Chapter 5 5

• Dylan walked towards their bed and saw the divorce papers on the headboard. He hadn't read them yet as there were two copies, and they were given to him when he was already leaving Rosie’s house.
• Dylan took one of the divorce papers and glanced through it as he put the divorce paper into his black briefcase and shut it closed before going into his bathroom to bathe.
• He decided to prepare for work as he thought about reading the divorce papers in his office.
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• Jessica rushed downstairs into the living room and saw her two kids sitting on the couch and eating the popcorn from the previous night that she had used to keep herself awake while waiting for Dylan to return home.
• She saw that the living room wall clock read 8:35 a.m, and she knew that her two kids were already very late for school.
• "Mummy! Mummy!" Caleb and Nina both rushed up to hug her legs as soon as she stepped into the living room.
• Caleb asked, "Mummy, aren't we going to school today?"
• Jessica knew that her two kids were already late for school, and she knew that if their former maid were around, the maid would have helped her prepare the kids for school, bathe them before she woke up, and also prepare their breakfasts.
• The maid would even have assisted Caleb and Nina with their breakfasts at the dining table, but now, Jessica had to do it all alone as Dylan was strongly against having any maid.
• Jessica had thought that the young maid tried to seduce her husband in her absence, but after the maid left, Jessica didn't receive any complaints about such reports from the maid's parents. The housemaid was even crying to be sent away, insisting she hadn't done anything wrong to offend Jessica.
• Jessica had to dash the young maid extra money, telling her that she would still be going to school and that she wouldn’t stop paying the maid's school fees, even though the maid was no under her care.
• The young maid was very smart and nice and did all her house chores alone even before Jessica would wake up or send the maid on an errand.
• Florence Gregson was a 15-year-old maid, and Jessica had seen how Florence cared for Caleb and Nina so much, even helping them with their homework as if, she were their real elder sister. Yet Florence was only a maid and not related to them.
• "Time has run for today, Caleb. Don't worry, I will try to wake up very early tomorrow morning to take you and Nina to school on time. Wait here; let me prepare something for you both to eat first, and then I will go and prepare your bath afterwards," Jessica told her son as she smiled at him and squatted to meet his height, along with her little daughter’s height.
• She finally stood up from squatting on the floor in front of her two kids and went into the kitchen to prepare their breakfast.
• Jessica wondered if Dylan was still serious about divorcing her, and she walked into the kitchen and towards her cupboards to check what she would prepare.
• She resumed mopping the kitchen floor since she didn't have a maid again.
• After she was through with cleaning the kitchen floor and the cabinet top, she proceeded to prepare her kids' breakfasts. She made noodles and fried eggs for them, and she stepped out to the dining table to serve their meals.
• The aroma of the fried eggs and delicious noodles that Jessica had prepared attracted her two kids' nostrils, and they rushed to meet her at the dining table to take their respective seats.
• Nina was too small and unable to climb the dining chair by herself. She cried out and reached for Jessica to carry her up, as Nina's third attempt to climb the chair by herself ended with her little bottom crashing to the tiled floor, and she cried out, "Mummy!"
• "Wait, Nina, I'm coming," Jessica quickly rushed to pick Nina up in her arms. She dusted her little daughter's bottom and sat down with Nina on her thighs, proceeding to feed Nina with a spoon.
• Nina continued to stretch her small hand to take the spoon away from Jessica's hand to feed herself, but Jessica refused as she continued to feed her daughter.
• Jessica knew that her two kids were happy children, and she didn't want them to become sad as they grew up, seeing that their parents were now quarreling and no longer in love with each other.
• "Mummy, why are you crying?" Caleb asked Jessica, noticing that she was crying silently, with tears rolling freely down her cheeks.
• Nina tried to look up at her mother's face while seated on Jessica's thighs, eating her noodles as Jessica fed her.
• Nina looked up again at her mother's face to see if her mummy was truly crying, but just then, Jessica heard footsteps behind her and quickly sniffed, plastering a fake smile on her face as she replied to Caleb, "I'm not crying; I'm just overwhelmed."
• "Over what?" Caleb tried to ask not understanding the complicated words his mother had used, but Dylan quickly cut the mother-to-son conversation short with his deep, sharp voice, replying to his son, "That's enough, Caleb. Now eat your food. You should know that talking isn't allowed while eating."
• "Okay, Dad," Caleb smiled at his father's words. Dylan stood with a strict face, already dressed a black suit to leave for his company. He adjusted his black suit necktie properly over his white dress shirt.
• Jessica stared backward at Dylan's face and saw the hardened expression on his face.
• She wanted to put Nina down on the next chair for Nina to start eating by herself, as she wanted to stand up from the dining chair to go and prepare Dylan's breakfast for him. But Dylan quickly told her coldly, "There won't be any need for that as I cannot wait to eat again."
• Jessica had already stood up from the dining table and saw that Dylan didn't want to wait for his breakfast. He finished adjusting his suit and inner white shirt, placed some money on the center table for them, and left the house.
• "Mummy," Nina cried out as she was unable to reach the dining table by herself. Her little hands couldn't reach to carry her spoon and feed herself.
• Nina's crying snapped Jessica out of her trance, and she rushed back to her small daughter after looking back at Nina, who was crying and trying to feed herself.
• Jessica carried Nina back on her lap and resumed feeding her little daughter at the dining table.
• Jessica knew that Dylan wasn't joking about divorcing her, and she silently thought about what she would do to appease him as she continued to feed her daughter.
• After Jessica was through with feeding Nina, and Caleb was also finished with his meal, she knew that Dylan only left the security man at the gate to lock and open the gate for him whenever he was leaving the house for his office in the morning and returning home in the evening, as Dylan had sacked all the maids and domestic staff too.
• Jessica heard the sound of Dylan's car starting in their garage. He finally drove out of their compound, and she knew that he was just leaving for office.
• Jessica then went to her kids’ room downstairs to prepare their bath. After she was through bathing them, she dressed them in new clothes and finally brought Nina and Caleb back to the living room with their toys to play.
• She switched on the television and tuned it to a cartoon channel for her kids to watch, before she went back upstairs to her bedroom.