Madi barged into the room, her hands balled up and her eyes blood red. “Mom…” “Do you know that Christine Prescott is getting married?” Mrs. King said this before she could finish. She raised her head from the computer screen and said, “Mrs. Prescott sent me an invitation for the wedding party in a week time.” “Mom…” Madi tried again. “A wedding in the middle of the week, and with an invitation for the one percent of the one percent? Now the President has uped their game; now doubt.” Mrs. King giggled. “Mom!” Madi exaclaimed. "What, my darling? “I heard about the five million dollars” "Oh, it was nothing. I couldn't watch him go with what belonged to you.” “I thought we agreed we were done with Jacob” “Agree? I didn’t agree with anything. Besides, we are done only when we are done.” “No. You are wrong. It is finished; we are done; divorced for fuck sake; what on earth do you still want from him?” “Come on, stop sounding like a fool. That money is yours, and that mon
Jacob sat with his hands clenched together in a corner of the giant sitting room. Different artworks probably from the eighteenth century hung on the wall: angry looking paintings and heavily bearded sculptors of philosophers.But of all the paintings and sculptors there was one that he couldn’t get his eyes off. It hung slightly with the height of roughly three feet. The painted man had a fierce look not so different from the rest of them in the room except this one isn’t from the eighteenth century. He looked different, except for the windpipe he held to his mouth.And the face, it looked like…“That’s my father,” Christine said.Jacob turned, she was standing by the door frame, “Oh…um I didn&rsq
“It’s your wedding,” Bob said, “not mine?”“Just answer me, goddamn it!” Jacob shouted. “Red or brown tie?” He went to the mirror and placed each on his neck to see which went the best.“That’s not even red, Jacob; that’s like oxblood or something,” Bob said, biting his hot dog.“Really, but Franklin said it's red.” Jacob said as he turned to him, “Are you serious? The best time to eat is now.”“What?” He said with a huge chunk in his mouth, “I am the best man , not the best woman.” The ketchup from the hotdog dropped on his white shirt. “Aagh, fuck.”Jacob turned back to the mirror and sai
Madi grabbed Bob by the elbow and led him to a corner of the room.“What are you doing here?” She asked him.“Umm, you don’t know?” He asked back, and his face frowned up.She furrowed her eyebrow. Jacob, she thought, Jacob? Could it be Jacob?“Madison King,” a voice called her name from behind her.Madi turned, and it was Mrs. Prescott. She whispered to Bobby to leave, and she turned with the biggest smile she could muster.“Mrs. Prescott,” she said as she approached her.Mrs. Prescott, holding a glass of red wine between her fingers, helped close up the gap between them. She also
“You have got to be kidding me.” Alex said, “That doesn't make any sense.” Mrs. King looked at Alex and said, "We are leaving. You two get the fuck out of here.”“Lady King,” Mrs. Prescott, walked up to them. “I’d love you to meet Christine and his husband.” She looked at them, where a couple of people had swamped the new couple already. “Well, when they are a little less occupied.”“And we’d love to,” Mrs. King said, “but we have to be on our way already.”Madi couldn’t get her eyes off of Jacob; she had never seen him that happy, and even though she was happy for him, she hated it. She hated that she wasn’t the reason he was smiling; she hated that he moved on faster than she had hoped; and she hated that he had found the happiness he had.“Are you okay, Madison?” Mrs. Prescott asked.
“What do you say, Jacob?” Victor said.Jacob swallowed. “It has never been about the money” he said, “If you’d excuse me, I have a wedding to finish,”He said and left.Victor watched him leave with a smirk on his face. “He thinks he is smart now, doesn’t he?” He said.Jacob walked to up to Christine and Mrs. Precott.“Where have you been?” Christine asked, “you were supposed to meet the Smiths and then the Edibiri. The Edibiri are africans and there are our business associate to…”“I think I have had enough of the party” Jacob said.“What
The elevator opened, and Jacob burst out and strode towards Steve's office as if he were a villain from a slasher horror movie. His breath hung in the air, charged with frustration.The secretary stood up, making a feeble attempt to halt him. "Mr. Jacob, you cannot..."Without waiting for her to finish, he barged into Steve's office. "Sir!" Jacob blurted. "I have a complaint," he said, raising a letter in his hand. Steve took a shot of whiskey down his throat and walked to his chair. “It’s fine, Mrs. William; I’ve got this.” The secretary took a deep breath, looked to Jacob, then nodded before taking her leave. “So?”"Sir, I got a tarmination letter based on a link to the sub-urban real estate deal.” “And?”Jacob frowned a little shocked at the question, “Sir, except I wasn’t on the sub-urban real estate deal.”“So?”"So, sir, I got fired for something that has no link to me.”“But you aren’t innocent now, are you?” Steve raised an eyebrow."Sir, I do not understand.”"Oh, you do,
“I hope you like it here,” Jacob asked. "Well, at least you didn’t pick the cementary” Christine laughed.Jacob feigned a laugh, but he couldn’t stop to wonder. He hadn’t met her before; at least he couldn’t recall it. And what did she mean by that? It was the best day of his life. Why is he even sitting with a strange lady in a coffee shop on the same day he got fired and divorced?“I actually have been to this coffee shop a couple of times before, so I’d give you nine out of ten. I’d have given you a ten if you had picked the club," she smiled. Jacob smiled, but it was short lived. He wanted to be nice, but at the same time, he wanted to know what she wanted from him.“Okay, I think I know what you are probably thinking,” Christine said, noticing how much unease he felt. “Who is she? And what does she want?”“I am sorry, but I don’t know you or what you want from me, and it’s been quite a day for me. I just want to go home. So I’d appreciate it if you"“You got fired?” Jacob pau