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Chapter 19
For the first time in his life Frank was stepping foot into the Keene manor and it lived to his expectations. The decor, the floor the walls, the high-end furniture coated with gold and the staff busy walking to different directions. Everything screamed money and he had that soothing feeling that it was all going to be his. He had no intention to brag to Elsie about his secretive billionaire life but it was his last resort. If he exhausted all the options he was going to have to use that.
"Welcome home boy" Wade whispered in his ear."Thank you" Frank said looking around."Wade my man!" The house manager, a short stout man with grey hair and a potbelly in a black suit and a badge on his left said walking downstairs."Who else if not Bramwel!" Wade said happily as the two men hugged in a brotherly manner, they then went ahead to exchange pleasantries.Frank was left staring still on his feet. Looking lost like gazelle in a lion’s territory. It was not until oneRelated chapters
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At tea break, a half past ten Elsie briskly walked out of her office. Tom had already notified her that Bella was waiting in the cafeteria. She used the normal lift and you could sense the respect from her fellow employees or hatred it was hard to tell but they just like stopped talking the moment she go in there and they didn’t say a word to her until the got to the ground floor where they went to their different directions and picked up the conversations that they were withholding. It made her feel like a snitch, the bosses pet. Exactly what Lewis had warned her about. Now she needed the executive lift key card.However one brave girl named Lisa from her name tag approached her. She was wiry with curled hair, black sheath dress with red doll shoes."Good morning mum" she said happily as they marched outside."Morning, please just call me Elsie""We are used to it, referring to Mrs. Woodley when she comes around, anyway my name is Lisa am in the tech department girl
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Seasons, they come and go, sometimes when we least expect or don’t want them to. After a couple of months of enjoying her relationship with Lewis, after countless dates, hanging out by the lake, sex in the shower and all the nasty stuff the end of a season was knocking. Lewis was starting to revert back to his earlier days slowly, step by step while frank, the demon that she was trying to cast out was still stalking her. She would close her eyes during yoga and open them only to see him. He even pretended to be a cleaner in the office just to see her. It was starting to get really serious and funny. It was no secret that he was obsessed with her. His argument was if she really didn't want him around she would have pressed charges or got some kind of restriction order. But no, she couldn't because Frank seemed to fill that gap Lewis left and it was wide, so wide. She finally agreed to be friends with benefits...get your head out of the gutter, no sex just friends and once i
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When Elsie arrived in the Woodley manor that evening she chose to compose herself before she walked in. Everyone was seated in the living room enjoying the evening snacks. Cups full of porridge and a large tray of cookies in the middle of the antique but lacquered coffee table. The kids were in the dining rooms with a maid watching over them."Elsie glad you can join us?" George said happily."Thank you" she said flashing a smile."And where is Lewis I thought you two are together?" Beth asked and everyone had their eyes on her.Since the uncomfortability that came with cheating on Lewis, she had decided to entangle herself in lies again but that evening she had to come up with something to save his ass because the truth was too harsh. It was better to lie for someone she had no idea where they were but with Lewis it was different. He was with a hot model somewhere in the numerous clubs of waste brook having fun. Perhaps with his head between her legs making her scre
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Early the next morning Elsie was coming from the bathroom when he saw Lewis slowly sneak into their room. He was smelling like a brewery itself and his tie was missing and he was barefoot. When he saw her watching him leaning on the door jamb he froze and smiled broadly, a smile that faded when he realized she was not smiling."Hey am sorry" he said staggering towards her, she pinched her nose with her thumb and index finger.She didn't say anything to him instead she pointed to the shower and shut the door when he stumbled on the toilet seat to puke. Elsie leaned on the door with her back and exhaled a lungful of compressed air, her eyes shut while her mind roamed through her memories looking for that particular memory. The day she met Lewis and the day she agreed to marry him. If it was a computer she would have send them straight to the recycle bin and also cleared the bin itself.But she was not. You see the author of the 5Am club said we humans have a tragic habit o
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Robert Keene was seated in his garden enjoying the view with a newspaper in his hands. A chocolate lacquered coffee stool with a glass full of wine and bottle of Hardy's under it. He thumbed through the pages and stopped to sip from his glass once in a while. His wife Norah later joined him from the super active house. It was in this garden if not the bedroom where they did their usual talk. "You are all alone out here Robert everything okay? I couldn't help but notice you were missing from the party"She kissed him on the cheek and took a sip from his glass of wine. "Am okay hunnie I just needed some time to think you know with all the noise and kids playing everywhere""So what is that you're thinking about?""You really want to know?"Their relationship was based on single decision maker. Robert. They all just followed what he said blindly like a bunch of pilgrims. And in case they asked he always had an answer ready."Let me make it easy, how are yo
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After five hours of deep unconscious sleep, Lewis came around feeling lighter than he had walked in that morning. He was also feeling so hungry thank God the maid who was entrusted with nursing him had prepared some fresh hot dogs and a glass of lemon juice, he gobbled up two hot dogs and then sipped the juice breathing heavily.Reality started to sink in. He had fucked up the only best thing that was happening to him in his life that was far from perfect. He tried to call Elsie again. Her phone was switched off this time. Lewis collapsed on the bed his weight made it creak a bit, his guess fixed on the white ceiling his mind roaming far and wide. He had a tragic habit of coming back to his senses after making a mistake and in this case not just any mistake. The door was knocked gently."Come in!" He said not moving.The maid walked in shyly. Lewis was lying bare-chested on the bed with a pair of shorts. Sweating profusely."Good afternoon sir" she said.He sprang up. Was it afternoon
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Lewis angrily kicked the door open, pushed her in the room and shut it with a bang. Elsie was left standing in the middle of the room massaging her right hand that moments back was in the grasp of his, shaking with fear, tears were already rolling down her cheeks even before he said anything. Not for long because it was coming, you could tell from how he was seething with rage pacing up and down the room mumbling to himself and hopefully punching sense into his head instead of boiling with anger. "Where the Fuck have you been, you can't just run off and switch off your phone God damn it!" Screamed Lewis confronting her.She said nothing instead she raised her gaze, her face soaking wet with tears and dropped it, blowing her nose."Crying? Seriously Elsie, you think you can avoid this conversation with tears...""You're going to pretend like you don't know what's going on between us really Lewis?" She asked amid sobs."I came home drunk, in the morning. No need t
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The Woodley family dinner was underway. Lewis was unusually quiet and that was because Elsie had not yet come downstairs. And somehow no one was asking about her almost as though they all knew where she was except him. You know his doubt would have been cleared by asking but he chose to believe the conspiracy theories that were cooking in his own head instead of talking. Communication, very important if you ask me without it there is confusion. Certainty and assumption are the enemies of growth for real.It took almost five minutes before Elsie walked downstairs and to his surprise they all noticed her and not him who had been there the whole time."I knew this food was sweet, look who has been pulled to the living room by the aroma" Joked Steve."You were right, I didn't even put on the dress I wanted out of fear" She seemed happier than she was with Lewis which made him even more curious. What was going on and what had he missed? Did he drink himself to a one-month com
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