Man of his word

Time's up

Everything seems to have fallen in place and Emma has been too busy to notice 2 years are almost up. David has ensured he has stayed off her radar the whole time in the office which has been a mean fete because there were enough close shaves especially at the parking lot.

EMMA POV

In 2 months time it will be my 2nd year anniversary at Bullion, who knew I would last that long doing close to nothing. Occasionally I get files that require my approval or insights but apart from that I do not do much. Sometimes I feel like am treated like a board member than an employee, to date, no one ever calls me by name but prefer to call me "madam" that makes me feel so old. 

With all the free time I decided to pursue a 1 year Executive MBA course, since now I can comfortably afford it, and even graduated. I am currently taking self defense classes on the behest of my invisible boss, apparently he said he does not want a weak link working in his organization. So for the last 16 months I have been training for 3 hours every Friday with a man called Jones who seems not to have a funny bone in his body, he is always so serious.

We are currently mid training and Jones keeps sweeping me off my feet and sneering at me for lacking concentration. I always have a feeling his holding back his anger for some reason, so to push his buttons I occasionally make deliberate mistakes to see him cringe and try not to yell at me hehehehe. We are finally done and we do the stretches and I hit the showers. I am feeling exceptionally chirpy today because Mary will be home when I arrive and we have decided to have a night out. Poor Alex, he will have to play bodyguard for both of us when we get hammered since he always insists to tag along and then spends the whole night chasing away all the hormonal men trying to hit on us.

I finally get home and I can tell from the noise coming from Mary's room that she is already home. I wait for her to come out of her bathroom and give her a fright to a point she drops her towel. Am laughing so hard I missed the bed and fell on the ground. She is now standing nude in front of me mad and yells at me to leave, I leave chuckling to myself. Do not worry, its not the first time I have seen Mary nude, I see her nude every time she gets drunk because I have to undress her,  bath her, dry her and dress her for bed.

I get to my room to change into my night outfit, am feeling a bit feisty today and so I settle for a red bodycon dress and strappy high heels, I dub on some minimal makeup pull my hair back in a ponytail and wear teardrop earrings. I get out of my room still holding my shoes and find Mary already seated in the sitting room and seems we both have the same idea on a dress, she also has on a red bodycon only that hers has a slide on the side nearing her crotch area and she has worn a black gutter. 

We decide to go out for dinner first because its too early to hit the club and I need to have something solid in my tummy for what I have planned for tonight.

"I have decided to lose my V card tonight" I suddenly blurt out as I sip my wine waiting for Mary's reaction. I can tell she is taking time to process what I just said and then she asks "why now, what is the rush?"

I roll my eyes, "Clearly someone has forgotten about my David situation, I need to take precautionary measures"

She spits out her wine and wipes her mouth, "look I honestly do not think that is a wise idea"

"I honestly do not care, now that I confirmed he interferes with my love life and I will give away the one thing I know he wants."

"Emma I beg you do not do that, its going to cause problems" replies Mary looking pale.

"Yap I know and then he will get disgusted and leave me alone" I say triumphantly as I put a piece a chicken in my mouth.

"Why do you want an innocent man to die because you are running away from your promise?"

"Collateral damage and I do not think he will kill him, I have a contingency plan" I can see Mary looking frustrated, whilst rubbing her temples she asks, "Am scared to ask but what is your contingency plan?"

"I thought you would never ask" I excitedly reach into my clutch purse and remove a letter, Mary takes it and reads it, "Wow you have thought of everything hah?"

"Yes I have, with this David will not blame the man for sleeping me" I answer confidently but Mary still is not convinced.

"Why don't you just give him a chance?" she pleads

"Easy for you to say, since you are not the one receiving messages from numbers you don't know telling you stop doing this, don't go there, blah blah blah it is like the guy is right at my shoulder watching every move I make."

Mary starts laughing "it just means he cares"

"Care is when you make someone feel safe, do you know how many times I have changed my phone number.....8 times...and every time I change my line he sends a message immediately I activate the line, to a point I now just block all the numbers as I get them."

Mary is now laughing so hard she is slapping the table and patrons at neighboring tables are looking at us with annoyance.

"Seriously Mary, this is not funny," I glare at her, "just laugh at my pain but tonight I am solving that problem."

We are soon done with dinner and call Alex to pick us up, that is another thing I have been some how been banned from cabs and only allowed to take my car. Its already 11pm and am already slightly tipsy, I head to the bar and order a cocktail, Mary follows me closely. Once we get a comfortable spot, we start drinking our cocktails.

"So what should I expect during the deed?" I ask her

"You are seriously going through with this?" Mary gasps

"What !!!!!you thought I was joking, am loosening up tonight, he is not going to be my first, so spill it what should I expect?"

"Fine" and she starts giving me details, soon am not feeling so brave about the whole situation by the time she is done explaining my eyes are so wide open due to shock. I decide I need to get drunk to be able to make it through the impending ordeal.

Soon am drunk and start flirting with the bar tender, Javier, who right now is looking like a tall glass of wine. He seems to be ignoring me and Mary tries to discourage me from hitting on him but I brush her off and continue with my onslaught. Soon Mary leaves to go to the ladies and am left all alone on the counter, due to the blinking lights and low lighting I cannot see faces clearly, after a few minutes I smell a whiff of cologne behind me that smells familiar.

"May I seat here?" asks a deep raspy voice

"Of course" I turn and continue drinking my cocktail

After ordering his drink, he still does not leave and turns to me, "why is a beautiful lady like you sitting alone?"

I sneer and reply, "because a stalker of a man wont let me be with anyone else"

"Hmm is that so?" he inquires

"Yes, every time I meet a man he somehow finds out about it sabotages it, I have not had a stable relationship for the last 2 years since I met him," I pause and try to look at him to try and make out his face from the little I see I can tell he must be handsome and decide to risk it.

"I know this is forward of me but can I ask a favor from you?" am surprised by his response

"Sure, shoot"

"Can you sleep with me tonight?"

"Why?" he inquires and I respond, "because I cannot think of anything else to make this man leave me, am sure when he hears I had s*x with another man he will not want to touch me."

He chuckles, "Are you sure he will leave you alone?" and I respond confidently, "Yes, the other option is kill myself but I have just landed an amazing job that has flexible working hours and great pay so death is out of the question."

"Ok, I accept as long as you promise not to regret this in the morning," and I respond "No I promise I wont regret it, I have been planning this for months and now its time for me to be brave and do this."

"Ok if you say so, so what time do you want to leave?" he asks as he finishes another glass of whatever he is drinking.

"Now, I want to do this before I sober up, my friend told me it will be painful so I want to be numb to the pain."

"Then we better get moving before you chicken out." I nod in agreement and he waves at the bartender and pays his bill and mine. As we are leaving the bar, we bump into Mary, she looks concerned and stops us briefly "Emma are you sure about this?" and the mysterious man asks her in an irritated tone, "why would she not be sure?" and quickly hold my arm rushes me out of the club not giving me a moment to reply to Mary.

I turn and look at him once we enter his car, "do you know her?" and he replies "no" and continues focusing on the road. Despite my drunk state, the route he is taking looks familiar and am getting warning bells but am determined to get over and done with this. After 30 minutes we arrive at a villa, at least I will not lose my virginity in some shitty cheap hotel, once we enter I request for a glass of wine because I can feel the alcohol wearing off. He directs me to a room I assume must be his and leaves me for a few minutes as he goes to get the wine. I can hear my phone buzzing in my clutch bag, I unlock my phone and I can see many messages and missed calls from Mary, I switch off my phone to ensure she does not distract me.

After a short while the man is back with my wine and I quickly gulp it down, he looks a bit concerned "You know you can back out anytime you want" and I shake my head and reach out to kiss him and he pulls me away.

"Are you sure you want your first time to be when you are drunk" he asks again. I sit back and look at my hands, 

"if you do not want to I understa......." before I can finish my sentence he grabs my face and kisses me deeply.

He stops briefly to allow me to catch my breath, "I will try my best to make it memorable even if you are drunk" and I nod my head and I can feel a tear drop and he kisses it away. Soon we are naked and in frenzy on the bed like we could swallow each other, 1hour later as I feel the pain between my legs I turn to see him looking out the window he seems to be contemplating something. I can feel the alcohol has worn out and I close my eyes and pretend am asleep, he comes to my side and kisses my face and walks out from the bedroom. I quickly jump which was a big mistake because I feel a suddenly pain between my legs and it takes me a few minutes to gather myself.

I quickly try to look around for my clothes and somehow I cannot find my bra and I seem to have lost one earring. Since I am in a hurry, I quickly place the letter on his bedside table and open the door softly to see if he is nearby lucky for me there is no one along the corridor. I manage to get to the door and lucky for me its still open, I quickly sneak out and run down the street, It seems this day was meant to be because just after walking out of the gate I see a cab driving down the road and I flag it down.

After 1 hour am finally home and of course Mary has not slept yet, once I walk in she does not speak but just walks off to her room. I do not bother to stop her and I head into my bedroom, I quickly remove my clothes and take a shower and decide to sleep nude. Thank God tomorrow is Saturday and I do not have to go to work, apart from the pain which is slowly fading away am generally fine. I smile to myself thinking of how David is going to be so pissed when he finds out and finally gives up on this wild idea that we are going to be married. Before I slip into my bed I switch on my phone put the ring tone on vibrate before plugging it in on the charge port and in less than 5 minutes I have already dozed off.

I must have been very exhausted because I can tell someone must have entered my room and opened the curtains. The sun is directly on my face and I slowly get up because I feel like I was run over by a truck and my head is throbbing from the hangover.

I check my side table and see a glass of water and some painkillers, bless you soul Mary. I quickly swallow the tables and sit on my bed for a few minutes. As I am wearing my t-shirt and track pants, I hear a message come through. This is interesting, it looks like a video clip from a number I do not know, hmph what does David want to show me now. I click on the message to download and head into the bathroom to brush my teeth and freshen up, when I get back it is ready for viewing. I first make my bed, put my clothes in my laundry basket then I sit on my bed to view the clip.

As it plays, I feel like my head is going to explode, its the clip from our college party where I was dared to propose to a random man. I pause the video to see look at the face of the man and realization hits like a tornado, suddenly everything goes black. When I wake up, I find that am still on the floor and Mary is busy trying to make me wake up.

"Oh thank God, you scared me, what made you faint?" she asks as I prop myself against my bed, am still in a daze and direct her to give me my phone. Once she gives it to me I open the video again and give her to view.

"Ooh, I thought you deleted this video?" as she continues viewing the video clip.

"That is not my phone, at the time I had android phone, this is clearly an iPhone and the last I checked only one person I know of would have been able to afford an iPhone at that time. So do you want to talk?" I glare at her as I can see she has started being uneasy.

"Promise you wont be mad"

"SAY IT ALREADY!!!"

"Sooooo as you know how you do not like to be hooked up with my cousins?" she inquires looking at me from the side of her eye and continues, "well I had planned to introduce David to Trizah since you passed him over, so we agreed to meet at the club since he was also meeting some people there. It was just a coincidence that he walked by and you kissed him and the rest is in the clip." she finishes with a lowered voice.

"So all this time he has been stalking me you knew why and never thought of reminding me what I did?

"In my defense" she retorts, "you are the one who insisted we record the moment, I tried to sto..." I interrupt her "ohh so now its my fault that I requested for the recording? so do tell when I approved you share it with your cousin?"

"Well about that, the next day I was called by his mum to give evidence that he found a wife and I shared it with his mother. He must have got it from her" she replies.

"You think!!!!! just get out of my room" I can feel tears streaming down my face, Mary tries to console me "Emma am sorry" I raise my hand and point the door, I just want her to leave so that I collect myself.

After a while I compose myself and decide to go through the messages on my phone and one message at 9am catches my attention.

"Good morning Kitten, just wish you had not left in such a rush, hope the cab I called for you got you home safely. See you at work, have a lovely weekend DW"

"MAAARRRY" I scream and she quickly runs into my room, finds me pacing up and down. "Is there anything else you might have forgotten to tell me about yesterday?" I glare at her, "SPEAK"

"Tell me who did I leave with yesterday?" I can see she is reluctant to answer, "Better still, tell me, who owns Bullion?" Sweat has started forming on her face.