The rhythm of the classical song that played in the background filtered into my ears and I found myself humming along with it. It was yet another function. However, Aurora was not on my arm, Leah accompanied me this time. "I'm back," She sighed, returning from her bathroom break."Finally. I thought you'd left me to die of boredom." I said exaggeratedly. She chuckled, "I love you too much to let that happen to you.""Thank you." I exhaled."It's not so bad." She said to encourage me."There's a reason my dad makes me attend these functions." I told her."Networking?""That. And he doesn't want to die of boredom." "Oh Leo," She shook her head, looked away and looked back at me. "What? Is there something on my face?" I questioned."I'm not staring at you silly. There's some girl who doesn't want to get her eyes off you over there." "Who?" I asked in surprise, willing to turn and see for myself.Leah gripped my arm quickly, "Don't turn. She's walking this way."I stayed still, curi

When I drove out of the house in rage I was lowkey glad she saw my messages with Melody. Now I did not have to explain the fact that I was falling in love with someone else. I hoped it would give her enough reason to leave although I knew a possible divorce would be quite messy at this point. But then I had made up my mind to ask Melody to be my girl and there was nothing that would stop me. She was everything I wanted.I was heading straight to the hangar where she had told me to meet her up because she wanted me to join her on a mini vacation."Hey," I said when I made it to where she was parked waiting for me. "You're late." She frowned slightly."I'm sorry. Something came up,""Your wife?" She asked. She could tell from how my face contorted whenever that aspect of my life was brought up."Yeah.""Let's forget about her, shall we?" "Gladly," I said and leaned close to her, nearly taking her lips in mine.She shoved me back playfully, "Easy tiger." "Yes ma'am." I chuckled."It's

It was my first day at work. My feelings were a mixture of different things. As I prepared that Monday morning, I found myself wondering if I could actually pull this off. Yes, over the last couple of days, I was so excited. I got downstairs, had a light breakfast and headed Junior designer. This was my work description. ~~~Walking into House of Valiente, I heaved a sigh. It felt like my life was slowly beginning to get on track. A petite brunette woman approached me just as I began to talk to the receptionist. "Aurora Adams?""Yes.""Come with me." As I followed this woman whose name I was yet to found out. I marveled at the excellence of the interiors of this building. I was here, really here in one of the most prestigious fashion houses in the whole of USA. I wanted to let out a scream and do happy dance. I was doing a good job holding in my excitement."HR." She said left me with this man with an overly wide grin that made me uncomfortable."Mrs Adams!" "Aurora is fine,"

If I ever had to choose between going home from work and working late, I'd choose the latter. Why? It was hell back at home. I wanted to run off on weekends sometimes. Thankfully I worked until Saturdays. Sundays were my day off. My mother in law as well as her niece, Lira, seemed to be ganging up on me whenever they got the chance. Sometimes I stayed back at work on purpose just to avoid seeing them at dinner. Now that the twins had graduated and were yet to get jobs. They were living with us fully and with how much Lira hated my guts especially after her breakup with Axel (whom I now hardly saw by the way), I was bound to face a whole lot of backlash from her. I was thankful for Leah's intervention from time to time. Leo. He was aloof and closed off as always. We hardly got to see because I was busy with work now and so was he. When we did see each other, there were hardly any words said. But what else is new? "Why don't we go shopping today?" Leah asked me out of nowhere as w

I was twenty two. Time had flown by so much faster than I expected it would. I had spent a year and half being married. And the funny thing was that this birthday had turned out to be better than the last one. The previous year, everyone forgot about it, even me. This was mostly because my mother in-law had started pressuring me for a child. A child I was still yet to have.I sat still in the middle of my room. Yet to recover from how the date went. For once I did not want to tell anyone about what went on between Leo and I. I just wanted to bask in the moment. And it was all going so well until that girl came in out of nowhere. His mood switched so quickly, I became worried that I had done something wrong.I knew those doe eyes. I recognized them so well because they stood out in those pictures I managed to see on his phone before he took it out of my hand that day.She had a saccharine smile on her pretty face when she approached our table. Leo didn't return it. I forced a polite