Taina POVNek has headed out; one of the maids come to inform me of his departure, every 30 minutes she’s been checking on me, this must have been Nek’s doing. I don’t have the energy to drive so I ask Nek if his driver can take me out; he agrees, I’m not sure which car I’d be using. The Benz is still at home, but according to my rule, I’m not asupposed to use it until 3 months have passed.My other car is yet to arrive, so my only means of transportation is the Benz; I’m sure Nek wouldn’t mind if I drive since my other car hasn’t arrived yet. I call up the security and ask to speak with the driver, “hello; I’ll be heading out by 6:30pm; please be ready at that time” I instruct the driver and then end the call.I have 2 hours left till it’s 6:30, I need to seem okay when I meet Cete or he’ll be too worried about me, I’m feeling a lot better now but when I walk I sway a little and get tired. I’m glad this is not one of our hiking outings or else I’d have to cancel; pulling myself out o

Cete drives us back to the coffee shop; I keep drifting asleep, today has been a very tiring but fun day. “Taina…Taina”, “Yeah” I sleepily say I try to get more comfortable, “we’re here” Cete says, softly tapping me.“Ohh” my eyes slowly opens as I take in my environment, I close my eyes one more time and stretch before finally opening my eyes again. I’m partially awake, but I can’t stay in Cete’s car all night; “thanks, what time is it?”, I glance at him, he picks his phone and checks, “it’s 11:pm” All signs of sleepiness immediately disappears; “did you say 11pm” I’m inwardly hoping I heard wrong, “yeah” he says confirming it. “Oh no” I say out loud, Nek is going to be so angry; I’m supposed to be home by 9pm, and the fact that I went out with a guy makes matters worse, he’s going to accuse me of soiling his reputation. “What do I do now” my face is in between my palms as I’m thinking of ways to get out of this hole I dug for myself.Cete looks disturbed by my outburst, “are you go

Nek POVMy meeting with my friend ended by 8pm; we caught up, had some fun and even exchanged business ideas. I drove home immediately after, getting home at 8:30pm; I thought that Taina would be at home, I asked the security men but I was informed she hadn’t come back.Seeing it was still 8:30pm, I entered my office and decided to finish some pending work that I had left unfinished due to my sudden exit from the house. When I had finished my work, I realized the time was 10pm; she wasn’t back home yet and it’s already past 9pm.Our initial agreement was that both parties had to be back home by 9pm; and to make things more upsetting, she’s out with Cete, who she considers just a friend. Not saying I’m jealous but I’ve seen how that guy looks at her and I can tell he sees her more than a friend.I have the urge to call her up but I resist; not wanting to seem controlling or intrusive after all she had a life before she agreed to marry me, irregardless of how much I don’t like it. I dia

I step into Cete’s office, he doesn’t look up at the sound of the door opening; clearing my throat a bit loudly, I try to get his attention. He immediately looks up with a suprised look on his face at the sight of me, “what are you doing here Taina”, he stands from his seat and gives me a hug, “how was the crowd” he eyes me up and down patiently waiting for a response“Slow down”, I take a sit on the sofa and carefully pull him to sit beside me; “I sort of came to see you”, he raises his eyebrows giving a question look, “I wanted the other employees to see me, so that they can say what they had to say. So I used the excuse of coming to see you to get that done”He feigns a look of hurt at the word *using him as an excuse*, “so how did it go” referring to how the other employees took it. I sigh, “no one came up to me; people congratulated me, there was a lot of whispering and stares. But no insults were actually said to me, but you could literally see how cut the tension in the air wit

The moment Nek leaves my sister Tela comes closer to me, she smacks me right across my arm ensuring it was painful, “how could you get married without telling your family, most importantly without telling me”, her eyes flare up, but I can tell she’s more worried than angry.My mom faces us, “so she should have told you and not us; well if she had done that, that would have been better than her running off to get married” she looks at me squarely and faces her attention on my dad, she mouths to him, “play nice”; he doesn’t respond but looks ahead at Tela and I’s demonstration of love.Tela whispers softly to me so that my parents don’t hear, “I’m your sister, your elder sister, the easiest thing you could have done was to come to me for help. You know I’ll always come through for you”, she looks sad at the fact that I hid this from her“I really didn’t mean to…”, I’m cut off by Nek’s reappearance, he comes in carrying the load of gifts he bought for my family; my mouth drops open as he