Chapter 3

KATE

Rose?

Did he just call me by another name?

Who's Rose?

I gave him a dead stare, anticipating the next words that will come out of his mouth.

“What did you call me?”

“Uhmmmm…I'm sorry. That was a slip of tongue. You got me speaking gibberish already,” He jested.

The smile on his face afterwards then a sudden change of countenance as he stared at my naked body.

“Come here,” I placed his hands on my boobs with the intent of disrupting whatever awkward feeling he might be having.

“Do you regret sleeping with me?” I asked.

He shook his head. “I wouldn't,” he responded inaudibly.

“You don't look happy we had sex, Jerry,” I started.

He mumbled. “I…Don't you see anything wrong in what we just did?”

“Uhmmm, no.”

All this time, I have had nothing but crazy fantasies about him.

Sometimes, I get wet dreams just thinking about him.

“Is this about my father?” I questioned his worrisome look.

“He is my friend and you are like a daughter to me. How would he feel when he founds out…”

“That you are in love with me or that I want nothing but you. Well, he would have to live with it, Jerry cause I desire to be yours and I will do everything to have you,” I confessed.

“What are you saying, Kate?” He responded.

I grabbed his arms and placed them on my cheeks. “I am not your daughter. I am a girl who is madly in love with you and everything that has to do with you.”

I gave him a kiss afterwards but a call disrupted.

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JERRY

Oh, thank goodness!

Alas, something that will take me off this bed for now.

It was a business call.

I was deeply lusting after her especially after those marvellous rounds of sex but I just can't continue.

What would happen to my name? To my friendship with Bruce? To my reputation?

I can't afford to jeopardise all of that over some moments of pleasure.

I stood up immediately, escaping the awkward scene I had fallen victim of.

“Hello,” I answered the call of Mayor Ken.

“Jerry, my friend. I have been calling you. I know you are a busy man but there are some things we need to discuss. Where can we meet?” Mayor Ken said over the phone.

“Uhmmmmm, how about the clubhouse?” I suggested. That was an elite spot I could think of welcoming the Mayor.

“Anything to at least leave the house before I exhaust all of my juice on Kate.”

I had my bath that instant and therein, I had my maids and servants polish my shoes whilst I go through my billion dollar collection of suits.

“Where is the new guy? I would be using him today,” I said to Loko, one of my drivers.

“He is warming the car up for you sir,” he answered.

“Good. Tell the maids in the kitchen to make sure my princess upstairs gets everything she wants,” I instructed.

I had said before I realized I called her princess. “That shouldn't spark off any thing, right?” I asked myself as I walked majestically to the car.

After some hours drive,

I met with the Mayor who was already at the clubhouse waiting.

“Always looking rich and elegant. Typical Jerry Collan,” Mayor Ken commented.

“Mayor…I owe it all to you. You have been keeping the city conducive for my business,” I said as we laughed it off.

“I'm still surprised you called for this meeting, Mayor. What does an ordinary man like me want to do in this meeting?” I spoke sarcastically.

“Oh, Come on. Who wouldn't want be in a meeting with the famous Jerry Collan?” He responded with a pat on my hands.

There was an awkward silence afterwards and the Mayor kept his gaze on me.

“So when were you going to tell me?” He suddenly asked.

“Tell you what, Mayor?” I replied.

“Jerry….you ordered a lifetime supply of the best female dress from Beauty and Elegance Group of Companies and you think the Mayor wouldn't be aware of such a big move?”

“Are you planning to buy them off? cause the CEO is scared you want to overthrow his company. I have got tons of messages on my phone because of you, Jerry. What is going on?”

“Expansion or what?” He added.

I laughed. “There is no expansion, Mayor. What I did was just buy stuffs from them like I will always do,” I answered.

“C'mon, Jerry. A lifetime supply? Where are you sticking those clothes and you ordered for female dresses?”

“Look at this, Jerry. You paid a billion dollars as a starting f*e! What is this, Jerry?”

I paused for a moment.

“It's not what they think, Mayor. I got them for my girl at the house.”

“Your girl?”

“Yes, Kate. She is the daughterf my best friend back in school. She has been put in my care since her father travelled,” I explained.

“Hmm? And you doing all of that for a friend's daughter?”

“How about Rose? Does she know about this?”

With a serious face, I responded, “Don't bring up that name here. Like I said, the girl is my friend's daughter and I am only taking care of her.”

“Alright fine, I believe you but what's the update about the divorce?” He asked sipping the glass of Blue Sea cocktail in front of us.

“I've already done my part. She is with my kids and I don't really have an issue with that.”

“All that's left is for Rose to sign the divorce papers and we are done for good.”

“And the properties, isn't that going to shake you? I know you are a man of great substance but….” The Mayor lamented.

“I handled that already, Mayor. Beforehand, I already have a funded account opened in her name where my earning from the pipelines go to and the court agreed to that so she doesn't have any of any other thing I own,” I explained vividly.

“That's smart,” He replied sharply. “I guess you are good then. Meanwhile I will let the organisation know there is nothing to be scared of, Mr. Jerry means good,” he said as he raised his glass cup for a cheers.

I need to put a call through to her lawyer,” I muttered as I stepped out of the clubhouse.

I haven't gotten a feedback from him concerning Rose.

I picked up my phone that instant and put a call through.

The phone rang just once and the voice of a female echoed through the speaker.

“Hello Sir,”

“I want to speak to Lawyer Bade. This is Mr. Jerry Collan.”

“Yes, Mr. Collan. I have been expecting your call. Lawyer Bade is indisposed at the moment but he told me you would call and left you a message, sir,” the lady with the sonorous voice spoke.

“Okay, I'm all ears.”

“Unfortunately, your wife, Mrs Rose Collan, has refused to sign the divorce papers and is booked to arrive at your penthouse in the next 3 days. She wants you back, Mr. Collan,” she concluded.

“She didn't sign the papers?” I exclaimed.

“Where the fuck is Bade?”

“Get him on the phone!!”

“What?”

She is coming back where?

The same house Kate is……