I'll Be There With A Thousand Soldiers

"You won't take the kids away, will you?" Amy asked.

"I guess I looked like someone joking," just as Broderick finished speaking, the door opened and the kids appeared.

The kids ran towards the two adults and hugged them each.

"How was school?" Amy asked, while standing still.

Elijah gave a breif response but Queen began to talk about everything that happened in school, from when they got to school until they closed. Before she was done narrating all that happened in the school, the boys already walked in, leaving the girls alone with the two adults.

Broderick and Amy listened to the girls and when Amy realized that the girls won't stop talking anytime soon, she interrupted politely," how about you go in and take a shower first? I'll come and check on you later."

"Let's go, dad and Amy seems busy," Debby understood the situation more than her sisters so she left with Queen and Angel.

"Please don't take them away from me. I promise not to kiss Nolan anymore," she said, she can't afford to be here alone. She quickly added," remember I'm on a mission to make them recover their memory?"

Broderick stood and watched her for a few seconds after which he began to walk out, Amy ran towards him and hugged him all of a sudden from behind.

"Broderick, you have never told me for once that you love me. If you do, it will make me happy. I only just hoping you love me, I'm not so sure. As for me, I love you so much." She hugged him even tightly. She wants to be in his embrace for life.

"Broderick however didn't say a word, Amy couldn't see his expression to know his reaction towards what she said.

She remained on him for a while after which she loosened her body slowly and took two steps back away from him. Broderick took steps further as if he was walking out but paused all of a sudden. He turned back to her and asked," did I deserve your love?"

"Of course, you do." Amy answered sharply. Looking at his dashingly handsome face.

"I'm harsh and I get angry easily. Did you really think I deserve you?" Broderick asked gently.

"Yes, you do. I don't mind your weakness, I already know everything about you. You get angry easily, your anger can destroy a city, you are harsh and what more? But I don't care. I love you for who you are. Broderick, and you can't say you don't even love me, you have just divorced your wife for me," Amy said.

"Love is a strong word." Broderick said and walked up to her, "let me be sure that you don't truly have feelings for your 'gentleman,' then I can confess my feelings for you." He said, turned and walked out.

Amy walked out and ran towards him, "wait!"

Broderick was almost getting to his door when he heard Amy's voice. He leaned by the car and folded his arms wondering what she wanted.

"Where are you heading to now?"

"Home." He answered calmly.

"Home? Why don't you stay here with me? Afterall, you have divorced your wife," Amy said.

Broderick loosened his folded arms and tucked his hands in his pocket, "I have something important to attend to, sorry." Broderick got inside his car and got driven away.

Amy felt heartbroken as she watched him leave. If you love someone, shouldn't you always wish to be with them? Amy thought that divorcing Martha will give him the freedom to spend more time with her but it actually didn't change anything.

She turned back slowly and walked inside sadly.

When Broderick arrived home, the remembrance of Martha how was crying when he told her to sign the divorce papers came to his mind, he was not happy about it. Although he was skeptical about Martha being the real mother of the kids but he wasn't so sure neither that Amy was the mother. Actually, he wanted to get rid of both women from his life.

As for Martha, he never loved her. And as for Amy, he was only keeping her in that house to see if she would be able to help his kids recover their memory. He do have a special and soft spot for Amy but could that be called love?

Why would two sisters even fall in love with him? Was he cursed or was he favored? Broderick looked around the large living room and sighed. The entire mansion was quiet as he was the only one there.

He then went inside his room and came back to the living room with a pen and a book, he placed the book on the chair and opened the first blank page, then he wrote,

"Dear NorthHill,

I'm very patriotic of you. Unlike other members of my clan who had cowardly ran away and couldn't fight for you. I'm here to fight for you and help you regain your freedom."

Then he sighed. This was his first goal and he was working hard towards it. He had already taken over EastHill. Brett had been declared the king of EastHill just yesterday night.

If Nolan thinks he can rule a foreign country, then he would prove to him that he can make a foreigner rule his country too.

Broderick placed a call across to Brett and once he answered, he asked him," have you found Nolan's twin brother, yet?"

"No, sir but we are working hard. He would soon be found." Brett responded politely.

"Good. How has it been? Are their elders and counciles being submissive?" Broderick asked.

"I have already imprisoned as many that claim to be stubborn, others are scared of me and have now subjected themselves to my leadership. I'm ruling with iron fist, sir," Brett answered.

"Good. Keep me updated always," he said.

"Sure, sir," Brett said and Broderick hung the call up.

He then dropped his phone and opened the second blank page of the book, he wrote,

"Dear Martha,

If I find out that you have been deceiving me, that the kids are not yours, that you made me loose my memory and make the kids loose their memory, I will cut off your breast and burn your lungs, you will be on earth but be living like a dead person. Your suffering will be greater than those in hell. This, I assure you."

In the second paragraph, he wrote, "but if you are truly innocent as I have always guessed, then I will fall to my knees before you and bow to the ground, I'll apologize and make you my woman forever. This, I swore."

He wanted to write about Amy but couldn't, he tried but it wasn't flowing so he closed the book and went to keep it carefully in his room.

He then went to lay to the backyard of the house with a drink, he laid on the sofa and placed the bottle of wine beside him, he was only dressed in a short tight pant, he wasn't wearing anything else.

He was sipping the drink and looking at the pools before him, the flowers, his lions and all other beautiful things in the backyard of the house.

Sometimes, it's good to get rid of everyone in your life, spend some time alone by yourself and refresh your soul. This was exactly what Broderick Alessandro was doing.

The cool breeze blew his body and he felt very refreshed, he was sipping the alcoholic drink little by little so as not to get drunk.

He had been trying to stop his heart from thinking about Amy but eventually, his heart won. Amy's image appeared before him and he adored it. He loved everything about her, despite the fact that she betrayed NorthHill and sold him out to Nolan, he still secretly adored her.

When Amy hugged him at a time when he was walking out of the house an hour ago, he felt comforted. It was a if a drop of dew was dropping to his soul, soothing him coolly. He didn't want her to withdraw her hug. When she eventually took her body away from him, he felt dried and empty again. He felt deserted.

His heart leaped for joy when he heard Amy running towards him at a time when he was about entering his car, but he had to act like she meant nothing to him cause he actually want her to mean nothing to him. This was what his head wanted but it seems his heart wanted a different thing. His heart want Amy.

Love is too dangerous, he didn't want to fall in love with anyone at all. He had fallen in love with his first love, his late wife and it ended up being a disaster. He was heartbroken to the core. He wasn't even able to pour his anger on anyone then as the one who betrayed him was already dead.

He sat upright and drank more and more, it was because he find himself thinking about his late wife, the one who betrayed him and damaged his heart. He loved her despite the fact that she couldn't conceive for her yet she was cheating on him with another man.

Eventhough it's more than eight years since his wife died, it still hurts. This is why he likes to engage himself in works cause once he wants to be alone, his mind can trail back to what caused him the deep scars his heart was having.

He had heard that scars do heal but the scar that his late wife caused him looked like one that will never heal. It hurts! It hurts so much!

He drank and drank until his eyes became heavy, he wanted to forget his sorrow for now and get lost in drinking then his mind trailed back to Amy. The woman who mysteriously has the power to comfort him.

So he picked up his phone, in that drunken state of his, he looked for Amy's number clumsily and thought he dialed her number, when the person on the other end spoke, he said to the phone, "I'm drunk...please come."

"Broderick, where are you?"

The voice doesn't sound like that of Amy at all, though it was that of a female. He hung the call up without answering and the phone fell off his hand. He could barely make a sense of anything around him anymore.

What if the whoever he mistakenly call comes? In his boozy state, he managed to pick up his phone and then tried so hard to look for Amy's number then dialed it, he hoped that it was Amy's number that he dialed.

The call got answered and the person on the other end spoke," Broderick, what's up?"

He recognized Amy's voice at once and said," my woman! my woman!"

"Broderick, what's wrong, where are you?"

"I...love..." Broderick laughed. What was wrong with him? What was he about to say? "I don't want any other woman apart from you...haha...you are the only one that can heal me."

Amy was confused at Broderick's words," where are you? What's wrong?" The phone then fell off Broderick's hand, he didn't even have the energy to pick up the phone again. He drank once more and faded into unconsciousness.

A couple of minutes later, a femine voice was shouting around the house, "Broderick! Broderick!" It was Amy, he was searching every room for Broderick but couldn't find him.

The door to the living room then opened and another woman walked straight to the backyard, this woman was Martha, she was stunned to see a bottle of an alcoholic drink beside Broderick, plus he was unconscious.

"I did nothing to you yet you forced me to sign the divorce papers. It's obvious that Amy had gotten into your head. Will I now be the looser here?" Martha said thoughtfully and immediately placed a call across to Nolan.

Once Nolan answered, she said," if I deliver your enemy to you, what will you give me in return?"

"Anything you ask for," Nolan answered.

"Anything I ask for, right?"

"Yes. Anything."

"Good. Your enemy is at the backyard of his house, laying unconscious. He's drunk." Martha reported.

"I'll be there with a thousand soldiers in thirty seconds." Nolan declared.