"Well, won't you get the door?" Sasha asked Cassidy. Immediately, Cassidy's eyes moved from the door to Sasha. She raised her eyebrow as if to ask Sasha if she was absolutely serious."Are you fucking kidding me? I am not your slave and last time I checked, this was your office not mine. So go on! Get your door!" Cassidy said and relaxed back unto her seat. Sasha was not surprised. Cassidy was, after all, a very strong woman who could never be manipulated. "What exactly is your purpose in my life?" Sasha asked as she stood up and made her way toward the door. She was partially scared that it would be Jake standing on the other side of the door. She didn't even want to think of how bad it would be if he was the one. She knew that one way or the other, Chris would find out about it. After all, her colleagues had a very funny attitude of capitalising on any information that could find about her. They hated that she was a private person and so every sentence that had her name in it becam
"Cassidy!" Sasha yelled. "What?!" She responded innocently as if she did not know what she just did. She had always been a free spirit and that was one thing Sasha wanted so badly for herself but she couldn't have it. If she was a bit like Cassidy, she would have had Jake a long time ago. She wouldn't have been a coward and waited for him to make the first move. She would have told him how he felt and ensured that they ended up together. But unfortunately, she was nothing like Cassidy and so she lost the love of her life to a rich brat. "Michael please have a seat and ignore my friend," Sasha said as she sat down. "Oh, I don't really mind. I think I like her smart comments," Michael replied with a smile on her face. "Okay then, you can talk to her when you guys are alone but for now tell me why you have come to see me.""I was in the neighborhood and I thought to drop by." Michael said innocently."Oh don't play that card with me. You are always in my neighborhood and you don't al
"Since when did you start caring about that?" Sasha asked. "Come on Michael, tell me the truth." She didn't believe the lie one bit. She knew Michael like the back of her palm and she knew that he didn't just do things unexpectedly. He was a calculated man who thought about everything before he started doing it.Michael suspected that Sasha wouldn't believe a word that came out of his mouth. They have been friends for a long time and she knew him like the back of her palm. But he had still hoped that he would be able to get the information he wanted without having to do or say much."Okay, if you must know. I am here because I saw you walk in to the cafe when Jake was still in there," Michael said and held a sober face afterwards. "Are you spying on me, Michael?" Sasha asked and Cassidy snickered. She knew exactly where it was going."Spying on you?! God no, I was in the cafe with Jake before you came in. I had just left with another friend of his and I wanted to ask Jake something.
The dinner table was not as decorative as Jake had imagined it would be. For God's sake, it was the King's. They were wealthy and very sophisticated but they didn't put that much attention into their decoration for the dinner party. Maybe, it was because of the guest they were having over. Jake wasn't really the ideal son in law. In fact, he wasn't really the ideal anything but still, to maintain their reputation, they had to pretend to love him. Jake remembered how hurt Amanda was when he told her that he would be attending a dinner at the King's mansion. She had rejected the idea strongly. But Jake was his own man, with his own cash flow, he didn't need her to tell him what to do anymore. So all she was do was talk and yet he would still go ahead and do whatever he planned on doing. And that was attending the dinner. "Good evening Mr and Mrs King," Jake greeted them with a smile on his face. Ivy couldn't take her eyes off him. She wanted to hate him so much but how could she when
"Jake, wait!" He heard a voice call him as he stepped foot out of the door. He turned around and saw Ivy heaving as she ran towards him. She was beautiful. Exceptional if he could say. She had gotten golden locs on her hair and it looked better than when she didn't attach them. Her dress complimented her body extremely well and everything she wore brought out the beauty in her that he had believed were long gone. In his heart, he felt a stiring up of feelings for her again."What do you want Ivy?" He tried to hide what he knew was very obvious. But he had to try. It would be catastrophic if she got to find out about his true feelings for her. "Look, I just want to apologize for how my parents acted over there. I know it wasn't proper at all and I apologize for it." Jake had half expected her to do that. And he knew that if she did do it, it could only mean that she had other plans in mind. "It's fine. I will be on my way now. I honestly don't want to be in a place where I am not acc
Sasha was soaked in her bathtub when she heard her phone ringing. She was already lost in another world and when she was forced to open her eyes, she did not feel good about it at all.Picking up her phone, she saw an unsaved number and curiosity got the better of her and she picked up the call."Hello," she said and waited for another person to speak. After few seconds of silence, she spoke again, "hello?" This time, her voice was louder than before. "Hello, Sasha," Jake said softly and the voice vibrated on her entire body. She didn't need to ask who it was, she already knew. "Jake." That was all she could manage to say. Her thoughts had gone haywire and she needed time to bring them back."I'm glad you know me from my voice." She wasn't with him but she could see the smrik on his face and it unnerved her. "What do you want?" She asked, hoping that the question would remove that smirk from his face but it didn't even go close. "Well, I wanted to know how you were fairing and als
She didn't contemplate going to his house. Who was she to decieve herself? She knew that she missed him and even getting to talk to him would make so much difference in her life. It was everything she needed at that point. She was offered her wish on a silver platter. Nothing would make her to not go. It was just that simple. She pulled on the dress that Cassidy had helped her buy. She was saving it for a special occasion with Chris, but she considered this to be more important than any date with Chris. It was a black dress that held her in all the right places. Even though it wasn't body fitting, but she felt very comfortable and confident in it and to her, that was all she needed. Sasha took a car to Jake's house and convinced herself that she would not do anything. Jake didn't stress himself to clean the house. He knew the girl he had a best friend. She wasn't so interested in candles, and jazz music. All she wanted was a nice conversation in a calm place. And he made sure that i
"You have been keeping tabs on me?" Jake repeated her sentence. For the life of him, he had believed that she didn't mean what she said. She wasn't the type to say what she was thinking, especially when they were not so decent things. So how was it possible that she just made a statement like that, so easily? "Yeah. And it's a small city, we bump into each other a lot but I guess you are always so engrossed because you never notice me. And let's not forget Michael. You know that he is my friend as much as he is yours, right?" Jake mouth fell open. Everything that she said were really strange. Not because they were not true but because they were coming from Sasha. When did she become so bold?" "When did you become this bold person? Truly, I wanna know." "Just because I say the truth the way it is doesn't mean that I'm totally bold. Me being bold would have been me telling you that I have been standing here for some time now and you haven't so much as offered me a seat." Her easy sm