Mag-log inALEXA“I don’t think you should be worrying about anything, Alexa. She didn’t call to cancel, just postpone by one day. As a matter of fact, I think you are overthinking everything,” Noelle told me five minutes after the call.“She just seemed too professional to be postponing our meeting,” I responded.“You said it yourself that she had an emergency. She is human, Alexa, and she has other engagements in life,” Noelle insisted.I tried to shake it off, just so that I could stop worrying about everything like Noelle had so put it, but I just couldn’t, and that was when it dawned on me.“What is it?” Noelle asked me when she saw my reaction.“Claudia didn’t sound as though she was cancelling with all of us in her class, Noelle. She sounded as though it just had to be with Mark and me,” I told her.The conversation with Claudia was replaying in my head and I still couldn’t find the place where she added the other parents.Noelle’s sighed in exasperation.“How could she have included the
ALEXAShirley and Noelle stood in front of me and stared at me with awe in their eyes after putting on the dress Eva had sent about forty minutes ago.She had wanted to deliver it herself, but knowing the kind of woman she was, I knew without a doubt that she was merely looking for a gossip, and so I had told her to send it through a courier instead.The dress fit exceptionally well.“What do you think?” I asked Noelle and Shirley, tired of waiting to get a response from them even though my mirror already gave me the answer I needed.Shirley ought to have closed for the day and left, but as soon as she knew that I was getting dressed for a dinner date, she insisted on waiting behind, and I let her.It felt really good having both Noelle and Shirley here with me.“Mr. Mark has an eye for good things!” Shirley gushed.“Technically, it is Eva who decided on the design and made the dress. Mark only requested for her services,” I corrected Shirley, nearly rolling my eyeballs.“She wouldn’t
MARK“Reyna, thank you for today,” I said to my personal assistant before leaving my company.“I was only doing my job, sir,” Reyna responded with nobility.“It was more than your job,” I told her and I meant it.Again, I hadn’t had anyone I could confide in since I became CEO. Even my dad’s personal assistant wasn’t like this with him.Reyna was not just efficient, but she was also trustworthy.Within a minute of talking to her, she had come up with a brilliant idea. Some hours ago, after Mona had left, leaving me in a state of anger, Reyna had come in.“Is anything the matter, Mr. Mark?” Reyna had asked me.Originally, I would have waved it off, deciding to handle things myself like I always did, or even if I couldn’t, Vector would be the one I would speak to and not Reyna, but in that moment, I just hadn’t minded.Also, Reyna had become too deeply involved to keep her out. She might not act like it, but she knew everything that was going on between Alexa and me. She was just too pr
ALEXA“You will not believe that I have received well over three calls since the last one, Noelle,” I told Noelle.Shirley was already setting up the racks and shelves in my dad’s former study.It hurt me a little to have to move some things aside and most of them to the attic, but I had to. There was no other space I could have used and also, what was the point in leaving things the way they were when the company was gone?Everything in the study revolved around the company which was no more anyway.“And they are all as a result of you being married to Mark?” Noelle asked with deep curiosity.“Yes,” I responded.It still seemed unreal to me.Because of Donald Shell, everyone had withdrawn their contract with me and I stopped having customers, which led me to shut down the business, but just in the space of one week of being married to Mark, things were looking better again.Every single call I had gotten in the last couple of days were all from prominent people in the city. People wh
MARK“Are you sure about this?” Vector asked me for the third time in five minutes.“Yes, I am, and Brent has said that it can work,” I responded with the same confidence. “Is there something you are worried about?” I asked him.“Will Alexa go with this new plan?” Vector asked me.I heaved deeply and my shoulders fell.Even before Vector mentioned it, I had been thinking deeply about it. Thankfully. Brent already said that it would work that way, but just as Vector asked, Alexa was the only thing I was worried about.She had been very difficult lately. She was the only one who would make this harder for me and I had no doubt that that was exactly what she would want to do.It was as though Alexa had taken a vow to counter me at every angle.“I will have to convince her,” I eventually answered, but not with the same confidence anymore because a big part of me doubted it.“You couldn’t convince her to start living with you after you both got married,” Vector reminded me.“She had her re
IVYI paced about the cabin like a lunatic because it was almost noon and I hadn’t heard a thing from Lina Barry.Wasn’t she supposed to call me?From the moment she left yesterday, I had kept the new cell phone that Drew gave to me, but not a single beep. All night, I stayed awake, watching and waiting, but nothing.And now, still nothing.“You didn’t take your coffee or eat your food,” Jack said from behind me.I turned and saw that he had walked into the cabin. He left about an hour ago and we didn’t even exchange any words. Lately, Jack and I had had little or nothing to say to each other and we simply left it at that.“I didn’t even realize you made me something,” I said.I glanced at the kitchen counter and that was when I noticed that Jack had actually made me coffee and food, but till this very moment, I hadn’t even noticed it, and that was because food was the last thing on my mind right now.“You didn’t sleep a wink too,” Jack observed.“Were you watching out for me last nig
MARKI really wish that I could have a few seconds of privacy with Alexa to tell her that she didn’t have to cook up lies just to please Mr. Porshia. We could have stuck to my earlier excuse, but thinking about it now, it was already too late for that.“Go ahead, Alexa,” Mr. Porshia urged.A smile
MARK“I will speak to him,” I said to Alora. I had to intercept, especially with the way Alexa was going about this.She wouldn’t believe this, but I was also surprised with this arrangement. I only told Mr. Porshia about the need I had, and that I was coming in with Alexa, but I never asked him f
ALEXAWhy on earth did I spill that story?“Excuse me, but I would like to use the restroom,” I said, standing up immediately.I was so embarrassed that I could barely spend another second in their presence.“It’s the last door by your right at the end of the hallway,” Mr. Porshia described. “And t
MARK“Alright, I am doing that already,” I said to Alexa.“Fine, do that right now!” She ordered.“But you have to stay quiet and let me handle this so that you don’t ruin anything, Alexa, please,” I pleaded with her.I had to, considering how furious and bitter Alexa was. I didn’t want her to spea







