Chapter 53

Samantha and Leo were getting to know each other some days before their wedding. Here's a snippet from their conversation....

"Yeah, nothing wrong with it. Next topic please." He replied her sarcastically

"Jeez!... And they said I was rude..."

"I wasn't rude, I just don't want to argue about it any more than necessary."

"You were flippant and that was rude"

"No, it wasn't... I'm like this all the time"

"Well don't be like that with me, I don't like it"

"Yeah, yeah, now can we drop it!"

"I just told you, you cannot be like that with me!"

"Jeez woman, would you please let it go already!" He said in exasperation

"What an asshole!" Samantha said, put the cereal bowl she just washed back on the plate rack and walked out of the kitchen

"Asshole!?..." Leo repeated to himself with surprise, wondering what he did to warrant such insult from her. He watched her walked out of the kitchen. No woman of his has ever spoken to him like that before. Claire wouldn't dare argue with him not to talk of calling him names.

He finished eating his salad just as she came back inside the kitchen, opened the fridge, and poured herself a glass of fruit juice. They ignored each other, Leo put the plastic container in the waste bin and dropped his dirty fork inside the sink. He was about to walk out of the kitchen when her voice stopped him in his track

"It's just a fork, why couldn't he just wash it... How difficult is washing just one fork!?" Samantha said to herself like Leo wasn't in the kitchen with her. She put her glass of juice on the kitchen counter, picked the fork he dropped, and immediately washed and rinsed it.

"You don't have to do that. I told you I have..."

"I know what you told me Leo, but it's just one fork. See..." She showed him the clean fork. "It didn't even take me five seconds to wash, why live that for the help?"

Leo looked at her, lost for words. He has never done any domestic work before in his life. It's always his sisters or the maids who does such work around the house. As she said, it was just a fork that wouldn't take five seconds to wash. He could have just wash it instead of living it for the help.

"Thank you..."

"Yeah...." She replied before walking out of the kitchen ahead of him.

"So how did we get here?" Leo asked, walking behind her out of the kitchen.

"I don't understand your question. How did we get here?..." She asked as they both sat opposite each other

"How did we go from just wanting to fuck each other three days ago to about to get married in two weeks?"

'How did we go from just wanting to fuck each other!?' Samantha asked the same question in her mind and bury her head in embarrassment. 'How could he be so crude about it!? Did he even think or consider if his words would hurt my feelings before he opened his mouth at all?'

"I find that statement annoying."

"I'm not surprised. You find everything I say annoying." He said nonchalantly.

Samantha was appalled by not only his words but also his attitude...

"You said 'just wanting to fuck!' You can't talk to me like that... Like I'm some kind of a loose girl!"

"Well, I'm sorry if I didn't phrase my words to your satisfaction... But that was what we were going to the hotel to do... To fuck! Leo declared to Samantha's dismay. Her facial expression clearly showing how shocked she was

Leo sighed deeply

"Okay, how else do you want me to say the word?... Sex?" He asked with a frown on his face, wondering how else he was expected to talk about the obvious

"I'm sorry if you don't like it but it is what it is... That doesn't mean I think you're a loose girl or anything of such."

"That was exactly what you think!...

"Yes! That WAS what I think, but right now we aren't talking about the past or are we?... cos you're mixing the two together"

Samantha continued like he didn't say anything, saying what was on her mind while he continued to interrupt her... And so they squabble on and on... Forgetting they came to talk about the issues that brought them together

Samantha was now livid and shouting as he continually annoy her with his words and attitude...

"You left me some hundred dollar bills like I'm some cheap whore!..."

"Well, I found you at a bar alone, and with the way you acted, I just assumed...

"You just assumed I was a prostitute and yet you slept with me without a condom... Who does that!? What kind of a man goes around, sleeping with prostitutes without a condom, living them with birth control pills instead!?..."

"I don't go around sleeping with prostitutes so please watch your mouth! Between, did you take the pills?" He asked forcefully, raising his voice above hers.

"No, I didn't take any of your stupid pills..."

"You didn't take any of the stupid pills uhn!?... Were you hoping to get pregnant then?"

"Excuse me! Are you saying I planned this?"

"Well, nothing could be further from the truth when you just happened to show up at a private lounge my friends and I paid for..."

"And out of all the men inside that lounge that I supposedly hoped to get pregnant by and trapped into marriage, how did I have the misfortune of being stuck with you!?... The one with the puny dick!?"

"What!?..." Leo was shocked with his mouth half-opened. 'Did she just attack my manliness?'I

"Yeah are you surprised!?... I was a virgin and yet I couldn't feel it inside me... I didn't even know when the whole thing began and ended"

"Are you crazy!?... No, what a stupid question. You're certainly crazy!"

"Thank God you know I am crazy... This is now my house, right? Unless your words are as small as your dick then I suggest you get out of my house right now before I call the police on you... Dick head!"

Samantha shouted finally and ran up the stairs, into a random room before slamming the door hard behind her.

"Wao!..." Leo looked at her retreating back in wonder before bursting into laughter...

"Holy fuck! I got myself a spitfire dragon..." He said and laughed again... Puny dick my ass! Guess I'm going to have to jog her memory and remind her how well-hung I am." Leo said and went up the stairs after her

***

Danielle was greatly shocked when she walked in on her fiance in bed with another woman. It hurts to see how he was really enjoying the sex. It hurts to hear how he was grunting and she was moaning as they both romped together.

He wasn't even aware of her entrance. It was the thud sound her bag made when it fell from her flaccid fingers that alerted him of her presence.

Now it was his turn to be greatly shocked. He was so shocked to the extent of being frozen in place. He couldn't even pull his dick out of the girl he was fucking. He felt guilty and ashamed of himself.

How would he explain himself out of this? How would he face her family when they've only loved and accepted him, a nobody into their midst.

Danielle looked at him with pain in her eyes and quietly left his apartment... By the time he got his clothes on and went after her, she was nowhere around. He ran up and then down the quiet street, hoping to see her waiting for a cab or something... But nothing.

The weather had changed, the sky was now heavy with rain. He noticed she left her bag behind. 'How would she manage without her phone and no money on her?' He worriedly wondered with guilt, as he rushed back inside to get his car key.

The sky that was heavy with rain before had begun to drizzled but Danielle didn't notice. People rushed past her to their various homes or to find a temporary shelter from the rain that had gradually turned heavy and poured down in torrents.

Danielle just kept walking aimlessly and crying. She was heartbroken and it really hurt so bad...

'But we spoke this afternoon and he said he loves me! How could he do this to me when I've only loved and respected him!? What exactly do men want? Relationship of two years!... I'm thirty-five years old now, where do I start from?' She thought painfully and cried hard. This level of deceit and betrayal was beyond her comprehension.

***

Jason wanted out of the black fraternity and was prepared to do anything humanly possible to get out of the oath his father forced him to take... But does anything humanly possible include taking a life?.... He has never killed before, but he knew the day would come when Olori (the fraternity head) would ask him to kill an enemy in order to prove his loyalty.

He glanced at the envelope that was handed to him by the black fraternity's messenger of death. The messenger of death was usually sent by the fraternity head to either kill a member who's going astray or ask them to redeem their life with another life.

'Whose life do they require for him to be able to leave the rest of his life in peace?' Jason wondered, staring at the unopened envelope with a heavy heart. He directed his gaze back to the road and he instantly stepped hard on the break.

''What the fuck is that!?'' He wondered aloud, cleaning the windshield with his hand to be able to see clearly through it. His headlight illuminated a lone female figure, walking with shoulders hunched to braced the impact of the rain.

'Is she crazy!? Why walk in the middle of the road, I could have killed her for goodness sake!? Jason wondered angrily to himself and blared his horn very hard. But instead, of the figure moving to the side of the road, it just stopped... Danielle fell in a faint.

***AUTHOR'S NOTE***

What happened when Samantha and Leo meet again?... How did both of them handle their first meeting after the situation between them? Would they hate each other more when they get married or would they immediately accept and love each other?... What would married life be like for them

Jason and Danielle...? Will their relationship ever be possible considering what Robert did to the trio of Oracle, Mama Silver, and Lincoln?

Who was Jason asked to kill? Whose life would he use to buy his freedom from the black fraternity?

So many questions begging for answers...

Thank you and God bless for reading with me thus far... See you in series two of The CEO's Feisty Wife.