Octavio cared less about the commotion outside, especially when he realized it was a female’s voice. He knew it was bound to happen. Rather than go out to calm the situation, he took a bottle of wine and went to his little garden, where the noise was less effective. After a while a guard walked up to him.“Sir, a lady is here to see you. She says its urgent.” The guard said..Octavio seemed not to pay attention.“Sir?”“Is she calm now?” Octavio asked, still not paying attention. He had a magazine which he seemed to be so into at the moment.“Yes sir. She is.” The guard replied.“Okay, you can let her in.” Octavio said.The guard exited and after few minutes, returned with Kristine who looked like a mother hen about to protect her chicks from a hawk.“First of all,” Octavio said, not taking his concentration from his magazine “I won’t tolerate any uncivil attitude from you.”Kristine could clearly see he was serious, dead serious. She also needed to tell him bluntly that his action at
Two weeks passed and Kristine was yet to get anything new. Although her relationship with Alexander waxed stronger, she felt completely locked out. She realized the closer she was to Alexander, the lesser she knew.Lately, since the return of Victor they have kept most moves a secret. They just did normal jobs, planned less and stayed low. She was definitely running out of time and being pressured by Camille also posed a problem since they were staying at her place and so the reminder came daily from her friend.This Saturday morning was different. They already had breakfast and put some stuff together as well as tidied the house chores so they were kind of free. The duo sat in the living room, just staring at each other. Kristine was expecting the normal reminder.“You’re not going to see him today?” Camille asked.“No.” Kristine replied “go straight to the point.” She added.“What do you think I’m about to say?” Camille asked.“What else? I guess it has to be your normal reminder.”
Alexander showed up at the reception more often than he had been seen by some staff who worked at ARRT.“Have you seen Kristine today?” Alexander asked the receptionist. It was the eight time he was asking her and from the look on her face, she was already weary of him.“No sir.” She responded.“Called her home?” He asked.“Yes sir. No response either.” She replied.“Okay.” Alexander said, “do well to inform me when she shows up.”“Okay sir.” She replied.It was noon and Kristine had still not shown up at the office, neither was she taking calls so Alexander decided to go find out what was wrong.After knocking for close to five minutes, Alexander decided to try the door and to his surprise, it was open. He let himself in and was shocked at the scene. The place was unattended to, the living room could be said to have been in ruins and the place was stuffy.“Kristine?” Alexander called out. But there was no response.He made for the kitchen and almost passed out. It was a mess. He hurr
“That was some flight there.” Francisco acknowledged.“Welcome back.” Victor greeted as both men shook hands.“It doesn’t feel like I left at all.” Francisco responded.A number of guys began loading Francisco’s luggage into an SUV while Francisco joined Victor to his own vehicle.“Aren't you going to blindfold me?” Francisco asked Victor who had gotten into the seat beside him before the vehicle took off.“I wouldn’t mind.” Victor replied. “The only thing stopping me is I see you as one of us, so there’s no need.”“Trust.” Francisco grinned. “You know, its good to see people who live by their principles.”Victor smiled briefly.Francisco looked out the window and there was disappointed written on his face. Although there were a good number of new buildings as well as skyscrapers, he felt the place was unchanged as compared to how it was the last time he was around. Of course Victor noticed the expression on his face.“It looks different from the last time you were here.” Victor said.
Victor offered to take Francisco home while Martelli had a meeting to attend somewhere around the city. Alexander opted to stay back a little to finish up some paper work he was attending to before Victor arrived with Francisco. Martelli thought it was strange as Alexander was one who hated any form of self isolation. He followed Victor and Francisco out but returned a few moments later to Alexander’s office.At a glance, Martelli knew something was wrong with Alexander. He had been acting strange for some days and it never crossed Martelli’s mind to question him in order to find out what was wrong and if possible, fix it.Immediately Alexander saw Martelli’s face he knew what he came for. It was something he had done a lot previously and so Alexander could tell when he was about to be a detective. He was divided on what to do. Should he tell Martelli what was wrong? And if he did, how would he react or what action would he take? Also, if he does not open up and Martelli finds out lat
Life couldn’t be more difficult and cruel to Kristine. In a short time she had lost everyone she could call a friend. She already lost count of the missed calls she gave Camille. As for Alexander, he made it clear he never wanted to see her again. Rejected and pregnant, if she had the power, she would command the ground to open and swallow her so she could be out of her misery.The doorbell rang and Kristine went to answer. She opened the door to see a delivery man standing with a package.“Package for Kristine Richards.” The delivery guy said.“I am Kristine Richards.” Kristine replied.The delivery guy gave her a booklet to sign before he handed the package to her.“Thank you.” She said politely as she received the package from him.Once the delivery guy left, Kristine inspected the package and thought it felt weird adding to the fact she wasn’t expecting anything from anyone.Kristine took the package in and shut the door behind her.She sat on a couch and unwrapped the package whi
The reception was quite packed when Camille came in. There was a number of people waiting to be attended to when one of the receptionists signaled to Camille to come over.“Hello ma'am, how may I help you?” A receptionist greeted.Camille responded that she needed an audience with Alexander.“Are you scheduled to have a meeting today?” The receptionist asked.“No, but its urgent please” Camille asked.“I’m sorry ma’am but he said not to allow anyone –““Damn it!” She said between her teeth, her voice was quite low so that only the receptionist attending to her heard her and her face showed a very great deal of seriousness “I have to see Alexander right now. Make it happen right now… I don’t have all day.” This time she was authoritative.The receptionist was stunned by Camille’s sudden switch and hurriedly made a call, while making eye contact with the security who approached their position slowly. Alexander had asked not to be disturbed except it was an appointment. It was how he ope
Kristine was taking her fifth tour round the house. The place seemed bigger with each tour, quite unusual such that she began to doubt her own sanity. She had a lot on her mind and she was trying out some distraction mechanisms. She tried seeing a movie but got bored, tried reading a book but couldn’t get the words past her eyes, the laundry was a no go area as she was put off by just the sight of the clothes. Nothing seemed to click for her and so she settled for touring her home.Thoughts of Alexander weighed her down. ‘Maybe if I had taken Camille’s advice and reported myself before the hit, things would have been different' she thought. Now the person she cherished didn’t want anything to do with her.Another thought came to Kristine’s mind, telling Alexander about the pregnancy. But there were doubts as well. She imagined how he would react since she wasted time in letting him in on it. That could be another problem and she was definitely not ready for more.‘A step at a time' sh