Chapter 47 Chapter Forty Seven
The only light in the room were the brightness of our phone’s screens and that of the TV. The TV had been muted while Grace and I idly worked on our phones.
“Woah,” Grace put her phone before my face, “Sydney, look at this.”
My gaze settled on the dress on the screen. It was almost like one of the ones
Grace had designed. I frowned, “it looks a lot like the dress you designed.”
Grace laughed lightly, “It is the one I designed,” she scrolled to the previous slide, “This is the original one. She’s one of our clients, she got it from us so she replicated it and tagged us.”
My m*uth formed an ‘O‘ as I nodded.
“Yeah.” She reclined back on the couch where she had been laying. “She really
tried, right?”
“Yeah, but I could still tell that it wasn’t your work. It was just your design.”
“Hmm,” she hummed, “I think she did well. Perhaps, we should recruit her.”
“Oh please.”
Grace laughed at my outburst then she abruptly stopped laughing. “Isn’t that
Mark?”
I frowned and paused the shorts I was watching on YouTube again. “What
now? Mark replicated the jewelry we sold him or something?”
“No,” there was a pause and I took that as a cue to play the video back but the
sound of someone speaking drowned the sound of the video i was watching.
I turned to Grace with a frown, “Why did you increase the vo-”
She cut me off as she pointed to the TV. “Mark is live on TV.”
I turned to the TV to see my ex–husband. The host was excitedly introducing
him alongside his achievements. Mark looked smart and drop dead gorgeous
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in the suit dress he had on, his features seemed to have gotten even finer and more toned since I last saw him. His cheekbones were more prominent, hist hair was slicked back neatly but as usual, there were still some errant strands in his face. Even through his suit jacket, his bulging biceps were prominent as he sat in the seat with the confidence of ten gods, a small smile directed at the
camera.
The host started to ask him questions, first it was about GT Group which he confidently boasted about the rising value of its stock. Then the host threw ran- dom questions at him. His responses were articulate and insightful as he be- witched the audience with his charm and intelligence, eliciting unending cheers
and applause from them.
I raised an impressed brow and raised my hand to give him a thumbs up. “Im- pressive,” I muttered.
“He just had to be an asshole to you.” I heard Grace murmured but I paid no
heed to her.
There was no doubt that his outstanding performance during the interview would boost GT Group’s stock price to a whole new level, and my five percent shares would increase in value as well. For the first time, I was grateful to Mark for not agreeing to buy the shares when I suggested it. I could already see the dividend from the shares being a whole new source of income for me. Then I found myself musing on the idea of buying more if their stocks before the prices skyrocketed like he said.
Grace leaned on me and pulled me out of my thoughts. She rested her head on my shoulder and held my arm. She jutted her lower l*p out, “Why don’t you be my sugar mommy? Please, be my sugar mommy, I don’t want to work anymore, I want to live a life of daily splurge.”
I laughed and gently pushed Grace away, “Get off me, you gold digger. My sav- ings wouldn’t live to see the day with your splurging.” Amidst her light giggles, pointed at Mark on the TV, “His would. He would not even feel like a penny was dropping from his account.”
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Jokingly, Grace gasped and sat up. “I have the perfect idea. I should marry him too and then file fir a divorce divorce, then I could also get five percent of the
shares, right?”
I laughed, “Good idea. I’ll introduce him to you as soon as you would like. In fact you could get thirty–two percent shares.”
Grace threw her head back as she guffawed, I could help but join her. “Or maybe I would even get the company and take over.”
“Oh no,” I played along, “You can just make their family name yours.”
The ring of my phone interrupted our playful banter: I peered at the caller’s ID and my smile dimmed.
I was glad that she was calling but why? I quickly grabbed the remote from
Grace’s side and muted the TV again. I didn’t want Doris to hear that I was watch-
ing a news Mark featured in. She might misunderstand the whole situation and
think I still have feelings for her grandson.
“Good evening, Grandma,” I said into the phone after I picked up the call. I tried
to sound as casual as possible but I was dying to know why she called as the
pleasantries seemed to stretch.
“How have you been, child? It’s been quite a while,” her familiar shrill voice
filled the speaker of the phone.
“I’ve been good, Grandma. How are you?”
“I am fine, Sydney. So I called you to personally invite you to my birthday ban- quet that is happening on Sunday.”
I released a breath I didn’t know I was holding.
“You see, Grandma, “I started, unsure how to delicately break it to her. “You know I’m now divorced from Mark. I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to attend the family’s intimate occasions like this one.”
“What nonsense. You’re family, you will always be family to me.”
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My heart warmed at her declaration and I sniffed but I still intended to stand my
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ground. “I know, Grandma but… How about I celebrate with you privately? Just you and me.” I glanced at Grace who seemed to be fully absorbed in our conver-
sation. “Maybe with my friend too.”
“No, Sydney.”
I sighed, Grandma Doris had always been the type that always got whatever
she wanted.
“You will attend my birthday banquet because I want you to. Besides,” the pitch if her voice lowered and she sounded slightly dejected, “lately, I feel my health deteriorating. I don’t want to postpone meetings because I don’t know how long
I have left…”
She trailed off and my heart reached out to her. I quickly interrupted her when
she was about to start talking again. “Grandma, please no. Stop saying that.
You are very healthy and you will live long with the lot of us. I will attend your
birthday banquet if it’s what you want. You will see me on Sunday.”
I could hear the smile in her voice and the tone she adopted when she com-
plained about her health was instantly thrown out the window as she.chirped.
“You must come. Apart from my birthday banquet that you will be attending, I
have a guy I want to introduce to you,” Grace and I raised our brows, a small
smile on our l*ps as Doris sighed, “Oh Sydney. He is so handsome and
smart..I’m sure you’d like him.”
I giggled, “Is this matchmaking I smell, Doris?”
“What? No,” She said in an exaggerated tone, “Nothing like that. I just would like you to meet a smart man and that’s all.”
“Of course, that’s all,” I giggled.
She scoffed and said in a playfully stern tone, “Stop giggling, girl,” then she hung up.
I shook my head, a small smile on my l*ps. “Doris will always be Doris,” I mut- tered as I stared at the phone. I wish the rest were just like her.
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Grace wiggled her brows, “There’s a handsome man, huh?” Then she reached
out and lightly tickled me.
I pushed her off me as I spasmed from laughter. “Please, stop it…go away,” I said amidst laughter.
She finally let go. She clapped her hands. “I will design the best dress for you-”
I caught her off with an endearing laugh, “Grace, relax, you don’t have to design a dress for every of our outings. Save those designs for our well paying clients.”
She rolled her eyes, “Whatever. Even if I don’t design a dress for you, I will dress you up for the event. The moment you step in there, you will turn heads…”
“It’s just an elderly lady’s birthday party: It’s no big deal,” I laughed as I went
back to lay down on the couch.
Grace continued as if she hadn’t heard me, “You will look so good that the man
she wants to introduce you to will feel like the luckiest man to be introduced to
such a stunning woman.”
“Relax, girl,” I clutched my tummy as I laughed.
“I mean it though. You will look your best at the party,” she muttered with a soft
smile then lay down beside me, her hands going around my midriff. “So now
that there is going to be a handsome man,” she wiggled her brows but I could
tell that she was being serious. “Seems like someone might begin a new ro-
mance soon.”
I smiled softly as I thought about it. Maybe. It was time to not just move on but
move on to another man. I let my shoulders go up in a small shrug as I respond-
ed with a smile, “I hope so.”
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