Zeke hummed as he sat in the back seat of the car which was headed to Elena’s company.He shook his head in rhythm, glanced at the brown envelope beside him, and smiled.He did not doubt that Elena would accept this proposal.“Drive faster.”“Yes, sir.”As the driver increased the pace, Zeke removed his phone from his pocket and began to look on the internet ‘What to do to make a woman forgive them?”Amongst the many answers, he shook his head at them and only thought of the flowers.“Find a flower shop around.”__________As the car pulled to a stop in front of the company, one of the guards by the entrance rushed over to his car, opened the door for him and he got out of the car.Zeke adjusted his collar, and carried the bouquet of flowers in another hand and then the envelope in another hand.He walked to the entrance without answering any greetings as all that was on his mind was Elena, he entered the premises fully.===The secretary led him to the door and when they got there, s
Wondering if he should go to them and disentangle them from the hug that was getting too long already, Zeke slammed his palm on the table and forced a loud cough.Shortly after, Elena broke the hug and stared at the man who gently moved his hand from her waist and dropped them on her shoulders.“Oh, my God, what is this glow coming from you?” He teased and pinched her cheek.“Oh, please, Ramon.”“I am serious!” He laughed.On the other hand, Zeke rolled his eyes and hissed. What was funny?How much he wished he could go over there and slap the stupid laughter off that man’s face.“Well… if you say so,” Elena shrugged.“You didn’t tell me you were coming!”Ramon laughed again. “I guess my surprise worked.”“When I heard that you were outside, I chose not to believe it because you could be pulling a prank on me. You are good at that anyway.”“I came with mum and dad,” he smiled.“My parents are back?”“Yeah. I went to Qatar to meet them.”When Elena had moved from the US six years ago,
“Let’s talk,” Ramon took Elena’s hand in his and turned towards the door.As he took about three steps with her, Zeke charged at them, grabbed her other hand, and then pulled her to himself.“What are you doing?!” Elena yelled and snatched her hands from both of them.“I should be asking you that, Ms. Baskerville,” his voice was soft, and nothing like he looked.“What?”“We were in the midst of a meeting before this…” he swallowed, refraining from using a cuss word.“Before this man barged in.”Elena exhaled, glanced at her wristwatch, and then said, “Meeting was initially by two. Let’s have it by then. It’s not two yet,” she smacked her tongue.“What? You literally just agreed to have the meeting before he entered!” He protested as he dropped his eyes on Ramon who sneered at him softly.What?What was that man doing?Who was his friend?Does he look friendly to him?Zeke’s brows snapped together in nothing but disgust for Ramon.“And now, I am saying that we would be having it by two
“What is he doing there?” Elena drew her brows together as she tore her eyes away from his direction.“I told you that man is a psycho. Forfeit whatever you’re planning and let go, please Elena,” Ramon exhaled.Elena shook her head, patted his hand that was on the table, and then stood up.“I will proceed with it.”She glanced at her wrist watch and it was two pm already. “I have to return to the office. Do you need my help to get around?”“No, I can find my way to the house,” he said and stood up too.“I will see you later, right?”Ramon nodded his head and then patted her shoulder again. “Take care.”“You too.”Elena turned to exit the premises and as she got down, she ignored Zeke who had already moved away from the window where he was ‘stalking’ and was already standing by the entrance.“What are you doing?”“What do you mean?” He asked as he walked behind her.Elena shook her head and then increased her walking pace while the man trailed behind her.As they entered the elevator a
“SOMEONE TELL ME THAT I AM DREAMING, PLEASE!”The scream that circled around the house from Brenda, Zeke’s mother, got Chloe rushed over to her and then Jeremy who had just returned home.“What is wrong?” Jeremy frowned and settled on the couch.“She is back!”“Who?”“Elena! Our daughter-in-law!” She screamed.Chloe swallowed and hissed before she turned around to leave. “Our? Don’t be ridiculous.”“Did you say something?” Brenda asked as she kept her eyes glued on her screen.Chloe rolled her eyes. “You could have said something like 'ex-daughter-in-law', you know?” “But she is… hold on, did you know she was back?” Brenda drew her brows together“Did literally everyone in the country not know that she’s back?” Chloe smacked her tongue.“You would not blame a woman who only knows about the latest TV series, would you?” Jeremy drawled in a sleepy voice.“Are you talking about me?” Brenda frowned.When Jeremy did not answer and only looked away, Brenda moved over to Chloe and resumed.
“Arrrrgg!”She screamed as she smashed another glass cup against the television of her room again.“How dare she do that to me?!”It’s been a week since the incident between her and Elena had happened but Camila had still not moved past it yet.She drank every day, screamed, and cried till she slept.She was not sure if it was the slap that anguished her. It definitely was not.She hated that her ego was ruined in front of her only one enemy.Maybe what she was still expecting was Elena from six years ago.The dense lady that she could trample on.The lady that, even before she found out about her and Zeke, could give her her eyes if she so much wished.Elena was a naive person, at least to her.Before she found out about the incident between her and Zeke, the lady had a different aura from what she had experienced the previous week.She was calm… awfully!Should she talk about the different gifts that the lady always got her… which she had never gotten her anything as small as a pen b
“Dad!”Elena rushed into her parents’ embrace as soon as she entered their room and closed her eyes.“Oh my, Darling,” Karina, her mother patted her back.They stood still in their position for a while before she disentangled from the hug and then took glances at them.“Did you two plan on not coming over here again?” She asked with a fake frown and her parents laughed.“You can’t blame us. It might be long, but we later realized that it is better to have fun than to work,” Raymond, her father, said and they both laughed.Her parents always acted as if they were newlyweds. Their travel out of the USA literally proved that the two of them only had fun, traveled, and did nothing related to work.Maybe it was their relationship that got into her head that she thought she could have the same thing with Zeke six years ago.She grew up in a loving home, unlike the few conglomerates that she knew where it was all war and fights.She had the best relationship with her mother, sister, and fath
“Then, fucking break up with her!”Ryan yelled with the life in him and dropped his hands on the armrests rather dramatically.He closed his eyes as he imagined Zeke’s eyes on him and then sat upright again.“You kept nagging about her. It shows nothing but how tired and irritated you feel for her already. Do you love to be miserable? Fucking end this stupidity and move away from her!”Zeke swallowed and leaned back comfortably. He pressed his lips together and scratched his forehead while he lowkey regretted that he told Ryan anything.It was a Sunday, and a day he should be resting and not even thinking about anything since all he did the last few days was think! But no, Ryan chose to come over to his house and he could not help but tell the man everything that was going on just like every time.“You don’t love this woman anymore. It is very evident in your eyes, and that is for the better if you would ask me. So, just break up with her. It’s enough.”“Camila is crazy,” he finally s