The Contract Marriage

"The sooner you bring home a bride the better for you"…"or maybe I should just hand the company over to Mr.Jones, at least he has a family" Mr. Grendors secretary's eyes widened in amazement and disbelief "Oh my God, I promise never to disappoint you sir. I promise to care for the company with everything I've got" "We're at it again grandpa, you both know you can't fool me right?"... "This is only a ploy to pull my legs and this pattern is getting old already, try something new" Reidon Grendor said with a wave of his hand and a chuckle. "Goodnight grandpa, love you. You too Mr Jones, maybe you should teach him another strategy". Reidon said while leaving his grandfather's office situated at the last floor of the office. Mr. Grendor shook his head, disappointed that he couldn't get to his grandson "our acting didn't work today Jones" Me Jones couldn't hide his smile and he nodded. " this boy wants me gone before I see him have children"..."I'm sure there's something we can do sir" Mr.Jones even doubted his own words. "With what the tabloids are saying, I doubt he can even land himself a serious girl, I mean who wants to associate themselves with a player or how is even written on the blogs?.." signalling Mr.Jones to read from the what the net says "Famous billionaire player and rogue seen leaving the club'… 'Ravishing Reidon Grendor, city's most famous player swears to single hood for life" Mr. Jones had to raise his brow at the 'ravising' must have been written by a crush. "Do I continue sir?... there's more" "Another one of that and I just might have a heart attack" Mr. Jones quickly gave him a cup of water while putting away the tablet phone. "The sooner he takes my words serious the better for him cause I intend to do just as I have said" Mr Grendor said with a deep sigh while tapping Mr.Jones on his arm "whatever you do, be sure to have more than one child" Mr.Jones smiled "noted sir..it's getting late, you should go home and rest" "Mom?" "Where are you" "Come home, I want to see you now" "I have an appointment mom…I'll come to you tomorrow" "An appointment by 8pm…don't make me wait young man, MY HOME, NOW!!" Reid rolled his eyes over the phone like his mother can see him. He knew whenever his mom calls him that he can't decline, whatever shes calling him over forhas to be serious"fine". "To what do I owe this invite mom" Reid asked while handing his coat at the entrance "A mother can't see her son" "Mom??" "What?..we stay in the same town but I barely see you" "You saw me yesterday mom" "That's because I came over to the office to see your grandfather and that was like the first in a whole month." "Is that what adulthood is to you" "I'm here now mom, you know how draining work can be" grabbing an apple from the fridge, he flung himself into the couch "I'm famished" "If I didn't invite you over and at gun point still, you won't remember how famished you were" " Well if you must know, my appointment had it all stationed out, the food, the drink and…well " "Keep the details to yourself" Mrs Grace sat ever so gracefully across him, crossing her legs with a tablet in her hands. "Have you seen the blogs". Urrrrghh James could already tell his grandfather has gotten to his mom. Knowing this was his mom's favorite pursuit he can only wish the sofa would swallow him up because he's sure going to have an earful. This is exactly one of the reasons he has been avoiding long conversations with his mom. There was no way she would hold long conversations with him and not bring up marriage and then grandchildren, after going on about how lonely she has been since his father's death Reidon thought to himself. "No I haven't. What do the blogs say this time" "This time?...means you saw the last one" "Grandpa already read the last one to me. Is there something new?" "If you already had a conversation with your grandfather, then I'm sure your fully aware of the decision his about to take" "Yeah the obvious joke"... "He'll definitely to accord all my work, sweat and energy I have put into the growth of that company to his secretary" "You know your grandfather better than I do and you know when he says something, he keeps to his words" and he sure does. "Yeah but definitely not this one" "You think?" Mrs Grace asked with a rather uncertain tone "Yeah, he'll never do that" Reidon's response held a bit of fear and uncertainty, he knew what he's grandfather was actually capable of but he had felt all of that was a joke, hearing it from his mom now, made his ground a bit shaky 'surely he won't do that to me would he?..he won't accord my swear to his faithful secretary, would he' James no one but himself. "I'll advise you to introduce your girlfriend to him. You know the one you said u met when you went to study abroad" "We broke up long ago mom" "We'll fix it, marry her,give me grand kids, make ur grandfather and I happy and keep the company to yourself. Everybody wins" "It's not that easy mom" "I'm sure you can figure it out. He's giving you two months to do that" Reid's expression had 'what' written all over it. "You're kidding right" "Do I look like I am?" "Surely two months is enough time to have your fiancee introduced to us" "Fiancee.." he couldn't help but laugh out loud in much annoyance than confusion, 'has to be a joke, how in heaven's name I'm I supposed to get a fiancee in just two months'.