CALEB The intruding laughter made my eyelids flutter open as I tilted my head towards the closed door. The door was recklessly swung open and Kim bounced into my office, wearing a large grin on his face. A scowl formed on my face as I traced his wavering steps that approached me. “What are you doing here?” I muttered coldly. The happiness radiating on his face drifted away and a glare replaced it. “Have I become a stranger now?” He scoffed and slumped into a chair. “I think I should fire my secretary, it’s time you guys stop walking in and out of my office like it’s yours,” I muttered and he chuckled. “Do you think your sassy words will make me leave? Save your breath, man, I’m here for something important. You’ll like this news, I promise,” he giggled and dropped his legs on my desk. My friends are unserious nuisances, one will always wonder how I appeared in the circle of such people. I wonder how I have been friends with these three men all these years and the worst of i
CALEB I watched Casper keenly, waiting for him to start an understandable explanation. But the man seemed relaxed and unbothered with the pair of sharp threatening eyes fixed on his face. He leaned into the chair, playing cheese with Kim and popping grapes into his mouth. “You’re keeping me waiting!” I groused, breaking the silence and starting a conversation I never intended to. Casper looked up from the board of cheese and curved his brows, feigning ignorance. I scoffed and tightened up my face in a deep frown. “Why did you apply for a job at Connor Group?” I cleared the air. Casper cackled a nervous laugh and put up a serious face. “And what’s wrong with that?” he replied. “You’re doing this to get Rosy, aren’t you?” I snapped venomously. Kim chuckled lightly, enjoying the drama playing out before him. “What if I am, are you going to kill me? She’s your ex-wife for God’s sake!” Casper bellowed, throwing up his hands in despair. “She doesn’t deserve to
CALEB "Damnit!" I cursed under my breath as my car ran into a wall that fenced a small ranch. I lurched forward and my forehead smashed on the steering wheel and I began to feel dizzy from the hit. Pain shot out from my bruised lips as I coughed, trying to shake off the dizziness. Juliet's face flashed into my head and I regained full consciousness. I ignited my car again and took a reverse, driving fast but cautiously to my dad's house. I pushed the door open panting heavily as I barged my way into the living room. My rapid breathing circulated the room immediately after I stepped in. “Juliet! Mom!” I yelled, limping around the empty living room. Blood trickled down my forehead but I didn't care a thing about it. “We’re at the balcony!” I heard my mom’s tense voice and rushed up to the balcony. As I staggered closer, I caught Juliet seated on a couch in a relaxed posture, a glass of iced strawberry juice placed on her crossed legs. I paused and stared intently at h
CALEB “What?” I spat out, spinning around in dismay. My mom shrugged and Juliet maintained a straight face. “You’ll do whatever I want, right?” She muttered and I scoffed. “Not Kaitlyn!” I seethed. “You know how much that lady disgusts me.” “Disgust?” Juliet stifled a laugh and Mom shot her a glare that kept her quiet again. “Kaitlyn is the perfect lady that can make you happy, she has been there for you, patiently waiting for your love,” my mom tried to make me reason, but I didn’t want to get caught in her web again. I can agree to avoid Rosy forever, but I can’t marry Kaitlyn. “I never asked her to wait!” I snapped. “She’s a nice girl.” “That was what you said about Rosy too,” I admonished, crashing down her defense. “No…no…that wasn’t what I meant, I thought Rosy was a good girl, besides she was just some random friend that came around frequently to see you secretly. I never imagined Rosy marrying you, I was…I was…they are different things, okay,” she stuttered
ROSY I paced around my office wondering why I was feeling tensed up. “I and Kaitlyn are getting married. So, stay away from my woman!” Caleb’s voice kept repeating itself in my head I felt I might go crazy if it didn’t stop. I groaned in anger and hit my head severally with my clenched fist. I winced in annoyance and slumped dejectedly into the swivel chair behind me. That jerk, does he think getting engaged to Kaitlyn will make me weak? He must be stupid to think of such an idea, nothing will ever shatter me, not even my past. The piles of work on the desk made my head swirl in circles. The creaking of the door made me raise my head from the desk, I sighed when Casper sauntered to the front of my desk, leaning closer that I felt he was trying to steal a kiss from my lips. I pushed my chair back as I furrowed my brows in suspicion. He got his lost senses back and pulled back, licking his parched lips. “What do you want?” I asked, glaring coldly at him. He cleared hi
CALEBA bent-over figure got me curious when I trotted into the cemetery. I slowly walked noiselessly close to Sherry’s grave, my eyes were still on the figure who seemed to be searching for something on the tombstones lined up before her–the hair pointed out that she was a lady.Her suspicious movements got my attention drifting away from Sherry’s grave. I stood still, the blue flower I brought still wrapped in my hands as my eyes followed her. She finally strengthened up and rubbed her back, groaning in pain.Is she a mental patient?I have heard rumors that mentally ill people litter around cemeteries, stealing anything they get their hands on.Perhaps, she’s searching for a box of chocolate dropped on a tombstone by a relative of one of the deceased.I glanced at the flower in my hand and then back at her. She wouldn’t want a flower, will she?I heard her sigh and scratch her neck, a mild wind blew up her hair and her face came into view.My throat knotted when I realize
ROSY I stared at my pale face in the mirror, still bothering if I had spilled any of my weaknesses before Caleb last night. I caught the flu as a result of the rain and now I’m forced to get tucked in my bed all day. I sighed and brushed my disheveled hair, taking a second glance at the clock dangling on my wall. It is past 3, I can still make it to the company and reduce some of the workload piled up on my desk. The moments of yesterday came flashing back into my head and the brush stopped working on my hair. The request I made to Sherry echoed countlessly in my head. “Sherry, help me to take revenge on your dad. I don’t ever want to forgive him, I want him to beg for mercy till his last breath, you’ll help me, Sherry, won’t you?” I whispered and inhaled, hoping Sherry would give me the courage and bitterness that I needed to bring Caleb Thompson down. I will not only destroy his finances, but I will ruin him emotionally, he will run madly for me but will never catch m
ROSYThe deadly glare I shot at Mr. Hamilton’s secretary made the raven-haired young man slam his mouth shut. I flounced my way to Mr. Hamilton’s office, roughly pushing the man out of my way when I got to the closed door.Mr. Hamilton looked up from the files before him and furrowed his brows on seeing me fume in front of him.“What are you doing here?” He asked.I scoffed and slumped into the chair, combing my disheveled hair with my fingers.“You know, don’t you?” I blurted out and his lips thinned.“It seems you met with the board of directors,” he sighed, rubbing his eyelids tiredly.“You were the one that told them about my father’s reversed will, right?” I sneered. He stared at me with an indifferent expression.“I couldn’t help it, there is evidence that points accusing fingers at you as a suspect.”My eyes darkened in indignation and I banged my clenched fist on the desk.“What nonsense! Karen is the one making up such stories!” He kept quiet and stared intently at