Chapter 168: Chapter 168 – Saving up for their unborn child

Kennedy could not allow himself and his daughter to be bullied by Robin’s driver and thug. Not after Robin refused to see Zayla at the hospital, did not pay her bills, and now refused to let him take his daughter away.

Not forgetting the part where Robin slapped him twice and he was still yet to recover from the pain of the slap.

"I don’t have a choice?" Kennedy was furious. "She is my daughter so I have every right to keep her with me. As you can see, she’s still not well and I have to take her home to take care of her."

He was beginning to feel suspicious of if Robin had found out anything for his behavior to change like this.

However, knowing the type of person Robin was, would he have still insisted on keeping Zayla in the penthouse if he knew that she was not the one who saved his life?

Or did he find out that Zayla was not pregnant? That was equally impossible since they had authentic medical reports.

"Our instruction is to make sure that she returns to the penthouse," the hunky man said. He was the new spy Daniel had planted around Zayla per Robin’s instruction.

He has been watching her from afar and as soon as the driver alerted him, he quickly came over to help.

"Alright, we shall go to the penthouse together," Kennedy said but the driver refused.

"Sorry sir, our instruction is to bring madam and not you."

Kennedy was now lost about everything unfolding right in front of him. He would have wanted to live with Zayla for a few days in the penthouse to see the kind of treatment given to her but now, that was also not allowed.

"Then I won’t allow it," he outrightly refused.

"I can as well carry her or use force," the hunky man said and Kennedy was scared, knowing there was no way he could win a fight against such a person. He could feel that something was not right but as to what, he just could not tell.

"I want to see Robin."

"You can see him in the office tomorrow but for now, Miss Chance is carrying his child and has to be with him at the penthouse," the driver said, not knowing that Robin was not at the penthouse.

Usually, he was always there around this time for which reason he thought so. Kennedy was still reluctant but Zayla still wanted to be close to Robin.

She had a feeling that something was wrong and they had to talk about it since the memories of last night were still fresh on her mind.

"Dad, it’s alright. Robin would not hurt me. I will be fine."

Her subtle words got her father upset and he yelled at her, "Shut up until I tell you to talk. Did you tell me when he slapped you?" Kennedy was so upset, his countenance scared his daughter to bits.

"That was my fault. I should go with them. I will talk to you later."

Zayla left with the driver before her father could object. When she reached the penthouse, she was disappointed that Robin was not there.

She had her supper and decided to wait. After hours of unfruitful wait, she ended up dozing on the couch but when she woke up in the morning, it was past 8 am and there was still no sign of Robin.

She was also surprised that the maids had not come yet. Then again, the chef had also not made breakfast. This was something she never did before but for the first time, she went to knock on the chef’s door several times but there was still no response.

Mustering her courage, she turned the knob and was met with darkness. Switching on the light, the room was empty.

Zayla was shocked. She picked up her phone and decided to call Robin for some answers.

This time, he answered the phone. "What is it, Zayla?"

His voice was as cold as when they spoke yesterday and Zayla could still not comprehend what was happening and why this sudden change in Robin.

"Robin, the maids did not come today and the chef is also not here."

Zayla had grown up overnight and knew to not go about with her usual ’darling’ to address him and to also not beat around the bush.

"Yes. I told the cleaning company to not send any maids and I assigned the chef to work somewhere else."

Zayla’s heart dropped. If anything at all, Robin should have informed her first.

"Why, Robin?"

"Zayla, don’t you think we need to save money for our unborn child? If you love me the way you say, then your only way of showing it is by helping with the expenses and not by mouth," Robin replied in the same cold tone.

Why should he waste money on a living dead? Robin would not do that. Zayla was still lost in everything he was saying.

"Robin please, I don’t understand."

"What I mean is, you should make yourself useful by cooking and cleaning the penthouse. At least for the daily hundred dollars and lest I forget, if you don’t use the money in a day, it expires, which means it goes into savings for our unborn child."

He kept hitting on the part of the unborn child because he knew it wasn’t there. It was his way of playing on her conscience, which was working perfectly because Zayla was getting depressed.

"Robin, I’m pregnant and all these chores are too much for me."

Zayla could not say that she did not know how to do them, for which reason she put it that way but Robin was not moved to change his mind. Not when he was dealing with the daughter of the man who killed his mother.

She was not innocent of her father’s crimes since she destroyed his marriage and now she had to pay. Robin was sure that Sabrina would have told him about the pregnancy if he had not brought Zayla that night.

Also, she was the one who insisted on going or aborting the child which he now knew was because of the diamonds. If he had let her stay, she would have secretly searched the house and found them.

Moreover, the news about Sabrina’s pregnancy could have caused a change in him and saved his marriage since the baby was all he wanted.

Finally, with the change, his grandmother would have shown him the letter and he would have known that Sabrina saved his life and made it up to her while they were still married.

Zayla ruined his life and she had to pay with hers.

"Zayla, a pregnant woman needs exercise. It’s good for the baby."

"But..."

The line was already dead.

Robin had dropped Sabrina in the office but he was also supposed to pick her up later to the meeting with all investors.

Tomorrow, he had to take her for the review at the hospital as well.

He returned to the office to get some work done and after leaving a few instructions, he went back to Sabrina’s office.

By the time he reached there, Martin was sitting in front of Sabrina and both of them were laughing so hard, it got Robin annoyed.

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