I LOST MY WAY Maven walked out of the office with happiness. This has to be the best day of her life after all the saga she has been through in the last months with her family and Al Thani’s. This contract is just like compensation for the days she had cried herself to sleep. “Hello Thomas,, we need to talk." Maven spoke into the phone after dialing Thomas’ line. Just within a few minutes,she got the response she had been waiting for. “Let’s meet at Dé Moon Lounge." The message came in as a shock. She had not thought that it would be quick since she had tried to reach him and he didn’t pick up. Sheshrugged, and with one hand on the steering she drove off to meet Thomas. Maven isn’t quite sure of the direction, so she turned on her G****e Map to help her, getting to a point where she missed her way and just then Thomas’ call came in. She stopped the car just to take the call. “You are taking so long to get here;is there a problem?” He asked her over the phone in a very calm and so
A MEETING“I decided to be here”. Maven responded the waiter arrived with a glass of wine for her.“You can have your drink,” Thomas told her. She quickly grabbed her drink and sipped a bit from it. “So what else are you hiding from me?” Maven asked with a glare in her eyes.“Well, I did all that because I wanted to know more about you and about your family. I was never rich though”. He responded truthfully.“That’s not true. Who is the old woman you said you needed money to save?” Maven asked him with a quizzical look in her eyes.“My grandma, Ma Elizabeth is a great woman, I grew up with her, she groomed me into the man I am today and then I got to meet my grandpa nay a few months ago. I never knew I had so much wealth waiting for me until they showed up at the police station where I was locked and detained unlawfully.” Thomas answered her. He grabbed the remaining drink on the table and took it slowly to his mouth.“So, how do you feel being at the top of your game?” Thomas asked
A GOOD DAYMaven didn’t bother to tell grandma about the contract she has been awarded. She hasn’t digested it in her own heart enough to relate it to grandma and her uncles but soon enough she would do it. She went straight to bed and laid down before the chef came to inform her about dinner that night.The day had finally come. Maven went to work that morning, and didn't do all that she had to do. This dinner was going to be a special one so she closed from work very early just so she could get herself ready for the party grandma was trying to organize.She was in the bathroom when her phone began to ring. She rushed out of the bathroom to take the call.“Hello”. She spoke into the phone with water dripping from her hand.“Hello Maven”. Grandma said.“Yes, grandma”“Yes, are you ready? It’s almost time. Are you ready?”“I am almost a set granny”. Maven answered and then put the phone down. She rushed back into the bathroom to continue.By the time she finished it was almost time for
NEVER SHOW UP HEREMaven got up quickly to get the door. She tilted her head and moved with her fingers swaying from left to right. She had a brisk smile on her face as she longed to open the door for Thomas. The moment she turned the door knob and came face to face with Sabastian her face turned a dark mode.“What the heck!” the comment burst out loud from her mouth and she squinted her eyes to watch him.“I brought you flowers”. He said to her, handing the flowers over. Maven looked down at the flower with disgust in her eyes and the expression on her face could tell she was irritated seeing him standing right there with that foolish flower bouquet in his hand.“Why are you here?How did you find out I am here?’ she questioned him rudely with her eyes howling at him.Sabastian had a smile on his face, he licked his lip quickly. Well, I was told you are here. I was at your place earlier. So I thought to stop by and give you this then say hello to Grandma Clara.“Well Ma Clara is not
I AM SORRYThe door opened and Derrick, Patrick and David walked in.“Yo! Grandma, why is the entire house filled with security aids? Are we having the president over at the house?” David asked with his loud mouth but just before grandma replied he saw the answer sitting right on the couch with Maven, laughing and giggling. Maven sure knows how to make her enemies grow envious in a flinch. She spoke to Thomas looking straight into his eyes when David and his accomplice came in he had a look of astonishment in his face.“Thomas? It can’t be dad come see”. He flipped the moment he saw Thomas sitting comfortably on his grandmother’s couch with a glass of the most expensive wine in grandma wine ware.“Yes, it’s me, you got a problem with that?’ Thomas asked while still sitting on the couch. The two main security aides were just by the corner watching.Thomas wore a broad smile on his face while he took a long drag of the wine again."You have to be calm, David grandma might not like this
FINALLY“Patrick I need you to take your son, he has done nothing but disrespect me every single time”. Grandma spoke the words with anger hanging on her tone.Patrick cleared his throat before letting the words out to grandma “ have done all I can to take him. Perhaps you could help me talk to him just as you groomed him into the man he is”. Thomas said the word with fear and terror in his tone but he had to say it anyway. Grandma is fond of ruining things and blaming it on other people and since this time it's inescapable Patrick did the right thing by calling her out.Grandma eye balled the gun for a while before continuing to chew her chicken.“That's it. I won't have any of this nonsense anymore”. She spoke in a subtle but pissed tone that made Patrick panic a bit in his seat but he definitely knows that his mother can not ask him out of the house because he is her first child.“I can't do much about it mom”. Patrick spoke.a“Perhaps I shall speak to my father to have dinner at o
A THREATThe next day Maven decided to hold a meeting with the team of engineers. First of all, she has her second best team in the world and this would be the very first time she would be handling such a huge project with her team and the governor would be fully involved. Grace appeared behind the door with a file in her hand. Her fitted skirt glued to her skin exposing her well curved shape.“Grace, are you sure you are comfortable in those? I mean the skirt and those shoes of yours?” Maven asked with a look of skepticism in her eyes. Of course Grace is one of those big ladies anyone one would love to hire in terms of getting things done the right way.She is very accountable and is very much proactive but sometimes tends to mess things up with her choice of clothes.“I am comfortable Ma'am” she lied and Maven could see right through her eyes that deep down her soul she was dying.“That's not what I see. I see you struggling to be fine in those shoes when in reality you fake a sm
JUST A LITTLE TEASEThomas knows why he has come back to show himself to the people that treated him badly. Nature has its own way of distributing nemesis to those who deserve them. Thomas has already made his list of those he deals with for messing with his life. At least all those new at the time have no idea who his foster grandparents are so he isn’t even afraid of anyone attacking them while he is not watching. For the records he knows Grandma Clara too well to be oblivious to her schemes. She had made her points clear from the beginning and she had demonstrated her hatred for him since the very day she met him not just by words but her actions too.Thomas smiled recalling how she had asked him to call her grandma, “the world is really crazy you know and the people in it are even crazier than we can think of”. He said the words the moment his room door opened and Lucas, his cousin, came inside.“How did the dinner go, big brother?” Lucas asked knowing Thomas had once complained o