7. No Home To Me

SCARLETT COBBS

“Will you be staying back again today, Miss Cobbs?”

I looked up from my laptop when my assistant’s voice resounded through the walls of my office. I smiled and nodded, “Just for an hour, Abby. Please don't wait for me today.”

Abigail and I have been working together ever since I graduated and got my beauty product company as one of my man graduation gifts. This place was the project my dad thought would fail but with Abby and Lu… not again.

Stop thinking about him, Scarlett. He doesn't deserve to be in your mind… and life. Not after he bailed on you.

“You know you can trust me with whatever it is that is keeping you beyond the working hours, Miss Cobbs. Let me help and we will make it happen like always.”

Abby offered. If only she knew that I wasn't actually doing anything. I haven't been doing anything even though I have been eating extra hours for the past five days. If I had focused on a goal, I would have achieved it by now.

However, I wasted those hours waiting for the curly-haired dude that swears on his ego to show up in my office on Monday… he didn't show up that day.

Neither did he show up the next… and not the day after… it’s Friday and he still hadn’t shown up. So much for “I don't accept money I didn't work for.” Tsk! He was nothing but a sham.

All men are shams…

Took me long enough to realize that. Even my father was a sham… the biggest scum in my life. Although I have realized that nothing would come out of waiting for the curly-haired sham, I would still wait that extra hour today.

“It’s personal, Abby. you know I would have asked for help if I needed some. Whereas, I won’t be here tomorrow so why not wrap this up with the week?”

I answered and she smiled again. Her ginger hair suited her and had always made me question why she wouldn't be a model. She has a nice face that would be great to advertise our beauty products… but who was I to force her?

Her face. Her choice.

“Alright, Miss Cobbs. I will take my leave. See you on Monday.”

Abby closed my glass door and I could see her walk out of her office after she went in to pick up her purse. Everyone has left yet I remained within my three-story building. The beauty company was named COBB’S BEAUTY by my dada, of course.

I usually named the products myself. The brand is known as Beauties Choice. We have been doing well… better than my father thought I would do.

That man believed I was a failure. He had never believed in me even though I kept trying to please him.

Silly me…

“Time to go home and forget about the curly-haired sham.”

If he didn't show up for the past five days, why would he show up later? That was the end and I felt better knowing that he would be far from me… a bit better. A bigger part of me has been anticipating his arrival ever since we depart that day.

I had given up on him. Finn wasn't as trustworthy as he made me believe.

I lifted my bag and walked out of my work place to the car park. My driver had taken the day and the weekend off to spend time with his family so I had to drive myself here today. As I pulled out my keys from my bag, a car drove towards me at full speed.

Alarmed, I quickly rushed away from the path. My heart pounded hysterically when I barely escaped getting hit by the car and I yelled “You could have killed me, scumbag!”

What the fuck?

The car reversed after I yelled and when it got to me, the driver showed his face by winding down his window. I hissed when the annoying face of Kelvin Gray smiled at me like the manic he was.

“Hello, Pretty girl.”

He cooed like we had been best friends. Note, we were not friends not ever, and never will I be friends with him. I just didn't like him and the stunt he pulled on me right now gave me more reasons to dislike him even more.

“Are you sick in the head or did you hit your head on something hard recently?”

What was I saying? Recently? No way that happened recently. Kelvin had always been a psycho and I know I promised to forget about Lucas but seeing Kelvin reminded me of him again. Lucas would have been here to protect me if he didn't bail last month.

Lucas never liked Kelvin even though they studied in the same school. I used to wonder why Kelvin, the son of the Famous Gray industry would attend the same should as Lucas who barely managed to graduate because of his family's financial situation.

Kelvin had money to attend a better school but he somehow ended up in Lucas's school.

And somehow, Kelvin had always been around since i was a teenager. His father and mine were best of friends until some years back. I couldn't be happier when the friendship sank. I thought that would get this psycho off my back but I was wrong.

“If I am sick in the head then you will be the reason.” I rolled my eyes when Kelvin started speaking. “Also, if I hit my head on something hard, it still will be you. You aren't hard though…. Leave the hardness to me while you remain hot.”

Unbelievable…

I was a sex addict but he wasn't my type… i knew my type and would stay with those species forever.

Although it has always been hard to resist the advances of men, Kelvin’s advances had always irked me. He just wasn't it for me but he never stopped trying.

“Your hotness must be melting my brains, Scarlett.” He added as if he wasn't sounding stupid enough.

“What do you want, Kelvin?”

I asked annoyingly and unlocked my car as I waited for him to speak and also leave since his car was behind mine. I wouldn't be able to drive out until he leaves.

“I just wanted to see your face, My darling. It’s been a while. I was told you were on vacation like the princess you are.”

I rolled my eyes again and shook my head when the dummy smirked at me.

“For someone who isn't my friend, you certainly know a lot about me…” I stated. “You will pass for a stalker any day.”

“I will be a stalker for you, Scarlett. Anything to see your face.”

He retorted. He was giving me shivers in a bad way… chills.

“Since you have seen my face, can you kindly move your car now? I have to leave.”

I said sternly. However, Kelvin didn't notice that since he replied sweetly. “Only because you asked nicely, baby…”

That was crony as fuck but I turned around and took steps to the driver's door. The moment I opened the door, Kelvin spoke up again.

“I like it better when he is not bride you like a stray dog, Scarlett.” I stopped dead in my tracks. He was obviously talking about Lucas's absence. I began to turn around slowly so I could give him a piece of my mind but he drove off before our eyes could meet…

But not without shouting, “Let’s keep your side free until I became your lawful partner, honey.”

Lawful partner? Was he saying husband? I laughed sarcastically and entered my car without further ado. That guy was just crazy and there was no way in hell he would ever become “My lawful partner.”

“Dream on, psycho.”

Minutes later, I was home and lonely as I have been for the past month. I didn't hesitate to go for my toys as soon as I entered my room. Those toys weren't enough to cool my molten magma which was why I have avoided pressurizing myself.

But those toys would help me relax more… to avoid a sudden rush of the volcano within.

My legs were wide open already and my hands were ready to push the dildo into my vagina but then my cell phone rang, interrupting the moment. I groaned and grabbed the phone from my bedside table.

“Hey, dad.”

I said into the speaker. I wished he would hear the apathy in my voice but he didn't.

“Let's have dinner tomorrow, Scarlett. Your mom and I would be waiting for you.”

He ended the call without waiting for my response. Classic Mr. Cobbs. I dropped the phone and recoil back into my safe zone with the dildo stimulating me. The night wasn't amazing and I didn't sleep well but I soon discovered that the night would be a better choice than a few hours at my parents' house…

The same place that had been painted with the darkness of my younger self… my cries were still in the air and my pain was shining on the marble floor…

That home was no home to me…