ADOPTED HEIR **Nervous and anxious**
Writer's P O V
8:00pm at Golden Bliss restaurant. David sat down at the round table he reserved earlier that day, waiting for Isabella to finish up in the restroom.

Few minutes later, Isabella walked back to the round table and sat on a sit that faced his with a slight frown on her face.
David leaned up noticing the frown on her face he asked. "What is the problem?"
"Its nothing. Let's go back to the meal, shall we?" Isabella simply answered but David wasn't hearing any of it.
"Isabel, I've known you so long and you can't still share your problems with me. Am I not good enough for you? Have I not being a good friend to you all these while?" David asked sounding pained.
"No, David. Again you are twisting my words. It's not what you think okay?" Isabella assured.
"At least, I can say that you are the only friend I have. When I'm in trouble, I can always call on you." She added.

That relived David a lot. "So what is the matter? What changed your mood?" He asked.
"Um.. it's just that I heard my son just left the house this late. I'm worried, I don't know where he went to and he didn't tell his sister where he is heading to, he just left." Isabella explained clearly not happy about it.
"Come on, he is 18 already. What do you think? He is a guy too. He is no longer a kid and can handle himself perfectly well, I'm sure he will return home safely." David tried to calm her down.
"I know he is old enough. It's just that, he is very new to this environment. He doesn't know anywhere and he is not even answering my calls when I called him." Isabella sighed.

David smiled. "You are a parent. You should be worried but he'll be back."
"Thank you. So let's continue with our dinner. I have to get home before 10, I'm gonna be reviewing a lot of things concerning the company to my mom once it's ten." Isabella revealed and digged back into her meal.
David listened and continued his own meal but he couldn't stop admiring her pretty face. He can't still believe she is 34 and has two grown up kids. She looks like a twenty year old lady, smart and beautiful.
Isabella raised her brows to find him staring at her.
"Why aren't you eating?" She frowned.
"Um, I am. I am eating," David adjusted well and started eating his meal. Since he went into deep thoughts, he has been picking on his meal.
Isabella took her eyes back to her food and continued eating but a little too fast. For some reasons, she doesn't feel comfortable going into any relationship with any man.
The thoughts wasn't that appealing to her even as she has her kids with her. She could have given David a chance long ago but she didn't try it and just remained stern and unwelcoming to him most times.
Sometimes, she could feel guilty about her actions towards him when he tried bothering her but will soon forget about it when she remembers her kids.
Maybe I wasn't born to give a guy my heart. Isabella concluded within herself.
*
Kendrick sat down at the back of the cab he ordered, paying the cabby man wasn't a problem because Isabella had handed them some wads of dollars and her card so they could not be stranded anywhere.
He kept looking at the picture of the man he was about to meet. He kept thinking, this man looks strangely familiar, why can't I remember where I'd seen him before. Maybe Will will recognize him once I send him the man's picture.
He screenshoted Nathaniel's WhatsApp profile picture and sent it to Will with a text.
Few seconds later, he got a reply.
*I've not seen him before but you definitely look like him. Could he be your look alike or your mother's uncle?... No no, could he be your father's relative or even your father? Who knows?* Will replied his text.
*Will, I don't appreciate the joke, man. I'm about to meet this dude now. He said he is my mother's old friend. How weird is that?* Kendrick typed back.
*I told you dude. I wasn't joking on the part where I mentioned that you two look alike. You could send the picture to Kendra, has she seen the picture? She'll definitely confirm this, man.* Williams texted back.
Kendrick smacked his lips together and turned to stare at Nathaniel's picture alongside his to confirm what Will has just told him.
He indeed saw the similarities there.
Now I know why he looked so familiar. Geez! How on earth? I think I'm his younger version. Kendrick exclaimed.
He immediately sent the picture to Kendra but Kendra who was annoyed with him for leaving with her didn't read his message when she received it. She just ignored it and continued watching a fashion show on the television.
*
Kendrick sat at One Soul restaurant and await his son. He had earlier discussed with Paul on the progress of everything and Paul advised him to win Kendrick over first.
And by winning Kendrick over, it means revealing everything to him. At first, he wasn't sure he was really ready for that but as he sat down and remembered Isabella's face.
He became determined to reconsole with her.
He rubbed his palms together nervously as he thought of what to say to him. How to reveal it to him in a way that is not going to sound wrong or in a way that is not going to get him too angry. But taking the fact that he literally raped their mother, it might seems like he is a bad person. He wants to present himself as a good man but ideas on how to reveal the truth kept disappearing from his head, nevertheless he was pretty determined to reveal the truth that night.
I have to start somewhere. He told himself repeatedly.
He sat down alone at the VIP lounge he reserved and continued blowing breeze out of his mouth not until a knock came at the door.
"Sir, the person you are expecting is here." The door opened and the waiteress attending to him entered followed by Kendrick.
He stood up on his feet once he saw Kendrick. Nathan's stomach knotted nervously as he looked into Kendrick's face to notice the kind of expression Kendrick had on.
He wondered what the problem was with him.
"Hi," Kendrick greeted as he took a sit.
"Yeah, hi." Nathan replied and sat with him.
"You booked for a VIP room?" Kendrick asked moving his eyes around the pretty looking room.
"Yes, I needed some privacy." Nathan answered.
"I'm sorry to cut in sirs, but what could you love to order?" The waitress asked smiling and looking from Nathaniel's face to Kendrick's face.
"What will you love to eat?" Nathaniel turned to Kendrick and inquired.
"Anything you love to it. I'm sure I'll like it." Kendrick said but with a strange tone which Nathan caught.
"You remember what I ordered earlier right?" Nathan lifted his eyes to look at the waitress.
"Yes sir, I clearly remember. I'll get two plates of that." The waitress left and returned shortly after.
During that period, Nathan got a text from he mother so he concentrated on his phone to answer his mom while Kendrick kept staring at his Physical features. He kept on examining him, trying to find out what they don't have in common.
But from the hair color, the shape of his head, his nose, his slightly broad shoulders and everything. Kendrick couldn't deny that his feature is very similar to his. It was all the same, the only difference was the age gap.
Why didn't I notice this the first time? Why didn't I notice? Could he be really my father?
Is that why he eargely wanted to meet with my mom. Does he wanna get to mom through me? If he is indeed my father, then why didn't he tell me the first time we met?
This is all confusing.
The waitress served them their dinner, arranging everything beautifully.
By the time she was done, Nathaniel's head was already back up.
"Please press the red button on the table if you need anything. And by the way sir, you two look alike a lot." The waitress added before walking out from the room.
Her comment made Kendrick focus his eyes on Nathaniel. He wasn't trying to hide the fact that he was really checking him out this time.
It made things extremely difficult for Nathaniel with Kendrick's gaze fixed on him.
"Let's eat, we can talk after the meal." Nathan behaved like a man and proposed.
"Go on," he urged as he picked up his cutting knife and spoon.
Kendrick sighed and also picked up his.
They started eating but Kendrick had to drop his cutleries in the middle of the meal.
"I'm getting restless here. Tell me, are you really who I think you are?"
"Are you my father?" Kendrick blurted out the question, shocking Nathan who didn't see the question coming.
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