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EPISODE 81
©Sir Zach
The gaze between the two brothers were ha-rd and piercing, mostly Jake who looked like he could kill Blake right where he sat. Blake could feel the intensity of Jake’s gaze but he remained unfazed or more he pretended to be.
Jake could say at this moment he really hated his brother. Threatening him with something like this was preposterous.
“So you’re threatening me?” Jake asked pointedly.
“I’m not threatening you bro. I’m only trying to coax you” Blake replied. “Come-on call her alre-ady or give me her number, I’m really anxious okay. Amy has never missed a day at work since she started working here, she always look as sound as a horse and now she didn’t come to work.”
“If you are that well why don’t you have her number then?” Jake asked sounding slightly pissed.
“Are you giving the number or not?” Blake also intensified the tone of his voice.
Jake gazed at Blake wickedly. He couldn’t believe he was been compelled by his little brother. He glared at the phone Blake was handing over to him, obviously to dial Jade’s number into.
“Keep your fv¢king phone” Jake growled as he picked up his phone. There was no way in hell he was going to give Jade’s number to him. Blake has just revealed his true colors to him and he was going to make sure he never gets Jade’s number in this life.
Blake’sl-ips curved upwards when he saw how protective his brother was acting over a girls number. Now he was more than sure that Jake truly liked her.
Jake has never acted this way with any girl. He didn’t even tend to take a second look at the woman he had sle-pt talk more of slee-ping with them for a second time or worst having their number.
Girls were the ones pining and throwing themselves at him, and he has witnessed Jake pretending to be sick just to trick a girl. This was going to be a good for him. She was going to be his gateway to having Jake fulfill his every demand….Hehehe. His mind began to wander towards the things he can swindle out of his brother throu-gh her.
Jake hissed and glared at Blake as he dialled Jade’s number.
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Jade who has been in quite mood since morning was ma-king some designs at the office and Sara was quietly observing her. She kept swinging the mouse like she had some personal vendetta with it.
“Don’t vent on the poor mouse”
“I’m not venting” Jade replied curtly.
“Yes you are. You’ve been in quite mood since morning. And your eyes keep staring at that phone of yours. b©yfri£ndissues I suppose?” Sara asked inquisitively, ma-king Jade scoff.
‘b©yfri£ndissues indeed’ Why was everyone asking her same question all morning?
Sara raised a brow when Jade scoffed. Maybe she shouldn’t pry into people’s personal affairs and Jade seems to be out of it.
Jade noticed the awkward change in Sara’s countenance and she knew she shouldn’t be acting strange towards Sara. Her attitude might have made her feel bad.
“I don’t have a b©yfri£nd, so I’m not having b©yfri£ndissues” Jade said, ma-king Sara’s eyes to shoot up. Since Jade started working with her team about a month ago, this was the first time she was getting to hear that Jade was single.
“You’re kidding right?” Sara asked in disbelief. There was no way Jade didn’t have a b©yfri£nd.
“I doubt it” Jade shrugged casually. Sara’s eyes wi-de-ned in surprise. She looked at Jade from head to toes, and she couldn’t believe someone as beautiful and S-xy as Jade was really single. Even as a woman she envies Jade’s looks and her well curved b©dy, so why the hell was she single.
“Jade you’re truly really single?” She asked again just to be sure.
Jade chuckled slightly when she saw the disbeliving look Sara was shooting at her.
“I’m not” She replied.
“So if you’re not having b©yfri£ndissues, then why do you look upset and you keep staring at your phone like you’re expecting a call” Sara asked, because that was something she does when she and Simon have problems.
Jade c0cked a brow at her. She didn’t quite un-derstand Sara’s logic. Were b©yfri£nds the only people that could offend a girl and can’t someone expect a call from any other person ap@rt from their b©yfri£nds? Not that she was expecting a call from anyb©dy most especially a certain someone, she just felt like maybe he should….Never mind!
“I’m not upset Sara and I’m not expecting a ca…” Jade’s words trailed off when her phone started ringing. She hurriedly gr@bb£d her phone when she saw the name displa-ying on the screen. She didn’t know but herl-ips twitched when she saw who was calling her and Sara saw it.
Jade stared at the phone in a daze before answering the call. So he finally decided to call.
“Hello” Jade said in a cold tone as soon as the call connected.
“Hey” Jake narrowed his brow when he heard her tone. She sounded a bit off. “Are you okay?” Jake asked with concern, glaring at Blake who was urging him to go straight to the point.
‘I’m okay, I should be the one asking you that. What’s up with the attitude last night?’ Jade said in her head but in reality she replied,”Yeah I’m good”
“Are you sure? You sound like you’ve got something going on” The more she spoke the more Jake was convinced that Jade wasn’t sounding like her usual self.
Jade didn’t know why, but hearing Jake bother about her made whatsoever she has been feeling since last night was slowly dissipating.
“I’m fine” She replied.
“Okay. Jade I’d love to ask about your friend, my staff, Amy” Jake said his, ma-king a concerned frown to appear on Jade’s forehead.
“Amy?”
“Yes” He replied while he kept glaring at Blake.
“What is it?”
“Uhmm..I heard she’s sick and didn’t report to work today. So I was calling to know if she was okay. My brother was a bit worried about her so I thought maybe I could ask you?”
‘So that was why he called?’ He didn’t even want to..
“I spoke to her this morning, but I’m yet to see her. I’ll probably do that after work”
“Do you think maybe you could help my useless brother talk to her when you get there?” He said scratching the back of his n£¢k awkwardly. He didn’t like the idea of ma-king Jade a middle man between this fool sitted in front of him and her friend. Jade fell silent for a while. She didn’t know if that was a good idea, knowing how Blake had rejected her friend and she wasn’t sure of Amy’s feelings towards him for now, especially with the whole Micheal issue going on.
“Jade?” Jake called out when he couldn’t hear her.
“I don’t know, but I’ll see if its possible. But if she isn’t up for it then there’s nothing I can do” Jade replied curtly.
“Sure. Thanks alot”
“Is that all?” Jade asked in a slightly annoyed tone, which Jake took note of.
“I think so” He replied.
“Okay, I’ll return back to work, and you should do the same. Bye” She said before hanging up.
“Ja..” He tried calling out but she had alre-ady disconnected the call. He looked at his phone with his brows furrowed. ‘Why did it seem like she was angry?’
“So what did she say?” Blake asked anxiously.
Jake dropped his phone and sighed, before turning to Blake. “She hasn’t seen her, but she’ll get back to me when she does” Jake told him.
Blake wasn’t satisfied with that answer. Maybe he should just pay her a visit. But wouldn’t that be too much?
“So when will she see her?” Blake asked.
“Later in the day” Jake replied curtly.
“Didn’t she say when exactly?”
“No. And Blake leave me the hell alone” He wouldn’t be nee-ding his help if he hasn’t rejected her. Now he was bothering him with problems he shouldn’t be bothered with.
” You’re just mean” Blake said.
“You don’t have to tell me. Now get out” He ordered pointing at the door with his chin.
“What if I don’t want to?” Blake asked defiantly.
“Then consider yourself dead” Jake threatened.
“You can’t kill me. I promise to tattle to sister in-law if you as much as l@ya hand on me. You can say goodbye to your sweet love even before it starts” Blake said tauntingly.
“Blake I dare you to try as much as breath a word to Jade, and I promise to curse the day you bec@m£ my brother” Jake roared, his eyes flashing with anger.
“Threats” He hissed. “Wait that’s a rhyme, Jade and Jake. Ha…so what will you call your child, Jadke? ” He said before bur-sting out in laughter.
Jake picked up a pen to throw at him and Blake jumped to his feet when he noticed it too, be laughed ha-rd as he hurried to the door.
“Bro it’s good you took your name into consideration when falling in love. I’m super proud of you. Jade, Jake, Jakde, or maybe Jaked. How perfect” He tea-sed before running for his life.
Jake hissed and glared at him.He didn’t pay much attention to Blake’s nons-en-se.. He was still hooked on why Jade was sounding angry. Was she upset about something Or did he do something? wrong?
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After the close of work, Jade was still fuming over what had happened last night. She even bec@m£ more cranky after Jake’s call.
After ruining the latter p@rt of last night by giving her that taciturn and bored attitude, he was just going to call her and make a request, and she was damn sure it was for that brother of his who had turned down Amy’s feelings, completely breaking her girls heart with no remorse whatsoever. Now he was going to have call her Amy, to do what? Why didn’t he just call her by himself, instead of calling her?
Bunch of stupid brothers!
And as if that wasn’t enough, everyone kept bugging her about her being in love. With who exactly?
What gave them that stupid idea? Wasn’t Cale enough?
Jade had a frown on her face and from the way she walked, she was probably going to break the tiles of the company with the heels of her shoe. She wh!pped out her phone to call Amy but her line wasn’t reachable. Then she dialled Lairs’ number, and he answered after the first ring.
“Hey sugar, why are you calling me today? miss me?” Lair tea-sed as soon as he answered the call.
“What do you mean? I’ll always call you” Jade retorted grumpily.and
“I guess you must be mistaking me for some other Lair? How many Lairs do you have in your phone?” He asked.
“I don’t know, maybe a thousand?” She replied.
“Woah, that’s hvge”
“I didn’t call you to tease me”
“I know you didn’t call me to check up on me. You’re now a bad kitty” Lair tea-sed again. “So what’s up?” He asked.
“I’m trying to contact Amy, but her number isn’t connecting and I want to visit. Can you ask her if she nee-ds anything so I can get it for her? I was thinking about getting some nachos from Eddy’s sp©t, don’t know if she has the stomach for it” Jade told him.
“Sorry about that, I confiscated her phone. You know how stubborn she can be. She’s sick thanks to the ongoing troubles in her life, but she won’t let go of her phone not for a second. Always trying to call Ethan and his pri-vate investigator every minute she gets” Lair hissed exasperatedly.
“Oh okay” Now she un-derstood why Blake couldn’t get in t©uçh with her.
“Yeah. So I heard you’re coming over? Are you coming now?” Lair asked.
“Yes, just about to gr-ab some nachos and I’ll be on my way” She told him.
“Should I pick you up?”
“No, I can get there by myself.”
“Okay sweety. Save one of those nachos for me. Men, I miss that Eddy’s stuff” Lair said ma-king Jade chuckle lightly. He always had a thing for Eddy’s restaurant. They served some of the best food in town.
“Okay I’ll save you one”
“Alright baby girl, I’ll see you in a bit. Don’t make me miss you too much” Lair tea-sed again.
“Sure I won’t” Jade replied before ending the call. Speaking with Lair had somehow lightened up her mood.
Jade had just disconnected the call when a flashy car parked in front of the company caught her attention. It looked somewhat familiar and she could swear that it was Jake’s car.
‘Jade Peterson, Jake is not the only one who can afford a sports c….” Jade held that thought when she saw the owner step down from the car…Of course it was Jake in all his glory, flashing his killer smile which was bright enough to shame the sun.
The way he stepped down from his car and that gorgeous smile plastered on his face, one would think a commercial was been sh0t. His handsome face attra-cted a few pas-serbys, mostly the opposite gender.
Jade was stunned to see him standing there, his smile was damn too bright and captivating, which made her wonder why a guy would have such a beautiful smile, as if he wasn’t beautiful enough.
Jade was really shocked to see him and just the sight of him made every awkward and cranky feeling she’s been exuding since last night, dissipitate.
He was here to see her right? What happened to seeing each other by Friday? A smile nearly broke out on her, but she remembered herself that she was supposed to be upset with him.
Jake walked closer to her and she just stood rooted to the ground. Her heart skidded a beat as he approached her.
“Hey Jade” Jake greeted with a smile, but Jade just stood in a daze, staring at him, with nothing going throu-gh her head at the moment except Jake’s handsome face.
“Jade?” He called out again jo-lting out of her reverie.
“He..ey” She greeted back, fli-ckering her eyes slowly.
“What are you doing here?” Jade inquired.
“What do you mean by what am I doing here? I c@m£ to…ask a pretty girl out, would you help me talk to her, she works here?” Jake said with a teasing smile, but Jade didn’t think that was a joke. She felt this squee-ze in her heart when he said that. A girl? He c@m£ to ask a girl out and he wants her to help him? What was wrong with him? Repeating his words in her mind made her really uncomfortable. Who was that girl? Was it someone she knew?
‘Was it Stephanie? They had a one time thing right?’ She remembered. The thought of Stephanie and Jake was suddenly pissing her off.
Jade looked at him and the anger which was slowly dissipitating suddenly returned back, and this time more intensed.
Was this what their friendsh!pwas about? Him calling her to only ask for favours when he wanted? Jade didn’t fully un-derstand why, but she was getting really pissed. She just wanted to leave right now.
“Well good luck with that. I’ve got to go, I’m running late” Jade said as she tried to leave, without even looking at him.
as-s-hole! He should go seek help else where!
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