Marcel's eyes opened to the rise of the sun, it was a Sunday morning. Memories of last night came flooding back. Meeting Abigail's kids was not as scary as he thoughtt, they were cute with each of their own unique personality. Maurice was the quiet observant one. Elise was the bold loud one and Denise was something else entirely. It felt like he got to see two sides of him in just one night, he reminded him of him a lot. Proud but unsure, loving and protective. He saw that as he watched his sister closely. He was truly the man of the house.A knock on the door got him out of his bed in no time, he quickly put on a grey sweatpants and grey t-shirt. He crossed the distance to his door and opened. It was Hailey standing outside. She wore a black playsuit with a v neckline her blonde hair was left to fly around her shoulders. A heart shaped necklace laid on her chest."Good morning bro" Hailey said in a sing-song voice eliciting an eye roll from her brother.Marcel noticed a box and a br
"It's not what you think!" Stephanie screamed as she tried to detangle herself from the man in her bed... Abigail closed the door of the room and stepped back a little, she hadn't moved five steps when Stephanie came running out. She looked deshelved as she approached her. Smoothening her hair and clothes she spoke "You didn't see anything in there." Stephanie pleaded with her eyes. Abigail was not buying it through. "You mean the man you were tangled up with thee minutes ago isn't real?" "Abigail stop it." Abigail's eyes narrowed into slits. Even though Stephanie is her closet best friend and might even pass off as her best friend, she couldn't turn a blind eye on the fact that her friend is cheating on her boyfriend. She hates cheaters just as much as she hates men. "What is really going on between you and Chad, why are you out here cheating on him? With whoever that man is?" "Nothing!" Stephanie said looking away in what Abigail interpreted as shame. "Okay. I'm disgusted by
The sound of laughter filled the room with palpable joy. Marcel was telling the kids a story as they ate dinner and they were as attentive as a cat would be to their prey. He complimented the food they made for him a few times as he told them an engaging story about his time in the army.Hailey listened too, laughing at Marcel's obvious exaggerations.Abigail sat in silence, content. Her and Marcel had decided to give the kids an explanation as to why Marcel had not been around the last few years, and the only idea they could come up with... is that he was fighting in a war... which was partly true.Marcel had gone to military school for a year but he definitely did not fight in any wars."That's so cool." Elise eyes widened at something Marcel said. Abigail was not paying too much attention to the conversation. She was conscious of the time, she had some emails to go over and still had to call Zedra Ashton to finalize their deal."So, here I was alone, hungry and tired when all of
Abigail nods her head putting his words into consideration, “Yeah that’s true. I will think of something and get back to you.”"Alright.” Marcel said simply absent mindedlyThere it was again the absent cold one word answers. She wondered what was going on with him, she would have love to ask him but decided to keep shut and mind her business.His demeanor wasn't affecting his interaction with her kids so she was fine with it, actually… she preferred it. If it persisted she'd have to confront him but for now she had work to do."Alright then.” She said and walked the other direction to her bedroom.She proceeded to get some work done after a bath and later on to call Zedra Ashton.*************Next Day*************"Shit" Abigail exclaimed as she checked the time. She quickly put on her silk emerald robe and her fuzzy bunny slippers and rushed to her kids room.She opened the door to find none of them in the room."Denise!" She yelled."Elise!" They weren't on their balcony either.
"You told him about the other night?" Abigail settled in her chair gesturing for Stephanie to sit. "Actually, Chad and I are no longer together. We haven't been for weeks now…" Stephanie answered. Taking a seat opposite Abigail, She placed her pink briefcase on the table and leaned back on the chair "What? Why?" Abigail asked genuinely surprised. "Well there's no pretty way to say this but… He was having an affair with my secretary.” She answered flatly. Abigail could tell she was hurt. Even though she tried to play it off as cool. She knew how in love they were. "Oh" She should have known. Abigail wished she could say she was surprised but her expirience with men had told her they could not be trusted. No matter how loyal they seemed and Chad seemed like a loyal guy. In another world where she had not been scarred by all the men in her life she might have genuinely believed that Chad was incapable of cheating but she had seen even the most seemingly loyal of men go astray. "I
"Alright, it's time for bed.” Abigail announced after she had escorted her grandmother to her car. It was around 9pm when her grandmother finally took her leave and she was exhausted. Her grandmother had asked a lot of questions and had been completely fascinated by Marcel even more than before and for that Abigail was grateful. She could not have her suspicious of anything. Thank God for his ability to Charm. Abigail made a mental note to go see Marcel's Boss the next day to try and buy out the bar. In truth she had plans for another bar but since Marcel had improvised and told her Grandmother about his work place being his she had no choice but to get both. She sighed internally exhausted from the day's work "Come on, time for bed.” She said again more firmly this time but the kids paid her no mind, invested in whatever cartoon show they were watching. Abigail's lips thinned she was too tired for this and was doing het best. She was on her period and she was a little touc
Abigail stared at the portly looking man as he entered her office. She was surprised she didn't expect the owner of 21 plus to be this old. The research she had made were of younger pictures of him. He was a far cry from what she had seen on Google.So this was Marcel's former boss?Walter held the door open for him. And he trudged through the doors with an air of superiority that Abigail did not quite like. It was a familiar look she had seen amongst her male business partners and rivals and she usually enjoyed putting them where they belonged."That will be all Walter," Abigail said, swatting her assistant away as Walter got closer."Ah Mr Maxwell" Abigail greeted as she extended her hands to the man. His hands were beefy against her hands as he took it."You are Welcome, please have a seat." Abigail gestured to one of the chairs facing her."Thank you Darling.” Mr Maxwell said, his turned up."Thank you for honoring my invitation. Can I get you something to drink?" Abigail asked tr
Abigail watched as Hailey plastered a fake smile on her face. She took a quick glance at the blonde woman standing before them. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail and she was dressed in a black mini dress. "Fancy seeing you here Racheal" Hailey said still smiling. "Yeah, you too. Uh what are you doing here?" "Oh, I'm just here with my boss" Abigail looked between both women quickly realizing that the blonde woman was Marcel's ex. She was beautiful with beautiful eyes. And perfect bone structure..she approved of her appearance but there was something off about her that Abigail couldn't quite place her hands on. Rachel took a quick glance at Abigail who was also starung her up and down and waved. "Hello miss" Racheal stretched her hands for Abigail to shake. "Mrs" Hailey corrected her eyes boring holes into the poor woman's head still smiling. Abigail hesitated before taking the woman's hand. "I'm Racheal" she smiled "A pleasure" Abigail said simply and withdrew her hand