His to Hold

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

It was almost two in the morning when Jenny made it to her apartment. The first thing she did, was stripped herself of her clothes and head over to the shower, she refused to let her mind wander about the day’s events. After her shower, she drinks a cup of milk, went into her room, put on the radio and lay on her bed. As she closes her eyes, an image of Marc kissing her suddenly came and with that she grabs her pillow and screams till her throat hurt.

Once done, she lays on her back, recalling the day. Her quitting, to having ice cream craving and meeting Bloomfield. Hadn’t she quit, they would have met during the meeting and the outcome could have been very different. What took her to quit anyway? She could have waited another day. But then she remembers Peter advances, it was a no, the guy didn’t know what he was doing most of the time, she was always there picking up the pieces and then been blamed for doing nothing and then having to support his substile advances. She was tired and now she was the talk of the whole world because she couldn’t control her emotion and had to lash out at none other than Marc Bloomfield. Oh GOD, what am I going to do? She finally fell asleep around three in the morning and she dreams of none other than Marc Bloomfield.

Marc hadn’t been able to sleep throughout the night as a pair of hazel kept him awake. So as he walks into his office, he could hear the whispers of his employees. Turning around he faces the hall and says “if I hear any gossip in this office, all of you will be fired” he heard gasps and everyone scatters away. Taking a deep breath, he walks into his office and was soon followed by his assistant Jimmy who had a file in his hands.

He sat down, and Jimmy handed him the file, he opens it and was greeted with Jenny pictures. He touches her pictures than proceeded to read her bibliography. She was raised in an orphanage after she was found in a car wrecked when she was just one-year-old. With no family members claiming her, she was brought to an orphanage by the social service, where she grew up. At the age of 18, she left orphanage and wonders the streets for months until she found a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant. A month later she became a server, and later chief of personnel and all the while going to school. She earned her bachelor's degree in business administration. As the top student of her promotion, she was hired by the Arlinc group the moment she graduated and has been Peter's assistant for the past two years.

Reading that last piece of info, had his anger rising a bit, he knew the type of man Peter was so could he have? But then he remembers how she outrightly told him that he was her first kiss. A smile came to his lips and he continues to read, but then it all clicks, she was the assistant that left before the meeting started. No way, as he contemplates it, he realized that they were fated to meet, the universe had a way to works things out and right now it was in his favor.

Closing the file, he looks up to Jimmy “I want to know her every move, where she goes, who she meets, the clothes she wears and even what she eats, I want to know everything and I need it daily”

“Yes sir, anything else”

“No that will be all for now, you are dismissed”

“Yes sir”

As Jimmy was leaving the room, Julian enters “from the look on your face, you didn’t have a good sleep so I supposed you won’t have any energy to deal with our mother today”

As if on cue, Marc's mother walks in. She was a 60 years old woman and didn’t look one bit her age, a classic woman who values her son’s happiness above all. She walks, bag in hand, and went straight for the sofa and sat down. Both Marc and Julian knew what that met. They headed over to her, Marc kisses her on the cheeks and sat down. No word was said as Malia looks at Marc, there was a slight cut on his lips where she guessed the woman had bitten him. After screening him she spoke up

“Mind telling me the story behind the video that has been viewed a thousand times on the social media, Marc”

Marc knew there was no escaping it, so taking a deep breath, he explained to his mom what had happened. Once done, he waited for the verdict

“Going around, kissing strangers and this is what you get, so what do you plan on doing?” asks Malia

Perplexed by his mother questions, Marc raised an eyebrow

“Don’t raise your eyebrow at me, so what do you plan on doing, knowing you, I am pretty sure you cooked a plan in that brains of yours”

“I don’t really plan on doing anything”

“Save this lie, for someone who is not your mother, Marc”

For the second time this morning Marc took a deep breath and says “I plan to include her in my future”

“With or without your consent?” ask Malia

“Both” was Marc answer

Malia knew every aspect of her son’s personality, and the moment she had seen the video and heard what happened she knew that her son was going to go after the woman. She didn’t know who this woman was, but from what she had understood, maybe just maybe this woman will be able to knock her son down his notches a bit. She missed the Marc of his teenage year. He was carefree with no worries of this world. When her sickness had taken a turn for the worse, Marc had changed and his focus had solely been on creating an empire. She was proud of him, but at the same time worry. He needed someone to help him shoulder it all. Both of her son’s needed someone special.

“I want to meet her”

“Mother, now I believe that’s a bit of a rush” spoke up Julian

“Why, your brother here, made up his mind, he intends to have her no matter, so I’ll need to know beforehand what type of woman she is”

“Mother” says Marc “she and I have gotten off on the wrong foot and I am sure that if I show up on her doorstep, I will be thrown out. So let’s not rush it, shall we”

“Fine, we will not rush it, I’ll wait until you officially introduce her to me”