Love Interest

ChapterFOUR

Of course there both disengaged from each other’s body when there heard the door slide open. I was dumbstruck and couldn't move from the spot where I was standing.

Dickson has been cheating on me and I never knew. I had always overlooked his bad habits but this was worse and it was making me wanna puke.

I couldn't continue watching both of them that way. It looked so sinful in my eyes and I went to the bathroom sink to vomit what was in my mouth.

I poured out the whole content before rinsing my mouth and then I went back to the room but only Dickson was there.

The w***e he was with had gone. Phew! If I had seen her there I would have used my nails to give her awful marks on her body. It's either one of us getting injured.

Dickson was wearing his trousers and was acting like nothing just happened. Is he seriously acting that with me? Well if he doesn't talk then I'll do.

"Who was that b***h Dickson and why were you in bed with her?"I asked and he looked up with a nonchalant demeanor.

"Someone I brought in here to satisfy me since you kept acting like a baby" He replied.

"You can't be serious Dickson. I told you to have patience and when we finally get married you can have me all to yourself" I said and Dickson laughed out loud.

I furrowed my brows confused about why he was laughing all of a sudden. Did I say something funny or did I suddenly turn into a clown?

"Marry you... Me"

"You're so naive to think I would marry someone like you. I need someone more sophisticated and brainy and not a dumbass like you" Dickson's words felt like a blow to my face.

After everything I did for him, he doesn't still appreciate my effort. Maybe I am truly a fool to think that one day he would return to been the once loving Dickson I knew.

I never even knew I was crying until I sniffed in some snot that wanted to drool out of my nose.

"When you're done shedding those crocodile tears you can come give me food, I am hungry" He rolled his eyes and walked out of the room like he didn't say hurtful words to me.

I squatted on the floor of the room before crying fully but after doing that for some minutes and knowing that there was no one to console me, I cleaned my tears.

I stood up from the room before going to the kitchen to make dinner for the both of us.

I got prepared for work and went very early before Dickson would have woken up. I was having a headache maybe from excessive crying last night but I didn't have the strength to make breakfast so I left before Dickson woke up and started complaining.

I got to work and began my daily routine. Getting to the middle of the day, a group of men with some thugs barged into the bar and began making chaos.

I recognized them as the same men who harassed me yesterday. Were they here to cause trouble again?

"There she is, the foolish b*tch" One of them pointed in my direction and before I could know what was happening they all surrounded me.

My boss came out trying to solve the issue and one of them spoke up,

"She chased us out of your bar after calling her stupid boyfriend to beat us up," he said, and that was when I discovered the bruises all over their faces.

"What happened to them? " I asked myself inwardly.

"Please you have to come down. I don't think Maya is capable of all these accusations" My Boss defended me.

"Oh so her name is Maya. Perfect name for a b*tch like her" Another one insulted me and I clenched my fist. This was already getting too much.

"Please you all have to calm down"

"We won't until you send this b***h out of your bar if you don't do so then forget about us being your customers ever again," They said and I rubbed my sweaty palms.

I was silently praying that my Boss wouldn’t agree and send them out but that was like a futile prayer after seeing the pitiful look on his face.

He knew how much money he got from this man every day but he didn't want to care about my job here.

"I would send her away so you all can go and come back" My Boss finally talked and they all shouted happily leaving the bar and making funny faces at me.

How could he do this? Just because of some useless men and money, he's planning to fire me.

He told me to follow him to his office and I did. I thought to myself maybe if I pleaded with him and told him how much I needed this job he might reconsider.

"Please sir don't fire me I have no other place to go. This job is all I could find and I need it" I pleaded with him the moment we got to his office.

"Maya those men are my very good customers and losing them would mean losing almost half of the money I make a day," He said but that wasn't what I was planning to hear from him.

"You are a very good person and I am sure you would see someone who would be willing to employ you but I would pay you your wage for today so please just go" I sighed.

There was no use convincing him again, he already made up his mind to fire me.

I walked out of the bar helplessly and went back home.

Two weeks had passed and it seemed like I was gonna experience hell on earth continuing like this. No one was willing to employ me and Dickson was making it more difficult.

He would take the money I kept at home to use it to gamble and also drink himself into a stupor.

I just came home from a restaurant where I went to look for a job as a server when I heard a knock on the door.

I gasped when I saw Dickson bleeding from the head and some group of boys held him.

"Hey, what happened to him?" I asked trying to take him away from them.

"Your boyfriend owes us money for the money he borrowed from us to gamble and if he doesn't pay it. We won't just injure him, we'll kill him" They warned before throwing helpless Dickson in my arms.

When there had turned and went away. I felt so frustrated like I have never felt in my life. No work, A gambling boyfriend who owes some money, and I also don't have anything.

After thinking for a while on Alexander’s offer of a contract marriage, I then walked to the drawer where I kept the card Alexander gave me.

I saw it and I quickly dialed his number on my phone. The moment he picked up the call I didn't wait for him to speak before saying,

"The proposal I agree to"

He took a while for him to reply but I felt so sweaty at his cold response.

“Uhmmm Maayaa” he dragged my name. Then my whole body got aroused, waiting to receive the next disappointing news for the day.

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