CHAPTER SEVEN

~DAVID~

"What...is this?!" I looked up to see Sandra pointing her phone at me. It was too early in the morning for me to start listening to her drama. And I'm not sure I woke up on the right side of the bed this morning. What am I saying, I'm always waking up at the wrong side of the bed.

"What do you want Sandra? Shouldn't you be at work?" I asked focusing on my computer again.

"What is this?" She kept pointing her phone at me. "It's a phone babe, what's the big deal?" I still didn't pay much attention to her.

"It's not the fucking phone. It's the picture. I went online and see what I saw on the news. So you now go out with other girls hun?" She asked with rage and I finally looked up to see her phone. Great.

It was a picture of Elizabeth and I in my cousin's restaurant. I still don't get the big deal about it. "I came here yesterday and they said you weren't at work. So you skipped work to spend the day with a low class?" She still kept shouting, her eyes red with fury.

"What do you mean?" I raised a brow. "Oh, don't act innocent with me." She rolled her fake lashes at me.

"Don't get on my nerves Sandra." I said simply as my jaw began to tick out of anger. "You cheated on me, please do tell who is getting on the others nerves?" She hit her hand on the table, making me more irritated and annoyed.

"Sandra stop over reacting, I never cheated on you, she's my PA, we were out on just a....."

"You went out with your PA?" She interrupted me. "I cannot believe you left me for her, after everything we've been through together...." She kept on blabbing and I felt myself getting to the peak of my anger.  But she didn't stop talking, and it didn't help matter. I held onto a pencil so tight I feared it would break. I wasn't ready for her shits at all. I spent time with a girl, so what, it's not like we got intimate.

"Sandra." I called her name but she just raised her index finger at me to shut up. "You will let me talk." She said and kept with her talking.

Soon I couldn't hear anything else but my own breathing, not even the words she was saying, I could only see her mouth moving and her eyes rolling every once in a while. As a way of controlling my anger, I was asked to take in long breaths. But right now, the oxygen in my lungs didn't help.

"Sandra!" I shouted out, I got up from my seat and my fist met with the desk hardly. She abruptly stopped. At first everywhere was silent. Not her voice or anything. Just quiet. I enjoyed that moment. It was all I wanted till... "Don't you dare shun me."  She spoke up, making that irritation erupt in my belly again.

"I want you to get the fuck out of my office!" I shouted at her and she gasped out. Her eyes were wide with shock and fury, then it turned into a glare. "Fine." She said and turned to face the door. And that was it. She left.

The peace and quiet was back. Now long breaths had its effect on me again and it helped calm my boiling nerves. I sat back on my seat and let out a frustrated sigh.

Sandra can be a pain, but she has her good sides. I've known her since university. Fine she talks much and can get a lot loud, but she can be there when you need her sometimes. That's one of the reasons I have her as my girlfriend. It's just she doesn't know when to stop, and it's really annoying these days.

Shaking my head, I faced my laptop again to continue my work but then I groaned out loudly when I heard a knock on the door.

"What?!" I shouted.

~Elizabeth~

I left my office with a bunch of files in my arms. Having a day off was nice but resuming was the hard part. Just one day and I had a lot on my desk.

As usual, I took in a lasting breath and stretched my hand out for a knock on my boss's office. But stopped when the door swung open. My eyes met with Miss Sandra and she glared hard at me and walked away, with a loud hiss.

I just stood there, confused. I know she hates me but I didn't know it was that strong. Ignoring her actions, I placed a knock on the door of my boss's office.

"What!" I jerked slightly at the rage of his reply. God, he's mad again. Now he'll be transferring the aggression.

Opening the door and allowing my head in first before the rest of my body, I met with a red eyed David.

His jaw was clenched tightly, he stared at me like he was gonna murder me any time soon, the grip he had on his pen was so tight I could've sworn that I heard a crack.

"Good day sir." I greeted, ignorant of the daggers he sent.

"What do you want?" His voice was still cold.

"I finished the files." I cleared my throat before replying.

"Drop it and leave." He sat back on his seat. Even with what he said, I still stood there, watching his every move. With the way he was breathing heavily, I knew someone must have angered him. Sandra.

I chewed on my lower lip, contemplating on what to do. Obey him and just walk out or consider yesterday and ask what the matter is. 

"Is...."I trailed off already picking my finger. "Sir is everything alright?" I finally gathered enough courage to ask.

There was a pause between us. His gaze met mine and I realized I should have just walked out.

"Didn't I ask you to leave?" His glare was as usual, cold.

"I was just...yesterday you said...." I began to say but I stopped when I lost words of expression.

"Yes yesterday is the past. Learn to dwell in the present and future. Now leave." He repeated sternly and I gulped.

Without thinking about it again, I left the office, with a huge feeling of embarrassment inside me. I felt so stupid. I should've known he wouldn't keep his words. And to think he promised. I am even stupid for believing him yesterday.

~DAVID ~

A frown rose on Elizabeth's face and that's when it dawned on me. I wasn't supposed to yell at her or treat her badly.

She turned and slammed the door behind her. The urge to go after her and apologize came to me but I pushed it away.

Everything I thought I was beginning to build with her crashed all because I couldn't control my temper.

I blinked back to reality when I heard my phone ring. "Hello." I instantly picked the call.

"Sir, Mr. Olatunji is here to see you." I heard my secretary say from over the line.

"Let him in." I said bluntly before hanging up.

.......

"Good morning." I looked up to meet with Segun. He couldn't even knock.

"Morning, what makes you think you can just walk into the organization whenever you want?" I crossed my arms around my chest.

"Are we enemies now?" He made himself comfortable on the seat opposite my desk.

"What do you want?" I asked already tired.

"There's a ball coming up." He began.

"I'm not interested." I cut in.

"Honestly, I don't think you want to turn this one down. Jimmy White is coming too. Didn't you want to sign a contract with him?" At the mention of Jimmy, he gained my attention.

"Why didn't you just send a mail?" I rolled my eyes.

"Cos I wanted to see you for something else? Or maybe someone else." A smirk grew on his face as he spoke.

"I'm listening." I faced my laptop to stall time.

"I wanted to know if you were taking your PA, Miss Adeyemi with you?" My eyes snapped up when he called her name.

"Why are you asking?" I snapped.

"Just asking." He raised his hands in defense.

"I don't know." I replied, really hoping he'd leave.

"I asked her to follow me." That was it, the pencil I held in my hands snapped.

"And..." I trailed off.

"Gave her time to think about it." He smiled, making my blood boil more.

"She's going with me." I finalized.

"Isn't that her decision to make?" Segun raised a brow.

That's when it clicked. He was trying to get me mad. He knew how much I hated it whenever something that was with me was taken by someone else. I honestly would care less about him taking her to the ball if she wasn't working for me. I hated sharing.

"Segun, look I'm busy right now," I breathed heavily as I spoke. "and you should understand how concentrated I have to be." I added and he nodded in understanding.

"I was about to leave." He gave a curt nod before getting up.

Finally.

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This chapter isn't long but we're heading somewhere...

I honestly have nothing to say now. So....

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