Xander's P.O.V
That was the best decision, that was the right thing to do. I don't need to make her lay in that bed, as much as I want her to so that I can see her body and do everything to her. Vee is special, she doesn't deserve any of this treatment, she deserves to be given a chance, I hope she takes this opportunity.
"Mike, here, make sure the phone is on all the time, in case she tells you where she is, let me know." I had the secret phone to Mike knowing very well that it is the only source of communication remaining between Vee and me. Adjusting my suit and fixing my face to show my thirty-two, I walk into the house. I can't tell Kendra anything, she will never understand. I wish she was a little concerned about the baby, then things could have been different.
The guards salute as I walk into the house, some music is playing from the system and Kendra's voice can be heard singing along. That is happiness if you hear her singing along to her favorite song. Everyone walks away and I watch as she tries to sway her hips from left to right, a glass of champagne in her other hand, and her hair is wavy jumping from one place to the other. For once you can see the way she is carefree, I wish this was Kendra every day, without fooling young girls on social media that her life is all planned out, and that she doesn't care about anything. We all have our weaknesses, and we all fall, I hope one day she will tell a young girl who looks up to her for advice every day.
I want to avoid her, but she turns around and she falls on my chest, her champagne hitting my arm and the glass pours its content on my suit, I can't get mad at her, I need to smile and tell her that everything is okay, deep down, my heart is aching that I let Vee walk away, I let her run away to where she felt safe.
"Join me," she cheers, her face brimming with joy while her laughter echoes in my ears, trying to make me forget what Vanessa told me. "Hun, you are drunk, what's wrong?" I ask trying to make sure she is standing straight but she couldn't. The alcohol has taken a major part of her body and she is wobbly in front of me, "you are spoiling the fun, remember we are pregnant."
I avoid her knowing very well it was all a course. I know she will never hold a baby from Vee in her hands. She looks into my eyes and I can see her dancing but we can't do that. I quickly smile back and widen my eyeballs to look at her, "ooh, yeah, I had forgotten, but we need to calm down until the pregnancy shows up, Vee."
Her face suddenly changes and she hit the glass in the wall. I was happy, I made sure I smile, or did I say that with a sad face? "Babe, we can't just start getting happy yet you know the way pregnancy gets, let's take it slow."
She grabs my coat and tore it while running upstairs. I was surprised and I couldn't understand what happened. I rushed to follow her but the door was closed. I quickly open it up using my spare cards. She is on the floor, crying.
"Hun, calm down, I am happy that we will get the baby, why are you mad now?" I ask trying to comfort her but she is not taking it. She stops crying and lifts her face, "are you seriously calling me, Vee?" she asks all furious her face throwing daggers all over me.
'Fuck!' did I just call her Vee? I think I need to erase Vee from my mind or else things might go sideways. Squatting down on the floor, I hold her hands and caress them, I can't help but imagine the hands in Vee on mine, holding her cheeks, all I can see is Vee, trying to explain to me how a good father I will be, but how about a good husband to my wife who just lost her baby and she is painting? Can't I be a good husband for once? Maybe I told Vee to go for a reason. I hope that reason was to stick back with Kendra and show her that I can still be a husband, to love her just as I promised on our wedding day.
"Hun, I am sorry, Sorry, I called you that. I love you." I said and pecked her on the cheeks. "So, you won't call me that? I know she is carrying our baby and she means a lot to us now," I watch the way she is trying her best to be calm. Maybe the pregnancy changed her. Maybe she will be a good mother. "She doesn't change anything, she is just our surrogate, carrying our baby, that is all she is." Is that all though? A surrogate? What if she realizes that Vee is gone and she was not even pregnant? Kendra leans in and pecked me before forcing her lips on my mouth and finding her way into my pants and doing her thing.
Laying in the bed, our clothes thrown on the floor, Kendra was tracing her hands on my chest humming into what I didn't already understand. I want to open my eyes to look at her but my brain is doing mathematics that I can't find answers to.
"We should announce that we are pregnant." I quickly open my eyes and look at Kendra who is now resting her arms on my chest while smiling at me. Why would we do that? Why would I announce a pregnancy that we know very well is not ours? "That is not wise, hun, let's just wait for it," I say sitting on the headboard.
"Hun, we can't have the world thinking that my step-sister helped me carry the baby, we must lie that I am pregnant to have everybody believe that it's true!" I widened my eyes listening to every plan that she has in mind. I don't know how she has this planned out but trust me, women have everything ready. "How are you going to do that?"
She jumped from the bed all excited and rushed to the dressing room before coming back with a box. I don't know what it had but whatever it has, it's going to make sure that everyone thinks she is pregnant.
"Ta-da" she lifted a fake belly bump. I thought it was only one, but as she kept removing them from the boxes, I realized that they came in sizes and according to the pregnancy weeks. I wasn't surprised, she knows what to do and how to do it. "How does it look?" she asks trying the smallest on her belly. If only that was real, we couldn't be having problems right now. "It looks nice," I said without meaning any word from it.
"We should prepare for the pregnancy announcement, tomorrow or the following day. That will be perfect to make everyone believe that I am pregnant" she says excitedly. I wasn't excited about any of that. I know very well Vee is gone and there is no way she will ever be pregnant. I think that should be said and made clear so that she can understand. There is no need to lie to her.
I stand from the bed and walk to her. Her face still brimming while looking at me. I don't know what she is happy about but I hope she is not thinking that I going to kiss her and say yes.
"Hun, you don't need to do all these, you don't need to wear all these. Vee is your sister and when the baby is grown it will start to realize that she doesn't resemble you and she will ask him or herself why and we will eventually have to tell the baby the truth." I said trying to use the kind word possible but those words were not that kind to her. "Why do I have a feeling that you want the world to know that I am not the mother of the baby? You want everyone to hate me and think I am barren?" She asks raising her voice. "No, Kendra, you are not barren, you are amazing, and you will be pregnant one day." I assure her, "stop mocking me! You know very well I will never get pregnant!"
I hold my hips trying to think of that. I know things are messed up but I don't want to raise her hopes. Maybe the truth will help her.
"Hun, there is something we need to talk about, we need to speak about Vee. The truth is that Vee..." the ringing of the phone snatched me away from her. I had placed a different ringtone for an emergency call and that was one. I turned around very fast and went to receive the call. "Sir, you need to come here right now, it's urgent!"
I ended the call, put on my clothes, and jumped out of the room, "what is wrong?" asks Kendra in a panicked voice. "The lost container has been found, sorry babe, I will come back just in time for dinner, okay?" she stands there and nods while looking