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THE PRESIDENT DAUGHTER
SEASON==2==EPISODE==56 FINAL
While wondering and thinking de-eply on how
my life will turn out, then I started realizing
something, I have met with Promise about
three times and I didn’t see or notice any
wedding ring on her f!nger. Could it be that
she lied to me? Why would she lie to me?
After all, she’s supposed to be married by
now. I just set my mind to investigate if
she’s truly married or not.
I think of Mirabel every day, all the good
memories about her and all we shared, all
she did to get me and my family to a higher
level. Who would’ve thought she’d die like
that? Two years of marriage is just too
soon. Of course I can’t question God
because he knows the best. Why would God
punish me after all the favours I’ve been
getting from Him since I gave my life fully
to him? It’s not possible! The plan of God
over His people is always of good and not
of evil. So… the question now is what is
God’s plan on my life now?
I stayed in my Father’s other house as a
single Dad, I made sure I took care and
spend quality time with Vanessa even with
my ti-ght schedule as I’ve started my
business operations in Nigeria and it wasn’t
easy, it takes time and efforts to get a new
company established. I was too busy and
focused on establishing my company that I
couldn’t look at any woman, and that means
I’m not re-marrying any sooner especially if
Promise is truly married.
I was just seated in my office one afternoon
resting and cooling my mind with a cool
hollandia yoghurt when Nancy called me
and she sounded so happy…
Nancy: Hello Bro
Me: Nancy how you doing?
Nancy: I’m super fine!
Me: That’s good… how’s Dad and Mum?
Nancy: Their Fine too…. Bro guess what?
Me: What?
Nancy: Guess na, shebi you’re good at
guessing?
Me: Okay uhmmm… you got promoted?
Nancy: No nah…
Me: Is it just about you or the Family?
Nancy: It’s about the entire Families
Me: I dunno, just tell me
Nancy: Both Families have approved our
marriage!!
Me: **Surprised** Whoa… that’s good, how
did it happen?
Nancy: Well, ermm… since Mirabel, you
know uhmm… yea, and having being
discovered as not the biological daughter of
the President, Vincent went around
convincing both families and made his
points known to them, so they agreed and
approve our marriage
Me: Okay…
Nancy: So Vincent and his Family will be
coming to the house in two days for
introduction and to fix the d@t£ for the
wedding, and you know that you have to be
there
Me: Yea… no problem, good thing it will be
on a Saturday
Nancy: Yeah
Me: Alright till then, I’m very happy for you
Nancy: Thanks bro,,, k!ssVanessa for me
plea-se…
Me: No I won’t this time
Nancy: Hahahaha… why na?
Me: You know why
Nancy: I’m sorry… but you know its work
that has been hindering my visit
Me: Always using work as an excuse, can’t
you make your own time?
Nancy: Ok on Sunday I promise
Me: Don’t make a promise you can’t keep,
bye-bye I have work to do
Nancy: I will come by God’s grace; I miss
my little cutie so much
Me: I’m hanging up
Nancy: Okay bye… see you on Saturday
Me: Alright **hangs up**
Nancy started working at our Dad’s
company after she completed her NYSC, she
got qualified to be a Chartered Accountant
after she pas-sed the ICAN exams while
un-der our Father.
Vincent has officially started his ministry to
be a Pastor, he built his own Church and
it’s growing pretty well.
***********
Saturday c@m£ as both Families meet at my
Father’s house, discussions were made and
we reached an agreement for the wedding to
take place in three weeks’ time and all
preparations starts from now. There’s
money, so no time to waste.
The day of the traditional marriage c@m£
and everything went so well and successful
with many elites of the country in
attendance. The white wedding was also
great; Vincent honoured me during his
speech at the reception. How I watched over
Nancy and made sure no guy messed around
with her until the destined one c@m£ along.
I also felt proud of myself, all my efforts in
protecting my sister turned out great and
fruitful. It’s my joy for my sister to get
married a v!rg!nand to the right man.
I was happy to see Promise at the wedding;
I went closer to her and had a chat with her.
I observed her f!nger till I saw a ring on it. I
got sad… she wasn’t lying after all, but I
still want to see that husband of hers,
because she’s never said something about
him whenever we have a chat. All she talks
about is work, work and work.
I carried on with plans of getting to know
the husband of Promise, I asked her many
times to let me visit her house, but she
kept giving one excuse or the other, she
boldly refused to give her house address
and these kept rising my suspicion that
she’s not really married, what’s confusing
me is the wedding ring on her f!nger.
My background check on her proves my
suspicion right, she’s definitely not married
and she’s successful and also living alone.
She’s been lying to me that she’s married
which made me to think that she doesn’t
have feelings for me anymore and she don’t
want to get involved with me.
I started thinking of what to do to win her,
my thinking led me to meet with a close
friend of hers who should know what’s
going on in her life. I got in t©uçh with
someone close to her, I was able to
persuade her to answer my questions and
she told me everything after I told her my
intensions. She said, Promise has been in a
relationsh!pwith a man for over a year now
and he hasn’t said anything about marriage,
she said she doesn’t trust the guy at all,
that she doesn’t think the man is serious
with Promise.
That gave me lots of hope, I felt very happy
inside me.
From all the information about her, I
prepared myself to pay her an unannounced
visit in the evening. She opened her door
and was surprised to see me.
Promise: How did you get to know where I
live?
Me: I just did a little background check, can
I come in?
Promise: **Hesitating**
Me: plea-se…?
She quietly let me in.
Surprisingly, she offered me hollandia
yoghurt… then from one talk led to another,
I started talking to her to marry me. I told
her I’m aware that she isn’t married, I
talked to her about the past, the pres£nt
and the future till she got emotional and
tears started dripping down from her eyes. I
went down on my knees before her and
started giving her promises which I’m very
re-ady to fulfill. I begged and begged her to
agree to marry me, that I’ll start
arrangement to marry her in one month or
maybe less once she agrees to marry me. I
reach my hand into my pocket and brou-ght
out the ring I c@m£ with; she started crying
immediately I pres£nted to her, I took her
hand and she didn’t withdraw her hand till I
successfully placed the ring on her f!nger.
Before I knew what was happening, she
flung herself on me in a ti-ght embr@ce.
Me: What about your b©yfri£nd?
Promise: He has lost me… he’s not re-ady to
marry me, even though I’ve been pressuring
him to, I was re-ady to sponsor the wedding
out of desperation to get married. Yet he
kept giving one excuse or the other.
Me: That’s fate wanting us to end up
together
Promise: How’d you know about him?
Me: Salome
Promise: That girl! I should’ve known it was
her
Me: Hope you’re not gonna scold her?
Promise: No, of course not
We talked and stared at each other for a
while before I left feeling happy.
***********
We got married months later in a simple
traditional marriage and a court wedding
with only close family members in
attendance. Although, I made the President
and the first lady aware of my marriage,
they un-derstood and gave me their
blessings but couldn’t attend; I didn’t want
them to attend anyway since I wanted the
wedding to be on a low-key. They said I’m
too young to remain a widower and I nee-d
someone to take care of Vanessa.
Before we got married, I made a discovery
which is one of the reasons that made me
rushed the wedding. Because… when we
were discussing (that’s before we got
married) I found out she was born in the
same hospital where Mirabel was also born.
Although I know they shared the same birth
d@t£ which was one of the reasons why
Mirabel got to like her so much back then. I
suspected something and did a DNA test
without her knowledge and it was positive. I
was shocked and dumbfounded immediately
I saw it, so I kept it a secret and rushed our
wedding so it won’t be disapproved if they
find out the truth. So my plan is to tell them
the truth months after the wedding.
Just a week after the wedding, the
President invited me to come with my new
wife to the Presidential villa; I honoured his
invitation by going there at the expected
time.
After a while there, The President started
talking about Mirabel not being his real
daughter, how the investigation of finding
his child has been going, he then handed a
paper to me. I looked at it and it’s exactly
the same as the DNA test result of Promise
I did secretly.
I asked surprisingly like I didn’t know…
Me: So… what does this mean?
President: Promise is my daughter
Me: What? How is that possible?
He explained how it all happened.
What happened was that, a lady gave birth
to a stillborn and she really nee-ds a child
for her husband and his family that has
been pressuring her to give birth. So she
connived with a nurse there to get her a
child. The nurse took baby Promise and
gave her to the woman, when she learned
about whose child the baby was, (The
President wasn’t the President then, but he
is very influential) she couldn’t return baby
Promise to them because she didn’t have
the chance, so she took a random baby and
gave to the first lady which was Mirabel and
gave the stillborn to Mirabel’s real mother.
Promise: (crying) my mother did that? Is
this true?
First lady: It is my dear, we’re your true
family; I gave birth to you (crying)
Promise couldn’t believe the woman the
thought was her mother did such kind of
evil, and the woman loved her so much as
her only child.
Promise accepted her true parents and
pleaded with them not to let her supposed-
mother to suffer for her mistakes because
she took care of her like her own child. Her
wish was granted and the woman was
spared, but her supposed father refused to
spare her as he s£nt her packing from his
house. The Nurse was dealt with a little
before they let her go after disgracing her.
Everyone was surprised about this whole
thing.
The President threw a p@rty for the return of
his lost daughter and I was also honoured, I
stood by her as her husband; so I remained
the President’s in-law.
***TEN YEARS LATER***
My dreams c@m£ true as I built my business
empire and bec@m£ one of African’s riche-st.
My business operations were all over the
continent with my headquarters in Nigeria. I
had three children with Promise while
Vanessa make them four; two boys and two
girls, and they grow up to join the Vames
Empire.
••• THE END •••
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