The substitute Bride

Chapter 4

"How could you do this to me? This isn't what I bargained for," I said as I yelled at her.

"Will you calm down your nerves and make use of this beautiful opportunity! You were also rejected. Have you forgotten? If a client takes interest in you, then so be it," she said, also yelling at me.

"Do you hear yourself talk?" I don't care if she is my boss now. "What beautiful opportunity is this? I am being threatened to agree to this arrangement and all you can see is what an opportunity it is? Put yourself in my position, and I say this to you. How will you feel?" I asked her.

"Excited that there is someone to open my eyes and ears to a beautiful opportunity!" She said and I knew there was going to be a useful conversation between us.

"Then I quit! I should have done this a long time ago," I yelled as I slammed my letter of resignation on the table.

"Well, I didn't get any letter of resignation or see one," she said with a smirk before tearing the letter to pieces.

"Mary!!!" I screamed furiously.

"Yeah, that's my name! If you quit, just be ready to pay the unannounced fee for quitting," she said before taking her seat. "You can get out of my office," she added before turning to her laptop.

"Argh!" I was fuming with anger and stomped out of her office.

"Leia?" She called when I got to the door. I turned slowly to look at her, "apologized to the customers outside for their rude behavior. Have a day!" She said.

"What!" I said in disbelief.

"Bye! Now, get out!" She added.

Oh my goodness! What have I gotten myself into? Since I turned down the request of Mrs Brownseed, I haven't known peace. Is it compulsory I become the substitute bride for her son? I was pissed and had a terrible headache.

I was about to turn into my small office when I sighted Mrs Brownseed and her guards.

"Oh no!" I muttered as I quickly ran to my office and grabbed my bag. With my thoughts that she might be on her way to Mary's office. I started walking back to the lobby to get on the elevator but Mrs Brownseed was on her way to my office. I took the direction my head could only come up with, I passed my office and ran into the male's toilet. I was already in a stall when I realized where I was.

I felt like cursing myself and Mrs Brownseed. What was so special about me was that she wouldn't leave me alone. Someone entered the bathroom when my phone started ringing.

"Is someone there?" He asked. What is your business if someone is there or not? Aren't you supposed to mind what you came to the bathroom to do? l locked the stall I was in and put my phone on silent mode before climbing to the top of the toilet seat, just in case the i***t outside peeped from under.

"Man! You need to get your stomach system checked because this is a federal offence that could land you in jail?" I yelled in a hoarse voice when I couldn't get the smell again.

"Where are you?" A message appeared on my phone from my co-workers. "There is something looking for you and she is causing a nuisance concerning it," she added.

"Just inform me if she is looking for me and where?" I told Faith.

"She already is and is on her way to the storage room with the boys she brought," Faith informed me.

"Just keep me posted," I told her.

"Of course!" She said.

Won't Mary come over for me? Or what has come over her? When did she become so all about business and money at the expense of someone's happiness and comfort? This is sickening!

"She's on her way to the bathroom!" Faith informed me.

"What?"

"Yeah, both male and female and I am deleting these messages after this. Just be safe," she said to me. It's over. I had been doing well for the past one hour, even when the owners of the bathroom came and went, I had managed well, even though I was wearing white and hated to be where I was even dirty.

I looked around and my only option was going through the vent. This wasn't my first time so I had no issues. I had barely got through it when I heard her voice at the door. Crazy b***h!

I was a different mess when I came out of the vent, my white wasn't white anymore. I managed to find my way home, to a surprise.

"Ma'am, we have gotten there," the driver informed him again. I crawled up to look again to confirm what I had just seen.

"Please, just take me to block five, avenue way, Taylor suite. I will pay you, you don't have to worry," I said to him from between the chairs where I hid.

On getting to Bridgette's place, I saw her being wheeled away into a big van. I was lost for words as this was breaking my heart.

My phone vibrated in my bag as I sat still in the cab.

"Yeah! Who is this?" I said into the phone.

"I know where you are but I won't come to you because I want you to willingly come to me and do my bidding," I needed no one to tell me she was the one on the phone.

"Willingly? You have taken everything from me and yet you talk about it willingly? Why don't you kidnap me and marry me to your son?" I yelled into the phone as I was on the verge of breaking down.

"Well, I can't kidnap my daughter-in-law! You have twenty-four hours to get here and sign this agreement because

e this is just an iceberg," she said with a kissing sound.

I broke down!