Nek POVMy meeting with my friend ended by 8pm; we caught up, had some fun and even exchanged business ideas. I drove home immediately after, getting home at 8:30pm; I thought that Taina would be at home, I asked the security men but I was informed she hadn’t come back.Seeing it was still 8:30pm, I entered my office and decided to finish some pending work that I had left unfinished due to my sudden exit from the house. When I had finished my work, I realized the time was 10pm; she wasn’t back home yet and it’s already past 9pm.Our initial agreement was that both parties had to be back home by 9pm; and to make things more upsetting, she’s out with Cete, who she considers just a friend. Not saying I’m jealous but I’ve seen how that guy looks at her and I can tell he sees her more than a friend.I have the urge to call her up but I resist; not wanting to seem controlling or intrusive after all she had a life before she agreed to marry me, irregardless of how much I don’t like it. I dia
Taina POVToday feels like it’s going to be a long day; aside the fact that I have to go to work today, I also have to deal with gossip and rumors of Nek and I's marriage. Luckily for Nek, he can just ignore it all and no one would question him; after all he is the boss.But I’m an employee and other employees would want to get the full gist; if I could, I would avoid them, but how long do I want to keep dodging them. I can only avoid them for so long before I have to face them.Asides from all this, today is the meeting with my parents; Nek is finally going to meet my family, and I’m sure it’s not the way he imagined it. I’m trying to not stress too much about it; so I’m trying not to think about it until we meet them.I wear my slippers and walk towards the bathroom; as much as I don’t feel like work today, duty calls. I brush my teeth and take a shower; while mentally planning my day. I plan to close work by 5pm today so that Nek and I can meet my parents.Going through my wardrobe
I step into Cete’s office, he doesn’t look up at the sound of the door opening; clearing my throat a bit loudly, I try to get his attention. He immediately looks up with a suprised look on his face at the sight of me, “what are you doing here Taina”, he stands from his seat and gives me a hug, “how was the crowd” he eyes me up and down patiently waiting for a response“Slow down”, I take a sit on the sofa and carefully pull him to sit beside me; “I sort of came to see you”, he raises his eyebrows giving a question look, “I wanted the other employees to see me, so that they can say what they had to say. So I used the excuse of coming to see you to get that done”He feigns a look of hurt at the word *using him as an excuse*, “so how did it go” referring to how the other employees took it. I sigh, “no one came up to me; people congratulated me, there was a lot of whispering and stares. But no insults were actually said to me, but you could literally see how cut the tension in the air wit
Nek leads the way, I follow head on; the car is dropped off at the entrance, he dismisses the driver at getting to the entrance and the driver excuses himself. He opens the door for me and I softly thank him as I enter the car, he walks back to the drivers site, boards the car me zooms off.“What are you collecting”, I eye him up and down waiting for a response; he looks head on not turning to face me, which is for the best since he’s driving. “I need to collect something”He’s already said that and I’m pretty sure my question was very clear; turning to face him fully, “you already told me that part; but you never mentioned what you need to get”He chuckles softly, “look who’s being a curious wife”, my cheeks instantly turns a pinker shade than usual at hearing that; “I’m not being a curious wife; I’m just curious, I should be allowed to know what you’re collecting, since it seems it has to do with the meeting with my family. You know; I could even tell you if it’s a good idea, so w
The moment Nek leaves my sister Tela comes closer to me, she smacks me right across my arm ensuring it was painful, “how could you get married without telling your family, most importantly without telling me”, her eyes flare up, but I can tell she’s more worried than angry.My mom faces us, “so she should have told you and not us; well if she had done that, that would have been better than her running off to get married” she looks at me squarely and faces her attention on my dad, she mouths to him, “play nice”; he doesn’t respond but looks ahead at Tela and I’s demonstration of love.Tela whispers softly to me so that my parents don’t hear, “I’m your sister, your elder sister, the easiest thing you could have done was to come to me for help. You know I’ll always come through for you”, she looks sad at the fact that I hid this from her“I really didn’t mean to…”, I’m cut off by Nek’s reappearance, he comes in carrying the load of gifts he bought for my family; my mouth drops open as he
Nek and I return to our seats, my family looks at us inquisitively as we return to our seats, but I just smile at them. My sister whispers to me as I return beside her, “what did you both talk about”, avoiding the question, I just smile at her and shake my head telling her not to worry.“We have decided”, Nek and I simultaneously say, we both look at each other in shock at the fact that we spoke at the same time. I let him continue to speak for us, “we have decided to give this marriage a chance”, I look at my parents at the revelation of the news; my mother is smiling from ear to ear, you’d almost think she won a billion dollars. “That’s wonderful” my father says smiling, he stands up to hug Nek, he beckons to me to come; he places Nek’s hand on mine, signifying that he blesses our union. I hug him in response; feeling a huge relief that my parents know about our marriage and blesses our marriage, “thank you dad” I whisper to him as I hug him.I move to hug my mom; “thank you mom” I
I nod my head in understanding, “so when did he propose”, “two months ago” she says, smiling happily from ear to ear. From the way she smiles when she talks about him, I can tell that she really loves him.“Do mom and dad know”, “of course they do, I told them about us dating three months before he proposed; we are supposed to get married two months from now”I’m so happy for her, “what about his parents, did they take the news well”, “they did” we both say in unison, we laugh at us answering in unison. Jamie’s parents have always been like a second family to us, so I know they would have been ecstatic at the fact that Jamie and Tela would be getting married.“You’re all grown up” I look at her In amazement; two months from now, she’d be married; she won’t be my Tela anymore but Jamie’s Tela. “I’ll miss you” I say hugging her tightly, “don’t be silly, I’m not going anywhere, I’m only getting married” she playfully taps my shoulder.“I know" I hug her once more and finally let her go;
Hema playfully smiles at me, and I make a face at him; I look over to Tela and Jamie, they are busy snickering and laughing, and I’m hundred percent sure that it’s at my expense. Trying my best not to ignore them I fix my attention on Hema, “so what’ve you been up to; haven’t seen you in a while, so there’s a lot I need to catch up on”Hema smiles, “I’m actually one of the directors of Xtre group, so I’ve been very busy”, I gasp in shock, “you, a director; I thought you weren’t interested in the business”. He laughs, “I wasn’t but the work load was too much for Jamie, so I had to help out”, I can affirm that, he’ll do anything to help out his brother; that’s how he has always been.“So what have you been up to”, he says, carefully eyeing me up and then shifting to Nek, as he looks deep in thought. I smile at his question; “nothing much really, I’ve been swamped with work, but it’s good”; Hema smiles at my response.Nek butts in, “my darling wife forgot to mention that she is married n