A NIGHT WITH A STRANGER : CHAPTERS 71 – 80
They got home and Maya went inside ignoring Jayden’s calling, he catch up with her.
“What is wrong? Why are you angry?”. he asked staring into her eyes.
” I said nothing”.
“You can’t tell me nothing, your mood towards me today tells me something is wrong”. he said.
” I want to be alone”. she tries to leave, but jayden grabs her hand and pulled into his arms, Maya struggles hard with him.”let me go!”.
“Stop acting cold and tell me what I did wrong”. he said and Maya push him off angrily.
“I said leave me alone!” she yelled as tears fill her eyes.” why won’t you just leave me alone? If you don’t want to continue with this contract anymore tell me and let me go”. she sniff and Jayden stare confusedly at her.
“How do you mean?”.
” Please mr Williams, I just want to focus on my baby and the reasons that brought me here”.
“You are getting me more confused, I just want you to tell me what I did wrong and why your sudden anger towards me”.
” I know I am not supposed to pry on your private life, but try considering people’s feelings when you leave without telling anyone, I am human, as long as I live under the same roof with you, you have to give me the respect that I deserve, I am not a toy to play with”. she sniffs. “please Mr. Williams if you want to go out spending time with your mistress, can you please do that after our deal is over?”.
” What are you talking about?”.
“you know exactly what I am talking about, you were out with a woman last night having fun and I was here worrying my ass down about your whereabouts”. she voice out angrily.
” What woman are you talking about? I–” he got interrupted by an incoming message from his phone, he brought out the phone and click on the message as the photo of himself and the lady he help last night appear where he carried her in his arms “What is the meaning of this?”. he questioned confusedly and stare at Maya.” I didn’t do anything with her, I only help to one of the lounges because she fell unconscious, someone took the wrong photo of us”.
“You don’t need to explain anything to me, it’s your thing, all I want to tell is that is rude to leave people hanging, goodnight”. she left for her room and Jayden stare after still confused about the photo.
A NIGHT WITH A STRANGER : CHAPTERS 71 – 80
The next morning, Jayden woke up to prepare breakfast for Maya, the girls came to the kitchen to see him cooking, and they stare surprisedly at him, they try to help him, but he refuse.
After arranging the pancakes and chocolate milk on the tray and some fruit salad, he left for Maya’s doorstep and knock before entering. Maya came out of the bathroom with a bathrobe on, she was surprised to see Jayden bringing breakfast to her room.
” I made you breakfast”. he said smiling as he stood waiting for her reply.
“You made me breakfast?”. she questioned.
” Yes, come and eat”. he drags her to sit down and draws the breakfast closer to her.”Is all yours”.
“Thanks, it smells nice”. she take a bite from the pancakes and was amazed by the taste.” Hmm, this taste nice, did you actually make this? Because the last one you made was horrible”. she said, and jayden smile.
“I Did, like people always say, practice makes perfect”. he replied.
” hmm, when did you become a motivational speaker?”.
“Since now that I can see you talking to me again”. he said.
” So, you making me these pancakes was a way of me talking to you?”.
“Yeah”.
” Hmm, you still don’t know how to say sorry through words but actions”.
“Seriously, what you saw in that photo of me and the lady was a misunderstanding, nothing happened”.
” Why are you telling me, I don’t care if you two have a thing or not, it’s your choice to make and I will support whatever decision you make, I am angry with you because you keep repeating the same thing every time, always leaving without telling anyone your whereabouts or even call or send a text”.
“Speaking of that, I sent you a text message that day, saying I will be home late, didn’t you see it?”. he asked.
” You sent a text?”. she asked confusedly.
“Yes, I did, didn’t you receive it?”. he show the text on his phone to her, and Maya was confused.
“I didn’t get your text, I–“. she suddenly remember she left her phone to throw the gift Lucas gave her away and thought of Lucas seeing the text and also deleting it.
” Maya, Maya?” he tapped her on her hand and she was jolted out of her thoughts.” what are you thinking of?”.
“Um, nothing, I just remember something that’s all”.
” Are you sure?” he asked and she nodded.”Ok, eat your food”.
“Sure”. she continues eating and feed some to Jayden, they ate and continue chatting.
A NIGHT WITH A STRANGER : CHAPTERS 71 – 80
Mia was called by the manager to attend to someone in the VIP room, she left to the doorstep and knock, and a voice usher her in, she enter and was surprised to see Ryan seated on the sofa operating his phone.
“what can I get you sir?”. she asked with her head bowed to the ground and Ryan raise his face to her quickly.
” Sir? When do you start seeing me as your boss? what happened to the ‘Ryan’ you used to call me?” he asked
“Am sorry, am just doing my job”.
” Really?”.he scoffs.”I have one question for you, why are you running away from me?”. he asked firmly.
“I am not running away from you”.
” Really? For the past week now, whenever we come across each other, you always find an excuse to run away, am that bad that you have to start running away from me?”.
“No, I am not running away from you, I just don’t want to be seen with you, I don’t want to attract attention”.
” Really? You think so”. he said calmly but anger could be noticed in his voice.
“Am sorry Mr. Williams, I think this over-familiarity between us has to stop, I will appreciate it if you start seeing me as a common employee here”.
” Is that what you want?”.
“Yes, I will appreciate that”.
” Ok, if you say so, you can go”.
“Don’t you want –“.
” No, you can go on”. he said as he returns to operating his phone, Mia stare at him for a while and then left shutting the door behind her. Ryan closes his eyes for a while and then let out a sigh.
Mia came to the restroom feeling bad and regretting her actions, just then she heard footsteps and her colleagues started talking.
“Do you know who Mia went to attend to in the Vip lounge?”. 1st girl said and the rest girl roll their heads.
” Who?” they asked curiously.
“Hmm, The last child of Mr. Williams, the one we saw her with the other day”. she said and the rest gasped in surprise.
” Yes, I knew it! I know something was fishy between them”. 3rd girl said.
“What is Mia feeling like anyway, does she think Mr. Williams will like her, he is just going to use and dumb her”. 2nd girl said.
” I wonder what they were doing alone in the Vip lounge, why didn’t he send for any of us here, but her instead”.1st girl said, and then they got interrupted as the door of the toilet opened, they were surprised to see it was Mia.
“You girls are getting all wrong, nothing is going on between me and him, it will be better if you girls focus more on what brought you here”. Mia said and walk away.
A NIGHT WITH A STRANGER : CHAPTERS 71 – 80
Maya was busy attending to customers when Angela came to inform her that the manager want to see her, she left the customers for Angela to handle. She arrived at the doorstep and knock, a voice usher in, she enter to see Ms. Queen talking to an advanced man
” Ma, you sent for me”. she said and they turn to her, the man suddenly got enchanted by her beauty and was staring lustfully at her, Maya and Ms. Queen seems to notice because both were talking to each other.
“Yes, this is Mr. Adams, he is one of the best customers here, I will like you to put him through on the new design”. Ms. Queen said.
” Ok ma” she turn to Mr Adams.”You are welcome sir”.
“Thank you, you look beautiful”. he complimented and faced ms.queen.” How come you always employ pretty ladies?”. he questioned and Ms.Queen smile.”I like her already”. he returns his gaze to Maya.
“Yeah, she–” she got interrupted by a constant ringing of her telephone.” excuse me”. she picked it up and talk for a while before hanging up. “excuse me for a while, let me go and attend to someone”. she stood up to leave.” She can put you through”.
“No problem, you can take all the time you want”. Mr. Adams said and Ms. Queen left. ” So, what do you have for me?”.he asked staring sweetly at her and Maya became uncomfortable by his look.
“Let me show you our latest design”. She brought the magazine out and started showing him the design, but Mr. Adams wasn’t paying attention to the magazine but to her instead, he draw closer to her and Maya push back a little.” That’s all”. she said and turn to see the man smiling at her.
“You are so beautiful my dear, I just can’t get my eyes off you”.
” Am sorry sir, I don’t understand”.
“I will make you understand, I like you, just accept to be mine and I will take very good care of you”. he said and Maya stood up quickly.
” Excuse me! what is that supposed to mean?”She yelled angrily and Mr.Adams stood up
“Don’t be mad, I can take care of you if you just accept to be mine”. he pulls closer to her and Maya pushes back.
” Don’t come any closer or I will scream “. she threaten and try to leave, but Mr. Adam grab her hand quickly and pull to himself, Maya struggle with him, and she try to scream but he covered her mouth.
” Don’t be stubborn “. he said and suddenly the door went open revealing Ms.Queen, Mr. Adams push Maya off quickly and started pointing accusing fingers at her.” This girl needs to be fired, she try to seduce me”. he said and Maya stare confusedly at him.
“That’s a lie, he started the whole thing, he try to take advantage of me”. Maya said trying to defend herself.
” Lier!”. Mr.Adams yelled.
“Please sir calm down, I guess there is a misunderstanding somewhere”.Ms. Queen said
“There is no misunderstanding anywhere, this girl is a cheap whore, she should be fired, who knows how many men she had done this to, I don’t think I can buy anything here again”. he said and tears fall out of Maya eyes, just then the door went open revealing Jayden face, Mr. Adams grip at his suddenly sight.” Thank goodness you are here mr Williams, this cheap whore of a girl –” he got interrupted as Jayden get hold of his neck and everyone was caught off guard by his suddenly reaction.
“How dare you call her a cheap whore in front of me, what right do you have”. he yelled angrily and Mr.Adams were trying so hard to free his hand from his neck because he was choking. ” This next time you call her names, that will be the end of you”. he threatened and push him off as he coughed and tried to catch his breath.
“Y-you”. he coughs ” How dare you attack me like that? I am the victim here, she tries to seduce me”. He said still trying to catch his breath.
“You have five seconds to get out of my sight or I will sue you for trying to harass my employee, you think I don’t know your motive, in case you don’t know there is a CCTV in this room and I have seen the way you were throwing yourself at her”. he said and Mr. Adams went shocked. ” if you don’t leave right I will make sure I upload the video on air and trust me that will be the end of you”. he warned and Mr. Adams fell on his knees apologizing.
“Please, am sorry, I don’t know what came over me, I promise not to do it again”. he said sincerely.
” Now scram! And don’t ever show your face here again”.
“I won’t”. he stood up and ran out quickly. Ms. Queen left the office. Jayden turns to Maya and pulls her into his arms as Maya continues sobbing.
” Is ok, I will always be here to defend you”. he caressed her hair while Maya continue sobbing.
A NIGHT WITH A STRANGER : CHAPTERS 71 – 80
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