Todos los capítulos de Contract With The Ex That Left Me: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

SARAH PIERCEI salute Nathaniel. For denying me so many times without batting an eyelid, I salute him so freaking much! “Is everything okay?” Amir asked while my feet dragged to the living room.“It’s fine,” I replied, dismissing my visible anger before Amir could read into it. I sat beside him and asked, “How do you survive working with him?”“There’s no fixed method,” he chuckled. “I frustrate him, tackle him, but I always know when to stop. There is this thing he does with his eyes. Once you see it, just know you have crossed the line.”“Oh, tiny eyes?” Raya sighed where she was, abandoned her scribbling, and came to rest her head on my lap.“Jesus!” Amir exclaimed. “It has gotten that bad?”“Uh…” I babbled my earlier response without thinking. Nathaniel has not shown me his tiny eyes since we signed the contract. He never has. But when we were dating, I often saw how he threatened people with it. One day, we were on a date, and this one guy kept trying to hit on me. One round o

NATHANIEL STORMSetting my confusing reaction to Sarah Pierce aside, two things keep tugging at my heart: Shaw Clawford and Sarah’s insistence that we dated. My soul wants to believe that the evidence is wrong, and Sarah’s constant and very serious, sometimes angry, reminder that I knew her before didn’t help. Sure, I easily dismissed her claims as crazy talk. But my mind keeps going back to it, as if I want that crazy talk to be true. I even caught myself wondering if a DNA test would confirm Raya’s mine. God, I really am losing itAnyway, my grand confusion is the reason I am currently driving into my father’s compound, the sight of the huge house barely eliciting emotions from me. Growing up here was not friendly, I always felt suffocated. If anything, I am glad I found a permanent way to escape my mother’s frequent warning to move back in with them. After parking my vehicle, a space jeep, my favourite, I headed inside after Butler Samson informed me that my father was in the d

NATHANIEL STORM‘Why did you leave?’That question reminds me of the first time I met Sarah Pierce. Within the tension in her father’s living room, though we were strangers, the expressions in her eyes screamed the very words in her current question. I didn’t think much of it then. But now, that is all I can wonder about.Why did I leave? Why did I leave her?Is that it?I left her? I have laughed at her claims too many times; it would be insane to find it funny again. “Never mind,” she quickly said as she found a way to slide out of my arms. “I can walk by myself.”At this point, I clearly can’t ignore the heaviness lingering in the air between us. “Sarah, I think we need to talk,” I said, but she intensified her steps, and I knew it would be better to drop it. I joined her and we walked in silence, drove in silence, and went home with Raya in that very silence. ~~~SARAH PIERCE“Raya, Mummy had to go somewhere important,” I explained to Raya, who started crying the moment we e

NATHANIEL STORM“Ehm,” Amir fake coughed again, for the fifth time. I slammed the mouse in response and retrained my focus on the monthly report.“Ehm. I know you can hear me,” Amir seemed to sing.“Amir.” I abandoned the file, I wasn’t totally focused on it anyway. I kept replaying the cold shoulder Sarah gave me this morning when she and Raya were leaving. “What is it?”He slid his laptop aside and leaned closer as if there were others in the room. “I can’t get my mind off something.”“Tell that to your shrink.”“True.” He nodded. “She might find it interesting that my boss did not hesitate to introduce himself as Sarah’s husband.” His voice deepened on the last word, seemingly imitating me. “Last week, you insisted that she was a paper wife. What changed?”“About what?” I don’t know how Amir figures these things out. Why can’t he just be only good at work? It is unfair that he is also good at reading people. “Mr. Storm,” his lips wore a knowing smile, “does Sarah know?”“That wha

SARAH PIERCEIt was clear who that screeching tone belonged to.With gritted teeth, I kept walking, my hand reaching for Raya’s, holding it as firmly as possible.“Come on, Mami, ya baby wants to see ya gorgeous face.”“Ignore him. Ignore him,” I chanted to myself. “We need to talk. About things. About us.”“There is no us!” I yelled as I turned. “No us,” I muttered this time because I recalled the noise complaint. The people in this area love quiet a little too much. “Mami,” he skipped closer, I hurriedly lifted Raya into my arms, “I know I hurt ya. Leaving ya… I shouldn't have done it, ya know.” He licked his lip, his body still doing that weird bounce. “So, you uh… alone?” The lewdness in his eyes was obvious. If I don't get rid of him now, it will get harder later. “Shaw Clawford, stop deceiving yourself. Go back to Rosaline Pierce and tell her to give up.”“Mami!” That startled me. I backed my steps before saying, “It looks like you want to spend some days in jail. Fine. I