Becky.My mouth dropped open as I slowly reached for the table and stood up, Janelle?!She slowly walked into the room, she was putting on an army green Blazer jacket that stopped few inches up her knee with silver accents on the neckline, on pink stilettos with a silver ring on the pointy toes, she had the exact same ring design on her shoe as earrings, her porcelain skin was well dolled up in makeup and she had her hair down in coils. She paused in her tracks and slowly turned to look at grandfather with a small smile holding her silver clutch purse tightly,“I’m sorry I’m late,” she whispered, he beamed at her and nodded slowly, “You’re right on time dear,” he replied and with that she chuckled lightly, what she did next sent my head spinning, she walked up to the chairman position and took her seat there, Grandfather slowly turned to me and looked up at me,“Take your seat Becky, let’s continue ” he muttered, with my mouth still hung open, I slowly turned to Enzo as I took my se
Janelle.Flash Back, Last Night.I placed my elbow on the car window and gently rested my forehead in my palm, with my eyes still perfectly on the road, my phone began to ring and I picked it up and placed it on speak out,“What?, just few minutes away and you already miss me?!” I teased trying to sound lively, he chuckled lightly and switched to video call, I accepted the call and gently sat up well in my seat placing the phone on a phone stand in front of me so he could see me well, “I have an idea,” he said and I nodded slowly urging him to go on,“I think we should speak to my grandfather,” he said, I slammed my legs on the brake and came to a screeching halt by the side of the road, I turned off the ignition, took out my phone and held it up close to my face,“What are you talking about?!”“I’m very sure, Grandfather would trust my judgement, just go to him and I’ll do the rest myself,” he said, I slowly leaned into the chair and raised my hands to my hair brushing it backwards.
Adil.“You look stunning,” I said to Janelle immediately her face came into view on the phone, her lips stretched into a small smile, as she turned to look at me occasionally while still driving.“I just left your Grandfather, I’m on my way back to the office,” she said to me and I nodded in reply, I witnessed every single thing that happened today, she made Jerry wear a camera on the left part of his shirt, just so I witness the meeting also, I wont lie I enjoyed every minute of watching Becky sigh in defeat, I knew this far from being over but it was a very successful start.“Babe, don’t you think you were wrong about Enzo, he was among the people who voted that I become chairwoman,” “He even walked up to me to tell me that you’re not capable of what they’re accusing you,” she said, I sucked deeply on air and exhaled, I saw that too, that bastard! I’m very sure he’s driving at something, he waited this long for me to leave the company before getting in and now he’s acting like he’s
Janelle.4:00pm I exhaled deeply as I stepped out of the car, slammed the door shut and began to make my way into the office.I have a whole lot of explanation to do at work, I had left in an hurry earlier without properly explaining and now I’m sure they’ve all seen the news and they have questions for me.I wasn’t wrong, immediately I walked into the office, the other junior staff began whispering among themselves, I was still in the clothes I was putting on from the meeting and they had never seen me in extremely fancy clothes like this around the office, I held on to my clutch purse tightly as I walked towards the elevator, as the elevator door went open, I looked up to see Diane inside, I exhaled deeply for the umpteenth time and stepped in.“What exactly is going on Janelle, you’ve lost me,” she said immediately the doors went close, I slowly turned to look up at her,“You don’t have to worry about me, what you saw on TV today won’t affect my work,”“I can’t go into details rig
Janelle.I swiped my phone up immediately and placed a call across to Adil, I placed the phone on my ear waiting impatiently for him to pick up as the phone rang, the call ended without him picking up and I dialed again, didn’t he just text me now?! Why is he not answering to his calls!He picked just when the ringing was about to end,“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize I placed my phone on silent,” he said, I exhaled imaudibly as I dropped what I initially had to say,“Did you speak to her?! What did she say?!” I asked immediately referring to the text he sent to me.“I spoke to her, but she refused to say a word to me, she tried to avoid me, she was saying stuff like she didn’t know who I was” he said to me, I slowly placed my hands on my waist as I turned to look out the window, “I’m very sure Becky has something to do with this, hundred percent! She had her previous address how?! Why?!” I said, the phone went silent and I could tell he was contemplating what to do,“I’d have love to s
Janelle.I swallowed hard taking my gaze off him, his gaze was getting pretty intense and awkward, I cleared my throat noisily, he flinched lightly and cleared his throat also.He adjusted in his chair and waved to the bar tender to bring something for us,“What would you like?!” He asked turning back to face me,“Water, water is just fine,” I nodded calmly and he ordered a bottle of wine for himself also, “How are you doing?!” He asked as the bartender dropped our orders on the table, I sighed deeply as I opened the cap of the water and poured it inside a cup, I gently took a sip, the water was very cold and it hit the right spot,“Coping,”“I’m coping,” I replied, he reached out across the table and held my hands, I slowly looked down at his grip on my hand and looked back up at him, “You said we’re friends right? You can always reach out to me and talk to me when things get tough, I’ll always be here,” he said, I nodded slowly as I gently removed my hands from underneath his and
Janelle“Janelle,” Shit! Shit! Shit!, I turned towards my parent immediately dragging my feet on the floor carefully to avoid making noise with my heels, I spread my hands out to the both of them immediately and pushed them back into the room, I shut the door quietly and pushed them to the small adjoining room in the room, my mom wanted to say something, I raised my hand to her lips and shushed her quiet immediately, I suddenly heard the door open and I gently pushed them down again, I opened the door slightly and peeped out, I watched him as he walked in and looked around, his hands in his pocket. He gently took out his phone and placed it in his ear, “Has Janelle’s mother been discharged ?!” He asked to whoever he was on the phone, “Ohh I see,” he replied to whatever the person said, and he ended the call as he took one more glance around the room, he suddenly turned to look towards the door, I held my breath immediately, the door was slightly open and I could not just close it,
Janelle.Next day, At the office. I sighed countlessly times as I scrolled away on my laptop, Enzo words yesterday kept baffling me and I really just wanted to look into him, I couldn’t find anything asides the fact that he was the Carter’s family second son but I knew it wasn’t that, Atleast for one, Becky wasn’t his mother.And according to what Adil told me, Becky wasn’t married to his father not until Becky came up to say she had his son.If she really had his son, why is Enzo seating by the side of an almost lifeless woman and calling her mom and even saying very soon they’ll be happy together?! I don’t know but he seemed glad that I was suspecting Becky, I kept digging deeper into his background but I wasn’t getting anything, I decided to change my angle, I decided to look into Becky’s financial account to as far back as possible, I got to work immediately, I needed to build up a secure network to dig into something as secure and private as that, I’ve already given Chad a lot o