M.I N.E endless Love
Chapter 69

Luke was surprised to see that Katie has a bump that is slightly protruding. She wore a skirt and a peplon that seemed to hide the bump but still, Like saw it at a glance. He slowed down in his walk towards her and his excitement quickly got replaced by shock. He stood transfixed at a spot and didn't look at Katie's face but her belly. When he carefully raised his head to look at her face, he saw her look away, deliberately avoiding to meet his gaze.

Katie walked to meet him and said "please don't ask me any questions. I will take the taxi home and plan a meeting with you" she said and wanted to walk past Luke. He held her by her wrist and opened his mouth to say something, but no words seemed to come out of it. But she pulled her hand off Luke's grip and walked away. Passerbys turned and passed glances at the expensively dressed dude, who seemed to have encountered a ghost as his complexion turned Ashen.

Luke walked past his car and went after Katie. But she had slipped into a taxi when he got to her. Luke stood again and watched the taxi drive out of sight before he turned back and walked back to his car. What is happening, was he dreaming? Maybe it was just an illusion. This can't be true. How can Katie be pregnant? For who? Which bastard did that to her.

He got into his car and the chauffeur felt pity for him. He doesn't need to say anything or any utterances, he saw it with his two eyes.

These two loved each other until about six months ago when the lady travelled out. They were engaged and waiting for her to return so they could be married.

Now, instead of returning to be married, she returned with a protruding bump. Definitely his boss didn't do it or better still did not plant his seed into her before she left six months ago.

The manner at which she walked past him showed that she wasn't interested in him anymore. How can a woman not be interested in a man that loves her so much?

Luke loved her and he can testify to it. He is handsome, rich and madly in love with her. Isn't that what makes a relationship work?

He sighed and started the ignition. He looked at Luke from the rear view mirror and saw his eyes gone red. He felt pity for him and knew that the coming few days would be spent in displeasure and moodiness.

Why did she tell him she was coming? She was sleeping with someone else while being engaged to him? Simply because he was far away from her, she now went ahead with someone else?

She was pregnant? How can she be? She doesn't love him anymore and the best thing to do was to be pregnant with another man's child?

Luke's phone started ringing. He looked at the Caller's ID and saw it was Jenny, he didn't want to answer his phone. He really doesn't feel like answering his phone.

The phone rang again and he answered. He told Jenny that he would call her back. He was going to look for Katie.

Jenny asked him what happened, didn't he say he was going to bring her home from the airport?

Luke said yes, but she seemed not to be interested in him anymore. She was pregnant with someone else's child and already home, leaving him behind.

Jenny simply said she wished him best wishes. Luke was unhappy. He was going to have dinner with his family, especially with his sister Camilla, but Katie ruined everything.

He told his chauffeur to drive to Katie's address and was surprised to replace her parents' apartment locked. Where had she been to then?

Did she say she was going home from the airport? She didn't come home and possibly went to be with the fellow whose child she was having.

He dialled her cell phone number but Katie would not answer her phone. He sent her a text, pleading with her to answer his phone, but she didn't.

She didn't call him back nor answer her phone, nor did she send a text back. This is unlike the Katie he used to know. She has changed, really changed for bad.

He waited for some time, thinking she would arrive home, but he waited in vain, as he didn't see her. He called her several times more, but no response.

Dejected, he decided to go back home. His birthday dinner was ruined. On getting home, he found out that besides the security at the door, none of his employees at home was around. Everywhere was quiet and deserted. He got to the door, but before his hand would turn the knob, the door opened quietly and he walked in. The entire house was in blackout.

This has never happened and he was going to use his phone when the lights suddenly came on!

Luke was shocked at how sudden the light came on and he looked at everyone present. Everyone was present, especially his fiance Katie.

Luke's reddened eyes rested on Katie and it travelled down to her belly. He was dazed when he saw her flat belly. She has changed into a short turquoise blue above the knee gown.

Her looks were all smiles and her excitement was so evident. She was smiling broadly and went to the still dazed Luke and threw herself on him.

He held her firmly and everyone was singing a birthday jingle for Luke. He can't curtail the extent to which he suddenly became excited.

It was something she planned, she really did and made him almost go crazy with the thoughts of her being pregnant. Oh gush, Luke suddenly chuckled aloud, holding his dear Katie by her slim waist.

"Happy birthday Luke," Katie said, kissing him passionately. The sitting room has a different look after being decorated.

That way, Katie dragged Luke out of the sitting room to the pool. That's where the birthday cake is. It was such a beautifully decorated cake with candles on it.

Luke was overwhelmed. Jenny and Camilla were there. That was the first time Camilla went to Luke's Villa. Jenny had insisted that she come along and she did help with ideas as the designers did their job. Luke cut the cake and the first bite went to Katie. Eduardo soon arrived and the whole place was bubbling. As the lovers danced, Camilla sat and watched.

A few of the employees were there too and wished their boss a happy birthday. Katie looked sweet and never stopped holding on to Luke.

She knew her disguise of pregnancy must have shook him off balance. It was deliberate and she acted it out. She needed to be at his Villa as planned by Jenny and herself.

She couldn't think of a better way to do it than to fake the pregnancy and it worked. But now, she poured out her emotions and excitement to be home again to him.

Camilla sat all poised and watched her brother and his fiancee. They were happy and seemed to love and cared for each other.

She and Rodrigo also used to love each other like this. But those days were never to be seen again, they will only exist in her imagination henceforth.

She knew she loved Rodrigo more than anything in this life but she failed to realise that he didn't really love her half like she did.

It was a pretence all along. He only cared about her body, satisying his desires, at least that was what he said, using her to satisfy his sexual desires.

How can Rodrigo say that about her? Each time she remembers that suicidal press release he made, she felt her hatred and bitterness towards him would double.

Camilla was lost in her thoughts and didn't hear when she was called to give a toast to the Celebrant. It was until Jenny tapped her that she seemed to wake up from her slumbering thoughts.

She smiled to cover up the awkwardness. She stood up and gave her toast to Luke saying "Happy birthday brother"she said and kissed his chin.

Eduardo smiled from the sidelines. He wished Luke a happy birthday too and said he said he wished him ten thousand more years.

The siblings were happy. It's more of a get together and they celebrated, first Luke's birthday and secondly the return of Katie.

Though Jenny and Camilla don't seem to know Katie before, but after the latter got their contact and told them to help her arrange a surprise birthday for her fiance, immediately they bonded. The women were happy to have Katie among them, knowing she would one day, become a member of their family.

Eduardo liked Katie a lot. He didn't stop calling her name at every interval. She congratulated Eduardo and Jenny on their union as a couple and said she missed their wedding.

Katie knew Eduardo and Jenny's union was out of compulsion and not made out to love, but seeing them together now, she knew they both had developed feelings for each other.

She was happy for them, especially Eduardo. He is a good man. If he deserves anything in this life, it is for him to be happy.

But Camilla, she is the long lost daughter of the family. She knew she's a member of that family by just looking at her facial expression.

She looks a lot like mother and also Eduardo. It's great to have a sister in law. She embraced Jenny and Camilla long enough that Luke gave a slight cough jokingly.

Eventually, they ended the mini party by having dinner. It was a sumptuous meal and a great time to be together.

At this time, Camilla's belly was visibly seen that she was pregnant. She was getting tired of the whole show and excitement.

As her parents chauffeur drove her back home, she sighed, a new life that is becoming normal to her. But where will she place those in the past now, Sara and Jared?

Will they still occupy that place in her heart or her real family was already stealing her heart away from them? She needs to remember those who showed her love when every other person detested her.

She would forever love Sara and Jared. But that one person who hurt her most in this world, she would never forgive him. One day, she would pay Rodrigo back and everyone who has made her Sob and suffer, she would return and pay them with their coin...