Chptr 43 Birthday

Inside the Meet and Dine Restaurant, Ajy was casually sipping a hot cup of coffee while waiting for the Goldwyn sisters, for them to discuss the future cooperation in the upcoming project. Suddenly, his ear caught something from another table. Apparently, the woman was a lawyer who was already married and she was talking to a successful businessman who happened to be her secret lover, "The thing I regretted the most was marrying that docile, weak and scaredy prick!"

"Why don't you just divorce? So I don't have to share your body with him!" The businessman suggested.

"Wait! I'm a lawyer so I have to ensure that I get all our property under my name after our divorce. I set a trap to him, a very beautiful friend of mine will conquer him and I will catch them cheating with evidence," The woman smirked.

"Will your friend cooperate though?" The businessman asked.

"She has too, else, I will sue her and her parents in court," The woman evilly qouted.

"Interesting!" Ajy claimed in surprise and wanted to know the name of this woman's husband. He felt like there was a great story behind the man. He was about to approach the other table when he spotted the two Goldwyn sisters approaching him.

Before he stood up and greet them, the woman from the other table who was cheating her husband actually exclaimed, "Miss Mira, Miss Myrtle, what a coincidence two meet the two belle sisters here."

"Oh Attorney Go, we didn't expect to meet you here too. And please, you were also a belle when you were young, even till now, you are still such a beauty," Myrtle praised and complimented the said lawyer surnamed Go.

"Such flowery words, anyway, this man is one of my client. He is also the CEO of a small company, Mr. Tang," Attorney Go introduced. "Since we are all acquainted, why not share our table?"

"It's our pleasure to join tables with Mr. Tang and Attorney Go," Myrtle smiled happily as she knew that this would be again another opportunity for her and her family to be acquainted by another businessman. Even Mira showed a delighted expression.

"Then this way please," Attorney Go guided and the Goldwyn sisters were about to move but they saw Ajy who was still sipping his hot cup of coffee. "Aren't you coming with us Ajy?"

"I'm not acquainted with them," Ajy put down his coffee as he faced the Goldwyn sisters, the lawyer and businessman. He then showed his ruthless face that made the four stepped back, "Next time, when you want to do business, you should know your priorities. I hope this will be the last!"

As he was about to step out of the restaurant, Mira chased and stopped him, "Wait! We're sorry but we can still talk while sharing a table with them. Please? Can you just give us face for this time?"

"Give you face?" Ajy laughed ridiculing the words of Mira. "If you wish for me to give you face then you should have given me face first upon coming here. You were the one who called me to have a meeting with you. I waited for you here for half an hour and when you came, you disregarded me without even nodding or greetings and you want me to give you face?"

"Hey! You should be at least lucky that two beautiful women are even interested in talking to you! So you better give them face." Mr. Tang shouted at him. Albeit a bit scared when he saw his ruthless face a while back, but since he was rich, he was capable of trampling Ajy on the ground with money, or so he thought.

"Ajy? Now I remember, Ajy the rapist," Attorney Go blurted out after a while of remembering where she encountered his name. Disdain could be seen on her face. "Miss Mira, why do you still cling on the man who once raped you?"

"You shut up!" Mira shouted, rage was filling inside her upon hearing that Ajy was a rapist. Those words were a taboo to her. She already regretted her decision back then, this time, she should have the courage to correct the mistake she has created. She still chased after Ajy who already went out and didn't even bother reacting to the words of Attorney Go and Mr. Tang. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to chase him. She even tried calling him but to no avail, he never answered the call.

"You....." Attorney Go wanted to react but Myrtle stopped her, "It's no use attorney, Ajy was right though. We were blinded by greed and opportunity that we disregarded the project that was being handled by him, a project from the Maharlika Corporation."

"What??!!!" Both Attorney Go and Mr. Tang were stupefied upon hearing Myrtle's words. Only a few people knew that Ajy was working under Maharlika Corporation, the number one company of the country that has also international branches. Never in their wildest dreams would they imagine that once a convicted rapist was actually working for this company.

Returning back to his office, secretary Jazz met up with Ajy to inform him that he should attend the birthday party of their boss' grandchildren in the evening. He already knew that their boss has three grandchildren, a triplet at that. But it was the first time he would be invited in their birthday party. Nevertheless, he immediately went and finished all paperwork in his office. He planned to finish everything earlier so he could go out and fetch some presents for the triplets.

Inside the largest mall in the city, Ajy was just window shopping when something caught his ears again, "Mr. Go, I know that your wife is a lawyer but I don't care about that! I only wished to be with you please."

"What a luck!" Ajy exclaimed upon witnessing the scene where in a beautiful lady was chasing a man begging. The lady was a natural beauty with voluptuous body and her actions caught the attention of every men around, drooling or imagining how lucky they would be if they'll be able to get her on bed. As for the man called Mr. Go, he looked irritated while walking away.

Secretly following the two behind, Ajy noticed that they went towards the parking lot. That place was devoid of people, it was this time that Mr. Go confronted the voluptuous woman, "I told you a lot of times, if you want me to sleep with you then I shall do so, but I will never give you my heart."

"Fine! Then I'll be your secret lover and at least let me show how much I want to be a wife to you," The voluptuous woman sobbed while holding the hands of Mr. Go. Ajy could clearly see that she was forcing herself to be with Mr. Go. He could clearly see that both were void of feelings with each other. Seeing his indifferent reaction, the voluptuous woman, despite not having feelings for him was hurt but she still suddenly gave him a torrid kiss.

"Ahem!" Ajy coughed that alerted the two. The voluptuous woman pushed away Mr. Go and they both looked at him embarrassed, "Excuse me sire, I have some things to talk to you. Do you mind sparing some of your time? By the way, the name's Ajy."

Mr. Go looked at him carefully and seeing that he was serious, he nodded. The voluptuous woman was about to excuse herself was stopped by Ajy, "You can stay, I just want to ask him a few questions."

"Have you ever experienced the pain of being forgotten? You exist yet people whom you care doesn't see your presence. You are here yet they treat you like a ghost. You gave everything but they see nothing. So? You have a story to tell?" Ajy poetically spoke that made Mr. Go's expression turned to sadness, melancholy, pain and devastated. But before you answer, here's my tale, "Ajy the rapist. Yes! I'm that guy, in the flesh..."

He then told his forgotten life story to the duo and they were both shocked upon listening to his life story, they clearly knew Ajy the rapist but never thought that they would meet him personally. Of course, Ajy never clarified that he raped Mira nor he denied it. He only wanted them to learn of his story, "If you ever wanted to be recognized and never be forgotten, here's my address."

"Excuse me, but what do you mean by being recognized?" The voluptuous woman asked.

"Well, ma'am I can give an opportunity to those who were forgotten by the society, their friends and families to gain fame, fortune, honor and pride," Ajy replied smiling as he added, "That is if you only have a story of the sorts that I talked about."

The voluptuous woman was skeptical to believe Ajy especially because of his reputation of being a rapist but she also was hoping, hoping for a miracle to happen in her life. She has gotten to the point of no return and the only thing she could do to have a better future was to bet on her decisions. Every decision she had to make would also implicate her parent's lives. This time, she was contemplating whether to bet on the young man in front of them and if she could really gain those fame, fortune and to also reclaim those honor and pride she had back then or to just walk away not believing anything.

"You can just see me at my address. You don't have to decide now." Ajy smiled and understood that she also has a story to tell.

"I'm Deb and I will be in your care in the future," The voluptuous woman answered, although she was still wavering on her decision, she still went on with it.

Ajy and Mr. Go were stunned, despite not knowing how he could give her fame, fortune, honor and pride, she still betted on him. This made Ajy happy and proud of himself but still he asked, "Are you sure? Once you won't achieve those then your life won't be the same."

"I know! My future's so dark and hazy so why not bet on something promising? No?" Deb smiled clenching her fists.