The secretary who became a billionaire's wife

Phoebe's POV

I alight from the cab with my bag in my hands, as I stroll towards my block.

I get to the door and push it, it isn't locked and I open it and enter inside surprisingly I find my brother inside.

They were supposed to be in school. I knew they wouldn't go because they'd be scared I was not safe.

The aroma of pasta filling the room disrupts the normal scent of our home.

"Hey Sisi," Jake says as he sees me.

He walks up to me and hugs me, "How are you doing my love?" I asked him while he was still hugging me.

"Why did you leave us like that last night? I thought you were kidnapped or something happened to you," he expressed his anger and disbelief at the gravity of my actions.

He thought I'll just leave the house for no reason, I haven't gone mad, and everyone should chill.

He doesn't even have the slightest idea of what happened to me last night. Those guys who came to carry me knocked on my door and I came out to answer them when they insisted on carrying me along with them. I had to lie to my junior ones and tell them something to keep them calm.

I thank God things turned out in my favor, I've gotten a job and a new Man, yes I got a man I don't care what anybody says.

"You know how much I love you guys, I couldn't go out leaving you guys at home at that odd hour of the night if it was not important, something happened last night but it's settled now," I said following up my complaint because if I didn't clear the air I will be answering a lot of questions.

"You're sure?" Jake cocked his eyebrow at me, "Yeah," I say, reassuringly, he looks into my eyes, with a look I couldn't decipher if he believed me or not.

I'm not even ready to tell Jake about my night because he would freak out, and that isn't something I was prepared for but then something caught my attention.

As I saw Lily coming out of the kitchen with two plates of Pasta in both hands, It dawned on me that she was in the house with them.

"When did you come, babe?" I was shocked at the fact that she was cooking inside and I didn't realize.

"I've told you to stop pulling funny stunts with these children if you want them to be safe" she cautioned in a soft and motherly voice.

Lily was my age mate, but she was the kind that liked acting like she was a mother.

I sat down first and took one of the plates, I didn't reply to her, I just started eating, she doesn't know what I'd been through in the past few hours.

"Where's Emily?" I suddenly remembered and I asked, "She's in the room sleeping." Jake replied.

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Lilly didn't bother asking them to dress up for school, She knew it was because I was not around.

Jake was already a teenager, he had started growing into a man with each day that passed, developing packs, shady beards, and bigger muscles.

He loved me and I loved him too, also Emily, my Baby girl.

Jake was nothing like my father. He cared for me and Emily and would do anything to make us happy.

"Were you fired from your Job?" Jake asks absentmindedly as he doesn't take his gaze off the book he was reading at the time.

Oh my gosh! It dawned on me that I hadn't prepared the speech I was going to give Jake and Emily about my new job.

But thank God the money I brought home would be enough for me to pay their school fees and buy my drugs at the hospital.

Just then my phone beeps, and I quickly check the screen. I was not expecting a message but I am compelled to check whatever happens in my phone today more than any other day. As I unlock the screen I realize it's a message from my cardiologist.

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[I don't know what's your plan, but I don't think playing with your health is something you should be doing]

I quickly roll my eyes in frustration. I've been getting these messages from him recently. I know he cares about me but there's a lot of responsibility to handle before thinking of my drugs.

Brian is my doctor, he was assigned to me, and we had a mutual relationship, I don't think mutual is the word, because he likes me and I like him too.

We had something great going on between us, and I loved it until I realized he was someone's husband, not just anyone my high school bully's husband, Miriam, I didn't want any form of connection with her so I cut him off.

She has a little boy for him, he's cute tho, the least I expected from that ugly duckling bully of a girl.

She wasn't ugly, to be honest, but the fact that she bullied me made her ugly, and no one had a say in how I saw her.

I and Brian had a sweet relationship going on when I recently discovered I had congestive heart failure. He offered to help me with my situation but God didn't let me fall into that trap, because shortly after, I realized that he was married to Miriam.

I and Miriam accidentally met up at a restaurant where I went on a date with my colleague, Fabian, that was when I noticed that she was married to Brian.

I saw all of them together, her ring, her son and everything. I got a chance to talk to Brian later that day and he confessed that he was indeed married to Miriam, and he kept it a secret from me. What an irony.

"You haven't answered my question!?" Jake asks again and I snap out of my thoughts.