Sasha entered her bedroom after putting Sapphire to bed again, she had knocked on Chris’s door but he did not let her in and when she entered, he had been asleep so she didn’t bother to wake him again. She was glad to find the room empty and wished it would be like that for the rest of the night. But her prayer was not answered because Michael entered ten minutes after her. She was still on the bed when he entered, not in the mood to go to bed yet. His suit jacket was folded on his arm and his shirts buttons were almost all opened and his other hand was in his pant pocket. He rested on the closed door and watched her. She didn’t say anything to him and pretended like he was not there but that was really impossible, his presence was the last thing anyone can ever ignore. It was like that from their first marriage and it had remained like that.“Why do you want to meet mom?” he asked few minutes later.Sasha said nothing and just lay on the bed, covering herself with the duvet.“Sasha,
Gary parked in front of the garage and wanted to get down and open the backseat door for Michael when he heard, “don’t worry, I will get it. Go home.”“You okay, Michael?” Gary asked, he knew he was not okay and for the first time since they became friends, he was lacking on what to say to him.“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” Michael asked, opening the door and climbing out of the car. Gary glanced at the envelop lying on the seat and sighed, Michael had refused to show him what was inside but he knew whatever it was, was not something good and he just hoped that it had nothing to do with Sasha.Michael picked up the enveloped and put it in his briefcase before walking over to the house. He climbed the stairs on the porch and as Gary turned the car, he honked at him but he didn’t glance back and Gary had to sigh and drive off. Placing his hand on the door knob, Michael closed his eyes and heaved a deep sigh before turning the knob. He pushed open the door to see Chris sitting on the dolphi
Sasha was confused at what Gary was saying and she didn’t hesitate to ask him, “I don’t understand.”Gary pinched the bridge of his nose, “you have to forgive me but I really need to say this, sometimes I think you are dumb, Sasha.”“Excuse me?”“Yes, I mean forgive me but it’s the truth. Think about it, this same man is the reason you are having issues in your marriage and you happened to meet him, it didn’t occur to you to tell your husband, tell me, what is the different from five years ago? I thought you would have learnt your lesson. The way things are right now, you should run to Michael for any little thing. Craig escaped from prison, no one knows how he did it but Michael is suspecting that there is a corrupt cop or cops because he noticed that whenever he brings up Craig issue, they would blow him off which is the main reason you should be wary. He had Fish following you before not for any reason but to keep an eye on you but you didn’t want that and just when he pulled Fish
Sasha quickly ran outside to the garage and saw Michael getting into his car, “where are you going?”“Anywhere that is not here,” he replied.“What do you mean by that?”“What don’t you understand? I don’t want to be here at the moment, what’s hard to understand there?”“You are leaving home because we have an argument? Really, that’s how you do things now? Instead of waiting to see how we are going to sort out our issues, your best decision is to leave home?”“Sort out our issue? What’s there to sort out? Listen if you want us to sort our issue then you would start by telling me the truth, stop lying to me and just be truthful for once.”“I am truthful but you are the one that don’t want to believe me, I mean what’s hard to believe there? I went to McDonalds on request of Janet and I bumped into Craig. I didn’t tell you about it yesterday because I didn’t want us to have a fight, I didn’t want this,” she moved her hand from herself to him, “to be happening.”“And your best idea to pr
Sasha spent two hours glancing at her phone, waiting for a call from Michael but nothing came. She tried his number again for the one hundredth time and it was still not reachable, what was happening? Michael was never hard to reach on call so what was wrong with today? Just as she thought of calling Gary to know what was wrong, there was a knock on the door and Sebastian entered, “ma’am, the investors are here,” he announced.“Okay,” Sasha nodded and dropped her phone on the table, “let’s go,” she said to him after picking up a file from her table. They both left her office to the conference room where her newest buyers —well she hoped they would be— were waiting. It was a short meeting and she was glad it was a success. The ladies were happy and they wanted to celebrate as they followed Sasha into her office.“Come on girl, we are growing by day, ten years ago when you started this company and wanted us to be your partners, we never knew we would get to the level that we are now. We
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