Chapter 12

"You will be my Mistress"

Was I hearing him correctly or was I having a nightmare. I must dreaming because this can't be real. Please tell me I was still sleeping in my small cozy bed. How could someone be this mean? A mistress. Me? That was something I have never considered in my life. I could never be anyone's mistress.

What was mistress anyway? Did I seem like a mistress to you? I certainly don't look like a mistress. I have seen mistresses in real life and on tv. They are these insanely beautiful kept women who have good fashion sense and a taste for expensive things.

I was neither of those things. My looks were average at best, I had terrible fashion sense and I knew nothing about expensive things. All I ever want is food and to be comfortable in what I was wearing. Being a mistress was not for me. How was i supposed to behave? Was there a code of conduct I could read.

Not to mention ,I could never be a mistress to someone I was in love with once. It would be a bad idea for both of us. We have destroyed each other once and we could do it again. He hated me and I loathed him, so you can imagine the combination.

He was on his way to marriage ,what else did he want? Did he want to destroy my life? Was that what all this was about? This man has destroyed my life countless times and now he wanted to do it again. I will not let him ruin my life, if he wants to ruin his, that was none of my business.

Why does he want to sabotage his marriage before it even starts? I will not allow him to use me as his pass time. I deserved someone better.

" I will not be your mistress"

" You don't have much of a choice"

" I do have a choice and I choose no"

" You know what, I knew you won't believe me until you see the evidence I have"

" Whatever you show me will not change my mind. My answer is still no"

He moved to stand before me. His hands going to my arms , rubbing circles on them, before he changed the pattern to up and down.

" Oooh, you will say yes. I will ask my lawyer to send you the evidence and if you say no then" he paused " we can proceed to court"

" Why are you convinced that I'll say yes?" I was disturbed by this for a while.

What convinced him that I would say yes? He knew me for a year or two and he knew when I made a decision I would not change my mind. I was stubborn like that.

" Because you wouldn't want to see you friends suffer" he answered confidently

" What do my friends have to do with this?" I asked as I didn't understand what this had to do with them.

" If you refuse my request, I will make sure your friend John is jobless and I will go as far as to blacklist him in the job market. I would make sure, he will never get another job ever again" he threatened.

He took one of my braids and wrapped it in his finger. I didn't think that was significant but it seemed like it. My eyes narrowed at his statement.

" You wouldn't dare" I hissed

" Do you want to try me? I promise you will loose"

" You are a vile person"

" And you were in love with a vile person. What does that make you?" He posed the question.

It made me a vile person too. I was overcome by sadness and worry, at the thought of my friend loosing his job. He just started this job and he had a baby on the way. If he got blacklisted what would they do? He knew my friends were my achilleas heel and I would do anything for them.

And all this because of me. A wave of nausea struck me and I shoved Marcus out of the way before I puked my guts out. He came closer and moved my braids out of the way as he rubbed my back. I felt terrible. I put my friends in the worst possible situation.

I pushed him to accept this job. Was this the plan? To put me in an impossible situation. He knew I had no choice but to accept his terms even if it made me sick to my stomach.

I finished puking and reached in my pocket to get a tissue to wipe my mouth. I was glad that I didn't apply too much makeup because now no one would notice the difference .

This man has been trouble since the day that I met him. He has twisted, manipulated, hurt and betrayed me all at once. Was it not enough? Now he wants to ruin my life again.

" Marcus, please leave me alone . Am begging you" I pleaded one last time

He capped my face with his hands and forced me to look at him. He held my gaze for awhile before he shook his head.

" I can't let you go until you pay for what you did"

He rubbed his thumb on my cheek and I found myself closing my eyes, enjoying this closeness .

" There you guys are" said Zuri breaking the moment.

We both took steps apart to put as much distance from each other as possible. I hoped that she didn't see anything because I was not planning on saying anything.

Marcus shoved his hands in his pocket before he looked at Zuri. We were almost caught and that didn't sit well with me. I needed to avoid him at all costs.

" What were you guys doing here?" Zuri asked curiously

" I came looking for her after she left" said Marcus

" And why are you not back to your fiancé?" Zuri narrowed her eyes not buying the story.

" Zawadi was not feeling well ,so I stayed with her for a bit but now that you are here, I have to get going. " He started walking away before he stopped, looked at me one last time and said " think about what I said" before he walked away.

I was left alone with Zuri. I knew she had a lot of questions but I didn't have the answers either. I was as clueless as she was.

" What was that all about? And don't lie to me" she asked resting her hands on her hips.

" I was talking to my mom and the next thing I knew I was puking my guts out. Marcus must have heard me because he came to check on me and ended up staying" I lied

" And what did he mean by think about what I said?"

" He was talking about moving to town"

" Why?"

" He asked if I was still living in the same place and I said yes, so he advised me to move to town where I won't be lonely"

" And will you listen to that piece of advice?"

" I'll think about it"

" Please do"

She took my hand in hers and intertwined our fingers before she pulled me towards the baby shower.

'whew!' I barely survived that one.

I had to lie to her. What else was I supposed to say? Mmmh... Marcus is blackmailing me into becoming his mistress and if I don't, he will fire your husband. I was definitely not going to say that.

They both deserved to be happy and carefree. I will not involve them in this especially if it would cost them their lively hood. I don't need to involve them in whatever trap this was.

Marcus was indeed smart. Giving John the job was all a ruse to get closer to them in turn being closer to me. Was this why he gave John the job? To find leverage against me.

And what about the baby shower? He knew I would attend, whether he liked it or not. Or was that the entire point? He wanted me here. He needed a chance to talk to me. He couldn't do it on the phone because I would have hung up on him but here I was not in my element.

He had the upper hand. Why mistress though? Was he not happy in his relationship? Was that it. From what I observed earlier they looked genuinely happy. You can't really fake that stuff.

We went back to the shower where we enjoyed ourselves before it was time to go home. The guest left one by one leaving family. John, Zuri, Marcus, Katelyn and I were the only ones left.

Marcus and Katelyn were not family but they had bulldozered there way in it. We had to accept that ,I had to accept that. We ate some dinner before we also made our way home.

I had hired someone to come pick me up as soon as I was done but he was stuck in traffic so I had to wait a while longer. Zuri and John bid us goodbye before they left. Katelyn was taken home by Mati, Marcus's driver, leaving Marcus and I.

We were both sitting at a small table now in the restaurant as I waited for my ride. Could this guy get here any slower. Great, just fricking great! Now I was forced to be around him again before my lazy driver got here.

" I want to see you tomorrow" he broke the silence

" Am busy"

" Then make yourself less busy" he retorted

" I can't. " I said not going into further details.

" If you are seeing that boyfriend of yours stop. "

" You can't tell me what to do" I yelled ,his eyes widened at my sudden outburst.

" That is the Zawadi I remember. You will meet me tomorrow or else" he threatened

I didn't wait to hear the rest of the threat as I heard a honk at the parking lot. My ride was here. I left quickly and took shelter in the car. I asked the driver to drive quickly away from him.