LOGINBECKY. I had barely settled into my office chair when my phone rang sharply grabbing my attention, it sliced through the stale silence hanging in the room. The moment I picked up my phone and saw the caller ID, my stomach tightened. It was one of the company representatives from the firm we had recently partnered with, the same people I had been pressuring to finalize the bid that would secure our position against NORMANI Bitcoin Company.The moment I picked up, the man’s panic zoomed through from the other end. “Ma’am, I don’t know how else to say this,” he began, his voice trembling slightly and this pissed me off. “The NORMANI Bitcoin Company is growing too fast. At this rate, they are going to overshadow us in the market. We need to do something immediately.”I pressed my fingers against my forehead, already irritated. “And what do you expect me to do right now?”“The biggest problem is this,” he continued. “Three of our shareholders have crossed over to her company. Just li
SHAWN. I knew the only way to get her to talk to me was to say words that would infuriate her. I just had to say the words that I wouldn’t on a normal day. She turned over her shoulder, her eyes wide probably wondering what made me utter these words. “Why are you here?” She asked. I didn’t utter a word at first, staring at her to read her expression. I didn’t want to upset her, no. I just wanted to get her attention, nothing more. “You haven’t been picking up my calls,” I said, trying hard to keep my voice calm. “And your staff didn’t let me see you,” I added, speaking like a high school kid whose crush didn’t let him see her. My eyes were on her and I soon noticed the skin-tight office gown she was wearing. Damn, she was sexy. She looked so beautiful that I wished to take her home with me and bang the shit out of her. She didn’t flinch though as if seeing my face was so fucking normal to her. She looked like she did not miss me and that shit hurt more than anything I had ever
SHAWN. It's been four days since I started staying in Jackie’s house, and so far there have been no threats. The only danger has been Jackie trying to sleep with me. She has made it her mission to walk around with little to nothing on her body. Yet, all I could think about was Normani wishing it were she who would try pleasing me and getting me to sleep with her. It was always uninteresting when Jackie did it. I would have to smoke to get the irritation off.She was everywhere around me and that disgusted me. Funny, because I used to be so obsessed with her. She was the only woman I would look for in a crowd filled with people. As I couldn’t take it anymore, I had to call the Don. There was no potential danger in the house. Everything had been going on smoothly. That morning, I finally told him I needed to return to my own life. My work had been on hold for too long, and this was indeed the case. I couldn’t tell him that Normani had refused to pick up my call and I needed to go a
GEORGE.Today was another day to save the company by bidding. Becky insisted that I go with her which I didn’t want to go at first but she insisted that I needed to be there. I put on my suit, and she dressed as nicely as she usually do. Her heels were about seven inches long. I could only shut my eyes and imagine Normani, she would be there. She was part of the list of buiness gurus to be there. “You can’t lose to anyone,” she told me in the car.“Especially not Normani. I don’t care what the price becomes. Just win.”I only nodded. I had learned long ago that arguing with Becky was pointless. She always wanted to have her way. To her, nobody was better but herself. Even before we started to date, she was my boss hence I knew her. When we arrived at the event hall, Becky walked ahead, her heels clicking in arrogant beat. But the moment I stepped inside, something inside my chest squeezed.Because, I saw her.Normani.She sat calmly on the opposite side of the hall, elegant in a way
NORMANI.Jackie stepped out of my office and my gaze followed her. Her phone beeped, and I heard her talking to someone. It was his voice. It was Shawn speaking on the other side of the phone. His thick voice boomed through and my heart skipped a beat. I was staring at the door, listening in when her voice sounded….“Baby, okay, I am coming now,” she said, her voice suddenly soft. “I am sorry I stayed late. Tell the maid to prepare my favorite dish. I am hungry.”Then she put the phone on speaker. Intentionally. Boldly.She wanted me to hear.And I did. “Alright,” Shawn’s voice said from the phone. “Come home quickly.”My breath hitched. He wanted her to come home quickly. He loved her. What did I expect, they were a couple. Of course, he was going to be obsessed with her. Did I expect him to be obsessed with me? Yet,Hearing his voice on her phone felt like being stabbed in the stomach—deep, slow, and twisting pain. I didn’t speak. I didn’t flinch. I watched her drop the phon
NORMANII sat in the living room pretending to watch the film playing on the screen, though nothing on it made sense to me. My eyes kept drifting to the door, over and over hoping, expecting, begging that Shawn would walk in. Every passing minute felt like a slap. He didn’t come. He called me but I ignored. He was supposed to know that was a cue for him to come over right? I guess he doesn’t really love me. All he did was lie. “What are you watching right now?” Estella’s voice boomed through making me return to the room. The Tv had stopped working and I didn’t realise she had paused the movie until she said something. “Hmmm… are you expecting someone?”“No,” I said too quickly, shaking my head before folding my legs on the couch and wrapping my hands around my legs. She frowned. “I don’t believe you. Since morning you havebeen staring at that door like someone who is expecting a package from heaven.”I swallowed hard, forcing myself not to look at the door again. Pull yourself tog
NORMANI. When Shawn said he wanted to show me another part of him, something deep inside me whispered, RUN.That voice had been quiet for a while, buried under the heat, and the tension that lay between us. Shawn was changing me, he was making me do things that I naturally would not do. I foun
SHAWN. I have never missed anyone the way I miss Normani. It was almost sickening, the way her absence followed me around like a ghost. Her voice lived in the corners of my mind, echoing when the night was quiet and even when it wasn't, she was all I thought about. Her silence felt like punishment,
NORMANI. I didn't know what the mirror entailed or what he was going to use it to do. I saw our reflection in it and I was looking at myself. My body. I was beautiful. My hair was in wavy strands, cascading down my shoulders and framing my face just right. Shawn stood behind me, tall and mighty
SHAWN. His eyes were not unblinking, his pupils dilated with fear, and I watched him shake his head after the question, his bald head shining from the yellow bulb over his head. "That is not the answer that I am expecting.” I hissed, looking away, trying not to be so pissed. This man was behind







