Pearls of Love (Episode 20)

I put off the bed light, and slipped under the blanket, closed my eyes but didn’t sleep. She sat the way she was for about five minutes, then slipped under the blanket and faced the wall. I was melancholic that night; I think melancholy is the worse temperament to be in a relationship.

By the time we woke up in the morning, we had gotten over the matter, but I wasn’t rid with Rita, in fact I replied her mail, and told her things could be better off if we did whatever business proposals she has from distance. I didn’t want to get close to her, somehow I had very strong feelings that things may go wrong.

The year was moving fast and soon we will be visited by the company external auditors, it is usually another busy period for my unit as we have to ensure that all accounts are tidied and balanced before their arrival.

It is also a time the company was generally preparing for the year-end Board and Executive meeting.

That night Ann treated us to peppered turkey and fried rice, I haven’t had turkey in a while, I started perceiving the taste right from the gate.

Peter and Pat came all the way to meet me at the gate while driving in, guess they had missed me, I missed them too, and I was no longer having time for them the way I used too. They were fast growing into young people. They remind me a lot of my growing up, though quite different from theirs, they have almost everything they needed, that wasn’t the same as my own case, growing up.

I had lots of issues with my own parents and folks, especially during my teenage years, I think up till becoming adult and leaving them. Very wonderful people, though I use to dislike my parents for their rigid up bring, but somehow I think it eventually paid off. Most of what I learned in life were gotten during my time of fight with them, when I had lock myself up in my room and stay without talking nor seeing anyone for up to a week.

Well, sometimes I fear for the kids, hopefully they won’t be as stubborn as I was. Well, I doubt if I would have been that stubborn if my parents where different about their attitude towards life in general.

Ann met us at the lobby and she planted a kiss on my lips, while I gave her a slight hug.

“What’s big baby cooking?” I asked.

She was looking very beautiful radiant and smart. She had on a white body-hug blouse on blue straight jeans, folded to the knee.

“Something you are going to like’. She replied

“So, what are we marking?” I asked.

“Marking you, the kids and me’, she replied.

“So thoughtful of you’. I smiled

Women! Sometimes, I wonder. They can really change. They are like weather; don’t expect a woman to have a particular kind of attitude for a long time. Today, Ann is in such a good and marvelous mood to leave her work so early even when we aren’t marking anything.

We later played some games after a meal of roasted turkey, chips and plantain. I tried putting off my worries. With these wonderful people around me, there was nothing on earth to bother about. Worries could wait for other time.

In the weeks to come, it was all work. I sometimes don’t see the kids for a whole day. I got out very early and came back late in the night.

My target to leave the company was getting close. I had set a target for myself while joining the company to leave after some years. I planned to start my own business and the time was close by. This is part of the reason why Rita’s mail interested me; it was like working in line with my plans.

Sometime in late July that year, without announcing her plan to come, Rita suddenly showed up. I was in the office when the PA called the intercom that someone Rita was around. I think I was excited, and confused, both at the same time. I wondered what she would look like. It had been a very long long time and so I was curious at what she would look like.

To tell you the truth I think she looked more beautiful now, than several years back, seems women are no longer aging. For her age, she still had a very fantastic shape and size. I got up from the seat as she walked in.

I am not used to hugging and embracing people, except I think Ann, we did that all the time, and so I always felt awkward when I get embraced by a woman, especially a beautiful woman with large and firm breasts. I felt a touch of her firm breasts on my chest, the fabric of her shirt was light and slickly.

“Long time”, she said.

“Please sit down”. I showed her to a couch and sat on the next, resting my tired arms on the armrest. She sat with her back on the backrest and her legs crossed, one on another.

“How has life been with you?’ I asked

“Not bad’, she replied ‘and you?’

I didn’t answer before she answered for herself.

She talked about my books she read and some things she read about me and my books on Echoes and some other magazines.

Honestly most people wonder I was able to cope with my highly demanding job, writing and family.

“ Dan I need some help’, she replied

“What do you want?’ I asked

“I ran into an old friend, then I saw the blueprint of a publishing outfit, which is to commence next year”

Sometimes nothing is kept secret. I thought no one was going to know about my business until I brought it to public, who else knows that I don’t. I wondered.

“Ok” I nodded.

From my findings, the company is registered in your name, and I thought it would easier to discuss my proposal with you than my friend who is your consultant.

“Ok” I replied quietly, wondering where she was going to.

She wanted to propose a monthly fashion magazine, digital website and video site for her fashion outfit and wanted me to do it.

I thought that was a major breakthrough for a company that has not even commenced. I didn’t see anything wrong with her proposal; all she needed to do was put in writing and had life to it. I didn’t see any trick in it at all.

Apart from the fashion magazine, the business will be more of an online fashion business, where clients could request for any fabric, design, size or color of any kind of clothing they want made, without visiting the fashion office, and get their cloth sown, and delivered within an agreed period of time.

As far as I could think at that time, it was a big one, great idea and very meaningful, I think the first of its kind at the time. I only hope she was ready for online campaigns and advertisements.

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Pearls of Love (Episode 20)

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