Chad gasped and took steps away from me. "What?" He stood, perplexed.
"Tom is my boyfriend." I repeated the words even though I was aware he had heard me the first time. I stared at my feet, my cheeks red from the embarrassment that followed the situation.
When he said nothing in response, I looked up to meet his gaze. He appeared to be a lot more embarrassed than myself.
"I tried to explain it to you but-" I decided to clarify further, Chad turned around instead to leave my office. I could only assume what he felt like after the whole situation.
"Sir please." I swallowed, moving towards him.
He stopped me in my tracks with a bellow, "stay away. It's a warning."
I stopped walking and gulped instead. He was not taking things well. I watched him disappear from sight and I knew I was in for a terrible day.
*
The day felt so long, Chad had not
NikkiI was too exhausted to go to work but I owed it to living my life that way everyday. I stood up from bed and walked to the mirror to check my forehead out. Luckily, the size of the wound had calmed a bit and I admittedly felt a lot better.I wondered how Chad would react to my presence at work or if he would even talk to me. I knew if he kept up with things in that manner, it would only be a matter of time before he sent me packing."Hey! So unfair!" I yelled at the television where a young secretary got to kiss her boss in a movie. "Life is a bitch." I rolled my eyes, putting more butter on my bread.In no time, I was out and ready to live the life I had been forced to live.*My office was empty, as expected. It was not the kind of empty I had imagined to see; where my books were scattered on the floor and everything I owned had been taken away from me. Instead, ev
I laid still and motionless on his desk. I heard his approaching footsteps and soon enough, his index finger was feeling my nose."Hmm, she died." He simply muttered. I squinted one eye open a little and caught that he was staring at me. To add more dramatic effect to the scene, I stuck my tongue out, leaning it against my left cheek, sharply shutting my eyes ba
A taken aback Chad came to settle on top of me, pulling my arms away so he could lift me from putting Rebecca through undeserved hell.He finally succeeded in so doing, getting me to stand to my feet while she'd been screaming her ass off the while time. "Calm down Nikki!" He snapped in shock.
I held on to the strong grip of the unknown man and tried to pull free from his touch, all to no avail."Let me go." I attempted to mumble but whoever he was, was stronger. The man in front of me pressed a handkerchief against my nose and whatever was inhaled got to me. The darkness instantly embraced me…
I took a wild interest in whatever it was Chad had to say. "Go on, I'm all ears." I pushed him to talk."I was born rich. That sounds so expected but yeah, there's that." He began, scratching his hair nervously. Why was he feeling nervous around someone like me?"Yeah, obviously." I rolled my eyes. It was easy to tell he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."My parents literally had my future set out for me, and you know, life felt rosy for a limit." He shrugged."What was your big story and what ruined you?" I asked.He knitted his eyebrows at me precisely. "What's that supposed to mean? What do you mean by ruin me?""Well, you see," I shifted in my seat and crossed one leg over the other, "life works weird for rich people. One minute, you guys are all happy and crap. Then next, one big incident changes everything and carves you into the man
"What? What do you mean by that?" I sat up in bed, unable to believe my ears. He had to be crazy to think I'd succumb to his foolish request, more like an order even."I mean you'll go with me to my mother's." He sounded confident.
I did all that Chad had asked me to and it was finally time to leave and head for the store like he had demanded. As I got into the matte black car, a brand I had no knowledge of- I was too poor for all of that detail- I knew this was going to be a ride of my life."Why did you change your mind? You said we would leave tomorrow or was I hearing things? Did she ask you t
"Chad!" I panicked, picking the dress up and attempting to use it to cover up my nakedness.He stood still as if what he was doing was not an invasion of my privacy.A smirk played on his sexy lips and he leaned against the door. "Well, I don't understand why you're covering up." He said, coming closer and getting ready to close the distance between us. "You are my pretend fiancee so what with the shyness."I had to be dreaming. I pinched my hand to confirm whether that was true or not. It hurt bad and I knew this was reality.He put his hands on my waist and I closed my eyes, afraid to see what would come next.When I felt him withdraw his hands, I calmed and reopened them to his forearm flexed. He had the string of my underwear attached to his index finger, suspended in air."Where did you get that?" I gasped, attempting to snatch it from him but he raised his hand
I stood to my feet, unable to process the worry that came with feeling this way."Are you drunk?" I asked after a while of thinking deeply about it."No." He said in a low voice.
“I just can't believe he would do that.” I sniffed and sat on one of the couches. I wanted to get things over with. If he had not been hesistant with accusing me like that, he was not worth my time at all.“What can I do?" Cornelius was trying his best to make me feel better and although I did appreciate it, it was not being helpful.
NikkiI stood from where I sat with furrowed eyebrows and my gazed fixed on Chad. "What is she doing here?" I was thrown back. My feet were unable to consume my balance and I felt trapped. I wanted to be out of there the quickest that I could.My eyes went back to Rebecca when she broke the silence for a confused Chad that could not stop scratching the back of his neck. He was clearly not expecting her to show up here and was not taking her entrance lightly.
“Rebecca what are you doing?” I retreated from her, my eye wide open in shock I had no proper reaction because it was utterly unexpected and my brain was still trying to understand what had happened and of course she had to take it the wrong way.“I see you are speechless, that means you are all in, huh?” she came even closer than before and pulled me loser to her face with a firm grip on my neck and that was all I really needed to snap back to my senses. “What on earth are you doing?” I raised my voice, harshly slapping her hands off of me, I did not care less if I was supposed to respect her but she was being disrespectful and nothing pissed me off more.
Nikki was curious to know what the outcome of my conversation had been but I was more keen on dismissing her. I wanted to spend time with her and even force her to stay overnight but if I had to deal with my Rebecca situation before it was too late, I knew that now was the right time."She is predictable, she said she wanted to say hello because she was passing by." I rubbed the back of my neck, knowing how obvious that was if a lie.She crossed one leg over the other and raised one suspicious eyebrow at me. "Chad...""Nikki, just ignore her please." I sat in front of her and poured her a glass of cold water. "You look like you can really use some of that."She didn't say anything in response, successfully making me further uncomfortable."I'm sorry." I heaved a sighed, "trust me." felt a omo grow in my throat from saying the words especially knowing I was not worthy of her trust
ChadI panicked internally as Nikki directed the security man to let Rebecca in. I was getting mad beyond my capacity as how inconsiderate Rebecca was being especially since we had just had met in my office only a few hours ago. I thought if she pissed me too far, I would give ahead to press charges on privacy invasion without hesitation."I'm not going to allow her into this house." I focused on my reality one more time and cut in with Nikki and the patient man still standing there, waiting for my decision. "Whatever it is she wants, I'll go speak to her myself." I said, turning around to meet Nikki's gaze and on seeing the frown that she had, I immediately went to her side and gave her a small kiss on her forehead."I'm sorry." I said when I pulled away, "don't worry about anything, I know how to feel with this." I assured her and looked up at the man, "come on."I left her slipping into
I frowned at the phone and wanted to answer it immediately. A part of medid not agree in that instant. I knew it was wrong, regardless of the caller being his ex-girlfriend that still gave me no right to intrude.
“What are you talking about?” I asked her, standing to my feet in shock. I placed both my hands by the edge of the desk to support the out of nowhere dizziness that suddenly seemed to spiral around me endlessly.“You heard me Chad.” She stood to her feet as well and folded her hands across her chest. She looked up at the ceiling and sighed before looking back at me. “I took one at home first and then I did a blood test.” She opened the purse in her hand and revealed what looked like a hospital test results. This was all the proof I needed to know that she was not playing.My hands
“What do you think you are doing?” I directed at Cornelius, my heart beating fast in shock, it seemed to be like it was all happening too soon and I did not have the time to be able to process what was going on.“Are you crazy? What the fuck, that is harassing me on a completely different level.” I stood to my feet and shove him aside with a rough push on the chest.He looked like he was surprised by my act and I really felt the need to slap that lo