Royal Birth

THE ROYAL BIRTH                                                                           Chapter 1                            The Chosen bride.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  On a windy mid-May evening, the clouds had gathered up in the eastern part of Makeni compound, it was starting to get dark and very cold in this old abandoned dirty unfinished building which was not only creepy with horrible graffiti art all over but also filled with garbage and rats all the crawling insects which were creeping her out with all their mysterious loitering. To make matters worse, the place was very smelly, something seemed to have died in there, an animal or something, she wasn’t sure; all she knew at that particular moment was that she was really scared. As she looked around this dirty place with such a disgusted look on her face with fear gripped in her eyes as if she was unsure of what she was doing, she wondered how she got herself in to this.                                                                                                                                                                                   Her name was Taira Nawezy, beautiful, smart, courageous and very intelligent. She was a very beautiful young woman in her early twenties, her skin was a glowing fairly dark creamy complexion with a beautiful round face, wide brown eyes, slightly small mouth, a perfectly shaped nose and with beautiful naturally dark colored shoulder length kink curled hair. Her smile was her best weapon through cause with just a curve of those small but very gorgeous lips, all her cares seems to be taken away. Her body figure was perfect, five foot tall, slim, had an hour glass shape, thin on the tummy, beautiful evenly shaped breast which were not too big or too small with perfectly curved hips that made anything she wore look absolutely gorgeous on her.                                                                                                                                                                                             Taira was a goddess, immensely beautiful, humble, sweet and very kind. She was friends with everyone she knew, she would always see the good in others and would lend a helping hand where needed. Her heart was truly a compassionate one; some would even go as far as saying she had a heart of gold, one so pure and unique, which raised a very good question. For a good girl like her, what was she doing in a shady place like that?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Eight hours earlier                                                                                                                                                                                     On that beautiful and perfect Monday morning Taira woke up, go dressed and was ready to return for work after spending nearly five months at home after giving birth to her daughter. She was very anxious to go back to work but at the same time very sad because this was going to be the first of many days she was going to spend away from her new born baby for most of the day. “ok mother I’ll be going now please take care of my little one for me alright, I have left some worm milk for her on the dresser, give it to her once she’s awake, that girl is always hungry after sleep and don’t for get to give her a bath after wards” she said to her mother who was cleaning the yard outside.                                                                                                                                                                     She was a tell, fair skinned elderly woman believed to be in her early forties, she had a beautiful round face, wide dark eyes, beautiful nose and with a perfect body for a forty year old, she was very beautiful just like her daughter only older and her name was Jessica Nawezy commonly known as mom Jessie. She gave her daughter a slight smile before saying “relax honey I know how to take care of a baby, she’ll be fine, I’ve done this before and look you’ve turned out great” She said with a slight laugh. Taira gave her mother a slight smile before saying “Alright mom I trust you, I’ll be on my way now if anything don’t hesitate to call me I’ll have my cell on me at all times and just take care of yourselves for me” then hugged “I will, God bless you my child” Jessica said with a smile.                                                                                                                                                                                   Two quick steps took her forward then she stopped and turned. “OH!...I almost forgot, after you are done bathing her, try to entertain her a little by talking to her and making her laugh, she tends to get bored and starts crying and please ,please, please don’t over feed her or she will throw up which is not!....” “Are you ever going to go for work?” Jessica interrupted “I mean you are getting late you know” she added looking at her “I know, it’s just so hard to leave her you know! How I wish I could just go with her to work, I mean she’s only a baby can’t they just allow me to go with her, she’s not going to cause any trouble or anything!” she said in a slightly low tone with a sad look on her face.                                                                                                                                           “yes but you know she can be a big distraction, what if she needs to be fed or have her nappies changed and you are very busy with the customers what will you do then?” “Honey I know it’s very hard for you to stay away from your daughter but don’t worry I’ll take good care of her” Jessica assured her. Taira took a deep breath then said “alright mother” she said then walked away. Jessica looked at her walking away sadly then said “oh mother’s! it’s so adorable how they always want to be with their little one’s but wait until they are older and they start giving them headaches but they are the greatest little things in the world” with a slight laugh then continued with what she was doing.                                                                                                                                                                                                     That evening Taira got back home, looking very exhausted yet anxious to see her young one after such a long of work but something odd was happening there, neither her mother nor her baby where home, the door was left unlocked and none of the neighbors seemed to know where they had gone to, which was very weird cause Jessica was not one known to just leave without letting anyone know of her where about. Taira was very worried now, she got seated on the couch trying to figure out where they can be at that time and just then she received a phone call, it was from her mother’s line, she answered it hastily but little did she know how a single phone call was going to change the course of her life forever.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  “Mom where are you? I have been worried sick here looking for you everywhere, how you can just leave without letting anyone know of your where about or what time you will be back…” “Hold your horses little lady you have to know first know who you are talking to before you start yapping about nonsense” said a very deep strong voice on the other side of the line. Taira swallowed then asked “who….who is this and why do you have my Mom’s phone? Where is she? I demand to talk to her right now! Give her the phone!” she said rather upset in her tone. “listen here little lady….you are in no position to be giving out demands, I have your mother and your daughter here with me, if you ever want to see them again…at least alive, then you better  follow these instructions carefully” he said in a deep scary voice.                                                                                                                                                   Taira’s heart stopped upon hearing this, never in all her life had she ever thought she would one day be faced with such a situation and she didn’t know what to do or what was going on, she didn’t understand anything. All she knew at that moment was that she had never felt that terrified in her life, she was in such a shock that she could barely feel her knees, her eyes were all wide open as tears slid down her fair cheeks, she wiped them off, took a short deep breath in then said in a low rather shaken up tone “who…who are you and what do you want from my mother?” “What could I possibly want from your mother? She and  that  little girl of yours  are just a way to get to you so you better listen carefully if you ever want to see them again….” “what do you want from me? Taira interrupted in a rather high pitch tone, she was upset now with tears filling her eyes again.                                                                                                                                            “bring yourself to the abandoned building near the old catholic church tonight at seven pm shape, that’s where the switch will take place after which you will know what we want from you, make sure you come alone and don’t you dare think about telling anyone about this much less the police or the only thing you will find in that building are the lifeless bodies of your mother and that of your precious little girl” He threatened. Tears slid down Taira’s cheeks again before she asked “How…how do I know they are still alive? I want proof!” She demanded angrily “you will just have to take my word for it little Doll!” He said then hanged up leaving her standing there in shock with her phone still at her ears.                                                                                                                                               Taira was left in a panic now; she was worried, terrified and very confused. Who was this person and what did he want from her. She fail to the couch in such despair as she thought of a way to go about handling this situation cause she knew very little or nothing on how to handle a hostage situation. She thought of informing the police but yet again she feared for her family’s safety, she had to do everything to get them back minus bringing any harm to them. Just then she was startled from her thoughts by a knock from the door, she stood up, wiped away her tears then walked over to the door “Oh…Hi Clara, listen am kind of busy right now so…would you mind coming back later…thanks bye!” she said then tried to shut the door on her guest. Now Clara was the girl next door, light in complexion, beautiful round face, medium height and kind of a perfect figure.                                                                                                                                                                   If it had being somebody else, they would have taken the hit and left but since it was Clara and she was very persistence she put her foot on the door way and forced her way in. “hey you can’t shut me off like that! I want to know how you are doing, heard you got hit by a bus in the morning on your way to work but wow aren’t you just lucky, your mom was super scared and everything, she even rushed over to the hospital to see you, she was really worried!” She said gazing at her in a slightly high and puzzled tone. “Wait! What who told you I was hit by a bus and you said mom went where?” Taira was completely puzzled now “well this morning around ten  when I was about to leave for school ,a strange man appeared out of nowhere and told mom Jessie that you got hit by a bus and was badly injured and when I offered to skip school and look after Rosy while she rushed to the hospital, that man insisted that she take Rosy with” she answered as she walked in.                                                                                                                                                              “but I see you are ok ,you look fine to me which makes me wonder why would that man make up such a terrible lie like that?” she added as she got seated on the sofa. Taira thought of telling her what was going on but she was just a girl, what would she know, she may have been in high school and doing her final grade but she was not mature enough to understand the situation. “Auh…funny thing happened, you see…am…”she blinked and paused for a short moment trying to make up a believable story in her head then continued “on my way to way to work… a young woman who kind of looked like me got hit by a car, it wasn’t a bus no, just a….a taxi cab and she was rushed to the hospital so that…that man probably mistook me for her, just an honest mistake that’s all” Taira said in a shaky tone preventing herself from tearing up as she realized exactly how her mother ended up been kidnapped.                                                                                                                                                              Clara gazed at her as she spoke then said “Taira that story is neither funny nor true and is it just me or do your eyes look kind of puffy and red as if you have been crying or something?”Taira looked away nervously as she tried to wipe her face in case there were any tear marks left with gentle sniffs as she got seated on the couch. “What…what are you talking about? Silly girl, why would I be crying, it’s nothing really, just some allergies I….guess” “allergies…and what are you allergic too, been sad or is it perhaps worry?” she said still looking at her closely, she could see the nervousness in her eyes “I don’t know what you are talking about?” she said as she turned to look at her with a slight fake smile on her face “oh I think you do know! Those eyes look sad and bothered; tell me what is eating you up? What is making pretty Taira sad now…Ha! Come on you can tell me, who knows maybe I can have the solution” she insisted.                                                                             “OH trusts me…. you don’t!” Taira said as she stood up. “I knew it! There is something bothering you, now you have no choice than to tell me about it, maybe I can help in one way or the other!” she burst out as she stood up. “Clara you are just a girl, you don’t know anything and I don’t think you can help me in any way so just leave it alone okay!” She said looking at her. “Taira do not underestimate me, I may be a girl but trust me when I say I can help, you are my friend and I want to be there for you come on!” She said Taira took a deep breath then said “my….my mother and my daughter have been kidnapped, the kidnappers said if I don’t turn myself over to them in the next hour they will…. kill them! Tell me in what way can you help me?”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   “What! Oh my God Taira how did this happen?” She was in shock. Tears  slid down Taira’s  cheeks “I….I just don’t know what to do, I don’t know who these people are or what they want from me and my family but all I know is that am really, really scared right now! What if I never see them again, what if they are already dead as we speak, what if….” “Don’t say that everything will be fine I promise” Clara interrupted as she embraced her, in a sad and low tone she was crying also now. “Listen Taira everything will be okay, your mom and daughter will be found safe and sound” she assured her in a soft comforting tone looking at her then added. “All we have to do right now is inform the police about this and they will bring them back to you” Clara said looking at her.                                                                                                                                                            “No, No, Not the police! The kidnapper was perfectly clear when he said if I dare to inform the police about this, the only thing I will find is their…… lifeless bodies!” She burst out in a panic now. “I know but Taira you should know better than to put your trust in a criminal, trust me that never works! If you go there something bad is going to happen and not only to you but also to your mother and daughter, I have a bad feeling about this please listen to me!” she burst out looking at her. Taira was silent before saying “this is my family we are talking about Clara and am not going to let some i***t do anything to harm them, he said it’s me they want and once I deliver myself to them they will let them go and that can only happen if I don’t involve the police in any of this!”                                                                                                                                                                     “I understand you would do anything for your family’s safety but do you really think turning yourself over to those criminals is the best way to go about it?” “What other option do I have? It’s either that or they kill my family and that, little Clara is a risk am not willing to take you hear me!” She was upset now with lots of frustration in her tone. “There is a better solution to this, tell the police and they will…..” “ok listen here Clara if you do not have any sensible solutions then that’s fine I don’t even need your help any way, after all you are just a child, you don’t know what you are talking about or what kind helplessness am feeling right now so just go! I can rescue my family all by myself” she interrupted furiously “but Taira listen…” “But Taira nothing! am not going to risk my family’s lives by telling the police and you better not tell anyone about this or their deaths will be on your head and I can never forgive you for that” she interrupted in anger then walked to the bed room furiously.                                                                                                     “What are you doing?” Clara asked as she followed her to the bed room “what does it look like am doing? Am getting ready to go and face the bastard that is keeping my family against their will and am bringing them back safe and sound if it’s the last thing I ever do! It’s almost seven now I better get going” she said as she got dressed in a black skinny jeans, a black top and a hood, then packed some worm cloths for the baby in her black leather handbag. Like a soldier ready to go for war she stood upright facing her “am ready to go now! Don’t cry I will bring my family back safe and sound or my name isn’t Taira Nawesy”she said then walked passed her.                                                                                                                                                                                           “well it looks like you have made up your mind, I won’t stop you, do what you have to do but I have a very bad feeling about this” Clara said as she stood behind her.                                                               “here, take this, you might need it” she said as she reached for the kitchen knife that was on the table then handed it to her. Taira looked at it then said “no thanks, the last time I had something as shape as that knife in my hands and feeling terrified  like I am right now, someone ended up dead ;I don’t want that to happen again” she said. “What!” Clara was puzzled now “forget I said that, thank you for been here with me Clara I really appreciate it and telling the police is not such a bad idea, tell you what! If I don’t show up in the next 24 hours, inform the police about everything” she said as she embraced her. “for now, I will need you to say quite about this, no one should know ok and…and am sorry for snapping at you like that, it’s just that am so desperate and you were not helping” “it’s okay, I understand and please take care of yourself, I’ll be praying for you here” she said in a low sad tone looking at her “you are a good kid Clara am glad to have you as a friend and if anything happens to me out there, just know that I love you, keep praying for me” Taira said and she cried as she watched her walk out that door and it felt as if it was the last time they were ever going to see each other.                                                                                                Thirty minutes later, Taira was at the said location looking around and expecting someone to show up at any moment “hello….is anybody…..anybody in here?” She yelled in a somewhat weepy tone with her eyes wide open and bright with tears, she then saw a shadow of a man pass behind her. “Aur!...” she was creped out as she turn to see who it was but no one was there, she took a deep breath to calm her nerves and just when she thought she had managed to convince herself that it was probably the rats or just a figment of her imaginations, she felt someone breathing heavily behind her but before she could turn to see who it was, she was hit on the head with something that felt like a metal bar and she fail on the ground in a lot of pain with a slight scream.                                                                                                                                                             “Who…who are you?” she asked looking up at the man standing before her with barely opened eyes, she could barely seen his face while she touched her bleeding head in pain but could tell that he was a tall rather muscular man and he was all dressed in black “let’s just say am your worst night mare and you princess have just worn yourself a one way ticket to hell” he said in a deep strong familiar voice looking down at her. She tried her hardest to see who it was but couldn’t cause that blow to her head temporally affected her vision then everything went black as she fail unconscious.                                                                                                                                                                                                           When she finally woke up, her head was well nested on her mother’s laps as she stroked her hair. The baby was sound asleep beside her on the floor like the little angle she was in this huge empty warehouse “oh….my head where…where am I?” She said sounding half asleep as she sat up touching her swollen head which was feeling like it was about to fall off. The room was so huge and empty everything she said echoed “oh thank the lord you are awake! And don’t worry you’ll be okay” Said Jessica in such a relived tone “Mom! Oh Mom am so glad to see you! I thought I’d never see you again and I was so scared, are you okay? Did they hate you? Tell me you are fine and where is Rosella? Where is my daughter?” She burst out anxiously and relived to see her mother all well; her eyes were bright with tears and she looked rather happy despite the situation.                                                                                                                                                                             “Taira, Taira relax! First things first are you okay? Is your head paining….” “yeah a little but that’s not important now, where is my daughter?” she interrupted looking at her anxiously “Rosy has been hungry all day and hasn’t stopped crying, you need to breast feed her right away, then we can talk about what happened” Jessica burst out as she calmed her daughter down. “Ok but where is she?” She asked anxiously and desperately “right beside you honey! She just fails asleep a moment ago” Jessica answered looking at her. Taira looked and there she was, her precious little jewel, sleeping peacefully like the angel she was. Taira picked her up, held her close to her chest and cried bitterly “oh my baby, my little princess, what would life be without you my little one, I never meant to put you in any harm my child I swear” she cried embracing her so tightly close to her heart as tears slid down her cheeks.                                                                                                                                                                                            The baby woke up crying after been squeezed so tightly “there, there honey mummy is here stop crying now, it’s all going to be fine” she said as she put her small mouth on her breast and she started sacking. Taira then looked at her mother then asked “mom are you ok? Did they hurt you? Did they do anything to you and my baby? She feels a little worm” she asked as she touched her daughter’s forehead “am fine, they didn’t do anything to us thank God! But I just want to know what you have gotten yourself in to this time” she answered in a more or less upset tone while she gazed at her daughter.                                                                                                                    “Mom I didn’t do anything I swear, I would never do anything that would bring you and Rosella any harm, you know that!” she burst out. “ok so tell me who are these people and what do they want from you cause they specifically told me that kidnapping me and Rosy was just a way to get to you and apparently they have succeeded haven’t they?” She said in a slightly high tone. “I don’t know who these people are or what they want from me, all I know is that am not going to let either of us spend a night in here, am getting us out of this place unharmed I promise” She said looking at her mother. “And how are you going to do that? Do you have a plan?” Jessica asked looking at her in anticipation.                                                                                                                   “As a matter of fact I do, what did you think? …That I would let myself get captured along with you without a plan?” She answered looking at her “okay great, let’s hear it” Jessica said looking at her. “Ok so these people kidnapped you in order to get to me right? Meaning they will have to let you go once their boss arrives or whatever…” “And what about you?” Jessica asked looking at her in puzzlement. “I will remain here and stoll them while you go and get the police” Taira said in a rather low tone so as to not be heard “no way in hell am I leaving this place without you!” Burst out Jessica in shock looking at her “mother tone it down! And listen, once you are free you can inform the police about all this and show them the location, that way you would not only have saved me but also put these criminals behind bars” Taira said in a rather low tone looking at her.                                                                                                                                                                                          “Emm I don’t know, leaving you here with these people just doesn’t feel right, what if by the time the police get here you’re…” “Mom worry not, everything will be alright and I can take care of myself. The most important thing here is that you and my daughter are out of this place safe and sound and we can forget about this night mare” she interrupted looking at her with such bravely in her eyes then laid her head on her mother’s shoulder with a slight smile on her face. She had a brave face on while looking at her mother not trying to scare her but in actual truth she was in such a panic, fear was spreading within her and she had this feel in her gut that everything might go horribly wrong but she wasn’t going to let it show to her mother, all they had to do was have faith that they would all come out of this unharmed.                                                                                              Hours later in the blackness and horrifying silence of the warehouse, Taira lay awake on the cold floor thinking of how to get out of this. The wind howling through the trees outside creepily somewhat terrified her and mosquitoes biting her flesh was not helping at all but  to her relief her mother and her daughter were able to sleep in each other’s arms peacefully and it was rather comforting to see that despite the situation, they were all together. Just a few minutes after she relaxed and slowly dozed off, she heard footsteps, it was more than one person approaching the warehouse and underneath the door she saw a flash light that brought a little bit of light in that dark room. She then heard the sound of the door unlocking, at this moment her heart started pounding in such anxiety and fear of what’s laid behind that door. The door opened and three people walked in, she couldn’t quite see them cause the flash light became much brighter on her face.                                                                                                                                           “would you look at that, isn’t this cute, they are all sleeping peacefully” It was a familiar voice, a woman’s voice, Taira noticed as she sat up and when the flash light was put away from her face and she was finally able to open her eyes, she was in total shock to see the woman behind that voice. Melissa Brooks was her name, beautiful, intelligent, cunning and very devious with a very dark soul. She was all dressed in black but looked very gorgeous she noted, her skin was fairly chocolate brown in complexion , a bit tall, slim, very attractive with wide dark eyes, high cheek bones and a perfect figure for a pregnant woman, which was the first thing Taira noticed about her. She was beautiful quite alright but her beauty was nothing compared to that of Taira, her longtime nemesis. They had been nemesis for a year and some months now, their field was based on the love of a man ,at least that’s what she made Taira think and when she finally won that battle, Taira naively thought that was the end of it all but little did she know how so wrong she was cause this woman was determined to finish her off and finally wins the war at any cost necessary.                                                                                                                                                                           She accompanied by two men, one was her goon obviously, looked very serious, never talked much just obeyed and wore dark clothes. He was tall, dark, huge and muscular with a bit of a moustache, scars on his face and had eyes as dark as a bat’s under those think black sun glasses. He wore nice tight black skinny jeans, black boots, a navy blue muscle T-shirt and a black leather coat on top. The other was a well-dressed young man, tall, dark skinned, kind of huge with a bit of muscle and his name was Maxwell Mwenda. Comes from a respectable family with just enough money to spend, not that he ever brag about it off course but as the only child, he made pretty good use of it. He wasn’t bad with the ladies either with his drop dead dashing look he always pulled off, nothing too fancy, just smart with a blend of casual and the right amount of charm added to it.                                                                                                                                                      “Melissa!” Taira gasped her name in shock looking up at her as she sat up “it is I…… in the flesh, miss me much?” Melissa answered with a devious smile on her face “I should have known, only you can stoop this low” she said in a rather up set tone as she stood up with her baby in her arms “hello to you too Taira, delighted to see you again” she said looking at her then at the baby in her arms. “I see the little brat was born…. she’s kind of cute” she added as she got seated on a wooden chair brought to her “for my liking” she muttered in a rather low tone looking at her as she crossed her long gorgeous legs. Taira was silent for a split second as she took a closer look at the Maxwell, as she tried to figure out where she had seen him before cause his face looked so familiar. She brushed it off and looked at Melissa then asked in a slightly high tone “what do you want Melissa?”                                                                                                                                                       “nothing really, I just heard your baby had been born and truth be told I couldn’t manage to contend my curiosity, so I decided to come over and finally met the royal princess of Mallandia and off course to invite you to my baby shower next Saturday, it’s going to be a blast and you just have to be there” she answered. “Ok first of all stay away from my child and secondly why would you want me? The person you hate the most, in like the entire world, who’s life you ruined ,by the way, come to your lame baby shower?” she said protectively then in a rather surprised tone looking at her. Melissa stood up with a devious smile then said “oh pardon my mistake, actually you won’t even make it to Saturday cause well…. you’ll be dead by then” she paused then added in a slightly high tone as she tried to touch the baby “but I really did want to meet this little brat of yours though”                                                                                                                                              “don’t you dare lay your filthy hands on her you witch!” She snapped upset as she held the child away from her protectively “and what’s this about me been dead, dead as in…” “dead as in am going to kill you!....Today” Melissa interrupted as she looked in to Taira’s eyes with so much hatred then added “oh saying that makes me feel so evil and powerful and I love it!” “What?” Taira was in shock “OH you know how you have the power to decide the fate of someone, like right now your life is totally in my hands, I get to decide whether you live or die, it’s a thrilling feeling actually really you should try it sometimes” she answered “Ok what is wrong with you? Haven’t you had enough? Haven’t you ruined my life enough already? What more do you want from me? You already have what you wanted. You took away everything I ever loved, my daughter will have grown up without having the chance to know who her father is all because of you and now you want to kill me! For Christ sake woman have you totally lost it? Why would you want to kill me?” Taira asked in anger and full of frustration in her tone looking at her.                                                                                                                                                                                  “For revenge” she answered simply looking at her dead in the eyes                                                           “revenge really Melissa, what I have done to you this time that is so bad that you want to leave a poor defenseless child motherless?” She was really upset and burning in anger and frustration.                                                                 “Oh as if you are so innocent, you killed my brother in cold blood you murderous b***h and am goanna make sure you pay for it with blood!” She said in anger. “That’s right and am here to help” Maxwell finally spoke and that’s when memory of him came flooding in her brain but she was puzzled now. What on earth was she talking about, had the insanity in her increased or what? And what was she doing with him “Okay what is going on here? How do you two know each other and why have you collaborated with her to kill me? What did I ever do to you?” she asked in such puzzlement looking at the both of them.                                                                                                    Maxwell looked at Melissa; she looked back with a devious smile then looked back at her before answering “you killed my best friend in cold blood and am just here to make sure justice is served to the fullest” Now she was really puzzled “wait! I don’t understand anything….” “What is going on and what’s with all the yelling” Jessica said in a rather puzzled tone after been woken up by all the rackets in the room as she sat up. “Mom!” Taira burst out looking at her “Me…Melissa” she was in shock to see her there then the realization that she might be the one responsible for all of this hit her “Oh my God it was you all along wasn’t it?” She gasped in shock as she stood up slowly. “I should have known, only you and that mean witch of a mother in-law you have hate my daughter this much! But I don’t get it though, you have what you have always wanted and Taira is no longer a threat to your plans so why would you do this?” she was really puzzled looking at her.                                                                                                                                                                “OH! I’ll tell you why Mom; this b***h you see standing here is a lunatic who needs to be admitted in a mental institution right away! Can you believe that now she thinks I killed her brother as if she even had any?” She said in a very high tone that it woke her baby. Melissa got seated again then said “you can call me crazy all you want Taira but that won’t change the fact that by this time tomorrow you will be rotting away in a garter somewhere like the dirty garbage that you are” Taira gave her a slight laugh then asked sarcastically looking at her “ok Melissa tell me something here, who is this brother of yours that I supposedly murdered?” with air quotes. Melissa got seated with her eyes fixed on her, crossed her long beautiful legs again then she relaxed as she lay back against the chair silently.                                                                             “for a years I haven’t been able to sleep peacefully thinking about the injustice caused when you didn’t pay like you deserved for Martine’s death and you have the nerve to forget about it you b***h!” Maxwell burst out in such anger and rage as he tried to strangle her to death. “Patience Max! All good things to those who wait, you will get the pleasure of watching her choke in her own filthy blood! But all in due time, we have the whole night, for now I will need you to leave me alone with her” Burst out Melissa as she stood up and restrained him from strangling her. He took a deep breath then walked out furiously leaving Taira and her mother trembling in fear at what almost happened. Melissa took a deep breath then said in a rather calm tone “My twin brother was my only family, we never knew who our parents were cause when we were born our mother decided to drop us off at an orphanage like rotten rats, she didn’t care about us…that b***h!”she paused then continued.                                                                                                    “growing up it was just me and my brother, against the world, we were always together never apart and when we were seven we got lucky enough to be adopted by a very rich foreign couple who couldn’t have children of their own”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    “living with the Brooks was great ,they gave us a life we had always dreamt of, a  life full of luxury and wealth but they never loved me, I always tried to get their affection, trying to fit in and all but whatever I did was wrong in their eyes. My brother on the other hand was the loved child, while I received scolding’s and punishments for things I didn’t even do, he in return get praises and gifts, he was the good child while I was the black sheep of the family” She said with tears filling in her eyes. “there came a time I decided to stop trying to win their affection and just be my own self ,my brother was always there for me though each time I was scolded or punished he was always there to cheer me up and comfort me ,he would always say to me “Melissa you and I are a team, I will always protect you just like I have been doing all our lives, I will never leave you alone” and I always knew I will never  be alone cause he was always there” Tears slid down her cheeks as she remembered this.                                                                                           “one day after our grade nine examinations, my brother and I went clubbing for the first time with a couple of friends from school, we went home the following day dead drunk, Martine couldn’t stand on his own the poor thing, our parents were very upset with us and off course they blamed it all on me, they said I was the one influencing my him  to misbehave, he tried to defend me but they didn’t listen to him and as a punishment, they separated us, I was sent to Sweden to live with my aunt Masha until I graduated secondly school while Martin remained here with them” she said. From the moment Maxwell mentioned Martine, Taira was taken aback to the night it all happened “when I graduated secondary school I was very excited to return back home and be with my brother” Melissa couldn’t control the tears from rolling down her cheeks as she remembered her brother.                                                                                                                     “I will never forget that day ,my bags were already packed and I was about to leave for the airport when my phone rang ,it was my mother she was crying, I could feel something was wrong, I just felt cold and week in my knees before she could even say anything and when she said “Martine…..it’s Martine Melissa they killed your brother’’ I couldn’t believe it I just dropped the phone in shock and fainted when I finally woke us I was on a hospital bed” she said crying. “When I heard that I felt a part of me die along with him, I couldn’t believe I will never see him again, the pain was just too much and what was my life going to be without my brother without Martine” she cried. “On his burial day I swore before his grave that I will make his murderer pay and I intend to keep that promise, Martine will be avenged today!” She said with so much hate in her tone.                                                                                                                                                                                  “Wait did you just say Martine as in that’s the brother you lost! Max…Maxwell’s childhood friend” Taira asked in shock hoping for it to just be a coincidence “yes Martine Brooks, the man you killed in cold blood on his graduation day at secondary school was my twin brother!” She answered looking at her. “Oh my God!” Taira whispered in shock as she froze she couldn’t believe her own ears and all over sudden everything just started coming back, the horror of that fateful day just came flooding back in her memory, she was literally trembling at the horrifying memories. She took deep breaths to calm herself down before saying “ok…Melissa am…am really, really sorry about Martine’s death and I understand now why you are so upset with me, that you want to kill me, actually I understand a lot now, all that hate and resentment towards me was all because of your brother’s death, but you don’t have to do this….”                                               “Shut up Taira! Do you think that you just saying you are sorry and all the pain and misery you caused me would just disappear? Do you think saying sorry will bring my brother back?” She yelled in anger “and neither will killing me!” Taira burst out. “Martine was my only family, the only one I had in this cruel world and you took him away just like that, so coldly and ruthlessly you killed him! I know killing you won’t bring him back but it will serve as divine justice for what you did you murderer!” She burst out in anger as she stood up.                                                                                                                                     Taira was silent before saying “Fine…..if killing me is what will make you feel better about your brother’s death then you go ahead! Just give me some time to say good bye to my family first” Taira burst out. “Taira no! You can’t do this what about your daughter? Who is going to take care of her if you allow this witch to take you away from us?” Jessica burst out in tears looking at her daughter desperately “mother don’t you worry, everything will be okay I promise you” she said looking at her then winked before looking back at Melissa “alright so what are you going to do to me?” she asked “am going to kill you slowly and painfully, cut you in to small little pieces and later on the maggots will feed on your rotten body. Oh I’ll do it alright and am going to enjoy every second of it!” She said in a low horrifying tone gazing at her with wide unblinking eyes, pressed lips and clashed fits. This was the perfect time to put her plan in motion cause she wasn’t going to let Melissa kill her that easily.                                                                                        “am…am not scared of you, do your very worst but first you will have to let my mother and my daughter go, the agreement was that once I deliver myself to you, you will…” “Well I lied! And you are so stupid for letting yourself fall for that lamest trick in the book, I mean really! Do you think am that dump as to let this ….woman go so she can call the police on me, am not stupid honey” She interrupted in that same tone “wait….what, what do you mean you lied? The agreement was that I bring myself here and you free my mother and my daughter they have nothing to do with this, they were not even there when Martine died!” Taira burst out in shocked. “And do I look like I care? they are what you love the most in this bloody world and am going to kill them one after the other and you are going to watch everything, you are going to feel the pain of someone you love been taken away from you and I’ll make sure you feel twice as much pain as I felt when Martin died” she was so cold hearted.                                                                 Taira’s plans had been ruined, now her family was in real danger, she was very terrified, panicking and her heart was beating as if it was about to burst out of her chest with fear but the thought of her mother and daughter been killed by this lunatic made her blood boil to the highest degree. All that fear she felt turned in to pure rage and anger, she walked to Melissa slowly saying very upset in her tone. “Look Melissa I am not going to suffer all my life for one mistake that I made and I will certainly not let you lay as much as a finger on my family!” “We’ll see about that Taira” Melissa said looking at her equally in the eye with so much anger. “right now you are going to let my mother leave with the baby ,you are not going to touch  a single hair on their heads or I’ll make sure you and your stupid brother have a family reunion” she said in such rage in her tone  as she grabbed her  by the neck to strangle her.                                           Jessica held on to the baby tightly in fear, she had never seen her daughter get so angry before “Taira leave her alone! She’s not worth it, you have a daughter and right now you can’t afford to go back to prison, your daughter needs you” she yelled rather upset. The crying of her baby cooled her down and she released Melissa’s throat “there, there sweetie don’t cry mommy is here, calm down my little one, don’t you cry now” she said as she turned only to find Melissa looking at her with such rage in her eyes “that was a wrong move Nawezy and that just sealed your fate!” Melissa said angrily as she pulled out a very sharp knife from her boots and pointed it at Taira as she tried to catch her breath after that slight choking. “My brother was one person with a pure heart, he never had any enemies and I always looked up to him for anything, he was my best friend and you killed him without any remorse or thought of his loved ones!” She cried in pain and anger.                                                                                                                                                        “I tried to save him, I did everything I could to stop his bleeding but the wound was too deep and the bleeding was so heavy but I did try to save his damn life even though it’s the least he deserved! your brother was not a saint as you make him to be ,he was a bastard ,a sociopath , a bully with no morrow’s, he saw pleasure in other people’s pain and all the time he got away with it so easily simply because his father was rich” Taira burst out, paused “me stabbing him was just an act of self-defense, that bastard brother of yours was trying to r**e a friend of mine and when I caught him and threatened to report him, he tried to stab me with the same weapon that ended up ending his life and if you ask me Melissa that fool didn’t get anything that he didn’t deserve and you know what? For the first time in my life after so many years am glad I ended his pathetic, idiotic life” she yelled in anger.                                                                                    “Stop it! My brother was a good person, he was not a r****t, he would never hurt anyone and he was definitely not a sociopath” she yelled in anger “yes, yes he was! No matter how many times you try to deny it, it won’t change the fact that he was one of the most despicable beings that ever walked on earth and am glad! I am so glad I killed that pathetic bastard and I take his murder as a service to humanity cause let’s be honest here Melissa, a lot of people wanted that piece of garbage gone!” she said still angry and this really woke up the demons in Melissa, she stood up right with tears in her eyes then went straight to Taira’s mother and stubbed her real hard and unexpectedly in the gut “have that as a service to humanity Taira!” Taira was in shock, she just froze there looking at her mother as she got stubbed “Oh my God! What have you done?” She yelled in shock with her eyes wide open, she looked at her mother falling down to the floor then at Melissa with the knife and blood dripping from her hands as she looked at her with wide unblinking eyes full of hate.                                                                                                                   Taira was so shaken up that she didn’t know what to do, seem her mother been stubbed like that left her frozen. “You killed her; you killed my mother you b***h!” She burst out with tears rolling down her cheeks as she put the baby down beside her and moved to her mother. “Mom, oh mother am so sorry ,it’s all my fault ,I’ll save you don’t die on me” she cried as she cut a piece of clothing from her body top then covered the wound which was bleeding so heavily with it trying to stop the bleeding “hold on mom I’ll…I’ll serve you just don’t leave me” she cried “there……there” Jessica tried to speak “no mom don’t say anything save your strength” Taira said by this time Melissa had already walked out of the room and the baby was crying uncontrollably. Taira didn’t know what to do any more, between her mother bleeding to death and her daughter crying uncontrollably, she was beginning to lose it.                                                                                                                                                 “Open this damn door I need to take my mother to the hospital!” she yelled banging at the door in anger “Melissa! Melissa open this door right now, it’s not funny anymore so please am begging for the love of God, open the door and take my mother to the hospital, I will…I will do whatever you want, anything just please don’t let her bleed out” she cried bagging the door all desperate and in a panic. She looked at her mother again and cried bitterly as she fail to the floor in such despair “please open this door am begging you, my mother is dying she needs to go to the hospital, oh please just find your humanity and help me” she couldn’t bare seen her mother in such pain fighting for her life “oh mom ,my sweet mom am so very sorry ,it’s all my fault that you are like this now ,if anything happens to you I swear I will never forgive myself” she cried as she kneeled before her mother and held her hand in hers.                                                                                         By this time the baby grew tired of crying and just dozed off and somehow Jessica found a little strength to talk, she squeezed her daughter’s hand gently then said looking at her sorrowful face. “My Ta…Taira …my be……beautiful girl, don’t…don’t cry and don’t blame yo…yourself for any of this. It…it was made to be like this” “no mother don’t speak, I promise I will get you out of here and you will be okay I promise” she said with tears in her eyes. “Taira I…I don’t have much time left , am…am dying sweet heart” she said in a very low tone and breathlessly “no ,no don’t say that you won’t die I won’t allow it ,you are my mother ,I depend on you ,you can’t die I won’t let it happen” she said with tears still rolling down her rosy cheeks.                                                                                             “Taira listen ….I…I will always be with you ,my…my sprite will never leave you a…alone ,I….I will always be there to ……to protect you my baby” she said looking at her with a gentle smile on her pretty round face.  “listen my…my child…promise me that …that you will find your…your father he will take care of you and Rosella, find him and tell him you are his daughter, pro…promise me you will’’ “I promise mother I will find my father together with you cause we are a team and no team member leaves without the other, we will find him I promise” Taira said still holding her mother’s hand tightly in hers.                                                                                                                                  “don’t ever forget that I love you so much …life …life is very …hard but always find a way to make yourself happy ,you …….you are my child and my……..my child is always a happy child ,take care of Rosella ,tell her stories about me….and tell her that……that I loved her so much ……I love you my little girl, my happy little girl” and those were the last words she ever spoke then she closed her eyes and died in her daughter’s arms. Taira didn’t even Notice that her mother was no more till a couple of minutes later “Mom, mom please open your eyes” she checked her pulse; it was not there “No! No! Mother! Not you no! I can’t let you die ,I don’t want you to die please open your eyes it’s me Taira your little girl” she cried in agony the pain was just too much to handle as she placed her head on her chest to check the heartbeat, nothing was there just the still worm lifeless body in her arms.                                                                                                                            “Oh mom why would you do this to me? I can’t take it anymore, tell me how? Just how am I going to move on without you? You have wounded me mom and I don’t think it will ever heel, oh mother my sweet mommy you are gone just like that, what will become of me without you” she cried in such agony. The pain of losing her mother was just indescribable, she picked up the baby from the floor and held her tightly in her arms and cried bitterly “oh Rosella ,my sweet little girl ,it’s only you and me now ,gran ma has left us and I feel so empty, it’s only you and I my darling ,only you and I and I promise I’ll never allow anything bad to happen to you ,I will protect you with my life if I have to my sweet little child” she said in a weepy tone. “Stop lying to her already you know you won’t be able to protect her” said Melissa as she walked back in with Maxwell and the henchman.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Taira stood up holding her baby in her arms protectively and giving Melissa the rudest look. “am not going to allow you to harm my daughter like you did with my mother you psychopath ,you will pay for what you have done and I’ll make sure of it” she yelled in anger and full of hatred in her tone. “Bla, bla, bla that’s the only thing am hearing now” she said. She looked at the men beside her then said “Chansa get the baby from her and you Maxi hold her so she doesn’t make it hard for Chansa to get that brat away from her!” “No, no! Don’t touch me! Do….Do not touch me! Leave me alone you bastard! Don’t you dare touch my daughter, let go of her” Taira yelled as she straggled to protect her child. “oh give it up already Taira ,no matter what you do, both you and your child are going to end up dead” Melissa said enjoying the misery in Taira’s face “please Melissa am begging you to spare my child’s life ,you can do whatever you want with me but please don’t harm my child” she pleaded with tears rolling down her cheeks.                                  Chansa released her for just a moment as she can talk to Melissa “You are soon going to be a mother Melissa, do you really want to live with the guilt of having killed a child just a few months before you had your own. I am begging you Melissa from mother to mother spare my child’s life” she pleaded. “am not going to kill your child, what kind of monster would I be if am ever to take a child’s life……” “Oh thank goodness” she gasped in relief “that is why Chansa is going to be the one to do it” she said looking at her with ruthlessly. “What!” Both Taira and Maxwell burst out in shock “what are you talking about Melissa, killing the baby was never part of the plan and I didn’t bargain for this, it was only going to be the girl and that’s it” “Relax Maxi, everything is under control so take it easy” she said in a rather low tone standing so close to him                                                                                                                                                                                          “but why would you want to kill an innocent child who knows nothing about the issues we have?” Taira asked rather curious.                                                                                                                “countless reason could apply! Like for instance, she is the bond that still ties you to my husband, if Richard is going to father any children, then they should be mine….alone! I don’t need some illegitimate brat showing up years later claiming for things that should only belong to me and my children” she answered ,paused then added “and Oh…there is this thing about her being the one you love the most and I want to hurt you so…there is that..”She answered looking at her. “Oh God! Look…Melissa I promise you on my life that Richard will never find out the truth, he will never know that she is his daughter I will make sure of it just don’t kill her please!” Taira pleaded with tears rolling down her cheeks.                                                                                                         “Emm that’s a chance am not willing to take besides you will be dead soon and somehow Richard will be able to locate her where about in the near or distance future and tell her of her birth rights which I just can’t allow, all his attention should only be on my son so your daughter has to die! Chansa please prosed” she ordered. The baby cried as Taira straggled with Chansa to prevent her from being taken away “let go of me!” she yelled as she stepped on his foot so hard that he had to let go as she withheld the child protectively “please….no find your humanity she’s just a child!” She cried holding her child so tightly to her chest she was almost squishing her as she looked at Melissa.                                                                                                                                                        “a child that can ruin all my plans and I can’t let that happen, Chansa please put on some more effort, don’t tell me she is over powering you come on!” she said. “I got this”Maxwell said as he walked over to Taira and injected her neck with a drug that caused her to lose her mobility almost immediately. She fail to the floor together with the baby that fall off her motionless hands with a loud terrified scream but before the baby hit the floor   Chansa caught her in mid-air gently in to his arms. “Uh…finally!” Melissa burst out with such relief in her tone. “Chansa…you know what to do with the brat and Maxie…my sweet Maxie you are just a life saver, if it wasn’t for your quick thinking, it would have taken us all night to get that brat away from her…thank you” she said looking at him with a smile on her face then gave him a slight kiss on the mouth.                                                                                                                                                              “You monsters, you will pay for this!” Taira cried looking at them with tears rolling down her cheeks unable to move a muscle as she saw Chansa walk out with her baby. She felt powerless, she couldn’t protect any of the people she loved and that hurt so much, he pain was unbearable, she felt like dying “No! My baby!” She cried in such pain and agony with her eyes wide open, tears rolling down her fair cheeks in such sorrow. “Why are you doing this….bring back my child, give me back my baby please…..”She cried in unbearable pain and heartache, she felt such emptiness within her that she could just not bare. “Where...….where have you taken my daughter you monster?” She could barely get her voice out but she looked at Melissa with such hatred in her eyes “probably to a place which is way better than the poverty you had sentenced her to grow up in” she answered looking at her finger nails then blow on them then looked at her.                                                                                                                                                                                          She was silent for a rather long moment as she started regaining her mobility slowing, she could now feel her fingers and legs ,apparent the drug they injected in her was just temporal, she started standing up slowing looking at her with such rage in her eyes “am going to kill you!” She burst out as she tried to jump on her but Maxwell grabbed her in mid-air before she could reach her “oh my goodness! Would you just relax woman …….your daughter is better off without you” Melissa burst out as she moved away from her. “What…..what are you going to do to my daughter? Tell me what you are going to do to her you demon!” She yelled in anger still trying to jump on her. “Oh trust me Taira you don’t want to know….”she answered looking at her. “Am going to kill you Melissa….I swear to God I will kill you!” She burst out looking at her with such rage and anger. “alright, she is beginning to annoy me shut her up already” she ordered as she walked out. Maxwell looked at her then hit her on the head with a metal bar again and she fail unconscious.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     When she finally opened her eyes, both her hands were tied up to a hock that was just above her, she was dangling and she was top less for some reason “and the sleeping beauty awakes” said Melissa seated facing her .Taira looked up then asked in a low tone “why……why am I topless and tighten up?” “Oh that is just a precaution darling? To prevent you from trying anything stupid like hurting me for instance, we don’t want any harm happening to my baby” She answered with a smile on her face caressing her tummy. “What….what have you done to my daughter?” Taira asked in a low tone looking at her. She didn’t care if she was tied up and about to be killed all she cared about was her daughter. “Will you give it a rest already? Your daughter is gone…dead and you will never see her again so get over it already!” Melissa yelled in anger and frustration.                                                                                                                                                                 Taira was in a state of shock, Melissa finally did it, she completely ruined her now there was nothing to fight for anymore “then what are you waiting for, kill me already and be done with it” she said in a low tone looking at her with tears sliding down her cheeks. “Oh but where is the fan in that ,I want to enjoy each and every second of seen you in pain and that cant happen if you are dead” she said looking at her “ok…then just do it fast, the faster you do it the better it will be for all of us ,come on just end my pathetic life already” she said in a low tone. “What is wrong Taira, you are not going to fight back, don’t tell me you are giving up so soon, I mean where is the fighting sprite, the feistiness and the worrier Taira that I know? Come on give me something to work with here!” she said with a laugh mocking her.                                                                                                                                                                                       Taira didn’t respond, she was too sad to fight anymore, all she wanted was to die “This is going to be so lame, but oh well I’ll still have fan making the last hours of your pathetic life miserable.’’ She said “go ahead don’t let me stop you” Taira said still in a low tone, faced down, sweat mixed with blood from the blow she suffered on her head dripping down like a leaky pipe. “you are too  beautiful for my liking you know and I always hated that, what a shame you have to die the ugliest person” Melissa said looking as she stood up walked over to her and pulled her sweaty hair back with such disgust “what……What do you mean by that?” Taira burst out in surprise “what I mean is that am going to make you in to the most ugliest person anyone has ever seen, am going to disfigure your pretty face, let’s see if any man would want to look at you even in your coffin” she answered.                                                                                                                               “Max! Bring me the acid!” She yelled out with a smile on her face “oh this should be fan” she said with a smile on her face. “Acid what…..what are you going to do to me Melissa” Taira burst out breathing heavily  “oh you’ll see” she said as  got the bottle of Acid from Maxwell, holding it between her finger and thumb then showed it to her. “you see this little bottle in my hand ,it contends some acid that when I pour it on you ,you will feel as if your face is boiling in hot oil and in less than five minutes your face will look like it has been burnt ,it will turn from beautiful fair skin to something like purplish ,greenish reddish color ,trust me it’s disgusting you would vomit if you saw it yourself” she said. Taira was just quiet as Melissa went close to her then opened the bottle. As soon as Tara saw it she started screaming “no! No! Don’t…don’t do it Melissa no!” She screamed as Melissa poured the acid on her face.                                                          “Oh come on! It hasn’t even started working yet, don’t be such a baby” Melissa said looking at her closely “uh…it burns! Oh my God it really burns!” She screamed in lots of pain “which means it’s working, don’t worry about the pain you will get used to it pretty soon” Melissa burst out enjoying Taira misery and in less than twenty minutes her beautiful face was disfigured, she looked horrible and the pain was not going anywhere.                                                                                                                                                  The beautiful Taira was now the ugliest person alive, she could feel the pain of her beauty just fading away in just seconds and that still hurt a lot. “Perfect! Now let’s cut up that hair, Richard always loved stroking your hair and I hated seen that so….Max, bring the scissors” she said with a devious smile “No, not my hair!” Taira cried as Melissa got the scissors and started cutting it all down like some crazy maniac “What have you done to me you b***h! I hate you, you will burn in hell!” she yelled in a lot of pain and anger “that’s funny cause you are the one burning right now” Melissa said with a laugh then added “and this is nothing compared to what is awaiting you so you better just get used to the pain” she said looking at her.                                                                             Taira’s face was all swollen with blood coming out of the sores that had formed due to the acid, she was unrecognizable and the pain was just unbearable. Her head was badly shaved off leaving her looking like a stray sick p***y cat with no hair but seen her all ugly and bold was not enough for her, she then got an electric a high powered electrical Taser that had some modifications done to it so it can produce more current to kill and all she had to do for it to work like that was to connect it to a power source which Maxwell did as per her orders “turn it on” she said looking at him with a deadly smile on her face before she started electrocuting Taira and enjoying the expression of pain and misery across her face as current past through her body.                                                                                                                                                                                               “She’s not screaming…that means she’s enduring the pain; turn it to full voltage” she ordered ruthlessly. “But Melissa that will kill her!” Maxwell protested looking at her in shock now and no longer enjoying this deadly game “I need her to suffer! To feel the current passing through her very bones and I want her to cry and scream in such excruciating pain that blood start rolling down her hideous face instead of tears you get me! So full voltage….Now!” she ordered rather upset in her tone looking at him with those deadly eyes of her that it terrified him. He looked at her in disbelief then did as she asked mutely “Now that’s more like it!” she said with a devious smile as she turned to continue with the electrical shock “No! Please Ahhh! Stop am begging you stop!” She screamed in pain “ohh does it hurt but honey I thought you wanted to die” she said sarcastically.                                                                                                                                                                        “yes….. But not like this, can’t you just shot me or….. stub me and get it over with, I can’t take it anymore the pain is just too much” said Taira in a lot of pain and blood tripping from her swollen face ,at this point she even stopped seen because her eyes were all swollen up very badly. “Oh but am having so much fun” she said enjoying her misery and did it again and again and again. Taira screamed in a lot of pain as she felt the current pass through her body but that only pushed Melissa to electrocute her even more. “Stop…please am begging you to stop!” She screamed in lots of pain. “Oh honey I really wish I could but that’s the whole point, I torture you so hard until you give up and just die” she said then continued to electrocute her. Taira screamed in pain for a couple of more minutes till she couldn’t take the pain anymore and just passed out. “she’s dead” Maxwell said looking at her.                                                                                       “turn it off” she ordered as she walked over to check her pulse “she’s still in there” she said looking at him after feeling Taira’s pulse on the neck which was rather weak now, she was giving up slowly, there was nothing to keep her fighting anymore and all she wanted at that particular time was just to die and forget all about the pain she was feeling of losing her family which was more painful than that of the acid on her face or the electrical shocks she was getting from Melissa, all she wanted was to die. “wow I can’t believe all that current didn’t manage to kill you, oh well it’s good that you are still alive so that I can enjoy more of torturing you” Melissa said as she walked out then walked back in with a bucket of cold water “Melly!...Melissa I think that’s enough, she is practically dead so why don’t we…”                                                    “Practically dead is not good enough for me Max! she killed my brother, killed him with no remorse whatsoever and she has to pay” she interrupted angrily then asked gazing at him “don’t tell me…..don’t tell me you are feeling sorry for her now are you Maxie…she killed Martine, your best friend, he was more than a brother to you and you feeling sorry for his killer is called betrayal and….” “I am not feeling sorry for her, why would i? She is nothing but a monster and she has to pay for what she did to Martine!” Maxwell burst out angrily “great now use that anger and pour this bucket of water on her so we can continue making her pay” she said with a smile as she handed the bucket over to him. He took it and poured the water all over Taira so as to wake her up.                                                                                                                                                        “Great! you are not dead ,for a moment there I thought you had died” she said “plea…please Me…Melissa just kill…kill me already I…I can’t take this anymore” she said breathlessly “believe me that’s what I’ve been trying to do all night but don’t worry you will soon die I can see there is no more strength left in you to fight” she said then took a big thick rope from her goon and started whipping her back .Taira didn’t have strength to cry anymore ,she just closed her eyes as she felt that rope cut the flesh of her back with every whip, blood dripping and her whole body becoming swollen. Melissa flogged her for another hour until she also got tired. Taira was not responding anymore so Melissa checked her pulse to see if she had died but it was still there at a very low rate that is when she decided to just finish her off, picked up the knife she used on her mother from the floor while breathing heavily and sweating.                                                                          “Alright! what an arm workout you gave me there, I can feel my arm muscles getting stronger but that’s enough, you got your wish and I think it’s time for you to die now Taira, see you in hell!” she said then stubbed her in the back twice with so much strength, Taira screamed one last time then just gave up. She checked her pulse once more and it was not there Taira had died…..OH so she thought “oh finally Martine has been avenged oh! Am so prude of myself!” she said with lots of happiness in her tone “yes Melly …..you did it” “the job has been done rest in peace brother” she said with a smile on her face as she killed her two fingers and sent it up to heaven.                                                                                                                                                        “congratulations” he said looking at her “the job has been done maam, the baby is disposed off like you asked” came Chansa’s voice as he walked in “I don’t think killing the child was necessary Melissa, I mean it’s not like it had anything to do with Martine’s death “Maxwell said looking at her “getting rid of that little brat was not for Martine, it was for me” she said with a smile on her face then kissed Maxwell on the mouth “thank you Maxie for helping me avenge my brother, am sure he is proud  of you as his  best friend wherever he is now” she added with a smile. Maxwell didn’t respond, he just looked at her and gave her a slight fake smile “alright can you untie that b***h and make sure the whole place is set ablaze, no nothing should lead to us” she ordered as she got seated on looking so exhausted as she got a handkerchief from Chansa to wipe sweat on her face.                                                                                                                                        Maxwell walked over to Taira’s still and silent body only to discover that she was still breathing, her pulse was low though, she could barely breath but she was still alive, he then looked at Melissa as she relaxed on the chair looking all happy and excited while she had a glass of water to soften her dry throat “what!..... Why are you looking at me like that?” She said rather rudely as she noticed him looking at her “it's nothing am sorry!” He said. “Just do what I asked and hurry it up I want to go home and rest it has been a long night!” She said in the same tone. Maxwell did what she asked silently, placed Taira next to her mother then looked at Melissa and said “am all done” “great! Now set it ablaze” she ordered as she stood up then added “oh revenge is sweet! And now I can rest easy, you two, you will get your money tomorrow, now am going home, take a long bath and relax” then walked out.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Two years earlier.                                                                                                                                                                                                  In the heart of Chipata province there lays a kingdom called Mallandia, a kingdom best known for its large production of livestock, farm products and its natural beauty. Mallandia was a small rich Kingdom, ruled by one of Zambia’s elite and very influential families in the country called the Chisi’s. This family was so powerful, it owned several big companies in the country and the surrounding area’s that earned them enormous wealth over the years, everyone who was someone in the society of the rich and famous knew them and as such that put them at the top of the most talked about and envied family. The Chellah’s had a certain way of living which involved a lavishing lifestyle despite been in the Village and they liked to be identified by that been the royals and all.                                                                                                                                                       A young, beautiful and very attractive woman stood by the open window of her room in the royal palace of Mallandia. It was freezing on this bitter June morning and she felt tempted to hurry off to the kitchen for a quick cup of worm coffee before she could start off with the day, yet she was unable to tear herself away from this window where she always had a perfect view of the mansion across. Leaning forward she stared hard at the grand and impressive mansion ,it was not only amazing both inside and out but also very elegant and sophisticated, it was definitely fit for a queen. She thought of it as a place of prestige, privilege and wealth and it should have been hers, tragically she had been betrayed.                                                                             This mansion was specifically built for the chosen bride of the prince of Mallandia and according to their tradition, it was a place where all the lessons on how to be a proper royalty, queen of the land and off course wife to the future king where being held and after the royal marriage, this mansion and all the privileges that came with it were to belong to the bride’s family as a reward for giving their daughter‘s hand in marriage to the royal family. This woman was the real chosen bride of the prince, chosen by both the king and queen of the land with the permission from their son off course, she was chosen to be their daughter in-law when she had just graduated from the university and according to them she was designed to be their son’s wife and future queen of the land.                                                                                                                                                              She was very excited about this off course and ever since then she had done nothing but prepare herself for when she becomes queen. When the prince got back from his studies abroad, he was not disappointed by the woman his parents choose for him. She was beautiful, very intelligent and charming too, plus she had an added advantage, her family ware of the upper class, wealthy, very distinguished and sophisticated people. She already knew how to live like royalty before she even came to live in the palace in preparation for her wedding. He off course liked her, how can he not? The girl was charming and sweet and kind and everything in between, she was the perfect candidate for the new queen.                                                                                                                           He accepted the marriage arrangement and was more than willing to have her as his bride as soon as possible, not until he met and fall deeply in love with this other woman, one who captured his heart with her beauty, her smile and her gentleness the very day he first set his eyes on her. This was considered as a great betrayal to her mostly because she had put all her hopes and dreams in becoming his wife. This other woman that he had fallen in love with was by far the most beautiful woman he had ever set his eyes on; never in all his twenty five years of life had he ever met a woman as beautiful, as pure and as innocent as she was. He truly fall in love with this woman so hard that as time passed he became convinced that she had become part of him and he can never live without her.                                                                                                  She was simply the woman of his dreams, the kind of woman that would turn any man’s world upside down and she had everything he had ever wanted in a woman, a beautiful face, attractive body, good sense of humor, charming in every sense of the word and very sweet. It took him seven months, eight days and nine hours to finally win her heart which was way beyond his usual record of scoring a girl but yet again this woman was no ordinary girl, she was a kind of woman worth waiting for and as soon as she gave him a chance, he immediately broke off his engagement with his chosen bride.                                                                                                                           Apparently this amazing woman who was everything he had ever wanted didn’t even come close to the type of woman his parents wanted for him much less the queen of the land. She was a simple farm girl with a humble background, low level of education who didn’t live up to their standards in life and worse still she was one of the maids in the royal palace. Their mission now was to make sure she never ends up with their son and they did everything in their power to separate them, make sure the prince gets back with the real chosen bride and they almost succeeded in doing so. When this other woman got pinned to the wall and forced to give up on the relationship she had with the prince.                                                                                                                         So thrilled was their judgment that they had placed their son right back in to the waiting hands of their chosen bride. Unfortunately just as she reached out, had the prince almost in her grabs, she had been betrayed again. This other woman had managed to outwit her when she became pregnant by him and was automatically chosen as the bride. She {the real chosen bride} had been her {the other woman} nemesis for months now but it was from this precise moment that she had become her sworn enemy. She had vowed to wreak her revenge on her and soon she would do it, she would finally triumph of her.                                                                                                                                                                                              Abruptly the young woman stepped forward moving slightly away from the window, her attention now was on the prince who had just walked in the palace premises with his new bride hand in hand looking all happy and smiling as if they owned the world. The prince had a creamy complexion, tall, kind of muscular and very attractive; he had wide dark eyes, strong arms and a gorgeous smile. His name was Richard Rangel Chisi and by his side was the charming and sweet Taira Nawezy his new bride. Her chest tightened and a virulent anger surged through her as she gazed at them and as soon as they disappeared in to the palace, a bitter smile slid on to her beautiful face as she thought of how great it would feel to finally destroy her. She moved away from the window with a smile.                                                                                                                                    After that she took off her night gown, letting it fall on the floor before sliding her fair, slender smooth long legs in to her flip flap then walked in to the steaming hot bathroom all in the nude with a devious face on. A moment later she walked out of the bathroom with her wet naked body all wrapped around a white towel now, she considered a plan she had recently formulated, one so devilishly clever it might have been devised by the devil himself and how ingenious it was, it would surely help to bring about the final fail of Taira Nawezy and she was convinced of this outcome. She got seated on a dressing table chair and started brushing her long, golden hair extensions when a knock was heard from her door “yes come in” she called out as she swung around on her chair to see who it was.                                                                                                          “good morning Miss Melissa hope you slept well, I brought you your breakfast worm and fresh just the way you like it and today I didn’t forget to bring the bowl of fruity salad you love so much” came Sophia’s voice as she walked in and put the tray of food on the night stand. Sophia was one of the maids in the palace that was assigned to look after all Melissa’s needs during her stay there. She was dark in complexion, a bit tall, slim and had a nice figure, very attractive and she wore a purple checked short to the knees body shaping maid uniform that showed off her figure. “Thank you Sophia” she answered as she stood up then continued “tell me, how is everything looking today, has the royal family already had their breakfast?” Sophia was also her informant; she brought latest juicy gossip of the royal family and everything that was going on in the palace, kind of like the early newspaper.                                                                                                                  “well the prince and his……well new bride are having breakfast now with the Chief” she answered “Ok and what about queen mother ,is she not having breakfast with them?” Melissa asked as she stood up to sit on the bed and check out her breakfast “Oh! The queen does not want to come out of her room, she has been locked up in there since last night after the king announcement of Taira being the new chosen bride and she hasn’t eaten anything either, she doesn’t even want any of us to go clean the room .I think she is doing some kind of protest or something like that” she answered then paused.                                                                                                     “and if you ask me Miss, I think what she is doing is right, someone has to stand up and show that vulgar Taira that she does not belong at the king’s table, her place is to mop the floors like the rest of us and that’s it” she added looking at her expecting some kind of response but Melissa was just silent before saying “thank you Sophia for the food and about queen mother, don’t worry too much I’ll handle it” with a cheerful smile “you may leave now I want to dress up” she added “alright Miss with your permission” she said then walked out and shut the door behind her. Melissa got dressed, took a sip or two in her cup of coffee then walked out of her room.                                                                                                                                                                                              A moment later she was at the queen’s door step, she knocked followed by “queen mother it’s me Melissa would you let me in please” she called out “come in its open” answered the queen from the room. When she walked in, the queen was still in bed covered in her elegant bed coverings, the room was very sophisticated and chic with a touch of modern decorations. The linens were of good quality very expensive fabric and the colors, everything just coordinated together perfectly with the room, the tile and the wall color combination. Truly this room was fit for a queen, she noted as she looked around and loved every bit of it. “Good morning queen mother” she said as she walked in and got seated on the leather sofa beside the bed.  “What is good about this morning Melissa? After everything I did to make sure my only son never ends up with that social climber” she said as she sat up.                                                                                                         She was a light skinned middle aged woman believed to be in her late forties ,she had wide dark eyes just like her son’s, a slightly chubby body but the figure was perfect, she had a really pretty face and her name was Deborah Chisi. She seemed upset and in a bit of a mood that morning when she spoke to her “Everything I did all the rules I had to break and all for what?  So that I have to see her face every single day of my life and watch her ruin my only son’s life! I just can’t take it… I’d rather die than seen that happening” she added still upset. “Queen mother” Melissa said after taking a deep breath, rather calm for someone who has just been dumped by her fiancée for someone who was way beneath her. She held her hand in hers as she looked in her eyes then said in a sweet soft tone.                                                                                                                                                              “why do you do this to yourself? Are you telling me that you would rather die and leave me alone simply because you feel defeated? Come on if you are like this then who is going to comfort me, I need you, we all do. You are not only Richard’s mother and the mother of this land, you are my mother too and you simply can’t give up” she was the perfect daughter in-law, Oh so she made her think. “When you came to my house to ask for my hand in marriage, you told me I was destined to be your daughter in –law and I still believe I am destined to be your daughter in-law. It doesn’t matter if Richard is a little confused right now, every man goes through this process before settling down, it’s called sowing the wild oats or something like that but I know that sooner rather than later he will come back to me, his destined wife” she said with her eyes bright with tears.                                                                                                                                                      “oh Melissa how you manage to handle all of this, that I don’t know, how I wish I had even half the strength you have, I mean any woman in your place would be crying her eyes out but you, look at you ,you even look better than I am and you are even encouraging me here” she said                                                                                                                                              “oh queen mother I might look fine on the outside but am breaking inside ,seen the man I  love and was supposed to marry be in the arms of another woman is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. It’s like poison that is slowly and painfully taking my life away and I  can’t do anything about it, I  feel powerless and helpless queen mother and truth be told I never thought I could hurt this much over someone I barely even know” she said with such pain in her eyes which were bright with tears then added.                                                                                                                 “But I can’t let it get the best of me , that woman may have worn the battle but the war continues and I swear on what I hold most secrete that my sorrow and pain will not go in vain, Richard will soon realize that am the right woman for him, the one destined to be his partner for life”                                                                                                                                                                                                 “Melissa dear I admire your strength and confidence but sweetie time is running out, Richard will be marring that woman in less than two months, after that he will be bound to her for life plus she is carrying his child dear and you must not forget, a royal marriage is not one that can easily be broken” the queen said looking at her. “I know all that queen mother but you should never underestimate a woman in love, I believe I have plenty of time to review Taira’s true nature before the royal wedding.” She said looking at her.                                                                             “Sooner or letter she is bound to make a mistake that will review her true intentions with Richard, I just need your permission queen mother to do everything I can to show Richard just what kind of a gold digger that woman really is cause am not just going to sit by and watch while she ruins my husband’s life” she said looking at her “You have spoken like a true queen my dear and now more than ever I know I made the right choice for my son….and yes you have my permission to do whatever it takes to get that woman out of my house and my son’s life” the queen said  with a smile on her face then added. “use whatever means necessary cause that is your husband and you should fight for him like a wife does”                                                                                                                                                                       “Thank you queen mother now can you do me a favor” She asked “anything for you dear, so what can I do for you” She said looking at her “Am asking that you make peace with him, I mean it’s not good that you are not even talking to him now and he is sad about it and you know how I hate seen him like that, will you do it for me please!” She asked looking at her. The queen was surprised to hear that “what! You want me to start getting along with a person who left you almost at the altar, what kind of a person are you?” She burst out. “Well yeah what is wrong with that?” She said in a surprised tone “wow! If I had another son I would have gotten you married to him right away cause that ungrateful brat doesn’t deserve a woman like you at all, you are too good for him and he is just a fool but anyway I will do as you ask…..just for you” she said then smiled at her.                                                                                                                                                                        “Thank you queen mother” she said as she stood up and gave her a hug “and one more thing please get out of that bed, take a shower and met me down stars for breakfast, I heard you refuse to eat anything since yesterday and that is not good for your health so please dress up and meet me down stairs we eat together” she said as she walked towards the door “what! And if I don’t do it?” “it’s okay I won’t force you, if you want to stay on hunger strike, stay on hunger strike but I will do it as well since we are protesting the same thing, I will not have a bite to eat till you decide to eat with me” she was so good at playing the role of a perfect ideal daughter in-law that every mother wished for her son.                                                                                                                    “What, so I don’t have a choice do i?” “No you don’t, am expecting you so don’t be late” she said with a cheerful smile then walked out leaving Deborah feeling happy and relieved to know she had made the right choice for her son. She then got out of bed, showered, got dressed and went down stairs to join Melissa for breakfast. Deborah was so naive and easily manipulated for a very educated and experienced woman, to her Melissa was a goddess and whatever she said was right not knowing that not everything that glitters is gold.                                                                                                                                                                   That evening Taira was seated in her room, in the bridal mansion on the dressing table chair looking herself in the mirror as she brushed her curly wet hair in readiness for bed just after taking a shower when she wondered off in too deep thoughts. It was like a dream, like a fairy tale that was coming true in her life, she couldn’t believe that in less than three months she was going to marry the man of her dreams, life was finally smiling upon her and she couldn’t be any happier. For her, life hasn’t been easy for the past few years, she not only got herself in to some trouble that landed her in prison for a couple of years but also caused her mother to lose everything she had worked hard for.                                                                                                                                 So getting a job in the palace after her release was the start of her new life but little did she know that she would end up falling in love with the prince. Before all of this Taira and her mother lived a pretty simple but comfortable life, Ms. Jessica worked as a palace cook for fifteen solid years so when she finally retired, she bought herself a small piece of land where she grew all kinds of vegetables ,harvest them and sell them in bulks and in less than three years, she became one of the largest producers of vegetables and fruits and that’s how she managed to take her daughter to one of the most prestigious schools in the country and give her a very comfortable life.                                                                                                                                        Everything was fine with them, not until Taira got arrested and was sent to prison for a crime she committed in school and in order to save her only child from such a place, she had to sell most of her properties and was left bankrupt. Now that she was free and ready to turn on a new leaf on life, they had to start all over again from scratch. Wining and dining with royalty was far from Taira’s dreams after experiencing prison life for more than three years but life took a surprising twisted turn when she met and fail in love with the crowed prince of the land and now she was about to become his wife, the mother to his child and the next queen of the land, what more could she possibly ask for.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Now her thoughts drifted back to the night she spent with him, never in all her life could she ever imagine that making love would possibly be so wonderful; it was a night full of love, Passion and desire. Trembling at the memory of the fire he had ignited in her body, she wondered when he would come to her again but recoiled herself from the thought. A gentle knock was heard from the door that startled her out of her thoughts. “Come in please” she called out as she stood up all dressed up in her rather reviling night gown. As soon as she saw her dashing fiancée walk with a red rose flower in his hand, her heart jumped for joy then run towards him to give him a hug.                                                                                                                                           “oh my love am so glad to see you! You know I was actually thinking about you a moment ago” she said so excited leading him to the bed “oh really and what about if I may ask” he asked as he got seated beside her. “Something really nice but hey… tell me, how did you manage to sneak by the guards and come here at this time? Did they allow you? Cause from what I know you are not allowed to visit me regularly and especially not at this time, you can really get us in trouble with your father and you know my mom is just in the next room” she asked looking at him. “Darling there is nothing a man in love can’t do in order to see his woman especially if that man is me and don’t worry about my father, he will never know” he answered with a smile on his face looking at her.                                                                                                                                                                        “well am glad that you are here though ,I was missing you too much” She said then embraced him “And…is that rose for me” she asked shyly “actually it is ,a rose for my rose” he said as he handed it over to her  with a smile on his face “it's beautiful thanks “she said with a smile on her face as she smelled it “I have another thing for you but for this one you have to close your pretty little eyes first” he said looking at her “really what could it be ,what’s with all the mystery” she asked anxiously. “You just close your eyes” he said.                                                                                           “alright”she said as she closed her eyes. “Now don’t cheat just keep those beautiful eyes closed or you will ruin the surprise” he said “my eyes are already closed” she said with a smile on her face. He then reached to his pocket got out a small leather box, lifted the lid open then said “you can open them now” Taira’s eyes grow wide at the site of the grittily diamond ring that she saw in the box, pure diamond and it must have cost him a fortune, it was beautiful “I know it’s a bit late cause we are kind of already engaged and all but it’s never late to do the formalities so here it goes” he said, took a deep breath then continued as he knelt on the floor on one knee with her hand in his .                                                                                                                                                                                       “Taira Nawezy, my beautiful, gorgeous Taira will you grant me the pleasure of been my wife ,my partner for life and my queen for the rest of my life? Will you be the mother of all my children? The grandmother to all my grandchildren and the great ,great grandmother to all my great, great grandchildren, and  will you  be my love for the rest of my life cause I can’t see me spending the rest of my life with any other woman who is not you my beautiful brown eyed princess” he asked looking in to her eyes with a smile on his face.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Tears rolled down her cheeks in such unbelievable joy, she couldn’t believe her ears or what her eyes were seen, she was so happy “off course yes! A thousand times yes, I will be your wife, the mother to your children, the grandmother to your grandchildren and their great, great grandmother too cause I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you and only you my love!” She burst out in so much excitement and happiness in her tone. She was filled with such happiness she thought it was a dream for a second there but only to realize it wasn’t and she was even happier. With her hand in his, he placed the ring on her middle finger gently “wow this is so beautiful, it must have cost you a lot” she said gazing at her finger with a smile on her face and loving how it looks on her.                                                                                                                             “yeah kind of, it’s a family heirloom, passed down to me by my father to give it to Melissa on our engagement ceremony but I figured to give it to you instead cause you are the woman that has stolen my heart and made my life worth living” he answered with a smile on his face “like it! I love it, it’s gorgeous, it’s a pity I will have to pass it down to our son when he is born and grown to give it to the woman of his dreams” she said with a smile on her face. “well yeah but that’s like a gazillion years from now and am glad you like it” “thank you honey for making me this happy really I must have done something right to deserve you” she said looking at him with a smile on her face then brought his face closer to hers and kissed him on the mouth firmly.                                                                                                   After the kiss she gazed in to his eyes for what felt like an endless moment as he also returned her gaze sweetly, every fibber in her being cried for him to stay but somehow she simply said “good night honey ,I love you and I really love the ring it’s beautiful but I have to rest up now, I have a tune of thing to do tomorrow” His heart lurched at what he saw in her eyes, love, trust, desire and instead of releasing her ,he took her in his arms “this is likely to be a very long good night then my love” he whispered ,his mouth was on hers again wooing her tenderly then more fiercely as he felt her respond. Her kisses inflamed him and he pushed the covers to slide in to the bed.                                                                                                                                                                          Releasing her momentary only to say “I want you so bad my honey so….very bad” his mouth was on hers again and he tore off his clothing’s then lay down beside her puling her back in to his arms. She yielded to him completely, her soft curves molding to his hand mushed contours .He grounded in excitement as he felt her mouth open under his like a flower, never in all his experience had he ever wanted a woman so badly as he did then.                                                          Much later laying clasped in Richards arms after their intense love making, Taira found herself crying silently, she was happy and in love, she had never felt like this before, in fact she never thought she would ever feel this much happiness but behind all that new found love and joy in her life, there was her dark past that would sooner rather than later come back and ruin her. She knew what she had to do but the fear of losing the love of her life was preventing it all, now she was caught between a rock and a hard place.                                                                                            She did her best to hid it but Richard felt the tension in her body, startled he lifted a hand to her cheek and only to find that it was wet “but why…..my love you are crying ,are you hurt did I hurt you honey! Oh my God I hurt you didn’t I?” He said in surprise. She shook her head, tears still tricking down her cheeks “no! You didn’t hurt me at all you can never hurt me. Am fine, am……am just so happy my love that it scares me I might lose you and I don’t want that to happen!’’  “baby……baby listen you are never going to lose me you and I will be together forever I promise” he said “whatever that happens you promise to never leave me?” she said looking at him “my angel I swear it on my life, I will never leave you Taira cause you are my life and I can never live without you” he assured her then kissed her forehead firmly.                                                                                                                                                                            The next morning Taira was in a happy mood, everything was going her way and now she was assured that Richard would never leave her with or without her past. She took a shower got dressed and was now seated at the dressing table looking at herself in the mirror as she applied make up on. “Good morning Miss Taira hope you had a good night sleep, I brought you your breakfast” come the voice of one of her maids who was also her friend from when she was still working as a maid. She was light in complexion a bit slim, had a gorgeous body and really looked good in her palace uniform her name was Betty.                                                                                            “Betty how many times should I tell you not address me so formally, we are still friends remember and I don’t want any of that to change simply because am marring Richard” she said as she swung to look at her “and its prissily because of that, why i have to give you all the respect you need milady” Betty said as she up the tray of food on the bed side table with a smile on her face. “But ok Taira…. nothing will change, we are still friends and will continue been that” she added “alright but hey you didn’t have to bring me breakfast here, I was almost coming down to eat with you girls’’ Taira said. “ok Taira I get that we are still friends and all but now you are on a different level, in less than three months you will be the queen of this land and a queen never, under no any circumstances does she ever have any of her meals with the servants so start acting like one and prove to everyone that you are worthy of been the prince’s wife” She said looking at her.                                                                                                                                                 “Ok I get your point…wow there is a lot to learn about been royalty isn’t there? speaking of which, what’s my schedule for today?” she asked as she turned back on the mirror “well for starters you have a meeting with the lady royals after breakfast, today you will be learning on how to talk and walk like a royalty which if you ask me sounds really boring” she said with a laugh and Taira laughed too then continued. “And later in the afternoon you be having lunch with Prince Richard and the event planner for the preparations of your wedding in Lusaka at some fancy restaurant I presume, the prince already made the reservations and in the evening you are meeting with the royal seamstress for your dress fittings, she needs to take your measurements and let you pic the design” she paused to take a breather then added looking at her then at her notepad.                                                                                                                                             “And later on before dinner you have your usual learns with the “bana chimbusa’s”. It seems you have a pretty tight schedule milady but right now you have a visitor” “A visitor you say!” Taira said in a surprised tone as she turned to look at her “yes and you will never guess who it is, someone you would never expect to visit you” she said. “Oh my God is it the queen!” She exclaimed as she stood up “close enough considering they are both mean and evil” she said looking at her “Melissa!” Taira said as she cross her hands on her chest looking rather annoyed “you got that one right” “oh I can’t stand that woman” she said “me neither and she really gives me the creeps sometimes, well most all the time but you got to go and see her she’s waiting in the living room” she said.                                                                                                                                                              Melissa was seated in the luxurious living room of the bridal mansion looking around and hating the fact that a commone nobody was the one enjoying everything that was meant for her when she saw Taira walk down the stair case in a gorgeous elegant, body shaping, short to the knee red velvet dress with golden high heeled shows, very jewelry and hair beautifully styled. “well ,well  would you look at that, the trashy maid is been transformed from a disgusting little rotten rat in to something slightly presentable but yet again you can put as much make up on a pig as you want, it will still remain a pig…oh how pathetic” she said looking at her in the rudest way possible.  “What do you want Melissa? if you are only here to insult me then I would rather you left right now cause I don’t want any problems with you” she said rather upset in her tone looking at her.                                                                                                                                                                                              “oh don’t worry little darling, I won’t take up much of your time, I am only here to let you know that your days in this house are numbered, very soon I will take back everything you have stolen from me, starting with Richard and I will personally put you back in the trash where you should never have left from and I will enjoy doing it” she said looking her in the eyes. Taira returned her piercing gaze then said “first of all, I have never stolen anything from you and if Richard decided to leave you for me…then that can only mean he realized much sooner that I am much more of a woman than you will ever be!” She said in a slightly high tone, paused then added. “And now that we are all cleared up about who owns whom, I will need for you to get the hell out of my house!”                                                                                                                                                                           “Let me tell you something b***h! Richard was mine and always he will be and if you knew what was best for you, you wouldn’t challenge me on that and let this be a warning to you, never again should you ever raise your tone at me or I swear to God you will live to regret it for the rest of your miserable life!” She was really in anger as said that. Taira took a deep breath then said “look Melissa, I don’t have the time for this nonsense, Richard left you, get over it already, move on with your little pathetic life and leave us alone!” she paused then added looking at her.                                                                                                                                    “now if you still have some self-respect left in you, you would carry your slutty self and get the hell out or my house before I do something very nasty to you and I won’t be held responsible for it!”.                                                                                                                                                                                                            She looked at her silent then said “Am leaving….I wouldn’t want to be your next victim!” with a devious smile on her face then walked away. Taira was left rather puzzled ,what did she mean by that , could it be that Melissa knew of her past, she was worried now, what if she ends up telling Richard everything; that would surely ruin everything between them .Now her happiness depended on Melissa which was very dangerous, Taira now knew that she had to tell Richard the truth before Melissa does, he had to hear it from her but how to do it she was really nervous now and hoped it wasn’t what she was thinking.                                                                                                                                                              Later that night just after dinner and everyone in the palace was asleep, Richard was in the living room searching on the internet the ideal places to take Taira for their honey moon when Melissa walked in a rather short and reviling night gown and an equally short and reviling rob on top. She had two tea mugs in her hands as she approached him. “Hello” she said with a slight smile on her face “hey… how are you” he said looking at her from head to toe, she really looked attractive, super sexy and he was only a man not a saint and he couldn’t help it but notice her. “Am great and you?” she answered as she got seated beside him “am okay….. Hey aren’t you feeling cold with that…that really short dress you are wearing” he asked then looked away preventing himself from getting tempted. She smiled then said. “Am ok thank you and hey would you like some worm tea I made am extra for you…just in case”                                               “you made tea! Since when do you know how to use a kitchen?” He asked rather surprised with a slight laugh in his tone “very fan Richard, it’s not even that hard, it’s to…just put water in the kettle thingy then…” she paused with a slight laugh then added “okay I didn’t make it, Sophia did and when I saw you seated all alone in here I thought you might also need one, it helps me sleep and maybe it might work the same for you” she added as she handed him the cup and got seated beside him. “Thank you” he said “hey what are you doing” she asked curiously “it’s nothing really it’s just…’’ “Oh my gash is that your honey moon you are planning!” She gasped as she looked at the computer in such excitement as if she was the one going with him. “well yeah it’s a surprise for Taira, she doesn’t know about this, in fact she thinks we are not even going to have a honey moon but you know me I can never pass the chance to make the woman I love happy” he said with a smile on his face.                                                                                                                               Melissa sipped in her tea silently, she was so filled with envy at that time that she even failed to fake a smile, she just sat there hating Taira even more “So tell me what do you think, will she like it?” he asked looking at her “oh she can be an i***t not to like this, this place is amazing even the city itself is just so romantic, I mean what kind of a fool wouldn’t want to go to Paris on her honey moon, I…I have been there several times I just haven’t gone there with someone special” she answered still looking at the pictures then at him with a slight smile. Richard looked as she spoke and he could hear resentment in her tone, something told him she was not really happy about the whole agreement. She looked back at him then said in a low soft tone “am sure she will love it”                                                                                                                                                             “Melissa can I ask you something?” He said “sure what do you want to know” she answered “I want you to be completely honest with me, are you ok with this, I mean with me marring Taira and all…” “Richard we have talked about this and I totally understand, you and I were never formal so why would I not…be ok with you marring that…woman” she interrupted with her eyes bright in tears “yes I know we talked and you seemed ok with it but something tells me you are not, there is a sadness in your eyes every time I talk about my love for Taira that makes me feel that all this is really hurting you and ….” “Richard listen am not going to lie to you, I really like you, like a whole lot that am even afraid I might have fallen in love with you and there is nothing more I would want in life than to be your wife and be the one to go with you to Paris for that honey moon but….” She paused.                                                                                                                              “I know am not the one you are in love with, it’s her, it’s all her and the only thing I want  is to see you happy with or without me in your life” she added in a calm soft but sad tone while looking at him then a tear fail from her left eye and she wiped it off quickly with a slight sniffed then smiled and added “so  your question is if am ok with you marring her then my answer is, for as long as you are happy am happy too but don’t chase me out of your life, at least let me be your friend ,just a friend nothing more, no strings attached or anything” with a slight laugh.                                                                                                                                                               Oh she was so damn good at manipulation anyone would fall for her act. He smiled at her then said cheerfully “sure you can, there is no doubt about that”                                                                            “that’s great so am……….you really love this maid girl don’t you?” She asked “Her name is Taira and yes I really do love her, she is like my heart beat, without her in my life I just don’t think I can live, she is a part of me, my whole world revolves around her. Am in love with her so deeply you can’t even beginning to imagine” he said with so much passion in his tone that it made Melissa’s blood start to boil. “ooh ….ok so do you like know everything about her, I mean you have only dated for a few months and here you are planning the most expensive wedding I have ever seen and this honey moon, don’t you think it’s a little too much for a girl you barely even know?” She asked trying her very best to implant doubts in his head. Richard was silent as he gazed at her before saying.                                                                                                                                       “I know everything I need to know about her and if there is something I don’t know, she will tell me when the time is right, I have no reason to doubt her and besides the only thing that matters is that we love each other enough to want to start a family together” he said. “Well don’t think am too nosy, I just find it odd that the only relative she has is her mother, what about her dad or any other relatives, where did they come from and how is it that her sir name sounds so foreign, is she even Zambian?” She said rather puzzled in her tone. Richard looked at her then said “I don’t think it’s right of you to be snooping in to Taira’s life, I for one don’t care what her sir name sounds like much less if she is Zambian or  where she came from so why should you? If there is anything I need to know about her, she will tell me when she feels like it” he was rather upset in his tone.                                                                                                                                        “Am…….am really sorry Richard I didn’t mean to offend you in any way, I was just curious that’s all I didn’t know you would take it so personal!” Burst out apologetically as she stood up looking at him. “Melissa calm down am not offended, I just didn’t see it right for you to be looking in to Taira’s life so much, anyway forget about all that, are you leaving?” he said then asked looking at her “well yeah I feel kind of sleepy, good night” she said in a rather low tone as she stood up then  left leaving Richard in total confusion, he might have not shown it but what she said left him with a lot of question marks.                                                                                                                                           The next morning Richard was having breakfast at Taira’s place after which they were supposed to meet up with the event planner for the preparations of their wedding but Richard was acting rather strange that morning, he just came awaited Taira to get ready from the living room, he greeted her with a kiss on the cheek which was rather too formal on his part considering they were just the two of them, sat down facing her at the breakfast table and started eating slowly and silently. Taira noticed something was bothering him, she eat slowly in silently while gazing at him gently and wondering what was going on in his head, she kind of had an idea of what was bothering him considering Melissa kind of knew the truth about her past and they practically lived in the same house so she might have told him something.                                                                But yet again that possibility was highly doubtful cause if she had told him anything about her past, Richard wouldn’t have waited till morning to talk to her and also straggling with the right words to use. Half an hour past and that’s when he decided to speak “listen babe…. there is something that has been bothering me since last night and I need to talk it over with you” he said still straggling in finding the right words. “Really! I didn’t even notice, alright let’s hear it, what is on your mind” she said rather sarcastically. “listen babe we have been dating for almost a year now and you and I love each other very much that we are having a baby and are about to get married soon but I still feel there is a lot I really don’t know about you, I mean we can’t get married if we don’t know each other that much right?” he said looking at her rather nervously “ok where are you going with this ,I prefer you just go directly to the point” she said gazing at him.                                                                                                                                                                                  There is a right moment for everything and this wasn’t it, Richard learned that the hard way “yeah right listen honey the thing is, I want to know if there is anything at all that you are keeping from me about your life, your school or what you did after secondary school, I want to know everything before…before  we get married and…” She started feeling uncomfortable now “what ……….what are you saying Richard? that you don’t trust me is that it!” She snapped angrily as she stood up “no, no, no honey I trust you really it’s just that….” “Just that what Richard? You think am keeping something from you which only mean that you don’t trust me!” She interrupted rather panicking now. Richard walked to her and tried to touch her and she was very cold and trembled all over “don’t touch me and just leave me alone!” she yelled brutally trying to push away in an attempt to end the conversation.                                                                            He saw she wasn’t well and was not about to leave her alone for anything “calm down Taira you don’t have to get like this!” he said in shock looking at her and noticing how pale and panicking she was getting “if you are not keeping anything from me then that’s just fine but don’t get yourself all worked!” He said as he tried to touch her again but she slightly pushed him away.                                                                                                                                                                                                       “come to think of it…if you are not keeping anything from me then why would you act like this, you have even turned pale, you are very cold and are shaking all over it’s as if you are scared of something, tell me babe is your past that horrible that you are even scared to share it with me?” he was puzzled and inquisitive now. Taira’s heart was beating so fast she could hear it as if it was about to pop out of her chest.                                                                                                                                            She looked back at him with wide unblinking eyes that where socked in tears now and she was all trembling, sweating and afraid that this might be the end of her perfect fairy tale. Something in her wanted to tell him the truth but the fear of losing him was holding her back, she just looked at him and burst out in to tears “yeah you trust me so much so that at the first rumor you hear about me, you start doubting me, I don’t know what they are telling you about me but none of that is true, they are just trying to separate us, can’t you see that” she cried trying to get some sympathy points and end this uncomfortable convasation. “babe no one is telling me anything about you, I just want to know you better, make sure that there are no secrets between us  but the way you are acting now makes me think there is something big that you are keeping from me and I want to know what it is right now!” He demanded.                                                                                  “You know I would have expected this from anyone but not you, I mean after everything we have been through together and this is how you show your trust in me by thinking am lying to you! You know what get out, I don’t want to see you anymore just get out of my face right now!” She yelled in anger. He was silent as he realized what bad timing it was “ Okay fine,I don’t want to know anymore,look how its making you feel and I hate it when you are all upset and crying…..lets just forget I ever asked” he said trying to embrace her “just………just go away Richard” she said in a low tone. “Taira sweetie you don’t look good are you ok” she asked as he touched her “am just fine now leave me alone” she said then walked away from him, he followed her behind looking all worried now.                                                                                                                     “Taira honey please don’t be like that, don’t leave like that at least let’s talk about this!” He said as he stopped her “Richard I……I don’t feel too well” she said weakly in a low tone then fainted in his arms. “Taira!” He screamed in fear “Taira sweetie open your eyes come on” he was panicking now as he tried to wake her up. He was so worried, in a panic and so afraid he didn’t know what to do “oh my God what happened to her!” Exclaimed Betty as she walked in after hearing him scream “don’t just stand there call the doctor or something hurry!” He yelled as he carried her off from the floor and went with her up stairs then laid her down on the bed. A moment later Betty walked in looking so worried “the doctor is on his way, how is she?” she asked “still the same” he answered looking so nervous “but…….but what happened she looked fine a while ago?” Betty asked anxiously.                                                                                                                                               “What is wrong with you? Can’t you see am very nervous right now, make yourself useful and bring some alcohol may be that will woke her up” he yelled in a more or less upset tone “am on it sir excuse me” she said then walked out. “Oh my God what happened to her, did she fall or something, is she hurt, is she going to lose the baby?” Came the Deborah’s voice in the door way as she walked in “mother what are you doing here?” he asked as he looked at her “well one of the maids came rushing to tell me Taira fail and might lose the baby so I came rushing to see her” she said “Taira just fainted she’s going to be ok and no she is not going to lose the baby, am not going to allow it” he said rather upset. “hey I just heard what happened ,let me take a look at her and see if I can bring her back to consciousness” came Melissa’s voice as she walked in looking at her.                                                                                                                                                          “This…..this is all your fault, you caused this and don’t even think of coming close to her ,I want you to get out right now Melissa!” He yelled in anger looking at her with his eyes all socked in tears. Melissa was in shock what had she done now. “Richard what is wrong with you, I just want to help, remember I did three semesters at the school of medicine, I can bring her back to consciousness, please allow me to help her before the doctor gets here” she said looking at him “dare come close to her and I swear to God it will be the last thing you ever do! Now get out” he yelled furiouslypushing her out. “My God Richard calm down! What has gotten in to you? Melissa please dear live us alone, don’t worry I’ll settle this with him” the queen said, Melissa then just turned and walked away in tears “great now look what you have done, what is with you these days my God!” she added. “mother please I have no time for your scolding right now, you can go with her if you like, I can take care of my wife alone” he said then turned to Taira and held her hand tightly.                                                                                                                                                                   The long wait had been agonizing for him, despite the doctor’s assurance that she would be fine. He had just spent the longest day of his life, all day he had sat with his eyes fixed on her creamy face and his hand caressing her softly. The doctor had given something to keep her rested for at least for the rest of the day, he had said her blood pressure had gone up due to increased stress and anxiety, she was probably working herself beyond her limites and was not having enough rest which was not good for the development of her baby but he assured him that both mother and child would be fine and healthy provided she wasn’t exposed to too much stress, he also said to avoid upsetting her too much because it’s in the first trimester that the pregnancy is most delicate, anything upsetting could be fatal and hearing that, Richard hated himself for what he had done.                                                                                                                                                                            With a huge effort, Taira opened her eyes, she was still felling weak “Richard, my love I feel so weak what happened to me, I feel like I have been sleeping for days” she said weakly as she tried to sit up “sweetie you fainted and am here taking care of you, don’t try to sit up, you are still weak” he said with concern in his tone. “The…the last thing I remember is us arguing and after that…. nothing” she said “that’s because after that you fainted” he said as he helped her sit up. “Taira am really sorry for upsetting you, trust me it…” “Don’t, please, I should be the one apologizing here I acted so stupid and I put my baby’s life at risk. Listen if you want to know about my entire life and my past, I’ll tell you but it’s….” “Babe listen, if you didn’t want to tell me then, its probably because you are not ready yet or maybe it’s just not the right time. Honey when you are ready you will tell me and I promise not to judge you or anything like that, right now I just want you to get better for our baby and nothing else ok” He said then kissed her lightly and gently on the mouth.                                                                                                                                                                           Two weeks later, Taira was to be introduced to the entire kingdom as the bride of the prince and soon to be queen of the land. That morning everyone in the kingdom had gathered at the great hill stone, there were some traditional dances, drama, acrobatics and so many entertainments been done before the introduction ceremony. Everyone was super excited and anxious to find out who had stolen the prince’s heart and found favor in the Chief’s eyes. Rumors about how Richard broke off his engagement to his chosen bride for a mare palace maid had gone viral all over Chipata and the surrounding areas but so far none had been confirmed as  of yet so almost everyone there was very anticipant to find out who this lucky mysterious maiden was.                                                                                                                                                                                                        Back at the palace the Chief Roland and Richard were already dressed up in their traditional royal garments designed by the very best teller in the country with very expensive material off course and they looked dashing as ever. They were seated in the throne room waiting impatiently for the ladies of the house to finish up with their dressing which seemed to be taking forever “why do women always take long to dress up? We are already out of time and they are still not here yet, not even one of them!” The King said rather frustrated in his tone as he checked his wrist watch “Dad don’t worry they will be here soon” He said “oh speak of which” he added as he saw his mother walk in looking all elegant and fancy in her purple, gold patterned ,perfectly designed traditional gown with gold jewelry and beautiful sparkly golden sleepers but she wasn’t alone, she was with another beautiful young woman.                                                                                                         She was fairly brown in complexion, tall, slim, dark wide seducing eyes, had a beautiful face, body shape like a bottle of wine and her name was Linnet Mwanza, she was Richard’s first cousin from his mother’s side. She wore a rather simple but elegant body shaping, short to the knees, red, white and black patterned traditional dress; she looked beautiful with beads jewelry and white high heeled shoes. “Wow you made it; I didn’t think you would with all your exams and all!” Richard burst out as he walked over to embrace his cousin “off course I came, what did you think, that I would miss my only brother’s introductory ceremony to my own best friend, come on!” Linnet burst out with a smile on her face.                                                                                                “Am glad you did, I missed you so very much kiddle, how long has it been? Three years! And my God you still look as gorgeous as ever” Richard said excitedly as he went to give her a hug “I know right! And I am so glad to be back bro, it’s just that I have been super busy with my studies that I didn’t even have time to visit more often, but am back now and am very excited about your wedding and what a lucky dog you are to have landed such a hotty’’ she said as Richard lead her to the sofa. “I know and you have no idea what she made me pass through just to win her over! Anyway that aside tells me how is my favorite cousin doing?” He asked “am your only cousin silly and am great better than ever in fact” she answered with a smile showing off her diamond engagement ring.                                                                                                                                      “Wow! He really went all out with the engagement ring didn’t he? I mean look at the side of that stone, was he trying to compete with me or what? and fill me in with the details, Andrew already told me how it all went down but I want to find out from your part how did you feel and how is it possible that I leave the country for a couple of years and I come back you are engaged to one of my best friends, I mean how did that even happen? I know there was some chemistry there before I left but to move from that to an engagement that is like….mind blowing!” He said then asked in surprise as they got seated. “I love that you too get along so well but I don’t think this is the right time for you to start catching up, I mean we are going to an event and all” the queen interrupted.                                                                                                                                                                           “Aunty is right Richard, let’s leave that for when we come back, I have so much to tell you and we catch up over some booze and……” “Hey, hey,hey no alcohol for you young lady, you are still too young” Deborah interrupted “Aunty, I love that you care for me so much but come on! I am Twenty one and legal drinking in this country is eighteen so am….like way past that” she said as they stood up “she is right you know” the Chief answered with a laugh “yeah right, and you are encouraging her” she said “Mom if she is old enough to get engaged she is surely old enough to have a beer or two am I right Dad” Richard said with a laugh and nor sooner had he said that than everyone went dead silent when Melissa walked in looking all beautiful and elegant in her long red velvet traditionally patterned gown with golden Jewelry, looking so drop dead gorgeous with that her figure.                                                                                                                                       She walked straight to Richard with everyone looking at her then kneeled before him and said “my prince please except my apologies for anything I might have done to upset you, believe me it was never an intention of mine to bring harm upon your fiancé or anything like that please except my apology” in an humble tone and kind of over acting. Richard was surprised, he knew he was the prince and people respected him but no one has ever given him such respect before, it felt kind of awkward.  “am….get up Melissa” he said as he helped her “look should be the one apologizing here, I mean you did nothing wrong and that day, it wasn’t a good day for me ,Taira was unconscious , I was all worried and very nervous ,I was losing my mind and you showed up and I kind of let out all my frustration on you which was wrong. I know you only wanted to help and am really sorry for that” he said. She smiled then said.                                                                                 “Thank you” she said with a smile then looked at Linnet who was looking at her in a strange way then said. “You must be Linnet, I’ve heard so much about you, nice to finally meet you” with a cheerful smile on her face as she stretched her hand to greet her. “And you are? Sorry but I have heard nothing about you” she said sounding rather rude as she shook her hand “Linnet don’t be rude now, I told you about her, this is Melissa, the woman Richard was supposed to marry before he went ahead and got that maid pregnant” the queen said looking at her “oh yeah! Pardon my manners, nice to meet you” she said then shook her hand with a fake smile. It was more than obvious that Linnet was not a fan of Melissa at all. She looked at her then said “the pleasure is all mine”                                                                                                                                                           “ok everyone is here we may go now” the king said as he stood up to lead the way with the queen “excuse me uncle but I got to ask, why is Melissa going to attend the event with us, I mean she is not part of the family or is she?” Linnet asked rather surprised “I invited her got any problem with that?” the queen answered “nop none at all, I just find it odd that she would want to attend a ceremony that was supposed to be in her honor….I mean what woman would want to watch another woman take her place, I just don’t…” “Linnet silent! You look prettier with your mouth shut, now let’s go or will be really late” she interrupted then lead the way out with Melissa behind her.                                                                                                                                               The royal family arrived at the greet hill stone a little later and the crowd cheered for them as they walked out of their vehicles waving at them with cheerful smiles. Shortly after they settled Taira and her mother arrived, she stepped out of the car looking so beautiful and radiant in her amazing, perfectly designed traditional gown. Tight white topped with a flared skirt which was beautifully patterned in rich colors such as bright red, royal blue, and yellow with little white and black traditional shields. This beautiful gown was specifically designed for her and for this particular occasion. It came with golden jewelry, like a choker golden necklace with colored beads that matched her skirt, a pair of golden arm bracelets and some golden hoop earrings to make her even more gorgeous. Her hair was perfectly done, simple but classy, nails polished and bright and makeup was perfectly done as well by a professional.                                                                     Everyone’s eyes were on her as she gave everyone a bright cheerful smile with her mother who also looked very beautiful. Richards jar dropped as he saw her, she was the most beautiful woman at that event for sure and he couldn’t believe she was all his. Linnet looked at him and she was like “be careful there bro, don’t let your jar fall off” then gave him a slight laugh “let me go and welcome them, if you please” she said as she stood up and went to her. “Well look at you, my, my don’t you just look amazing in that dress, for a moment there I almost didn’t recognize you!” She said as she approached them “oh my God Linn! When did you get back? I didn’t think you would make it, you look so beautiful” exclaimed Taira as she embraced her so excitedly.                                                                                                                                                                 “Just this morning, you didn’t think I would miss my best friend’s wedding did you?” She said with a smile on her face.                                                                                                                                                  “off course not! If you did I would have been so upset with you but I didn’t think you would make it for the introduction” she said looking so happy to see her. “Well I made it and I won’t miss any of the remaining preparations of the wedding, I have some free time before I go back to school meaning am stuck with you till the last day of preparations, I mean I am your chief brides maid aren’t I?” “Off course you are, if not you my sister who else?” Taira burst out then added as she embraced her again “I know right, it’s so amazing to see you Tai”  “Oh I am so happy to see you, we have so much to talk about…..” “Linnet nice to see you again but leave the reunion for later ,I can see your aunt giving me the eye already” said Ms. Jessica as she interrupted “Oh yeah, you are right, let me go back” she burst out.                                                                                                          A moment later the Chief was called to the stage to address the people “it is always so great to see my people looking so happy and well, it really fills my heart with lots of happiness and joy” he said then continued. “today when I woke up, I looked beside me and there she was the most beautiful queen of all times and I realize that I was blessed beyond measure to have lived twenty years of my life besides such a lovely woman, she is my queen, my muse and one of the reason’s I wake up every day” the crowd cheered as Deborah blushed with a slight smile “you know ever since my wife gave birth to our son who is the most precious gift she has ever given me, I have always wanted the best for him and the best he always got since childhood, we took him to the best schools and so on but when the time for him to finally find a life partner came, we thought as his parents we knew best” he paused.                                                                                                             “And as such we found him a woman to marry which we thought was the best but mattered of the heart are not to be tempered with, you know what they say “the heart wants what it wants” well our son, Prince Richard Rangel Chisi found himself a woman who is not only the most beautiful, the most intelligent but also the most charming young maiden this land has ever seen, she is one of a kind I will tell you that fact and she is none other than miss! The soon to be Mrs. Taira Nawezy Rangel Chisi!” and they all cheered “People of Mallandia please join me in welcoming my son and his lovely bride to the stage, a round of applause everybody!” He added cheerfully.                                                                                                                                                                                The crowd cheered as  Richard and Taira walked to the stage hand in hand looking so beautiful together, they sure did make a lovely couple “my son you have chosen the best out of the very best and am very proud of you, for choosing this lovely woman all on your own, that shows that you are now a man” He said in such a delight. Now Richard and Taira kneeled before him to give them his blessing and for this part he needed his wife so he called her to the stage and in as much as she hated the idea of giving her blessings to Taira and her son, she also didn’t want people to notice that she didn’t approve of their marriage so she rose to her feet mutely put on her best fake smile then stood beside her husband.                                                                                     “blessing upon blessing upon you and your lovely wife my son, May you be blessed always my children” he said as she put his royal furthered stuff on their back “may your home be filled with happiness and joy” Deborah said not meaning a word of it “and may your womb be fruitful and bare the royal family many, many grandchildren amen!” he said then looked at Melissa who looked so sad and alone and felt bad. “I now crown you princess of Mallandia! Be blessed always my child” he said as he placed a tiara on her head and the crowd cheered “long live princess Taira! Long live princess Taira!” She was so happy at that moment as she waved through the crown with a huge smile on her face while her other hand was holding on to her future husband, she felt like she was on top of the world; like nothing can ever ruin that moment and for that one moment , everything was perfect.  the cho