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Capítulo 18: Chapter 18

MAVERICK'S P.O.V

"Hey dad," I said as I picked up the call.

"How are you?" He asked. His voice sounded serious and cold.

"I'm fine, it's just……–" I tried to say something, to speak my mind to him but then, I stopped halfway. I was about to say the blandest thing to my father. I know that because as long as that marriage was concerned, anything I said was bland.

"Dad, why the contract though?" I asked irrespectively. But he was quiet. What was I expecting him to say to me anyway? As if he would speak about all his dealings to me.

I remember the last time mom caught him saying something to me, she flared up and kept going on and on about the whole stuff. It wasn't that deep and it's never that deep, though that's what he says but to mum, it was always a big deal and always will be. I guess that was the reason they got a divorce.

"Why are you asking me that?" He asked. I could hear his heavy breaths.

"I don't know, I mean, I deserve to know too, I'm marrying the girl," I said hoping that made a difference but no it didn't.

"You know that I ain't gon' tell you no shit right?" He asked.

"Yeah, right. So I'll just go ahead and marry the girl blindly. This doesn't feel right dad, I just……I just want to know" I found myself saying

"When the time is right, you gon' find out, I promise," he said, his words sounding assuring. "Where are you at though?"

"I'm just driving home"

"Okay. How are you coping?" He asked

"I don't know dad, I'm tired, I just know I want all these to be over with already". I wish I could cry. At that point, it would have felt just so good to cry.

"You gon' be fine son. She's a good girl, plus with you, that way she's safer"

Wait, safer? What did he mean by that? Was she being ill-treated? Was that home of hers a bizarre one for her? I gauged the odds of my questions being right or wrong from the way her mom spoke to me to the way her father spoke less, and the way she appeared cold speaking less. The way my parents spoke about the girl was as if convincing me to follow their lead without a question which I was doing now. Are they all hiding something?

"What do you mean by safer?" I asked my father but instead, he waved off the question. I will have to find out eventually. If it was something she needed help with, I'd help her.

"How's your mom?" He asked calmly

"She's fine. She's mostly alone at the house, especially when I'm working or at my penthouse. You should visit her sometime, you know she misses you" I said.

I know mom missed him so much because of the way she wants this wedding thing to go faster. Lately, she listened to Celine Dion often. When I was younger, she normally listens to Celine Dion with my dad by her side. They always danced to the music, and every time, they beckoned on me to join them. It was beautiful always watching them dance and smile. And each time, I dreamed of getting married to someone I love just like my father loved my mom. When I thought it happened, I ended up being wrong about it.

*****

Then one day I came home from school, I guess I was in my last year as a senior in high school. Mom was yelling and crying, dad was just sitting there and doing nothing. Then she asked him to leave after so much yelling, I just cried. I couldn't stop her, my dad didn't object nor did he speak back to her.

That day he left, he said he loved me and asked if I knew. Hell yeah! I knew that and I loved him too. He said I shouldn't blame my mom and her actions and that I should take care of her, but then he left.

Then, he came to my graduation. He said the reason he left was to protect me and my mom. Even she looked happy and sad at the same time to see him. At some point, I thought they'll get back together but with mum speaking of dad's dealings as dirty, years passed and they didn't get back together instead they got a proper divorce like in paper with a lawyer and all that.

"Yeah, I know. But I can't go see her Mav. Each time I did, trouble followed me behind. Don't worry about it. She gon' be fine" he said and continued "I miss her too "

"Sorry dad" was all I could say. I didn't know what else to say to him. I knew how he felt, I missed Ruth sometimes too and sometimes I regretted loving her that much.

"We'll talk later, son. I've got work to do," he said before hanging up the call.

*****

I grudgingly hopped out of the car that was parked in my driveway and started towards my door. I got into the private elevator and clicked the fourth floor where my apartment was located.

I walked in after unlocking the door. Then, I undid the first two buttons of my shirt and waddled my way to the kitchen. I took out the packaged noodles that I bought last night and microwaved them. After some seconds, I took it out and walked over to the grey diamond sofa and sank in it, and began to dig into the food. I was a bit hungry, especially after having ice cream. That happened to me a lot.

I planned to call Maya and talk a little bit about work, but on second thought, I decided to forget it and just rest a bit. Then my phone began to ring -talking about the devil, Maya was calling.

"Good day sir," she said very formally.

"Any emergency?" I asked her.

"Not exactly sir. There are some documents you need to sign for the African project" she said. I'd picked Kenya to situate my company in Africa. I wanted my company in Africa. I would have loved South Africa but my partner said Kenya was best.

"Okay, I don't know if I'm coming over to the office, but just keep the documents on my table," I told Maya.

"Okay sir" she responded

"How fast do I need to sign those?" I asked her.

"Not specified sir, but the earlier the better," Maya said, she was like my adviser too.

"Okay, no problem, just drop as I said"

"Okay, sir," she said before I hung up the phone and continued attacking the noodles. This was one of those days when Jane went on holiday leaving me with no choice but to buy packaged food or run home to my mom. I hated it mostly.


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