Married to the loveless CEO-Chapter 104: The truth

"Okay." Sentencia responded collecting the card.

"Lovely. I’ll see myself out," Anita responded. She stood up and left.

Sentencia stared at the card as she pondered on what Logan’s godmother wanted to discuss with her, that couldn’t be said right here and now.

Should she maybe give Logan a call that his godmother had showed up at her office? No! But...come to think of it, how did she find out that she works here or did Logan mention it to her?

Well...

Sentencia got home that day and decided to call Anita Manchester.

{Hello...} Sentencia heard the woman’s voice from the other end, as soon as she picks up.

"Hi, am I speaking with Anita Manchester?" Sentencia asked.

{Yes. Who is speaking please?}

"Sentencia Norman, the doctor you gave your card to earlier today at White bridge hospital," Sentencia made sure to list every detail.

{Oh sure I remember}

"Okay. Uhm...we can meet up tomorrow at noon if you are free," Sentencia told.

{Of course I will be free, that’s just lovely. I will text you where we are going to meet up}

"Okay." Cia responded and the call ended.

The next day afternoon on her lunch break, she really did go to meet up with Anita, at a restaurant.

"Would you like to have anything?" Anita asked once Sentencia had sat down.

"No, I’m good," Cia replied.

"Okay, let’s get straight to why we are here then. Sentencia, who really are you to my godson Logan?" Anita asked.

"What?" Sentencia was a little taken aback by the question. "Uhm, a friend. Just a friend,"

"Just friends?" Anita asked.

"Yes, we are just friends," Cia answered.

"Do you have any interest in him? Do you know he has interest in you?" Anita continued.

"What?" has interest in me? In what way?

"Yes, he has interest in you. In other words, he is infatuated with you," Anita replied.

"Well he hasn’t told me such but you have nothing to worry about, I don’t have any interest in him other than wanting to be just friends with him," Sentencia uttered.

"Good, because I don’t like you for him and I don’t trust you sincerely speaking. Don’t tell him I had met up with you and for your own good, I advise you to stay clear of my godson, friends or not!" Anita concluded and stood up to leave.

’That was quick,’ Sentencia thought immediately Anita walked out.

Logan has interest in her? Should she probably ask Logan herself? Or tell him she had met up with his godmother? No, she won’t ask or tell him anything. What if all these was just a misunderstanding? But one thing is for sure, Logan’s family doesn’t like her as well, just like Fi’s.

She doesn’t want to be the cause of them having problems with their families.

***

~Can we meet?~

Davian received a text from Leah. He had saved her number when she had called to tell him something about the meetings.

But today, she had been calling him but he didn’t pick up. He was at work, what was so important? What did she have to tell him so much that she was bugging him? The meeting is not even until the day after tomorrow.

~Please Davian~ She texted him again, so he decided to text back- A little agitated by her pesterings.

~~What Leah?! I’m at work and I’m busy!~~

He received a text from her soon;

~Not now. Later, after work. I have something really important I will like to tell you. Later, please, at Central City’s main park~

~I will be by the love benches. Please come~ He received another text.

He didn’t reply. He just sighed.

After work, he decided...to just go. He saw her seated on one of the benches at the love benches.

She stood up when she saw him, "This better be something good," he told.

"Thank you, Davian. For coming," she smiled. She has been waiting for some while now, she thought he would never show up.

"Walk with me," she requested. He nodded and they started walking.

"That day..." she started.

"When we stopped by your mom’s, I saw the hateful look in her eyes. She must hate me," she added. Davian didn’t respond, he just looked away.

"Don’t tell me you were bugging me just for this?" Davian questioned soon.

"I wouldn’t blame her, I did put you through a lot years ago. But I hope she would find it in her heart to forgive me. Help me Davian, to convince her to forgive me," Leah continued.

"And why would I do that?" Davian asked.

"Because it wasn’t my fault. He did compel me Davian," she revealed.

It was the truth.

"What?" Davian questioned.

"My boss did compel me into sleeping with him. I had no choice, at first he just threatened me with my job. He said he would fire me if I didn’t sleep with him and Davian, you know I was going through a lot years ago. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"I needed that job, I was the breadwinner of my family and I was already depending too much on you when you were also just starting up. I didn’t want to be a burden and that is why I decided to do it." Leah paused, her tears already falling as she told him the truth.

He was completely speechless.

"At first, I thought it would just be once but he kept coming, kept insisting. I eventually got tired of it, I felt guilty. I told him I didn’t want to go on with it and he could fire me if he wants, but then he started threatening the lives of my loved ones including yours.

"I had no choice but to continue, Davian. I’m sorry. I wanted to let you know back then, I do wanted to but he said he wouldn’t hesitate to kill me and my loved ones if I told anyone about it... I’m sorry," she explained.

Davian still didn’t respond, he just stared at her. They had already stopped walking.

"It was the very reason why I just decided to leave, to leave it all behind. I was so guilty about the whole thing I couldn’t bear seeing you and I couldn’t continue sleeping with that monster. I’m sorry," Leah sobbed.

"I...I really don’t see any reasons for this explanations. You should have gave it years ago and we could have sorted it out together but... you didn’t. You decided to shoulder all these by yourself, why tell me now?" Davian finally responded, he was clearly upset as he continuously swallowed the lump that kept popping up in his throat.

"It’s so that you won’t hate me so much, you and your mom and everyone else. This is the truth, I swear it," Leah cried on.

"What about your asshole of a boss?" he asked.

"Last I heard before I had decided to return to Asteria, he was arrested. He is probably in jail now for sexual harassment of female employees. If he is not, I heard his business already went under," she replied, Davian sighed once again.

She held his hands, "I didn’t mean to leave you, I didn’t want to leave,"

He removed his hands from hers, "It doesn’t matter anymore. Whether you left me on purpose or not and whether you meant to cheat on me or not, the bottom line is that you did,"

Leah suddenly hug him, "I’m sorry," she cried as she continued hugging him.

He didn’t feel any different after her explanation. In fact, if all she said was true...he felt angry at her for shouldering her that alone and making decisions for the both of them.

"I’m sorry," she cried on. His arms wrapped around her and he hugged her back, lightly. What she did was wrong? But if it was true, it doesn’t matter anymore...but she has gone through a lot alone and he just decided to show her a short moment of sympathy.

He soon let go and also pushed her gently away from him, his hands on her shoulders.

"It’s okay. Stop crying!" he told.

"Crying wouldn’t solve anything," he added and removed his hands from her shoulders.

"Thank you," she uttered. "For believing and comforting me,"

"I didn’t say I believed you okay," he scoffed and she laughed a small laugh.

"What’s so funny?" he asked.

"Nothing. It’s just... you haven’t changed a bit," she answered.

"Well, bye. I gotta go now, my wife must be home now and waiting for me before she will have dinner," he informed.

"Okay." she replied in a sad tone.

"Okay, bye then-"

Leah tiptoed and kissed his cheek, "Goodbye," she said with a smile, while he stared down at her. She turned around and started walking away.

Davian left too, when he got home he found Silvia at the living room, she was sitting on a couch.

"Hey princess," he smiled as he leaned closer to her and kissed her neck.

"Hey," she replied and stood up, he walked around to get to her. His hands went to her waist.

"I missed you," he uttered, he leaned in to kiss her lips but she moved away. His eyes went to hers, "Is something wrong?"

She didn’t reply. Instead she looked as if she was suppressing her emotions again, she stared back into his eyes as if she was searching for something.

?

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