The next day ~
LEVI BANKS “I PROMISE TO BE THE ONE TO END YOU!”Those were the words I said to Ethan yesterday before finally leaving his house. I'd been so down since then and the message regarding Jessica's health was all that distracted my emotions for a while.The contract was expiring in nine days and even if we had seven extra days, What's the probability that I'ld have Sophia back in my house before those sixteen days are over?..Sighs..“Levi?” Jessica's voice interrupted my thoughts. She just got discharged and was right beside me at the car's front seat while I drove absentmindedly, heading to her apartment.“Huh?" I voiced, slowing down a bit to go over the road bump.“I've been talking to you for the past five minutes now and you haven't even been listening. What's up?" She asked.I heaved a deep breath.“Nevermind Jessica, I'll be fine” I said, not wantLEVI BANKS Thankfully, I was able to sleep till the next morning despite how early I slept yesterday and with such mood. As usual, I woke up around six and for a second, I wondered if there was a body alarm right inside of me. Even Sophia never had a particular waking up time. Some days she's up before me, and some other days, she's still asleep even till I leave for work.. Oh yeah. She was pregnant.. Thankfully my mood was just a bit better than last night's, probably because it was a new day.. but certainly, it wasn't going to last long. I took my phone to check if I'd probably missed a call after I slept off yesterday and just as I'd guessed, I had.. Wait... Thirty missed calls??! “Jessica?" I was surprised to see the caller's ID showing her name. I scoffed and tossed the phone back to where I'd picked it from. I was definitely not going to call back. Never!..
LEVI BANKS The zooming sound of Jessica's car made me realise that the maid had delivered my message already and she had already left. I fell heavily on the bed after taking off my shoes and unbuttoning my shirt completely. “Everyone makes things more difficult" I mumbled. I tried closing my eyes to sleep, just to at least, forget everything for now but it wasn't working. My body wasn't ready to succumb to sleeping at all and to worsen matters, Grandpa's call came in. Hadn't he called just recently?.. “You all should make me get back my sanity!” I groaned, hitting the bed repeatedly like it was the cause of my predicament. However, I knew I couldn't ignore Harold's call for long, so I just had to swipe green. “Levi.." he called my name rather than the usual ‘Son’. That immediately made me realise that he had something so serious to say. I didn't say a word. My lips just couldn't move
JESSICA FINN Levi's words were more hurting than the stab of a two edged sword and at a point, I had to pinch myself hard to be sure I hadn't imagined all that had happened. Did he really have to say all that?.. I mean.. did he have to make me feel so unimportant by agreeing to my resignation, just like that?.. Or had I gone too far in threatening him about wanting to resign?.. Gawd! My tears fell freely and I didn't even bother stopping them. They were all I could let out to stop myself from rushing after him. He had really spoken with so much anger and frustration so going after him was never an option. I couldn't even face him anymore. His words rang in my ears again and just as it did when he was speaking, my heart ached terribly. “I was just a secretary to him?.." I repeated, grabbing the arm of the couch before I could fall. “As in.. JUST!!” I winced again, remembering h
LEVI BANKS I managed to remain in the office till 5:30pm even though everything I attempted to do ended up getting filled with jargons and lots of errors. But at least, I succeeded in distracting my emotions for a while. “How was your day sir?” my driver, whom I'd called to come pick me up, said as I approached the car at a normal pace, ready to go home. “You don't need to know, just get in and drive” I replied bluntly, opening the car door for myself even before he could. Sighs.. Everyone just had to cope with my behaviour for now. “Sorry sir. I really hope you're fine though” he responded, still very much caring. We began the journey home seconds after he settled behind the wheels and all I did was tilt my head backwards and close my eyes while the cool breeze freely came in from the windows. I got a message notification almost immediately and though I wanted to ignore it, I ended up
JESSICA FINN “What about this one? How does it look?” I raised the millionth dress to the laptop screen for my best friend to see. She was the only one I had to tell things about Levi to and I wasn't even tired of doing it. “I still prefer the green cashmere," she said, referring to one of the dresses I'd shown her before now. I had prepared and ordered enough ingredients to prepare dinner for myself and Levi. Though he refused it, I was definitely going to prepare the best, both for the food and my appearance. And one more thing… Make him choke on those words of wanting to see me next on Monday at work, with my seductive moves. Well, if only he wouldn't annoy me with talks about Sophia. “I'll wear it then. It will go well on black stockings. Damn, my loafers shoes are just perfect for it!” I smiled as my eyes dipped to the pretty shoes I had on my shoe racks. Levi's debit card had done
SOPHIA LANGFORD I finally decided to use the phone Ethan had sent through the maids some days back and my intention was solely to check the social media's update for the first time in a long while. I didn't know Levi's contact digits off hand so contacting him was impossible and I guess Ethan was aware of that too.. Oh yeah, I'd memorised Levi's number before now but he stopped using that contact address already. I can't remember exactly what the reason was but I know it was primarily due to some fraudulent activities he detected.. Logging into my account, I stumbled upon a notification that attracted me at a first glance. ‘Toby Ford sent you a friend request’.. That was the notification. The only person I knew by that name was my immediate younger sister and my mum's older twin. She was used to shortening our family name to ‘Ford' just as dad always did and as for me? I'd never for once deemed it better