Tunde was in his office going through some documents that needed his signature, when his assistant came to tell him he had a visitor.
"I thought, I didn't have any appointments until later in the day?"
"Yes, this person doesn't have any appointment with you today sir"
"Then ask the person to book an appointment, and come back another day" he had a lot that he needed to do before leaving the office today, and he wasn't about to waste any of his precious time, with someone who didn't think it wise to book an appointment before coming to his office.
"I tried telling her that sir, but she insisted I come tell you her name. She believes you would want to see her once you hear her name"
"And what is her name?" Tunde asked finally looking up from his desk.
"Miss Sophia Okpara, sir"
Tunde smiled, he knew she was going to come around. She even came earlier than he had expected her to. She wasn't so hard to get after all.
"Well tell her, I'm very busy and would see her tomorrow by 9am" he wasn't about to make her think he is desperate to see her, or hear what she has to say. She would have to go and come back, if her father's legacy was important to her.
Few minutes later, his personal assistant walked back into his office.
"What is it this time around?" Tunde asked, not looking quite pleased to be disturbed.
"I'm sorry sir, but she says she is having another appointment by that time tomorrow"
"Then tell her to come see me by 1pm then, I will be free to have lunch with her by then"
His personal assistant left, and came back few minutes later.
"For goodness sake, if she doesn't want to book an appointment then tell her to leave!" Tunde was already getting exasperated with her constant interruption.
"I'm sorry sir, but she insists on seeing you today" his personal assistant looked really confused.
"Tell her, I can't see her today"
"And why is that?"
Tunde looked up to find Sophia standing at the door of his office. She was looking really beautiful. She had on a beautiful black bodycon dress, which stopped below her knees, she paired it a pair of flat red sandals and a red handbag which she carried elegantly on her left arm. She had no make-up on, but she looked beautiful still. Tunde who was drawn by her elegance and beauty, had to call himself to order before he pulled his gaze away from her
"You are not supposed to be here ma" Tunde's assistant protested.
"It's okay Comfort, you may leave us" Tunde told her.
"To what to do I owe this unsolicited visit?"
"Aren't you first going to offer me a seat?"
"I didn't think you would have needed me to ask you to sit before you do, after all you barged in here without an invite, you might as well sit down, without me asking you to"
Tunde went back to signing the documents that were on his desk as Sophia ignored his remark, and sat down on one of the chairs in his office.
"Could you at least look up whatever it is you are doing? I need to discuss something with you" Sophia was pissed at his attitude towards her.
"I'm sorry, but I'm very busy. That was the reason I asked my assistant to tell you to come back some other time. But since you chose to force your way in, please make yourself feel at home, while I get my work done" Tunde didn't even look up from what he was doing, as he spoke.
Sophia stood up, went to his side of the table and closed his laptop, then gathered up the documents he was working on, and held them to her chest.
"Do I have your attention now?"
"And what do you think you are doing?" Tunde asked, not understanding why she was holding the documents to her chest. He tried taking them from her, but she moved away from his reach.
"I'm sorry, but I'm only going to hand these documents back to you, when we are done talking"
"And, why would I want to listen to you?"
"Because I'm here to tell you that, I have agreed to your marriage deal" Sophia sat down back on her seat, still holding the documents to her chest.
"Hmmmm, interesting" Tunde was trying really hard to conceal his excitement, he was definitely going to celebrate this, but that will be after she had left. He wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of knowing she is doing him a favor.
"Yes, we can get married. Just like you proposed. But it's going to be for only a year, I can't stay in a fake marriage for as long as two years. That's way too long for a fake marriage if you ask me"
Tunde thought about her offer for a while, a year seemed quite fair, by then his father would have handed the chairmanship of the company over to him. And he would have helped her father's business to get back on it's feet.
"Alright, no problem. A year it is then"
"Good, and also one more thing"
"What is that?"
"None of us are allowed to have any sexual relationship with other partners outside our marriage"
"Sure, being faithful to one partner has never been a problem for me"
"No, you don't get it. We are not going to be sleeping with each other either"
"You want me to go for a whole year without sex?" Tunde asked with so much disbelief.
"Yes, why do you sound so shocked? Don't tell me you were thinking we were going to be having sex? We barely know each other's last names"
If only she knew he had slept with several girls without even remembering their first names, talk more of knowing their last names.
"You must be joking"
"No I'm not, it's either that, or no deal"
The look on Sophia's face showed she was dead serious. Tunde couldn't believe she came into his office this beautiful morning, to say something as ridiculous as this. How can she ask a full fledged man like himself to go without sex for a whole year? When he wasn't planning on commiting suicide. The longest he has ever gone without sex was a month. And that was because he was involved in car accident that left him hospitalized for that period. And the next week after he was discharged from the hospital, he had a booty call come over. Asking him to stay away from sex for a year, was tantamount to killing him.
"I'm sorry but, there is no way I'm going to do that. It's either we are going to be having sex during one year of our marriage, or we would be going outside to get it"
"Then you would have to find yourself another wife. It's no sex, or no deal"