***
Jaime entered the ward and his eyes landed on Layla who was staring at nothing in particular. He smiled before rushing to her, pulling her to a sudden hug.
Layla’s eyes widened.
“You did it, Layla. You woke up, thank you so much” he whispered happily.
“Who are you?” Layla asked which shocked him. He broke the hug to stare at her
“What?”
She pushed him away and he staggered but quickly held himself from falling to the ground.
“How can you come in here and just hug me? Who are you? A pervert?” She shouted.
“What are you saying? It’s me, Jaime” Jaime said, still staring at her in shock.
“Jaime?” She whispered.
“Yes, it’s me. What’s wrong, Layla?”
Mrs. Rogers entered at that moment and joined them.
“She lost her memory,” she said.
“What?” Jaime looked at her before staring at Layla whose eyes were on him.
“She’s suffering from amnesia according to the Doctor,” Mrs. Rogers said.
“Oh no,” Jaime whispered. Does that mean she won’t recognize him anymore?
“By the way, aren’t you going to school?” Mrs. Rogers asked.
“I am,” he replied.
“Then you should go, it’s getting late. You can check on her later” she said.
Jaime nodded absentmindedly, still staring at Layla. He looked away and faced Mrs. Rogers.
“I’ll be going now,” he smiled. He stared at Layla for a while before leaving.
“Who’s he?” Layla asked, still staring at the door.
“Your friend from school,” Mrs. Rogers said.
“Are you hungry now? Should I bring in your food?”
Layla rolled her eyes before lying on the bed.
“No, thanks. Who knows if you might have poisoned the food like you’ve always wanted” she muttered, turning her back to her Mom.
Mrs. Rogers’ eyes widened.
“Baby!”
“Can you please leave? I’m feeling sleepy and your presence is a disturbance to me”
Mrs. Rogers swallowed hard.
“I’ll be outside, baby. Just call me if you need anything” she stared at her daughter for a while before walking out.
Layla sat up and held her head when an excruciating pain hit her.
“Jaime,” she whispered, still clutching her head in pain.
****
MONTERIO’S INVESTMENT***
Jace entered the company and went to take the elevator. He came to find out if Charles and Hailey are back together.
He entered the elevator and just when the door was about to close, a hand suddenly stopped it and Sunny entered, panting heavily.
“Sorry” she said breathlessly.
She stood far away from him and arranged her hair. She woke up late today and worst still, there was traffic on the road. She was sure she was going to be queried by her Boss.
Jace raised his head from his phone and glanced at her. His eyes went wide and his phone fell from his hand in the process.
That caught Sunny’s attention, she turned to him and gasped when she saw his phone on the floor, the screen was cracked already.
“Oh my,” she bent and picked it before handing it to him.
All through, Jace’s eyes were on her and his mouth was wide open.
“Hello?” Sunny called when he didn’t make a move to collect the phone from her.
The elevator dinged and he hurriedly placed the phone on his chest, the phone fell, this time breaking into pieces and she gasped again.
“I’m so sorry” she bowed and rushed out of the elevator immediately.
“Who’s she?” Jace muttered before letting out a smile.
“She’s beautiful,” he mumbled.
He touched his heart which was already beating fast and rubbed it slowly.
“I just found my missing rib,” he whispered to himself.
***
He came out of the elevator still smiling to himself but the smile got wiped out from his face when he saw an annoying face in front of Charles’ door.
“Stephanie?” He called.
Stephanie turned to his direction and smiled.
“Hi Jace, longest time” she said.
Jace scoffed angrily before walking to her, he dragged her by the arm roughly, walking back to the elevator.
“How dare you Ɓîtçh show up your ugly face here? Aren’t you ashamed?” He yelled.
“Dude, calm down, okay? I’m not here for you but Charles” she smiled.
“Oh, really? Well, lemme tell you this, Charles is not in at the moment. Why? Because he’s with the woman of his life at the moment” Jace said spitefully.
“What?” Her eyes widened.
“No, that can’t happen. He can’t do this to me” she roughed her hair. She pushed Jace away from her and entered the elevator.
Jace stared at her till the door closed before bringing out his phone.
“Why is he not picking up?” He muttered as he kept dialing Charles’ line.
****
CHARLES’ MANSON***
Charles walked to the kitchen with Hailey in his arms. He placed her on the kitchen counter before going to the fridge. He brought out a bottle of yogurt and poured it into a glass cup before walking back to her.
“Here” he handed it to her.
Hailey smiled and collected it from him. She took a sip and Mõ@ɲed out in pleasure.
“This tastes so good” she Mõ@ɲed as she continued sipping the yogurt.
“Stop making that sound, Cara,” Charles muttered.
She stopped drinking the yogurt and stared at him.
“Why? Do you want a taste too?” She asked.
Charles shook his head before smiling naughtily.
“I want something else,” he muttered.
“What?” She asked.
He placed his hand on her thighs which were exposed as a result of the shorts she’s wearing.
“This,” he raised her top and captured a pink bud in his mouth.
Hailey gasped and the glass cup fell from her hand, the yogurt splattering on the floor.
“Sunshine” she Mõ@ɲed cutely.
“Let’s spend the rest of the day at home together” he muttered against her chest.
Hailey nodded meekly, still holding unto him.
Her eyes widened when she realized what he just uttered and she pushed him away.
“What? I can’t do that, I don’t joke with my job, yunno?” She said,
“Well, you’re sore and…”
“Fine, fine” she rolled her eyes and he smiled.
“So, shall we continue?”
She glared at him and pushed him away from her.
“No, Mister!”
She came down from the counter and limped to the door. She felt Charles laughing behind her and she turned to him with a frown.
“What’s funny?”
“You seem to need my help but yet you keep pushing me away” he grinned.
“I can walk by myself. Don’t think so highly of yourself” she said
“You can’t go in, ma’am”
“Tell Charles I’m here to see him, he won’t refuse me anyway”
“What are you doing? Throw her out!”
They heard noises and they both exchanged glances.
“Are you expecting anyone?” Hailey asked.
“I’ll check,” Charles said. He went out of the kitchen and she followed him behind, or should I say limping?
***
“What’s going on here?” Charles asked.
The guards who were trying to throw Stephanie out of the house stopped when they saw him.
“Good morning, Boss” they bowed their heads.
Charles stared at Stephanie and he laughed in disbelief. Did she come to see him or what?
“Charles, good thing you came outside. You need to sack these men, they’re so incompetent. How could they think of throwing me out” Stephanie said, trying to move closer to him.
“Don’t” he stopped her with a hand.
Hailey appeared at that moment and the first thing Stephanie noticed was the way she was limping. Her eyes went to the clothes she was putting on before staring at Charles. He was shirtless.
“Don’t tell me…” She mumbled, staring at Hailey.
“What’s she doing here?” Hailey asked, holding Charles’ arm.
Charles placed his hand around her waist before looking at Stephanie who was already smoking with anger.
“Think she came to beg for money or sort” Charles shrugged.
Stephanie’s eyes widened.
What?!
TBC