Falling For The Billionaire Heir

“Cutie pie,” she kissed her cheek. “We’ve been reading that over and over for four weeks. Don’t you want us to read another story?” There are other books here.” Lily pointed to her daughter’s array of story books on the bookshelf.

“No Mommy,” she shook her head. “I want Mr. Kenny and his daughter’s adventure. I love it.”

“Okay, cutie pie,” she curved an arm around her small body. “That’s what we are going to read. Now let’s start.”

She knew she was missing her father terribly. Tears glazed her vision, seeing how disturbed her little little was becoming. She couldn’t believe that Ludolf would cut his own daughter off like that. They used to be very close and fond of each other.

He hadn’t faltered with the monthly child support cheque for Alesha, but he had cut off his affection for the little girl. There were few phone calls when they first arrived but that stopped five months ago.

Lily had called him six times in those five months wanting to find out his plans for visitation. He had given excuses, saying he was busy with his graduate students in the laboratory, working on a special project. And so the excuses continued.

Whenever she asked him to speak with Alesha, he would say he was in the middle of something and quickly cut the line off.

Alesha slept off in the middle of the story which was quite unusual. Lily closed the book up and rearranged her on the bed.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

She tucked the sheets in. “Mummy loves you so much,” she whispered and kissed her forehead. “Mummy will always be here sweetie.”

She studied her little form on the bed for the longest time before she stood up. She deemed the lights and tiptoed out of the room.

She walked into her bathroom and decided to just brush her teeth. She didn’t have the energy to have a shower. She caught a glimpse of her reflection in the mirror that hung above the basin. Lily grimaced at her heavy eyes as she looked closer into the mirror.

She wondered for the umpteenth time since she returned to New York if she had made the right decision. Thinking she would have stayed there after the divorce and it would have been easy for Alesha to still have contact with her father.

She shoved the thought to the back of her mind as she rinsed her mouth and turned off the tap. She walked back into her bedroom and slipped into a knee-length nightgown.

Sleep eluded her when she got into bed. She kept turning and tossing on the bed. Her mind was reeling with the thought of her seven-year marriage with Ludolf, her husband…

Theirs was love at first sight. Both of them felt the electric current of passion the moment they set eyes on each other in the library. Students filled the library to the brim that evening.

The reason being that it was just a few days before the first semester exams would start. Ludolf couldn’t get any space to sit in the graduate students’ section of the library.

So he made his way to the undergraduate section to check if he could get a seat. He found one and it was beside Lily. A lady was just getting up to leave. He dropped his backpack on the table first with relief before he sat on the chair.

Lily looked away from her textbook and her eyes met with his. Her heart thudded wildly in her chest when he smiled at her and gave her a mock salute.

She gave him a shy smile and quickly returned her eyes to her books. But her mind didn’t return fully for the next hour, she struggled to concentrate and she knew why. After one hour of trying to concentrate, she gave up and packed up her books.

“Are you leaving already?” Ludolf asked with a bright smile.

“Yes,” she yawned. “I’m tired, I need to go and sleep. It’s after ten already.”

“Are you driving?” He asked, praying inward that she would say no.

“No, I don’t have a car.”

“If you don’t mind I can drop you off,” he offered and started packing up too.

“Oh no, don’t worry. I’ll find my way.” “No, I insist,” he stood up. “I’ll drop you off.”

She smiled and nodded. They both walked out of the library to his car outside.

They chatted like long-lost friends who just found each other for the twenty-minute or so drive to her dormitory. When he stopped the car, they continued to talk for over one hour before she finally went inside.

They had agreed to have lunch together the following day. He told her how he felt about her three weeks later and that was how their relationship started.

Lily was a fresher in the Department of Nursing then and he was a lecturer and also pursuing his doctorate in the Department of Biochemistry.

They became inseparable on campus for the rest of the three years she spent in school. He also finished his doctorate program at the same time Lily graduated.

They got married immediately and left the United States to live in Germany, his home country. He got a job in university and she started working at the University’s health center.

For all she knew, their marriage was fantastic, she had no cause to worry about anything. Not until they returned from church one afternoon and he told her he wanted a divorce. They were in their closet, changing out of their church clothes. He said it as calmly as if he was asking her to give him a glass of water.

“Excuse me?” She said when she realized he wasn’t joking.

“I said I want a divorce,” he said again.

“What? Why?”

“Li-ly,” he called her name in two syllables as if he was placating a silly child and walked out into the bedroom. “I’m sorry, honestly I am.”

He perched on the edge of her dressing table.

“I don’t understand,” she crossed her hands in her front and stood facing him. “What’s going on…we don’t have any problem. Do we?”

“I’m tired…I don’t feel any excitement again in this marriage. I want out.”

She plopped down on the bed, dejectedly. You want out, is there another woman?”

There was a brief moment of silence before he said, “yes.”