Tossing his head painfully, Jamole mumbled within himself, “Would there be a time when Stella and her boss would regret what they just did to me?”
He stood in the middle of the road, collapsed under the pounds of his ill fate and came upon his wobbly knees. At the time his sweaty palms had dented the divorce papers with dirt. He needed to affix his signature on it to legally seal up the divorce between him and Stella.
From deep down his lovelorn, catastrophic soul, he intoned, “Soon you will regret it, Stella,”
“Where do I go from here now?” he mumbled within himself, still on his knees and not regarding the onlookers who could probably be investigating the misery which had robbed him of the iota of peace in his mind.
He shot a gloomy gaze at the woolly sky above before gazing at himself from head to toes; Stella had proven to be the man in this marriage; he had to prove her wrong.
“So because I couldn’t afford a gold ring early enough she found it pertinent to cheat on me with her boss. Oh this is the height of it!” He sniffed, came to a painful hurt.
The pounding of his heartbeat echoed that name too. And then staring around, he was affronted by the reality of his loneliness; he had no one by his side now.
He was all alone in this shredded part. All he had and could be boastful of were the two jobs; his duty as a janitor at the municipal post office and the town hall. He would have to return to his boss, Dean Bur and brief him of his interest to resign from either of the jobs.
There was no need handling two jobs since his reason for subscribing to it had offended his sanity. He had decided to do two jobs so he could earn enough money and buy her the gold ring; aghast after his failed marriage, everything was about falling into ruin now. “Stella you did this to an orphan,” he recalled, and forced a smile.
He had taken Stella to the registry to be married, just few months after he lost his parents in a ghastly car accident. He only had thought his solace bellied in Stella who had promised his bereaved soul to be there for him whether in good or bad times.
“Where are the promises today?” he asked his thought as he glided down to the road to his work place.
He went crimson once he realized Stella had only betrayed his emotions with unfulfilled promises. As serious as it were, it would have been better if Stella had promised that a time would come when she would flirt with her boss in their matrimonial bed.
“Gawd!” he exclaimed as thought of the heartbreak deranged his morality to behave insanely even on the road.
He couldn’t stop murmuring and growling in hurt.
“Oh Lord I beg of you please see me through this phase of my life. If I ever scale through this fate,” he sounded, “If I ever survive this dilemma,” he reaffirmed, “Oh Stella I promise to avenge all you did to me,” he grinned and realized that her sizable photo was still kept in his wallet.
He sighed, fondled into his pocket, took out the wallet and pulled out her photo. Through the edifice of hurt that had erupted in him, he tore her photo between his teeth and made sure he shredded it.
“You and your boss will pay for this. I will bounce back. I will survive, and when I do neither of you will escape my fury. I just pray I survive,” he beamed, raised his crimson face at the sunny sky above and craved for grace to leap to the top of the society.
His gaze came upon his finger carefully and he saw their wedding ring was still intact on his finger; he had been faithful in this marriage till this moment when he stood on his last toes. With his eyes shut and through warm tears, he pulled out their wedding ring, glared around and saw a trash can by the corner.
He trashed it and heaved a breath of relief for the first time in his life; it wasn’t easy and it had never been easy to wave bye to a marriage of ten years wherein lay his pain, abuse, disrespect, and humiliation.
Meanwhile the Arabic Coral Gold Ring was still held firmly in his hand. Although he gazed upon it with disdain, and the feeling that it kept reminding him of Stella, yet he thought it wise to return it to the store where he could resell it, since it was valuable.
Lost in his gloom and butchered thought, he never knew he was walking carelessly not until he bumped into a pretty-looking, young disable lady in a wheel chair.
Surrounded with the shock of bumping into a dashing lady with such physical challenge, the gold ring left his hand and fell on her thighs.
“Oh, oh I am sorry. Please forgive me,” he tendered an apology. “I…I didn’t realize I was bumping…” he stuttered as his voice was stolen by her reaction.
Rather than get mad at him, this strange disable lady became all smiles, took the gold ring and settled her gaze of admiration upon it, “Your ring looks beautiful. I wish I could own it.”
He stared agape, went down on his knees and replied, “Yes, you could own it. Can you be my wife then? Let’s marry,” he said in frustration.
Something was about happening.
When he arrived at the municipal post office complex he was already gasping for breath and sweating like a pig.His wife that used to assist him with transport fare had divorced him and life seemed to be throwing at him now.About drifting to the dress room to change into his uniform and resume cleaning, his boss’s beaming voice caught him. “Jamole! You are late again. You rotten maggot!” he cursed. Dean Bur was his boss, a tall, strong featured man who humiliated him at any slightest chance.“What do you have to say about this Jamole?” he pointed around the dirty complex, “The whole place is messed up over the weekend. I expected you to resume on time and clean up before customers would start coming.” He was almost raising his voice. “I need explanations, fool.”Jamole raised his gaze and raised a pitiable, sullen brow. “Apologies, boss. I shouldn’t have come late. It …it,” he stuttered, “It is just that I have unsolved problems with my wife, who deprived me my transport fare that is
“Jamole.” Susan called in like manner, letting a contagious smile deck her face.Jamole was still star-struck; his weight heaved on his knees and he suddenly realized his legs couldn’t carry his body anymore.“Who is she? Who is Susan for Christ sake?” who did I propose marriage to?”Millions of such questions hovered in his thought as he stared engagingly at Susan who was being ridden in her wheel chair by her security.“Susan!” Jamole called once more through teary tone, “Is this really you? What is happening?”He needed to ask such questions because Susan wasn’t just looking dashing but glamorous and charming than any country side celebrity. Unlike the other day when he met her begging in her wheel chair, looking all dirty, smelling and unkempt.She had her French hair made into a ponytail. Her dress was mini gown from the royalty fashion style. The diamond bracelet and necklace that wound round her neck and wrist were worth one million dollars.“Who the hell is Susan?” a thoughtful
Jamole kept pinching himself just to be sure he wasn’t dreaming. Swan Pablo kept ringing in his head and he began to recall all about Swan Pablo.Swan Pablo was the richest tycoon in Antipolo who had avarice of group of companies in real estate. He was the CEO of the prestigious Swan Real Estates and a few months ago he was worth two billion dollars. Swan Pablo was a fat cat everyone wanted to reckon with.Anitpolo never knew much about Swan’s private life and family even everyone thought he never had family. And never in Jamole’s life had he thought the disable girl he proposed marriage to was Swan’s daughter and only child.“I am Susan Pablo, my dear,” Susan intoned, all smiles, as she sat next to Jamole in the Lamborghini.“Oh my God! So this is true. What is about happening to me? What fate is about to befall me? Susan Pablo? Swan Pablo’s daughter?” Jamole sounded in his mind.Seeing the cloud of surprise on his face, Susan explained yet further, “As a matter of fact I am the only
For over thirty minutes Jamole sat behind closed doors with Susan as he perused through the documents. And he stared at the documents and the information therein.He couldn’t believe his eyes. Swan Real Estates Group covered a wide array of real estates in England, America, Philippine and Spain. With over ten thousand houses and five hundred acres of land.“There we are Jamole,” Susan slammed a document into her palms. Flipped through them and pointed into it, “You know, father being industrious has always admired the hospitality industry. But unfortunately his sickness couldn’t let him do that. This is just the master plan for his hospitality business.”“If I work harder with the best team I can help him bring that to pass, dear,” Jamole replied. “Right now I am no only serving as your husband but heir to the Swan group. I promise to make your family proud and double the total net worth of the group in the shortest time.”Susan shook her head in confirmation as she flipped through mor
Jamole stood to his feet, advanced to the mirror opposite and took a glance at himself. His face lacked emotion and there was nothing on his mind other than vengeance.Susan was still mad at him. She steered her wheel chair toward Jamole as she couldn’t stop questioning him. “It is absolutely demeaning and embarrassing that my husband who is supposed to be the heir to the prestigious Swan Real Estate is opting for the position of a janitor.”Jamole gazed upon Susan and saw her face go crimson. He owed her a lot of explanation and he was going to let her into his pain in a short while. But for now he would have to disguise as a janitor. His vengeance was going to be slow and steady. None of his enemies will escape his stroke.“I know my dear. I appreciate this opportunity your family has offered me and I promise to be loyal till the end of time. But you see I am just a simple, humble man,” he lied and wouldn’t want Susan to know that Stella was his ex wife and she cheated on him with he
“That is not going to work. It is absolutely non negotiable, daughter!” Swan refuted and was interrupted by a whooping cough.Susan had visited him in his sick bed to brief him about Jamole’s intention to disguise as a janitor at the office and his quest for a quite wedding.“Go and tell your fiancée that I, Swan Pablo will not be a party to such awkward intention. He is serving as the heir to our empire because we are not healthy. You have to make him understand what position he holds. Doesn’t he know that he stands to inherit my wealth when I am gone?”“I have made him understand, father,” Susan replied and was pushed in the wheel chair by one of the securities. She rode closer to have a tête-à-tête with her father. “I don’t know what he is up to, father.”Swan Pablo averted his gaze to the wall, feeling hurt about Jamole’s sudden decision to disguise as a janitor and to go for a quiet wedding.Swan returned his gaze on her. “He is not going to disguise and your wedding will be loud
The next day Jamole rode on a scooter to the Swan Real Estate complex. As usual the rush hour on Monday morning couldn’t let him go into the sky scraper which had SWAN REAL ESTATE GROUP written on it.Jamole sucked a deep breath upon seeing the splendor of Swan Real Estate. Indeed Swan Pablo was the richest tycoon in Antipolo and he was fortunate to serve as his heir.“I can’t believe I own all of this now and these busy staff are under my control. What a life,” he said in his mind as he gazed upon the towering sky scraper.Jamole could see the tons of staff that rushed into the elevator to sign into their offices and get down to work. He was having handy a brown envelop which had his application letter for the post of a janitor he was applying for.When he saw two young men in blue jumpsuit and Swan Janitor written on their back, he knew those were the people he would work with, while he carried out his vengeance.“Hey, hey,” Jamole called on the janitors who were about to get down to
Roger burst into a maddening laughter and almost choked on it. “Come on darling you should have given the pig an opportunity to be one of our janitors. I think we would need him for our dirty toilets.”They burst into a huge laughter again and stamped a peck on each other’s cheeks.Jamole snorted, breathed uneasily and lowered his gaze. The table had turned now so he wasn’t going to cry like he used to. Right now he was very much aware of the fact that he was the heir to Swan Real Estate and Stella and Roger were his staff now.“Would they ever believe it that they were answerable to me now? Would they believe that the same dirty-looking fellow standing before them has been given the supreme power to pilot this two billion dollars worth of company?” he said in his mind.Jamole protested. “You shouldn’t have done that. You should have handed to me my envelope the same way I handed it to you. I have come to make money and not to make troubles…”He was left gaping when Stella interrupted