Chapter 16

Laura can't believe she did something so stupid and naive just because of Mira, she is obviously not jealous of everything she said but just didn't want Mira to think she can bully her

"but that was so stupid" she thought hitting her head

"ma'am we are at the office" the driver said to her

"okay, you can just park the car and leave I will drive it back" she replied and came down from the car

She walked towards the building about to go in when she heard someone called her name from a distance, she turned around to see Ella running towards her

"Laura!!" she called excitedly and rush into her hands, hugging her tightly

"have missed you a lot girl" she greeted happily

"you are choking" Laura complained pushing her away

"sorry, am just super-excited to see you" he said still holding her hands

"i thought you've forgotten about my existence here" Laura hissed

"come on, I had a lot of things to take care of and that took me a long time to settle" she soothed pouting

"fine, so why are you back so suddenly? Saw me in your dream overnight?"

"you got married without telling me and that too to a totally stranger!" she yelled loudly attracting attention to them, Laura quickly took a hand over her mouth to stop her

"you are shouting" she cautioned. Ella looked around suspiciously and lean in closer to her then whispered very lowly

"is that really true?" Laura sigh in disbelieve at her unchanging attitude and turned to walk into the company

"where are you going?" she asked pulling her back

"inside, we are not going to talk outside here are we?

"no not in the office lets go somewhere else" she said and dragged her away across the road towards her car. The two of them entered the car and Ella zoom off

…. Ella opened her mouth in shock as Laura explained to her about her marriage, the both of them never keep secrets from each other and even though everyone calls her Laura's maid because of how poor she was back then but she never let that bother her and continued their friendship till now

"you got married to Chris" she repeated in disbelieve

"you are telling me right now that you actually got married to that Chris back in high school" she said again trying to digest the information

"yes I just said that"

"the one you reject and break things off with because you couldn't…" she trailed off

"no need to act like its something that big and all, it just kind of happened"

"this is fate! I mean you guys were engaged before and broke up then you got married years after that"

"why are you feeling excited about this? I don't know my story sounds that interesting to you"

"am sorry but this is really amazing, you got married to a fiance you rejected" she chuckled which made Laura more mad

"stop it okay, am not going to let you laugh about this"

"sorry, I didn't mean it that way just surprised that's all" she apologized

"but why did you get married in a hurry? You could have waited till another day when Avan is feels better" she commented

"I couldn't think straight at that moment, just wanted to get married and all" she explained

"so will you really get divorced with him in five months? It will be such a waste"

"i have to, its an agreement an also what is a waste?"

"i mean Chris is very good, handsome, brilliant and rich now. He even likes you a lot although that was years back but who knows if he still do"

"are you kidding me? Its not even possible between us"

"why not, he's not maltreating you because if he is then you would have left"

"Why are you not saying anything about Avan at all, you don't seems concerned about his feelings"

"we both know very well that I don't like him, you liked him so much then that I had no other choice besides, Chris treats you better than he did then"

"that's not true, he also likes me" she corrected

"its what you choose to believe… you also don't seems bothered with his feelings seeing that you have no intention of going back to him" Ella pointed out to her

"I…I don't really know yet, when the time comes" Laura stuttered, she has not really given their relationship a thought at all

"enough about me, lets talk about you what have you been up to for the past three years" she questioned

"not much just doing this and that" she answered briefly

"what's up? Seems like you are hiding something from me spill it out" Ella bought her phone out from her bag and scroll through it then place the phone in front of her. Laura took up the phone and check what it is about, she saw a very lovely and cute baby girl's picture

"oh my! She is beautiful, where did you get this picture, she looks adorable" Laura admire the picture twinkly

"yes, she is" Ella agreed

"why are you showing me this? Do you know her?" Laura asked as she place the phone back on the table and Ella took it back

"she is my daughter" she answered grinning

"oh so she is your… your daughter!" she exclaimed in shock realizing what she meant

"you have a daughter? For who? When did this happen?" she questioned rapidly

"yes I have a daughter and I left to give birth to her the father is nobody" she answered

"i didn't know, Oh my God, why didn't you tell me about this before?" she continued in disbelieve

"because I dint want to bother you with my problems when you were already occupied with yours"

"but this different, you should have told me about it"

"am sorry, just wanted to keep it a secret" she apologize

"but what do you mean the father is nobody? Did he reject the baby?" she queried

"he doesn't even know she exist, I didn't tell him"

"why didn't you? don't you guys talk about it?" she inquire more

"can we forget about this for now, I don't want to talk about him" she replied cutting her off

"fine, I wouldn't so where is my pumpkin?" she asked feeling excited at the thought of being a godmother

"she is with the nanny at home" she answered

"how about we go see the movie from before, its been long since we watched it together"

"yeah I haven't watched it again since then" she replied and stood up then they entered the car again and left in her car again