"What do you have to say?" Joshua asked not raising his head from his table."Why are you treating me like such a sinner?" Annette asked sniffing. She knew that he hated to see her cry and he would be moved if she cried."I made a mistake but it was only because of my love for you and nothing more" she said tears rolling down her cheeks."And I apologized" she added in more tears. "I am sincerely sorry" "Is that why you came here to work?" Joshua asked finally raising his head."I told Andrew that I would like to finally take responsibility for my life and asked him for advice, he told me that working would be the best option so I asked him to help me with work" She told the tale in a way that would make her seem good. "That's good since you would be working you should focus your energy on work instead of trying to win me over," Joshua said harshly.Annette sighed. She knew that she had to present the best image to him. "Of course, it is obvious that you sincerely love your girlfrie
"Let's go for dinner but we have to go with Ms Brunswick I am making her work overtime so I need to get her dinner as well" Joshua said.He knew it would be difficult and pointless to try and avoid her because she would just keep popping up over and over again."What?" Anette asked her face turning sour. She had a plan for that night. She was going to get him drunk and then into a room and blackmail him with a one-night stand but seeing that Aletta would join them she knew her plan was slowly failing."Why don't you just give her your card so she can buy dinner on her own?" Anette asked. She gave herself a mental pat for coming up with a solution so quickly."You don't want her to join us?" Joshua asked raising his eyebrow in confusion.Was she supposed to be picky about who they had dinner with?"It's not that, I just thought we would have dinner as friends and not have someone else impose on us" she said."Well if anyone is imposing it's you because I promised to buy her dinner tonig
Joshua told Aletta all they had discussed after he had teased her about being cute for trying to know what they had discussed. He was going to tell her anyway but he felt touched that she wanted to know."I found this place online, it's really popular these days," Anette said as they entered the car.She had fought for the passenger seat close to Joshua who was the one driving. Aletta had let her have it since she did not want to raise suspicion, especially in the mind of Anette."Let me have the address where we will go there" Joshua said before she could go into details about the place."Really?" she squealed in excitement." I have always wanted to go there since I returned to Chiachester" she added before imputing the address into the car GPS."I hope their meals are worth the hype" Aletta murmured silently."What was that Aletta?" Anette asked ensuring to put a tone of spite on her name.Aletta knew that Anette clearly did not want her there and it was kind of obvious to everyone
"We will have the raw fish platter," Anette said as the waiter walked to their table with the menus in his hands."Oh okay," the waiter said with a shocked expression on her face as he walked away."You did not even allow us to take a look at the menu?"Joshua asked trying to fill up his cup with the jar of water on the table."Trust me, I have had their platter before and it tastes delightful," Anette said touching his arm lightly."I don't eat raw fish" Aletta said pursing her lips together."Oh, you don't?" Anette's eyes were twinkling as if she had just received extremely good news from her."Yes" Aletta said and Anette shook her head."Oh too bad, this is a raw fish restaurant" Anette said.She felt so good, she had not even known that Aletta did not eat raw fish when she picked this restaurant but now she had a good reason to kick her out."Then should we change restaurants?" Joshua asked shuffling in his seat."Yes please," Aletta said turning to face Joshua with a pleading expr
"Thank you for getting me out of there" Aletta said as she drove out of the place."No need to thank me, I felt a little suffocated as well" Joshua said merging with the main lane."Then why did you agree to have dinner with her?" "I knew that she would only make an issue out of it and cry crocodile tears in front of the parents while trying her best to make me the bad guy" Joshua explained."Really? I wonder how you all did not notice until now" Aletta said. It was weird that only Jeanne had seen her true nature and that everyone had tried to silence her when she tried to explain it to everyone."I do wonder as well, it's like she deceived us for such a long time," Joshua said. "I had always known her to push until she got what she wanted and I always saw it as a good trait but looking back now I can tell that she was just good at making people see her as someone who needed help despite her own situation" "You should be careful of her or else she might just push with enough tenacit
They had both had something to eat and he had driven her home and then went home himself."Why are you always out? I finally get to see my daughters after such a long time but both of you leave me at home all day long and even come back late on a Friday" Eunice said as Aletta entered the house."Is Alethea home?" Aletta asked as she dropped to the couch with a groan."No, I have been alone in the house since morning. I thought Alethea did not work?""I guess she must be uncomfortable with you at home," Aletta said.Her mom was a wonderful person but the truth always remained that she was a bad mother. She had never paid attention to her kids and therefore made them mature at such a young age. Alethea never knew what she looked like until she was entering her puberty years."Why would she feel uncomfortable with me?" Eunice asked sitting down and handing her daughter a cup of water."Maybe for the reason that you were almost always absent at home," Aletta said. She did not find it easy
"Mom, can I ask you something?" Aletta asked raising her legs to the couch."Of course," Eunice asked with her eyes twinkling. She felt so good to hear that question from her. She has always tried to be a good mom to her girls but somehow it always did not work out and it was as if she presented this image of a bad idea to her daughters over and over again. "What do you want to know? I will try my best to answer" "Well it's about marriage and love, you gotten your heart broken so many times before that it makes me agitated about love. I always found it difficult to open up to others and want to receive love from others and even when I do I always find heartbreak at the end of it" Aletta took a deep breath and closed her eyes."I mean look at Paul he promised me everything but ended up breaking my heart in shreds. You have faced this so many times so how is it that you end up loving another so much that you don't care about the end of the relationship? You always seem to give it your
"Going to work every day is harder than I thought" "And hearing you whine about it every day makes my ears ache," Joshua said as they drove into the office premises."Gosh you are always so mean, I wonder how your girlfriend copes with you," Jeanne said in an attacking tone."She loves me too much and I am sure she would choose you to be the nuisance anyway" Joshua said."I highly doubt that" "Just get down now" Joshua said gesturing to her as he shooed her away."I am going now" she said opening the door and turning back to him and then sticking her tongue out to him before she swiftly made her way in."She is still such a child," Joshua said in a chuckle to himself." Are you getting down here sir?" Jack asked glancing at him from the mirror."I will get down at the basement, Jeanne had warned me not to go inside with her or her reputation would be ruined," Joshua said and Jack nodded before driving away. "Jack, do you know what she means by her reputation would be ruined? Everyo