For the past few days, Derek had been in high spirits. Since that night when he and Steve had their altercation at Ava’s house, Steve left her alone, and as far as he could tell, Ava was glad about that.As a matter of fact, so was Derek. He had been seriously worried about the fact that such a shady and abusive character as Steve was hanging around his daughter and Ava, but now that Steve was gone, he felt much better.As he was thinking about this, there was a knock on his office door, and then the person came in without waiting for a response. It turned out to be Derek’s assistant, and the look on his face wasn’t a pleasant one."I’m sorry to disturb you boss, but I’m afraid that I have some bad news.” Derek’s assistant told him.“Jeez! Those aren’t words I want to hear right now. What’s the matter?” Derek asked the man, already steeling his mind to hear whatever it might be. “It’s about Jerome, sir. Unfortunately, we just received a phone call from the hospital that he died this
The voices inside the house died down when Derek knocked, and he heard footsteps as someone approached to answer the door.A few seconds later, the door opened, and he found himself face to face with a woman who looked to be in her late fifties to early sixties.She was a beautiful woman and a replica of Ava in an older form. Looking at her, he knew without anyone telling him that this was Ava's mother. He had never met any of Ava's family members, even though he had been married to her for three good years, and that said a lot about the type of man he used to be.Great! He was meeting Ava's mom unexpectedly while he was stressed and disheveled since he was still wearing the clothes that he wore when he left for the office that morning, plus he had also had a very busy and stressful day.The woman looked him up and down, and her eyes lit up. They shone with interest as looked at him inquiringly, and he could tell that she was impressed by what she saw, despite how tired he was."And
"I am, sir. It's very nice to meet you." Derek replied, feeling like he had repeated the words 'it's very nice to meet you,' a million times already.He offered his hand for Ava's father to shake, fully prepared for the hand to be ignored, and was surprised when the man shook the hand without hesitation."You say it's nice to meet me. Well, I call bullshit, and I can't say the same about meeting you though." Ava's dad said."Oh. I'm really sorry to hear that.""You should be.""Grandpa. You said a bad word." Harper chastised."I know honey, and I'm sorry. Anyway, I think dinner is ready. We should go eat." Ava's dad said, getting up.Derek remained where he was standing, wondering if it was going to be rude to tell them goodbye and beat a hasty retreat. He couldn't do that, though. It was better to face and hopefully overcome their anger now than to postpone it since he had every intention of getting back with Ava and building a family with her if she was interested."Well, what are
Ava bade Derek goodbye, feeling really sorry for him. He looked very worried as he left, and she guessed that he was probably worried that her parents would convince her not to let him see Harper or something.Her parents would never do that, and they had, in fact, urged her to tell Derek about the birth of his daughter after she gave birth to Harper.They believed that every child should have both parents in their life, so long as the parents in question were good parents and anyone could see that Derek was a great father.What they were worried about was the fact that Ava was so close and friendly with the man who shattered her heart into a million pieces years ago. Although Ava certainly understood where they were coming from, she was also an adult who could make her decisions by herself, and she valued her friendship with Derek very much because it made co-parenting with him super smooth and easy."Well? Has he left?" Ava's mom asked her as soon as she got back."Yes, he has," Av
"You're making a big mistake." Ava's father told her."No, I'm not dad. I'll be making a big mistake if I let you talk me into marrying Marcus. I'm not interested in marriage ... definitely not now or anytime soon, for that matter. Besides, I don't know why you think I'll get married to Derek again. He hasn't even hinted at anything else apart from taking care of and seeing his daughter as frequently as he can. So I'd appreciate it if you dropped the subject.""Fine, I'll drop it, but don't say I didn't warn you. You're right when you say that you're an adult, and I can't force you to do anything you don't want to do. I can only try to advise you, which is what I have done today. It is left for you to decide whether you want to take my advice or not. Even if you do decide that getting married to Marcus isn't what you want, maybe you should sit down and think twice about rekindling your romance with the young man who just left here. You ended your marriage with him for a reason, and
Steve had never been humiliated as much as he had been by Derek just over a week ago. He stood in front of the mirror in his bathroom, peering at his reflection and touching his face gingerly.His face, which was his pride and joy, was now looking very different, despite the fact that he had taken Derek's unsolicited advice and sought treatment immediately after their altercation.His face was still red and swollen from the injuries that he had sustained during his brawl with Derek.If the truth be told, though, it wasn't a brawl at all. What it had been was pure and blatant humiliation. Derek had beaten him hands down, and Steve knew very well that the man didn't even put any effort into doing it at all.Despite the fact that he followed his doctor's instructions religiously and even went the extra mile by icing his face several times daily to take down the swelling, and get rid of the redness, his face was taking its sweet time healing. He had always bruised easily, and he
"Phew! That was insanely good!" Logan whistled, breathing heavily as he rolled off a naked Amanda, who was very much satisfied as well.Amanda made no moves to get up, but instead, remained spreadeagled on the bed in all her naked glory, gazing at Logan expectantly. Her meaning was clear. She wanted some more sex, which was crazy because they had just gone three rounds. What did she think he was? A freaking machine?She was quite insatiable for a fat bitch, but that was probably because she lay on the bed like a dead pig, groaning and grunting like a god-damned generator, while he did all the work.If she could get on top for a few minutes, then maybe she wouldn't be eager enough to say 'let's go again' so soon after they just did the deed.He wasn't exactly complaining though. Sex was sex, regardless of the kind or shape of female he had it with, but then, he wasn't about to let Amanda run him into an early grave with her voracious sexual appetite, either.He couldn't exactly blame
Although Derek wasn’t the type to care about people’s opinions about him, Ava’s parents weren't just ‘people.’ They were important to her, and so he cared about impressing them.This was why he did not like the fact that he hadn’t been prepared to meet them the previous night and he wasn’t looking his best when he met them.He decided to remedy that the following afternoon when he went to drop off Harper from school at Ava’s place by going home early from work, freshening up, and making sure to look as dapper as he always looked.He also came along with a gift for everyone that he hoped they would like. Sometimes, he ran into people who got offended when he tried to get them gifts because they probably felt that he was calling them poor.He hoped to high heavens that Ava’s family wouldn’t be those types of people. He simply enjoyed giving people stuff, whether they could afford it on their own or not, and he had brought gifts for Ava's family because it was the polite thing to do. It