"Your father is rumored to be returning to the country soon. How do you feel about that?" Alex inquired and she smiled, her heart easing up from the tension that something bad happened.
"Why did you act as if there was something else attached to this? I thought something had happened."Alex shrugged, "are you expecting something bad to happen? If you do, that's not good enough, why are you worried?" He replied and she stills, not knowing how to say this. She wasn't really worried about anything serious."You seem to be in touch with a lot of things. I was just scared that you probably knew something I didn't and I wondered what? I thought that you were about to break the news of maybe Brock committing an offense or whatnot, hence my fear.""Of course not, I would rather deal with those things than burden you."Brielle rolled her eyes. She didn't need a soothsayer to see that he just wanted to be the savior in the relationship. "N
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Alex and Briel exchanged a glance as they entered. The office was silent, and was broken by the soft click of their heels on the polished floor. It was well past working hours, the building was well emptied. Except for one desk. A lone figure hunched over a computer screen, fingers flying across the keyboard, was Martins. His brow was furrowed in concentration, but as they approached, it creased further into a scowl. "There you two are," he said, his voice clipped. "Running a bit late, aren't we?" Briel offered a placating smile, forcing cheer into her voice. "So sorry, Martins. Traffic was a nightmare. You know how it gets in the city." Martins grunted, unconvinced. "Doesn't explain why Alex is late too. Unless you two decided to turn a business meeting into a late lunch." A flicker of suspicion played in his eyes. Alex bristled. "It was nothing like that. Just unexpected delays." He wasn't in the mood for Martins' accusa
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The car jolted to a stop in front of the house and Martins can still feel his heart slamming against his chest. He made a mental note never to participate in anything like that ever again. He exhaled, and just rested his head on the headrest taking steady breaths as he switched off the ignition. The trio trooped out of the car and they all walked into the house and all three of them sat down on the chair. They all had probably been scared when the whole thing was going down but they held fast and now their little mission had yielded results. Brielle stood up after a while and spoke first. “You guys must be famished, let me go get something up,” she said with a smile, turning around and heading to the kitchen. “Huh?” Alex said. “Are you sure you are not too tired to…?” Alex started but Brielle cut him short. *Oh don't worry about it, I am just going to microwave something, it should be fast,” she said and just waved him down. <
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Two days later, Brielle drops the phone and exhales for the third time. “What?” Alex asked as he flipped another page from his book. “Just my family is trying to convince me to come to grandma's meeting,” she replied. “It is not that I don't wanna go or anything but the whole thing always ends in violence and issues, I am tired of that and it isn't really safe.” She sighed. Alex stopped reading and glanced at her. “You do know they'll keep calling you right?” He asked. “Yeah…” she said. “I do know.”Alex was about to say another thing when her phone rang again. She sighed and Alex couldn't help but chuckle as she clicked the receiver. Her husband watched her take the call and the ensuing conversation didn't last five minutes before Brielle agreed to go. She hung up and a little smile hung up her face. “So, why did you change your mind?” Alex asked. “My father… they said my father is coming back,” she said with a s
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Alex put his car to a top in the office's parking space and yawned before even opening the door. He already felt tired going to work today but he was familiar with that silly feeling of initial lethargy. The moment he stepped out of his car he already began to feel alive. He closed his car's door and locked it behind him before walking down to his office. He walked into the office and just greeted everyone as he walked down the hall. The office seemed lively today as everyone greeted him happily and they were all going on about their work with immense speed. He greeted everyone with a wide smile.At last he reached his office room, he clicked it open and sat down relaxing his body before beginning the work for the day. He flipped open his computer system and then he heard a knock on his door. “Come in,” he said. The door clicked open and Martins walked in and heard towards him with a sense of urgency and excitement in his face. “Good morning s
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He watched as she placed a tiny brush on her eyelashes and straightened it one after the other. He was already fed up with all this and he knew if he left she probably would start an argument. She had funny ways of acting sometimes. “Brielle,” he called. “We need to leave soon, I already reserved seats for us but if we don't show up an hour after the time we booked they have the right to resell our seats,” he advised calmly. She turned around and smiled. “I am done,” she said.“Oh great, so let's go,” he said eagerly, lifting himself from the chair he'd been confined to. “No,” she said. “I just finished with the first eye, I can't leave the second one like that.”Alex stared at his wife for a while and then exhaled. “Yeah meet me in the car,” he said and then walked out of the room sighing. He could hear her chuckling behind him. Before he reached downstairs she was behind him laughing hard. “You have the patience of
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Alex was on his way to meet Nikki at her lawyering firm to emphasize on how happy he was at the recent outcomes.He sees her sitting at her desk and barges into her office in a happy pose.“Nikki… I'm happy and grateful about everything that's going on, I can't thank you enough.” Alex says and Nikki smiles at him.“Is that so?” Nikki utters leaving the work on her desk to focus on what Alex was saying “My brother is even trying to get close to me now.” He says and Nikki looks at him reluctantly.“Really?” She didn't know why but she just couldn't believe that. “Are you sure he isn't just feigning it?” Nikki asked.“Yes, I know, quite possibly he is.” Alex thought to himself as he was lured into his own thoughts.The next Friday, on a dark evening, exactly by 4:00 pm…Alex and Nikki meet up at a bar, Alex and her begin to chatter away about different events and what not.Suddenly, Nikki's countenance changes and Alex notices in an instance.“What is it Nikki?” He asked, feeling a bit
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Alex slowly lifts himself up on his office chair on hearing the sound of loud cheers from outside.He hears them clapping and shouting out and wonders what it was that was going on.He slowly got up and made his way downstairs to the front door only for him to creak the door open and see Liam and his co-workers before him.“Surprise…Happy birthday!!!” They all shout in unism leaving Alex stunned.What were they doing? He asked inwardly in skepticism, it was way too early for any of this, he didn't even get the chance to recall that it was his birthday.Was something wrong with all of them? Alex pinched the space between his eyebrows in annoyance.A better question was, why was his brother and his crew here to start with?“Sing him a happy birthday song.” Liam announces to his team as he chuckles happily.Alex didn't know what his brother was up to this time, but he wasn't getting a good feeling about it at all.He knew very well that his brother was just feigning this sudden closene
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Alex was pissed by the news he heard but decided to keep his cool. Brielle was probably trying to pass him a message that he'd not understand if he didn't keep calm. "Oh, she is? Extend my greetings." He replied sarcastically Nikki was shocked by the way Alex answered. One would think that he'd have made it obvious that she made a move on him but he was mature enough about it. Her friend had truly won a jackpot. She concluded.Brielle chuckled, "but can you come home a bit early tonight. I have good news for you." She replied.Alex thought that it had a double meaning. "Will do. Have a nice day." He replied and hung up immediately. He was pissed with that lady in his house. What he didn't tell Brielle was the fact that Nikki was telling him that she was better than Brielle and had more influence to help him achieve his aim.He was wiser than her though. Although she was his wife's friend, he'd use her till he needed her no more. "You have become very close to your husband, that's gr
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