Lies From Pretty Lips

THE DEAL

THE DEAL

OSAZE

I'd slept late the previous night after consuming several glasses of alcohol. Since no woman had been able to make me forget Arinola, I had turned to Alcohol.

When I  woke up later in the morning and heard sounds from my television in the living, I wondered if I had turned on the television while I was drunk or if I was still drunk. I got up and felt the familiar heavy hands of alcohol beating my head wickedly.

Arinola was a bitch but alcohol proved to be a bigger bitch.

I was about to go into my bathroom to brush my teeth to get that funny taste out of my mouth when I heard music coming from the living room.

"Who was that I wondered? someone was in the living room because it sounded like they had changed the channel just now.

I'd kicked Mercy out of my house yesterday before turning to alcohol to comfort me but I remembered locking the door.

Or had I forgotten to lock it? And Mercy had come in again?

To do what exactly? After the way I'd treated her yesterday, I expected her to avoid me for weeks, except if she was one of those girls who enjoyed being treated like crap.

I rushed out of bed and went into the living room.

I hoped it wasn't Mercy because I would do something rabid to her if I found out she's the one in my living room.

To my utmost surprise, I found Arinola sitting cross-legged on the sofa a bowl of popcorn in one hand and a remote in the other.

Why hadn't I considered her? She was the only one with my spare key. I didn't think it would be her because she was mad at me and hadn't her friends said she was getting married soon.

"Arin... " I called out softly going to her.

She lifted her gaze to look at me briefly before switching her attention back to the television.

She's still mad at me, but she's here.  She's here and I'll do everything to get her to forgive me.

I was so stupid to have threatened her that way, so stupid.

I can still hear her daring me to go and expose her to that relationship wrecker.

I can still hear her telling me she didn't want me anymore.

Why would she want me after I'd blackmailed her?

"Baby you're here,  I missed you" I smiled coming to kneel in front of her.
She looked at me coldly.

"I'm sorry, I was a fool. I didn't mean to do that to you" I said burying my face in her thighs.

"Yet you did, you threatened me and you were willing to let me sleep with another man because you wanted money" she reminded me coldly.

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry. I was an idiot, I was stupid. Please you have to forgive me. I wasn't even serious about the things I said, I was just so angry and bitter that I reacted the wrong way. Please, I can't live without you. Please promise me you wont leave for so long again" I begged.

"I didn't come here because I wanted your forgiveness Osaze, I came because, I came here to talk to you because, well, I'm pregnant Osaze," she said as if pregnant was something that was so insignificant.

I looked up at her to search her face and her eyes and saw that she was really serious. She was pregnant? But for who? I know she had been sleeping with Wale while she was sleeping with me.

"I know what you're thinking but He's not responsible for my baby, he has always used protection" she answered my silent question.

I still hate the fact that that devil had slept with my woman.

He'd touched her and he'd been inside her, will I ever forget it?

"If my parents find out, I am done for," she said biting her nails.

"My dad will kill me," she said.

My hand moved to her stomach possessively.

"No one will hurt you or my child, I will protect you" I promised.

"How will you protect us?  You don't have a job, you don't have the money to look after us" she said.

"I'll ask my father for help," I said not bothering to tell her I was managing my father's company.

She looked really surprised.
"You will, I thought you didn't like to ask your father for anything?" she asked.

"Not when it involves the safety of my woman and my baby, I will do anything for you two" I vowed.

No one will touch my woman or my unborn child.

"Thank you Osaze" she whispered gratefully. "You don't have to thank me, I'm family now. I will do anything for you, anything you want, just say the word and it's done"

"We have to leave this place, my parents know where you live. They'll find us and do something crazy. As much as I want to run away and abandon them, I'm all they have so I can't leave Lagos now but we can go far away. Somewhere around the outskirts of Lagos like Ikorodu, Magboro, Ibafo, Ayobo...somewhere far. Somewhere they won't think to look for us" Arinola caressed my back.

"Anything you want, anything you desire Arin, as long as you choose me. As long as you're with me" I said.

I'd do anything she asks me to,  she's the mother of my unborn child after all.

In the end, I've checkmated that bastard, I didn't think Arinola would get pregnant though this had been my plan. To get her pregnant and keep her with me because she was mine and it had worked. My plan had worked.
Arinola was finally all mine, that fool wouldn't want her now that she was pregnant with another man's child.

All that was left now was to introduce her to my family, propose to her and marry her with or without her parent's blessings.

I had won without even playing too hard.