Another man

"Thank you for the compliment," Pearl smiled.
Derek smiled and pulled her back, Pearl didn't understand why he was weirdly attractive maybe because of this strange aura around him.
'He's handsome' Her subconscious mind said and she frowned inwardly.
"Pearl, why don't we have coffee together?" Derek inquired while smiling seductively at her.
"Coffee?I don't think I would like that at this time of the day" Pearl giggled awkwardly.
"Then let's settle for lunch, there is a little cafe here, we can eat, talk and get to know each other" Derek licked his rosy hair making them redder.
Pearl hated being in this sort of situation.
"As I said earlier, I am not single" Pearl clarified and showed him her finger.
Derek's eyes landed on the beautiful and expensive ring. Derek touched her finger and caressed the ring.
"This is one of the most expensive rings in the world, you shouldn't show everybody your ring because they might just take it away from you" Derek stared at her intensely with his dark eyes.
He slowly kissed her knuckles but she snatched her hand away.
"I don't care if you are taken engaged or married, I think you have a dirty mind, Pearl"
"Meaning?" Pearl beamed.
"Meaning that, it is just a harmless lunch not a date, no strings attached, we would just talk and get to know each other and maybe become friends," Derek said and tuck back a strand of his dark hair that fell to his face.
Pearl smiled.
"Fine, I'm going to accept because I am but hungry" She chuckled.
"I'm glad that your dirty mind, has been sanctified" He laughed and his laughter was infectious.
"You know what I change my mind because I have got to cook for my husband, so I don't think this lunch can work"
"You are a housewife but you don't look like one" He pocketed his hands in his fancy pants.
"I'm not" Pearl sighed and tried walking away but he held her wrist.
"Let go of her!" Andrew yelled and pulled him away from Pearl.
"Andrew" Pearl gasped in shock.
Derek stood straight and smirked. Andrew didn't like the look on his face, he had been watching them this whole time and it was fucking annoying.
When he held Pearl's hand he expected her to push him away but instead, she stood still and smiled at him, he took a closer look at even caught her cheeks going red, she was laughing and chuckling with him and it angered Andrew.
"Pearl, what's the meaning of this?" Andrew yelled, he looked extremely furious.
"Nothing is going on, we were just talking" Pearl explained but by the expression on Andrew's face, he didn't look too pleased with what she had said.
"She's right, we were just talking" Derek smirked at Pearl.
Andrew's hands clenched into a fist, he wanted to punch the smirk out of his face.
"Why would you be talking to a total stranger, you don't even know him" Andrew yelled. "I ordered the guards to stay here with you but you ordered them to stay away from you, like seriously?"
"Andrew, what are you even doing here? aren't you supposed to be at work, at your company" Pearl questioned.
"Now I recognize you, the famous Andrew Jones" Derek smirked, his smirk had a lot hidden behind it.
"Why are you asking that? is it because you were doing something inappropriate like talking to a total stranger?" Andrew shrieked, boiling with rage inside.
He was jealous, really jealous. He fucking watched him kiss her knuckles and hold her hand, he made her laugh and that was the most annoying and messed up part of everything, no other man should make Pearl act that way except for him.
"Bro, calm down because you are scaring the shit out of her," Derek said and placed his hand on Andrew's shoulder.
"Get your filthy hands off me, I talk to my wife the way I please and it's none of your fucking business!" Andrew shouted and the other customers turned their gaze on them.
Andrew took a deep breath and cast glares at the onlookers making them face their business.
Pearl felt confused, she knew that her behavior with Derek was a bit out of place but it doesn't call for such reactions, or does it?
"Derek, please go," Pearl said to ease the tension.
"Pearl, how can I leave you in the care of a man who's acting like a psycho?" Derek glared at Andrew.
There was something about his gaze that Andrew didn't like at all.
"You both even know each other's name, I can't believe this" Andrew shook his head and stormed away from there.
"Andrew wait" Pearl yelled but was held back by Derek.
"He's angry, don't go after him now," Derek said.
Pearl refused to listen to him, she wriggled herself out of his grip and ran after Andrew but he was already gone.
"Andrew" Pearl murmured.
She was about to run out of the grocery store when the phone in her small shoulder bag rang.
She brought it out and answered the call.
"Hello, Emma"
"Pearl, visitors are waiting for you at the office," Emma said and hung up before Pearl could ask for their identity.
"This is crazy, oh God!" Pearl grunted and looked back to find Derek smiling at her.
Their eye contact was interrupted by her two guards, she was sure that they had snitched on her.
She glared at both of them and ordered "Take me back to the office"
"One of you should get the items in the trolley"
*****
Andrew reached home with an angry look on his face, the maids who saw him scurried off because they had never seen him look that angry before.
Andrew went up to the mini-bar that he has never stayed at or even taken a single drink from, he took out a bottle of whisky and a tumbler.
He poured himself the drink and gulped it down.
He was annoyed by everything that he saw, from the start it angered him. Pearl allowed another man to touch her and what angered him the most was that she looked like she was enjoying the attention he was giving her.
She looked so beautiful today in that tight black gown, that was too tight, exposed too much of her curves, and was too transparent, her cleavage was exposed, and a diamond shape behind that showed her beautiful smooth back. Maybe he should have forbidden her from wearing such a dress because she was married.
Andrew poured himself another drink and sighed heavily.
Andrew recalled the man's face, he was good-looking. Andrew admitted that the man was more handsome than him, probably that attracted Pearl.
"Ha!!!"
He banged his fist on the bar.
He called someone that he hadn't called in a while.
"Hello, I have sent you his picture. there was something about him that I didn't like and I don't want him close to Pearl ever again."
"I need you to investigate him," Andrew said furiously and hung up.
"Pearl…”