Blaire's blaring alarm woke her and Sarah up. Sarah trudged over the bed and turned off the alarm, yesterday's flight must have drained her out, she has no intention of waking up yet
"Up, Sarah, it's morning!" Blaire's gleeful voice filled the room as she stood up from the bed
Sarah wondered why Blaire was so energized and happy upon waking up but nevermind, she just wants to continue sleeping
"Sarah!" Blaire called tapping her
"What Blaire? What is it? It's not even a week day today so can I not have a good sleep and wake up whenever I want?!" Sarah berated upon springing up
"Hey hey" Blaire gave a coy laugh "Even if I had left you to your sleep, we'll soon be called for breakfast in about 10-15 minutes and the Chairman made it a rule for everyone to always have breakfast together, perhaps, you said you wanted to see James' fresh face in the morning, you should be thanking me for waking you up, I'm going to take my bath, get ready to proceed to the bathroom immediately I'm done, then we can proceed downstairs to have breakfast" Blaire grabbed a towel from her closet and walked off to the bathroom humming a song
Sarah stared at her till she exited into the bathroom, just yesterday she was frustrated cause she is still unable to convince her sperm donor to act as her husband, what changed in the span of last night that magically transformed her mood to be this bright?
She waited for Blaire to be done with her bath before asking her the pressing question
"What's up with you Blaire? You woke up happy which is very much unlike you, did you perhaps dream of your father handing over his companies to you cause you and I know that's the only thing that can make you wake up so happy"
"Oh the companies will be handed to me soon enough Sarah because I'm going to get that simp to sign the contract today"
"Simp?"
"Yes Sarah, that douchebag, Nathan"
"Oh, your sperm donor? You said you'll buy the Auto repair shop he works"
"Exactly Sarah, and buying the repair shop will make me his boss, let's see how well he continues to run his mouth when he's addressing his boss"
"Oh Blaire, what am I going to do with you? I can't believe this is why you are so happy, because you feel you are finally going to get back at Nathan"
"You only say this because you have no idea how annoying he is Sarah, but anyway, take your bath and let's head for breakfast, my schedule for today is filled up and I can't afford to have any time wasted"
Sarah shook her head and walked off to the bathroom
Liam ambled to his Mum's room to call her for breakfast, but he stopped on right outside the door on hearing his Mum's voice on a call
"Good, thank you for agreeing to do this for Liam, I'll see you later today" Liam heard his Mum's voice and he barged in
"Who were you on a call with Mum?" Liam queried
"What? No one, why did you barge into my room like that?"
"Barge into your room? Your door was not locked and I barely just walked in" Liam
"Well you should've knocked first Liam, I might be your mother but I need my own privacy too" Jessica blared and walked out
Liam was bowled over, what's with his Mum's sudden outburst? And who was she on the phone with?
Liam knows his Mum and his guts tells him she's definitely got something up her sleeves
Sarah took her bath and dressed up in one of Blaire's clothing
"Damn the magic my exquisite cloths perform, take it from me Sarah, you've never looked so good" Blaire praised
"Is that supposed to be a compliment for me or your cloth?" Sarah asked and Blaire smiled
"Let's go down for breakfast" Blaire said and they proceeded downstairs where everyone was already seated, everyone except the Chairman and James
"You are still here Sarah? Thought you only came to check on Blaire" Ryan said
"Of course she's still here darling, she's Blaire's secretary and she's living off her, that's what parasites do, live shamelessly off their host" Linda scorned
"Say that again Linda and you will regret the fact that God ever blessed you with the ability to speak!" Blaire fumed and Sarah held her back
"Stop Blaire, they want to get us angry and worked up, let's not give them what they want" Sarah tried to calm Blaire down but Jessica's mocking laughter drew everyone's attention
"Oh how pathetic this is, a self acclaimed pregnant lady trying to fight for her poor secretary when she can barely fight for herself" Jessica mocked
"Oh I assure you Jessica I can fight for myself though I am pregnant and I'll prove it to you all if you continue to make taunting remarks against Sarah, I know you all are pained cause I am pregnant but I aren't the one that made your son so useless that he's even unable to fight for the companies rule"
"How dare you call me useless?!!" Liam sprang up, advancing angrily at Blaire
"Oh stop you fool!" Sarah said coming upfront blocking Blaire from Liam
"I remained quiet despite all your taunts since I stepped into this house but I won't remain still when you all are ganging up against Blaire, you...."
"Shut up will you?!!" Ryan blared standing up
"Who the hell do you think you are to interrupt family discussions!!"
"If this is your idea of a family discussion then I already weep for the welfare of your family, that's if you ever get to have one as you two don't seem to be able to produce an offspring in years"
"Blaire!!!" Linda yelled
"The Chairman is here!" James announced, wheeling the Chairman into the dining room in his wheel chair
"This house finally feels alive with all your daily arguments" the Chairman said with a smile
"Good morning father" Everyone greeted
"Good morning Sir" Sarah greeted separately and the Chairman looked at her
Sarah was one of the orphans whom the Chairman had sponsored to school through his welfare organization, being a very bright young girl, Sarah stood out to the Chairman from the onset and the Chairman was quite fond of her
"Sarah? When did you get here?" The Chairman asked, his voice filled with glee
"Just yesterday Sir, I was supposed to check in to my hotel yesterday but I decided to check on Blaire first, I should have paid my greetings to you earlier, sorry about that Sir" Sarah apologized
"Oh no need to be so formal Sarah and what's the need for lodging into a hotel when we still have a lot of empty rooms here, you should stay here till you are ready to go back to New York" the Chairman said
"Thank you Sir but I already have a hotel booked in my name so...."
"Cancel the booking and stay here, I insist Sarah, courtesy demands you to not refuse me" The Chairman said and Sarah knew she had no choice but to accept his offer, his offer to live in the den of raging wolves
"I guess I have no choice then Sir, thank you" Sarah tried to sound as sincere and happy as possible though her insides were in a turmoil
"Good, so enough talking, everyone get seated and let's eat" The Chairman said and everyone sat down and began to dig in to the plate of food in front of them
Blaire ate a few spoonful of food and stood up
"I'm done with breakfast, I really have somewhere to be, I'll leave now, see you later Sarah" Blaire said and stride out
....
Nathan ambled out of his apartment, he lives alone now, Julia had left with all of her luggages this morning
Nathan had pretended to be asleep in the morning and Julia took her luggages and left, without a goodbye
Nathan's heart felt heavy, did he really just lose his first love? He felt like remaining indoors the whole day wallowing in self pity but he remembered the reason Julia left and he sobered up, Julia left because he is too poor to provide a comfortable lifestyle for her so he's going to work hard from today, using any means necessary, he's going to become rich, get Julia back and give her the most comfy and exotic lifestyle she so richly deserves
Nathan drove to the Auto repair shop and he met Vincent seated in the shop looking disturbed
Vincent sprang up on seeing Nathan
"You won't believe this Nathan, I just got of a call with the boss, he sold this shop!" Vincent announced
"Sold this shop? Why will he sell this place all of a sudden?!" Nathan asked
"I have no idea Nathan but this place have some new owner, he said a lady bought it from him and now our fate lies on the hands of the new owner, she can decide to let us continue to work here, or she can as easily strip us off our job" Vincent uttered
Nathan sighed, just when he thought his day couldn't get worse, this happens
A car suddenly drove into the Auto repair shop and as the car door opened, Nathan wondered what he must have done to amass such amount of bad luck in his life as it was none other than his new nemesis, Blaire Granger
"Hi Nathan, you must have heard from your ex boss right? I am the new owner of this place" Blaire pridefully uttered, striding towards Nathan
"You bought this place?"
"Are you surprised? You shouldn't be Nathan, I am stupendously rich and there is nothing I can not do, with money you can even make mountains move Nathan, you just need to have the right amount and I am very positive I have the right amount to buy you, I told you that I am desperate and I will do anything to achieve my goal, I used money but you remained unflinching, so how about this Nathan? How do you like my new strategy? I am your boss now and you and your friend here only gets to keep your job if you sign the contract and agree to act as my husband and the father of my child, so what's it gonna be Nathan? Your pride? Or your job?"
Nathan shook his head and proceeded to his bike, grabbing the contract file and he walked back and stood in front of Blaire
"I'd say you remain so overly dramatic Blaire Granger, you must have spent an enormous amount of money in purchasing this shop, I'm sure you definitely paid more than the shop's worth because of your impatience, if you had been a little bit more patient, then you'll have seen my call before today's end, I'll have called you to let you know that I have signed the contract and I agree to act as your husband for nine months"...