Chapter Nine.A man follows Natalia as she comes back home from Wendy’s place. Her social life only consists of her outings with her husband, and with Wendy.Natalia already noticed the man, but at first, she was not sure that he was following her, but after she takes a right turn and turns again to arrive at the starting point, she realises that the man has indeed been following her all the while.The man seems to notice that Natalia is already aware of her surroundings, and the fact that he was sticking out like a sore thumb to her, so he quickens up his pace. Natalia does the same in alarm, almost cursing at herself out loud for not taking the car, even after Noah had asked her to take it repeatedly, more than usual earlier today after she had informed him that she was going to be at Wendy’s until two in the afternoon.Oh, must I be so stubborn? She thinks and groans, knowing very well that she was yet to reach a place that was full of people. She quickens her pace, making it seem
Chapter Ten."No, no. I am going to be busy today, I'll see you later." The voice of Noah speaking on the phone makes Natalia to wake up, but not fully as she still wants to have a few more moments of sleep.Just a few minutes more, she thinks to herself. Then I would wake up."It is the weekend, I saw you on Thursday. I can't come over—" Noah hesitates and continues to speak."No, no! You definitely cannot come here either." His voice is getting angry. "My wife is asleep. I do not want to raise my voice and have her wake up to me shouting at you on the phone." He whispers harshly and suddenly, Natalia feels the need to stand up and wrap her arms around him in a comforting hug or maybe to just hold his shoulders and make him calm down."I do not think that anything that you have said so far is a good idea. No, I will not do that, Wendoline." Noah spits into the phone. "If anything goes wrong, then it's all your fault."Oh, he is speaking to Wendy! Natalia thinks with an amused expres
Chapter Eleven.“Hello Noah! Hello, Mrs Shaw. A good morning to you both. I’m sorry, I hope that I am not too late.” The man says as he stands at the door. Natalia speaks first.“Mr Sky?” She asks.“The one and only that I know of, pleased to meet you. You can call me Stephan.” The man in front of them gave a warm smile and extended his hand towards Natalia’s hand. Natalia accepted his hand. “Thank you for coming, Stephan. I am Mrs Shaw, but you can call me Natalia. Please, come in.” Natalia moves aside and leads him in, while Noah sits and frowns.“My friend here is a punctuality freak. He hates if when someone is a minute late, and that’s is obvious from his facial expression.” He says to Natalia with a small laugh. Then he turns to Noah.“I am sorry, really. There was a collision on the way and then I had to turn, and use another route. Stressful indeed.” Stephan says, earning a grunt from Noah.“How are things, Stephan?” Noah asks. “What about your wife?” “Oh everything is great
Chapter Twelve.Noah was a bit relieved to get Stephan off his back, and when Stephan had announced that he was going to have to go home, just so that his wife would not get worried because of him, and get mad.“But you had told us that your wife was not at home.” Noah said.“Yes, but that does not mean that she would stop checking up on me though. The only reason we’ve not noticed yet is because I kept my device on silent.”“Seems to me like your woman controls you.” Noah had retorted at the court, refusing to hold his tongue.“Oh, she is my queen, she is absolutely everything I have, want and even more. Especially as she is carrying my child.” Stephan served the ball.“Does not mean that she should be able to tell you what to do!” Noah shouted as he hit the ball with the tennis racket.He had received no response to that.“I enjoyed today, want to do this another time? Maybe a switch, if possible. You come over to my place, with your wife and have breakfast and go out for some games
Chapter Thirteen.“Come on my dear, let us leave.” Noah whispered as he tried to get Natalia off the bar stool that she was sitting down on.“No! Leave me alone. I want some, s’moree.” She slurred, dragging out her words.“I would give you more at home, don’t bother.” Noah continued, the migraine that had started moments before pounding away at the right side of his head.“I want from here.” Noah could not believe that Natalia could be so stubborn. This was why he hated drinks with alcohol in them. And why he hated alcohol itself.He tried being persuasive one more time. “Baby, let us go home, it has been a long day for the both of us.”Natalia responded violently, using a lot of force to shrug his hands off of her. “It has been a long day, yes. But no, not for you, for me. How dare you call me baby? Take your lying and cheating ass back to little Miss Sasha Bernadette, won’t you?”A man put his hand on her shoulder protectively. “Calm down, lady.” Then he turned to Noah. “Do you ab
Chapter Fourteen.“I am still finding it hard to believe that you cheated on me.” Natalia mumbled as she prepared herself to go for her morning bath.“Then do not believe it?” Noah shrugged. “I promise you, it’s as easy as that. These issues are just in your head, you are the one making it seem like it is such a big deal.”“It is not a big deal?” Natalia turned to glare at him.“Exactly, my darling wife. I like that spirit, keep it up.” Noah nodded.“Shut up. You never even apologised for doing what you did to me.”“I do not need to apologise for you to know that I feel bad about it. Not that I did anything wrong by giving into my crank urges.” Noah said.“Shut up.” Natalia said and turned back to go into the bathroom. Noah moved quickly and moved her back by her arm.“Now, Mrs Shaw. I believe that you have forgotten your manners, since yesterday, in fact, but I would give you a grace period of the rest of today, since you are having fits over regular things. Do not tell me to shut up
Chapter Fifteen."Finally away from that bloody stupid woman." Noah muttered as he sat in his car on the way to work. He wondered how, and why the women seemed to be infected when alms kind of brain disease that suddenly made them feel that they could do whatever it was that they wanted. And that they could air their opinions, if they could be called that.More like words coming out of one's airhead wife. She had even taken to embarrassing him to have some fun. She has to have her way in a most demeaning manner and Noah was sure that if he had had something in his hand, he would have hit her badly. EThe media has no right to influence his household and how he ran it! The media were turning women vaway from their usefulness, from the training that they had been giving from when they were being nurtured as young ones.Maybe it was something in the movies, yes, the movies. Very soon, he would stop her from watching those as well.What did she have to do? She was asking?YAsking like
Chapter Sixteen.-“Please! I will give you money. What do you want? A house? A car? A computer?” Natalia was desperate for him to leave her alone.“Women can be very stupid sometimes.” He grinned manically and went to her. “I will make you pay if you do this! Have a re-think!” Natalia said, still moving around and hopping out of his reach each time he tried to grab a hold on that.“This cat and mouse game is not very interesting, you know?” He asked. “I might become bored eventually and decide to just reach out and catch you.” Natalia was already running up the stairs and he ran after her. Then she slipped away and ran down, hoping to get to the front door before he could get her.“It is cute that you think that you would be able to get away from me, little woman.” The masked man said, still moving with long, heavy strides.“But even with my walking, you are still far too slow. That was a very good plan you had, but you are not agile enough to execute such a fragile plan. You have