CHAP 2
MARIAN’S POV
I could never forgive the Walkers for what they did to me years ago and meeting with Nelson made me feel like carrying out the vengeance towards them already. As far as I know, they were the ones responsible for being in prison for the last ten years.
Freedom is sweet and no one understands that till you are jailed for some time in your life and that is when you come to know the sweetness of freedom. Being behind bars is just another hell here on earth.
Before jail I was this type of woman who wears all sorts of pants and leather shoes but all that changed since I was freed from jail recently. I had worked for my abs while I was in there and fro now onwards, I will be wearing dresses like a real queen. I was hidden in jail for all those years but since am out, I was going to show the world what I am capable of. The world included the Walker’s family. Everyone has to pay for their sins and that is why I can’t let this roll.
Actually, I had also been stalking the first born son of the Walkers, who was the heir to the Walkers Fruit Company which made a million sales per day. I could just tell by the Ferrari car he was driving. I mean, who couldn’t tell he was the one yet he was the only person owning a Ferrari car in Nairobi city.
I thought for him to be too perfect in everything but the moment he dropped his wallet is when I realized that maybe he is that son who has the pressure to be perfect till he ends up to be kind of imperfect.
I approached him and expected him to be ugly like their dad but he almost swept me off my feet. He was heavily built and not fat as I presumed. His chest was broad and layers of muscles strained under the shirt he wore. The one thing I thought of first was to sleep on them. He had maintained a short hair and the way he talked with his warm voice just made me wonder if I would ever get out of that fiasco alive.
I knew I had fallen for him and that somehow was going to mess up my entire plans. As we kept on talking after I handed him the wallet he had dropped because of a hurry, calmness reverberated between us and I knew this is the kind of life I want to live forever and ever.
I had expected him to be like his father but on the contrary he was too kind to offer to buy me dinner. I lost everything when I went to jail including my family. I had not gotten a job yet, you know how to get an employment in Nairobi can be tricky.
He offered to buy me food and my intestines were starving for a real good food in a big Hotel like The Hilton. I couldn’t control the sweet tingles running up and down my spine when he touched my hand gently as we walked to the hotel. I was thirsty for s*x and love from a man because I had lacked that for the past ten months. I had forgotten how real s*x feels and I lusted for it.
I am not lying when I say that I felt some moist fluid in my pant just after his touch. It is indeed this serious.
The food was such a delicacy and being free with him just made me put my fear aside and eat my ass out because I never know the next time I will afford to eat all the meals of the day eave alone dining in this hotel.
I watched him scanning on my bosom and my mind was screaming get to it Nelson. In fact, I had considered taking my bitterness from him to his dad and then have something with him. He was filthy rich and his body, his perfect eyes just made me go gaga.
Concentrate Marian, you have a mission to accomplish. Stop all this crap. You are very strong kick ass woman and being behind bars taught you that. Do what you planned to do and do it so fast. You can then make the person you promised heaven love you more.
My brain said the right thing but my heart felt otherwise. My heart beat irrevocably fast for him and I knew it deep within my bones that I was not going back till he announced that I was beautiful.
I hated that word the way satan hates good people. That word is a lie that is normally used by people for their selfish interest. I had coexisted with women and some men in prison who told me not to believe men who said those words. I don’t know if I was that pretty, all I know is that I was made of steel and I would just beat the hell out of someone who dares to cross my path. I wish I would have done that to myself several years ago. As you all can see, that is not beautiful and no one is supposed to call me beautiful.
We talked about random things after I reassured him that I had forgotten about the beautiful thing. I couldn’t help but feel sorry for him the way he looked at me just regretting saying the word I hated most yet he had no idea in the first place.
We talked about random things including how Nairobi had a very new cool Mall known as Two Rivers. He also told me of a direct cool train to go to the beach in Mombasa and I just kept telling myself that when I get a good job and save some good cash, I would treat myself. Being at Kamiti Maximum Prison had bad memories that I wished to erase with the good memories that I wanted to start creating.
There is always chance to start a new page in one’s life. I kind of felt sorry for Nelson because he never knew whom he was dealing with but that is what is meant to happen. In revenge, everyone has to suffer including the innocent ones and he was no exception.
I watched him from the corner of my eyes as he stared at my lips and I run my tongue over them suggestively to make him into me and it worked because the next thing he did was to ask me for a kiss.
I couldn’t say no and you all know why. Maybe having a fling with him would help me in my revenge and so I embraced the idea. We wasted no more time and after we settled the bill, we held hands as we walked outside the hotel. The strong gust of night chills replaced the warm air that was in the hotel and I shivered in impulse.
I thought the era of romantic men was all gone but he proved me wrong when he placed his oversized denim jacket on my shoulders. I thanked him but it wasn’t something big to him. He is really a good man and does not deserve what is a head of him but then the world is not fair. If it would be fair, a young child should not contact leukemia and die before they finally understand the concept of love when they are old enough.
“Where are we heading to?” I asked him as we kept on walking under the street light in the busy streets of Nairobi our hands still locked together.
“Wait, you will see,” He reassured me and held my hand tightly than before and that made me quiver with sweet tingles.
I was tongue tied when he led me to an expensive restaurant, The Baileys and the sound of cool music greeted our ears. A smile lit up my face and he noticed this and returned that with a much bigger smile.
“I kind of guessed that you love slow music,” He bellowed as he took my hand and pulled me to the Centre of the longue where everyone else was dancing in their lovers arms.
“This is special,” I sighed.
“You are special too, aren’t you,” He mouthed and I held on close to his chest as the song Rewrite the stars played softly.
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
I know you want me
So don't keep saying our hands are tied
You claim it's not in the cards
Fate is pulling you miles away
And out of reach from me
But you're here in my heart
So who can stop me if I decide
That you're my destiny?
What if we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine
Nothing could keep us apart
You'd be the one I was meant to find
It's up to you, and it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
So why don't we rewrite the stars?
Maybe the world could be ours
Tonight
You think it's easy
You think I don't want to run to you
But there are mountains
And there are doors that we can't walk through
I know you're wondering why
Because we're able to be
Just you and me
Within these walls
But when we go outside
You're going to wake up and see that it was hopeless after all
No one can rewrite the stars
How can you say you'll be mine?
Everything keeps us apart
And I'm not the one you were meant to find
It's not up to you
It's not up to me
When everyone tells us what we can be
How can we rewrite the stars?
Say that the world can be ours
Tonight
Before I knew it, he cupped my face with his hands and inched me closer to him. I knew I should push him away but then I lost all the energy to do that. My heart craved for him and my body wanted him so badly.
He kissed my upper lip with urgency as his breath lit a firestorm inside me.