The Wife I Never Met
Chapter 109

The morning rays sipped in through the window waking the sleepy Ciara up, with a few flutters of eyelashes she opened her eyes only to be flashed with muscles everywhere she looked. She found her hand brushing through his ebbs slowly trying her best not to wake him up.

She then moved her eyes up to peak on the man sleeping next to her, only to replace him also staring at her with big satisfaction in his eyes.

” Do you like what you see sweetheart?”

She couldn’t believe how brazen this man can be, couldn’t he just act like nothing had just happened.

She thought of acting like she didn’t understand what he was referring to and completely changed the topic.

” what do you mean? Get up already we need to start putting our things in the car.”

Instead of getting up Liam pulled her even closer and closed his eyes.

” there’s no way we are going to take a more than 15 hours drive when you are pregnant like this. Don’t you worry about your things, someone will bring those home to you later. “

To their surprise, they both fell asleep again at that very moment. They only woke up when they heard a loud continuous knock on the door. Liam lazily got off the bed wrapped himself with one of Ciara’s unisex Rob, which fitted him perfectly as Ciara had gained a little pregnancy weight in the past few months. Liam was getting more and more irritated as the knock grew louder and louder by the second.

He opened the door only to replace Matthew lazily leaning against the door frame, he was smelling clean and fresh ready to hit the road.

” what’s the matter?”

” woooh please don’t tell me that you are still sleeping, have you guys changed your minds on leaving or what. The plane boarding time is in two hours what’s your plan?”

It only dawned to Liam that they had overslept, but he didn’t want to rush Ciara in to getting ready on time. They all need to be back by today to ensure their companies run smoothly. He became quiet for a while thinking for the best solution when Ciara’s inaudible voice was heard coming from the bathroom , it sounded like she was already brushing her teeth.

” We are coming, will be done in a minute.”

When Liam heard what she said, he nodded his head and opened the door for Matthew to come in and sat on the couch.

” Where’s Finnick?”

” He’s by the car, on a call with his doctor friend.”

So that was the reason why Matthew came up to the apartment to personally wake them up when he could’ve just called them, it turned out that he was just annoyed by the flirty Finnick that he wasn’t used to. He was also probably jealous that there was quite a good chance that he will be the only single one among the group.

Indeed it was a minute as she took a quick shower and was done getting ready in no time.

” You mean Dr Smith?”

” And who alse would it be if not her.”

When Matthew confirmed that it was Donna that Finnick was on a call with, Liam just nodded his head as if he didn’t care at all but deep down he was cheering up for his friend as if saying.

‘ way to go Fin’.

He too left Matthew behind to freshen up and was done in no time, they only took a few bags with their important items and made their way to the airport.

The driver dropped them off at the airport and will be following them back to their city after taking everything that they’ve left behind.

After checking in their bags they walked to the boarding gate and made their way to the aircraft that will be taking them back home.

The 2 hours trip felt like 2 minutes to Ciara who was very nervous about her return. There was still people like Lisa and Stacey whom she never explained anything to before she left to Port Elizabeth. She wasn’t sure if they’d be angry with her or be on her side. There was also Maggie whom she felt she had disappointed when she upped and left when they were facing a tough situation. She had left Maggie’s son to deal with everything on his own so Ciara was scared that Maggie might view her as a coward, someone who failed to face her problems head on and rely on her husband to help her deal with whatever problems she was facing.

Then there was her father, a man she thought despised her for not taking up the family business but chose to do her thing, now that she learned that things were not exactly how she thought they were, she had to try and work things out with him in order to maintain peace within the family.

While she was still lost in her thoughts, the final announcement was read out. They only had 10 minutes till the aircraft lands.

They landed safely, they retrieve their bags and walked out of the airport. Larry was already waiting for them in a Mercedes v class to take all of them back home.

As the car drove further and further away from the airport they started seeing burnt down buildings with smoke still coming out, showing that it was something that had happened just recently or maybe within the past 24 hours.

As the car drove deeper and deeper in to the city they noticed that most of the shopping malls and big stand alone shops were also burned. It looked like it was indeed an apocalypse.

Noticing this every person in the car tensed up wondering what had happened, none of then got the chance to view the news so they all had no idea what had happened.

Larry saw the uneasiness in everyone’s behavior as they all exchanged looks, embracing the on coming danger.

“There was a civil unrest, with people fighting for the former president’s freedom as he was arrested for fraud a few days ago, people were looting in shops and in some places it turned it turned to a racial matter as they too started killing each other.”

He then looked at Liam for a short while as he was driving.

” Non of our malls where affected but we had to close down for the safety of our employees and customers and we also increased armed security personnel in every corner of each mall and also encouraged shop owners to also put an edition security guard at their entrance just in case… Among the few malls that did survived the unrest we will be faced with panic buying from those consumers who did not loot or shop lift, we might need to limit some purchases per customer. “

So much negligence from those involved could put the country’s economy at risk and that is not a good thing for those in the business world and the aftermath could be unbearable for the poor.