TAMING
MR
j£rkFACE
Own by
An Overbearing billionaire
Racheal Dennis.
Chapter 34
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Writer’s POV
New York…10:15am… Anna’s ap@rtment…!
Anna steps in a fli-ck the lights on, she tossed her keys on the table… abandon her luggage in a corner and gr0@nas she slumps onto a sofa.
She re-leased a long yawn and stretched her b©dy.
Sean stretches a bottle of chilled water to her and she takes it with a small frown.
“Where did you get this?” She asked.
“From the fridge” he replies casually and points towards the fridge.
He slumps on a sofa opposite her and comb his f!ngersthrou-gh his hair as he yawns tiredly.
*He looks like a cute little bunny as he yawns* she thought and smile.
She quic-kly wipes off the smile when she realizes something.
“Wait… aren’t you supposed to go back home? Why are you following me about?”
“I wanna make sure you arrived safely at your ap@rtment… ” He looks around and frown.
Anna catches his expression and taps on the table to get his attention.
“Hey! What’s with that expression?!”
“This ap@rtment is so small.. how do you manage to cope here?”
She paused and thinks about. then rolled her eyeba-lls.
“Rich br@t!” She mutters un-der her breath.
Though Sean heard her, he pretends like he didn’t.
“This area is quite dangerous for a girl like you.. and the road to your ap@rtment is also bu-mpy!”
“Well, this is what my money could afford” she replied.
“You can come live with me!” He suggests with a smile.
Anna returns the smile and moved closer to him… She gr-abs his cheeks and pu-ll-ed them.
“I’m not Debby and you’re not Andre.. that trick ain’t gonna work on me!” She re-leased his cheek and he ru-bs them gently with his palm.
“well, you can’t blame a guy for trying”
She shakes her head and got up… She wanted to s£nd Sean out, but thinking about how he’s been helping her stay calm all these while.. she decides to let him stay for some time.
A stomach growled loudly… Anna turns to Sean. He simply smiles and blinks innocently.
“I guess I’m hungry”
“What do you wanna eat?” She asked before she could st©p herself.
“I’ll eat whatever you cook.. I’m not picky when it comes to food”
Anna nods and walk towards her kitchen.. she decides to cook whatever comes to her mind.
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Debby’s pov
I yawn sleepily in Andre’s arms as he head upstairs to our room… our room?!
He look down at me and chuckles lightly.
“You’re yawning as if you the pilot that flown the plane, Angel”
I hit his che-st. “I worked more than the pilot!”
Having a h0t..wild S-x with him is ha-rd work too. It wasn’t easy to keep up with him.
“Yeah…” He leans down and pe-cks myl-ips. “Thanks for a job well done!”
He opens the door and step in…he lays me on the be-d.
“I’ll be right back!” He said and rushed out.
I rest my back against the headboard and crossed my arms across my che-st…and close my eyes.
I’m feeling sleepy, I haven’t had a wi-nk of sleep since Andre went all caveman on Lucas and I.
Andre rushed back in the room and drops a new….phone?!
“Here! This is the phone I asked Phoebe to order…you can put your sim”
I picked it up and left my mouth hanging open….I couldn’t scream or speak…no reaction.
I throw my arms around him and showered his face with k!sses.
“Thank you..thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you…thank you…”
He pu-lls me back gently and chuckles. “Ok, ok… that’s enough, Angel. I can’t get use to this”
I jumped off the be-d and rushed downstairs to the living room…well, you can say I limped down.
“Angel, be careful!” I heard Andre yell but I ignore him.
I search my luggage and take out my broken phone.. I quic-kly take out my sim and puts it on my new phone.
Immediately I turn it on..it starts ringing…. it’s a strange number.
First I ignored it but it keeps ringing, so I answered.
“Hello?!”
“Miss Ryan?” A female voice asked.
The voice is not familiar which makes me frown.
“Who’s asking?”
“This is Grant hospital.. we’re trying to contact Mr Craig but couldn’t get to him, you’re on his emergency contact…so we decided to call you!”
Grant hospital? Is that where Lucas was admitted?
No, if he’s admitted there..why were they trying to contact him?
“Is everything ok?” I asked her.
“No..we called to tell you that his mother’s condition has wors£n.. plea-se inform him and tell him to come over as soon as possible!”
His mother? Lucas’s mother is still alive? I thought he was an orphan.
Right… Anna and I know nothing about Lucas family. He never talks about his family with us…so we just as-sumed he’s an orphan and doesn’t wanna be sad..thus avoid talking about his family.
“Miss Ryan?”
“Angel?” Andre and the female called at the same time.
I turned around and Andre is standing behind me with worries expression….I guess he’s just mirroring my expectation.
“Ok, I heard you… I’ll tell him” I whisper into the phone and ends the call.
I got up and smiled at Andre.
“Who was that on the phone?” He asked.
I bite my lowerl-ip, looking for a legit lie to tell him.
You know I can’t mention anything related to Lucas before him…or he might fl!pagain.
“Oh..that was Anna. She wants to see me..she wants to treat me to a meal and apologise for what happened at the fashion cu-p!” I lied smoothly.
“Ok… I’ll drop you off…”
“No! Don’t bother!”
He narrowed his eyes.
“Why? Are you hiding something?”
“No…I just wanna go in a cab, besides you’re going to the office and Anna’s ap@rtment is not on your way”
He stays silent and nods slowly.
“Well then, I should go get re-ady for work!”
I smiled and wave him off…he stares at me suspiciously, bit went upstairs anyway.
I’ll go to that Grant hospital later after Andre went to his office…an check out what Lucas’s mother’s issue is all about.
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Writer’s POV
Thompson’s residence…!
*Andre Knight finally announced who his real girlfriend is…which causes an uproar on the internet. Many people are asking if Olivia Thompson is actually s£nt by her.. Mr Thompson Timothy to approach Mr Knight for…..*
Thompson angrily turns off the TV.
“This is outrageous!” He growled. “I don’t know what this girl wants!”
“She wants Andre.. can’t you see that?” Mrs che-sterfield said.
“No… She wants to tarnish my reputation!”
Martha quietly watch from the dinning table where she’s setting the table for breakfast.
Thompson turns to her. “Tell Olivia to come by my office when she gets back!”
Martha nods… Thompson angrily picks his jacket and head towards the door.
“Aren’t you gonna have breakfast?” She asked.
“No! Bring lunch over to the office later!” Thompson said and leaves.. slamming the door on his way.
Mrs che-sterfield gets up.
“I don’t un-derstand what kind of mother you are.. can’t you help Olivia and save us all this embarras-sment?”
Martha stares in confusion… She doesn’t know what her mother-in-law meant.
“Speak with Andre!”
“Andre?! How? I can’t f0rç£ him to love Olivia”
“Have you tried… have you tried to contribute anything for Olivia’s happiness? Oh, I forgot she’s not your daughter…you wouldn’t care!” Mrs che-sterfield walks towards her room.
Martha sigh…she doesn’t un-derstand how her meeting with Andre will make him change his mind.
TAMING
MR
j£rkFACE
Own by
An Overbearing billionaire
Racheal Dennis.
Chapter 35
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Debby’s pov
Grant hospital….!
I walked straight to the receptionist and pas-sed the receptionist a warm smile.
“Hello.. welcome to Grant!”
“Hello… I’m Debby Ryan, can you point me to Mrs Craig’s ward?”
She paused and recognition dawn in her eyes. “I called you this morning”
I nod.
“Hold on, plea-se… I’ll inform doc Antonio you’re here!” She uses the desk phone on her table.
Then she turns to me with a smile. “A nurse will be with you shortly!”
“Ok, thank you!”
I waited a few minutes and a female nurse approaches me.
“Miss Ryan, doctor Antonio is re-ady to see you!”
“Ok!”
She leads the way and I followed… Soon we arrived at a door, she pushes it open and we step in.
“Doctor Antonio, she’s here!”
Doctor Antonio raises his eyes… I can say I’m quite surprise, I thought doctor Antonio would be an old man… about 60 or so.
But surprisingly, he’s just a young man.. he should be the same age as Andre.
“Miss Ryan, plea-se sit!” He gestures to the chair in front his desk.
“Thank you!” I said and sits down.
He nods at the nurse and she leaves.
“Miss Ryan, we’re sorry for troubling you, it’s just.. we’ve been trying to contact Mr Craig all night but couldn’t.. so we had to reach you” he explained.
“Oh, it’s nothing”
“But I hope Mr Craig is ok”
“Yeah… But he’s involved in a minor accident.. you can tell me anything and I’ll relate it to him”
He nods and reached for a file.. he placed it in front of me. I wanted to pick it up but he st©ps me.
“Before you open this, I want to know what your relationsh!pwith Mr Craig is”
Hmm..what should I tell him? I can’t say I’m Lucas’s girlfriend..that means I’m indirectly cheating on Andre.
But I really wanna know what I wanna know what happened…if I say I’m just a friend, Antonio won’t tell me anything useful.
I sigh.
“I’m his family friend!”
I think that’s better than saying I’m his girlfriend.
“If that’s the case…” He re-leases the file.
I fli-pped throu-gh pages and my mouth hangs open in shock…I can’t believe this.
“As you can see Miss Ryan, we’ve been trying our best to treat Mrs Craig….but recent she’s becoming more aggressive and attacking nurses who goes in to check on her…some times she simply sits and talks to herself”
No! This can’t be… Lucas mother is….
“I think she nee-ds to visit a psychiatric hospital for proper treatment!”
She’s mad!
“We’ve been treating her for three years now but her condition doesn’t show any progress… leaving her here will be a waste of her time and our efforts…I’m afraid her condition will keep getting worse if she’s not taken to the psychiatric hospital in time!”
Now I un-derstand why Lucas always leaves our gathering…is this the emergency he always mentions?
“What do you say Miss Ryan, are you gonna sign the transfer papers, so we can s£nd her there in time?”
“No!” I said quic-kly.
I can’t make any decisions behind Lucas’s back.
“plea-se, continue taking care of her for some weeks…when Lucas is alright again, I’ll tell him about this”
“Ok! But just to let you know…we don’t have much time left”
I nod..
“Can I plea-se see Mrs Craig before I leave?”
“Oh, sure!” He pressed a bu-tton on his table. “Nurse Melinda, plea-se come to my office!”
The door opens and that female nurse from earlier comes in….so, her name is Melinda.
“Doctor Antonio?”
“Take Miss Ryan to Mrs Craig’s ward”
“Ok, sir!” She turns to me. “Miss, plea-se come with me”
I got up and hands the file back to Antonio.
“Thank you, doc…. I’ll leave after seeing her!”
“No problem… plea-se do take care!”
I nod and follows Melinda out of the office…. after walking pas-s so many wards, we finally st©p.
Melinda opens the door and I step in.
“Have a nice day, Miss”
“Thank you!” She simply nods and leaves.
I take slow, light steps towards the be-d….a woman in her forties lays on it… slee-ping so soundly.
I sat on the chair next to her be-d and took a closer look at her face….I don’t nee-d a DNA test to tell me she’s Lucas’s mother.
Looking around, I saw a picture on the table… it’s a family ph0to.
A man…this woman…and a little boy…whom I as-sume is Lucas.
They are all smiling brightly like one big happy family….seeing this ph0to reminds me of how pathetic I am.
This is something I don’t have…this is what I have been wishing for since I was 6years old. Lucas have it…but why didn’t he tell us?
Is there something he’s hiding? Or did something bad happened to his family and he doesn’t want us to know about it?
Just then the heart monitoring machine starts beeping….I looked at Lucas’s mother, her f!ngersare moving which means she’ll wake up any minute.
I quic-kly drop the ph0to and left the ward in a hurry… I’ll wait until Lucas is recovered before asking him about his mother’s condition.
Lucas!!
I quic-kly dialed Anna’s number…since Andre fought him in Spain, I haven’t check on him.
“Hey, Debs!” Anna says from the other line.
“Anna..are you back yet?”
“Yeah, let’s meet up…I have good news!”
“Goodness?”
“Yep.. it’s about CHIC!”
I smile…I guess I alre-ady know what this goodnews is about but I pretend not to know.
“CHIC?! Wow! I can’t wait to hear about it!”
“Ok… we’ll meet at FK’s by 2pm”
“Right… Lucas, how is he?”
“Don’t worry, he’s out of danger… let’s meet and we’ll talk more!”
“Alright!” We hang up.
I check the time on my phone.. it’s just 1:30pm. I should walk instead of taking a cab…I’m sure I’ll get there before 2pm.
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Writer’s POV
Anna’s ap@rtment….!
“Are you gonna leave now? I have an appointment with Debby!” Anna tells Sean.
“No! Not until you agree to go on a d@t£ with me tomorrow!”
Anna rolled her eyes and wore her sneakers…she and Sean have been going on and on about this d@t£ since morning.
“I told you… let’s pretend like nothing happened between us.. we’re strangers, let’s not bother each other”
“I don’t want us to be strangers… Anna, I’m serious about us…I really do love you”
“No, you don’t…. you’re just feeling guilty because of what happened between us!”
He frown and stares at her strangely.
“What happened between us? Nothing happened that night…you fell asleep on me!”
Anna paused and stares at him for a few seconds…then she beans into a smile but quic-kly wipes it off.
“Really?! Nothing happened?!”
“No!”
She lets out a relieved sigh. “Thank God!” She mutters un-der her breath.
She pu-ll-ed Sean up and k!$$£d his cheek…she doesn’t realize what she just did, she’s too happy to take note.
Sean t©uçhes his cheek and smiles to himself… staring at Anna like he’s dreaming.
“You said you wanna d@t£ me tomorrow? Ok… come pick me up!” She said.
“I should pick you up?” He asked to confirm.
“Yeah…now drive me to FK’s!” She commands.
Sean smiled brightly. “FK’s? I don’t know where that is!”
She gr-abs his hand. “I’ll direct you!”
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Andre’s office….!
Andre gro-an s tiredly and mas-sage his shoulders… he’s been going throu-gh do¢v-ments after do¢v-ments.
He reaches for his coffee and found the mug empty..he slams it on the table and grits his teeth.
His deskphone starts ringing just when he was about to reach for it.
“Phoebe!”
“Mr Knight, a woman is looking for you”
“Who?”
“She said she’s Martha Thompson!”
Andre shuts his eyes and sighs…he hated all the Thompsons except Martha.
“Let her in and bring in a cu-p of coffee for her!” He said and dropped the phone.
In a few minutes, the door open and Martha walks in with a small smile on her face.
Andre gets up when he sees her.
“Martha… plea-se sit!” He offers her a seat.
She sits down. “Thank you, Andre”
Andre nods and sat on his chair…. Phoebe comes in a placed a cu-p of coffee in front of Martha.
“Thank you” Martha tells her…she simply smiles and left.
“This is a surprise visit, Martha!” Andre said.
“Yes..I haven’t seen you in a long time now. How have you been?” She asked in her calm voice.
Andre’s jaw clenched..he knows exactly what Martha meant by asking that.
“As you can see, I’m fine!”
“That’s good.. that’s good!” She reached for the coffee and takes a sip.
Studying her b©dy language, Andre knew at once that something is bothering her.
“Martha…why did you come to look for me?”
Martha drops the coffee and clears her throat.
“Andre, I know what you went throu-gh after your breakup with Olivia..I know how much she hurt you and….”
“Hold on!” He cuts her off. “If you are here for Olivia, plea-se leave!”
“plea-se hear me out…I know Olivia did wrong, she shouldn’t have hurt you the way she did but trust me..she regrets it now and she’s willing to change..just give her a chance, plea-se…she really does love you”
“Love me?” He laughs sarcastically. “She loves me! Well, I don’t love her no more..I have moved on and it’s time she move on too”
“You know she can’t…”
“She can! I alre-ady have a woman.. should I leave my woman for her?”
“But she…”
“But nothing, Martha. Olivia destroyed me and I know Debby went throu-gh hell to repair me….hell she’s still going throu-gh hell to make me better. That is true love!”
Martha sighed….
“Olivia and I can’t be together… it’s best she get rid of that idea or she will get herself hurt!”
“Olivia isn’t the same as she was three years ago….”
“Yeah…I’m not the same as three years ago too!” Andre got up and walked towards the glas-s window, he tucked his hands in his pocket. “Martha, leave now….I don’t wanna hear another word about Olivia!”
The finality in is voice is so obvious… Martha got up.
“plea-se think about it… Olivia is a changed girl”
“Leave!”
She sighs heavily…she just realized that it’s no use trying to convince Andre.
*I’ll have to speak with Debby then!* She thought.
Andre inhale de-eply and reached for his phone…he s£nt a quic-k message to the boys to meet at their usual sp©t.
To be continued….