ALVIN'S POINT OF VIEW
"Can I leave now?" Samantha Reese asked, obviously looking so stressed out from the day's work.I glanced at the wall clock. It was 2 hours past working hours. It wasn't my fault I had tons of things to do than close so early."Have you planned my schedule for next week?" I raised an eyebrow at her."Uh-Im almost done with it. I'll submit it tomorrow." She said, scratching the back of her neck and avoiding my gaze.I was glad she adjusted to my style of working, or else it was going to be a huge problem if she continued arguing with me."Okay. You've postponed my appointment for tomorrow, right? It has to be a free day for me.""Yes, sir." She nodded, gripping her bag impatiently."Good, you can leave. Ensure you're very early tomorrow. You won't like how things would turn out to be if you come late, again." I warned.She swallowed audibly and nodded."Yes, sir."I paused to think of anything else she needed to do but there was nothing left. She had done a lot of things today and her hard work amused me. She didn't seem like she could do the job of a secretary correctly but a stripper. No offense."Is there anything else you'd like me to do before I leave?" She asked through gritted teeth, forcing a smile."No." I shook my head at her. "You can leave.""Okay." A wide grin appeared on her lips. "Goodnight."I didn't bother to say 'Goodnight' to her because it was not necessary. She turned around and left the office. Everywhere went silent after that. I finalized my work on my laptop and then shut it. A heavy sigh left me. Gosh, I needed a break at least once in a while.I rested my head against the headrest and shut my eyes to take a nap but my dumb phone decided to ring. Groaning and cussing, I opened my eyes and reached for my phone, answering it angrily without bothering to know who the caller was."Hello?" I spoke crankily."Alvin," Mom's voice swayed into my ear. "What's with the cold tone, as always?" She hissed."Oh, it's you." I sat straight and rose to my feet, arranging important files."Did you forget? You said you'll visit me tonight.""Oh, yeah." I forgot.I was going to tell Samantha Reese to include that in my schedule today but I had forgotten."Of course, I didn't forget." I lied."Great! So you're coming when?""Uh-Im just leaving the office so I'll be there in half an hour.""Okay. Love you. I'll be expecting you stubborn-headed." She giggled."Yeah, yeah, whatever." I rolled my eyes, ending the call.I was going to resume work in two days. Free day tomorrow (not exactly). After arranging important files accordingly, I grabbed my car keys and left the office. The elevator transported me to the ground floor."You're leaving now?" Sarah asked rhetorically, getting to her feet, and picking her bag from a chair.I ignored her, left the building, and to my car. A random man opened the car door for me and I got into it. He shut the door then my driver started driving the car after I threw the car at him."Take me to Trisha's Mansion," I instructed and he nodded politely.In a few minutes, I felt myself being called into sleep so I decided to take a nap. I felt continuous tapping against my shoulder. It was very discomforting and annoying. With my face rumpled, I finally opened my eyes. My Driver was tapping me. I was going to yell at him but I noticed we had arrived at Mom's mansion and he had to wake me up."We're here, sir." He informed me."I'm not blind, gentleman," I replied frigidly and waved him off, stepping out of the car.My eyes felt so heavy due to inadequate sleep. I sauntered into the house and used my spare key to open the door, entered the house then locked the door."Alvin!" Mom squealed in excitement as she saw me. "My baby!" Ew! What the hell was that?I walked up to her. She pulled me into a bone-crushing hug. I was used to that already so I didn't bother to complain."Hey, Mom." I smiled at her. "Wow, you look hot. If you weren't my mother, I'd surely flirt with you." I teased her, earning a smack on my face. "Ow! I'm just kidding."We both burst into laughter."Gosh, you finally paid a visit. I missed you so much. You can't imagine how lonely I've been.""Really? Why don't you hire an extremely personal Maiorra friend to talk to?" I smirked on saying the next words, Oror a man to have a one-night stand with." I waggled my eyebrows at her, earning another slap from her."You're so silly." She pouted. "What's up with the good mood today?"I ignored her question. "You're such a baby. Common, you don't deserve to be so lonely."We had our seats."Well, your father is dead." She folded her arms across her chest. "Billionaires like you think you can buy everything with money.""I'm not a Billionaire." I added, "yet.""Really? I thought you already were." She looked genuinely surprised. "I mean, you're always busy and working, I thought you owned multiple billions now.""Are you mocking me? I just need a few more Millions of dollars to become a Billionaire and I'll achieve it very soon.""Aw, I'm so proud of you. I'm glad I left my company to you. You made it grow better than I had ever imagined." She blushed."Duh. I'm your only son, who else would you have given it to?" I rolled my eyes at her.A maid strolled in with a tray in her hands. She lowered the tray to me and I picked a glass of chilled juice from it, taking a long sip."You're my only son but not my only child. I could've also given a portion of it to your sister, Anna." She rolled her eyes."Mom, we're both aware of the fact that Anna can't handle the company." I burst into laughter."Why not?" A frown etched on her face."Because she's a girl?""No! Because she's a dog!" I laughed again.It seemed to piss her off further. "At least she's more sensible than you.""How is that?" I drew my eyes in askance."She's my cute daughter and she's married, but here you're UNMARRIED." She spelled it to my face.The atmosphere changed at that. My usually cold face returned and I dropped my glass on the table, crossing one of my legs over the other. "Mom, you know I don't like talking about this with anyone.""I'm not just anyone, I'm your Mom, you dimwit." She rested her palm on her forehead. "You're 26 already, yet you don't have a damn girlfriend after that Sam. You've worked for 5 years and boosted the company above my expectations but you don't seem to be interested in a serious relationship with a responsible woman. I also stalked you and noticed that you've stopped having one-night stands with random women. When will you stop acting like that? What is wrong with you?""I don't feel the need to be with anyone and stop stalking me! If she comes, then she will. If she doesn't, she won't." I replied gruffly."Are you crazy?!" Her eyes became glassy, piercing into my soul.I hated seeing her cry. She had cried too much when I was little so I couldn't bear to make her cry again."Mom, don't cry." I softened."You don't understand. I need grandchildren. What if I'll die soon?""Mom!" I exclaimed. "You're not dying soon, okay?""Alvin, if you need me to arrange your marriage, I swear I'll do it." Tears were already rolling down her cheeks."Are you kidding me? What?" I couldn't believe my ears."I'm desperate." She wiped the tears with her fingers. "Please consider marriage.""Fine, fine, I will."Suddenly, Samantha came up to my mind."You will?! Do you have someone in mind already?" Her face lit up with excitement.A smirk played on my lips. "I do." Oh, I do.Samantha ReeseI had woken up this morning as early as I could. I couldn't bear to get into trouble with Alvin right now. I had worn a knee-length gray pencil skirt with a black shirt tucked into it and a gray blazer, with a pair of matching white stiletto heels and a white handbag which had fake diamond designs around it. My shoulder-length blonde hair had been dyed into black last night with hair extensions to make it fall all the way down to just above my butt. My thin lips were covered in thick wine lipstick, making my electric blue eyes seem like they were shining brighter than ever.I didn't bother to depend on Georgina for a ride to work but hired a taxi driver to pick me up every morning. With a grin on, I patted myself on the back for achieving my goal of arriving early to work today.I strutted into the company. "Good morning, Sarah." I winked at her.She widened her eyes,obviously shocked to see me at this early hour of the morning. "Sam?" She rubbed her eyes. "It truly
"You've been so busy with work since you started working for Alvin. Now it's Saturday, get your lazy ass up!" Georgina yelled into my ear, pulling me up by my shirt."Georgina, I've got to sleep." I groaned, flipping over to bury my face in my fluffy pillow.Ever since she brought me home the other night, she wanted to live with me and I didn't want to reject her so she became my alarm buddy…"Girl, you're crazy. You've done nothing but sleep all day long. It's 2pm!" She shouted and slugged me.My eyes popped open at that. I turned to her. "Seriously? How's that even possible?"Not believing her, I shifted to reach for my phone on the nightstand. I checked the time and it was indeed 2:14pm."I've missed you, bitch. Let's party or do something fun!" She squealed, hopping off the bed. "Be ready in half an hour. I already made breakfast-lunch." She squirmed."You made food?" It was my turn to squirm. "I wouldn't be a victim of food poisoning so we'd rather order something than eat the g
"Sam," Alvin called. "The Manager of Friz and co.' will be here in a few minutes. I hope everything is ready?""Uh- yeah, sure." I scratched my arm, dropping the files on his table. "I'll send the remaining part of it to your email."He hummed a response. His fingers drummed on his laptop keys really fast, forming the beat of a song. Seriously? He hadn't said a thing about last Saturday. He was really going to ignore it? I felt his gaze on me soI raised my head to stare at him."What do you want?" He questioned crankily."Nothing." I shook my head."If it's about last Saturday, don't think I care. Hearing such words from people isn't a new thing to me." He explained. Unconsciously, a smirk played on my lips, forming a frown on his face. "It doesn't mean you should say it all the time, and in public. Gossipers are always around, ready to feed the internet with even the slightest mistake people like us make so your words could be manipulated and ruin my image. Be careful. You'd pay for
"You can leave now, Samantha." Alvin said with a dismissive wave of his hand.I glanced at my wristwatch and it was three hours past my closing hour, if I even had one. "Thank you so much Alvin, for releasing me at such an early hour of the day." I said sarcastically with a fake smile.I don't really get him today. He's acting weird to me.He raised his head from his laptop, leaned back in his chair and intertwined his fingers. "Oh, really?" He scoffed. "Why don't you wait till it's not so early and do some more work."My eyes widened at that. I wore a grin at him, shaking my head. "No, thank you. I'll be leaving now." I nodded then turned around and took my leave. A frown returned on my face as I shut the door. "Stupid man." I hissed.A young man beside me, who I hadn't noticed until now, chuckled at me. I flinched at the notice of his presence. "Hi," I waved awkwardly, walking away."We all know he's terrible." He said behind me but I ignored him and continued walking away. I got in
"I balanced it all into one file, Alvin…" I walked up to Alvin and dropped the big file on his table, picking my phone from the top of the file.He glanced at them then raised his head to me with a positive nod. "That's good." He rose to his feet. "Do I have an appointment with anyone again today?""Uh..." I raised my phone to my face and opened his schedule for today on my phone. "Yes, you have an appointment in twenty minutes with..." my eyes widened at that. "Amanada Hart." Gosh, I had totally forgotten about his date with Amanda.He will meet her."Okay, and you're coming with me." He reminded me, picked his jacket from his chair and wore it, and turned around the table.My eyes widened. "May I know why I have to go with you?" I asked out of curiosity.He snapped his head in my direction with an icy stare. "Amanda is a friend of mine and she'd constantly pester me. She wouldn't believe that I have to leave for other important things so you'd be there, incessantly reminding me and
I blinked multiple times with my jaw gaped. "Your girlfriend?" A frown appeared on my face.I'm your ex-girlfriend, Alvin."Yes, Sam." He said through a fake smile. "This is my Mom and she has been dying to meet you."I frowned at him. "But...""It's so nice to finally meet you. I never believed Alvin already got back with you. I didn't believe him a bit when he told me that you guys broke up, not to mention believing she's a really beautiful one like you. I'm Trisha." She smiled with the small of her teeth in view.She didn't know? When it was patently obvious that his Mom wasn't looking, Alvin glared at me; a glare that warned me to go along with the flow. That didn't stop me from feeling pissed off by his lie."Trisha?" Why did that name sound so familiar? "That name sounds familiar and you look very familiar." I squinted my eyes, trying to remember where I had seen her or heard her name."I'm the owner of Risha's products; Risha's perfume, shoes, magazines..." she said proudly a
Alvin ignored my glare, focusing his gaze on Trisha. "Mom, we have to go now. We've had enough of your pestering self." He rolled his eyes, rising to his feet. "Sam..." he cleared his throat, wearing a smile that showed off his one-sided dimple on his left cheek. "Sam." Gosh, he looked way angelic when he smiled than the stern-faced demon he always portrayed."No, don't leave so soon." Trisha pouted. I found that cute though it wasn't exactly cute. I liked this woman's demeanor. She didn't give off the impression of a mearn-ass rich son's mother like I mostly saw in movies, and probably books."We have to, Trisha." I also wore an angelic smile, blinking slower than usual for no good reason.Alvin extended his hand towards me. I raised a questioning eyebrow at him then muttered an 'oh' after realizing he meant I had to hold his hand. Dork. Reluctantly, I accepted his hand and he helped me up to my feet, leading me out of the chairs."Bye, Mom." He waved, curling an arm around my wa
Obviously noticing my presence, he raised his head to me, shoved his phone back into his pants pocket then started out the door. I quietly followed behind him, not walking too fast nor too slow, just to keep tailing behind him. He walked so confidently and proudly, like he was royalty, obviously calling for attention from everyone around. He stopped walking all of a sudden and I had to do so too, wondering what was wrong now."Don't walk behind me, I hate it when people that aren't bodyguards walk behind me." He said in more of a whisper."Okay, Sir." I stepped forward, standing beside him.He sent me a sideways glance, resuming walking. We got to the elevator, stepping into it after it opened. It traveled us to the ground floor, re-opened then we resumed walking. Gosh, I knew it was only because of him but that didn't stop me from feeling important as people got out of the way to form a wide path for us, bowing formally in greeting. As we passed different corners, hefty men appeared