F I V E

"Have a nice day at work." Nicole said as Floyd flung his suitcase, entering his car. He ignored her and brought out his phone. He started checking for updates and soon got engrossed in it.

They soon reached the hotel and Floyd walked in. Everyone scrambled around as he passed by them. He paid no attention to them as he clicked on the name he has been searching for all these while.

Aspen Wolfe. She surprisingly had no social media account which made him feel like he was not searching enough. So he searched for Richardson Woods and he did not see any of her pictures with him. Just promotional stuffs on his page and it made him frustrated. The elevator made a noisy sound and he stepped out.

"Welcome, sir." His secretary greeted and he just nodded at her. Not even looking at her.

He pushed the door to his office open and dropped his suitcase on the chair before settling to sit. He turned on his laptop and started doing the search but nothing of Aspen related came up.

"You need to stop bothering about Aspen. You divorced her, remember?" A voice said in his head and he exhaled, rubbing the bridge of his nose. He squeezed his eyes shut and slow opened. He deleted his search history and went to his mails to get busy.

He was still replying some mails, when his secretary stepped in with files in her hands.

"Sir, these are the enterprise contract files you asked me to go through. All that remains is your signature." She said and he signaled to her to drop them without looking at her. She swallowed lightly and dropped the files. She gazed at him, hoping he would look up at her but he did not. He just... Floyd looked up at her with his brows arched. "What do you want me to do for you?" He asked.

She bit her lips as she looked away timidly, he narrowed his eyes on her and was about to talk, when a knock came on the door. His Secretary scoffed at the interruption.

"Check who are those at the door." He said to her and she cat walked, swaying her hips towards the door while he had his eyes on the laptop before him, not paying her any attention. She pulled the door open and sound of laughter filled the entire office. Floyd huffed as he heard his two close friends make jokes.

"You guys don't have companies to run?" He asked even before they sat down and they shared a smug glance before sitting.

"Don't you think it is wrong to sit when you are not told yet?" He asked them again and this time they both scoffed.

"What is making Mr. Ceo so agitated today?" David, the one with the hazel brown eyes and styled brown hair, asked. Floyd did not look up at them at all as his eyes was stuck on the file before him. This contract that he has been trying to finalize and yet the person behind it is just acting... All mighty and it was getting on Floyd's nerves.

"Hey, hey, Mr. Ceo." Mark hit the table. Floyd gazIt ed at them with a blank expression.

"Nothing is wrong. The both of you came at the wrong time." He said, pointing to them and they both laughed at his straight face.

"Dude, we know something is bothering you." Mark said, eyeing him.

"Okay, okay.." He said as he breathed out. These guys of his won't let him rest until he spits it out.

"Aspen is in town." He said and just like that, Mark and David shared a look and soon burst out into a fit of laughter. He hissed out, knowing that there could be no more than that reaction from them.

"So what is funny in what I said now?"

"Wait, which one?”

“Which other ex do I have?” He asked.

“Oh, you mean the barren whore you divorced is back? Why?" Mark asked. Floyd glared daggers at him at the word he used to describe Aspen.

"Are you stupid intentionally or were you both stupid naturally and I did not notice?" He asked them.

"Okay, okay... Your ex wife." Mark corrected himself.

He rolled his eyes. "Yes."

"Then why are you bothered? You paid her off so... Tell me what is the issue is to the extent that you are brooding over it?" David asked.

He did not know tell them the sole reason he had divorced her and he knew it was off no use to them.

"Just that, she has changed." He said, remembering how she looked.

"Her boobs changed. Her ass got bigger. Her lips more kissable, her fingers more blah blah blah blah." Mark said as he glared at Floyd.

"Know whose dog you are." He warned him. Floyd's nose flared up in anger.

"I am not Nicole's dog!" He said, hitting the table hard.

He was being called someone’s dog. For how long has he been behaving like one?

"Yes, yes we know. But you don't have to think about what you already lost." David said and he scoffed.

"I am not thinking." He said in denial.

"And do you know the funniest part of it all?" He said.

"She was with Richardson." He said and they creased their brows.

"Is it the same Richardson Woods, your only rival back at Ivy's academy?" David asked.

"Yes, I had to accept the fact that we could just get on with the deal without fighting but then Nicole started a fight with Aspen and it almost turned out dirty." He said with a sigh.

"You know what I am seeing here, Aspen is working for Richardson and you are bothered when you have a secure link for connections which is Nicole." David said.

"So tell me what Nicole does not have that has you thinking about your ex-wife." Mark asked.

"Nothing. Just that... You know forget about it. You guys are not helping me." He said, waving them off and they started laughing.

"I can see you are stuck between two women. At least choose the one with both beauty and brain which is definitely Nicole." Mark said and Floyd snorted.

Only if they know that not only is Aspen pretty, she has a lot of shits running in her head.

"Okay, okay... What about we go for a drink? At least to lighten the mood or maybe get tangled in the sheets with some hot girls." David said and Mark shook his head.

"You are the only bachelor in our midst, my wife would kill me." Mark said and David laughed.

"Now I think you know for sure whose dog you are."

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"So how are we going to do the deal?" Aspen asked Richard who was going through his files. He looked up from it and stared at her. They have been seated here for two hours, him going through mail, she marking out some errors in the files. She was just so hardworking that he admired her for it.

"I will speak with Floyd soon about it." He said, not wanting to go further on the discussion. He knew how much great efforts he had to fight when his father informed him of the deal had already initiated with Floyd's company. He got angry but his father said that it was all for the greater good. Greater good indeed. Including him making deal with Floyd Wolfe. He knew Floyd is not just the CEO, he was a business tycoon who not only know how to get shareholders and deals, he knows how to corner them and choke them till they vomit their last penny. So he knew the kind of dangerous path he was threading. But his father who thinks he is wise said there was nothing to worry about.

"Okay, but why?" Aspen asked him.

"Because..." He exhaled.

"He is yet to contact me and I am also yet to do so. and besides, we have things to do over here too. But why are you in a hurry to leave?" He asked her and she looked away.

"Nothing really. Just don't like being away from work and home." And her kids. She did not say it but she meant every bit of it. Richard does not know she has kids and she wanted to be kept that way. He eyed her for a while before looking away. He has been thinking about what happened, trying to know why Nicole was crying but Floyd's words just kept replaying in his head. He knew he will soon find out if there is anything so he did not push it.

"If you say so." He said and she nodded her head. They soon got back to doing her things when Richard's phone rang. He was thinking it was Floyd but then when he checked the caller ID, it was his father.

Huh! Another trouble to add to his day. He groaned as he picked. He stood up and walked away from Aspen, he did not want her hearing some of the things he would say.

"Hello, father." He said.

"Don't you think that you should come home?"

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Richard's father asked him to come home? For what?

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