CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE “Why would you even get a phone in such a place? You could have just ordered one or gone to a bigger store if you wanted to see for yourself. What if it’s fake?” “Its not a fake phone Chloe, I checked myself.” Alex retorted as he gently turned to Chloe with an assuring smile. Chloe scoffed, then she looked at the phone and then at the store without blinking. “This strange man.” She thought to herself stealing a glance at Alex. “Ok fine. If you must know, the shop owner is a friend. I just wanted to show my appreciation for a kind gesture.” “Oh, that’s fair enough,” Chloe said nodding her head in agreement with her words. “Can we go now, Chloe? I have somewhere to be.” “Wait. Was it a girl? I mean your friend over there.” “What does it matter?” “Well, it does Alex. I care about you a lot and I wouldn’t want you to run into the hands of any woman who would treat you as badly as Maya did or even worse.” “Ok mummy, I appreciate,” Alex said with a smirk. “I am

CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE “What? What does that even mean?” Alex asked, but before he could finish up his sentence, Chloe opened the door of the car and alighted immediately slamming the door behind her. “Chloe, Chloe? Where are you going?” Alex asked but Chloe was already out of the car and walking through the driveway towards the main road. “What the hell is this?” Alex asked as he unbuckled the seatbelt around him and opened the door of the car, storming out immediately. “Come on Chloe, don’t be like that. We can talk about it.” He called out to Chloe but she refused to even turn to look at him as she continued to stride through the driveway. Seeing the strong determination in her to get away from him, Alex got back into the car and drove towards her as soon as he turned on the ignition. He honked severally for Chloe to stop walking but she paid no attention to the blaring sound of the horn. Left with no other option, Alex had to drive faster as he tried as much as he could to avo

CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE “Yes Tiara, we are officially divorced.” “Great! That’s wonderful news.” Tiara said with a smile gradually appearing on her face. She seemed really excited hearing that Alex was finally free, but on a second thought, she got a hint of something and turned a straight face. “How do you feel Alex?” She asked Alex as the feeling that she may have been insensitive with her excitement crept into her mind. Alex looked at her with a little gloom on his face which he managed to change to a smile few seconds later. “Let’s just say that it was good while it lasted.” “Are you sure you don’t wanna talk about it?” “It’s fine Tiara. I am totally fine I promise.” Tiara took a long look at Alex to be sure he was ok and even though she saw a confident and happy man seated in front of her, she still knew that a lot must have been going through his mind. “Whatever it is Alex, just know you can talk to me ok?” Alex nodded twice to the words Tiara said, then he mouthed the wo

CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN Alex cleared his throat twice, then he took the wine glass from the table and gulped down the entire content immediately. “Easy Alex, that’s enough.” Tiara said as soon as she saw Alex pouring the wine into his mouth. But before she could finish up her words, Alex was done with the wine and placed the wine glass on the table. “Give me that. Let me have that, I think you have had enough.” Tiara said with an imperative tone as she leaned forward and took the bottle of wine which Alex was about to take so that he could pour more wine into his glass. Alex sighed gently seeing the disapproval on Tiara’s face especially regarding his drinking, so he sighed and leaned backwards. Suddenly, his mind came to the realization of the nice aroma which had been hitting is nose for more than ten minutes. “The food is getting cold Tiara, we should eat now.” Tiara looked at the food with some doubt in her eyes. As much as the food smelled really tasty, she didn’t want to rui

CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE “Can they really do that.” Alex asked almost immediately with her eyebrows raised in deep curiosity. “My father can be desperate when he wants to be, and Francis…Francis would definitely be able to make that happen. He has a lot of connections all over the world.” “I see.” Alex said with a little smirk but Tiara was a little bit offended that he was reacting trivially to the matter at hand. “I am serious Alex.” “I know Tiara, I know.” “Then why are you acting as though you don’t understand the level of seriousness that this issue carries?” “Are you trying to make fun of me Alex?” “Oh please, how can you even say that Tiara?” Tiara was silent after Alex spoke. She didn’t know what she was going to believe as the reaction she got from him was unexpected. He seemed unperturbed. “Come on Tiara, let’s get out of here.” Taking a look at Alex for a few seconds, then she sighed and turned her gaze to the black purse resting on the table. “What are you doing?”