Love Hate Relationship Series

Book2 Chapter19-02 Michael came back from a conference meeting, he saw a big bunch of white roses lying on his desk, an inaudible sigh escaped through his lips, it's been a long time he witnessed such sight, he wheeled himself to his desk and he caressed the petal of one white rose, as he touched it, he had a flashback to the day he had received his second heartbreak from her. She had just broken up with Sean, his people called him and told him. Michael had been so happy because this means he had a chance of being with her. He had start sending his roses along with his letters, every week, he will mail seven letters from school to Fish, who he had left in Los Angeles to watch her and everyday Fish will place ninety nine white roses with one of his letters at her doorstep. He will wait till morning when she will pick the roses and take a picture of her to send to Michael. Everyday seeing how beautiful she looked in each pictures while holding his flowers Michael couldn't wait to get home and reveal himself to her and get together with her. Finally he finished his exams and couldn't spend just one more day in school, he called to be picked up and it happens that his father had traveled with the family private jet and will be returning that day which means he can only be picked up the next day. He had refused and rushed to the airport and took an economy flight. His parents were against that but he switched off his phone before he even get in the plane, he has only one thing in mind, to reveal himself to Sasha as her secret admirer and then get to kiss her for the first time. Thinking about kissing her, his heart flustered and he felt butterflies in his stomach. He finally endured his long hour flight and set foot on the soils of Los Angeles. Gary had came with him and so called Fish to pick them up. Michael had told them to stop at a flower shop where he picked out freshly plucked ninety nine white roses before they continue on their journey to Sasha's home. They had parked a few meters to her house and Michael had climbed down alone to walk the rest. He had walked fast almost ran to her house, the joy evident in his face and as he ran he kept screaming 'Sasha, my Sasha' in his heart, he was twenty one then and very much in love with his first love. Sasha just joined college and was nineteen, she had recently broken up with her first boyfriend and had start receiving ninety nine white roses every morning with a sweet note beside it, it got to a point that it became a habit for her, every morning she will wake up and the first thing she will do will be to check her doorstep and fair enough, it was always there. She kept having this feeling that it was the same person in high school who always leaves nine white roses in her locker with a handwritten note, she do want to know the person and had believed him to be her first boyfriend. She only got to know it wasn't him when she asked him and he said he was not, now they have broken up and she started receiving roses again. Jeff was her classmate in high school and had always had a crush on her, now they met in the same school, who else will it be if not him? She thought as she stared at the young man standing in front of her door. Michael ran to her house, his heart shouting in happiness, a few steps to her house, he saw her, standing there, kissing someone else. One look and he recognized the guy, he was Jeff, her classmate in high school. Michael stood watching them, she was holding one of his notes as she kissed Jeff. His heart shattered in pieces, broken, he stared for what seemed like forever until they both went inside her house. He turned and walked away, each step he took felt like he was drifting father away from her but she doesn't want him, she has chosen someone else over him again. Gary and Fish got down from the car when they saw him approaching, he looked so broken unlike the happy child that ran out of the car. Gary was shocked, he has never seen him so lost, although he was never conversing but he always have his air of nobility around him and his cold nature but now, he looked like a lost puppy who has nowhere to go, he quickly went to him "young boss..." "Boss" Fish called. Michael looked so dejected and he didn't look at them rather, he walked passed them and the car, his mind kept playing the scene of seeing her kissing Jeff, they looked so happy and so in love. He suddenly had the feeling that he don't belong with her, but his heart crumbled at that thought, he stared at the flowers he was carrying like a child and his heart broke more, he had personally picked each of them with all the love in his heart and now, he didn't even get to give them to her, he didn't get to see that smile on her face, he didn't get to see the shock in her eyes when she learns that he was her secret admirer. Book2 Chapter20 Michael walked lonely in the quiet street, it was night time and he refused to go home, Gary and Fish kept following him silently and he stopped and turned to look at them "leave me alone." "But young boss" Gary tried to protest and Michael glared at him. "Leave me alone!" He shouted and ran away. Fish wanted to follow him but Gary stopped him with a shake of his head. Michael continued running, it seemed as if with the breeze brushing on his face, it was also brushing against his heart and he was afraid should he stop, all his pains will return in thousand folds, and so he kept running, running, trying to clear his mind from the scene he just witnessed. Around midnight, a heavy downpour started, he stood in the middle of the street and let the rain wash down on him as if cleansing him from his heartbreak. He found himself in a park, an abandoned park with litters laying every where, he walked to a bench and sat down, the rain still falling on him. The flowers have lost their beauty, they looked rough and crumpled, he watched as some petals fell off with a wave of his hand. He had his first heartbreak at eighteen and now he was receiving his second at twenty one and yet, he hasn't learnt his lesson, it still hurt like the first time. A slender and graceful woman looked relieved when she saw him looking like a lost child, she sighed and walked closer to him with her umbrella, she sat beside him and covered him with her umbrella. Michael looked at the beautiful face of his mother, he tried to look strong in her presence but he just couldn't and so he hugged her and sobbed. Vanessa stroked his back and comforted him "there, there my dear, it's alright." Michael sobbed in his mom arms until he felt a little relieved before they got up and strolled to Vanessa's white limo. Gary had called her and she had rushed out of the house to find him, they had followed his trail until she found him. When they got home, she had his nanny fix a hot bath for him and after the bath, Michael forced himself to sleep not that he did till after the next three hours. The next day, he went back to school and he called back all his people, telling them to stop following her, that's he doesn't want to know or hear anything about her again. After one week, he started missing her but anytime he remembered how he saw her kissing Jeff while holding his note, he felt broken and decided to forget all about her. But that one night, Fish called him and told him something was about to happen to her, at first he was angry that Fish was still following her until he heard that she was coming back from a friend's house and some boys were trailing after her. He immediately ordered Fish to take care of them and not let her know. That was how his people started following her again and that was because he was afraid that any day he will tell his men to withdraw, something will happen to her. Coming back to present, Michael sighed as his slender and long fingers caressed the petal of the rose, perhaps Sasha might never know how he saved her that night, he thought. His office door opened and Gary walked in "here, have Fish place this for her" Michael said attaching the note to the flowers. Gary carried the flowers and walked out of the office while Michael stared after him with a touch of sorrow beneath his eyes, he looked away just as the tear dropped from his eyes. Sasha was in her parents home and as usual, Angelica was asking her about her husband "mom, please." "Don't tell me please young lady. What is going on? You came here on Christmas day as well as new year but without your husband. Even if Michael don't like having dinner with us that doesn't mean he won't wish us a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, don't you think so dear?" Angelica asked her husband. Nicholas sighed "your mother is right Sasha, we are your parents, you can tell us if something is wrong. Are you and Michael in bad terms?" Sasha heaved a deep sigh when she had that question and knew she can't keep hiding it from her family, it's been one month already "yes. Michael and I are separated." "What!" Both parents shouted "why, when, what happened?" Angelica asked. "Why, things are not okay for us. When, a month ago and what happened?" Sasha paused "I guess that and why have the same answer" she shrugged. "I don't get you, what do you mean things are not okay for you?" Angelica asked. "Mom, Michael and I..." Sasha shrugged "we are not compatible, I guess" she paused "ever since we have been married, we have never had any couple moment. If you ask me if there is anything I know about my husband, the answer is no because I know nothing, not his favorite color, not his favorite food not his hobby, absolutely nothing" she bit her lower lip and closed her eyes "that is not marriage. We are complete strangers to each other, he don't know me, I don't know him but we live in the same house. Not once have I shared a meal with him apart from the days we come here for dinner or we go over to his parents'. Never for once in our own home" she gazed at her parents. "Michael don't want me and I'm tired of forcing myself to make this marriage work." "So what are you thinking?" Nicolas asked. "I'm considering divorce. I can't tie myself down in a loveless marriage." "What? Do you know what you are saying? You can't divorce Michael now!" Nicholas shouted and Angelica and Sasha looked at him. "What do you mean?" They both asked. Nicholas let out a deep breath "the Jack and Jones contract is in June, you can't afford to miss it and absolutely no one else can give that to you." "I don't get you dad. I just told you that my husband does not love me and you are worried about some contract?" "I'm surprise too Nicholas" Angelica frowned "you should worry about your daughter's happiness first." "My darlings" Nicholas called to them "you need to see my point. I'm not saying Sasha shouldn't divorce Michael, I mean he deserves that if he is hurting my daughter but not now. You guys are separated right? Which means you are no more living together. I'm saying you can hold on like this till after you get a hold on that contract and..." "Dad, dad hold on, what guarantee do you have that Michael will give me the contract? Dad I have been living with him for a year but not once have he talked about giving me the contract and to hell with the contract dad, I'm talking about my marriage here, you are suppose to help me figure out how to save it if I can and not worrying about some stupid contract" Sasha interrupted. "It's not a stupid contract" Nicholas argued. "It is a stupid contract. I can't believe you Nicholas" Angelica frowned "our daughter just revealed to us that in her one year of marriage she had never been happy and here you are concerned about some contract. What about your daughter's happiness? What about her marriage? Tell me Nicholas, is that contract the reason you agreed Sasha to marry him?"