The sound resounded through the whole house. Sasha stared at Michael in shock with her palm stinging from the slap. It took only a second for her to recall what he said and what pushed her into slapping him. “I’m sorry,” she whispered, “I’m…I’m really sorry, your words it…Michael, I…” her vision was already clouded with tears, “I’m trying my best to be a good mother and you just…” she sniffled as the tears came pouring down. “I will never abandon the kids in school, never, not for any reason. I did not meet up with Craig; if you really doubt me you can call your mother and confirm if I really called her this afternoon. Also I…” she sniffled, wiping away the tears, “I was with the girls this evening. You can investigate if you want, we were in the restaurant across the office, we all lost track of time and we all rushed home to make dinner. I will never leave the children in school, I have never done it before and I never will,” she started sobbing. “I’m really sorry for slapping you,
“Sasha?” Sharon called after waiting for two minutes and Sasha said nothing. “You have to tell me, you have been hiding this since you came to meet me and I need to know in order to know how I am going to help you, how I’m going to advice you. Also, you know that whatever we discuss is confidential and you are never hearing it anywhere else.”Sasha glanced at her, “promise?”“Sasha, if I don’t keep information confidential, I will lose my job and people will not come to me again, it’s an important criterion to be a therapist.”Sasha inhaled and exhaled nosily; she licked her lips and closed her eyes. “five years ago, five years and six months to be precise, I did something that hurt him, that disappointed him.”“I know, you have been saying that since I have known you. Now I want to know what is that thing that you did, that you believed broke him and made him to be behaving this way,” Sharon said.“I was raped.”“From my understanding, that is not your fault and he should never blame
Sasha didn’t move an inch, she just stood staring at him. She heard something broke and it took only a second to realize that it was her heart. She knew he was going through a lot and she just wished that he wouldn’t push her away and just confide in her. She sucked in a deep breath, wiping away the tear that slipped down her cheek and took a determined step towards him.“Don’t test my patience, Sasha,” he warned.Sasha paused but after a second, she continued, “we can sort it out together, Michael,” she whispered, “you don’t have to push me away. You don’t have to push us away. We can handle it, whatever it is.”“I just want to be alone,” he said.“We are not leaving, Michael, stop pushing us away. We can…”“Get out,” he looked at her now, “just…leave. You are the last person I want to see now.”If his previous words didn’t hurt her before, this was the last straw. She was trying so hard to hold herself from breaking down, in as much as she wants to, she remembered her kids were stil
“Did she say where she was going?” Gary asked as they strolled into the company.“No,” Michael replied.“But I don’t understand, did you guys have a fight?”Michael didn’t answer and strolled straight to his private elevator, ignoring the greetings of his staff. Gary followed him inside, “you didn’t do anything, right Michael?” He asked.Michael heaved a sigh, “yesterday was tough for me. With everything that happened, I wanted to be alone and I shouted to her to leave, to get out.”Gary sighed, “you shouldn’t have done that.”“I know. But that is not enough reason for her to pack her bags and leave right? I mean if she wanted to do that, did she even bother to think about the kids? About their welfare? I wasn’t in the right state of mind yesterday and all she could think of was leaving, she didn’t even bother to stay, at least for her children. And all she wrote for me is that if I can’t handle them I should take them to any of our mothers, what the hell?” The elevator doors opened a
Michael stopped and turned to her, “do I know you?” he asked in his usual cold tone.The redhead smiled, “no you don’t, but I know you.”“Everybody knows me.”“And you don’t know everybody,” she smiled, “My name is Sharon Harvey,” she reached out to shake him.Michael stared at her outstretched hand for a second but he didn’t take it, he glanced at her, “do I know you Sharon Harvey, maybe from somewhere?”“No, you don’t.”“Then why are you stopping me? I have other things to do.”“Well, the arrogant Michael Brown never dies, right?” she smiled.“I have always been like this, and I won’t beg your permission to continue. Now, if you have nothing interesting to tell me, don’t bother me,” he turned to walk away from her.“Then I guess you are not bothered about your wife?”Michael stopped in his tracks immediately and turned to her, he stared at her for a few seconds and walked back to her, “who are you?”“Oh don’t worry, you don’t want to talk to me so I won’t waste your time anymore. Ha
Sharon opened the door and smiled at the man standing there, “Good morning, do come in,” she shifted to the side for him to enter. She closed the door after him and walked ahead, pointing at the couch, “please make yourself comfortable.” She walked to the coffee machine, “coffee?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.Michael shook his head and sat down on the couch, wondering if that was where Sasha often sits when she come. He glanced around the office; there was nothing much in it: A desk, two chairs, the couch and a lot of artworks on the wall, the coffee machine and a lot of files. He glanced at the woman who was now looking at him.She smiled and walked to her desk, searched for a file and then pulled a chair to sit in front of him. She placed the file on her lap, looked up to him with a smile again, “to be honest Mr. Brown, after meeting you yesterday morning, I didn’t know you would call me so soon.”“You have an information I want, so what do you expect?” he asked nonchalantly.Sh
Michael stared at Sharon in confusion, “I don’t understand, you have to explain better.”Sharon sighed, “Michael, you bought Craig’s company shares, was he aware of it? Was it an agreement between the both of you?”“No, I did it on my own. The thing is, it was the day that Sasha and I went for a stroll, he walked out of the coffee shop and after sharing pleasantries with her, he ignored me and went ahead telling her how sorry he was that he doesn’t have her time anymore and then asked her if she isn’t busy they can have lunch sometime. That was a blow to my ego having another man asks my wife out right in front of me. Anger boiled in me and I wanted to teach him a lesson not to mess with married women so I ordered Gary to buy his company shares.”Sharon nodded, “that is very understandable and if you ask me, I think that Craig just wanted to spite you and you fell into it.”“What would you have me do? It was a big blow to me and I couldn’t take it lying down.”“So how did you acquire
Gary nodded, “but are you sure the person that deleted the messages would be in her company?”Michael bit his lips, “they have to be because every time she returns, she comes from the office. Just get me the CCTV footage of her company in this day, her office precisely. Sasha is not the type to leave her phone lying around and even if she does, it would have to be in her office. I have the feeling that whoever it was that deleted the message is the one telling Craig where she would be at the moment.”“Okay then,” Gary nodded, “I will get on with it immediately.” He turned and left the office.Michael heaved a deep sigh when he was alone and wiped his palms on his face. Minutes passed and then he picked his phone, he stared at a particular number and after some seconds, he dialed it but just like the last times he had gotten the courage to dial it, it didn’t connect. He kneaded his temple and searched for another number and dialed it. When it connected, he asked, “Have you found her?”