Claiming her babies

Monica’s POV

” Aunt we’ve already settled this and there’s nothing suspicious about what we said. The kids are mine and Monica is Ethan’s ex.” Nicholas said confidently, his voice calm as he walked closer to Aunt Ella “Let’s take you to your room Aunt”

Nicholas placed his hand on Aunt Ella’s shoulders as they both took the stairs and went straight to the kids’ room.

I sighed in relief once more as I thought about what had just happened in the past few minutes. Who would have thought that Ethan was going to show up today and start asking questions? What could have even prompted him to think that he had kids?

All these unanswered questions filled my head as I stood in the living room. “Hey, are you okay?” I heard Nicholas’s voice as he threaded down the stairs.

“I’m fine,” I said as I opened my hands and engulfed him in a hug, a hug that I desperately needed. He held me too by placing his hands on my waist and we stayed like that for some minutes.

“That was very close with Ethan today. Did you have any idea that he was going to be here today?” Nicholas asked and I figured he was also thinking about Ethan’s show up.

“Of course not. I never expected it. I never expected any of these” I said then my gaze landed on the stairs and it lingered there “Where is Aunt?” I asked.

“She is in the kids’ room. Macy woke up while trying to place her on her crib and aunt had to carry her again and pat her to sleep” Nicholas said as he broke the hug and clapped my face in his hands, using his right-hand thumb to caress my left cheek “Don’t worry Ethan wouldn’t find out about us”

“I’m beginning to think we should have just started longer in our vacation maybe one more week,” I said wishing I had listened to Nicholas who still wanted to stay behind.

Nicholas smiled as he stared at me affectionately “That doesn’t matter. What matters is that we are in this together” his words held encouragement and I found relief in his words.

He plastered a soft kiss on my forehead as he hugged me again and we remained like that for some minutes before the buzzing of his phone in his pocket made us separate and our attention solely on his ringing phone.

Taking the phone out, he looked at the screen with a serious face “Who is it?” I asked, curious to know why he suddenly had a serious expression.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

“It’s Anthony” he replied as he hesitated a little before picking up Anthony’s call and putting it on loudspeaker “What do you want?” Nicholas asked Anthony, coldness evident in his voice.

“hey not even a greeting? That’s cold of you bro. Well, I just called to check if you guys were back. I miss my sister besides is she there?”

“Who is your sister?” Nicholas asked, frowning at the phone in his hand.

“Hey Anthony, How are you doing?” I asked as I joined their conversation

“Hey, sis I’m good. Thanks for at least trying to know how I’m doing unlike someone angry I called. Anthony said, referring to Nicholas who sounded cold.

“You two are now siblings right?” Nicholas asked, raising his eyebrow as he looked at me in shock.

“We are friends, honey. I call him brother and he calls me sister. We just decided to do it that way instead of saying sister-in-law. Saying sister-in-law is too boring” I explained to Nicholas who wore an amused smile on his face.

“You two are ridiculous besides he isn’t even your brother-in-law,” Nicholas said with a frown on his face, and though I found calling Anthony funny I still liked to call him brother.

“Ethan showed up at our house today?” I said out of the bloom into the speaker.

“What?” Anthony screamed in shock.

“Yes he did and he came here asking to see the kids” I explained further.

“Oh boy this is not good,” Anthony’s said worriedly.

“Not a good sign. He came here with the pregnancy test result I had first taken when I found out he was pregnant” I said.

“How the hell did he even get his hand on that?” Anthony asked in curiosity.

” I’m not sure but I think I have an idea. His best friend was the one who had carried out the pregnancy test on me but I also remember that he was planning on going to Germany to further his education abroad so if I’m correct, I think he is back and he must have told Ethan about the kids”

“Why didn’t you tell me these before?” Nicholas asked, slightly hurt that Anthony had to hear it first.

“I’m sorry honey. I just connected the dots in my head and I’m not even 100 percent sure yet” I said sincerely.

“Are you sure about this Monica?” Anthony asked.

“In not sure Anthony but I have a gut feeling that I’m right. He was to study in Germany for just a year and if I’m not counting wrongly, I think it’s already past a year” I said.

“We can’t afford to let Ethan know about the kids because if he does, he won’t relent until he has custody and I don’t think I’m ready to start going to court for that” Nicholas uttered worriedly.

“And it would also be putting the company at risk. The directors don’t know about this but if they do, they will be pissed” I said.

“Okay, I’m going to do some digging and get more information. See you guys later” Anthony said then instantly hung up the call.

“So I was right about more skeletons being kept hidden in the closet” I and Nicholas froze instantly as we heard Aunt Ella’s chilling voice behind us.

We turned around as we stared at her staring down at us from the stairs “Aunt Ella, how long have you been standing there?” Nichole asked.

“Better start talking Nicholas” she responded, ignoring Nicholas’s question and glaring at us.