see you in 30 minutes.” She said and hung up the phone. I went back to my master bedroom to take a quick shower and get ready for my brunch date with my twin.