My ungrateful husband

Ciara's p.o.v

"push harder ma'am....the head is almost showing....you are almost there....please don't give up now...keep pushing." the midwife said.

I was profusely sweating and i was really tired cause i have been pushing for the last fifteen minutes but still i can't give up now just like she said cause i need to be there for my little Angel who needs to come out.

I took in a few breaths and started pushing again.

"yes ma'am that's it...you are doing perfectly fine...keep going." she said again.

I did as she said and when the head came out,i went ahead to push more and when it was finally out,i heard the midwife say,

"congratulations ma'am it's a baby boy...ma'am ma'am ma'am." she started shaking me but I l had already collapsed.

They put me on life support and i don't know for how long i have been unconscious but when i opened my eyes i saw a nurse feeding my baby and when she saw me,she couldn't believe it.

"ma'am good to have you back...how are you feeling now??" she asked me.

I had no energy to reply but i just gave her a faint smile.

"ohh am so sorry ma'am,I l know it's not right to make you talk right now...please take rest...let me inform the doctor that you have woken up." she said with a big smile.

She placed my baby boy in his tiny bed beside mine and she walked out of the room.

I wanted to get up and carry my Angel in my hands and we feel each other but I was so weak so i just stayed like that laying on the bed.

A few minutes later the doctor walked in and examined me.

"how lo long hav have i been...?" i was trying to ask him when he replied me even before completing the question.

"four days ma'am...please don't stress yourself good enough you have finally woken up...just take some rest." he replied.

I squeezed my lips together and he went ahead to check on the baby aswell.

"uhm but i have one quick question ma'am...don't you have anyone to cater for you? like you have been unconscious for all those days but no one came to check on you or to be here for you...where's your husband?" he asked me.

A tear left my eye after hearing his question and i can't believe he didn't bother to come and be here with me in this moment...i wish i can break it down for doctor but am not that kind who opens up freely to people.

Despite our differences in our marriage,i really thought he would put all that aside and stand by me in this period but it's so absurd that he chose to let me go through all this alone.

"ma'am am really sorry i shouldn't have asked you about this...am so sorry." the doctor said.

I slowly lifted my hand and cleaned tears from my face.

"uhm after examining you,now am going to remove you from the oxygen since you are stable now." doc said.

He did his thing and i put my eyes on my baby boy who was in deep sleep and i don't know how am going to manage by myself in this situation but nomatter what,i had to save my day just like before.

"ma'am i will be leaving now and if you need anything you press on that button over there and i'll come right away." he said.

I just nodded my head and he gave me a warm smile.

"ohh another thing...since it's your first child,when he wakes up,please still press that button so that we come and assist you in breastfeeding him." he said.

"okay doc." i managed to utter some words.

This doctor was so nice...he left the room and now i didn't know what to do next and i just stayed laying there while looking at my baby.

I don't know how life is going to be after leaving this place cause i still can't believe am all alone.

I don't know when i fell asleep but i was woken up by my baby's crying voice.

I stretched my hand and pressed the button which doctor had instructed me earlier and he came in the room just after some five minutes with some nurse and he carried the baby from the bed and placed him in my hands.

The nurse assisted me in feeding my Angel though it was really hard since the nipple was not yet out and he couldn't get hold of it in his tiny mouth...we were still busy with that when we heard a knock on the door and doctor went to see who it was.

"yes how can we help you??" doc asked the person standing behind the door.

"Am here to see my wife and my newly born baby." he replied.

After hearing these words,i definitely knew who was standing outside and i nearly dropped my baby cause i couldn't believe my ears that he is here.

Now what the hell is he doing here right now huh!?? if he didn't manage to be with me for the past four days,then why would he bother to come right now!?? so many questions were running in my mind right now.

"ohhh am sorry sir...please come in...congratulations by the way...you have a baby boy." doc told while opening the door wide and he stepped inside the room.

"ma'am incase of anything please you let us know....we shall be leaving now."doc said while looking at me.

The nurse put back the baby in his bed before they left and now we were left alone with my husband.

No one wanted to initiate the talk so there was total silence till he broke it by saying,

"congratulations Ciara...thanks for enduring the pain." he said.

I really wondered in my head that some people have really gotten some nerves cause after all he did,he still got the strength to me!??

Ciara's p.o.v

I didn't reply him but rather glared at him cause i was totally mad at him and i wish he could just apologize to me then we kiss and make up but unfortunately it won't happen.

"i said congratulations Ciara...don't act like you didn't hear me." he said

"well thank you...if that's what you want to hear." I replied.

"but why the attitude!?? yes we have our differences but atleast for today let's put it aside and act normal." he said while pocketing.

"hmm you said we should act normal!!! wish you said it way back maybe it could make a change but unfortunately right now i can't act normal or let's say i can nolonger pretend cause am so sick and tired of that shit." i yelled at him.

A while ago i was struggling with words to come out but surprisingly am the one yelling right now...it's so unbelievable.

"Ciara please keep your voice down...you might wake up the baby and at the same time attract attention from the rest outside." he said while coming closer to me.

"hey don't you dare touch me...i said don't even think of putting your thilthy hands on me." i pushed him away.

"Ciara please calm down...okay i admit a lot of things happened in the past but let's start afresh so that we raise our kid cause we can't raise him well when we are always going to be fighting every hour and then...please Ciara am begging you." he said while taking a seat which was close to my bed.

"(smirks) Calton you are really so funny...you are asking me to calm down but when i asked for time so that we talk and settle everything in our marriage,you gave me a deaf ear and you made me look like a fool...now here you are acting like a good husband!! please save me the pretence." i told him.

"Jeez Ciara am not pretending,actually if you could see through my heart then maybe you could know that am being real here....let's start afresh and am kindly asking for your forgiveness please." he apologized.

He tried reaching for my hands but i kept them folded on my chest.

"First things first,where were you in the past four days when i was unconscious?? and dont you dare lie to me cause doc told me that no one came to check on me." i asked him.

"well to be honest with you i came but when i discovered that you were unconscious i went back home but i kept coming to check if you have woken up every single day...I know it's hard to believe but that's the truth." he replied.

"(scoffs) please don't lie...we both know that you can't be coming back and forth checking on me...you are the most impatient person i know on this planet." I told him.

"think about it,how did i know that you have woken up?? if you didn't call me up then how did i come here without you informing me?? it's because i used to come and check up on you everyday though i didn't spend much time cause i had to go back to the office and work." he said.

"to work or to spend time with her??" I asked him.

"please don't bring her in our conversation and it's so heart breaking that you still give her much of your attention!!...just forget about her." he replied.

"forget about her?? i wish it was as easy as you say it...anyways i don't freaking care about her and by the way i think we have talked a lot...now i need to rest." i told him.

"Ciara please first listen to me...yes am going to let you rest cause you need to but let's agree on some some things before you sleep." he said.

"Carlton please...am really tired let me be for now....if you don't mind please get out of my room." i said while pointing at the door.

"Ciara okay one quick question before i leave...when you get discharged where are you planning to go??" he asked me.

"of course somewhere far from you...Carlton don't make me repeat myself please...am saying this for the last time that am so done with your stupid games...let me be." I replied.

"what do you mean huh?? you have to come back with me to the house please...you can't raise our kid alone...i love my baby so much and i can't just allow you to take him away from me like that...no way." he said.

"hmm look who's talking about love here!!! just a simple flash back,please tell me what you did for me during my nine months to prove this love??! you did totally nothing and now you are talking about love,really!!! you are so shameless." i said with a lot of anger.

"Ciara yes i admit all my past mistakes but please give me a chance with my child...let's go back home and raise him together as his parents." he begged me.

"please stop repeating the same point over and over again...my decision is final...am not coming back to your house period..start a new life alone and don't worry about us,we shall be more than fine without you." I l told him.

"Ciara we are still married,am your husband and you are still my wife so there's nothing like separating ways...we are going back home and by we,i mean the three of us and that's final." he said while standing up from his seat.

"I want a divorce." i said it loud enough for him to hear and he parted his lips in total shock.

Yes I know it caught him off guard but this is the only thing that can put an end to all of this drama in our lives cause it all started when we got married so it's better we put an end to this marriage in order to get peace cause to be honest I m have had enough of all this.

Ciara's p.o.v

~flash back~

"ohh my God Ciara the moment i heard the news,i came straight here...am so sorry for your loss sweetie." Clare my best friend said while settling down on my bed where she found me sitted.

"am glad you are here cause i had no shoulder to cry on...am really glad you came to be here with me...it means a lot." I told her.

"come on of course i had to...by the way there are a lot of people down stairs and in those people there's some cute face i noticed." she said.

"Clare come on...what do you mean??" I asked her.

"Am talking about Carlton...he's here." she said while grinning.

"for real!!!? you gotta be kidding me...i didn't leave him there when I l came in my room!" I told her.

"well he's here now...jeez look at your face haha you are turning red!! I l guess i should call him in here so that you get to know about each other more." she said.

"noo are you crazy!!!?? please don't call him...i know the reason he's here is because he and dad were business partners for long and he came to definitely pay his last respect but not for my case...so let's leave it like that."I told her.

"okay maybe this is not the right time for you guys to have a talk but don't deny it cause you and i know how he used to look at you whenever he came here and you also looked at him with those sexy eyes...there's no doubt that you guys are into each other." Clare said.

" okay Whatever but there's too much going on right now." I said and she pulled me in a hug.

"I got you sweetie...by the way how did it happen?? when i first heard the news i couldn't believe it cause a few days ago they were all here living their lives." she asked.

"uhm it's really confusing but they were shot dead on their way back home last night and according to the cameras,it is believed that those men who shot them were working for some of my dad's business rival...and right now the police they're trying to track them down but i don't really care about them cause whether they get them or not,my parents are no more.(sniffs)" i told her.

"ohh sweetie i can understand...and am so sorry for your loss once again." she said while hugging me so tight.

I really don't know how life is going to treat me cause all i had in my life,were my parents and now that they're gone...am all alone and i don't know where to start from.

I was still hugging Clare and crying when we heard a knock on the door.

"who could it be??" Clare asked.

"well i don't know but help me and go check it out cause for me i don't want to see anyone right now." i told her.

She got up and opened the door.

"is Ciara in??" i heard a man's voice which was familiar.

"yes she is inside." Clare replied him.

"okay,please i would like to talk to her if she doesn't mind." he said.

Clare looked at me and i signalled her not to allow him inside but that fool betrayed me like always.

"yah sure...please come in." she opened the door wide and she stepped aside.

It was none other than Carlton...i have a crush on him from way back and whenever he is around me,i feel uncomfortable and i wonder why he is here in the first place.

"uhm guys i think i should go and check on something downstairs...Ciara see you later." Clare said.

"no no no...please stay...i would like both of you to hear what i have to say." Carlton said.

"ohhh!! i have no problem with staying then let's hear what you have to say."Clare told him.

"take a seat please...you don't have to keep standing." i told him then he sat down.

"well first of all...Ciara am so sorry about your loss and I have lost one of my greatest mentor in my life and i dont think i will ever get anyone like him in my life again...your dad was so inspiring in so many ways and may His soul rest in peace...and i pray we get those bastards who did this." he said.

"yah i hope so too." i replied.

"okay the main reason why i came here is that there are some things i wanted you to know before you hear them from anyone else...uhm your dad had a huge loan in the bank and he had offered this house as collateral security so since he's dead,they are definitely taking the house...." he was still talking then interrupted him

"whattt!!!!??? can't they give us some time and we settle the loan?? cause this is my home...i can't just let it go like that..nooo." i yelled at him.

"Ciara calm down please...it's not his fault...he's just here to deliver the information so don't shout at him." Clare said and she was right.

"am sorry for shouting at you...it's just that this is too much already." i said.

"yah I m can't blame you...but that aside,another issue is about your dad's company." he said.

"what about it??? you sounded serious and i am now more than worried." i asked him

"well the board wants to withdraw their shares and you exactly know what will happen when they do that....the company will be no more and yet your dad put in alot of time and money to build it to that state." he explained.

"ohhh my God all this can't be happening right now!!!! am literally going to collapse cause this is really too much for me." i stood up from the bed and started pacing back and forth.

"uhm mr.Carlton do you have any solution at hand cause Ciara is now freaking out...please help us." Clare asked him.

"yes i do have a plan...according to these guys,they said they're basically withdrawing their shares cause no one is going to be there to run the company like your dad and that you don't look to be responsible....so i was thinking that we get married so that they see you as a responsible person and you run your father's company." he said and i stood in one place.

Did he just say getting married!!! is he for real!!!??...of all solutions,why did he think of marriage!!?? he's crazy.