The next morning, the sheets were tangled, two humans were laying apart from each other. One on one edge of the bed, the other on the opposite side.Then one of them opened their eyes. Looking at the clock, it was past ten in the morning.Shit! He was late to work.How didn’t the alarm clock wake him up? Oh, they had slept off in Clara’s room, not his.And his phone? He looked around and found them inside his pockets on the floor. Did he put it on dnd mode? When? How?He had rushed out of the bed to leave the room, when he turned and looked at his wife, he couldn’t help but smile.He had remembered all that happened, how sweet she was, and everything they did.But if he spends time thinking about it, he would be even more late than he imagined.He moved closer and gave her a peck on the cheeks and in the forehead, but Clara was too deep asleep to even notice.After that, Alex left to prepare for work.In the office, everyone seemed to be amazed when Alex entered. He couldn't help but
“Hey, Sweet.” Alex greeted her on his end.“Morning Alex.” Clara responded. She didn’t know why she bit her nails all of a sudden. It was definitely shyness.It was also awkward from Alex’s end. Both of them behave like someone was making them uncomfortable.“I didn’t want to wake you before leaving.” Alex said, not even knowing what to say.“Not like you have ever woken me before leaving.” Clara said. She knew the conversation was just awkward.“Yeah, you are right.”“Uhm, have you had breakfast?”“No, I just woke up.”“That means I was timing correctly. I should win the best husband of the year.” Alex teased her.Then they held the phone to their ear for a while, not saying anything, just smiling.Alex didn’t want the call to end, likewise Clara. He hadn’t realised until now that his wife was a full package.“How about your discussion with Henry?” Alex asked.“I will be goimg to my Dad’s house today.”Then while they were on call. His secretary came to notify him about a meeting.“S
Clara wanted to stand and walk out. She had never the intention of doing this.But she needed to hold on, because of Alex, because of Henry.The people who made her father despite her were no longer around, so she needed to forgive him. “It’s fine, Dad. After all, we are family.”The joy Mr. Roberts had knew no bound, ever since Elizabeth and Selene left, he had been lonely. No one to take care of him, staying in the house alone was hard and boring.Clara didn’t forget the reason she came, it was after her father was done that she began to drink the coffee he brought for her.“So why did you come home all of a sudden?”Clara kept mute, she couldn’t say the real reason she was here, but she found a smart answer immediately.“Mum would be happy I came.”It was the moment she mentioned mum that she had realized how bad her family abandoned her. She doesn’t want to think of the fact that her own father didn’t attend the burial, or the fact that her stepmother hid her mum’s corpse and ext
Clara had to come up with something. But she was fidgeting.“I know I wouldn’t get to enter Selene’s room if she was here so…” She paused when she noticed her statement had just convinced her father.“I have a meeting close by. I don’t know, will you still be here when I’m back?” Mr. Jackson Robert asked, this was the reason he looked for her.“Sure Dad, maybe I will sleep or wait for you to be back,” Clara replied.In her mind, this was a very good opportunity. Her heart had almost skipped thinking she was caught.After Mr. Roberts left, Clara breathed out. Maybe she could now relax and keep in touch with Henry.After everything, the only reasonable thing she could get was the old laptop. Here was not the place to go through it, so she packaged it and went further to check other things in the house.She wondered where Elizabeth and Selene had kept their phones.Later in the afternoon, Mr. Roberts was back. From the look of things, he was expecting that Clara would spend the night her
Clara went to the room where she had kept the box her mum had given her. She went through everything over and over again, it was only the precious items that were there.What exactly was her Dad talking about then?She stayed admiring everything one after the other. She had money now. If only her mum had told her about this earlier, they would have sorted her bills.As she was looking at those. Her phone beeped. It was Henry. She peeked through the window. She could see his car, and he had arrived to pick up the laptop.Clara quickly arranged the items and kept themSafe. Then she picked up the laptop and headed outside the building.“Here, there is no password to it.” She said, handing the laptop to Henry.What Clara had told Henry over the phone meant she didn’t trust him. So Henry didn’t need to move with the laptop.“Hold on Clara. I’m checking it here.” He said and tried to come down the vehicle.But Clara looked at her wrist, it was going to be the same time that Alex would be
As the water poured on them, they could only admire each other. Then they suddenly started laughing at themselves. No one had said anything, they were just laughing.“You are my heart,” Alex said, which made Clara even laugh more.Weeks ago, they had just seen that movie in a cinema, but now, here they are, with a love story greater than the one in the movie.“You are my heart,” Clara repeated and smiled.After a while, they began to bathe. It was a warm bath and soon, they were out.Ever since Alex started living with Clara, they had never been together in the sit-out where he had the pool.“Let’s stay in the pool area.” He told Clara as they were both dressing up.“Okay.” There was nothing much to say than to agree. Clara can’t deny the fact that she likes the atmosphere.After putting on a simple home dress, he began helping Clara pack her hair. Then his phone rang.“Boss,”“Andrew, did you find anything?” Alex curiously asked and Andrew forwarded him a document.Because of the atm
Annie wore a protected expression. It was an indifferent expression, she wouldn’t let them guilt trip her or make her look like owed them anything.They are the ones to be grateful that she still considered them useful.So with an indifferent look, she called. “Mrs. Elizabeth, it’s been a while. You don’t look so good.”Selene smirked her face at the hearing of that. She felt like slapping Annie, but what could she do?Not when she hadn't heard why Annie came to see them, even Elizabeth was too ill to say anything.So Annie continued to speak. “It’s been hard trying to get you guys out, even when I was trying. You still went ahead to betray me. But it’s all good.” Annie would use this to gaslight them into thinking she really cared all along.And it worked, Elizabeth and Selene frowned their faces. They had always thought Annie abandoned them, but she was out there looking for means, and they betrayed her.“Thank Goodness I had to come up with something when Alex confronted me. All be
The assistant quickly jumped out of shock, he knew his boss had just stepped out and never knew he would return soon.He had actually been gazing at that whenever Henry wasn’t looking, but this time his scream had attracted Alex.“I’m so sorry boss.” He fell to Henry’s feet and began pleading.“Nudes, seriously. I’m highly disappointed in you! Leave my sight this minute and never show again!” Henry roared. He was really angry.While they were trying to find something serious, his assistant was busy going through Selene’s naked pictures in a folder.His anger wasn’t necessarily because of the pictures, but because they were doing something serious at the moment. Finding evidence was that important.Moreover, he had just remembered Clara’s words not to tamper with any other thing on the system.The assistant was still on the floor. He knew his boss was really angry, but he wasn’t anticipating him to fire him. For him to never show up again means he was fired.So he began pleading but He