A LOSER, TODAY. A BILLONAIRE, TOMORROW

TEN

"Well, in a nutshell, all I am saying is that you should get married to me..." She said, her voice sounding like it's a usual sentence to her.

 To Issac, he is really hearing things. He had convinced himself that his ears has been hearing things lately. From being rejected by Amy and her parents and now this? How could Evelyn of all people sprouts these out?

 Could this be that his ear had stop functioning. If that is the case, then the doctor did not need to operate on his mother alone, he also need to be operated too. 

 "What is your reply to my handsome offer, Zik? Remember you have only two days left to find the money you are requested of." Evelyn Anderson said, wearing the same smirk Isaac hated to see on her face. It appears like the smile was mocking him.

 Issac stare at her like she was a stranger to him, his brows creased and line were visible on his forehead. What sort of reply is he going to give lady sitting before him?

 Of all men in the States, she did not seems to find any one suitable for her taste, making her to stoop so low to his own level? Does it makes any sense to the ears? Of course, it makes no sense at all —not even to Isaac.

 "I'm sure you are not going to reject my offer, isn't it?" Evelyn voice jolt him back to reality, interrupting his train of thought. "Think about the benefits, Zik. There are many things you are going to benefit from it if only you accept the offer, like I told you earlier; it's mouth watering."

He felt disgusted at her statements, has she gone completely nuts? "—and what if I told you I'm not interested? Either in your monetary benefit, you or the marriage?" Issac told her, his expression was unexplainable. 

His eyes seems to be turning red, blazing invincible fire as he clenched his fist like his was ready to punch Evelyn on her face but he is trying to control his rage.

Just yesterday, he had been humiliated by a wealthy guy and he is not ready to suffer the same fate as he have —if he try not to control his rage, he might end up trying some thing silly.

 The beating he had got yesterday still hurts him badly and he know trying anything stupid would only make it worse.

 "You don't dare say no to my offer Zik." Evelyn Anderson replied him, her voice rising slowly at it pitch. "Evelyn Anderson never loose and you of all people should know so, I go for what I want and get it at any cost."

She wasn't pleased by Isaac's reply and she look like her anger was starting to build up, Isaac felt it but still stood his ground.

 "I'm sorry to say, Evelyn..." Issac muttered as he paused his lips like he trailed off.

She was shocked to her bone marrow to hear him call her by her name and it reflects in her expression but Isaac did not give a damn about it because at that moment, the disgust he felt had melted away all the respect he had for her.

"...you lose this very big time. And you should stop thinking you will ever get what you are dreaming about because I'll make sure not to let it happen." He told her in a rough and husky voice.

Evelyn felt challenged, was he trying to challenge her? "Are you, by chance, challenging me now, Zik?" She requested demanding, she sounded far from friendly. 

 "Is that what it looks like to you?" Issac smirked at her, he's starting to enjoy his comeback at her. "I'm not threatening you but I am telling you the fact. Well, you might decide take it to be a threat but to me, I care less about what you think."

Evelyn Anderson realize that she can only get what she wants from him if she decide to act calm and drop her ego, arguing with him won't solve any problem but it will only worsen it the more.

She had known him for quite a while, Issac is a very hard nut to crack, he never goes back on his words and she have to deal with him with out difficulties.

 "You have to listen to me, Zik..."  Evelyn vocalized, sounding much calmer than she was before. "You don't have to take this too far, okay? I am offering you a request I don't think you would be able to deny. Stop being a hard nut which seems to difficult for me to crack, you and I know how much you will benefit from this."

 "I see no point why I should listen to you." Issac replied adamantly. "I don't want you and your money, you can go to hell with it for all I care. I can find a way out to save her myself, alright?"

 "Because you got jilted by your girlfriend or better still your ex, does not deny you the fact of getting married again, does it?" She uttered.

Issac was shocked at what Evelyn had just said. How did she manage to find out about this too?

First, she is aware of his mother's predicament and about Amy too? Issac wonder his many more things she seems to have known about him, truly, there is nothing about him that she does not know.

Has she been spying on him, really? If that is what she has been doing then that's too childish on her own part and that also means she have be stalking on him for a very long time that's why she got to know a lot of information about him.

 What type of woman would stoop so low to pry in to some one of his own state's personal affair? Definitely no one, expect Evelyn.

 "Did I hear you just say some thing about my fiancée too?" Issac wants to confirm if he had heard her talk or maybe again, he is imagining things in his head.

 "You heard me clearly." Evelyn replied, confirming her words. "And calling her your fiancée makes no sense to the hearing, Zik. Come to think if it, she has moved on with another man and I expect you to do the same too. Stop stalking her because she can never come back to you, Evans won't allow it."

 "When we talk about stalking, you are the one who keep stalking on your ex employees." He blurted out, pissed off. "I wonder how many more of your ex employees you've stalked like this."

 "What do you mean, huh?" Evelyn was already losing it but she try keeping herself calm by suppressing her anger, she can't let it get the better of her.

 "What type of lady are you, eh?" Issac asked with disgust written all over his face and it was visibly reflecting in his voice too. "Why do you stoop so low and decide to start spying on me? You've got no dignity in you to think it's proper to do such."

Rather than replying him, Evelyn gave him a snicker instead. What's the point of replying him in the first place when she know how best to make him comply to her?

 "I can see you have got nothing to do with your day." Issac countered in a flat and emotionless tone. "But you can't keep me seated here and just to keep ranting nonsense."

 "So, should I take that for a 'no'?" Evelyn questioned, already sensing his answer. "Are you really rejecting such handsome offer? Come to think of it, Zik. You should not let this opportunity slip off you before realizing it, think of the benefits in it too. You becoming my husband means you are also entitled to my wealth."

"Do I look like I am after your wealth?" Issac let out a loud hiss. "Who cares about how much luxury you are offering me? I don't want neither you or your money, you can't enslave me under the façade of marriage."

 Issac stoop up and dusted his butt, giving Evelyn his last hard glare and walked straight to the door.

 "You'll surely come back to me, Zik." Issac heard her say which made him stop on his track. "You will surely come back yearning for me because you have no other option to it."

 "Stop daydreaming on what is never going to happen, Evelyn..." Issac replied her nonchalantly. "...for it will never come to pass."

 With this, he left the office angrily and closed the door noisily behind him. What insolent have Evelyn got to have made her say such to him. Issac would never give in to her stupid offer, why would he?

"Is that what she called mouth watering?" Issac hissed inwardly, stomping out of the firm's building. "She must be sick to have say so."

 He had barely got to the gate when he receive a call, he frowned when he realize it was the doctor calling. He is yet to find the money but the doctor seems so impatient.

 "Mr Issac..." The doctor's voice filled the air, immediately put the phone to his ear.

 "I am coming with the money very soon, I'm close to finding the money." Issac sprouted out, interrupting the doctor from completing his sentence.

 "You don't have to come with any money again because it's very much unnecessary now, we only need you to sign the papers." The doctor said and fear gripped Issac immediately.

 To him, for the doctor to have asked him not to come with the money again means just one thing.

It better not be what he is thinking because he dreaded the thought of it, had he made a mistake by not accepting Evelyn's offer as soon as he can...?