MIRABEL"Babe." The young lady called, now wrapping her arms around Giveon whose hand was firmly in his pocket now, still giving me a hard glare. "I asked a question, didn't I? Why am I not getting any response?""Who is she babe?" The blonde is asking instead, saving me from having to tell him to his face that I had to stay out of the house until night because I didn't want to see him. "She's the girl that lives with me." He replied, now referring me back to "the girl." But I don't take offense simply because I was starting to get used to it."Oh. The one who is supposed to be your wife?" She asked, scrutinizing me from head to toe that I felt like I should disappear at that moment. She knows he's married and is still around. Did he promise her marriage afterward? That he was going to get me to divorce him so that they would be together?As much as I wanted to conclude that she might be playing a huge role in the reason he wants my life miserable, I couldn't do that, not after wha
MIRABEL"Josh!" Beauty called out, waving her arms behind me to someone I think she knows.I didn't bother to turn because I didn't know who it was. We were currently at the company career is for lunch. "Beauty." I heard the voice of the man named Josh and I still didn't turn. I could hear footsteps from behind me until I finally got the see the Face of the man who was now standing in front of our table.He was tall and that was the only thing I noticed because I didn't bother to look at his face while I devoured my food."When did you return from your leave and why didn't you tell me?" Beauty asked. They had both hugged earlier when he came and now she was back sitting while he stretched his arms to pull a chair towards our table so he could sit. "I resumed today. I wasn't supposed to but I had to since I didn't have anything to do." He answered."You are quite the hard worker, aren't you? Instead of using your whole leave, you decide to come to work. I have to give it to you Joshu
MIRABELI sat quietly in the living room of my grandpa's mansion, playing Candy Crush on my phone while waiting for him. He sent a text Friday night asking to see me because he wanted to discuss it with me. Thankfully the time he chose wouldn't clash with my schedule with Beauty because we planned on visiting the mall today to get some things and also to bond more. It's been fifteen minutes since I arrived and he was yet to come. I didn't mind it though because there was still a lot of time for me. Finally, I followed footsteps, so I lifted my head to see my grandfather walking towards me dressed in black make kaftan. I stood up on my feet to go hug him. Although we didn't have any good relationship, that was how I greeted him still."Good afternoon Grandpa." "It's so lovely to see you here. How are you?" He asked. We were now seated on the couch. "In doing good.""How is it going with Giveon? I hope he's treating you well. How is work too? I hope it's going well too?" He asked.
MIRABEL"Hey. What are you doing here?" I said to Josh, surprised to see him here this morning. Josh dressed just like on Friday when I saw him is claded in a two-piece black suit today with a file in his hand."Hey. I have some work with the CEO. Weren't you aware?" He asked, smiling at me. I shook my head before going through Giveons schedule for the day. "But you aren't on the schedule, or are you…" I trailed off when I read the word that was put in the abbreviation. "HOD design departments?" He flashed me a smile confirming it. "You got promoted?" I asked."Yes, this morning." He replied making me smile so hard. They explained why I wasn't aware. Over the weekend when I met with Beauty, he ended up joining us and that's how we bonded. It went naturally and we exchanged numbers too.I've been feeling good since Saturday after my grandpa and I spoke and on Sunday we went to visit my mom at the hospital. She was surprised to see her dad because she could swear that until she died
MIRABELI returned to the office after lunch only to see Giveon on my seat doing something on my computer.I looked at my wristwatch to see if I was late and it was just one minute past lunch time so I wasn't late. What did he need so urgently that he couldn't wait for me? I thought to myself."What is your middle name, Miss Harrison?" Giveon asked as he took some paper from the printer before standing up from the chair."Tara?" I replied and he scoffed."More like tardiness? The T in your name stands for tardiness because tell me why you make it hard for me to work with you. Is it because you think I won't fire you?"Once again, he was coming for me unprovoked because I don't recall ever doing anything to make him this angry. I wasn't even late. This only goes to prove he chose to do what he wanted himself to make me feel bad."I…""Zip it." He cuts me off, his index finger hanging in the air."Get ready. In ten minutes we are leaving the office. I need you to write down every discus
MIRABEL"Mr Bolton.""Mr Jameson." Both men said simultaneously as they shook hands."I'm glad that you could spare us some time for me. I sincerely appreciate it." Mr Bolton said to Giveon as we all sat down on the table for three."This is my assistant and she will be jotting down our conversation today making it easy for me to get back to your needs and reach out to you if I'm pleased," Giveon informed Mr Bolton.A smile formed on Mr Bolton's face. "Thank you."He looked young but older than the both of us. "I'm glad that you took your time out here to listen to me. I would never take this for granted." Mr Bolton said. Giveon told him to go ahead and tell him what it was that he had on his plate. As he began to speak about his business, I jotted down things that needed to although I felt that way I wasn't certain and I hoped Giveon wouldn't have any complaints later on.Giveon listened to him attentively while I played my part. He gave several reasons why Giveon should invest in
MIRABEL"I will take my leave now," I said, attempting to leave the car."And who ordered you to?" He said in a deep tone that made me shiver."Earlier your voice was loud as you stated your stance and you want to leave now? I didn't order you to and so you can't.""That's just who you've always been. So good at making others think you are some innocent person. You aren't one. You are a pretender and if I hadn't figured you out, I'd have easily fallen for it." "You are vehemently denying having anything to do with him and that's the more reason I believe there's something. If there was nothing, you wouldn't see the need to be defensive." He said through gritted teeth.As much as I felt good speaking up earlier, I suddenly regretted it. It's like I added more fuel to the fire."You didn't have much to say be other day when I saw you with the second chief for the head of departments but you have enough to day today." He clicked his tongue. "You can deceive everyone but I'm not one of th
MIRABELIt took everything in me to be able to push him off me.I looked at him frowning. "Please, stop accusing me of what I'm not, and stop trying to touch me in ways that make you think I want it when I don't." "And she speaks. I wasn't the one who said I was distracted. It was you who got distracted seeing me with another. It's okay to admit that you are jealous." He countered."But I'm not." My voice almost failed me.He looked at me for some seconds as if thinking about something else to use against me but instead, when he opened his mouth to speak, he said something else. "There is a family dinner this Friday at my parent's place. They asked me to invite you so make sure to look your best and also don't do anything that will make me angry. You can leave."What? I mentally gasped. Could Giveon be bipolar? It was how he suddenly switched on me. One minute he was being too much and the next it was like he didn't care and my presence irritated him. I walked out of the room and ba
GIVEON JAMESON POVFuck! Fuck! Fuck! I mentally cursed myself when I had to kiss her to shut her up. I hated how I was going crazy and didn’t know how to handle my feelings.I was always good with handling my feelings and had good self control but that was until she came back into my life. It felt so messy that I had no idea how I was feeling.Was I angry with her? Yes. Was I hurt by her? Yes. Do I hate her? I want to but I cannot and it’s seriously driving me crazy in a way that has me many sleepless nights.I haven’t been able to get rid of that image seeing her so close to Chris and they are close to kissing. I hate Chris so much! He knew just how much I liked her and went after her and she fell for him instead.I hated that I considered him my best friend and he went behind my back to ask her out and she fell for his charms and worse, he recorded her while they had sex and showed everyone in school, I was so disgusted by it. He did nothing but humiliate her but someone she had fee
MIRABELStarting from the beginning of today, I knew it would become chaotic. From him rejecting the coffee and asking me to get him some sweet beverage instead to him complaining about every work I did and asking me to redo them.I couldn’t even have lunch because I had work to do and he told me to have it done before 1pm so if I wanted to get it done without getting into trouble, I had to do as told even at the expense of my belly. Beauty called in sick today but I knew it was a lie.She had too much to drink and woke up late so she decided to act sick so as not to come to work today which meant she had no one to help me.I spoke to my professor asking for some help but he was yet to reply. Time difference also played a role in why he was yet to reply.It was exactly 1pm when Giveon returned to the office, his usual bland expression masked on his face. I stood up from where I went with the edited copy of the documents he asked me to look into. I followed behind him into his office.
MIRABELFor some second, I thought it could be my imagination but I was wrong. It wasn’t my imagination. Giveon was kissing me and I didn’t know what to do because in all twenty-four years of living on earth, I’d never kissed a man before so it was new to me.“Kiss me back.” He groaned hoarsely, his voice making me shudder but I didn’t do as told as he continued to aggressively kiss me.“So you won’t kiss me right?” He pulled away, glaring at me and leaving me confused. What just happened? The man who promised me hell the day of our wedding had kissed me but it didn’t seem like he kissed me because he wanted to but for some reason I had no idea about. “You would have kissed him if I didn’t show up, wouldn’t you?” He uttered, his tone laced with venom making me frantic.”I…”“I saw how close the both of you were. You let him close. You wanted him. Don’t you dare deny it?” He pointed accusing fingers at me leaving me more confused than I already was because I had no clue what it was t
MIRABELAfter he introduced me to Mr. Walter and his wife, Giveon kept his distance afterward and it wasn’t like it affected me because I was happy that he stood up for me.Thinking about it, he did that because he didn’t want anyone to know of the nature of our marriage. I didn’t fail to notice the look on the Face of the lady and I honestly liked it. The second half of the event continued and I could finally understand what was going on. The event focused more on the awareness of kids with eye problems and how expensive the treatment can be. They wanted donors that would help them with the money for it and I, in particular, was interested.Most kids in the orphanage were having issues with their eyes and there was a need for money to be able to cater for the kids. After that part, they took a break as usual.“I’m going to use the restroom,” I informed Giveon but he didn't seem to acknowledge so I left the restroom.After using the restroom, I made my way out only to meet Chris stan
MIRABELChristopher James and Giveon Jameson were known names in the school. I have been hearing their names since I got admitted into the prestigious high school for only rich kids on scholarship.Although I’ve heard of them and seen them, my presence was never noticed by either of them until one day. That was the day that changed it all and I went from the girl who was barely seen to a well-known figure simply because Giveon Jameson took an interest in me not for the reasons you might think but because he saw me as the perfect person to make fun of.“Why are you so skinny? Here. Have some milk and cake and eat more vegetables and fruit.” Giveon dropped a cake, a small carton of milk, and a parfait for me on my table where I was having lunch. I looked at him with tears in my eyes because everyone was now watching and I felt so embarrassed. I didn’t want his food. I already had mine even if it wasn’t much.I had a toast in my food flask and a bottle of water with me and that should b
MIRABEL“You look gorgeous in this outfit. Damn. It reminds me of my younger days.” Miranda complimented, staring at me. I walked towards the standing mirror to take a look at myself. Dressed in a strapless sequin silver dress that fitted my body so well, accentuating my curves I hadn’t noticed had gotten bigger. From my mid-thigh, the dress had a slit until the end, revealing my not-so-very-long legs. I looked really good so I wondered if I was the one in the mirror because of the makeup and how good I looked. Miranda had done a great job preparing this dress for me and also assisting me with my makeup. For a girl my age, I didn’t have many pictures or videos of myself looking this good. Even on the day of my wedding, I didn’t look happy because I never wanted to get married to him. For some reason, I felt really good today and happy. “I’m sure he’d be blown out of his mind the seconds he sees you. You are lovely.” Miranda complimented again. “Thank you so much and you’ve done
MIRABEL"Oh my goodness!" I screamed, jumping off the bed when I realized that I was late.It was past nine and I had just woken up. I dashed into the bathroom to quickly brush and bathe only to hit my arms against the door."Ouch!" I cried out in pain, feeling my arms stiffen for some second, and then cried out more when I realized that it's weekend and I wasn't supposed to go to work.How the hell did I forget this? I mentally groaned. Firstly, I slept too much and woke up past ten in the morning. It was the first of its kind since I started working for Giveon.I mentally thanked my stars as I realized that if it was during working days and I woke up this late, I wouldn't have bothered to go to work because Giveon would have kicked me out and fired me.Speaking of Giveon, how did I return home? I don't recall anything besides dancing with Sandra."Oh my goodness!" I voice out.My eyes widened in realization of what I had done last night. I was in Giveons arms. I don't recall that mu
GIVEON JAMESON"Take care son and call us when you get home." My mom said."I will," I replied."Make sure to take care of her and be nice." She reminded me."Seriously mom?" I replied, feeling bored already because I knew what it was that she was doing. She was my mom and also one of those who knew how hard it was for me then to get my heart broken by a girl for the first time.It wasn't like we were ever together but I crushed on her. Everyone except her knew that but somehow she managed to break my heart without accepting me first. It's been five good years since I last saw her. Five years since I promised to never see her again and to hate her for shattering my heart. I remember the first time my parents told me about the arranged marriage, I told them I wasn't interested and turned them down.Every time they wanted me to settle down, I reminded them I was still young and I wasn't twenty-five years but she would tell me settling down early wasn't a bad thing.That was until my mo
MIRABEL"You look beautiful every time I see you. How have you been?" Sandra asked me for the second time tonight as we settled on the dining table."I've been good Sandra, and you?" I asked with a smile on her face."I'm always looking good. What is working with your husband like? How are you catching up? I hope he's not being too strict on you forgetting you are his wife?" She asked, letting out a small laugh afterward."You know he can be like his father when he wants to be." She placed her hand on her husband's hand on the table and looked at him with a smile on her face. "My husband can be so strict when he's at work but behind all of that grumpiness, he's a big baby."I didn't fail to notice the smile on Giveons dad's face as he looked at his wife. It was evident that he was in love with his wife but I couple say the same for his son."It's going well. I'm managing well." I replied. "I hope you aren't hard on her Giveon." She was now speaking to her son who hadn't said a word t