It’s been a week since I came home, a week since I last saw my moron husband, a week of loneliness, this is the longest time I have stayed at home alone.
I should resume my work, lead on the new project that I have thought of doing for a long time now, but I can’t. No matter how hard I tried to emphasize it in my work, it’s just not working. I need to arrange an event for securing the fund that we need to build shelters for women.
There are a lot of women on the road, they can use the housing as a temporary solution for them until they find something appropriate for themselves. A refuge camp for all kinds of women where we will help them to find their life back, an auction will be enough to collect the money.
I want something different kind of event to organize, these dances, or not a regular auction, something fun and where people will have no problem shower their money.
The problem is I am having trouble with my
“Did you find the guy?” I bark on the phone as soon as my brother Owen calls me to update me on the present hazard situation that we are going through.The top floor where all our sibling’s offices are located was in the fire a day ago, some important document for the next board of meeting had been snatched from my desk drawer, someone hacked Viola’s computer took away information for a forthcoming auction bid that our company is expected to involve, Owen’s computer has been destroyed which cause us to miss the latest flies of the London project that we are working on.It seriously injured three of my employees in this fire. They are in hospital but out of emergency. I am just gratified that no one is badly wound, although the fire was severe enough to cause some deterioration that happened.The particular information I know all about this sudden chaos is that Nathan fucking Hall is the one liable for this and
“I am sorry.” “I am so sorry.”He said the words, everybody, the Chicago no, this time I should go for a bigger crowd, all the people around the globe. If you have ever met or known the great Brian McCoy, I want you to acknowledge that he said sorry to me tonight a few seconds ago. In the dark bedroom, with the tiny bit of moonlight in serene surroundings, he said those words. He expresses regret for hurting me, and believe me, this is the happiest hour in my twenty-year life.I can’t waste this time at all, I need to make sure or at least do something to preserve this moment; I know this kind of moment is rare and will never come back again. Maybe this is my once-in-a-lifetime kind of phenomenon. I can’t let this go this easily. It will be a waste then.I pick my phone from the nightstand and open the voice recorder, and hold it in front of Brian’s mouth.“Say it again.”
Maria comes to visit me with Hazel and Miles. Hazel has been here before a couple of times when Brian was in London. Hazel even remained with me a night, but this is the first time Miles and Maria have visited me in my new house.Miles launches himself in my hug as instantly as he steps out of the elevator while Hazel lies down on the couch with her phone. I kiss all over my cute puppy-eyed face of my little brother. It’s been a month since I was with him again. This is the longest time we stayed away from one another. I can’t convey my happiness in words.“Where is Brian?” Hazel asks.I am playing with Miles on the PlayStation, it’s always our thing. The game invested both of us. The appetite for scoring the game is so strong inside us that we forget the world when we start playing. Sometimes we forget that we are siblings, the competitiveness helps us. We both are determined to win, it’s on our blood w
I just can’t believe my eyes right now. What am I seeing? This has to be a daydream. This can’t be true.I mean, in which world this kind of bad luck happens to one man, I am not someone with bad luck or things like that. Whatever I touch turns into gold, that’s the reputation I hold among the business community. Everyone praises my hard work and new entrepreneurs think of me as their god, everyone will refer me as their mentor. But now I am in a sequence of calamity.It’s like one smash into another. How do I get into this situation?The fire in our headquarter caused us a considerable deal of loss. The catastrophe of our share was alarming. We knocked the all-time low on the Chicago share market. From top to bottom, we were afraid of losing our empire. It took three weeks for all of us to work on this situation. All the board of directors was after my ass, they keep whining about their loss, the company’s re
“Is this your other plan to seduce me?”He knows, he knows about my plan from the very beginning. Maybe, maybe not.He is aware of the seduction game, although you don’t need any rocket science problem to figure out my brittle attempt at the art of seduction.I one word, I suck. If someone did all things on me the same way, then I promised I would call the police for help, or run away, or do something that would involve madness. When I get the chance to sit in serene, I reply to everything on my head, and I see how creepy everything was.First of all, it will work, mayhap, if it’s someone who has these moves inside her. I now strongly believe a person is born with moves. Unfortunately, I don’t have them in me.I did all throughout the course of following these rules only proved to be an embarrassment for me. And I am no more in favor of going through that again.“I tried,” I mu
It’s Sunday morning. In my systematic life, you would have found me in the office working on projects, but in my ordinary world, you would have found me on the bed with Inessa, enjoying the damn day off perfectly.But as today is not my ordinary or systematic day, I am here in my father’s house with Inessa. I think this is the first time I am in the house with Inessa. However, I am not to talk to dada. Every time I come here, either dada calls me or I want to spend some time with him, except today I have other matters on my mind.I go to the kitchen, the only place I will find my younger sister Lyra. Sunday morning is the time she cooks a feast for the family. Lyra served the breakfast in the outdoor dining space. And today’s sunny weather is perfect for the banquet.Inessa and I walk into the living room. I need to drop her off at work after we finish our breakfast here. I planned to visit my family alone, but suddenly s
The auction is in two days, and here I am convincing Luke to take part in the show. This time we are doing a bachelor auction.This never happened in Chicago, but I know in New York they set up this kind of show for charity. I need to gather the hottest male in Chicago in the shop. Ladies will bid for money. The one who offers the most wins a date with the man. Dean Harper, Gavin Malcolm, Evan Thomas, Vero’s brother Freddie and Harold Gomez, even my brother-in-law Owen, agree to take part in it. But I need Luke too. He is my greatest weapon, or should I say my hidden one.It will be great if I can get my hand on Nathan. I know just his presence is adequate to make ladies go frenetic. His smiles are enough to throw them in his arms. Ladies' knees go weak in front of Nathan Hall. Married or single doesn’t matter, they love Prince Nathan wholeheartedly.The womanizer Nathan is well-informed in this field, he knows how to make his
Inessa and I pick up Hazel and Miles after the party. Maria was expected to join us, but she has something significant to do.We don’t really need Maria that way. It was Inessa who insisted that Maria join us, and I didn’t have any problem, so I gave her the nod. I have a cook and some other staff at my mansion in Naperville, where we will go tomorrow morning to spend a day together before Hazel leaves.Once upon a time, I vowed to stay away from Simmon’s absurdity, but I feel for Inessa. After finding out Hazel will be out of Chicago in no time, she starts to get upset. Even if she doesn’t claim anything, I know her heart is sinking thinking about the separation of her dear sister.The way she packed our house with her sibling’s pictures or the way she talks about them with a tender grin and glory in her eyes is verification of the unconditional affection that she possesses in her heart from them.Even
2 years later “Dada, we are going to be late. Hurry up.” Mavin, our son, roars. This is his morning custom. He wakes up before everyone in this house and starts screaming for us to start our day. Morning sex is now just a delightful dream for us. Mavin doesn’t allow a minute for Brian and me to have some delicious morning sex. “Mama, you need to be in a hurry, too. Today is the parent’s day of my school.” “We should throw his get-up-and-go thing out of the window,” Brian murmurs. “I’m starting to hate kids again.” “You love him and kids too,” I mumble in sleep. “That’s why you adopted him after proposing to me for marriage. And the little girl Aurora we are adopting tomorrow is also your decision, Mr. McCoy.” “I am going to regret it again. I have a feeling, you know.” “Mama, dada, hurry up.” Mavin thwacks on our bedroom door. Two years ago, on my graduation
I can’t believe my eyes for what they are seeing, my ears for what they are hearing, and my mind is having a tough time with all this stuff.He is here in front of me, drinking coffee, saying sorry for all his delinquency, declaring his passion and devotion for me, giving us a chance to make up. He is asking me out on a date.Okay, Mr. Brain, one thing at a time. My depressed heart can’t take all these revelations without experiencing a heart attack.I close my eyes and think about Brian’s monologue, and it demonstrably made me the happiest person. I should have recorded the conversation between us to hear the words out of his mouth again and again. It will be so fun, damn it, I missed it. I don’t perceive why, but seeing Brian pinning me over, or so much despondency for me, the anguish that his eyes hold, I love it.I am officially a dreadful person. I should feel bad for his suffering, but here I am enjoyin
Inessa, the woman I fell in love with, is standing right in front of me. My wife is still the same. Nothing changed in these three long weeks when we were apart from one another. If anything, she becomes more magnificent; she is shining more than ever; the moonlight shines her glorious long hair luminously. The big, round green eyes draw me instantaneously, the pink full lips that I am dying to stain red with my lips.God, I missed her so much. These three weeks without her was simple torture, which I deserve with no doubt. Honestly, I ask more than that. Maybe a whack or a blow will be less compared to what I did to her.I accept the fact and was ready to leave her alone for life. But in the end, I failed.After reading the letter Inessa left for me, I realized how churlish I was in our marriage with her. And that’s not civil to her or any woman on this globe. No one deserves to be affronted by their better half.But I did th
Three weeks later,Life goes on. I get settled in my apartment with Mavin the night I leave Brian, our marriage, and our house.I wept the first week was the toughest to pass with everything in my mind and the current development as a single parent; it was stifling at a point. Of course, Maria is still here for me, it’s rough.Without having Brian by my side, I understand I indirectly depended on him for many things. The way we experienced our lives for the last two months was incredible.Every morning waking up simultaneously, having sex in the shower, eating breakfast, leaving together for my college and his office as most of the time he gave me a ride, coming home, waiting for him, dinner with marvelous food and giggle, cuddle on the couch with a movie on the background or his work on the laptop, falling on the bed together, having sex, cuddling again before collapsing in the dream in one another’s ar
The sound is growing heavier. I try not to give any attention to that act what I am doing but nope, this fucking noise is just getting rowdy. I settle the cushion over my head to cut off the echo from wherever that is showing up. With my two hands, I put pressure around my ears over the cushion in order to kill the vibration. It still doesn’t work.“Fuck it.” I get up from the bed and sit down in the midst of the bed.Because of my hasty movement, I lose my balance and almost fall down on the bed again. I hold my skull with two of my hands and scream. The thumping noise that feels as if a hammer was striking some metal material is nowhere but in my head.The headache that I am dealing with right now is the clanging noise that wakes me up from my sleep when I finally enjoy nights of sleep after so many sleepless nights.“You are up, big guy?” Robbie’s head peeps through the door.“What
Brian is sitting on the couch, drinking hard liquid with a poker face when I enter the apartment with sleepy Mavin in my arms. I expected a frown, questions, curious looks seeing a baby in my arms, but I got nothing. He doesn’t even look at me when I pass the living room to get in the guest room. He sits on his couch, eyes on the ceiling to floor window, observing the night sky with deep-rooted courtesy.All the way from the hospital to home, my heart was thumping so damn quick that I almost passed away in uneasiness. God, it is still beating fast.In my head I keep arranging my conclusions, forming sentences. How to apply the appropriate words, lines, sentences to break the news to him is all I could think about.I realize it’s already late. I should have finished this for the first time I went to see Molly, but I didn’t know why I held myself back from talking about this with Brian.Particularly, I am ashamed of
“Sir, you have an eleven-clock meeting with the investors later, another with Mr. Curtis around 5 pm, and the dinner meeting with Mr. Dean Harper,” Linda confirms my to-do list for the day, like all the time.This is the first thing Linda does every morning. She confirms my work timetable, takes note if I need something or needs to do something after that she goes to her, and I give attention to mine.Except for today, there is a disaster.I wanted to talk to Inessa last night about her changing attitude. She’s coming home late, it is growing into a pattern for her now, the fastest she comes home is 10 pm after dinner, occasionally it’s after 12 am.Every time I asked her where she was, she said lies. Sometimes she was with Veronica, which was a white lie. I saw the messages between them. Veronica is not talking to her. She is currently angry after the auction incident between us.Sometimes she would s
Things are getting messy as days are passing. Molly and Mavin get settled in my apartment that I got from my father on my eighteenth birthday. The gift was to show the world how good a father Andrew Simmons is or to show the money he has on his bank account.Whatever the reason was, I am happy to have a place of my own.It’s been a week since they moved in and started over a new life. I am getting to know Mavin a little, but, honestly; I don’t get much time to spend with him. The auctions Hazel and Miles Brian take the major time of my day; after that, I need to study for my final exam that is coming up in two months. With all this stress going on, on top of that, Vero is not talking to me because Brian blackmailed her to do something that she didn’t want to do.Vero didn’t respond to any of my texts or talk to me when we were on campus. She isn’t even sitting with me during classes.With all this, it&r
Inessa and I pick up Hazel and Miles after the party. Maria was expected to join us, but she has something significant to do.We don’t really need Maria that way. It was Inessa who insisted that Maria join us, and I didn’t have any problem, so I gave her the nod. I have a cook and some other staff at my mansion in Naperville, where we will go tomorrow morning to spend a day together before Hazel leaves.Once upon a time, I vowed to stay away from Simmon’s absurdity, but I feel for Inessa. After finding out Hazel will be out of Chicago in no time, she starts to get upset. Even if she doesn’t claim anything, I know her heart is sinking thinking about the separation of her dear sister.The way she packed our house with her sibling’s pictures or the way she talks about them with a tender grin and glory in her eyes is verification of the unconditional affection that she possesses in her heart from them.Even