The weekend passed slowly and Ava was thankful it did. She felt totally different. On that Friday night when she sat in her shower,she vowed never to love again. She scrubbed her body as though she was scrubbing away every ounce of emotions she felt towards Rufus. 'He was right, he said love was just a set up for great pain,he said he was glad my heart was broken so that I could focus on reality,he said I should toughen up' she reasoned to her self as her emotions towards him began to change. Before then, she had felt nothing but anger towards him when ever she thought about their conversation and how she blacked out because of his mean words but know gratitude was beginning to creep in. "Yes, yes love is stupidity!" She loudly affirmed to herself as she got out of the shower and wrapped herself up in a towel as she walked towards the mirror.
"I am going to toughen up, face reality, become successful and show Rufus that I can do life without him" she said with determination as she looked at directly into her eyes in mirror.
"I am Ava Elisabetha Williams, and I can do whatever I set my heart to do" Ava said to herself knowing deep within her that this words were for real.
"Thank you Mr R" she said and began to laugh unbelievably, who would have thought that the words of a mean man was the therapy she needed to overcome such a devastating condition. "Thank you so much" she said softly this time, she was indeed grateful.
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Monday morning as usual was filled with lots of activities, the smell of coffee and sound of heels was energizing.
Let's get productive Ava whispered to herself in motivation as she walked to her office but was intercepted by the Candice who was looking like a time bomb ready to explode.
"What is this" she said throwing a file at Ava,who picked the file and went through it gently.
"It's the review that I sent to your email" Ava said gently,she wasn't going to let anyone ruin her mood.
"You call this a review?" She said raising an eyebrow,"if the janitor wrote this, I would have understood" she said angrily pointing at a janitor that was pushing a dustbin out of the building."but someone from my unit?" She asked feigning disbelief.
Ava was already feeling embarrassed and annoyed, there were in the office hallway and Candice was shouting at the top of her voice.This was not the first time she had written a review on a project,more over she took her time to make sure to imput every detail, everyone in her unit knew that Ava was the best when it came to putting data together,so why all this fuss?
"I asked you to write a detailed review on the last project we supervised and you submitted a twenty page document, what is wrong with you"she grimaced putting her hands akimbo.
"Fleshen this up in the next one hour" she said authoritatively as she began to make an aggressive turn.
"But ma, the project implementation meeting starts within an hour,I need to..." Ava began to say hastily before Candice blew hot at her.
"Don't you dare!" She said sternly as her eyes glistened with anger. "Don't you dare question my order, I am still your Boss because you've been put on a major project team that I wasn't selected for would not change that! Understood? She said peering her venomous eyes into Ava's confused dreamy eyes.
"Yes ma'am" Ava said as realization began to kick in, Candice was clearly jealous of her.
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Carter silently prepared his mind for the meeting,he was slowly getting over the dream but he didn't know what drama would unravel when he saw her again because it seemed like anytime he saw her, something dramatic happened,there had never been a normal scenario all the time he had encountered her and he didn't know what to expect today and that kind of disturbed him.
Carter was a man who liked to be in control of his emotions and this whole thing was getting weird but he was prepared today, nothing was going to faze him.
He walked confidently to the jewelry compartment in his walk in closet. He had the latest collection of Rolex watches and today he was going to use his favorite, the ebony colour. He had begun to put it on when he felt a sharp pain cut through his spine. For someone with sickly genes, he had a strong pain threshold so he waved it aside and went on with his dressing.
The moment his driver saw him approaching the grey SUV they were going to use for the day,he quickly opened the door and stood by.
Responding to the driver's greeting with a nod, Carter was about to enter the car when pain he felt earlier sent him crouching down as he let out a loud groan that startled his driver.
"Are...are you okay sir" the driver asked frantically.
"Call my personal doctor" Carter responded as the pain intensified.