Revenge For The Restaurant Kissing

Selena double-crosses her sister

Selena smiled. She has got the reason and she said it. " Forget about the apartment being close to my school. You want to be the one visiting and not me."

"You are dead right!" David took a sip and placed the cup back on the table.

Selena had peaked her brow waiting to hear what he would say.

"So, you are scared of me?" she asked.

" I don't want to stop your career." David put it clearly to her.

" Career? That I won't marry?" She stared at him with a slant of her neck." C'mmon, tell me." she said and stretched her hand and held David's.

If David could just give her a green light, she would not mind, she would pack go live with him and then marriage has begun.

"Career ladies like Laila have two options. Career or marriage." David said.

"Not me!" she rebuffed," My career won't make me a spinster. If you want to marry me, I'll have no objection anytime," she said, baring her mind.

David squeaked. " I will do something. " he said. They were at a private table in the club.

"Take this pendant to remember this day."

David opened his wallet. She was surprised what he took out. A diamond pendant without a chain.

Selena picked the diamond from his palm like it was a strange object, dropped from the sky. " That I will remember you with this? For what exactly?" She re-examined the diamond.

"That today, 5th of March, I promised to marry you if while pursuing your career, you decided to get married."

"You are spinning my head." she confessed. She had said if David gives her a green light she would not mind packing to go live with him as wife but just then, is the green light but with an unexpected flash. So, patient, she told herself. She went on," My sister, because of her career did not care about your love, your Romeo-ness? So you think I am career-obsessed too? " She gave David an infectious smile.

"Twice bitten..., Selena."

"I can understand. I will keep this! I will not wear it....highest, next year, I will be through with my education and I will bring this day to remembrance."

Frances and Ann came in and sat back in their seats and she called their attention, showing them the diamond pendant and what David said.

Ann heard it and cornered a look at Frances.

Frances who said if David was a playboy she would join the queue? Would she join the queue? Or be envious for her friend?

" My sister missed an opportunity in you. Lack of patience." Selena said, locking hands with David.

"Not lack of patience. She loved her career." David said.

Ann, Frances, and their two security guards were behind.

They came to their Bentley, the two security men opened the doors and herded them in, slammed the doors, and ran into their armored jeep, racing behind the Bentley.

"And now, she lost her career." Selena continued, with David in the rear.

"Do you know it's my uncle who is the chairman of AB Corp?"

" Are you joking?"

"No. "

Selena ran eyes all over David. " So, you are blessed as such? You should have told us who you are. My Mom thought you were a poor son-in-law ."

"It was love. A man who loves his wife would be humble to his in-laws."

"Was it a rule? What I know is you are damn good!"

David chuckled.

" David. It's not a laughing matter. You are kind and forgiving. A good hubby to be."

She creased her brow and cornered a look at David.

" Taste me and see. I will be a good wife, David," she said.

"I will," David assured her.

Would he? Laila is at the house getting set for a second chance wedding.

David dropped his back on the bed as he got home.

Laila was answering a call from Dr Pat her fiance.

"I will be back tomorrow." Dr. Pat told her.

She had not told him where she was. Now, she has to take a flight back and come back to Nebraska to wed David. Or come back to Nebraska with her fiance, Dr. Patrick Williams, a non-executive director at Atlas Corp where David is the bona fide CEO.

She shook her head, caught in the web of love, not dormant love, love with commitments.

She held her head briefly in her palms and summoning courage, she woke David.

"David. Could I take a flight back home to tell my parents of our wedding? "

"Okay." David raised his shoulders ." Greetings to my mother-in-law."

He fell back to sleep.

Back to Territory A, Denver, she got a call from Dr. Pat that he was at home.

She stayed in the car for a while, eyes set, looking at nothing in particular.

She took in a long breathe and exhaled it, turned her ignition on, and moved the car.

She matched the brake, quickly covered her face with a pair of wide-rimmed glasses, took her new hat, and plucked it down her brow.

"We only agreed to marry. I am not indebted to him. We can call it quit. Nebraska is a large state. I can keep away from and around Atlas Corp. "

At the end of her meditation, she was not satisfied. She cleared and pulled up her car, took in air, and out, her head rested back on the edge of her seat.

A minute later, she oned the ignition and sped off.

She got in just as Dr. Pat was in.

"Pat. At least you know it's me through my voice. Let's put down our cards on the table." she spoke with curiosity