Chapter 199
Asher’s POV
After listening to what they had said. I smacked my forehead as I laughed out loud at what they were hiding. I couldn’t believe they had put me and their mother through this. I had almost lost my mind.
I immediately went back home, to change into my suit.
While dressing up, I laughed again at what the children had told me at the hospital. They were very smart and cunning. Zendaya was going to have a kick out of this. I couldn’t wait to let her in on what had made her suspicious.
When I was done. I headed for her wardrobe to go through the clothes that were packed there.
I took out an evening gown which she had not worn for anything yet. This would be better for the outing.
A knock on the door and I opened it to see the butler smiling at me with a tray in his hand.
“I got it sir,” he said, bringing the tray to my eye level so I could see a diamond bracelet on it.
“Thank you so much,” I said to the man. He had been my butler from day one and I carried him everywhere and on every journey.
I locked the bracelet to see her name and my name etched into the diamond bracelet as it glimmered against the lights.
“Do you think she’s going to like it?” I asked as I looked at the diamonds on it well. It was glimmering but not like other diamonds I had seen.
“That, sir, is one of the rarest diamonds I’ve ever seen. It costs millions of dollars. I doubt she would reject that and besides, don’t forget the saying that diamonds are a girl’s best friend.”
I nodded before taking the box he gave me, placing the bracelet into it and started out with the gown I had in hand.
My drive back to the hospital was filled with so much excitement I could not see how she would not laugh when I told her what was going on.
Walking into the ward, I opened the door with a force so much the door banged against the side of the wall.
“What is the meaning of this?” she frowned before noticing my suit. “And why are you dressed like that? Are you going somewhere? Is there a conference meeting that I don’t know about?”
I felt bad for her. She was still feeling sad and I could see the stress on her face.
“Tell me where you’re going when our child is injured,” she demanded to know what was going on as I laughed, looking at Landon on the bed who was pretending to be sleeping.
“I know the truth now Landon, you can stop pretending.”
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Zendaya’s POV
Okay now Asher was beginning to act weird. First he was dressed in an outing suit, then he blames an injured child for pretending. Oh I was not having it today.
“What’s the meaning of…” I was about to say when I heard Landon laughing on his bed.
“Fine,” Landon said, jumping down to his good leg which made me jump in fear. “You caught me dad.”
I watched the father and son high-five each other as they started to talk like old buddies but I was still in shock.
“Okay, what is going on?” I demanded an answer just as they both looked at me and laughed.
“Alright, I’ll tell you,” he said, telling the child to leave and close the door.
The child walked away with Asher closing in on me.
He smelled seductively.
“Alright, so I found out that the prepared an anniversary dinner for us and needed to distract us.”
My eyes widened in shock.
“Are you fucking kidding me?!” I yelled. “Was he even injured?”
“Nope. He’s perfectly fine.”
“And the doctor? The nurses!”
“They were in on it too. The children paid them. And they did it with the butler’s help and Aurora suggested it too.”
Now I felt really old and a bit silly. I ran out of the room to scold the children as they apologized for the ruse.
“You guys could have just told me,” I sighed. “You almost gave me a heart attack.”
“We’re sorry mum,” said Luca. “We wanted to do something nice for you two and we didn’t know how to do this without attracting attention.
“Aunty Aurora suggested a dinner date but we didn’t know how to set up everything, that was when we remembered that whenever dad traveled he carried the butler so we used him.”
“I forgive you,” I hugged them as we all entered the car. “But don’t try this again. You guys almost gave me a panic attack.”
They agreed and we reached the house.
There, the butler had created a wonderful dinner table for us with a live band and barbecue on the side.
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When I got out of the car, Asher got out a dress for me to wear.
I entered the house and did it, coming out to see the dining table had been set.
We ate together as a family. I saw the butler standing by the corner and I invited him to sit with us which he did.
While we ate, Asher stood up and took my hand, taking me to the beach to look into the ocean.
“I can’t believe those children had done this for us,” I laughed. “They really are smarter than we thought they were.”
“They learned from their mother,” he said, clearing his throat before putting his hand into his pocket to get out a box. “I got you this,” he said.
When he opened it, I gasped. It was a bracelet with rare diamonds all over them.
“I can see our names in there,” I gasped before he put it on my wrist.
“I love you so much Zendaya,” he said, holding my waist as I put my hands around his neck.
“I love you too Asher.”
We kissed and I prayed that this night would never end.
The end.