LOGINALEXA“But I can ask him to leave if you want,” the cop told me.I would have been afraid and worried that it was Donald Shell, but the cops already knew not to let Donald Shell in. If it was Donald Shell, they would have informed me instantly.So who could this person who had refused to say his name be?I had to tell myself that asking the cop to get him to leave out of fear wasn’t the right thing to do. What if he was here for something important?Also, if he posed any form of threat or danger, the cops were here to protect me.“Don’t worry about that; I will see him,” I said.“Are you going to come out to see him or should I let him in?” The cop asked.“You should let him in,” I said even though it was risky to let someone I hadn’t seen yet into the privacy of my home.Again, I was trying not to let my fears control me.This was a New Year and I didn’t want to begin the year living with fear, and the best way to go about it was to start practicing bravery and courage.“But stay clo
ALEXAThree hours later and Mark still hadn’t arrived. I tried not to let it get to me, but I just couldn’t.“He doesn’t owe you anything, Alexa,” a voice in my head kept telling me each time my anger and frustration kept rising.“Lunch is ready, ma’am,” Lora told me.I had had to have brunch without Mark even though I thought that he was going to be here way before that time.Brunch was over about two hours ago.It was time for lunch now, and yet, no traces of Mark Ronaldo.“Would you like to come to the dining table or do I have to bring it here?” Lora asked me.Since I came downstairs, I hadn’t gone back to the bedroom.I kept telling myself that I wasn’t waiting for Mark’s return, but a part of me knew that I remained in the living room watching meaningless shows that I had no interest in with my eyes constantly glancing towards the front door, hoping that Mark would walk in any minute.But that hadn’t happened.“Why don’t you hold on for a few more minutes, Lora?” I asked her in
MARK“No, Mark, I don’t want to go to the hospital,” Mona insisted for the tenth time in less than three hour.“But I need to be sure you are well,” I stated tightly.“You heard the doctor loud and clear, Mark,” Mona responded.Yes, I did, but I still wasn’t convinced.After Mona fainted, I couldn’t just abandon her and walk away.I had to pick her up and lay her on the bed. I was almost calling an ambulance when she stirred and opened her eyes. Then she complained of her head spinning and needing some water. She drank some water, and Mona insisted that she wanted to call her doctor.She did and put the phone on speaker.“It must have been as a result of emotional stress, Mona,” the doctor had said through the phone.It was a man’s voice that I hadn’t heard before.Then he went ahead to ask Mona some other questions, after which, he had come to his conclusion.“All you need is time to rest, some attention, and of course, watchful eyes on you, and by the end of the day, you should feel
ALEXAI waited for Mark for another one hour before freshening up and heading downstairs. I tried not to be disappointed, but deep down, I was.“He is not your lover, Alexa. He doesn’t owe you anything,” a voice in my head reminded me.But I couldn’t stop to wonder if he had run back into the arms of Mona.First of all, the call when we were having a good time last night. Secondly, the way he had picked up his cell phone before walking out of the room. And now, he had spent more than two hours since he left.It was more than one hour ago that I called him, and he assured me that he was going to be here soon, but till this very moment, there were no traces of Mark Ronaldo.“How did I go back to believing Mark?” I asked myself as disappointment washed over me. “Time and time again, he has shown me that he is not reliable, but I keep going back to trust him. It must have been the horniness…”It was easy for me to blame it on being constantly horny because I couldn’t think of any reason w
MARKHow long would Brent be away for?He didn’t say how long he was going to be out of Paris for, and silly me, I hadn’t thought to ask him before he left. Now, he wasn’t reachable.“Don’t you know I need you right now?” I asked myself as though Brent could hear me.Alexa already gave me the grace of one month, and I wanted to do everything remotely possible to do her bidding so that she would agree to marry me.“If in the next one month, nothing happens that makes me hurt or upset, and I find out that you are not hiding anything from me and have been honest with me all along.”One month…Could I keep Mona from ruining things for one month?Maybe I could, but in the next one month, the possibility of Mona being able to terminate the baby would have been tinier. Pregnancy grows every single day and I didn’t want to take the chances of Mona not being able to get rid of it.Even if I was able to keep Mona out of the way, the fact still remained that I didn’t want to have a child with he
MARK“Why are you still here, Mona?” I asked her without bothering about being hostile.And to think that she had actually passed the night here.I began to worry about Mona’s persistent presence.Now that things seemed to be going good between Alexa and me, it meant that she could show up here at any moment, and I would really love to see the day that Alexa would come to my house, but if Mona kept showing up like this and spending the night, Alexa might run into her.I didn’t want Mona to ruin what Alexa and I were building for anything in the world.I had lost Alexa twice now. I wasn’t willing to lose her again.“Good morning again, Mark,” Mona said as she continued with her breakfast.I also noticed that she was wearing one of my shirts.“Mona, I don’t appreciate this,” I stated stiffly.“It’s the first day of the year, Mark. I don’t think we should be arguing,” Mona said.I stood there, not knowing how best to approach this situation. I couldn’t get a restraining order because she
ALEXAAs soon as I got into my office, Noelle came in. I had barely settled in for the day when she walked in. As much as I wanted my space for a while, I just didn’t ask her to leave.“Good morning, Alexa,” she greeted.“Good morning, Noelle,” I responded.Noelle sat down and stared at me for so l
MARKMy conversation with Brent was disturbing, and as much as I was still finding it hard to believe, I knew that I would have to follow his lead.“Good morning, Mr. Mark,” my secretary said.“Good morning,” I responded. “Is Mr. Devon here yet?” I asked her.“Yes, he is,” she responded.“Ask him t
MARKSydney Bowman.I remembered the name almost immediately!He was one of my dad’s senior staff members that handled finance and logistics in the company, but when I got back from business school in Toronto, he said that he had fired Sydney.“What happened, dad?” I had asked him. “I thought he wa
MARK“I knew Donald could never mean well when I saw him seated at their table that damn evening,” I said.The memory returned to me like a flash, and my teeth crushed each other in fury.“After the dinner, Clara acquainted herself with Donald Shell without Alexa and Mr. Silver’s knowledge,” Vector







