As the sisters enjoy their evening of bland food, others were being tortured at an office building in the business district.
"No Rob this is not it, we can't take this anymore, you need to talk to the big boss."
" yes Mr Rob, you are his brother and he will listen to you. I mean we've been over working ourselves for the past few months, the company has been doing well and we definitely aren't complaining about our salaries but we need some rest."
As the employees gathered in Rob's office complaining about being over worked, he felt like throwing himself over the building.
'Heck I too am being over worked, not only do I have to deal with his tantrums here at work but it's even worse at home.'
He was so frustrated that he wanted to yell at his employees but he knew better than to do that.
"He's the boss and calls the shots, I'm as scared of him as you are. Why don't you guys just go ask him yourselves?"
When they turned to look at him and how haggard he was, they felt that what he said was true and the fact that he was always at the office working along with them for long hours and sometimes till it was late at night made it hard for them to persuade him or argue with him.
" Well we would go, but none of us has ever met him nor have we seen his face to say the least and what makes it even hard is the fact that no one is allowed to go to his office, sigh."
"Maybe he would soften up if we get him a girlfriend, Don't you think Rob?"
One of the ladies there voiced out her ambitious desires to be the young mistress of the Jonas family and that caught Rob's attention as he put down the pen in his hand, leaned back on his chair and raised his head up to look at that woman with with his brow also raised.
"Is that so?"
"Mr Rob don't mind her, she's just spewing nonsense. "
One of the colleagues tried to get her out of that hole she was digging for herself.
"Hey what nonsense am I spewing? Listen Rob, I don't mind taking one for the team. He is overworking all of us right? So with me by his side maybe I will be able to get him to slow down a little and give all the other employees a chance to relax."
"So you mean you will take care of me, say if you become my sister inlaw?"
The woman instantly blushed when she heard Robert's question.
"Yeah you've got nothing to worry about, as long as you don't stay with us though."
She answered with confidence.
"I see, can you cook?"
"Ptshh in this day and age? Why cook when we have the money to get people to do it for us?"
"My brother wants someone who can cook for him."
"Uuh hehehe you know I can learn, that shouldn't be hard to do. "
Her desperation for fortune was written all over her face, all she wanted was a quick fix and not something she'd need to work for.
"Don't worry yourself about that, focus on your music career which isn't doing so well right now. My brother doesn't need a girlfriend. Owh,please close the door on your way out."
Hearing this the woman stomped her feet in disappointment and embarrassment. She couldn't believe that she got rejected in front of her other colleagues and what made it worse was that she was even chased out of the office.
She regarded herself as the best in the company both in her appearance and work abilities but to be disrespected and rejected like that by Rob was a huge blow to her ego.
'I need to find the boss myself, huh I'll make Rob lose his job.' She thought to herself as she angrily left that office.
Her colleagues shook their heads and followed behind. Everyone return to their tasks that were assigned to them as the company had taken lots of campaigns, there was also a lot for everyone to do.
Rob on the other side ordered some take out food and went over to his brother's office on the top floor of the building.
When he arrived there, he found that all of Eric's employees were also present and hadn't left as it was way passed work time.
"Mr Jonas help us please."
They begged whispering to him so that the big boss does not hear and doesn't get angered by their pleas.
Rob in the other side only shrugged his shoulders and whispered back,
" we are in the same boat buddies."
He then walked pass their desks all the way to Eric's office, knocked twice, opened and walked in.
He was then greeted by a depressed Eric who was seated facing the floor to ceiling windows in his office. He was staring at the buildings opposite.
"What do you want?"
His deep manly voice sounded throughout the room as he spoke.
"Bro even if you are in a bad mood, you still need to eat."
Rob said that as he walked over to Eric's desk with the food in his hand. He cleared up all the documents on the table and placed the food boxes on it.
When Rob opened the boxes, the aroma from the food filled the whole office room and that forced Eric to turn his chair over and reach out his hand over to the food and started digging in.
"If she's so important to you, Why don't you just call her?"
"I don't have her numbers."
He responded absent mindedly as he continued to dig in his food. He had starved himself the entire day and this was his very first meal of the day.
"You know we can get that in a few minutes, if you want, I can get them for you."
"No."
His answer was flat but Also authoritative hence Robert did not persuade his brother even further. Rob was the only one who knew him best and was the only person who took the time to understand Eric and that's probably the reason why Eric wasn't too hard on him even on his bad days.
It's not that Eric didn't want Nelly's number, but he wanted Nelly to be the one who shares it with him.
As they were wrapping up their dinner Robert decided to lighten up the mood as he told Eric what had happened in their entertainment company during the day.
"Hehe You know what that woman Linda said about you today?"
"Mhmm"
"I'll tell you anyway, she said you need a girlfriend to soften you up a little and she wouldn't mind to take one for the team and be yours."
He then went on to look closely at his brother to observe his reaction, he wanted to see if he'd have the heart to like someone else or if his heart was only set on one person.
What he got thought was a scary Eric as his eyes had darkened in anger, the air surrounding became freezing cold as he responded
"I see you don't have work to do, maybe I should add more for you and your little friend so you stop gossiping during work time."
"No no, we don't gossip! You know everyone is tired from all the work, maybe if you can just give them a day off or half of the day to go home and relax, you know you'll be amazed at how much energy they'll put in when they return."
"Will think about it."
They then went on to finish their meal in silence, once they were done, Robert went over to the couch to relax a little but ended up falling asleep.
One of his secretary was called in to clean the mess and once she was done, Eric continued with his work.
Some time had passed and Nelly's savings were now running low, taking care of three people wasn't an easy thing to do.She had chose to sacrifice her career in order to take care of her twins for more than a year while also using some of her savings to pay for Nonto's tuition fees as well as the family's expenses.She had been missing from the public eye and most people had even forgotton about her. Her contract from her previous company had expired and they refused to renew it, as she had not been generating any income for the company."Don't worry sis, I will look for a part time job at one of the restaurants near our campus that way I will be able to help out with the expenses.""No don't be silly, you need to finish your studies in time. I'm sure something will come up, it always does."Nelly had a strong faith that she'd be able to get in to a recording company soon, even if it wasn't as big as the one she used to work for, that would be able to help her take care of her family.
"You really don't know, do you?"She then went on to show her all the trending news about her. There were a lot of intimate photos of her with Jamie from the previous day.They were all captured everytime Jamie made an intimate gesture to her, from when they hugged, when Jamie wiped Nelly's mouth for her to when he brushed her shoulder.In all the pictures, Jamie kept looking at Nelly lovingly with tender and gentle eyes. If one did not know the truth, they would surely think that the two were truly a couple.Looking at the series of pictures in front of her, Nelly jolted up in shock and the little fatigue that she had earlier was instantly wiped off."What's going on here, why would they say that Jamie is my boyfriend?" Seeing the look on her sister's face Nonto was convinced that Nelly was telling the truth."Could it be that Jamie is behind all of this?"Nonto thought that there was more to this story than what met the eye."It can't be, Jamie is more like a brother to me and wou
In the following week Nelly busied herself with all the interviews she had with all those companies that had invited her. She sighed as she came out of the last company, it seemed like they all wanted to take advantage of her. What they offered her was way below her payment rate, the terms of their contracts were also ridiculous.Nelly knew that if she were to sign with any of those companies, she'd be binding herself with hell knowingly and would be living a miserable life throughout the contract term.She walked absentmindedly along the street not knowing what to do. She walked aimlessly for about an hour until something clicked in her mind."Right Neptune entertainment! I still have that, I'm pretty sure they are decent people since Jamie referred me to them."She thought to herself as she took out her cellphone and scroll down her contact list for their phone numbers, just as she was about to click the call button, her phone started ringing.It was a string of number that she to
"Soooo?""Gosh I'm signing it of course."Responded Nelly as she took the contract from Nonto's hand in excitement. She took out a pen from one of the drawers on the table and started signing and putting her initials on all pages." Now that calls for a celebration."Nonto stood up from the couch and disappeared for a few minutes, when she showed up again, she had a bottle of wine and two glasses for them to celebrate Nelly's win."Now that I have a job, we will need to get a nanny for the twins so that there is someone to take care of them while I'm away."Listening to her sister, Nonto frowned "Why do you have to be so serious at a time like this, am I not here? I will take care of them for you, don't forget that I'm also their mom.""It's true that you have been helping with taking care of them all this time but you must remember that you also have law school to attend and sometimes I might be away for a few days in a row."What Nelly said was true, and besides, she needed to fini
Nelly followed Janet to her office. When they arrived at her office, Janet gestured for her to sit down, then closed the door before she walked to her chair and also sat downShe took the envelope from Nelly and put it aside."I see you have managed to offend Linda on your first day at work."She then looked straight in to her eye expectedly, as if she wanted to know what had happened."I really don't know what I did to make her dislike me, but it's ok Janet you don't have to worry about it, I know how to handle myself. ""Good, Linda is not someone you'd want to cross as she holds great influence amongst other artists in the company. But seeing that she already doesn't like you, I think it would be best to stay as far away as you can from her.""I understand, I'll try my best not to cause any trouble."Nelly understood that Janet was trying to warn her, and really appreciated the woman for that. Once they were done with their chat, Janet took her to the security department and re
Linda had a sinister smile as she listened to the girls bad mouth Nelly.On the other hand Nelly pretended to have not heard all the ugly comments about her, she just sat quietly on the table and observe the groups of people that had been divided in to clicks."Don't mind them, they are only being mean so that Linda can notice them. Fake people like them don't deserve your reaction."The girl who sat on her left side whispered to her with a warm smile, which Nelly reciprocated."Thank you, I wasn't going to say anything anyway unless they said it straight to my face.""Good, I'm Amanda by the way.""Hey Amanda, I'm Nelisiwe but you can call me Nelly."They continued to chat about their interests and Nelly realized that they both shared a lot in common. They both weren't from rich backgrounds and had to work hard in order to be recognized by the company.Their chat went smoothly as if they weren't bothered by the nasty chats in the background, which only stopped when the food was about
He was rendered speechless, when Nelly noticed how stunned he was, she took that as an opportunity to escape.She pushed him away but as she was about to open the door, Eric grabbed her hand again and gently pulled her toward him. He then look closely in to her eyes with his signature expressionless look and this caused Nelly to slightly panic.He gave her another kiss, this time he was a lot gentler and once he was done he whispered."You don't want to anger me sweetheart."He then released her, opened the door and left the room, leaving Nelly behind all stunned at how much of a bully the man was."Gosh Nelisiwe how could you just stand there timidly and let him bully you? "She stomped her feet in frustration and walked back to her colleagues, she had even forgotten that she needed to use the ladies room.When she returned to her seat, Robert stood up and fixed his clothes and said."Well, I'll be in touch and don't forget your promise Smith."He then excused himself, and walked to
Nelly was left there alone with a lot to think about. She stared at the glass in her hands for a long time, then gulped down the remaining water.She stood up and headed straight to her bedroom. After taking a shower, she tucked herself in bed and looked at the ceiling, with her mind in turmoil. She kept on thinking about her children whom she had brought up all by herself.'Maybe Mrs Long is right, the kids will need their father. But we've been doing really well without him all this time, besides who knows what he'll say about me should I suddenly tell him that he's the father.'"Sigh!"She sighed in frustration, the one thing that bothered her the most was the probability of the kids blaming her for keeping their father a secret to them. "Would they really think that I'm getting in their way of establishing a relationship with him? God they don't even know the man, not only is he arrogant but he can also be a bully.""Buzz."Right then her phone vibrated which indicated an incomin