THE BILLIONAIRE’S PERFECT MATE

Closing the door quietly, Sophia moved toward the stairs with shaky legs. Her eyes filled with tears and frustration. Ellie’s mocking smile kept on replaying in her mind. She was heartbroken and pained. She felt heartbroken and pained not because she was in love with Edward but she just couldn’t stand seeing Ellie and Edward together. She wanted Edward all to herself. She couldn’t stand seeing another woman near the men she wanted.

‘Why must it be her? Why?’, Sophia yelled in frustration as she walked down the stairs.

‘I won’t allow this to happen. If he can’t be mine, he will never be hers. Who does she think she is? She is just a nobody!!!!!!!!!!’, Sophia yelled, venting her anger on her hand bag which she threw away.

‘I swear with my life, I am going to kill her. Where the hell is Jack?’, she shouted in anger, bringing out her phone from her handbag which she had picked from the floor to call Jack.

‘Where the hell are you?’, Sophia who was frustrated yelled at Jack over the phone.

‘I am at the entrance, Miss. I can see you’, Jack responded, making Sophia hang up on him when she sighted him.

‘Sorry, Miss. I didn’t get a cab on …………’, Jack said but couldn’t finish his statement as a slap landed on his cheek.

‘Can’t you do anything right?’, Sophia asked, ranting at Jack.

‘I am sorry, Miss’, Jack responded bowing his head.

‘Get in the car’, Sophia said, throwing her car key at him.

‘Where are we heading to, Miss?’, Jack asked upon entering the car.

‘Take me to the hotel’, Sophia said. Jack knew she always went to the hotel whenever she felt frustrated. As he looked into her eyes, all he could see was frustration and agony.

‘Is anything the problem, Sophia?’, Jack asked, trying to comfort her. To Jack, she meant a lot to him although Sophia saw him as nothing not more than her sex toy.

‘Sophia? I told you not to get comfortable around me!!!!!!!!!’, Sophia yelled.

‘I am just trying to comfort you. I am the only one who understand you. I know what you are going through’, Jack said with pity in his eyes.

‘Stop. Stop looking at me like that. I hate that look; it’s disgusting. Who are you to understand me? Who are you to pity me?’, Sophia yelled.

‘You know what? Get out of the car’, Sophia said, motioning for Jack to get lost. Jack got down from the car with Sophia taking over the driver’s seat and zooming off at a high speed, leaving Jack stranded on the road.

As she drove, she couldn’t concentrate as her mind kept on going back to the scene of Ellie and Edward making love that she had witnessed. She remembered Ellie’s smile, which made her got angrier, making her increase the speed.

‘She thinks she has won? No, this is just the beginning. I will make sure I repay her for every pain she made me feel’, Sophia said, holding on to the steering wheel tightly.

Sophia who was not paying attention to the road, didn’t notice the presence of a young lady who was trying to cross the road, until she ran into her. Realizing she had just ran someone over, she stopped the car abruptly, making her hit her stomach on the steering wheel.

Watching from her car mirror, Sophia saw the body of the lady she had just ran over, lying on the floor. She didn’t know what to do and the only person she could call for help was Jack. Picking up her phone with a shaking hand, she dialed Jack’s number.

‘Where are you? I need you here’, Sophia said to Jack over the phone. Jack knew she had caused another trouble and immediately headed to where she was.

‘What happened?’, Jack asked upon getting to where Sophia was.

‘I ran someone over’, Sophia said.

‘How did that happen? Are you the one at fault?’, Jack asked.

‘What? She was the one who didn’t check well before crossing. She jumped out of nowhere’, Sophia yelled.

‘Where is she? Is she dead?’, Jack asked.

‘She was still breathing before I put her in the boot’, Sophia said without empathy.

‘You did what? You should have taken her to the hospital’, Jack responded.

‘What if she had died on getting to the hospital? Do you know what would have happened?’, Sophia yelled.

‘You know what? Just get rid of her’, Sophia said motioning for Jack to get the lady’s body from the boot and which Jack obliged. But on opening the boot, Jack froze at the sight of the lifeless body.

‘Why is it taking you forever to get rid of her body?’, Sophia who was getting impatient yelled, getting out of the car and moving to where Jack was standing.

‘Is this the lady you hit?’, Jack asked, shocked.

‘Yes, she is. Do you know her?’, Sophia who had noticed Jack’s countenance asked. Jack stood still, unable to respond, trying to deny what was happening right in front of him.

‘Is she an acquaintance?’, Sophia asked again with Jack still not giving her a response. Looking closely at the lady’s lifeless body, Sophia seemed to have remembered who she was.NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.

‘Isn’t this your lover? Wow!!!! What a way of killing two birds with a stone’, Sophia said laughing hysterically.

‘Was it intentional?’, Jack asked, in a low voice.

‘What? No, it wasn’t intentional. Although, I had thought of taking her out of the way if you didn’t break up with her but never knew it would be this fast. It’s all for the best, isn’t it?’, Sophia asked, facing Jack whose eyes were filled with tears.

‘Wow!!! Seems like you love her a lot. The first time I would see tears in the almighty Jack’s eyes’, Sophia said.

‘What will you do now? Will you pretend like this never happened and take care of it like you always do or expose me and send I and your unborn child to prison? The choice is yours, Jack. Let’s see what you are going to do’, Sophia said, looking into Jack’s eyes.

Jack stood still, torn between avenging his lover’s death or protecting his unborn child.