CHAPTER THREE

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He loved his parents, but he also detested the way his mother was when it came to money, she spent a lot, she spent even more.. buying things she didn’t need and getting those she needed only to toss them away for something more ludicrous.

Twenty years later as the fights became worse, she filed for divorce, asking him for half of what he owned, including his company.

His father had agreed, he was a simple man, he loved peace and he would give up the world to make his mother happy.

But tragedy struck, while they attended a charity concert together, on their way back, they had died in a ghastly motor accident with a few others.

They were buried, with friends and family in attendance, their only child and son ‘Jake Bass’ the only heir and the sole owner of all of Gregory’s Bass multibillionaire oil block servicing company.

Jake Bass, just fresh out of college, and already taking up a huge responsibility.

But his father always taught him to be prepared at all times, to be independent, to be able to shoulder responsibilities even ones he never would have been given. His father taught him to be a man, and times when he came home for summer breaks, he worked with his father while his father showed him the ropes.

Jake knew that with his father gone, he had to continue from where his father stopped, which was making sure his father’s dream and his empire never runs to the ground.

He accepted all of his father’s values and teachings, he was grateful for that, but there was one thing he didn’t take from his father and refused to learn.

Was that his father was too soft, too gullible when it came to a woman, his woman, Jake’s mother.

No matter how transparent that his mother was only using him, his father never cared. If she wanted money, he gave her, if she insulted him and asked for more money, he gave her. She knew just how to press him, and all the while, after she gave birth to Jake, she left him in the arms of nannies and travelled the world..

She was an high-class lady, his mother. But he loved her, he just wanted her to treat her husband, his father better.

Jake had vowed to treat women the way they ought to be treated.

Women to him were nothing more than things to be used and thrown away, and go unto the next. He wasn’t exactly a womanizer or a playboy. He was simply not interested in the female folks enough to give them his time, his attention…and God forbid his heart. It made men stupid, they go around like dogs flabbing their tongues as they chased the womenfolk.

He was glad he didn’t think with his one–eyed member between his legs.

He loves women, he appreciates their body and their prowess in bed. But that is all, Entertainment.

If he wanted a woman, he had her. Infact he doesn’t need to search, they came pouring in, falling over his feet, begging to be had. All he had to do is pick.

But after the night is over, much to his disappointments, it all boils down to money. They are always after the money, the flashy car, the houses, and the life of luxury. They love the money not the man.

If he were poor and wretched, it doesn’t matter he has this sexy body, much like a Greek god’s, deep blue eyes, and the most capturing smile, it doesn’t matter that he got his handsome looks from his mother and the height and perfect build from his father. They would stare for only a minute, just a minute and they won’t give a shit about him.

But he was Jake, Jake Bass, son to Gregory and Jessica Bass, owner of the Multibillionaire Oil Company, which stood big and tall, one of the best in the country. He was 36 years old, still a bachelor and a fine one at that, he had the cars, the houses, the wealth, and luxury- he had it all.

It was natural to have women fall over themselves to get into his bed.

And just because they do that…he has no regard for them and treats them as they are. ‘Things’ Entertainments!, and then tips them and forgets about them. And if they were pretty, and a good talker, maybe they last for two days. But he gets bored and moves on.

Women meant nothing to him, treating them as he deemed fit, came naturally.

Thanks to his father and his mother’s marriage, he has no desire to be a fool for no woman, and no woman alive can bring him to his knees.

None!

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Jake smiles “Of course, drop your address with my driver and I would have him pick you up after work”

She was smiling broadly when he got up and left. “Back to the office Todd” he spoke to the driver ‘’then you come back for the lady,”

Todd nods and puts the car on drive.

*

Samantha Brooke was ushered in together with a group of people, they were not more than 20, into the hall and they were all asked to sit.

A lady, dressed so nicely, and her deep accent is addressing them about the company, its goals and visions, their mission statement and all they have to know about the company. Then she places them in their departments and working through their job descriptions, their do’s and don’ts in the company.

Samantha allows her eyes wander around the people seated with her, she suddenly observes that almost all of them were women, young girls between the ages of 22-28. And they all seemed excited.

She wasn’t, she didn’t even want to apply for this job, her friend made her do it, telling her how it would be great for her resume’ and that what if after her internship she gets to be made staff, she would be rolling in bucks and who knows, she might get to meet someone nice too for a change.

Samantha didn’t want to meet someone nice, the someone nice she had met before, succeeded in using a sledgehammer over her heart and broke it into a thousand different pieces and walked away, clearing her bank accounts with him, after she found him sleeping with his best friend’s girl.

She was done with men. They were all the same, lying, cheating, womanizing, thieves and heartbreakers.

Now the downside to it is that she was broke like shake-her-now-with-her-legs-upside-down-not-a-coin-drops broke, and she would need to pay her house rent or else she would be kicked out and be homeless. And home..was two worlds apart..okay she was being dramatic.. it was a flight ticket, two train tickets, 3 cabs apart, and a whole of two days journey. She didn’t even have the money for that.

And she didn’t want to go home, going home meant she would be back under her parent’s roof and being taken care of, she was an adult, a 26-year-old woman..she was a big girl and should be able to take care of herself and her parents, not the other way around.

She sighs.