Chapter 24: Ruth Oxford

MAVERICK'S P.O.V

First, I dialed Mr. Tores' number, I told him of the situation at hand, his voice was calm and he sounded alright. He said he would reach out to his wife. Then, I dialed Natalie's number. I didn't know what to expect when it began to ring. But all I knew was that the whole situation was becoming repulsive for my liking. 

"Natalie on the line" she responded once she picked up. At that moment, let's say I didn't know what to say. I wasn't sure of my choice of words.

"Where are you?" I managed to ask. I didn't know what was favorable to say.

"I'm home, but why are you still calling me? I asked you not to call me till we are married. I'm hanging up now" She was rude, I mean she's always rude to me. I'm not the one forcing her to get married. It's not like it was my intention to get married to her either. Neither was it my fault in any form.

"Do not hang up my call, and you shouldn't be rude to me too" I said with a strong tone. She doesn't know me or how I operate, but one thing I know is that soon enough she'll stop being rude to me. I'll make sure of that to put her in the right place. I would have told her the actual reason I called, I planned to but I changed my mind.

"You'll probably hear from your mother soon, so prepare your mind" saying that, I hung up. I didn't want to give her any more time to say any more words to me.

A few minutes after the call while getting my mother ready to go home, my father's underboss, Noah, walked in. He said my father would have come personally but he had work to do and so he came to represent him and know how my mother was doing.

He always had work to do anyway. 

That was one of the reasons my mother divorced him, it was always work before family. I don't know how he did that, but because I already love him as my father, I guess I'll just keep loving him. Noah offered my mother flowers from my father, her eyes lit immediately just from looking at the flowers. No doubt that my parents still loved each other, but according to my mother ', not everything you love you can keep'. I also agree with her.


I ended up following my mother to our family duplex, Noah had left, and Levi stayed back. As for me, I planned to stay as long as I could with her from that moment.


"You should get yourself ready," my mom said, nudging me by the shoulder as I sat still on the stool in front of the kitchen counter with a glass of whisky. "And also I thought you are working on this whisky thing?" She asked and I nodded my head, that was all I could do.  How could I not drink whisky at least? With all that had happened throughout the day, I was glowing with exasperation.


NATALIE'S P.O.V

While in my wonder, my phone began to ring again, I reluctantly took the phone and picked it up without even looking at the screen to check who it was. I was literally rude with my first speech when the call began to read. I was ready to talk off anybody that was calling, I'd thought Maverick was the one calling again, he sounded like he had something to say. But I don't care anyway, if he was calling off the wedding, then good for us, and best for me.

"What is it?" I asked 


"Calm down baby, it's just mummy" oh! Thank God. I puffed before I apologized to her. 

"Where are you?" She asked

"I'm home, why" 

"Okay, good. I'm at Sleek & Sweet, come meet me there" 

Wait? What's my mom doing at Sleek & Sweet? Last I checked, she was complaining all the way about how she was running out of cash and how dad hasn't given her much these days. Now she was at that expensive store? 

"What's happening there, mom?" I asked respectfully and calmly.

"When you get here, you'll see," she said and hung up.

"Okay" I muttered to myself, then I went up to my room to get dressed.



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"Shit!" I found myself diving to catch a little dog from being jammed by the carrier. It looked so pretty. White, of the Chihuahua breed, grey eyes with a pink neck chain.

"Aren't you so cute?" I whispered to the dog, taking it in my arms and caressing its body smoothly. I love dogs so much, I always wished I had one to myself but I never did get any. 

"There you are" I heard a female from behind. "Hey," she said to me pointing at the dog in my arms. Oh, that's her dog. 

"Ooh," I said, handing the dog over. 

"Thanks so much," she smiled. I knew I'd seen that face somewhere before, and then I remembered, she was a model, I'd seen her on billboards so many times. Ruth Oxford, OMG, I remember. 

"I'm Ruth by the way," she said, extending her hand for a handshake which I took. She was nice, I'd never imagined her to be that nice. You know, these models are not mostly nice to normal people like me. I was almost shocked.

"Yes, emmm, I'm Natalie '' I said, patching my words together. I was almost lost looking at her. Her beauty was divine, her blonde wavy hair was shiny and was most perfectly styled. Her gown was a yellow silk color type. Damn! She was beautiful, there was a bodyguard standing behind her. He was tall and big, black-skinned, and he wore a black sunglasses. Just then, two females came by to take photos with her which she willingly did with smiles on her face.

'She's so cool', so, I thought.

"Here's my card, you can call me, I like you, Natalie," she said, handing me the card and smiling very warmly. I'll definitely call her, I smiled. I never expected that gesture from her. Then she left with her dog waving goodbye to me. When she left, I turned towards the elevator to find my mother. She had already texted me many times asking me where I was. I just wonder what she was doing here anyway