MY ONE NIGHT STAND WITH MR ARROGANT

Clara stared worriedly at Karl who has been sitting in his study room since last night. She placed the mug of coffee on the table and touched his hand that was resting on his laps.

He didn’t react to her touch since he was in a deep thought.

“Karl” she called out his name shaking him slightly, he snapped out of his daze and faced her with a frown. “Is anything wrong? haven’t I warned you not to enter here without my permission”

“You’ve been sitting here since last night and I was wondering if everything was alright”

Karl hissed in annoyance, this lady just keeps on getting on his nerves. No matter how hard he tried to chase her out of his life she just wouldn’t budge.

“What could be alright if you are here? don’t you get it? you shouldn’t get yourself attached to me and my affairs”

Clara shuddered at his cold tone, her eyes sting as his words resounded in her ears. After all these years together with him he still hasn’t changed his cold attitude towards her.

She held back the tears that were threatening to fall out and forced a smile. “Have your coffee I will go and make something for you to eat”

She turned to leave, however she was pulled back. “How should I make you understand? you are getting on my nerves, don’t forget you are one of those girls I picked up from a brothel don’t try to act different from them”

Clara lowered her gaze, her heart sank that she instantly regretted coming here in the first place. “Karl all these years that we’ve been together you’ve always treated me as you like, you think I’m one of those girls huh?”

He inched his face closer to hers gnashing his teeth in anger. “Yes! you are exactly like those girls and why do you sound hurt after hearing that am I wrong?”

Clara shook her head, she winced in pain when his grip around her arm tightened.

“Now do yourself a favour and get out of here! you should be grateful that I picked you out of that horrible place” He screamed at her pushing her away.

Clara crashed down on a shelf, she turned back to face Karl in shock and disbelief.

“Is this how you are going to treat me? after what we’ve been through together, you only used my body for your greedy needs and you didn’t care about my feelings or anything!”

Karl turned his face away from her, he didn’t want to hear anything from her his mind and head was already in a mess he didn’t want to listen to his heart at least not right now”

Clara stood up with the support of the shelf which she crashed into. “I will go….. I will go very far… far away from you and everyone else, you were right, you did me a huge favor by taking me out of that brothel but now you won’t get to see my face or hear my voice ever again”

Clara turned her back against him and walked away letting the tears flow out of her eyes like endless stream.

Karl threw down the mug of coffee in anger, he was alone, no one to confide in, no one to share his problems with. He drove away the only person who stood by him all these years..

..

Cecile and Brianna woke up from their slumber in the living room after they had a lady’s night only by watching one of Amelia’s movies.

Brianna let out a yawn, her eyes darted to their surroundings which was littered with the wrappers of the snacks they ate last night.

“We really messed up the whole place, the servants will curse us all through as they clean up this mess”

Cecile said drowsily, she stretched her arm and got up dusting off the food particles on her dress. “If the kids finds out about this they will tease us so much”

“Yeah especially Amelia, that lady has a way of making you shed tears with her teasing” Cecile mumbled.

“I have an idea of what we can do today but first we have to get ready”

Cecile nodded while pushing Brianna’s wheelchair back to her room.

“I almost forgot to mention this but I saw the current lady of your family on the streets looking all worn out and wretched”

A loud laughter escaped Brianna’s lips, this was what she has been waiting for to hear for quite some time now.

“Serves her right! she snatched away my family that’s just the reward for her selfishness”

“Yeah I don’t like her much either, but don’t you think that your husband needs to find out the truth about you?”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Brianna released a sigh, she doesn’t want to think about mark anymore, the truth was that he didn’t care about her for once.

“He doesn’t care about me or my son, so why should he know anything about my existence?”

Cecile stopped pushing the wheelchair and walked around to face Brianna whose eyes were already red from crying.

“Let it all out, we both have similar marital issues, my husband was never faithful and he never loved me, but your husband? I have seen love and respect in his eyes for you”

Brianna drew a deep breath in, she already digested the fact that mark loves Angie and her children and there is no way she was going to believe what anyone tells her.

“Please don’t ruin this beautiful morning for us I already have places in my mind to visit today”

“There’s no way I’m going to let that happen you are not allowed to leave the house no matter what that was Liam’s strict order”

Brianna scoffed out loud “If you are thinking about my identity being exposed you have nothing to worry about after all I’m a master planner” She added with a wink.

Cecile gasped “You are quite mischievous, you sound just like my daughter”

..

Mark peeped into the room to see his father, wife and son so deeply engrossed in a conversation, he became restless, he got a feeling that they were plotting something bad again against Liam, his poor son has gone through enough already but they were not satisfied yet.

Angie raised her finger to stop Nicholas from speaking after she saw someone’s shadow next to the door.

She placed her finger on her lips “I think it’s mark” she whispered to them and stood up from her seat.

She walked in feather step to the door and pulled it open but to her surprise no one was there, she looked around the small living room but found no one.

Nicholas touched her shoulder lightly “Mum forget it, no one is here dad went out earlier today”

“I’m not blind I saw someone’s shadow”

Nicholas looked around and found no trace of anyone except them. “It could be anything’s shadow”

Angie nodded her head but deep down she knew that mark was here she prayed and hoped silently that he didn’t hear anything.

Amelia walked into the room and spotted Liam busy on his laptop.

She folded her arm breathing heavily while feigning anger.

“If you knew that you would be busy on your laptop everyday why on earth did you agree to come here with me?”

Liam raised his head from his laptop to meet her angry face.