"Could you please sit and let's talk?" James said with a calm tone. He was beyond pissed with her attitude but being a man, he kept his cool. At the moment, he sincerely wished he hadn't invited her earlier. His decision had caused an exposure to the world and had also awarded him with embarrassment. Sighing, he placed his hand under his chin praying she would return to normalcy and give him a listening ear. She was still ranting when he said with a calm tone for the second time, "Could you please sit, let's talk?" "Don't you dare say that to me. Not after you hurt my pride. What exactly do you take me for?" She roared. "I just told you the truth and you are already reacting. What if I told you some more? You will toss this building inside the fire right?" He smirked. Sarah was really pissed by his last statement that even when James, who had seen the way she was acting, gave her signs to calm down, she refused. "Go on, go on and tell the world my ill-doings since you are t
Furious, James marched the throttle with all his might but his car refused to cooperate. He repeated his action several times, yet the result remained the same. Just as he was about to climb out of his car, he saw Sarah heading towards him. Thanks to the bright light and the moonlight that illuminated the night, he could see her face. The more he stared at her, the more angry he became. "Just go away." He growled trying to contain his anger but he couldn't. "Please give me a second chance and I promise I will improve." She cried. "A second chance? No man would do that even the angels wouldn't." He snapped then hopped into his car. Luckily for him, the engine roared to life this time around, and without wasting time, he zoomed out of his home to the hotel where he was living in the meantime. While he was driving, he decided to make a stop at a friend's home before heading to the hotel for the night. When he arrived, his friend, Liam, welcomed him heartily. He had been hi
Julia, who felt she was perfect in the act of baking, decided to engage herself in some work that Sunday afternoon. Not only that, she decided to make a live video about it on her IG page. Just as she was about to begin, Raymond joined her in the kitchen. He wanted to get a glass of water before heading back to his room but she stopped him from leaving. "I want to teach you how to make sponge cake." She said, stretching her hands apart so he wouldn't cross. Amused, Raymond burst into laughter causing her to crease her brow. "Are you mocking me?" She scoffed. "Why should I? I was just wondering what possessed you. Remember you said you hated cooking and would soon resign from the kitchen.""That was last week." "Okay, okay, my bad." He chuckled lightly again but the time around, he had to stifle it with the glass he was holding. Glad that he agreed to be present for her video, she led him to the island table before heading to start the video. "Okay, Julia, you can do this. Just
When Raymond got to his office, he quickly went to the bathroom. He took off his shirt and after soaking his hurting hand under the running water, he dabbed it dry before applying ointment to it. "Funny how these guys think they can break me down with some childish act." Chuckling, he added, "I have already been through a worse situation than this." Done, he joined Mayor in the office. "Who did that to you?" Mayor asked immediately as he stepped into the office. "Oh, that. It wasn't intentional. He was hurrying and I was in his way, that's why." He shrugged, flashing a smile at him. "If you say so," Mayor said with a tone of unbelief. "You are just overthinking things and I advise you to stop." He smirked. Mayor had nothing to say to him so he just pursed his lips and then pushed the files he wanted him to work on that day toward him. "Treat them as urgent. Meanwhile, there would be a general inspection, just try to get the books up to date before month end." "The book
"What is my family saying about the scandal?" Julia asked. She was in the car with Raymond. He was taking her to school that morning before heading for work. "Nothing." Came the curt response from him. "For real?" she asked with widened eyes. She had never thought of this until now. Pursing her lips, she looked straight ahead. Not wanting Raymond to hate her family she didn't bother to say what she had in her mind. Right inside her, she was fuming. She expected her family to do better. Foremost, the image of the company was tarnished, secondly, one of the victims was their son-in-law but they didn't raise a finger. "Can you do something?" She asked suddenly. "Something? Like what?" He asked, casting her a brief glance before returning his gaze to the road. "Reminding them. I guess they had forgotten about it or probably they haven't heard about it just yet." "It's fine. Your family are busy people. You wouldn't want to bother them with silly things like this." He replied,
After crying for a very long time, Sarah fell asleep only to wake up to hunger pangs that were hitting her in bolts. She sat up, running her eyes through her once lively house even without the presence of children. Seeing her husband and domestic staff each day gave her immense joy but it was no more. No one cared about her anymore, not even her friends who were always loitering on the mansion grounds. Sighing, she pulled herself up only to fall back on the floor with a thud. She was hungry and the little strength left in her could only serve her for a few more hours before she passed out. Later that evening, determined to find something to eat, she went out. This time around, she ignored the names she was being called. Her worms which were protesting gave her the needed courage to find something to eat. "I'm going to ignore them completely." She said repeatedly in her head as she marched towards the first supermarket. With her purse filled with enough money, she began sho
James sat in his hotel room scrolling through his phone after several weeks of staying offline because of his fight with Sarah at the restaurant. After a few minutes of scrolling, he was relieved that he didn't see any video about his fight with Sarah floating online. With this newfound joy, he continued scrolling through his phone but his joy was cut short when he saw his wife being humiliated in a supermarket. To make it worse, it wasn't even the video where the embarrassment was mild, rather it was the one where an egg was tossed at her. "People acting as if they aren't sinners." He read the comment of someone under the video. He read several other comments causing him to hiss as anger welled up in his chest. Most comments reminded him of Raymond and the others. He could only imagine what she had done to them. Pursing his lips, he set his phone aside so he wouldn't do something stupid. Even though he was not on talking terms with her, he still had empathy for her. For
For more than two hours, the couples sat at the dining table without a word to each other. Each was waiting for the first to kick start the conversation. James was waiting for the perfect time to present the divorce papers to her. Before making his way into the house earlier, he had signed his part of the divorce leaving her spot for her. Meanwhile, Sarah was glad that he had forgiven her and so she vowed not to return to her mistakes. She was grateful he had given her the opportunity to start all over. "Excuse me." She said, breaking the ominous silence. James, thinking she wanted to talk about their relationship, began to shift uneasily in his seat. "Let me take the foodstuffs to the kitchen." She said and almost immediately, James' raging nerves became calm. The foodstuffs James had gotten were more than enough for her. If she used it wisely, she would be able to live on them for three months and so there was no need to visit the supermarkets. A lone tear escaped her ey