LOGIN“Klein you…” My voice catches in my throat as I attempt to speak again. I shut my eyes close, let out a heavy exhale before prying my eyes open again to continue. “Are you having an affair?” I ask, my voice raspy and watch his eyebrows nearly fly off his face from sheer shock and mortification. His countenance morphs into a bewildered expression and I once more, regret ever opening my mouth. “What if I am? Are you going to ask for a divorce?” I stare at him, silent and unmoving, with my heart threatening to hop out of my chest. When he realizes that I have no response to his question, he gives me a reproachful head shake, while sighing like I absolutely exasperate him and says: “I didn’t think so. You can think whatever you want about what’s going on between Jasmine and I. I don’t care.” ... Our marriage was a business alliance. The perfect marriage in the eyes of the public, but a complete sham in reality. He said affection is the one thing I will never get from him and I learned not to crave it. I was the perfect trophy wife... until the kiss. It changed everything.
View MoreELOISE’S POV.“Good day, Mr. Wesley.” We all greet in unison and on our feet when Klein walks into the conference with his P.A, Logan, following closely behind him. Klein nods curtly in response to our greeting as he heads over to the head seat of the conference table. Logan pulls out his seat for him and before he sits down, he motions the rest of us to take our seats. Logan takes the empty seat I left next to Klein’s right-hand side while I sit next to Logan. I am one seat away from Klein, meanwhile, Jasmine is occupying the seat directly opposite Logan’s. The small smile perched on her lips tells me she is very pleased to be sitting right next to Klein.“This is going to be a very brief meeting as I do not have much to say.” He says looking at each one of us. He’s here to formerly introduce Jasmine, the new Director or Production to us, the various perfumer teams. “As you all must have heard, a new Director of Product Design has been recruited and she’s seated right here with us.”
ELOISE’S POV.“Good morning, Jasmine.” I greet the moment I step into Jasmine’s office.She’s seated behind her giant oak desk, facing the floor-to-ceiling glass window that gives her a view of the city’s busy streets and buildings beneath. It should have been me sitting there. After the former director got fired for incompetency, I was the next best option for the position. Everyone around here knew that because of the level of success I have recorded as a team leader over the years, but to my greatest dismay, Klein appointed someone else.His mistress.“I didn’t hear you knock.” She remarks, still facing the window.“I was told you had been waiting, so I didn’t think it was necessary for me to knock before coming in.” I reply and immediately, she swivels on her chair and finally faces me, frowning.“Your thoughts are irrelevant. Rules are rules and you have to follow them regardless of what you think. You ought to knock and be granted permission before going into a superior’s off
ELOISE’S POV.My voice echoes those four words through the atmosphere like an eerie sound in a horror movie, over and over again until it fades completely and the silence of doom befalls us again.How I hate the calm before the storm.Klein rotates in an excruciatingly slow pace and with each new angle he turns, I feel an organ shut down within me. By the time he’s facing me fully, all my systems have stopped functioning and I’m white as a corpse. He’s not wearing the habitual cold, stoic and blank expression he always wears in my presence. The look on his face is an angry one.All my bones dissolve as I watch him eat up the distance between us with two long strides. His jaws are ticking from how tightly he’s clenching them. God! I feel like I’ve awoken a sleeping beast.“What did you just say?” He growls, the timber of his voice raking cold shivers down my rigid spine. He looks very scary and I’m tempted to shake my head and tell him nothing. That it was just a slip of the tongue and
CHAPTER SEVENELOISE’S POV.Klein’s body is stiff and unmoving, and he has both his hands to himself, by his sides. Jasmine on the other hand is on her toes, her palms flattened on Klein’s chest as she keeps her lips glued to his like she owned him. The monster in my chest starts trashing and my knees start to buckle as I watch their shocking display. I want to scream his name, but the shock from what I’m witnessing has made me forget what it sounds like. My voice has been caught in my throat and even as I open my mouth to say something, no words fall out from it. I shut it and swallow dryly and that’s when the two lovers finally notice that they are not alone in the garden.“Eloise!” Jasmine yelps in shock when she sees me, skipping away from Klein as though his touch suddenly burned her. I ignore her fake reaction and focus my gaze on Klein who’s stepping away from Jasmine as well and when our eyes meet, tears start to pool in mine. Unlike other times, I maintain eye contact with hi












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