Chapter 5: Meeting him

Carlines pov

Divorce papers.

A hollow laugh bubbled up in my chest. “You’ve been waiting for this moment, haven’t you?” I spat, glaring at Amelda. “all the fake laughs and concern. Our friendship was just so that you could ruin my life and take everything from me.”

Amelda stepped closer, lowering her voice to a whisper only I could hear. “You were already ruined, sweetheart. I just finished the job.”

My hands trembled with rage.

I wanted to retaliate, to scream, and most especially, I wanted to wipe that smug grin off her very painted face.

If only I had known.

I could not have thought or believed that my best friend would turn her back against me. And not just that, even helping to shove a divorce paper to my own face.

“Ohh, well, just for you to know, I am already pregnant” Emelda snuggled even closer to Nathan.

“What!” I could not help but scream out in shock, despite myself.

“Take a look, you barren bitch” she flung a medical report to my face. And there was written a confirmed pregnancy

I had thought that I would not feel anything. Or whatever Nathan and Emleda was having was just a fling, but seeing this.

seeing that it was really,

I was too scared to even think of what it could mean... For me.

Tears threatened to fall from my eyes, but I forcefully shoved it inside.

I turned to Nathan, who was just watching everything like it didn't concern him for even a bit.

But before I could say anything, Nathan turned to the security guard and gave his final order.

“Get her out of here. I don't want to see her face nor smell her around this company premises.” Nathan ordered before zooming off in his car, leaving me standing there with my mouth hangs open.

I barely had time to react before rough hands grabbed my arms, dragging me away from the building, away from my only source of income, from everything I had worked for.

“Go back to the prison you belonged to.” the security personnel snarled while dragging me away.

“Stop!” someone shouted , stopping their action.

I turned to see a well-dressed man in an immaculate black suit, with very dark glasses that covered his eyes. Giving him a mysterious and fierce look, He stood just at the company's entrance.

“The master, request for the woman in his office”

“That's bullshit. How could the master ever make such a request?” the security personnel scowled at the well-dressed man, still gripping my hands in a tight hold.

“That's the masters wish…are you questioning orders” the well-dressed man questioned, his voice dangerously low as he peered at the security personnel with a daring look.

“No..ooo, I wouldn't dare”

“Good” he nodded before turning to me. I was still confused at what was happening.

“Follow me”

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I followed the well-dressed man sheepishly. not in any way knowing what his plan was . From his actions and lack of making conversation, I took him to be a bodyguard.

“Where are you taking me too?” I had to ask when I couldn’t hold my curiosity.

But I only received a cold stare before he continued forward. not bordering on answering my question.

“What the fuck...is happening ”

“is that not the masters gaurd?, Why is the little fraudster together with him?”

“I heard Manager Nathan had divorced her this morning for her infidelity...woo to her shamelessness”

My face burned from the different critic's and voices murmuring in the background but I pretend to not hear anything.

And if the silent bodyguard had heard, he didn't as much as make any expression.

for a moment, I wondered in terror, if my little escapad last night had somehow been exposed.

We reached a large wooden mahogany door. My mouth hangs open in shock as this was the place that was forbidden from the workers.

Only the manager and high-ranking workers were allowed to enter inside it or know what it was for. even i, when i was still a secretary to my husband, i had no knowledge.

The company I once worked in was one of the numerous companies owned by a very wealthy and powerful family.

“The Johnsons”

They were the number one family, and it was rumored before my arrest that the boss would be visiting our company for their annual general visit to every branch of their company in the country.

“Go in,” the man said in a flat voice.

I hesitated for a while, not knowing what this was all about, but I had come a long way to go back. Right now, I was on the topest floor of the five story building.

Bracing myself, I pushed the unusual smooth door open, finding myself in a dim space.

It took a while for my brain to process things. And when it did, I realised that I was rather standing in a ridiculous big office space. The size was almost like 10 parlors combined. But that was not all.

I squinted my eyes at the rather large oak table. It was rather the largest table I had ever seen, with the gray binds that were still closed. Overall, the room or office screamed money, and I couldn’t help but swallow hard.

“Have you had your fill, admiring?” a deep familiar voice suddenly said, snapping me off from my daydream.

red immediately covered my face.

That was when I saw him. Thanks for the dim lightin of the room I had not seen him before, but rather I had stupidly gnawed at his lavishly decorated office, but now…

I saw the owner of the voice, and I had to wonder how I could have missed such a presence.

I froze.

My mouth suddenly became dry as my heartbeat increased.

How could this happen?

The owner of the voice. The man behind the ridiculous large expensive table was no other person but the stranger from last night.

The one I had had a one night stand with. And not just that…

He was the man I had signed my last savings to, threw it to his chest, and called it to his face his bed skills.

In the moment, I felt the ground would open and swallow me. As embarrassment and shame filled me.

As if that was not enough, the satisfied smug look on his ridiculous, well sculpted face said it all.

He recognised me.

After a long dragging awkward silence between the two of us. He finally opened his mouth, but a knock on the door interrupted him from saying what he wanted to say.

The door burst opened and stumbled in the only person I didn't want to see in my entire life.