But even as she thought about it, other things besieged her mind. Where would she start? Her business is here. Her house, everything. Since five years ago, she has built her life here.

Everything she knows and people she has built her life around, are all here. If she leaves here, it's going to raise questions and is going to affect her greatly. She might not be the flamboyant celebrity she was five years ago, still, that doesn't mean the spotlight has left her. They watched her movement and soon they would know her ex-husband was here and any move from her they would think she was running away.

Five years ago after the awful incident, it shaked her career. It was part of the reason she had to stop the runway. They all looked at her as a wretch. The one who got pregnant from another man in her husband's house after six months of marriage and then tried to pin it on him. Of course, the 

"Don't you think you were so hard on him?" Amanda asked Daisy after Ethan left the house.

"What!" Daisy rounded on her with a murderous glare. "Hard on him? That bastard made me suffer and you say im--" She paused when she noticed how Amanda's lover was gawking at her from Amanda's arm. "What is she still doing here? Shouldn't she be with him or what?"

Having had enough of her bitter outburst towards her, the lady came to Daisy's face to end their beef once and for all. " I don't care if you hate me or not, okay? But stop being a bitch! I was also hurt. Do you know that? It wasn't my fault that he did what he did to you. He lied to me, are you satisfied? He lied that you cheated on him with another man in your matrimonial bed just to secure you modeling contract which was why he divorced you! So fucken give me a breathing space, I'm also hurting!"

Daisy's mouth fell open at her statem

"Stay the fuck away from me, Ethan, or I swear I will castrate you!" Daisy swore at him and tugged the doorknob once more.

"Okay, okay, I just wanted to tell you that you have succeeded," He told her, clapping theatrically behind her.

She stopped what she was doing long enough to grasp the meaning of his statement. "What's that?" She cocked her brow.

"Yesterday… destroying my wedding. Ain't you happy?"

She smiled. "She left you?"

"Of course. After all the nonsense you said back there, if you were the one would you have continued?" She thought about it. Five years ago, even though a pregnant woman had come to their wedding ground with proof of her pregnancy for Ethan, she might have never minded. Because of how much she loved him. If only she knew what an idiot he was.

"Well, she did the right thing," She dropped her hands by her side and smirked at him, relishing in his discomfort. "At least you might not sleep well tonight, knowing I ruined something for you just the way you ruined mine five years ago."

"I didn't ruin anything!" He blared, "you cheated on me and got pregnant for another man and you expect me to forgive you and let it go?" She was taken aback by his effrontery. So many years have passed and still the idiot still thinks so poorly of her. This time she wouldn't let it go like the last time. .

So she took a giant step forward, and delivered a hot slap across his cheek which sent him staggering back a few notches. She didn't leave it there, she rushed to him and kicked his groin with so much pressure that Ethan fell across the cold floor in a shriek that had his housekeeper running out and stopping with a gasp when she saw the sick lady being mean to her master.

"Ma'am, that is not fair," The scrawny lady veered.

Daisy nodded in assent. "Most certainly what is not fair is that your useless master would insult me after everything he has put me through in this life!" She stomped toward him and the old lady was quick to block her from the growling injured man. "The next time you see me, you better hide, because this time is your manhood, the next one might be your head! Open the damn door old lady!" She snarled at the woman who rushed to open the door and let her out.

She hurried out of the gate to the street and was lucky to see a cab passing and hopped in, allowing the tears that were choking her to pour. She can't believe he would say that to her. If he is now living in this city she will have to leave. She can't afford seeing him nor would she afford him seeing her son anyday and recognizing that truly he was the foolish one.

Daniel is his father's spitting image as though God had wanted to shame him by making the boy his replica. If by chance he comes across the boy now, nothing would stop him from laying claim to him and it would be over her dead body before she would allow it.

When the cab stopped in front of her home, she gave him extra bills and rushed in. Once she was inside the house, that was when she calmed down. Her housekeeper hurried to her.

"Welcome, ma,"

"I need a hot meal prepared for me and make sure you drown it with enough pepper sauce. Has my friend been here?" As she was talking, she was scurrying through her bag for her phone but didn't see it. Could it be that she forgot it in the house of that bastard? Wait, her purse, she rummaged faster, her eyeballs growing bigger, all her cards were in that purse there is no fucken way!

She halted her movement, her heart stopping at once to what her housekeeper just said. "My son is back?" She asked frantically.

"Yes, ma'am," The latter fidgeted, nervous at her mistresses' behavior. Whenever she was like this, the best thing was to avoid her. "Madam Amanda has been calling your phone repeatedly but you didn't pick up, so she took him and the creature to her house."

"Oh, God!" Daisy stomped her feet and flung her bag away from her. How could everything be happening at once? How could she have forgotten that it was summer break and her son was supposed to be picked?

"Should I proceed with the meal m__"

"Forget it!" She thundered, "clean this up and make sure his room is ready. I will head there now." She made her way out, registering in her head she would have to go back to the house of her bastard ex for her purse by tomorrow when her son is settled in.

The driver took her this time to the home of the Antonio's and as though her boy saw her through the window, no sooner as Daisy got out of the car, than the front door of the mansion flung open and he flew across the yard with the little beast, to her.

"Mom, I missed you!" He wrapped his tiny limbs around her and she tucked in his curly brown locks behind his ear and kissed him, making room for her other baby.

"I missed you too, baby," She kept peppering him with kisses. "I'm sorry I wasn't around to pick you from the airport."

"It's okay...." He drew in a raspy tone. How she has missed him so much. "Aunty Amanda was there."

"Yeah, she is, always."

"Maybe you two can come in so I can have time to roast you alive, Daisy!" The aunty in question bickered from the foyer.

Daisy snickered, the first lightweight released from her chest since today. She strode to the door with the weights on her, and only dropped them in front of her friend. "Thanks, Mandy. I swear I didn't see your calls," She expressed in a damp tone .

"I was so worried!" Amanda complained.

"I know, I got drunk and then_" she paused when she saw the second figure that loomed from behind crawling up until she was nestled beside Amanda as though for safety.

"Seriously!" Daisy careened, pinching her eyes closed. "You brought her close to Daniel?"

"We were together when they called. She went with me to the airport!" Amanda defended her lover.

"That doesn't make it right! She is my enemy!"

"As you are to me!" The other woman hissed.

"Excuse me, did you say something?"Daisy advanced at her.

"Daisy!" Amanda cut off her tirade, "behave yourself! We have a child in our midst."

"Is everything alright, mom?" Daniel stood from scratching Ella's ears to ask.

Daisy clicked her tongue and crushed her hand through her thick mane. "Of course, baby. Let's go inside before I..."

"Let's go inside everyone," Amanda interrupted her from saying the foul shit. She eyes Daisy in a warning and the latter hissed and showed took her two hands as though in reassurance.

When they were together in her room upstairs later, Amanda confronted her. "Look, you will not make her uncomfortable, okay? It wasn't her fault. Yeah, he told her he was once married, but how was she supposed to know that they will meet her ex's wife in their new state?!"

"I don't care right now, Amanda," Daisy cheered into the apple in her hand. "The only thing I know now is that I'm leaving this shitty place with my son. I can't let that asshole lay his filthy eyes on him."

Amanda snickered derisively. "Till when are you going to continue running?"

"Until I'm sure my son is safe."

"You said that before we came here. Hasn't this taught you that no matter how you try nature would always prevail? You left Seattle because you said it was too close to NY, and then now that we are here, according to her, he also left New York because he felt it was too close to Seattle. You two are running around in circles."

Daisy's heart boiled. "That idiot ran because of me?"

"You also ran because of him, so don't take it personally."

"He hurt me!"

"I know," Amanda paced to the window and faced her, "where were you last night?"

Daisy exhaled, recalling she hadn't told her. "I met him last night ."

"What! How?"

She went on to tell her.

"Ohmygod. I should have known! Why didn't you tell me?" Amanda came to the bed to sit beside her.

"I was on my way to the fucken restroom to relieve myself and then call you to come help me. But he beat me to it." Daisy gestured with her hands, the memory burning her tongue.

He was so different now. Even more handsome. More of everything. Even more stupid.

"D-Did he do anything nasty?" Amanda stuttered.

Daisy nearly puked. "NO!" She eyed Amanda wryly. "I would have truly castrated him for real if that he did!" Even as she did, she doubted she would. They say everyone had a weakness on earth, Daisy has accepted it a long time ago that Ethan was hers.

This is the main reason why leaving New Orleans would be the best idea.

…


But even as she thought about it, other things besieged her mind. Where would she start? Her business is here. Her house, everything. Since five years ago, she has built her life here.

Everything she knows and people she has built her life around, are all here. If she leaves here, it's going to raise questions and is going to affect her greatly. She might not be the flamboyant celebrity she was five years ago, still, that doesn't mean the spotlight has left her. They watched her movement and soon they would know her ex-husband was here and any move from her they would think she was running away.

Five years ago after the awful incident, it shaked her career. It was part of the reason she had to stop the runway. They all looked at her as a wretch. The one who got pregnant from another man in her husband's house after six months of marriage and then tried to pin it on him. Of course, the clod told them in an interview.

Ethan, did her a number. A number that she was willing to do back a

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