Filed to story: The Billionaire’s Regret Novel By Symplyayisha
“Sorry about what exactly?”
“For ruining me, joining forces with Greg and Ingrid to end my life, or for pretending to be the owner of Fedora’a phone when you clearly know that I don’t want to hear from you.” The hatred could really be heard in his voice.
“I’m sorry for allowing Greg to push me into doing what I did.” “Your apology is useless.”
“I’m really Sorry, Oscar.”
“I promise you that you are just wasting your time if you think those tears are going to move me,” Oscar said when he heard her sniffling.
“It hurts so much, knowing that you think I’m not being sincere.” “That is what you get for trusting an outsider over your own Son!”
“If at all he had approached you for any reason, what does it take you to confirm from me?”
“He was your best friend. I trusted him the way you trusted him. Never did it cross my mind that he was acting against your interest.”
“The deed has been done. I honestly don’t know why you are on the phone with me.”
“For you to know that I am sincerely sorry and that I regret my actions. I don’t know how but I am ready to make it up to you. I am ready to make up for my mistakes. Please just tell me what to do.”
“Let me guess, Greg and Ingrid sent you to me to spy on me. Isn’t it?” “You knew about Ingrid’s plan to kill Vicky, didn’t you.”
“Stop saying these things, Oscar, they are very hurtful coming from you. I would never wish death on anyone.”
“Liar! I don’t believe you. You are saying you would never wish death on anyone and yet, you almost caused me to lose my first child and the love of my life. Have you forgotten how much you tried to convince me that Vicky is a gold digger and that Sophie isn’t my daughter?”
“There is nothing you can say right now that will make me believe you are not working hand in hand with those bastards! They probably sent you to me to come to me and get information from me.”
“You should know that I don’t have a mother anymore and all my respect for you is long gone and buried. And there is nothing that can make me think otherwise of you.”
“Just know that your minions are going to end up in jail pretty soon and if per adventure you are traced to be their accomplice, then I’m glad to inform you beforehand that you should be prepared to spend the rest of your life in jail. No one messes with my woman and my daughter and gets away with it!”
“So you think this low of me?” At this point, Oscar Could hear his mother sniffling but heaven knew that he didn’t give two fucks about her or her emotions.
“I lost every ounce of respect that I have for you already so stop trying to impress me. It is so irritating!”
“If you love me, then please stay the hell away from mel” Oscar heard his mother sobbing but he wasn’t moved at all.
“That was so cold, Oscar!” He heard Fedora’s voice come through.
“Oh no, you owe me an apology, Dora. How do you expect me to trust you again? You know the kind of dilemma I am in right now and here you are, conniving with that witch!”
“It’s up to you to decide if you wanna put me on your hate list or in your trusted list but that doesn’t mean I will stop doing what is right.”
“The phone was on speaker but mom just chose to speak first. She was here when you called earlier too. And she was so worried so she insisted that we call you back.”
“I am not going to interfere between you and Mom because that’s up to you both to settle.”
“Mom fucked up big time and acted really terrible. I made her understand that. Though I can’t tell what is going on in her mind and head, I can assure you that she feels really terrible. Dad confirmed that she hadn’t been herself lately, probably because the guilt was starting to trigger her. But I am glad you let her know that you wouldn’t hesitate to put her behind bars if she interferes or messes up with your life again.”
“You all are pissing me off. I shouldn’t have answered this call in the first place!” Oscar said, ending the call.
He heaved a deep sigh, running a hand over his face.
Oscar was about to retire to the ward when he remembered that he hadn’t reached out to Vicky’s best friend who might be worried.
Looking through the glass-walled door, he saw that Vee was still asleep and he didn’t want to disturb her so he texted Bessie, requesting for Kathie’s number.
Oscar entered the ward, gently shutting the sliding door behind him. He was mentally exhausted so he decided to get a rest. He went over to where Vicky was, placed a kiss on her forehead, and then went over to the couch where he lay down in a very comfortable position.
He was about to close his eyes when his phone buzzed. Bessie had sent him Kathie’s number so he texted Kathie immediately, introducing himself and apologizing for not making it to her dinner party with Vicky as something came up.
Oscar had no idea how long he slept for but he woke up feeling tired and wished he had the time to sleep more. Slowly opening his eyes, he saw that Vicky was already awake and a female doctor was attending to her.
He mentally facepalmed, realizing Vicky must have unlocked the door herself early this morning.
Oscar greeted the duo before excusing himself to the bathroom where he cleaned his mouth after which he splashed some water on his face and dried them. Then he went back to the ward.
“Good morning baby.” Ignoring that the doctor was still there with them, Oscar leaned closer to Vicky and kissed her on the lips.
“Good morning.” She smiled, trying to hide her blush.
“You cleaned up?” He asked her.
“Yeah, a nurse came in earlier and assisted me.”
“You should have woken me up.”,
“I couldn’t. You looked even more tired in your sleep. There’s no need to feel guilty. I wanted you to rest more.”
“I’m not complaining. You are free to disturb me for anything, okay?.”
She smiled, nodding
“How do you feel?”
“Still sore but better than yesterday.”
Oscar turned his attention to the Doctor who had a beautiful smile on her face, she was amazed by the lovebirds before her.
“How is she, Doc?”
“She’s recovering well. Let’s see how she’s going to do today then we will decide when we are going to release her.”
Oscar nodded.
“Now that your husband is awake ma’am, would you like for us to go for the ultrasound now before you have breakfast?” The Doctor proposed.
Oscar loved the way almost everyone mistook them as a couple who were official and God saw in his heart that he couldn’t wall for them to be official too. He knew he had to do that really soon.
Vicky turned her attention to Oscar. “We want to check up on the baby and I told her we would do so when you are awake. I want you to meet your little one. You missed the first one and I didn’t want you to miss this one.”
Oscar smiled, almost as if his heart was going to burst with so much pride. “Sure!”
“Okay then, let’s go check on your precious one.”
Instead of sitting in the wheelchair, Vee offered to walk.
With their hands intertwined with one another, they exited the ward, walking behind the Doctor whose name was Naomi. She was kind enough to take slow steps as she knew that Vicky couldn’t walk that fast yet.
They got to the ultrasound room where an ob-gyn was waiting for them. Oscar assisted Vicky in changing her clothes and before she knew it, she was lying on the bed and the ob-gyn started applying some gel on her belly.
She squeezed Oscar’s hand that was intertwined in hers, chuckling. “I forgot how cold this can be.”
Oscar smiled back at her, “Sorry, my love.” As someone who had never experienced anything like this, he was amused by what was going on in the ultrasound room.
Dr Naomi stood a few steps away as she allowed the ob-gyn to do her work. Once the wand was on Vee’s belly, a picture popped up on the monitor. “So that’s your bab….” The ob-gyn was saying and then stopped.
Sensing that something might be wrong, Dr Naomi stepped forward and started conversing with the female obgyn, while pointing towards the monitor.
Victoria unconsciously felt tears well up in her eyes while Oscar had a worried look on his face.
“Let’s try to hear the heartbeat first to confirm.” The ob-gyn said and almost immediately, the room was filled with the sound of a heartbeat. The sound subsequently went off and then it came up again.
At this point, Oscar couldn’t take it anymore, he wanted to know what was going on even though he was losing hope already.
“What is going on, Doc?” His voice came out, shaky and scared.
“The result your wife showed us from her first appointment is different from what we have here as you can see on the screen.”
Oscar stared at the Screen but didn’t understand a thing.
“We can hear two heartbeats, not one.” Doctor Naomi clarified, smiling.
Oscar froze for a second, trying to process what he just heard, with his eyes glued to the monitor.
On the other hand, hot tears rolled down Victoria’s cheeks immediately.
“Bu…ut…how?” Vicky managed to say as a wave of indescribable feeling rushed through her.
“Okay, this is Baby A and this is Baby B.” The OB-gyn pointed at certain places on the monitor.”
“There are many reasons why you could not have known on your previous appointment, one of which, one baby could be hiding behind its sibling.”
“He or she was probably too shy to meet its parents.” Dr Naomi smiled. “Now let’s hear the hearth.
again.” The obgyn’s voice came through.
Vee took a glance at Oscar who was sitting beside him. Their hands were still intertwined in each other’s’ but his hand was cold and she could see him holding back tears.
Before Vicky could think any further, the sound of the heartbeat brought her out of her thoughts. It sounded so strong and beautiful that it made Vicky cry even more. The ob-gyn let it on for a while after which she turned it off by controlling the monitor.