Extended work.Stephany did not want the boys to linger behind her and she also did not want them to walk in the cold with her.Mainly, she did not want any attention to be drawn to her. She was in a bad shape and felt weak and hated herself for what she felt.January was still 45 days away and she believed it will be gone.15 year old Stephany slept in the next day and even her mother's roars could not make her awake from her sullen state."Yo!"Candy's cry brought Stephany back to reality. She was seated by the window at the Mall's Gallito's branch as she was bathed in the seeping sunlight.Candy was waving her hands in front of her face in playful manner as she continued when she saw Stephany's eyes dart to her."We've been sitting here for the past 10 minutes and haven't ordered yet, are we getting a take-out?""Oohh!" She answered with no interest whatsoever."Oh! And what does oh means?" Candy asked."Just order what you need. I
Contract Wife?Mangrove Courts.The cab cruised after the gate was opened into the compound in between the gated villas to the one with V515 plate on the gate."Ding ding!"The door bell rang.Ali went to the door and before he could open, Juma was already standing by the top stairs near his bedroom. He was wearing a sweatpant and a t-shirt tight at his arm muscles with in house slippers."Good morning," Ali greeted the guest with joy and in Swahili."Good morning. Sorry to disturb you, you will have to help me with these today," said the guest.Ali didn't even look surprised when he saw the guest with her bags.The guest was Stephany. She had twisted her natural hair today and left them hanging to her forehead.She wore sweatpants with it's hoodie top and had white sport shoes. Her face with no make up and her lips were tainted with a glowing lip balm."I saw the car out, hasn't your boss left?" She asked earning a raise of brow
MarriedAt the church entrance, a man walked in with a woman in a red bridal dress and a blue veil. They walked in the company of each other, arm in arm.In the church, Candy and Ali sat, each of them on each row as they stared at the door at the incoming couple.The pastor was at the altar with a Bible on his hand. His expression was remarkable as he looked like he couldn't hide the many questions in his head.Definitely, this was the first wedding he was to preside over with only two guests and one person in the tablet.Without any suspense, the couple were none other than Juma and his personal assistant Stella.Two weeks had passed in a blink and from the looks of it, Stephany had decided or amiably accepted the conditions on the contract to be Juma's contract wife....Yesterday when Stephany asked Candy to be present at her fake wedding, Candy had been stunned silly."Were you fed with love potion? Don't tell me you have fallen for Juma Cain
Questions."What was the bang all about? You two are having couple fights now!" Candy asked wide eyed as soon as Stephany stepped into the room."It was that loud?" Stephany stunned, asked in return.It was loud yet the devil did not complain? I mean he should, shouldn't he?Stephany's mind wondered.Candy gave her an eye roll but did not speak.The eye roll was clearly asking, 'Wasn't it loud???!'"Ain't you being so nosy?" Stephany asked seeing Candy's eye roll.Candy yet again did not reply."I was already walking out of the study when he reminded me to close the door behind me, like I would leave it open! What the heck?"Stephany ranted without letting out a breathe.Candy didn't know if she should laugh or cry when she saw her behavior leading to a little chuckle escaping her lips.Candy without makeup was still beautiful. She had cheekbones and little fat in her cheeks, shaped eyebrows and relatively long acceptable lashes.
Slipped!Stephany was grabbing some magazines from the book shelves when Juma walked into his study.He was holding a glass of water with floating ice cubes and didn't notice her as his eyes had lock on something else.The magazine on his desk. He had left no magazine there so it quickly attracted his attention as he walked with large strides to it.A glance and the next thing Stephany saw, he had thrown it into the bin.Stephany: ...?"Why did you do that?" Stephany asked.This was not the result she was waiting for!"What?" Juma asked as he sat."You threw away the Magazine. Why? I thought you would be interested in her," she said as she went to the other desk on the lower two steps part of the study.He shot her an icy glare and reacted to changing it quickly to a questionable look.He had just reacted icily thinking why everyone would think he could be interested in Linah. Then he realized that he was talking to Stella, so she might be talking about the company and not the other k
AVOID NOT TODAYThe sighs of pity to Susan accompanied the disappearing backs and they went on with the work left. No one spoke as the rattle of papers and whispers with hands moving from one document to the other started.Stephany had just separated from Susan as she went in to Juma's office through the corridor path.She was conflicted in between visiting the office first or checking on the conference room if there's someone to give her the heads up of what happened.After difficult decision, she decided to walk towards his office. The door was a bit hidden and there was a corridor. If she could have used her office, she would have used the emergency door link in there."Have you been hiding?"A voice came from behind her and she swallowed hard with widened eyes."No! Why should I be?" Stephany asked a question of her own too.Naturally she felt that there was no reason for hiding it's just that, she did not want to face this Juma Cain's changed self.He was the opposite of what he
ANSWERSThe sound of the clocks seemed to have converged at one place in the entire office and that was near Stephany's ears.Tick tock, tick tock.It was like they were trying to tell her to hurry and choose.There was no better choice but the silence that allowed the clock sound was now giving her heart a scare as it drummed in her ears too.Little did she ever think of the day she would be so anxious to be with Juma like the only two of them.Where did it come from?But before she could speculate the answer, Juma's voice sounded."Jeffa is asking if I'm going down or not, the hotel surely without any suspens will be the next!"He was calm like he knew her choice and said his sentence like he was talking about everyday business."Okay!" She said and it sounded like a commanded whisper just at the fall of Juma's voice.Juma chuckled at her reaction and asked like he never understood what the okay was for,"Okay to what?"Stephany almost dropped dead with anger. Is this man really ser
Trending."She looked forward to that day and that day she even did her chores early," Stephany went on feeling down.Silent loomed between them and Juma raised a brow."What happened next?" Juma asked with anticipation.He was now into the story, especially when he felt the name Stephany to be familiar and the story brought some weird painful feeling to him.Juma thought he had grown soft since he had feelings towards Stella so he pushed the feeling to the back of his mind.Stephany was surprised to see his reactions and also she affirmed sighing in her heart that surely, he had forgotten all that. It was all seen in his face."That day, he never even glanced at her," she stated.At this said, she stopped to seek his reaction. Juma was surprised by the turn of events a little angry to who?"What? Why did he do that?" Juma asked.He now gets why she wouldn't love this Abel guy, the man was a jerk!"He broke up with her, saying he