Chapter Three.

ALYSSA’S POV

I yawned loudly and paused when I didn’t hear a single noise, everywhere was dead silent. I didn’t hear Mum yelling at dad. So, I got up from the bed and rushed to the living where I met Mum crying, what happened again?

“Mum, What’s wrong?” I walked closer to her on the couch.

“I’m fine Aly.” she whispered, cleaning her face.

“No mum, you aren’t fine, please tell me what’s wrong?” I placed her hand on mine, and she burst into another round of tears.

“Your father Aly,your father left us.” i froze for a while processing what Mum just said, dad would never leave us, I was heartbroken why did he leave us?, why?

“I know this is all my fault, if I wasn’t nagging at him every time this wouldn’t have happened,but I could bear to keep quiet anymore the pain was becoming unbearable. I’m sorry Aly this is my fault, I caused this.” I pulled her into a hugged patting her back lightly, I was trying not to tear up in her presence.

“It’s okay Mum stop crying, you didn’t do anything so stop blaming yourself. He left because he was too scared to face his responsibilities.” I said, trying to console her and I guessed it worked because she nodded and stopped crying.

“You are right Aly,he left because he’s a coward and am not going to cry because of him, he can go to hell for all I care.” I smiled at her feistiness and pulled her in a hug again.

“That was cool Mum, now go freshen up, I’ll be going to the market to get some foodstuffs and prepare something delicious for you huh.” she chuckled and wiped her already red eyes.

“Yes ma’am.” she got up from the couch and went to her room. I sighed before going to mine, I took a quick bath and picked a white shirt and blue jeans before going to the market.

“Morning Aly.” Mr jolly yelled, waving at me.

“Good morning Mr. jolly, how was your night?”

“It was fine, and I dreamt about you and my son.” here we go again, Mr jolly is still shipping for his son and me,which is totally an off limit. Tristan and I are like 0%.

“And what was the dream about.” I asked to go with the flow.

“I saw my son getting married to you, it was a very grand wedding Aly.” he said with a big smile.

“That’s one big dream Mr. jolly, but I’ve got to go.”

“Okay, take care.” “You too, Mr. jolly.” I waved at him and continued my walk to the market.

I was busy getting some rice when someone stopped me.

“Hey Aly long time.” the person said, and I turned to see him, Timothy.

“Hey Tim.” I replied plainly.

“I hardly see you around Aly,you are now a VVIP.” he teased and I chuckled.

“Stop joking around Tim, I’m always around so what are you doing here?”

“What do you do in the market, Aly?” he raised his brows in a teasing manner.

“You either buy or sell, so which category are you in.”

“Buying, of course.” and I was surprised.

“You cook.” “Of course.” he replied and I gasped dramatically. “I didn’t know the almighty Tim can cook.” he rolled his eyes and I laughed.

“I do and my food tastes great.”

“That’s good, but I need to go now, mum’s waiting for me.” I checked the time.

“Oh, okay, but can I at least get your number.” I shrugged. “Sure.” we exchanged contacts and hugged before going our separate places.

I got everything I needed before going home.

“I’m back, Mum.” I announced as I walked into the house.

“What took you so long, Aly?” Mum asked.

“I met Tim at the market.” I facepalmed myself inwardly when I saw the frown on her face, gosh she did tell me to stay away from that boy.

“The same Timothy I asked you to stay away from or another Timothy.” Mum inquired, and I picked on my fingers, which means I was nervous, I hate to get mum angry.

“I asked a question Aly.” she yelled, making me jump. “The same Timothy, Mum.” I whispered with my head down.

“Aly I thought I made myself clear when I told you to stay away from him, you agreed to stay clear from him, then why are you still seeing him behind my back.”

“Am sorry mum, i... we just talked and nothing more, besides it has been a long time since we saw each other.” I entered the kitchen and brought everything I bought out and began to chop them.

“Aly stay away from Tim.” Mum said from the doorway. “Yes Mum.” I sighed, I don’t know the reason Mum is insisting on me to not see or talk to Timothy, I mean Timothy is a great guy and also funny. I finished preparing the food on time then I served mum before eating mine, washed the used dishes and made for my room.

I’m tired of sitting at home, the truth is most of the companies I applied for the owners were males;who obviously want to have sex with me before giving me a job. I remembered one of them was an old man(who was old enough to be my grandpa want) who tried to kiss me, it took all my will power from slapping the hell out of him, another one spanked my ass and I can keep going on and on.

I got dressed for my hunting but went online first to see if there is any available post in any company before going out, I search for a while but didn’t get any positive results, so I decided to drop my phone, but before shutting the phone off I came across one * WINTHROP CORP’S *. I was happy at least I’ve seen something interesting, I tapped on the company name and everything showed the CEO, Xavier Winthrop, was searching for a competent secretary, I quickly applied online, giving my name, CV, and everything before leaving the site. I opened my G****e app and searched for his name and his image popped up * my fucking God this is an angel!!!!! *