Chapter 26: Tommy's arrival

He sat down but I could still measure his height, he would be at least 6 feet tall, the old man was tall too but damn, the man was an appealing sight to the eye. He had brown hair which was styled slicked back, high cheekbones, full but not bushy eyebrows, a pair of brown eyes and perfect round lips and to make everything complete he was cleanly shaved, everything about him spoke perfection. Now I understood what Nancy meant when she said he wasn't old and I'll just see for myself. I was holding back a grin, he was indeed handsome and any girl would fall for him.

"Hey, I'm Tommy, Nice to meet you and you must be Xa ..., Asher's wife" he greeted cheerfully.

" Hi " I simply said as I finally stopped staring and started looking at anywhere but him and the old man. I was feeling out of place and was about to stand up when Nancy came in with the rest of the dishes, " Welcome back ma'am, How was your day?" she asked as she came over and started dishing my food.

" Thank you, Nancy, I had a good day." I smiled at her and when our eyes met, I looked at the man nodded a little in the man's direction and winked at her, She grinned at me and nodded. She dished the meals and left. ' Oh how I wish she'll stay I felt better when she was around

" That's not nice you know," he said as he looked at me.

" Did I do something wrong?" I was confused as I looked at him wondering what I did wrong.

" Of course, you did something wrong." He answered now frowning a little, I was completely lost at that point cause I didn't know exactly what I had done. " But what did I do?" I asked quietly.

' Did he notice my silent conversation with Nancy? Or did I mistakenly say something out loud?'

" I told you my name but you didn't tell me yours" He shrugged as he said this. " What!?" I asked even more surprised. I thought I did something wrong.

"Tsk, you didn't tell me your name, that's what am saying, I told you my name remember? So it's only right you tell me yours Or would you rather I called you Mrs Kelvin?" He asked again. ' Mrs Kelvin? Hell no!' I didn't realise I was shaking my head and frowning slightly.

" You don't like to be called Mrs Kelvin?" He asked with a wicked smile as he looked at the old man's expressionless. His face was expressionless but he threw Tommy a dirty look.

" It's Melissa, Call me Melissa please." I finally said I stole a glance at the old man. He was looking at me with an unreadable expression, I looked away from him immediately. Liam's words played in my head immediately 'What if you get close to him and he falls in love with you? Do you think he'll ever divorce you then?' I shook my head again slightly ' No, there's no chance of that happening, never ' I assured myself.

" Can we just eat? And you" He pointed at me "Can you stop shaking your head, It's disturbing me" It was the first he was talking after we exchanged greetings.

' Wait, how did he know? Was it that obvious that I was lost in thought?' "Am sorry " I apologised.

I picked up my cutlery and started eating without saying another than. " Melissa, where do you go to school?" Tommy suddenly asked. " I go to the University of San Francisco," I said raising my head. " What course are you studying?" I don't know why he seemed interested but I answered anyway "Am studying Computer science" I looked up to see him smiling. " Do you know your husband studied cybersecurity science?" I looked at the old man as Tommy said this, " He was the best hacker in his time, well, maybe still is but not better than me though" He continued with a grin. I smiled as he said this, and heard the old man muttered " You wish." My curiosity was triggered and I suddenly forgot the old man was there "How about you sir? What did you study?" I asked now looking at him interestedly " Hmmm, Firstly do away with the sir, I only take sir in the office and it is annoying enough so Tom is fine" He said with a wink before continuing "We studied the same course" He was smiling. " Wow, that's nice" I replied

'Why did he speak like they went to school together?'

His smile was contagious and soon I found myself smiling back. We completely forgot about the old as we went on and on about computers. We had finished our dinner but we still talking, I felt relaxed around the stranger now, nothing like the fear I felt around the old man. He still sat with us though he didn't contribute a word to our discussion " When is your internship?" He suddenly asked, " In two weeks, I already had my interview two weeks ago" I answered. I got accepted into A and A enterprises before the old came and turned my life upside down.

"That's nice. Which company will you be working at?" He asked interested. I didn't know if I was giving out too much information about myself but I wasn't offended by his questions or annoyed, I enjoyed the conversation. " A and A enterprises" He turned his eyes to the old man immediately and they both exchanged glances, They didn't say anything but I felt there was some sort of communication between them. Nevertheless, he still turned and smiled at me " You got accepted to one of the biggest companies in America, you must be really good." He complemented to which I just smiled. " If you were in Paris, I wouldn't have let you work anywhere." He said folding his arm around his chest. " Why" I asked confused. " How could I let such an intelligent beauty work any other than my company" He said and I couldn't help but laugh softly. 'Is he flirty with me in front of my husband? Who exactly is this guy to the old man?' I turned to look at the old man and found him glaring at me. I looked away almost immediately, ' Why was he glaring at me? Was it because I was talking with the guy? I better start going to my room.'

" How has it been living with Asher? I know he's not an easy person to live with" Asher was sitting right there sipping a glass of orange juice and pressing his phone, he seemed uninterested in anything we were saying but now and then we would glare at me or Tommy. Tommy didn't seem to mind he would smile broadly, It was Friday after all and he should be at the brothel but he had a guest over, I bet he was annoyed having to sit over and listen to our little talk. I wanted to ask Tommy many questions but I couldn't.

'What I Want to know right away, how was the old man was related to him? I heard he had a daughter somewhere but never heard of a son so how exactly were they related, he was too young to be the old man's friend.' I kept thinking.