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I locked eyes with Mr. Ajax Jordan, my coworker.‘What was he doing in an elevator in my apartment building’ I thought,Confusion mars his features as he looks at me, I step into the elevator with Ajax’s palm held firmly in mine.I go to press the floor of my apartment but I see it has already been pressed with the red light illuminating it.After the brief confusion that passed over his features, he went pressing his phone.I breathed easier and adjust my face mask praying for the ding of arrival so I could escape to the safety of my apartment.‘Miss Tina, is that you?’‘He recognized me’, I felt the oxygen in the elevator drop by half and I itched to rip the mask of my face just to breathe easier.I ignored him, hoping he would drop it.Wide chestnut brown eyes move closer staring into my eyes, ‘Miss Tina? Is that not you, I mean your clothes look familiar.’I take a step away from his wide curious eyes and bob my head a little in acknowledgment.‘Sorry, I got into your personal spa
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‘Grnng’, the sound of my alarm clock met me with a smile on my face, even the normally annoying grating sound that signaled the start of the day was heaven to my ears. ‘I have a job, a corporate job’ The “first day jitters” were gone and all that was left was happiness.‘Stop smiling, were going to be late’ Ajax’s voice snapped me from my blissful reverie.He slammed my alarm off and I discovered that I had been staring into space for the past 5 minutes leaving my alarm ringing.‘Shite’ I jumped out of bed and ran after Ajax who was on his way to the bathroom already.I hummed happily while getting Ajax and I ready and although he kept glancing at me suspiciously I paid him no mind.My mood soured a little at the thought of Miss Debra but I buried the feeling amidst thoughts off supportive Adam.Speaking of Adam, a thought hovered at the edge of my subconscious but I was unable to recall what it was exactly.A lingering suspicion that refused to materialize into a full thought, I sh
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Simon’s POV.I itched to throw the phone gripped in my hand at the wall, or hurl it at the glass window and shatter my view to the beautiful restaurant opposite the hotel I was currently lodged in.It was a beautiful Friday afternoon and I just got off the phone with my mother.‘I’ll expect you to show up in Trove Company on Monday morning bright and early’ she hung up the phone with her annoying voice resounding in my ears.I look about the hotel room, it was not expertly furnished but it was beautiful, also I was not in LA.The most beautiful thing about it was the view of the restaurant across the street, the exact reason why it was the most beautiful thing about the room was unknown to me.I look to my laptop on the oak table and go to slam it shut.‘Stupid directors, nominating me for the merger when it shouldn’t have been me, minions of my mother the whole lot of them’I had just finished the virtual meeting in which I was nominated when I called her. After letting me stew in a
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Tina’s POVA buzz went through the hall at Simon’s retreating form,‘The idiot, he successfully put a bounty on my head’Hushed whispers go around and people glance at me in unbelief.They were probably wondering how insignificant me was able to grab the attention of a whole Simon Valero.I take one look at the shock on Miss Debra’s face and feel like telling her that she got it all wrong, if only to put her out of her misery. ‘He probably wants me to pack my bags and leave quietly’ I feel like yelling at them all.‘What are you waiting for Miss Tina, shouldn’t you go after him’ she recovered enough to remember she was supposed to be a manager not some hormonal teenager pining after the male species.‘Today is still a long way from ending’ I mumble under my breath but I rise from my desk and head to the door.Adam gives me a thumb up as I head out.I get to the elevator and wait for it to arrive.While waiting I think of how to act, the approach to adopt when dealing with Simon.Shou
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‘The weekend’, I breathed fresh evening hair as I arrived at the playground.It was a Saturday evening and I had planned to meet Bella at the playground so Ajax and her daughter could have a fun time, while we catch up.My first weekend as a corporate worker. I enjoyed the bliss of my weekend being free whereas at the restaurant I would have had to take one shift. I was thoroughly prepared to enjoy my weekend.I take another lungful of air blissfully rid of my nose mask. In the park everyone was engrossed with their kids so nobody would pay attention to me.I run to hug Bella while Ajax rushes to the swings with Bella’s daughter.‘Careful’ we both call out to our children.‘It’s been soo long, how has work been?’ Bella embraces me again.‘Work has been fine, what of the restaurant, how was your morning shift’ I ask ‘The restaurant was busy as always, but enough of that we both know how the restaurant is, tell me about your company’‘Don’t forget to include your granite faced ex-husba
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Walking in through the glassy entrance to trove drove tremors through me, there was the lingering frustration that Simon was existing in the same building as I was, which brought about the fact that I could run into his icy figure at any point in time.I scanned the lobby for his granite face, once, twice while waiting for the elevator to arrive.Ding, relief coursed through me, thank goodness executives took a different elevator or there would have been the possibility of us riding the elevator together.Just the thought of us being in the same cramped space had me balling my fists in anger. The fact that he had this much effect on me, that just the thought of him drove series of emotions through me was another annoyance.I walked into my surprisingly quiet department and went straight to my desk. I had expected it to be noisy but everyone was busy working. Even Adam greeted me with only a wave and went back to staring at his system.I guess the excitement of the merger and meeting
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‘Smile brightly, don’t think of the past, he’s your boss, you need this job’ walking to Simon’s office I had this mantra playing in my head on repeat.I had to survive this presentation without blowing up, I was in my workplace as Simon had so threatingly reminded me ofI relaxed my hands that had balled into fists rumpling the printed report. I smoothen it out and go through it again.Thank goodness it wasn’t much seeing as Trove was not a company with a lot of press.It shouldn’t be that hard to explain a ten page report to him.‘Breath in, breath out’ I knock loudly on the door and walk in after his muffled ‘come in’His head was buried in papers and he didn’t even look up as I walked in.I clear my throat.‘A minute’ he holds a finger up without looking at me.I stand there awkwardly shifting from foot to foot.My smile was still plastered on my face and I refused to break my resolve. I refuse to be angry.He raises his head and my smile falters,‘What did I say about refusing to
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‘Mum, that man looks familiar, I think I know him’ ice broken, I turn towards Adam who has his face scrunched in concentration. ‘He’s my boss, dear, you’ve not met him before’ Adam looks at the TV once more, it had shifted to a different news. He shrugs his shoulders and continues eating finishing his food. I go back to mine glancing at Adam to see him finishing his too, I guess his suspicion had died down seeing as there was no picture for comparism. If one looked at both Simon and Ajax together, it was hard to miss the uncanny resemblance in their inky black eyes, the slant of their nose, the shape of their lips or in their small cat like ears. Coupled with the fact that I told Adam we had history, it won’t be hard for him to put two and two together. Even if he didn’t ask me it won’t be hard for him to go make his own findings, I hoped beyond hope that I had not done the wrong thing by telling Adam that I had history with Simon. ‘You’re not done eating? it’s getting la
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Simon’s POVThe day before.‘I find myself smiling more often days’, my eyes were fixed on the screen of a computer, various sections of it, showing numerous footages of different places, in so many angles.‘I think this is my newest addiction’, despite the vast number of footages, my eyes were fixed only on a select few.The ones that had Tina in them.I was in the control room of Bells department store, watching Tina,The statement sounded creepy in my head but it was just hard to resist.The moment I entered, one look from me had sent the security personnel scurrying out.Not that they had a choice, after all I was paying the estimated amount of sales the store made in a day.When you payed close to a half a billion dollars just to spend a few hours in a department store, even the ground you walk on becomes gold.Remote in hand, I enlarge the section containing Tina so that it took up the whole screen.Watching her was me newest addiction,It sounded creepy, even to me, but it was
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The next morning as I stare at my beloved white ceiling, I notice something as changed,Firstly, I couldn’t find that square shaped faded spot on my ceiling, or the sparse streaks of pure white among my ceiling, I look to the side to see the tendrils of dawn that I was once accustomed to, to see it as full blown streaks of sunlight spilling across my bedroom floor.It was a welcome change, the fact that I slept better, I didn’t wake up just few hours after sleeping only to stare, frustrated,It was a happy change I noticed, one that had me smiling as I got ready, never mind the side- eyed looks that Ajax was giving me.Apply makeup on, I notice the bags under my eyes were fading and I no longer needed to apply a thick layer of powder to hide it.It was wonderful, healing my heart, letting go of built up hatred that had lasted six years long.‘Mum, what has you smiling like that’, Ajax finally stops with suspicious looking, opting to confront me directly.‘Don’t tell me you got a husb
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The first few days after the merger were hectic, Simon’s schedule was packed full which resulted in me working overtime most of the time,‘I’m sorry, I know how much you like going home on time’, Simon turns to tell me the moment we arrive back in Trove after a meeting 2 hours away from the company.Despite the fact that he was stressed out from the unending conversation with the young blond woman whose name I learned was Veronica Maxwell,She was the young CEO of the only company that could stand to par with SM and Simon wanted to meet her to make an investment into her new Tech company.The meeting had started with an intense stare down, where they both sized each other up,She finally broke the stare with a smile, brushing back the messy strands of her almost-white hair and stretching her hand out for Simon to shake.They both settled down to steak and wine and as I watched them only one question reigned in my head.‘What was it with rich people and smiling even when they’re raging
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Lunch had ended, so the restaurant was sparsely filled, since lunch rush was over, Bella had taken a seat close to me, head drawn forward in a gossipy stance.I draw closer to her, not minding the bewildered look on her face, shushing her when she got loud.‘You must be bat shit crazy’, she whispers it this time, still looking at me,A laugh ripples from my insides, seeing her serious face.‘This is not a laughing matter, Tina’‘How could you agree to be friends? You’re the one losing’, she eyes me up and down as I laugh,‘This is not about losing or winning, Bella, it’s about trying to let go of heartache’She still eyes me as I continue,‘I’ve held unto hatred, bitterness for years and it has turned my heart into a black, ulcered mess’, my expression sours for a moment,‘So that’s it, you’re just going to forgive him, just like that’, she raises her hand up, expressive in discouraging me.‘No, he hurt me too much, I can’t forgive him just yet, I’m just giving him a chance to win my
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We move to the new office after a call comes in, and I settle down into my space outside his door, a phone had been fixed on my desk and I look at it, trying at numbers.Then I move to the tablet, all black. Still fascinated by it.I turn it on going straight to Microsoft Office.I was sure the only purpose would be for arranging schedules for Simon, but it was the first time I had one, the first time a gadget like this would be under my control.A call comes into the phone and I pick it up,‘You’ve reached the office of Mr. Valero, how can I help you’, the word sounds sweet on my tongue, ‘It’s me’, Simon’s voice sounds, gruff through the phone, ‘I wanted to apologize again’, I sigh when I hear him,‘And say thank you too for giving me this chance’‘Yeah, got it’, I reply him, and drop the phone.‘I’m pretty sure a secretary is not supposed to hang up on the CEO’, a niggling voice sounds in my head, but a smile spreads my lips,‘Oh, the perks of being apologized to’, a laugh escapes
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Did I hear right? or did I finally loose my mind?, unable to differentiate fiction and reality, or had I slept off on the armchair? catapulted into one of my day dreams.Or was this a joke?Unable to control myself any longer, I laugh out loud, uncontrollably, till tears bud on the edges of my eyes.‘Protect!’ I test the word on my tongue, a snicker racking through me.Simon stared at me still, eyes soft, even as I turned my face everywhere but those captivating orbs, in the process of laughter.‘I know I have not been the best of persons…’, he continues but gets interrupted by my loud scoff,‘What best, you were the worst person in my life, the worst person I ever encountered’, ‘You get that Simon, you were the worst’, I say this energetically not minding the way his look turned beaten.‘I was unable to sleep last night, all through the night I thought of you, what you said’I wipe at the corners of my eyes, my face turned into a mask of indifference with the words coming out of Sim
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Not that I had anything of worth in Simon’s office, I wasn’t expecting to be there for long, so I resolve to helping the office assistants in moving things.On my second trip, I stand still to take a breather, eyes roaming around our new office,It was way bigger than the old one, almost twice the size.The mahogany desk beside the window was much bigger than the one Simon used before, currently crowded with books that were being arrange in the book shelf on the far right of the room.It had a much wider sitting area, with wine colored arm chairs, a large glass table in the center.‘I’m sure those chairs won’t last here for a day’, the bright colored chairs was certainly something that couldn’t be in the same space as Simon.And truth be told, they moved the chairs next, hefting them up and maneuvering them out the door,I step aside as they pass, my eyes going to the faded blinds that definitely had to be changed, the flower vase balanced on the glass table that certainly wouldn’t su
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‘Mum! Mum! Can we go home now, I’m done with my homework’, I feel Ajax’s palm in mine, pulling me in the direction of the door.As if snapped out of a reverie, the cold seeps away from Adam’s expression, replaced by a smile he turned on Ajax,‘That’s right, you should get to bed’, he ruffles his hair a bit, still smiling,But that smile roiled up my insides, no sitting quite right,Maybe it was the plastic look to it, or it was the cold look he gave earlier, that had now turned to dead-eyes, sitting contrasting over his stretched lips.He pulls the memory card from his phone, placing it on his table and I grab it without a moment’s notice,‘I should get home’, I return his plastic smile, heading for the door, wondering if I actually knew this man I called friend.With mixed feelings, I roll out of bed out of bed the next morning, With mixed feelings, I raise my heavy head, filled to the brim with thoughts that hunted me the entire night,I roll out of bed and prepare for the day ahea
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Stooping down I try to gather the pieces of memories I captured, picking up the I.D card and wig.Standing up I see he’s frozen, still on the spot where I slapped him, watchful eyes following my every movement.I turn to go, clutching broken pieces in my hands, tears still clouding my vision‘Wait’, he stretches his hand towards me‘I’ll take you home’‘You must be stark raving mad’, my eyes still blurry, the words are out of my mouth in an instant, anger and bitterness following them.‘You are not in a condition to be walking about right now’, his eyebrows scrunches together,‘I can get home myself, just as I’ve been getting home myself for most of my life’, I blink fresh tears back trying to clear my vision.‘Just stay, at least till you get yourself together, my car is close by’, he points in a direction and I see his car parked few paces away,‘Fine’, I nod, gesturing for him to lead the way,He unlocks the car, pulling the door open for me to slide into and I enter putting the pi
