Must Read: Twine (A Drama Series)

7 years ago

Must Read: Twine (A Drama Series)

Linda

I was having dinner with the Adediwuras. Everyone was acting like it was the duchess of Cambridge that had come to dine with them. His greedy mother kept on patting my hand and plying more food on my plate while his ever so business minded father asked me one question after the other about my father’s companies. I was tired of their eye service, I knew I wasn’t a likeable person but they didn’t have to make it so glaring that they were trying too much to prove that they liked me.The older folks excused themselves after dinner and I was left alone with my soon to be husband. There was a stoic scowl on his handsome, his jaw was so set in obvious anger, he was about happy with the forced union as much as a cat would love being caught in the rain.

“If you continue gritting your teeth like that I am afraid you won’t have any left to grit” i said.
He flashed me a look of anger.
“Linda, why did you say yes to the proposal? I don’t love you and I never will! Why did you even come here tonight?” he replied tersely.
I gave him my best smile.

Earlier that day my dad had called me into his study. I had something special planned under my sleeve for that evil man he just doesn’t know it yet. I was only waiting for the right moment to struck.

“I will accept the proposal on one condition dad”.
He sighed heavily before replying.” What is the condition?’’
“You will relinguish every right to our Lagos branch. We will draw up the legal papers and it will be signed in the presence of eye witnesses.”
“That is outrageous! I am only doing this for your own good! Chief’s son has a good head on his shoulders, he will make a good husband” he shouted.

“Then I will assume we have no deal dad! If you so much want Chief as your in-law then you should consider giving Victoria to them” I said standing up.
“Linda please don’t put your father to shame……..Chief and I have already concluded on the matter. How will it seem if I go back on my word now?”
“Do I look like I care about that?”
“Linda…… giving you the company is not as easy as you think”.

“I don’t see any dilemma there, after all it is your company”
He sighed heaviily again and for a second I almost pitied him but he deserved no mercy.
“I will think about it” he had said.
That evening I decided to honor the dinner invitation extended to me by the Adediwuras. For the first in my life, a man had my pulse racing, just the thought of him had my stomach fluttering with butterflies and I found myself checking my phone every second to see if I missed a call from him but that man is not the handsome man sitting across the room from me.
“ What the hell do you think you are playing at?” Kelvin asked, clenching his teeth. ” Why did you come here tonight”.

“ I came so we can fix a date for the wedding” I said just to rile him, and the expression on his face brought a smile to mine.
“ What?!” he stood up angrily, he walked out of the living room. “ that would be over my dead body” he called over his shoulders.
If my dad sign over the company to me another problem which i would have to fix was Kelvin.I wondered if i had gone too far in taunting him over the years.

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