The Love From Vengeance

“Goodbye, my babies. Take care, and remember, Mommy always loves you!” I exclaimed happily to my little children on the phone. We were having a video call.

“We love you too, Mommy! We love you too! I can’t wait to see you!” Janice said before ending the call. That was my little daughter. Lukel was the name of her twin brother. Yup, those were my two adorable children.

They were both in Canada, living with Andre’s parents. I had decided not to bring them along for various reasons.

I was lying down on my bed when I heard a knock on the door. “Come in, it’s not locked.”

The door opened, and Andre stepped foot inside the room, dressed in his pajamas.

“You’re still awake?” I asked, sitting down on the bed.

“Yeah, I’m not feeling sleepy,” Andre answered, walking close to me. He looked kind of tired and exhausted. “Does your leg still hurt?”

“Not that much. The pain has gone down.”

“Oh, right,” he said inaudibly. “There’s this company I just finished discussing with, and we’re going to start a project with them, probably around next week.”

“Business discussions; no wonder you were asleep,” I teased him.

“It’s not that; I’ve just been thinking too much,” he explained.

“What’s the problem?”

“Well, there’s this lady who I’ve been spending so much time with lately.”

“The one you’re texting always, right?” I gave him a silly laugh, accompanied by a

grin.

He laughed softly. “Yes, the one I’ve been texting always.” The cast on his face didn’t look so good, and I didn’t like that at all.

“Come sit down next to me.” I patted the bed. Andre sighed and settled down on the bed, a few inches away from me. “I think the big man’s more comfortable now, right?” I joked.

“Yeah, I guess,” he said softly, smiling narrowly. I could tell that was a forced expression.

“Okay, so tell me what’s going on? Did anything bad happen to this lady? Did the two of you get into a heated argument or something?”

“No, no, it’s not that.”

“Then what is it?” I asked him curiously.

out she

moment. “Wait a minute, hold on. So the girl you like, spending most of your time with, is

to know the most confusing part?

I raised an

was into me. But I didn’t just want to jump into a relationship. I was actually waiting

was the

know.”

were waiting for the spirit of your ancestors to tell you,

face. “I just wanted us to

see,” I said, nodding. “So how did you find out that this girl

all the wonderful moments, I… I just don’t

hair.

I said, placing my hand on

to hear something else that’s crazy?” He looked at me. “Both of us had

on a minute.

“Yes.”

off his shoulder and stood up right away. “That means she was

I’m the side chick

a girl.” I

painful, you know. It was

my arms crossed. “And I’m pretty sure she was after your money. Did

different clothes for her, got her a new phone,

trailed off as he stopped counting with his fingers. He looked at

sat next to him. “She was just using you

I can’t believe she would do that,” he uttered in

to. I mean, who

myself, but he just gave me a confused

at him for a moment, with my mouth partly open. “Okay, but still, most people know Andre Jones, owner of The Vitality Group, a billionaire. Who wouldn’t want to hang

shaking his head. “Don’t start

truth. That girl was acting friendly all because of the money. She’s a gold digger, and you need to

to be so hard,

have to do it. Or else you’re going to keep getting your

זיי

Andre said,

confusion. Who would visit us so

shook his head,