Asher’s POV Need I say that I was right to have cut off May, and divorced her? Okay, maybe she did sign the papers, and I haven’t, but you know what I mean. I was in my office minding my business and working to get my money when her father came to visit me, and now, he’s sitting in front of me with an imploring look on his face. I could tell he was here for something. “What are you doing here, Will?” I asked. The older man scratched the spot behind his ear as he looked at me, and then he hesitated a second before he said. “Huh, I just wanted to remind you about the money you promised if I get May to sign the papers.” This man was funny, but not to me right now because I wanted to bash his head in. What was he talking about? Well, I would indulge him and see where this went. “I dare to ask you why you keep needing so much money, Will.” He shrugged. “Well, my business seems to have gone downhill since I last saw you. My business dealings just seem to fall through for no reason, so
May’s POV By the time I settled in my new apartment at the end of the week, I was so tired I wasn’t sure I could do anything more. I sat on my couch in my black leggings, black crop tank-top and white loose Supima material top.Right now, I felt like taking a shower and grabbing my computer to check my mails, but damn, I was tired. I haven’t been able to rest that much for a week now, all I could do was come back from work and continued with unpacking or buying stuff. This was the first time I was staying alone anyway, so I had a lot to buy.I heard the doorbell, just as I started to stand up to go grab some water in the kitchen. My apartment was on the second floor of the building I didn’t think I would be able to live on, and it came with an elevator and a doorbell. That was one of the things that attracted me to the place.It could only be Emily, at least, it was what I thought. She was the only one that could be there because she was the only one that knew I was here now. I hav
May’s POV“May, where are you?”“In here.” I said as soon as I heard Emily’s voice. She had told me she was coming to my place soon, but I didn’t think it would be this fast. I heard her walked to where I was in my room.I was glad my apartment was in order, because I had gotten so much done, and it looked all arranged now, with a sweet scent of pine filling the air. I just loved that smell.“Girl, I can believe you’ve done so much in such short time.” Emily said and I giggled just before she walked into the room.Emily's eyes connected to mine where I was sitting on the floor with some clothes around me. “What are you doing?” she asked with a frown, looking at me as if I was doing something I shouldn’t.“Don’t give me a look as if you just caught my hand in some cookie jar, Em, I’m obviously folding these clothes for the closet.” I said, shaking my head at her.She sighed and rolled her eyes before walking over to me and sitting right beside me right there on the floor. “Smart ass.”
May’s POVI sat at the bar with a very heavy heart and I was nursing the drink that was in front of me, my right hand propped against my head. One would think the noise from the bar would draw out my thoughts, but all I could think about was money.I wasn’t just thinking of any kind, I was thinking about the kind that could help my family, even though my stepfather kept gambling it down the drain. I didn’t want to believe that he had taken out the mortgage on the house just to help the company, I was sure he had gambled half of it away.Just when was my mother going to realize that and leave his sorry ass? Just when?I sighed and shook my head as I sat there. Emily should be here soon, I told myself as she already confirmed she was near.I just wanted to have a fun night this Friday, before going home to sleep it off and wake up to it tomorrow. I was going to really…My phone vibrated in front of me on the counter and I looked down to see it was a text from Emily telling me she was he
May’s POVEmily followed me out to the dance floor, where two other couples were dancing already and she grabbed my hands, moving them as she moved herself. As the music started to sip into my body, I closed my eyes and let myself feel it.“This is what Im talking about, girl.” Emily yelled over the fast music, and when I opened my eyes, I could see the smile on her face.“I’m just trying,” I said in a reply, looking towards the VIP section to see Asher and the woman sitting there, but with Brent now sitting beside the woman, with his hand wrapped around her waist.Oh wow! Maybe the woman I had thought was his flavor of the night wasn’t his at all, but Brent. Perhaps, she was his girlfriend, because I knew Brent was decent and didn't really go from one woman to the other.Anyway, that wasn’t any of my business, plus I really didn’t think thinking about them would help me tonight. Before I turned my back to them, I saw Asher laughing at something the woman beside Brent said, and my hea
Asher’s POVI felt May’s eyes on me but I tried not to look in her direction. It’s not as if I didn’t want to look at her in that black clothes she was wearing, clothes that looked as if they were made to fit her body perfectly.“Damn, she look so good in that top and skirt.” I told myself, and even though I had an uninterested look on my face.I’ve never seen her wear things like this before, really, and I couldn’t help but look at her twice, when I first saw her sitting there at the bar, and even while she went dancing on the dance floor, I had watched her, even though I tried to make it look like I didn’t.When that ass came behind her and started dancing, I had unconsciously folded my hands in fists beside me, before noticing that and unfolding it. The last thing I wanted was to have to explain to Brent; who still didn’t know May was here, who I was looking at, and why.He had gotten to know what I did after I asked him to find me a beautiful woman, and he had been so angry I used
May’s POVConfused?Certainly, I was very confused, and all I’ve been able to think about all weekend and all day today, was Asher’s action at the club, beating that man so much he was bleeding, and would have gone to jail that night if he wasn’t who he was.Why? That was the question that kept coming to my mind all day.For one, he had dragged me, given me a divorce paper, and told me his opinion about my being without a job, and telling me I was a gold digger, why had he bothered with me then, why had he fought with that man because of what he had said, when he had said more than that. Why had he?..“May, are you all right?” I heard someone asked me and I jerked out of my thoughts to see Nora staring down at me from in front of my desk.Damn, I had been so invested in my thoughts I had forgotten I was at work. Nodding my head, I said. “Oh, yeah. Sure. I’m all right.”She gave me a look, then she asked. “Did you receive my email?”I started to nod, but then I stopped when I realized
Asher’s POVI watched as Gary’s fingers lingered on May’s forearm, and I felt a sense of discomfort crawled through me. Seeing his touch, an unwelcome connection to her, it pricked at the edges of my nerves. But who was that touch unwelcome to? Me or May?What I was feeling wasn’t jealousy, no, not at all; it was a strange feeling of frustration, and if I was being honest, I didn’t even know what it meant.“Are you trying to get this man too?” I wanted to ask her as I stared at them, but I didn’t, I couldn’t actually. We were in a meeting after all.My jaw clenched involuntarily as I observed the way May stood there with Gary frozen, her eyes flitting between Gary and me.I asked myself if she might need my help, if she feel trapped by his grip! Did she feel my gaze boring into her, questioning her presence here, why she was working here, intertwined with this man?I knew I had run her here when I told her she wasn’t adding anything to the society, by not working at all, so she had ta