Chapter 8
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Chapter 8
"Where's the new commercial clip?" Brian said while flipping through the pages of the folder in his hand.
"We are yet to shortlist the candidates.." The fidgeting thirty something years old creative director managed to say even in the midst of stammer.
People working under Brian always find talking to him intimidating and somewhat scary. It's hard to share the same space with his arrogant and rude attitude.
"You're fired" He said without flinching.
"Sir?" She questioned in disbelief.
"Are you deaf? I said you're fired! I can't have incompetent people working in my company" he didn't look at the poor lady, not even as little as a wink.
Just as soon as she walked out of his office, Khloé walks in majestically while strutting her curves in the perfect motion.
"Hey baby" she greeted before taking her seat.
"What do you want?" He asked rudely. Typical Brian Chase.
"You have know idea what today is do you?" She looked a bit dumbfounded and not surprised.
Brian does not reply.
"It's my birthday Brian, I can't believe you forgot the mother of your child's birthday" she raised her arms in the air in disbelief.
Khloé knew the kind of road she was about to embark on with Brian since the day she decided to keep his baby. She'd thought that maybe the child they share will somehow draw him close to her but the opposite happened.
The only significant date Brian knows is Isabelle's birthday and nothing more.
*****
Jayda giggled like a toddler at ice cream when she and Shawn made their exit out of the cinema. They just finished watching the latest horror film titled 'forgotten and instead of coming out with a rather intense expression, the duo laughed their way to the parking lot.
"So where are we going next?" Jayda asked as Shawn put the car in motion unto the express.
"I was thinking of dinner" he said.
"I'm quite full from the popcorn and Soda"
"How about a walk in Glover?" He suggested.
Jayda had heard of the new park in town but has not had the opportunity to visit the place even though she'd heard a lot of awesome reviews from the people in Ely.
"That'd be great," She said.
They arrived in the park in half an hour and since there wasn't much to do because most of the vendors have closed for the day, Shawn and Jayda just decided to walk and tour the place instead.
"So, how's your daughter?" Shawn asked
"She's fine" She replied with a smile.
"I have a daughter too, she's with my ex-wife"
"You've been married?" Jayda had no idea why his revelation surprised her so much so that she had her eyes popping out of their sockets.
"Yes, we divorced a couple of months back before I got transferred to Minnesota. Selena, that's my daughter's name. She's currently living in New York with her mother." Shawn explained
"I am so sorry about the divorce. Do you kind telling me what happened between you two?" Jayda halt on her tracks and Shawn followed.
"It's fine if you don't want to tell me" Jayda cussed beneath her breath for asking such a personal question. She immediately regrets stirring up the topic.
"It's okay... Gigi and I met a couple of years back when I was working with NYPD. Remember one time when a couple of guys brought the grand supermarket under siege?" Jayda replied with a nod "I was part of the team sent to the scene of incidence and I met Gigi there. We just commented so easily and I guess everything just felt right with her. I asked her out and we started seeing each other. It wasn't until when she asked that I go meet up with her parents did I know she's from a rich background. The kind that won't allow their only daughter to marry an officer. She tried on her end to make her parents reason with the two of us but I guess I just couldn't measure up to their dream son-in-law. We continued dating against their wish, everything went on well and I proposed. I loved her dearly and couldn't think of imagining my life without her. On the day of our wedding, it wasn't much of a surprise to us that her parents didn't show up. We still got married nonetheless"
"You both must have really been in love to neglect the decision of her parents" Jayda envied the girl in question. She could tell that Shawn must have really loved Gigi.
"We were deeply in love with each other. But the truth of the matter is I would never be able to provide for someone like Gigi. She agreed to put up with our living condition but I should have known better that a high maintenance lady like herself would never accustom herself with an average guy like me." Shawn heaved a deep sigh before proceeding with his explanation.
"She would nag at me every single night telling me how her friends are driving the latest cars and wearing the latest outfits. I'm sure there were times when she wished she'd listen to her parents. Times that she wished she never accepted to be my girlfriend and wife. I was on my way to work one morning when she asked for a divorce out of the blue and to think we made love the night before" Shawn scoffed as a wave of remembrance of that night hit him like a sledgehammer.
"She looked so pretty that morning but the words that came out of her mouth hurt me deeply. She took my child with her to her parents in New York. The judge gave us equal custody rights to Selena and the rest is history"
"I am so sorry to hear that," Jayda said.
"I've moved on, likewise her. The only thing I care about is my daughter"
"I also care a lot about my daughter. She's the only motivation in my life."
Jayda said.
"How'd it happen with her dad?"
Jayda hesitated a bit. She wasn't completely sure of spilling all the deets to a man she still regarded a stranger. But, wouldn't it be selfish of her to hold back when he opened up to her?
"Her dad and I never married. He was my first and last boyfriend. We bro..he broke up with me and left. He never returned. Never showed up on her birthdays, her graduation, and other significant days of her life. It's like he disappeared. I've since catered for Lucy and now that she's in NYU, I couldn't be more proud of myself and her."
"It's ironic you know. Who would have thought we share almost the same life predicament?"
The duo chuckled lightly.
"I think I can now stomach that dinner you talked about. All these talks about the past just made me hungry" Jayda jokingly said.
"Lucky for you we still have that reservation"
"Don't you have to go back to the station or something?" Jayda asked knowing that officers don't really have much free time and she didn't want to be a burden.
"I do have to go back to the station but not immediately"
"Are you sure? I'd hate if I'm being a burden"
"Not in the slightest."
"Are you sure?" Jayda asked for the last time.
"Yes, I am sure" Shawn confirmed again.
He entwined his fingers with hers as they walked back to the where he parked. Jayda didn't want to rush or think the best of their first hang out but deep down, she knew this was going to the beginning of something she'd been yearning for for a long long while.
Chapter 8
"Where's the new commercial clip?" Brian said while flipping through the pages of the folder in his hand.
"We are yet to shortlist the candidates.." The fidgeting thirty-something years old creative director managed to say even amid stammer.
People working under Brian always find talking to him intimidating and somewhat scary. It's hard to share the same space with his arrogant and rude attitude.
"You're fired," He said without flinching.
"Sir?" She questioned in disbelief.
"Are you deaf? I said you're fired! I can't have incompetent people working in my company" he didn't look at the poor lady, not even as little as a wink.
Just as soon as she walked out of his office, Khloé walks in majestically while strutting her curves in the perfect motion.
"Hey baby" she greeted before taking her seat.
"What do you want?" He asked rudely. Typical Brian Chase.
"You have no idea what today is do you?" She looked a bit more dumbfounded than surprised.
Brian does not reply.
"It's my birthday Brian, I can't believe you forgot the mother of your child's birthday" she raised her arms in the air in disbelief.
Khloé knew the kind of road she was about to embark on with Brian since the day she decided to keep his baby. She'd thought that maybe the child they share will somehow draw him close to her but the opposite happened.
The only significant date Brian knows is Isabelle's birthday and nothing more.
"Take the master card and have fun" Brian tossed his ATM card over to her on the table.
She hesitated a bit mostly because she didn't want to totally give off the materialistic woman kind of vibe. In the end, Brian knows it's all for show. Women are all the same. Money hungry species. He sometimes wondered if Khloé would have gotten pregnant if he was broke or if she would have even allowed him to sleep with her on the first night.
He'd met the supermodel in a commercial shoot for ChaseApp. He'd wanted to check in on the shoot when the hot legs of Khloé attracted him on the spot. He likes them tall, skinny and classy. Khloé had all but lacked in some ways that are not physically attributed.
"It's not about the money baby," she said in disappointment.
"It's all you've ever wanted" He didn't look at her one bit.
"I want you too. Your love, affection and everything affiliated to your heart" She reached for his arms and he pulled away from her grasp.
"What do you need me to do to have all of you?" She asked
"I have told you times without number that you and I will never go beyond co-parenting Isabelle. No more" He said, coldly.
She looked at him for a moment before breaking the stare. She'd thought s*x is the only thing that can work to keep a man of Brian's calibre afterall he made advances towards her in the beginning but later on when she noticed he was starting to withdraw from her, she went on to remove the rod implants from her arm and lied when she eventually got pregnant that the contraceptive expired the night before they had s*x. He'd told her to abort it but she lied saying that her gynaecologist warned her from doing so because it would be life-threatening for both her and the babies she will have in the future. She managed to pin the baby on him and it worked. He did get close to her during her pregnancy period. He cared and catered for her like a princess. Bought her so many expensive stuff but it all ended the moment Isabelle was born. He still gives her allowances and all other material things she may desire but not intimacy. He wouldn't risk getting close to her and having another baby.
"As you know, Isabelle is going to be with the nanny after school, you can pick her up from my place and take her on a treat."
Loving his daughter is an understatement. Brian adored and more than loves his daughter. His only worry is that he assumes he wouldn't be able to be a good father to the girl which his why he'd hired her a nanny way before she was born. He buys her stuff so much so that he overspends on her but the money didn't matter and in a way, he was using the paper to buy the child's loves oblivious of the fact that all the child ever wants is the presence of her parents in her life.
"You make it sound like I'm one arm candy" Khloé crossed her arms beneath her bosom.
"Aren't you?" He carefully looked into her eyes, searching for answers from those pretty little deceiving eyeballs that tell more lies than her mouth.
She dismissed the question with a scoff.
"You will regret all the time you wasted not treating me right Brian. I hope by then it's not too late for you" She picked up the card, walked over to his side of the mahogany desk and places a brief kiss on his cheeks.
Brian exhaled deeply after her exit. Khloé annoys him in ways he never thought he'd be affected. The only reason why he can't cut her off completely is because of the obvious unless she does something that makes her unfit to be a mother just like what she'd done the last time.
Brian buried himself back to work. That's all he's ever done since a lawyer walked up to him years back with an inheritance be never knew he had from his deceased grandfather. He'd never heard of the man but was thankful that the money came in in the direst moment. He knew Jayda would likely know a thing or two about it but he couldn't bear to look for a woman he purposely tried to forget. Thinking about her seemed like an abomination and betrayal to himself. He'd vowed never to do anything with the woman that rejected his love. Although it happened in his teenage years, a period led by different hormones, he somehow managed to tale that anger into his adult life. The reason, he would never ask himself because deep down he felt maybe just maybe he didn't really like that. Chapter 8
"Where's the new commercial clip?" Brian said while flipping through the pages of the folder in his hand.
"We are yet to shortlist the candidates.." The fidgeting thirty-something years old creative director managed to say even amid stammer.
People working under Brian always find talking to him intimidating and somewhat scary. It's hard to share the same space with his arrogant and rude attitude.
"You're fired," He said without flinching.
"Sir?" She questioned in disbelief.
"Are you deaf? I said you're fired! I can't have incompetent people working in my company" he didn't look at the poor lady, not even as little as a wink.
Just as soon as she walked out of his office, Khloé walks in majestically while strutting her curves in the perfect motion.
"Hey baby" she greeted before taking her seat.
"What do you want?" He asked rudely. Typical Brian Chase.
"You have no idea what today is do you?" She looked a bit more dumbfounded than surprised.
Brian does not reply.
"It's my birthday Brian, I can't believe you forgot the mother of your child's birthday" she raised her arms in the air in disbelief.
Khloé knew the kind of road she was about to embark on with Brian since the day she decided to keep his baby. She'd thought that maybe the child they share will somehow draw him close to her but the opposite happened.
The only significant date Brian knows is Isabelle's birthday and nothing more.
"Take the master card and have fun" Brian tossed his ATM card over to her on the table.
She hesitated a bit mostly because she didn't want to totally give off the materialistic woman kind of vibe. In the end, Brian knows it's all for show. Women are all the same. Money hungry species. He sometimes wondered if Khloé would have gotten pregnant if he was broke or if she would have even allowed him to sleep with her on the first night.
He'd met the supermodel in a commercial shoot for ChaseApp. He'd wanted to check in on the shoot when the hot legs of Khloé attracted him on the spot. He likes them tall, skinny and classy. Khloé had all but lacked in some ways that are not physically attributed.
"It's not about the money baby," she said in disappointment.
"It's all you've ever wanted" He didn't look at her one bit.
"I want you too. Your love, affection and everything affiliated to your heart" She reached for his arms and he pulled away from her grasp.
"What do you need me to do to have all of you?" She asked
"I have told you times without number that you and I will never go beyond co-parenting Isabelle. No more" He said, coldly.
She looked at him for a moment before breaking the stare. She'd thought s*x is the only thing that can work to keep a man of Brian's calibre afterall he made advances towards her in the beginning but later on when she noticed he was starting to withdraw from her, she went on to remove the rod implants from her arm and lied when she eventually got pregnant that the contraceptive expired the night before they had s*x. He'd told her to abort it but she lied saying that her gynaecologist warned her from doing so because it would be life-threatening for both her and the babies she will have in the future. She managed to pin the baby on him and it worked. He did get close to her during her pregnancy period. He cared and catered for her like a princess. Bought her so many expensive stuff but it all ended the moment Isabelle was born. He still gives her allowances and all other material things she may desire but not intimacy. He wouldn't risk getting close to her and having another baby.
"As you know, Isabelle is going to be with the nanny after school, you can pick her up from my place and take her on a treat."
Loving his daughter is an understatement. Brian adored and more than loves his daughter. His only worry is that he assumes he wouldn't be able to be a good father to the girl which his why he'd hired her a nanny way before she was born. He buys her stuff so much so that he overspends on her but the money didn't matter and in a way, he was using the paper to buy the child's loves oblivious of the fact that all the child ever wants is the presence of her parents in her life.
"You make it sound like I'm one arm candy" Khloé crossed her arms beneath her bosom.
"Aren't you?" He carefully looked into her eyes, searching for answers from those pretty little deceiving eyeballs that tell more lies than her mouth.
She dismissed the question with a scoff.
"You will regret all the time you wasted not treating me right Brian. I hope by then it's not too late for you" She picked up the card, walked over to his side of the mahogany desk and places a brief kiss on his cheeks.
Brian exhaled deeply after her exit. Khloé annoys him in ways he never thought he'd be affected. The only reason why he can't cut her off completely is because of the obvious unless she does something that makes her unfit to be a mother just like what she'd done the last time.
Brian buried himself back to work. That's all he's ever done since a lawyer walked up to him years back with an inheritance he never knew he had from his deceased grandfather. He'd never heard of the man but was thankful that the money came in in the direst moment. He knew Jayda would likely know a thing or two about it but he couldn't bear to look for a woman he purposely tried to forget. Thinking about her seemed like an abomination and betrayal to himself. He'd vowed never to do anything with the woman that rejected his love. Although it happened in his teenage years, a period led by different hormones, he somehow managed to tale that anger into his adult life. The reason, he would never ask himself because deep down he felt maybe just maybe he didn't really like that.
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