Set me free - Episode 14

I'm sorry for the long pause guys. Had a little problem with the phone i was using. Thankfully my dad just repaired it. Lets get back to the story then shall we?

With anxious fingers, Dawn's mother dialed Mrs Williams. Everything was just going wrong. She was supposed to convince and bring Dawn home to be married tote the Williams only to find her pregnant for a scoundrel. Ofcourse she was agitated.

"Finally gotten some sense into your daughter, have you?" Mrs Williams lazy drawl came from the other side of the line. Dawn's mother wondered if she maybe had woken the woman from her sleep.

"Are you still there?" Mrs Williams asks as she sit up on her bed wondering why the other woman was silent.

"Is there really another William?" Dawn's mother finally asks. Mrs Williams shot out of bed at this and try to keep the surprise and maybe ancxiousness out of her own voice.

"what nonsense are you talking about." she manages to get out.

"Does Mr William have another son." Dawn's mother rephrases.

"where did you here that?" Mrs Williams asks coolly. Trying desperately to intimidate the woman and have her forget the truth she was searching for.

"I just met his supposed son." Dawn's mother finally says.

"that's impossible."

"The boy my daughter ran away to

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. He's also named Williams like your husband and he was rambling nonsense about meeting your husband tomorrow at the airport to show himself to him." Mrs Williams eyes went wide at this news but ofcourse her voice showed no evidence of her shock.

"You should be looking for a way to get my son's bride to him my friend. Not repeating nonsense you heard from a desperate and obviously deluded poor fool." Mrs Williams grind out.

"umm there's a bit of a problem there you see Dawn-"

"Your husband already signed a contract. Get the girl to divorce that rat. I don't care what problem there could be otherwise."

"but--"

"but what?!" Mrs Williams snap. She wouldn't let anyone take this chance to affirm her son's position in the Williams family. Her son was going to marry the girl, divorced or not. She couldn't let that alcoholic's son get what she has been working so hard for her son. She believes she deserved all the Williams wealth but virtue of working too hard to covet it.

"she's pregnant." Dawn's mother's silent words takes a while to register in the other woman's ears and when they do, her bitter calculating mind snaps.

"Listen to me. You better get that daughter of yours to a doctor and pull out whatever is inside her okay?!" she yells down the line as she end the call.

"That cockroach!" She screams as she throws her phone to the bed and angrily push down all the skin care paraphernalia on the table in front of her. Bottles smash on the ground with a disturbing noise as she seethe.

"That bastard ain't getting nothing from my husband. It all belongs to me! My son and I!" she screams into the dark room.

"Here. These jewelries would look better on you." she couldn't help but remember Williams mother telling her so Many years ago. She was married to a failed business man who could no longer afford the better things she had always wanted and hated her friend's sympathy and pity. Why would she pity her?! It was her fault she got greedy and took her husband from under her nose. What a stupid woman. She thought.

"you and your son ain't crawling back into my world." she says quietly into the darkness as she plant her ass on the side of her bed. The life in the slum never did suit her but her dear friend always looked like she belongs there. She thought.

"Now how do I get rid of this problematic son once and for all?" She mutter as she reach for her phone and finger the edges. Williams was currently in her son's place and that is something the callous woman couldn't just forgive.

 Her callous mind was working so hard this night as she came up with an excellent plan. She finally unlocked her phone then dial a number.

"ma'am." the light voice made her smile. This was exactly who she needed for this job. She gingerly outline her plans for father and son to the person on the other side of the line before ending the call with a smirk. She was already so excited for tomorrow. Her eyes look up to the wall clock. It was a few minutes to 1am. Seven more hours. She consoled herself with the fact that after these long hours, everything would be hers and her son's. No more hurdles.

"I guess I have to reunite father and son." she says before bursting into hysteria.

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William;

"I can't do this." Dawn says as she fidget with the hem of her top. I make sure mother was still asleep before I sit beside Dawn on the couch and take her hand in mine. I rub soothing circles on her palm as she stare down at our joined hands.

"It's too much too soon." she says.

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. The tears glittering in her eyes break my heart.

"babe, we are in this together." I try to assure her. Ofcourse I couldn't fall asleep last night after the news of a baby on it's way. My eyes moves to Dawn's still flat tummy.

"We are going to do right by this child okay? I will make sure he or she doesn't get born here." I promise as my hand come to rest against her tummy.

"Did you hear that, baby. You ain't going to be born here okay. Trust daddy." I say, emotion thick in my voice. Dawn's hand cover mine as we stare into each other's eyes. Mine desperately willing her to trust me.

"Let's hope your dad believes you then." Dawn gives me a wry smile and I nod.

"I have two things in my favour." I tell her.

"and what's that?"

"you." I brush my lips against her knuckles.

"and our baby." I press another kiss to her stomach.

"You are going to be an amazing parent, Will. But I'm not sure I would."

"shhh. No one is born a parent. We'll do just fine." I say as I press my lips to her forehead.

"I love you." I whisper to her as I catch a stray tear from her eye with my lips.

"You will always be here for us, right?"

"Nothing can keep me away from you. Nothing." I promise.

"Let's go get you a father, then." Dawn says.