The Wife I Never Met
Chapter 20

Ciara who was supposed to be relaxing at home and recuperating since she was still injured, was pacing up and down thinking of all possible scenarios where girls throwing themselves at Liam at the party and him accepting their advances. She tried her best trying to get rid of these negative thoughts, but her breakup with Dex has really messed her brain up. Deep down she trusted Liam, he has proven to be a decent guy thus far but her brain was telling her all these other negative things making her think Liam was Dexter.

“Aaahg” she screamed and took out her phone to make a call. It was a three way call to her friends.

“Hey where are you guys, I’m back.” she forced out a smile, pretending that all was well.

Lisa on the other side showed her the background of where she was before talking.

” we are at your place, we’ve been here the whole day waiting for your arrival, now tell us miss where are you? “

She had forgotten to tell them everything about her relationship with Liam, at first she didn’t want to confirm anything as she herself wasn’t sure how Liam felt about everything they did in their drunken state. But now she can tell them with confidence , so she decided to invite them to the villa where she was most comfortable. It was most private and no one will over hear them as they catch up. Plus she still needed their advice.

An hour later the two ladies arrived holding 2 bottles of white wine with a few snacks with them. They were so amazed at how huge and lavish the villa was. They felt that their friend had leveled up from zero to a hundred quite fast. They had not even greeted her yet but all they did was look around with their eyes wide open as the couldn’t get enough of this view. The ocean view was unobstructed, and they could also clearly see the row of pine trees.

“friend is this really your place, no you must be joking.”

Ciara on the other hand gave a mischievous smile which was somehow an answer, then also invited them in. As soon as they were inside the house, she noticed her friends exploring the house with their eyes roaming around. Seeing that they were not going to say anything, maybe from fear of imposing on Liam’s private space. Ciara took it to herself to give them a tour of the house.

Both Stacey and Lisa came from average households and were used to living in small houses. This villa though was so big that you can put Stacey’s whole house in just the living space.

“God I’m so envious of you right now… You have a good man, huge house and a promising career.” that was Lisa, throwing herself on the huge greyish L-shaped couch in the living room.

Ciara scoffed “as if you don’t have a loving man and a promising career.”

All three ladies worked for the same publishing company, with Ciara being a writer and the other two were editors. They all met in college, and also shared a room at the student residence which strengthened their bond. They knew she wasn’t from an average family like them, they could clearly see that she was from a relatively rich family but chose not to be bothered by it as Ciara had never carried herself as though she was better than them.

She never spoke about her family and would avoid questions that revolved around her family.

So they thought it would be wise not to touch that taboo, which explains why they are this close.

Currently they were seated in the living room, with a glass of white wine in their hands. Ciara was filling them in on what happened to her at the filming site when she was away.

All ladies expressed their thoughts not forgetting to show their anger towards Laura and Boity.

They talked about that for a while before changing the subject to more random stuff. After some time when they were a bit tipsy, Lisa noticed that Liam hasn’t been around all this time.

“Hey Cici, where’s your man?”

At that moment Ciara’s mood changed drastically, which everyone noticed. She looked very sad.

“well, he went back to his family residence.”

“aaaaah that’s not bad, it’s only a visit and will be coming back. Don’t be sad OK.”

“Well it’s not that, his mom has organized a banquet full of single women for him, I guess she they want him married as soon as possible. “

Stacey on the other hand was confused and voiced it out.

“But how can they organize dates for him when he’s already married.” “woooo wait and knowing all of this he still went?”

Ciara then explained to her friends that they had an agreement with Liam not to make their relationship public for now. And were gonna take things slow, plus Liam was only there to show face. He promised her not to look at any other woman that is not her.

Although that was the reason she told them, deep down she knew very well that the reason for keeping her relationship a secret was just out of fear. She was scared of suffering the same humiliation she had suffered when Dexter broke up with her. Although he wasn’t as well known as Liam, but a lot of people knew about them, plus alot was invited to the wedding.

After Dexter broke up with her almost every one she knew ridiculed her, putting all the blame on her.