WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS

"Listen, Vic. I know what I said to you last night but I don't want you to take it to heart…" Christian began.

"I should not take it to heart? You confessed to me that you had feelings for me and you don't want me to take it to heart? Come on," Victoria threw her arms up in the air in frustration. She was clearly annoyed.

Victoria paced around the place before coming to stand in front of Christian again.

"Then why did you tell me you loved me then, huh? Was it to confuse me? Tell me."

"Vicky, enough! You are not just my best friend's wife. You are also the wife of my boss. Even if I have feelings for you, it won't change anything. I could not tell you how I felt about you and Franco beat me to it. Now you belong to him and I can't do anything about that."

"So, you do admit that you love me. Alright, so how long have you been having feelings for me?"

"Vicky, don't do this… "

"Tell me, Chris."

"For a long time, okay? I have loved you ever since I met you. I have loved you my whole life. Satisfied?"

"And you never told me. Why did you keep this away from me?"

"And why should this bother you, huh? It's already too late for that, don't you think so?"

"I always looked up to you. You have always been like the brother I never had. I have always loved you. Always. Do you think if you had told me, I would have said no?"

"What? What are you saying?"

"You know what, you are right. We should not be talking about this. This was a mistake. It was a mistake coming here. I will see you later." Victoria left the stables, leaving Christian absolutely speechless.

As soon as Victoria stepped out of the stables, Franco was right outside waiting for her. Victoria was a bit surprised to see him there at that time. He had left the house earlier and Victoria thought he was at the cotton fields.

"I thought you were out in the fields. You left home quite early so I thought you would be back till evening."

"That was the plan but I was missing you so I decided to come back home as soon as I could. Did you not miss me?" Franco moved forward and hugged his wife who smiled brightly at him. He kissed her on the neck while she giggled out loudly.

All that time, Christian was standing inside the barn, watching the two.

Time passed and Franco and Victoria were out on their honeymoon. They travelled to Carlifonia and had the best time of their lives. They spent weeks there as Franco left Christian in charge of everything, the farm, the stables, everything he owned. Christian did his job very well as well.

They came back home and everyone was happy to have them back. That was when Victoria gave everyone the big news.

"So, Vicky and I have something to say to everyone gathered here," Franco announced when everyone was wishing them good on their return. They had met inside the house, at the big hall as everyone stood and waited for Franco to make his big announcement.

After everyone kept waiting for Franco to announce his big announcement, everyone started getting impatient. They began to complain.

"Okay, okay. Everyone calm down. Victoria, why don't you tell them?"

Victoria smiled at her husband then stared back at everyone else in the room. Christian was standing at the corner of the room,with his arms folded. He waited patiently to listen to what Victoria had to say.

"Well, everyone. I and Franco wanted to tell you all that, very soon, we are going to be parents," Victoria said excitedly.

Everyone was so happy and started to congratulate them. Christian was very shocked when he heard the news. But he quickly walked over to the couple with a small smile on his face. He shook hands with Franco and hugged Victoria a little and let go of her immediately.

"Congratulations, boss, ma'am."

"Thank you, Chris."

"Thank you, Christian."

Later that evening, the couple threw a small party and invited just the workers and a few friends. There was a lot of food and drinks to go around and everyone ate to their satisfaction. After such a long party night, everyone went back to their houses. Christian went home and cried his eyes out. From that moment on, he understood he had lost Victoria for good.

Nine months later.

Victoria was walking around the house, in the garden, when she began to feel a little bit of contraction.

"Aow, what was that?" she kicked the pain out of her mind when it subsided.

Then, she felt the contractions again. That was when she tried to turn back into the house only to have her water breaking. She froze on the spot, and was suddenly frightened. Christian somehow, happened to be passing by when he saw the heavily pregnant Victoria making faces and almost sitting down on the floor. He ran to her and held her hand, with one of his hands supporting her waist.

"Ma'am, are you okay?"

"Please help me get inside the house. It hurts so much."

"Okay, don't worry. I will help you to the room. Can you walk?"

Victoria nodded her head vigorously.

Christian slowly helped her into her room and laid her down on her bed.

"Call my husband, call Franco here right now," she ordered Christian who rushed outside.

There were female maids in the house, and Christian left Victoria to go and get Franco who was in the fields at that time. Christian ran all the way to the fields to go and get Franco. When he finally found him, christian spoke to him about the situation. Franco, who knew his wife needed his presence so he ran back to the house and to be with his wife. She was about to give birth to their first child and he needed to be there for her.

Franco got there, the midwives had already been called and they were already attending to Victoria. She was really in pain now and was crying. Franco ran to her side and held her hand, while talking to her in a soothing voice. He wanted to somehow help her get over her pain but did not know how.

"My dear, don't worry. You will soon be fine."

Beads of sweat were beginning to form on Victoria's forehead. She was in pain and could not even speak anymore so she just nodded her head to agree to what her husband had said.