Married at First Sight

“You said it yourself, Liberty. It’s his prenuptial property. It doesn’t make sense to add my name to the title deed since I didn’t pay a penny for the house. I think we should forget about it.”

Zachary did Serenity a huge favor by handing her the key to the house the moment they got married. She could move in right away, solving her housing predicament.

Serenity was not going to request that of Zachary. Of course, she would not refuse if Zachary added her name on his own accord. Now that they were husband and wife, Serenity made up her mind to spend the rest of her life with him.

Liberty had to at least bring it up. Knowing that her sister was self-reliant and not driven by greed, Liberty did not dwell on the matter.

After a series of interrogations, Serenity successfully moved out of her sister’s place.

Liberty wanted to drop her off at Brynfield, but Sonny happened to wake up. The little guy was crying for his mama the moment he opened his eyes.

“You should attend to Sonny. I don’t have a lot of stuff. I can move them myself.”

Liberty needed to feed her son and get a start on lunch. Her husband would call her out for doing nothing at home should he return with no food on the table.

Left with no choice, Liberty said, “Be careful on the road. Are you coming here for lunch? Bring your husband along.”

“I need to get to the shop in the afternoon, so I can’t make it for lunch. My husband has his plate full at work. He’s going away for business in the afternoon, so it might be some time before I can bring him to meet you.”

Serenity lied.

She knew nothing about Zachary, but Grandma May mentioned that his life revolved around work. He would sometimes go out of town for business, away for days on end. Without a concrete idea of when Zachary would be free, Serenity did not make a commitment in case she could not keep it.

“He’s going on a business trip the same day he got married.”

Liberty found Zachary to be inconsiderate toward Serenity.

“We’ve only got our marriage license and not the wedding. The way I see it. He should go on these trips and make more money since the expenses will pile up. I should get going, Liberty. Go and feed Sonny.”

Serenity waved her sister and nephew goodbye before hauling her suitcase down the stairs.

about Brynfield but never

hailed a cab and went straight to Brynfield. Once there, it then occurred to Serenity that she forgot to

pick up since he was at work.

a meeting. Everybody in the conference room had set their phones to silent mode as no personal calls could be taken during

phone. As his phone was put on the table, Zachary quickly noticed

not save her contact when they exchanged numbers. With Serenity’s profile name, “Mermaid in the Deep Blue Sea” popping out on WhatsApp, Zachary canceled the

then blacklisted Serenity’s number.

act, Serenity went on to try messaging

‘Mr. York, I’m at Brynfields now, but I don’t know which

message and tapped send, only to find out

at the screen of her phone.

exchanged numbers at City Hall. Did I get the number

as she thought hard and long about whether

number, Serenity arrived at

he forget that they just

days before she drew a blank about her

reaching Grandma May on the phone, Serenity uttered, “Nana, I moved out of my sister’s place, and I’m now at Brynfield, but I don’t know Mr. York’s… Uh… Do you know

Grandma York, “…”

Serenity. I’ll call Zack right

old lady had no

only found out now that her oldest grandson bought a house at Brynfield after the couple got

wasted

and carried on with the meeting. Less than three minutes later, his mobile screen lit up. Seeing that it was Nana, Zachary accepted the

in a meeting, Nana.”

through. “Anything can wait until I get

the place you bought at Brynfield? Serenity’s there now, but she doesn’t know where

brow.

he had never met but Nana was deeply fond of. He believed her name

her it’s apartment 808 on the