"You should learn to keep your hands off him by the way," Autumn said to her and turned to leave, but Gloria pulled her arm back to face her. "It's still sad though because I'm his first and only love and you're—" Autumn cuts in. She had had enough already and was not ready to listen to any of her rants anymore. With a pissed tone in her voice, she said to Gloria aloud, drawing the attention of some of the other ladies in the restroom at that moment. "Why the heck are you so invested in our marriage?! Yes, let's assume I truly am his rebound, but why are you so bothered?" She scoffed. "Have you forgotten so quickly that you were the one who broke it off with him? Yet, with the way you're acting, people would think it was the other way round!" Some ladies had gathered around now, but luckily for both of them, they were not making any videos but simply watching them. Gloria chuckled and defended herself. "I broke it off with him because I didn't want to be with him!" "T
"Can I have this dance?" Perry stretched out his hand to Autumn, offering to dance with her on the dance floor. "I don't think I'm in the mood to—" Autumn was saying when the lights suddenly went off and a dimmer one went on. The white light then moved to both of them, making everyone's attention on them. "Ladies and gentlemen!" The MC called out from the stage. "Sir Perry Moore and his beautiful wife!" Autumn scoffed as others began to clap. "Beautiful, when he can't even see me?" "Won't you take my hand? Everyone's watching," Perry said to her, his hand still stretched out to her. She looked around briefly and noticed that he wasn't lying., she took his hand and they began to dance to the solemn song that was on. The lights moved to another couple as soon as they began to dance, and the MC introduced those, and it went on like that till almost everyone in the hall was introduced as they joined the dance floor. With the closeness between them, Autumn couldn't help but st
The music ended not quite long after, and the lights came back on. The MC called for donations, and one after the other, everyone went to the stage to drop theirs. Some dropped new dollar notes, others dropped cheques and some sent them to the host's account. Perry made his donation and made another on behalf of his father, and returned his seat after he was given a thunderous clap. "Should we stay a little longer or would you like for us to take our leave now?" He asked Autumn as soon as he returned to their table. Autumn looked around to see if other people had started leaving, but she noticed that most of them were all seated and still enjoying the ball. She looked back at him, "Uhm, I don't think it'd be right for us to leave when others are still present." "Who cares?" He replied. "Besides, someone has to leave first to give others the courage to leave. And we don't have anything to do here anymore. I've done all I want to, and from the expression on your face, you l
"Aren't you gonna ask?" "I asked already. It's your choice to give me answers whenever you're ready," she simply responded, then stood up to switch on the tv again. She didn't want the situation to turn awkward between them, so she felt switching on the tv would make it less awkward. "She was my first and only love," he started, and Autumn remained glued to the spot she was. She didn't know if to go ahead and switch on the tv or return to her seat or listen to him. "She was everything I wanted in a woman," he continued. "Every time I set my eyes on her, it was always a new feeling I felt. I fell in love with her every day." Autumn scoffed lightly, as she felt a pang of pain in her chest that left as quickly as it came. "Come and have your seat. Standing there will only make things weird," Perry said as he watched her standing, her back to him. Without saying anything, she turned around and returned to her seat. "Can I go on now?" "Yeah." "I met her a year before gradu
"Autumn? Is everything okay?" Jax said from the other side of the phone as he heard her moan. "Uh, yeah. I'm good," she managed to reply as she moaned softly to the feeling of his lips on her nipples. "Okay," Jax responded, not fully convinced by her reply, but he didn't ask any further since he had no business with it. "Why'd you call? It's very late in… Mmmm…" she moaned again, as Perry moved from sucking her right breast to the other one. "Are you sure you're okay?" "Yeah," she replied curtly, getting a hold of herself once again. "I'm sort of busy at the moment, can you call back?" She added sharply. "It isn't something that'll take time. I only wanted to get Olive's phone number from you." "Just get it from Lisa already. I… ugh…" she cried out softly as his hand slowly descended to her covered pussy and he gently rubbed. "Autumn, are you sure you're—" "I'll call back," she hung up the call and dropped the phone on the couch. Perry raised his hand from under her
Autumn was the first to wake up the next morning. Turning on the bed, she opened one eye, before opening the other. She yawned and stretched as she sat up on the bed, laying down beside her was Perry, who had his back to her. It seemed like a Deja Vu, but this time, the guy next to her wasn't a random guy, but someone she knew so well. Instantly, the memories of last night went through her head and her eyes went wide open in shock. She sat on the bed as she loomed around the room. Only then did she notice that she was in his room and had slept there all through the night. "Oh my God," she gasped and covered her mouth with her hands. She stood up from the bed gently, careful enough not to wake him up from his deep sleep. She picked up her top on the floor and her shorts, then she dashed out of the room as quietly as possible, closing the door behind her. She hurried to her room to have her bath and freshen up before he woke up. When she was done, she went down to the kit
"...Yet, we have sex like it's something a boss and secretary should do! Then, the next morning, you act as if nothing happened!" "Then, fucking ask me questions and for once, listen to me!" "Oh? Then tell me, why do you keep—" "Because I fucking love you!" There was a pause, as both of them stared at each other with deadly eyes that turned soft almost after Perry said those words. Autumn waited for him to say it was a mistake, but after about a minute and nothing was said, she decided to ask him, to make sure she heard him right. "Excuse me?" She said with raised eyebrows, her voice calmer than before. "You heard me right, why are you acting like you didn't?" He responded and scoffed, then looked away. "And we're there again. It's always this stupid back and forth!" She banged her hand on a nearby couch. "You never want to explain yourself and you just leave the other person confused." "What is so confusing about me telling you that I love you?" He asked and got up f
A couple of days later and they indeed started an actual relationship. They decided to take things slow, and see if it would work out. Gladly, it had been going well, and their relationship had grown stronger. Autumn managed to convince Perry to start having lunch in the company's cafeteria, especially with the fact that since the retreat, many of his workers now saw him in a new light. They didn't see him as their tyrant boss anymore, and he was also not as cold as he used to be. His sudden action to start eating in the cafeteria shocked everyone, but he knew better. Autumn typed the article Perry had sent to her on the phone before leaving for a meeting, on her desktop. She was so engrossed in it that she had no idea when her office door opened and someone walked in. The sound of the heels as it got clearer and clearer with each step the person took, made her attention divert from the desktop to the person. As she raised her head to see who it was, a frown crept on her fa
Becky's surgery was done successfully, and Autumn was caught between working, taking care of her mom in the hospital, and her younger sister This made her quite stressed that she almost fell sick. Soon, her mum was discharged and they returned home Meanwhile, Perry had been thinking of ways to apologize to Autumn and urge her to return home as his wife. After much thought about it, Khalid gave him advice about what to do. He made some findings on where Autumn now works, and he found out it was with one of his business partners Immediately, he reached out to Marco, Autumn's new boss, and also her family and asked for their help in getting her back. He told her boss that he should send her on a business trip to Vegas, and her boss agreed. Autumn was very surprised when her boss told her to do this. She had just taken a leave from work to Los Angeles to take care of herself, and he had granted her the leave All of a sudden, he called her to come with him on a business trip t
"Do you not know that she's pregnant already?" Max chuckled. "I know quite well, and that's why I'm telling you this because her baby is mine and not yours." Perry paused for a minute and stared at him like he didn't just hear what he said. He scoffed, wondering if he was aware of what he was talking about. "Can you even hear yourself?" Max smiled. "I know you'd never believe me just by my words, so I made sure to gather my evidence to show you." "What the heck?" Perry stared at him unbelievably, as he felt his heart beating heavily. "Even if what you're saying is true, why are you telling me now?" Max let out a sigh. "You might call it selfishness, but my heart hasn't healed from the hurt she put me through. I know your engagement with her is very close, and I don't want to see her happy after everything she did to me." "And what did she do to you exactly?" Perry asked as he sat up in his seat curiously "What could she have done that made you despise her so much to com
"Autumn is my ex-wife!" "Excuse me?" Gloria responded. She heard him well, but she wanted to believe she didn't. "Autumn is your ex-wife? You married your secretary?" She scoffed. "Am I good to go now that I've told you?" "What the… you're serious?" Her eyes opened wide in shock. "Was she also the one at the party the other night?" "Yes," he simply replied. Only then did the realization hit her. She knew she had heard that voice before, but she didn't know where it was She had wondered why his secretary was rude to her the very first time they set eyes on each other, but now she could tell why she had behaved like that to her. "You dated that thing?" She asked, her face filled with irritation. "Watch your words, Gloria. I'm not in the best mood at the moment, and you know that" he responded. "Do you even know how I feel about that at the moment?!" He raised his voice at him. "You claimed to divorce her and now you're coming to pay her bills?" "Please—" "Oh, spar
"Where are you headed?" Perry asked his parents as he looked from Lucy to his dad and back at Lucy "Gloria and I are here to have a surprise dinner with you," he added, and Gloria simply smiled at them. Lucy rolled her eyes at him. "That's none of your business. We have somewhere urgent to go," she said and walked past him, but Perry was quick to drag his mum back by the hand. "Perry!" She snapped at him and yanked his hand off her arm. "Can someone at least tell me what's happening?!" He asked at the top of his voice, while Gloria stood there staring at them. Mr. Moore checked the time on his wristwatch, and seeing that arguing with Perry would only make them late, he decided to tell him what happened "Autumn's mother needs to go through an operation and the fee is a little high for her." Perry's eyes went wide open in shock. "Her sister called us for help, and that's where we're going. Is that okay now?" He then turned to Gloria "My dear, we won't be available tonight
Autumn rubbed her hands together anxiously as she awaited the response of the doctor. He cleared his table and sat on his office chair, while she sat opposite him. "What's going on with her?" She asked him with a look of fear on her face. The doctor looked at her, then at the paper in his hand, then back at her. He then started to explain his diagnosis. "She happened to have arrhythmias, heart valve problems, and high blood pressure in her lung arteries, which led to a heart failure that made her collapse." "Oh my God," Autumn gasped, as she covered her mouth with her hands. Her eyes were teary by now as she stared at the doctor. "Isn't there anything that could be done about it?" She added after a couple of seconds. "Will she survive it? What do I have to do to make her feel better? Will she get better? She won't die now, will she? Please, be honest with me," she begged with teary eyes as her heart began to beat heavily. She had arguments with her mother a lot, but she w
Autumn arrived at Biarritz Tech Company and rushed over to the receptionist's table. The young lady looked at her with an emotionless face, expecting her to say something since she had no idea who she was or whom she was there to see. "Good afternoon," Autumn said and stood in front of the receptionist. "I was called a couple of minutes back to come over to this company right away." "Name?" "Autumn." "Autumn?" The receptionist raised her head to look at Autumn again, giving her a disapproving stare. "Do you not have a last name?" "It's Dax. Autumn Dax." Confirming that 'Autumn Dax' was on the list of new employees, she gave Autumn a brisk nod. "Go to the office on the last end of the next floor." "Thank you," Autumn replied with false pleasantness and skipped towards the elevator. On getting to the next floor's waiting hall, a young lady stepped out of the office directly opposite her and called out, "Autumn Dax." "Here!" She replied and launched to her feet. The
A couple of weeks later, Lisa and Olive took a day off from work to see Autumn. When they noticed that she hadn't been coming, they reached out to her. They were shocked to hear that she had resigned from work. Seeing that there was no other way to see her, they picked a date and decided to meet up at a nearby restaurant. Autumn arrived there first and ordered a drink while she awaited the arrival of her friends. The television was on, and it was set to a news channel. She was lost in thought about her search for a new job when someone mentioned Perry's name, which jerked her back to reality. "Isn't that the billionaire CEO of Trek Tech?" A lady squealed from her seat as she pointed at the tv. "Omg! It's him! He's getting engaged again!" Another one exclaimed and murmurs aroused in the room. Autumn managed to listen to the news amidst the murmurs, to know what exactly was happening. "...and had divorced his ex-wife, whom he didn't mention her name to cover her identity.
Perry looked at his mum, who was stunned at how he shouted at her. "I'm sorry for raising my voice at you, mum. But I just want you to understand that nobody else has a say in my marriage affairs." "Your father and I have come to see Autumn as our daughter, and we knew how happy you were and how positively you changed in a couple of things," Lucy replied with a serious but concerned look on her face. "So I don't understand why you should divorce her over—" "The whole thing was fake!" Perry blurted out, while his parents just stared at him like they had no idea what he was saying. "Everything was fake from the start, mum. We signed a deal with each other when dad wanted me to get married at all costs." "Perry Moore!" His father growled as he shot a deadly glare at Perry. "You both deceived us all along?!" "I've said all I can. I'm off to work," Perry said and walked towards the exit. "Perry!" His father called, but he didn't turn back. He walked out of the house and slamme
Becky walked to sit beside Autumn on her bed. She looked tattered and rough, and Becky's heart sank to see her daughter that way. That was the first time she had ever seen her so bedridden over a guy. "Do you want to talk about it now?" Becky asked her calmly. Autumn reached for the cupboard next to her bed and picked up some papers on it, then gave her. Becky collected them wondering what it was about. She went through it and was shocked to see that they were divorce papers. She was even more shocked to see that Autumn had signed her part. "You signed these?" Her eyes were wide open in shock as she stared at her daughter like she knew not what she was doing. "I've made up my mind, mum. He sent these papers because he has moved on. I'm ready to do that too," she got up from her bed. "I'm going to drop the papers at the mailbox, so they can be delivered back to him." "Are you sure about this? Do you think you're doing the right thing?" Becky asked with a face filled with