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IN utmost disappoinment, Jeremy watched Jasira board her car and immediately zoomed off. He watched her helplessly like a hen would watch her chick being carried away by the hawk.
As soon as she drove out, he hurriedly went into his car and drove away, heading for the office. Suddenly and surprisingly, he began itching for someone to talk to, someone to relay his heart to.
He really needed to voice out his words to someone, he was feeling the pressure to talk to another person, a human.
It was indeed sudden and surprising, because Jeremy people know, always felt he was a monopoly, a monopoly of wisdom and so, hardly had people he call friends.
“Damn it!”, he suddenly said and banged his right fist on the steering.
He got to the company and hurried into his office. As soon as he entered, Carrie came in.
“Sir?”, she called, “I have been trying your contact, where have you been?”, she asked, looking worried.
He ignored her, clicking his right fingers and seriously thinking. Carrie became all the more shocked and curious.
“Are you okay? You good?”, she continued asking.
He still ignored her, saying nothing and she frowned.
“My gee! I been worried about you Sir, I hope you are alright?”, she kept on asking, but Jeremy, he didn’t even give her a glance not to talk of words of reply.
He just totally ignored her, thinking.
When she found out he wasn’t ready to talk to her even after few more minutes of asking questions, she fumed and stormed out of the office.
He got up at the instant she left and sent for Nancy, who came in immediately.
“Good day Sir”, she genuflected.
He sharply turned to her as he was backing the door when she came in.
“Nancy?”, he called and began pacing about slowly, behind his desk.
“Yes Sir”, she replied, “do you want to have something?”, she added, asking.
“To hell with something”, he replied and waved his right hand.
“Oh!”, she swallowed hard, thinking. What else would he be calling her for then? If not for food huh?
Anyways, she stood still, waiting patiently.
“Nancy imagine you are a guy, and you are really trying, trying so hard to woo a lady you like, but she just isn’t wanting to listen to you, what would you do?”, he asked.
She smiled and sighed deeply, her boss was really in a serious dilemma, she could see it.
“Hmm, Sir, this is actually very delicate to just give an answer straightaway…”.
“I need an answer straightaway”, he replied her, interrupting and she cringed.
“Alright, alright. Sir, you actually must have had a talk with her right, you should have known the reason”, she said.
“What if she hasn’t even given you a chance to talk? She is just avoiding you, and proving stubborn, what if?”, he asked.
She laughed shortly.
“It’s expected Sir, it is. You know we ladies are fond of it, it’s our pride. We love to play hard to get at first, before we finally give you a go ahead”, she said.
He shook his head in disagreement.
“Not for a handsome like me you know?”, he winked and she laughed.
“Yeah, you are actually right. But even at that, the decent ones still gonna play hard to get”, she said and shrugged her shoulders.
He looked away and sighed.
“Hmm. For all the years I have lived on earth, right from my high school days and up until now, I have never worked hard as this, just to get a woman. Women are always at the tip of my fingers, I get them when and how I want, I can’t say why this is different”, he said.
She gasped.
“Ugh… Sir…”.
He sharply turned to her.
“This lady is really putting me through stress, she is proving stubborn and too hard to get”, he interrupted her smiling, “but you know, I kinda like this, I’m enjoying it, I actually need a hard nut to crack”, he said, licking his lips.
Nancy smiled, nodding.
“I know, real men always love cracking hard nuts. Sir but you just gotta keep trying”, she said.
“I know”, he nodded, “I sure will”, he concluded and dismissed her.
***
Jasira banged her door close and collapsed on her bed, panting. Anger, surprise, bewilderment, all filled her eyes, she was of mixed emotions at that moment.
Hold on, was Jeremy really stalking her? Or was Tarmah at it again? How the hell would he go into her car and sit comfortably, waiting for her. How did he even know she was going to be at the bank that day?
“Hmm”, she sighed and placed her elbows on her laps, her two hands on her jaw, thinking.
Then she sighed deeply again and shook her head.
“What exactly is going on? What’s wrong with Jeremy? Why the hell did he get to like me, why? Jeez!”, she exclaimed and ran her fingers through her hair.
Then she got up and walked up to the mirror, staring at her reflection in it, she began muttering to herself.
“He actually said he wanted my attention, five minutes of my time. He asked for my contact, Jeremy? This is unbelievable”, she said still looking at her self in the mirror.
“Am I that beautiful to capture his attention? The attention of the almighty billionaire CEO? Oh my God!”, and she splayed her palms on her face.
Suddenly, she removed her palms and looked into the mirror.
“Do I love him? Do I even know what love is?”, she asked and immediately shook her head vigorously, then slapped her right cheek, laughing.
“Stupid me. Never think about love, okay? You can’t have it, and you do not need it”, she said and smiled broadly.
……Few Days Later……
The door to the study of Lord Lucario was as expected, opened, and so Jasira strolled in.
She saw him sitted on his seat, gazing intently into a paper in his hands, the paper looked like a card, like an invitation card or something.
Jasira walked up to him, still staring at the paper.
“Good day father”, she said and shoved back the seat adjacent him to sit.
He looked up from the paper.
“How are you doing little cat?”, he asked.
She swallowed hard, and rolled her eyes.
“Good”, she replied and bared her teeth, smiling.
He snorted a laugh.
“I see”, he turned back to the paper, and that was when she saw it well. It was a card.
“What is that?”, she asked, tilting her head to look at it properly.
“A card, an invitation card”, he replied, still looking into the card.
“Whose invitation card is it?”, she asked, curious to know.
He sighed and dropped it on the table, then faced her.
“It’s Faruk, I hope you do remember him?”, he asked and she looked away, trying to recollect.
“Faruk?”, she asked, “I do not know that guy. Is he even a guy?”, she asked and smiled weirdly.
He laughed shortly.
“The guy we helped to get Damon signed his contract, you actually did the job”, he reminded her.
She tried to recall, she has done so many jobs and just wouldn’t know her clients, except for a few regular ones.
“Is he a regular?”, she asked looking at him.
He sighed and shook his head.
“He isn’t. You had done this job at Finland Bistro, at night”, he gave more facts to help her remember, and she suddenly did.
“Oh!”, she exclaimed. That night, the night she has met with the beautiful man, the night she had begun having feelings of love huh.
“Hey…”, Lord Lucario called tapping on the desk, and she quickly turned to him.
“What are you thinking? You were spacing out”, he said and she shook her head, blinking her eyes.
“Nothing, nothing. Oh yes Faruk, I remember him. So, what’s up?”, she asked.
“Well you remember that same business contract they were signing, the first income was huge, and he has decided to throw a party, to celebrate it”, he said.
“Wow! It must have been a huge success really”, she said.
He nodded.
“Yeah it is. So he invited us, to the party”, he said.
She looked at him with a start.
“Us? You mean us?”, she asked with her eyes widened, stressing the ‘us’.
“Yeah, us”, he growled and she cleared her throat.
“Um but you know I do not like…”.
“Parties”, he interrupted and she frowned, “I do, but trust me, you gonna like this”, he said and picked up the card.
“Ugh, what kind of a party?”, she asked and he threw the card at her.
“A dinner party”, he said.
“Huh?”, she gasped, “my gee! Exactly what I hate”, she crumpled her face.
He simpered.
“Exactly what I like. Get prepared little cat, we gonna be there”, he said.
“Ughhhhhh”, she said and looked into the card.
***
The bathroom door opened and Amelia sauntered out, with her body dripping wet. A short white towel was tied around her body, it stopped just slightly below her butts.
She looked at Jeremy who was sitting on the bed, busy with his phone, and she twisted her lips.
He knew she was out, and he didn’t even look at her. What a supposed fiancee.
“Hmph”, she mouthed to attract his attention and he still didn’t even give her as much as a glance.
She frowned and walked away from the bathroom door, then towards the dressing table.
She sat down on the seat and primped herself up, getting ready for bed.
All the while she did, Jeremy didn’t even glance at her, he just kept his gaze fixed on his phone.
“I wonder what he is doing with it, or who the hell he is chatting with”, she lowly muttered to herself and continued with what she was doing.
Well, she had called in that evening without a prior notice, and he allowed her, much to her surprise.
Infact, as far as she was concerned, Jeremy was like a chameleon. Today he is acting all stubborn and hating so much on you, tomorrow, he is that lovely and caring guy you want.
Well, he was the latter today and she just was ever ready to utilize it.
She finished putting on her nightie, and picked up her phone lieing on the dressing table, and walked up to him on the bed.
“Baby”, she called and collapsed beside him on the bed.
He still didn’t give her attention and she began surfing on the net instantly.
They were silent for few minutes and then she looked up from her phone, smiling at him.
“Baby”, she called softly.
He said nothing, but the smile on her face didn’t disappear. She instead, placed her left hand on his neck and began caressing.
“Babe?”, she called again.
“Mm”, he managed to reply and the smile on her face deepened.
“I wanna invite you over for a party”, she said.
“What kind of a party is that?”, he asked, his gaze still fixed on the phone.
“A dinner party”, she said smiling. At least, he was responding today.
“And who is hosting?”, he asked.
“Well, ugh… a business partner, to my dad actually”, she said.
“What is the celebration all about?”.
“Um, this business partner earned big from his first attempt in a business venture, he decided to celebrate it”, she shrugged.
“So on whose invitation am I going with?”, he asked.
She rolled her eyes.
“Well on my dad’s”, she said.
“Okay”, he shortly replied.
Her eyes widened in astonishment.
“Okay? Does that mean consentment?”, she asked, still caressing his neck.
“Amelia that is what I meant”, he finally looked up from his phone, looking at her.
“We will be there, isn’t that what you want?”, he asked and she nodded, her eyes glistening in happiness.
“Sure, I want that babe, sure. I will like us to be there together”, she replied.
He turned back to his phone.
“I said we will be there”, he said.
“Okay baby, I will just keep you posted”, she said and he replied nothing.
Outwardly, she didn’t show how happy she was, but inside of her, she was jubilating and jumping all around. At least, the world would see them together again huh, she winked.
“Thank you”, she whispered to him and brought down her lips to his neck, and pecked on it. Them she slowly rested her head on his shoulder.