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THIRD PERSON'S pov.
>>Somewhere in LA<<
A young man, who seemed to be a guard, rushed into an office, he stopped by a table and bowed at someone (a man) sitting on a swivel chair, whose back was facing the young man as he stared outside a window.
"Boss,Justin's men are secretly searching for the driver of that truck" the guard reported.
"Let him search" the man replied.
The guard frowned slightly.
"What if he finds something? Or should we just kill him?" the man turned his head towards the guard. "That way achieving your goals would be easier"
The man shook his head in disagreement, he got up from his chair and walked towards the window.
"Don't you dare touch him, just keep on changing the driver's location and identity"
"But sir, he's standing in your way of.... "
"He's my son after all, and my only child at that. Not even a strand of his hair should be messed with!" he growled.
"Yes, sir" the guard answered and left.
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Steffany'S pov.
>>3 Weeks Later<<
I pouted my lips grumpily, with my eyebrows furrowed tightly in a whiny frown, I folded my arms on my chest and leaned against the headboard then threw a glare at Justin's way.
It's been three weeks since we've been staying in St.louis, three weeks since I last spoke with Divya or even see her; I guess Justin's sent her on a mission. I haven't asked about her or anything that has to do with her yet, because I'm still sulking, which is so not me but I couldn't help it -we'll eventually settle our differences soon when next I see her.
And most importantly, it's been three weeks since I last opened my cafe -Ah, I have missed a lot of money by now.
It's been three weeks too since Justin's mysterious wife's topic has been trending on the internet, everyone's talking about how they can't believe Audrey is actually Justin's wife, and they wouldn't stop gushing about how perfect they look together.
Bla!bla!bla
Ugh! So annoying.
I sighed for the one thousandth time, I was purposely sighing to get Justin's attention, but my sinfully handsome and wicked husband wouldn't take his eyes off his laptop to look my way.
"Someone's been sighing since three hours ago, are you alright?" he asked.
Ok, he's kinda exaggerating things here. I know I've been sighing a lot since I woke up, but that was just five minutes ago.
"Are you hungry..." he paused, raised his head slightly and glanced at my stomach. ".. again?" he added, emphasizing on 'again' in a tired tone.
"What do you mean by that? Are you calling me a foodie?" I asked.
"Well, you've been eating quite a lot recently"
I gasped at his response, and gave him a shocked look before grabbing his ear and pulled it as hard as I could.
"What was that supposed to mean?!" I growled in his ear.
"I'm saying, I'll go broke if you continue eating like a whale" he said.
I let go of his ear, narrowed my eyes and balled my fists. He stared at my face and burst into fits of laughter as he pointed at my face.
"Are you trying to look like a fierce lioness?" he laughed. "You simply look like a cute kitten" then laughed harder.
"How dare you!" I growled lowly, but playfully.
He gently put his laptop aside and tried to hop off our bed, but he wasn't fast enough, I've already pounced on him before he could think of running away.
"Did you just called me a kitten?!" I asked in a bolder voice to make me sound scary, but I was only making a fool out of myself.
"Of course" then he barred his teeth at me and bent his fingers as if they were claws. "Meow!" he meowed.
"Huh?!" I raised my left eyebrow as I smirked evilly.
His eyes grew wide when he saw my evil smirk, then he raised his hands in surrender and shook his head in denial.
"No, no, you're the fiercest lioness on the planet" he confessed but it's too late.
My fingers position on his soft spot and I started tickling him, making him laugh out loud and hard.
Yeah, my very tough husband is very ticklish and he hates getting tickled, he'd only succumb to me whenever I threaten to tickle him.
"I.." he stopped and laughed. "I'm.. I.. I'm.. sorry,.. so.. so.. sorry" he pleaded amidst laughter.
I didn't listen to his pleas, I continued torturing him with my fingers and he couldn't fight back, because his hands and legs had all gone soft and weak from too much laugh.
".. I'm... I'm.. go.. gonna die.. sorry, I'm.. sorry" he pleaded.
"Are you giving up now? Didn't you said I'm a kitten? Why is the kitten beating up the lion now?" I asked.
He couldn't speak, he could only shake his head and turn uncomfortably as his laughter grew louder.
"Holy shît!" he shouted at once. "My back! I just hurt my back!"
I quickly stopped and withdrew my hand immediately he said that, I frantically searched his back to see if I reopen his wound but I frowned when realization dawned on me; his wounds has all healed.
"Justin, you tricked me!!"
But he was already out of the bed, he's leaning against a wall as he breath heavily and was trying to stabilize his breath.
"I had to" he inhaled deeply. "You almost killed me, darling"
I smirked victoriously.
"That's what you get for insulting me" I huffed.
He raised his hands in surrender as he walked back to me, he hopped on the bed and pulled me into a hug, making me sit between his legs.
He coughed lightly to clear his throat.
"Honestly, what's wrong? Why have you been sighing?" he asked.
"I wanna go home" I said.
"You wanna go home?" I nodded. "Isn't home supposed to be where I am? What home are you talking about?"
I rolled my eyeballs.
"Of course, home is wherever you are, but I miss our home in Chicago" I paused and turned slightly to face him. "Our home back in Chicago is old and almost so 'so last season' but it's very special to me, because it holds our joys, sorrows and hard work"
Justin stayed quiet for a moment, as I state my reason for missing home and wanting to go back, then he sighed softly as he nodded slowly.
"To me it's always gonna remain our home forever, I wanna go back, baby, I'm feeling homesick" I said.
It's true, I've been feeling quite under the weather lately, and I believe it's because I couldn't stop thinking about how much money I've missed, since I haven't open my cafe in weeks.
Justin narrowed his eyes at me.
"Are you sure you're feeling homesick because you miss home, or because you haven't open your cafe in weeks?" he asked.
I grinned goofily and shook my head in denial.
"I just miss everyone at home, Mrs Madison, Dan,Mabel and the others" I said, using our staffs as an excuse.
He snuggled his nose in my neck and inhaled my perfume addictively.
"We're on our honeymoon, my heart, let's just enjoy the moment"
I frowned a little bit.
"Honeymoon?"
"Hm" he hummed in response.
I huffed and pushed him off me, but he was quick to hold me back.
"I'm gonna be going to Paris for our honeymoon, this doesn't count!" I snapped at him.
"My Queen, I... "
"You already gave me the right to choose where we'll go for our honeymoon" I smirked. "You don't have a say in this"
His shoulders slumped down as he recalled promising to let me choose any country for our honeymoon, that was before he became very, very famous and started having lesser time for me.
"Fine, you win" he gritted out with a tight smile.
"I always win, now tell me when we're going back to Chicago, I'm gonna lose all my customers if I don't open my cafe next week"
Justin scoffed loudly immediately I said that.
"I knew it, you just wanna go back and resume your cafe" he twisted his lips. "Why am I just realizing that my wife is even more careerlistic than me?"
I turned fully to face him, pouted my lips and held his face in my hands, then blinked innocently as I gave him my best puppy eyes.
"Can we go back already?"
"I.. I.." he paused. "I'm resting here and taking a break from all my work to spend more time with you, can't we just stay for some time and make up for the six years we've missed?"
He's taking a break to spend time with me? Wow, is this still Justin?
"Please,baby" he pleaded.
"But.. my cafe, I'll lose all my customers and I won't make any money this month" I withdrew my hands from his and looked down. "I have a budget" I whispered.
There was a brief moment of silence, until he spoke up.
"Hand me my phone" he pointed at his phone behind me.
I reached for it and handed it to him.
"Thanks" he said as he collected it.
He typed on it for a few seconds, then my phone beeped and I reached for it. My mouth fell open when I saw 'your account has been credited $20,000,000' from Justin Bieber. I faced him with a surprised frown.
"Care explaining this?" I asked.
"I've compensated you for all the money you've missed this month because of me" he replied.
What? $20,000,000? He thinks my small cafe can make so much money in a year?
"I don't need it" I told him.
He shrugged his shoulders and tossed his phone on the bedside table, then pulled me on him as he closed his eyes.
"I've sent and I don't take back what I've given out"
"But I really don't need it.. "
"We are going back tomorrow" he cut me off.
I stopped talking as I searched his eyes to know if he's lying or not.
"We're really going home tomorrow?" I asked.
"Yep" he nodded.
"Yay! That's great news" I enthused and kissed his lips lightly. "Can we go shopping later?"
"Uh... "
"Don't say no, I wanna buy some gifts for Mrs Madison and the other staffs back home"
"Hm" he hummed. "I have a surprise for you too, we'll go there after shopping"
"A surprise?"
"Yeah"
I wonder what kind of surprise he has for me.
Then my mind went back to the money he's just sent me, I wanted to tell him I don't need the money but my phone started ringing. I checked the caller's ID and realized it's an unknown number, I sat up and received it.
"Hello?" I answered the call.
"Hello, Steffany,longest time" an unfamiliar female voice replied enthusiastically.
I frowned a little bit, who's this? She sounded as if she know me very well.
"You must be wondering who I am, right?" she asked.
"Yeah" I answered.
She laughed.
"It's Pamela,Ken's girl"
Pamela? Oh, Ken's fiancee! I smacked my head mentally for being dimwitted.
"Hi, Pamela"
"Hi, I was wondering if you're in town now?"
"Any problem? Are you and Ken still having issues?" I asked the first thing that crossed my mind.
It's been three weeks since I last saw or spoke with Ken, who knows if he's found another fault in his fiancee; Men are so problematic, I have one with me here.
"No, no, no" I could imagine her shaking her head right now. "Ken and I are doing perfectly great, I just wanna ask you of a little favor"
"A favor?"
"Yeah"
I nodded, but quickly remembered she can't see me.
"Alright, what's it?"
She stayed silent for a moment, then cleared her throat and spoke.
"I wanna learn how to run a business, I don't know if you can teach me?" she asked in an unsure tone.
My brows furrowed at her request, I blinked a few times and looked down at myself.
Justin gave me a look that says 'what's wrong' and I shook my head at him, silently telling him I'm fine.
"Hello, Steffany? Are you still with me?"
"Yeah, but..." I paused and gulped down a lump in my throat. ".. you want me to teach how to run a business?"
"Yeah"
"Are you being serious? Or you're just pulling my legs?"
I mean, her parents are rich folks and she probably attended a prominent university, what am I, a high school dropout, supposed to teach her about running a business?
"No, no, I'm not pulling your legs, I'm being serious" she sighed. "Ken and I have come up with a business plan, but we both have little to none knowledge about running it"
"Oh"
"Yeah, I've seen how capable you are and I realize you're perfect to be my teacher in this aspect"
I blushed at her compliment, which made Justin frown as he eyed me suspiciously, he must be thinking I'm talking to a man now.
Then mouthed 'i'm the only one who can make you blush' at me, I rolled my eyeballs and shook my head. What an ignorant, jealous husband.
'i'm talking with a woman' I mouthed back at him.
"Hello, Steffany?"
"Uh..." I cleared my throat. "Here's the thing,Pamela" I paused. "I don't have a degree in business administration and I'm only running my business the way any layman would run their business, and..."
"Wait a sec" she cut in. "Steffany, do you think I'm mocking you by asking you to teach me?" she asked.
"No, that's not what I meant, I just..." I trailed off, I don't have what to say.
"Do you know even the rich do cry in pain and ask for help too? When a less privileged man asks for help he's being sincere, but when a privileged man asks for help he's being insincere?" she asked.
Her question does makes perfect sense, she's asking me for help meant she appreciate me.
"Fine, we'll talk more when I get back" I told her.
"Great, thank you"
"Oh, don't mention it"
"Alright, bye bye"
"Bye" I replied and hang up.
Justin cleared his throat which made me glare at him.
"You're such a jealous freak"
"You can't blame, my wife is too hot and I don't trust other guys around her, because I can hardly resist her" he replied.
He sure knows the right words to say to make me blush very hard. I jumped off the bed and headed towards the closet.
"Go freshen up, Justin, we're gonna be leaving for the mall soon" I told him.
"Yes, ma'am" he replied but didn't move an inch.
He put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes as he balanced himself on the bed. I sighed and ignored him for that moment, making up my mind that I'll come back to him when I'm done changing.
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"Why did we buy so much groceries, again?" I asked Justin as Julius took a turn.
"We'll be needing them at the place I'm taking you" he replied.
We're done shopping, we didn't spend too much time at the mall because even though Justin was in disguise his die-hard fans still recognized him, and they wouldn't stop flocking after him and asking for his autograph.
>>Few Minutes Later<<
Julius slowed down as we near a big gate, he stopped in front of the gate and honked, then waited a few seconds for the gate to open.
I read the words boldly written on the gate.
STEFFANY'S LOVE AND CARE HOME.
What is this place? Why is my name there?
I wanted to ask Justin about it, but then again not everything is about me, this place might have nothing to do with me and having my name there might be coincidental.
The gate opened and Julius drove in, he stopped in front of a mansion. Justin alighted and helped me alight too, then Julius drove off to park the car.
A man and woman who seemed to be in their late forties approached us, no, the man might be in his early fifties and the woman in her late forties, and it seemed like they're husband and wife, because I can see the man's affection for the woman when he held her hand and helped her down a step.
Who are they? And why did Justin bring me to see them? Or are they his relations?
"Oh, Justin!" the woman called enthusiastically as they neared us.
"Mama!" he called her in an equally enthusiastic tone, with a very wide and bright smile.
I blinked in confusion as they hugged each other. Am I missing something here? Didn't he told me his mom died in a car accident? Why is this woman his mama now?
He pulled away from the hug and faced the man, whom he also pulled into a hug.
"Papa" he called him.
Hello, Mr Bieber, you're confusing your wife here -I screamed mentally.
The woman moved closer to me and was staring at my face closely, as if she's confirming something then she nodded.
"She's even more beautiful than in reality" she said.
"Uh.. thank you, ma'am" I thanked her.
She reached for my hand and held it delicately.
"Now I know why he wouldn't stop bragging about you, you're such a beauty goddess"
"Hehehe" I chuckled awkwardly.
As if Justin noticed my awkwardness, he came back to my side and wrapped an arm around my waist.
"Papa, mama, meet my wife,Steffany Bieber" he looked down at me and planted a kiss on my head. "My heart, meet Mr and Mrs vernice, but the kids call them mama and poppa, they're the orphanage's caretaker" he introduced.
"Orphanage?" I asked, sounding very surprised.
"Yeah" Justin answered.
I looked around in admiration, this place looks nothing like an orphanage, I mean our orphanage back then had dorms, but this looks like a home. I mean this is exactly my dream, this is my budget to build a home for orphan kids and they'd be happy and free to do whatever they want.
God bless the soul that realize my dream for me.
"Wow, whoever built this must have spent a lot of money here" I said as I continued looking around in admiration.
I realized there are five more mansions here, I don't know how many acres of land is this, but it's big enough to contain six mansions and there's still enough space left.
"Yeah, I thought Justin was joking when he gave us the contract of building it" Mama said.
My eyes almost bulged out as I stared at Justin in great shock.
"Surprise!!" he said and smiled.
"What?! This is the surprise you have for me?!" I asked.
He nodded.
"I know you've been saving up to build an orphanage, so, I built this for you"
"Wait, how did.. " I trailed off as I already have my answer.
Divya must have told him about my plan, what other secrets of mine has she told him?
My stomach churned in excitement, my joy knew no bounds and I don't even know how to react. I simply pulled him into a very tight hug, hide my face in his chest and cried in joy.
He's been quietly doing so much for me and helping me realize my dreams all these years, he has never stopped loving me.
As if to prove Justin's words, some kids raced towards us and started jumping on Justin.I quickly stepped away from him because I might sustain injuries from how they were jumping on him in excitement; it's as if they want him to carry all of them at once.
"Justin! Justin! Justin!" they chanted as they jumped on him.
My lips curved in a smile as I watched them, my eyelids twitched as tears brimmed my eyes and I saw myself in these kids.
Memories of our days back at our orphanage flooded my mind, I remember how we'd run around, fight and up end talking the next five minutes. I couldn't help but miss those days and every kid in our orphanage, I wonder how they're doing right now.
"Alright kids, I brought a lot of presents for everyone, who wants to check out their presents?" Justin asked.
"Meeeee!" they all chorused happily.
"Then come on!" he carried a two little girls and raced inside, with the other kids racing after him.
"The kids love him so much" Mama said with a satisfied smile. "They've been missing him" she added.
"Let's go inside too" papa said, mama and I nodded then headed inside.