TINA'S POV Even though I would have preferred to sleep in all day, I couldn't and for an important reason I had to go for the event–Jay would be there. The thought of it excited me. I wore a beige dress that stopped inches from my knees and clung to my body delicately. People had always complimented me each time I wore it. Men Especially. I just knew it was the perfect one to wear. The inbuilt brassier pad lifted my boobs and the slit revealed my cleavage showing morsel of flesh just enough to drive any man crazy at a close range. My phone beeped. I picked it up and saw it was a message from my mom. "Where are you? Why are you not coming home?"As I read it, I could almost hear her yelling at me for coming back without a man. Don't worry mum, I won't come back without a man this time around. Thank you for making me realize I deserve good things too. My aim that day was simply to meet Jay privately after the event. I had only two months. Two months to make him fall in love with
“I’m alright,” Jay said and ended the call. He felt his head throb and suppressed a grunt. What a way to ruin the rest of his day. If he had known it was Tina calling he would never have picked up. Jay hated that he was under the control of some woman he had only met for the first time. What on earth had he gotten himself into. He groaned and rubbed his eyes feeling the tension gathering around his jaw. He had to stop this. He had to stop her. The only way to stop all of this was to get the recording from Tina without creating a scene. But he knew he had to play carefully. He couldn't trigger her. If she sends the recording to the media as she threatened, his company would receive a lot of backlash and would be greatly affected. All these years he had managed to keep a clean slate on issues related to women. Now he couldn't afford to let one mistake ruin all that he had suffered to build over the years. For Tina to have the audacity to approach him with such a demand, she must h
KAREN'S POV Standing before Mrs Connie suddenly felt so choking and just like that, the entire recitation I had done in the elevator evaporated from my head. It reminded me of the first time I was employed and I tried to speak to Jay. Nerve wrecking. I was anxious as hell. To think I was even yet to stand before Jay whom I had come to see. I gathered myself. “Uhm,” I cleared my throat and looked up at her. She had not been entirely mean to me when I was her assistant but it still felt like a nerve wreck trying to speak to her. Or was it the thought of meeting Jay next that stirred my nerves. “Good morning Mrs Connie, I am here to see Chairman Jay,” I said and tried to sound as professional as ever. Just as she had taught me. Her sharp eyes stared past her glasses and landed on me. “Miss Karen Anderson,” she called me in her usual tone.“What business do you have with Chairman Jay? Do you have an appointment?”Before I could speak she already started looking through her jotter lis
KAREN'S POV I had gotten things wrong. I shouldn't have tried seducing Jay. That is If what I did passed off as seduction anyways. What we needed, me and him, was a genuine conversation. How was that even going to be possible when he wouldn't look at me nor be in the same space with me?“What exactly is wrong, Miss Karen?”I jolted. My nearest colleague was starring at me questioningly. “Huh?”“You have been sighing since you got back from your meeting. Is something wrong?”“Uh–nothing.” I smiled at him. He shrugged and dropped it. Not like if he pushed on I had anything to say was the reason for my deep sighing. The mistake I made was returning to my desk after I left Jay's office. It wasn't just useless but had yielded nothing. I saw love in his eyes. Very certain I did. Yet he wouldn't look at me. No matter how much I thought about it, I just couldn't get a grasp of the problem. I scanned around the office searching for the perfect person to pour out my heart to. Everyone see
KAREN ANDERSON "Boss, she is here."I heard the man that has led me in said to another man who was seated on a sofa. He was sipping from one of the glasses filled with liquor and ice. And it was he that I came to find. He was called Capon, a loan shark. He lowered the glass of wine back onto the table, reached for the saucer that held the remains of finished cigarettes and a fresh fat cigar stick and slipped into his mouth. His face roughened up more than it already was and his eyes pinched as the heavy smoke escaped his nostrils and mouth dancing randomly into space. All these while he acted like he never saw me, like I wasn't even standing before him. My teeth gritted but that was as much as it could go. "Capon hates to be interrupted. You must wait until he speaks to you before you speak." His man, the one that led me in had told me right at the door before we walked in. My eyes darted across the large room. It was the VIP section of the nightclub. Only the elites dared to
KAREN ANDERSONI refused to let myself get excited about her offer. All I smelt from it was danger. She scanned around the place looking for what I had no idea about. "How about you show me your skills… go ahead, seduce that man over there successfully and I will write off your debt," she said and as though she hadn't said the most ridiculous thing ever, she lifted the glass onto her lips and gulped down the entire content of it. I looked at her, hoping she would tell me she was joking. Only that she didn't look one bit like she was joking. "What are you doing? You won't do it? Oh, I thought you were desperate to write off your debt. I guess I thought wrong…""I will do it…" I blurted. Yes, I wasn't thinking straight. Anyone in my shoes had no right to be thinking straight."I will do it," I repeated as if she hadn't heard me the first time. She chuckled and lowered herself onto the sofa. Where her husband had stood from. Capon was still standing and with his eyes pleading, hop
KAREN ANDERSON"Sis! Wake up!"I heard my sister's voice in my dream. But It sounded too close. Too real to be just a dream. I rolled away, away from the sound. But it came again. This time, closer than the first time. Then I felt something spank my body and my eyes fluttered open from the sudden pain."Lily?" I mumbled, staring up at the brown eyes before me. "Do you know what the time is right now?" She asked with a deliberate frown. I rubbed my eyes. I still wanted to sleep. My eyes felt heavy. It was as though I had just shut my eyes to sleep only to be woken up. "Time? Why?" She sighed exasperatedly. "It's almost 8:00am. Aren't you going to work today? Big sis, don't tell me you have been fired?" She added with a suspicious frown. Work? "Work!" I jumped up from the bed. "Shit! How did I oversleep…" I dashed into the bathroom and turned on the shower and began to bathe. "I did the chores and helped dad take his bath and eat. Eat something before you leave for work! I'm
KAREN ANDERSON "Who are you?"I heard a commanding voice behind me. Startled, I turned sharply to see a pair of unfriendly dark eyes shooting right up at me."Shit!"I quickly started to climb down the ladder. But I mistakenly missed a step and my grip on the ladder went loose the next second. I heard the creaking sound from the ladder and felt my feet slipping away from the rungs of the ladder and next I saw my dear self flying in the air. My heart raced as a sense of dread enveloped me. And the only thing I imagined that moment as I fell was being moved around in a wheelchair. Just like Dad. The tears in Dad and Lilly's face. How Capon and every other debtee we owed will run riot in our home and our house would be taken. Lily would drop out of school. Father's treatment will stop and…"What are you doing? Won't you get down?""Huh…"My eyes flicked open and I was met with a scowling face and strong arms holding me up. Frightened, I jumped with my buttocks nearly landing roughly