Pearls of Love (Episode 22)
I went back up to the bedroom. I was beginning to drink too much, this often happened when I am going through some emotional instability. I mixed whisky. One may never find out the effects of these things in the body until maybe there is a crisis or a health problem.
Something was obviously wrong, I think may have to do with this sudden reappearance of Rita, now I was having a strong urge to see her again, it wasn’t a feeling for sex, I think I just suddenly wanted to be around her, there was something about her that is so magnetic!
Aside liking women who are very intelligent, which she was, I think she’s got some strong character too. This is a lady who had been taking care of her needs and that of her twin since she was in school. I just have this unexplained love for talented people, particularly women. I feel better challenged when around such people, they gear me up.
Now, I sat in a chair thinking, my thoughts all revolving around Rita and it wasn’t thoughts of sex, honestly it wasn’t sex.
I slept off again, I think that helped me a bit because by the time Ann, came into the room with my food and I had eaten, I was in a bit lighter mood then. Ann advised I rested well; that I was looking stressed up and needed to rest well, so I don’t collapse.
But by morning I was in a worse spirit, this time worse that I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I avoided everyone as much as I could. I ate in the room with excuse that I had to work something on the laptop. I was just nervous around everyone.
At the office, I was better; I concentrated on my work and didn’t receive any visitors until twelve when I took a break. During the break I called Ann.
“Dan, how’re you now?’ she asked.
“I am okay; I’m on break now, just calling you up. How is your work?’
“It’s okay ... it’s okay. What about you?’
“Okay too,’
“Are you picking the kids from school?” She asked
“I’ll send a driver’
“You won’t be coming early?’
“I don’t know yet, what about you?’
“I maybe a bit late’, she replied “There’s a little problem with the hospital management. They have plans to reduce the work force”.
“Why?’ I asked surprised.
“I don’t know, but I think it has to do with money’
“Does it bother you?’
“It does, we don’t know who will be affected’
“Sorry, I’m sure you won’t be’
“I pray so too’.
“We’ll talk about it when I come’.
“Okay’, she paused.
“Dan, I love you.’
The talk of love suddenly sounded heavy and absurd to my ears, it sounded like a burden. So you can imagine how difficult it would be for me to pronounce the word love to her. It didn’t sound like what I used to long to hear from her. I suddenly didn’t like it, but I had to respond.
“I’m too’, I told her, and I know she would know it is not the same with me from the way I responded. I knew it too.
After the call, I sat there wondering what is happening. I wanted to put a call through to Rita but I decided against it. I was still trying to get help from a consultant to look at the proposal properly and fish out all the loopholes in it. But the urge to speak to her was too strong.
I didn’t call.
Someone sent me a job opening, it was a bank job. The bank needed a young AGM to manage the affairs of a particular distressed department. I first wondered why they didn’t use an insider to the job. I met all the requirements and years of experience. The pay was big enough for me to give it a try.
At home that night I discussed the application with Ann and we talked about the crises at her hospital. The Management had finally announced the hospital was financially distressed and they would be downsizing more than two-third of their staff. Sometimes I wonder how management of some organizations take decisions without putting into consideration the effect it would have on the members of staff of that organization.
That night, I slept a little; I was in the study until two in the morning.
After a few more weeks, I finally decided to meet with Rita. I had finalized arrangements with the consultant I engaged for the magazine, and we scheduled a meeting with Rita.
It looked more like Rita was going to be a partner in the business; we came up with a name for the company, which would be used to register the company under trade law. We also outlined places to get additional funding from, aside just Rita and me.
In the company portfolio we developed I was the president and even without Ann’s knowledge she was the next largest shareholder of the company, while the rest belonged to Rita. It was a 80-10-10 percentage.
My aim in future is to pass over as much of my shares to Ann and the kids. No one knows how the company would turn out to be, Rita may take over if I didn’t plan it well from the onset, she was a smart woman and very intelligent too. Beside the fact that I would be running the company along with her.
I think, somehow, I saw a part of me in Rita, she was a determined and ambitious lady. There’s no limit to your success once you are determined and ambitious and serious minded. I have always noticed a strong determination to excel in her and I loved affiliating with determined people.
The company would be headed by the President who has the largest share of eighty percent while the rest would belong to Ann and Rita. No other shareholders. The money borrowed was to be paid back with interest to the owners without any other interest in the company. The running of affairs of the company would be handled by the managing director, which we have agreed should be Rita.
My personal money invested into the business was over fifty million, Rita had seven million and we took a loan of forty million from Destiny Bank, all the collateral belonged to me, including our house and other land properties.
Well, now my feeling for Rita was beginning to change from that of a brilliant woman I admired to a woman I wanted to see and be with all the time. Honestly at little thoughts about her now, I feel the urge for sex. Probably because we’ve had it before, maybe because I have been doing it with only Ann for twelve years and it had become boring or maybe I just needed to exploit the beauty I was seeing.
You know, it’s funny that I didn’t think Rita could be married! I never brought it up; I just took it for granted that she wasn’t. What is she is, would I still feel the same way? No I was sure I wouldn’t have, I have a strong hatred for men who sleep with other people’s wife, I strongly believe there’s strong punishment if you know a woman is married and you sleep with her.
One morning after several months of consultations and early stage of setting up the business, I decide it was time to get intimate with Rita, I couldn’t hold my feelings any longer, and I just wanted to be with her alone in a cozy environment. I thought of where we would go to, I don’t go to hotels, I don’t know hotels; I don’t know how people do it. But I know if I have to get out of the present predicaments, I need to have Rita in my arms.
I arranged that we met and had breakfast together.
Something was obviously wrong, I think may have to do with this sudden reappearance of Rita, now I was having a strong urge to see her again, it wasn’t a feeling for sex, I think I just suddenly wanted to be around her, there was something about her that is so magnetic!
Aside liking women who are very intelligent, which she was, I think she’s got some strong character too. This is a lady who had been taking care of her needs and that of her twin since she was in school. I just have this unexplained love for talented people, particularly women. I feel better challenged when around such people, they gear me up.
Now, I sat in a chair thinking, my thoughts all revolving around Rita and it wasn’t thoughts of sex, honestly it wasn’t sex.
I slept off again, I think that helped me a bit because by the time Ann, came into the room with my food and I had eaten, I was in a bit lighter mood then. Ann advised I rested well; that I was looking stressed up and needed to rest well, so I don’t collapse.
But by morning I was in a worse spirit, this time worse that I didn’t even want to talk to anyone. I avoided everyone as much as I could. I ate in the room with excuse that I had to work something on the laptop. I was just nervous around everyone.
At the office, I was better; I concentrated on my work and didn’t receive any visitors until twelve when I took a break. During the break I called Ann.
“Dan, how’re you now?’ she asked.
“I am okay; I’m on break now, just calling you up. How is your work?’
“It’s okay ... it’s okay. What about you?’
“Okay too,’
“Are you picking the kids from school?” She asked
“I’ll send a driver’
“You won’t be coming early?’
“I don’t know yet, what about you?’
“I maybe a bit late’, she replied “There’s a little problem with the hospital management. They have plans to reduce the work force”.
“Why?’ I asked surprised.
“I don’t know, but I think it has to do with money’
“Does it bother you?’
“It does, we don’t know who will be affected’
“Sorry, I’m sure you won’t be’
“I pray so too’.
“We’ll talk about it when I come’.
“Okay’, she paused.
“Dan, I love you.’
The talk of love suddenly sounded heavy and absurd to my ears, it sounded like a burden. So you can imagine how difficult it would be for me to pronounce the word love to her. It didn’t sound like what I used to long to hear from her. I suddenly didn’t like it, but I had to respond.
“I’m too’, I told her, and I know she would know it is not the same with me from the way I responded. I knew it too.
After the call, I sat there wondering what is happening. I wanted to put a call through to Rita but I decided against it. I was still trying to get help from a consultant to look at the proposal properly and fish out all the loopholes in it. But the urge to speak to her was too strong.
I didn’t call.
Someone sent me a job opening, it was a bank job. The bank needed a young AGM to manage the affairs of a particular distressed department. I first wondered why they didn’t use an insider to the job. I met all the requirements and years of experience. The pay was big enough for me to give it a try.
At home that night I discussed the application with Ann and we talked about the crises at her hospital. The Management had finally announced the hospital was financially distressed and they would be downsizing more than two-third of their staff. Sometimes I wonder how management of some organizations take decisions without putting into consideration the effect it would have on the members of staff of that organization.
That night, I slept a little; I was in the study until two in the morning.
After a few more weeks, I finally decided to meet with Rita. I had finalized arrangements with the consultant I engaged for the magazine, and we scheduled a meeting with Rita.
It looked more like Rita was going to be a partner in the business; we came up with a name for the company, which would be used to register the company under trade law. We also outlined places to get additional funding from, aside just Rita and me.
In the company portfolio we developed I was the president and even without Ann’s knowledge she was the next largest shareholder of the company, while the rest belonged to Rita. It was a 80-10-10 percentage.
My aim in future is to pass over as much of my shares to Ann and the kids. No one knows how the company would turn out to be, Rita may take over if I didn’t plan it well from the onset, she was a smart woman and very intelligent too. Beside the fact that I would be running the company along with her.
I think, somehow, I saw a part of me in Rita, she was a determined and ambitious lady. There’s no limit to your success once you are determined and ambitious and serious minded. I have always noticed a strong determination to excel in her and I loved affiliating with determined people.
The company would be headed by the President who has the largest share of eighty percent while the rest would belong to Ann and Rita. No other shareholders. The money borrowed was to be paid back with interest to the owners without any other interest in the company. The running of affairs of the company would be handled by the managing director, which we have agreed should be Rita.
My personal money invested into the business was over fifty million, Rita had seven million and we took a loan of forty million from Destiny Bank, all the collateral belonged to me, including our house and other land properties.
Well, now my feeling for Rita was beginning to change from that of a brilliant woman I admired to a woman I wanted to see and be with all the time. Honestly at little thoughts about her now, I feel the urge for sex. Probably because we’ve had it before, maybe because I have been doing it with only Ann for twelve years and it had become boring or maybe I just needed to exploit the beauty I was seeing.
You know, it’s funny that I didn’t think Rita could be married! I never brought it up; I just took it for granted that she wasn’t. What is she is, would I still feel the same way? No I was sure I wouldn’t have, I have a strong hatred for men who sleep with other people’s wife, I strongly believe there’s strong punishment if you know a woman is married and you sleep with her.
One morning after several months of consultations and early stage of setting up the business, I decide it was time to get intimate with Rita, I couldn’t hold my feelings any longer, and I just wanted to be with her alone in a cozy environment. I thought of where we would go to, I don’t go to hotels, I don’t know hotels; I don’t know how people do it. But I know if I have to get out of the present predicaments, I need to have Rita in my arms.
I arranged that we met and had breakfast together.
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