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2024-10-29 19:42:56The days of hiding from the press were finally over, Jake walked briskly, yet gallantly to his office, and all his employees were baffled at his aura. There was no ounce of sadness or frustration on his face.
Those who wanted to give their sympathy held it to themselves, Although they wondered why he was able to maintain such composure, they kept quiet and wondered among themselves.Jake sighed impatiently as he waited for the elevator to get to the eleventh floor. He fixed his jacket properly with his right hand while he held on to his briefcase with the other hand. Soon, he heard a clicking sound and the doors to the elevator opened to review a passage.He came out almost immediately and walked through to the end of the passage to reveal another door. He opened it and was welcomed by his secretary who rushed to collect his briefcase and opened the door leading to his office. That's how secluded Jake's office is to the other offices in the company.
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Jake looked at Sandra in shock as she gripped a pocket knife tightly.” What the fuck are you trying to do?” He queried.“I'm trying to get rid of the imperfections in your life! Isn't that what you always wanted?” Sandra asked before raising the knife. “I'm going to kill myself and our child!” She further yelled. At this point, Jake knew he had to act smartly. He knew Sandra well enough, that if her mind was navigated on something, she was going to do so.“Give me the knife,” Jake commanded as he stretched his left hand towards her.“I'm not giving you if I kill myself, you'd stop all your troubles,” Sandra replied hotly as she stepped back.“Give me the knife, Sandra, do not make me hijack it from you.” Jake threatened and she shrugged nonchalantly, Still holding the knife.“You think you can have a better life once I'm dead? Hell no! You'd rot in jail, where you truly belong!” Sandra yelled hysterically.“Stop this nonsense and give me the damn knife!” Jake spoke coldly, trying to
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It was the next day In Osborne's Residence, in the afternoon to be precise, Mr. Osborne Robinson just received a call from their family doctor regarding Sandra. “Sir, Jake brought Sandra in today, she wasn't in the best condition," he said."Thank you for the information doctor, I will call him right now for details," Mr Osborne replied and ended the call.Mr. Osborne phoned Jake immediately he ended the doctor's call. Likewise, Jake picked up the call on the second ring.“Hello Dad," Jake started., "I would like to see you right now, and I mean now." Mr. Osborne replied"Hope there's no problem Dad?" Jake asked slowly, wondering why his father would want to see him at this time of the day. “Get yourself here and let's discuss the problem and be sure to come with Sandra too." Mr. Osborne spoke sternly before he ended the call.At this point, Jake knew the problem they wanted to discuss was about Sandra and how she ended up in the hospital. He sighed helplessly as he walked to Sandr
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"This is the third time I'm calling him and he's still not picking up. Why isn't he answering my calls? I'm very sure he's with his phone because he's never without his phone" Sandra murmurs to herself, pacing with her phone in her hand.She dialed Jake once more and it went straight to voicemail this time around. With a rather displeasing look on her face, she stared at her phone like so hard, like staring it would prompt Jake to pick up the phone or return her call in the least."What could possibly be the reason he's not picking up my calls? He shouldn't be at the company or the foundation by this time so what exactly is keeping him?" Sandra asks no one in particular, anger evident in her voice."If he's not at the company or the foundation then could he possibly be? Could something have happened or maybe......." Sandra trailed off and stopped pacing as realization hit her."No no no no no. There's no way, it's not possible. It can't be. He can't possibly he's with her can he?" Sa
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Jake is seen in his office, flipping through the pages of a document, to any person looking at him they'd think he was actually paying attention to what he was looking at.But he was absent-minded as his mind had wandered back to the events of last night, especially back to the company he had with him and the words that were spoken.Zara made Jake feel alive and like himself, he laughed more yesterday than he had in a very long while which said a lot about her.Jake smiled to himself as he remembered how she looked in her green dress, her beautiful smile, and her delicate features. Zara was a very expressive person, you could tell how she was feeling at a particular time just by looking at her.And to think she had feelings for him made his brain go into overdrive and made his heart hammer loudly against his chest.Suddenly, a knock on his door interrupted his train of thought and he frowned for a moment before remembering he was in his office.Clearing his throat and adjusting his ti
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"Well, my day started nice because I was thinking of last night, you in particular. It just took a wrong turn though, as a result of the news getting to me not less than about 30 minutes ago" Jake says to Zara on the other end.He proceeds to narrate the events that took place not too long ago to Zara and it leaves her speechless, bemused, and very much engaged because she detests people who take advantage of others."The nerve of those men, I can't believe they did that and still dared to deny it in front of you and those poor, innocent women. I'm sure they both have families, yet they dare to do this to someone else?" Zara is enraged at what Jake just told her."That's exactly how I felt when I heard of it, and the fact that it was reported before but nothing was said or done to those scumbags, no form of action was taken against them. It fills me with rage to even imagine what those women would have been going through. I'm not even related to them and I'm this pissed just imagine i
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Jake and Zara are seen in the restaurant preparing to have dinner together as they earlier planned.They chose to have dinner in an Italian restaurant this time. The waiter comes forward, offers them the menu, and asks if they're ready to order."Umm not yet, you can leave the menu. We'll let you know when we're ready, for now, we'll just have a glass of water each" Zara says first."Instead of the water, bring us your best wine, a glass for both of us, or just bring the bottle" Jake counters while smiling at Zara causing her mouth to hang open."What color sir? Red or white?" The waiter asks Jake."White wine please, thank you," Jake says as the waiter nods before leaving. "Why'd you do that Jake? Why did you ask for wine when we could have just had water and why ask for the whole bottle?" Zara asks Jake, still in shock."I presume you told the waiter to hold with the food because you wanted to say or ask me something and you didn't want to have to share your attention between the f
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Jake is in his office, facing the floor-to-ceiling windows opposite his office door, resting even though it is very early in the morning. He seems tired because of the turnout of events at the restaurant where he and Zara alone were supposed to have dinner.He tried calling Zara last night but she didn't pick up and it got him worried. If he was to look at it properly, if he were her he wouldn't pick up either so he just stopped calling her and let her decide to call her the next morning.She was so humiliated yesterday by his brother and Sandra and she took everything without saying a word in her defense.The one thing she asked of him, he couldn't do it for her. She begged him that she didn't want to be involved in any kind of drama at all but the exact opposite happened.He had already tried calling her this morning, it just kept ringing, and she didn't pick up. Maybe she was still mad at him, if she still was, he couldn't blame her.He had already made up his mind to go to the fou
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