YOU ARE IT FOR ME

CHAPTER THREE

Donovan P.O.V

I cursed under my breath at the endless heap of documents that I have to sign. I had only taken a week break and here I am paying for it. When I returned, I was met with a table filled with documents that I had to sign, meetings that I had to attend which had been rescheduled due to my short absence from work. That had been the first vacation that I took after many years of working non- stop. I had become a workaholic over the years due to the fact that I had to suddenly take over the company after my father passed away. I looked at my wrist watch and it was already past my lunch time. There was a light knock on my door. I looked up from the document which I was about to append my signature to and asked the person to come in before I went back to signing the document and kept it aside. Sarah my secretary walked towards my desk, I could hear the light click of her stiletto heels as she walked . Tell me, I say without looking up at her. Sir, you have a meeting with the mayor by 3.pm or would you like me to reschedule the meeting ? I am sure he wouldn't mind. No do not reschedule the meeting I will meet up with him today I replied. Very well sir, I will just call his secretary and inform them about the location for the meeting, his secretary had already called some minutes ago. She said. I scoffed , that old geezer I said under my breathe. We already signed the contract last month for my company to build the new mall, the deal was made with the mayor so now I wondered what was that urgent that he needed to see me in person. We could have just spoken over the phone.

The mayor was a good friend of my father when he was alive and after he passed he didn't stop approaching my company as he kept awarding numerous contracts to us. The latest contract was to build one of the biggest shopping mall in the city. Work has already commenced and our workers work at times at night. I wanted to make sure the job is completed within two years. The Price contract is also underway, we are already half way to its completion. That particular project was given to us some six months ago and it has not been easy, for it needed more hands and professionals to build that hospital but hopefully by next year the Price project will be complete.

I know that the mayor and my late dad had been friends but I also know that he secretly wants to play match maker between me and his daughter Catherine who used to be my childhood friend before she left the country for college.

You can fix the meeting at the Nuova Era restaurant ( meaning New Age in Italian language) its almost 3.pm I would have a late lunch there with him, I say to my secretary. Yes sir she replied. This meeting be better worth it because I can't afford to waste my time dwelling on an irrelevant random conversations with any one. I have some sites that I was supposed to go visit today but it was already late for that and I still have alot of work to complete in the office. Sir, would that be all ? she asked. How is it going with the search in getting a new P.A? I asked finally putting aside the remaining document on my desk and standing up to adjust my suit and tie in ready for the meeting with the mayor. Sir, I have received alot of resume but I am yet to give them any feed back on the date for the interview but after tomorrow I will email them to let them know the date that they can come in for the interview,she replied. Hmm .. thats okay. I want the best amongst them , hopefully by monday the new P.A should start work. Yes sir she said. Call Lyon to get the car ready I say. Yes sir. She said before walking out of my office. After checking that everything was in its place I left my office and took my private elevator that led to my underground garrage. I normally take this elevator when leaving my office or sometimes when arriving to the company. This is to evade all those hovering paparazzi's looking for the latest gossip about me to go sell to the media. So I use that elevator to come and leave the company undetected. I love my privacy alot but with the type of status I have, peace and quiet lifestyle is very difficult to achieve because those nosy paparazzi's have made it their life mission to always invade in my privacy. On the other hand who would blame them, I am like a hot topic and apparently everyone wants a piece of me. I am a rich dashing Young man and one of the youngest billionaires to appear in Forbes. A dashing Young billionaire who is unmarried is a hot topic and every woman wants a piece of me. I am an only child from a very reputable family . My father started from the scratch to build and make his company great and when he suddenly died I pushed the company to greater height, making and earning my own name in the business world. I worked really hard everyday starting from the day I took over as C.E.O at the age of nineteen . I had recently gotten into college and some few months later I was informed about the passing of my dad who had died in a plane crash . It was such a big blow to me, I was forced to grow up and mature very fast because I had to leave behind my partying life and dropped alot of things which teenagers like me liked to do. I stopped seeing my friends because I no longer had the time. I had to also switch my programme to part time so that I could work in the company during the week and then attend school during the weekends. That period was a very difficult time for me. But looking back at that time, I did not regret any of the decisions that I made because I had the lives of five thousand workers on my shoulder and slacking off from all of my responsibilities means ruining the lives of many whose daily income rested on my young shoulders. I needed to stop living the life I lived and then live my life for others and also build the company to the level it is today. So I have no regeret whatsoever. It didn't mean that I did not loose from the huge sacrifice that I made because during that difficult period I was left with a broken heart that broke my spirit when the only woman that I loved apart from my mother broke my heart to pieces but I didn't dwell on it for long rather I channelled all my energy towards work. It made me become stronger and cold because one has to have a tough skin if you want to survive in the business world. Though I felt very empty but I had my work to keep me company. My mother is the only family I have left but then she began to travel alot, sometimes she went away for months. She said she needed it in order to forget her pains so she needed something to distract her.

If when I ever have a son someday i hope he becomes even better than me and achieve more than I have ever achieved.

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Lyon my driver opened the back door to my Bentely as I nodded at him. He quickly closed the door when I entered and walked over to the drivers door, he opened and slide inside. Take me to the Nuova Era ( New Age ) restaurant I say. Yes sir. He said and started the car before driving off. I picked up a magazine lying on the seat that had my picture in front of the cover page, it had some informations about me being one of the youngest billionaire and also stating my networth. I smirked at that because they got my networth wrong , this is because I was worth more than what they wrote In the magazine. Very soon my worth will be ranging into trillions, probably before the year runs out. I am that wealthy.

Sometimes some informations written about some people in papers are not correct, the stories are sometimes over exaggerated or fabricated in order to sell their papers . That is why you should not always believe some informations written down on papers or that you read online. Sometimes people Photoshop a particular celebrity and write wrong things about them in other to gain followers on social media or even to sell that particular paper.

Three months ago I was in every news paper and news channel when I began having a fling with a prominent politicians daughter. I wouldn't say we were in a relationship because we were not. She was just a good f**k who later began to get demanding and decided to breach the initial agreement we had of having no stringe attached in the relationship. She knew my terms and conditions when we began the little thing we had going on. Then one day she had a press conference and when she was asked about her relationship with me she pissed me off by telling the media that she and I were in a serious relationship. Immediately I stopped the little charade of a relationship we had going and stopped picking ber calls, she tried to apologize to me several times for what she said to the media but I refused and blocked her line. She even tried calling me with using other numbers but I also blocked those numbers as well, suddenly she stopped trying to call me again. I guess she got tired and gave up knowing that I was done with her and her nonsense. I hate people acting contrary to what I tell them to do. She knew what she was getting into in the first place because I told her I don't do relationships and i do not attach feelings to either pleasure or one night stands but she thought that she was special and could claim her right over me. Anyways the media were also there to spread the rumour that the sought after Young billionaire bachelor have broken up with Jessicca which was her name. This rumour started after they didn't see she and I in public events or on dates . The next picture on paper was a picture of me locking lips with a very popular beautiful model called Sharon and thus the story continued that I had dumped the politician's daughter and now I am in a new relationship with a model. The picture they took of us was real but the relationship aspect was fake and Sharon knew that. Anyways I broke it off with her a few days before I got back from my one week break. I quickly got tired of her and her insecurities which she didn't have the right to have because I wasn't hers to begin with. I hate it when bitches do not know their place. My heart has long gone cold in anything that has to do with love, having such feeling for any woman right now is a total no for me. Right now my main focus is to build more empire and perhaps in the future I could get a surrogate to have a child that would take over from me when the time comes. I know that most of this women are not capable of loving any man genuinely because they are only after the name, fame and wealth even if they are wealthy alreaddy. They only wanted to prove something to the world that they are capable of landing the most sought after bachelor in the country. f*****g gold diggers thinking they are smart by showing fake affection towards me. If I was a poor man with low income or a homeless person would they want to be with me? The answer is 'no' so these women are only after one thing and that is the numbers in my bank account, they want to achieve their dreams by using me. They are selfish beings ever created by God. I wouldn't want to generalize it that all women are like that but I don't care and I only see them as the same. That is why I have resolved within myself to only f**k and then leave them. Who cares about their stupid feelings.The only thing that they are capable of bringing to the table is leaving you with a broken heart for you to nurse till all eternity. I know first hand what it feels like to have your heart broken into pieces and dished out to you because I once commited a single offence of falling for the wrong person.

The media can write what ever they like about me because I don't care, they have already termed me a player and a Casanova. Anyways I do not hide it to the public that I have had so many affairs as long as I do not let it interfer with my work and i know my boundaries. My personal life does not matter and it has not affceted my relationship with my clients or those that work for me in anyway, instead alot of people admire and respect me because they know that this casanova is someone who do not add business with pleasure.

I checked my phone to see if I had any recent emails or text messages and sure enough my phone was flooding with them. I read a few of them and then decided to leave the rest for later when i get back to the office. I locked my phone and as I was about to place it inside my pocket it began to ring, I checked and saw an incoming call from my best pal Ethan. I picked up and placed the call on speaker.

Ethan : Hey whatsup man (his amused voice said over the phone).

Donovan: Am good, are you back already from your trip? (I asked picking my nails).

Ethan: Yeah I got back this morning precisely. What is your schedule like today?

Donovan: I have a meeting right now with the mayor, after which I will go back to the office to finish up with some pending work.

Ethan: You only live once man, you gotta have some fun sometimes you know. When was the last time we hung out together, or went clubbing together? Like never. its been like ages.

I laughed at what my friend said before answering him.

Donovan: I have already gotten all the rest that I need. A week rest was enough and I am already paying for it for slacking off. So right now I need to only focus on work and nothing else.

Ethan: A week rest is not enough you have been working non-stop for the past ten years. The least you can do is give your self a month vacation. Now tell me did you even give your self a good rest during your short break? The answer is no because I know you went to that bloody farm house in that country side , riding horses. Without giving your self a treat or some rest. So mate that ain't no break you took.

Donovan: A week rest is enough for me and I took the much needed rest. The only thing missing was that I was not able to get laid .

Ethan: ( sighing) you my dear friend is no fun at all.

Donovan: ( chucking at what my friend said) but you love me like that don't you mate?

Ethan: Whatever sails your boat. Anyways we are hanging out today this evening .

Donovan: I can't, I am very busy I have....... Ethan suddenly interrupted me .

Ethan: I won't take no for an answer, I have not seen you for like a month, so do not even think about refusing me.

I rolled my eyes at what he just said.

Ethan: ( laughing) and don't even roll your eyes at me .

Donovan: I just did. Okay you win man, I will clear out some of my work and then make out time for this evening. Happy now.

Ethan: yeah sure, lets meet at our usual bar at 7.pm.

Donovan: Fine, see you then. Bye.

I hung up before he could reply. Ethan can be very persuasive at times. But he was right its been a while since he and I hung out together, I was too occupied with my work to have time to hang out. But sometimes we do hang out together when I make time for it. He has been my best friend for a very long time, he understood me more than I understood myself. He was there with me when my dad passed, when I had to struggle to make sure I brought the company to the height it is today. And when I stopped seeing all my friends in order to focus on my work Ethan did not give up on me, he stuck to me in both thick and thin. Infact he was the brother I never had. And whenever he comes back from some of his business trips he tries to make out time for us to hang out and catch up . Infact he tried to remind me that I was human and not a robot and that sometimes I need to live for myself too. I could be very over bearing at times but he never judged me. Ethan was my best pal and he will always be.

Sir we have arrived Lyon suddenly said. I looked through the window and sighed. He parked the car and then came out to open the door for me, I stepped out wearing my sun shade. After adjusting my suit sleeves I walked towards the restaurant. The doorman held the door open for me. I nodded at him then went inside the exquisite Italian restaurant. The ambiance of the restaurant is supperb. A female waiter approached me Immediately smiling at me, she was wearing a white short sleeved shirt, a black tight knee length pencil skirt, and paired with a black high heel shoes. She was very pretty. Hello Mr. Green she said to me still smiling widely at me. Her eyes seams to twinkle as she stared at me . Hi Gwen, I say as I saw her name written on the tag she was wearing on her shirt. Sir, your guest have arrived and is waiting for you at the V.I.P.

Has he been waiting for long ?I asked her trying to confirm something. Well sir. He has been here for like thirty minutes, he had come before the stipulated time your secretary made for the reservation. I see, I say.

Please come with me sir she said as she led me towards the V.I.P part of the restuarant.

This restaurant is where elites of the society comes to dine or have business meetings, but despite your status you will still need to book ahead in order to make a reservation, sometimes it takes days or even a week to get a single reservation. But for people like me, it takes just a phone call to get any of my reservations made. One thing I like about this restaurant is that they serve exceptional dishes and maybe pricier. The decor scheme is top- notch, and the ambiance is also world- class. The building architecture, staff etiquette, table settings and lighting options are classy to reflect the high standards of dining in a luxurious restaurant. Not only did my company build this very restaurant but I have the right connection to make reservations at any time. After all I am Donovan Green who would refuse me. I walked towards the V.I.P with Gwen leading the way, this way sir she said pointing to the door. Enjoy your meal, she said smiling at me. She seams to smile alot. I thanked her and opened the door before walking inside a sophisticated looking room. The interior of the room is cozy and was carefully planned and created in a way that the guest could enjoy the exceptional views and atmosphere while enjoying their meals. All the accessories in the room were created according to the design, it is maintained in one direction, carries a light shade of vintage , remaining quite complex and sophisticated.

The mayor was already seated sipping his red wine as I made my way towards him. I wondered why he came here before the time that we agreed on. Hello sir I said beaming at him and giving him my signature smile. I hope I did not keep you waiting for long? We both shake hands, not really, I have only been here for some minutes he replied. So how are you son? he asked as I unbottened my suit and sat down making myself comfortable. I am doing okay and how are you sir? I asked politely. Never been better I guess, he replied chuckling. A smartly dressed waiter approached us with our menu. Good day gentlemen my name is signore Antonio and I will be your host, these are the menu. He handed the menu over to us and went to stand by waiting for us to make our choice of food. I went through the menu and saw several mouth watering dishes but I settled for spaghetti Bolognese ( a pasta dish consisting of spaghetti ( long, thin cylindrical pasta) and a sauce made from tomatoes minced beef, garlic, wine and herbs). Sometimes minced beefs can be replaced by other minced meats. I also went for rich and meaty lamb ragu and for dessert I chose the tiramisu and also a red wine to go with them. The mayor went for their creamy bacon mushroom thyme chicken , and lasagna alla bolognese which is a rich and warming dish that goes perfectly with a bold red wine. He also chose the Tiramisu for dessert. This dessert is the most famous of all Italian dessert. Our host left to get our meal as the mayor and I made light conversations while we wait for our food. The waiter brought me red wine. Gentlemen your meal will be ready in twenty minutes time. I thanked him as he bowed to us and then left. As I sipped my wine the mayor stared at me and smiled, so tell me son how is the mall project going? Its already underway, my workers are doing a very good job and the mall will be completed in no time, I replied. He nodded I am positive that your company will do a perfect job. I only smiled at what he said. But within me I know that this was not the only reason he had scheduled a meeting with me there was more and he was only bidding his time. So tell me any one special in your life yet, because for sometime now there have not been any scandal written about you in the paper he said.

I knew it , I know where this conversation is heading to, but I played along. I laughed at what he said. I don't have anyone special in my life and I intend to keep it that way for now and focus solely on my work I replied. He chuckled when have you not been focused on your work, and besides you also need to live for yourself too. You need a serious woman in your life it is not good to be alone for so long and also to keep the family lineage going. I am sure that if your father was alive he would also want the same thing for you. I sighed, you are right sir, but right now I dont want any distractions but I will think about starting a family when i find the right woman to get married to I say.

He laughed, youngsters of this generation thinks so differently from us. How is your mother doing these days? he asked. Oh... She is still travelling but she is absolutely fine I replied. Just then the waiter came in with our orders halting our conversations. After serving us he bowed buon appetito ( in Italian it means enjoy your meal). He then left us to our meal. The mayor and I didnt say anything further as we dug in and enjoyed our meal. Some minutes later we were having our dessert while sipping our red wine. The mayor suddenly cleared his throat. Tell me Donovan have you met Catherine yet since she came back? He asked.

His daughter Catherine and I used to be childhood friends till she went to another country for her college education. We lost contact and with time I forgot all about her as I was too focused with work. Besides we were just friends and nothing more. So the mayor telling me that we was back came as a shock to me because I knew that she had long completed her college education but didnt return back to the country. Oh! I am not aware of her return back to the country I say, finishing the wine in my glass as I refilled my glass. You two should try and meet sometime , how about this weekend? I will be hosting a party at my place this Sunday, it will be starting from 7.pm he said. I was silent for some seconds before replying to him, alright sir I will make out time to attend I say. I will be expecting you son he said giving me a warm smile. I smiled back at him. He then looked at this watch. I will leave first he said standing up, it was nice having lunch with you he said shaking hands with me . I also stood up too as I shake his hands and returned his smiles. And son,this one is on me he said before leaving after bidding me farewell. I smiled within myself. The mayor was such a strange man, he could have simply invited me to his party over the phone so why schedule for a meeting. I shook my head smiling as i finished my drink, I stood up leaving a huge tip for the waiter before leaving the restaurant.

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After going back to my office I completed the rest of my work and when I checked the time it was almost 6.pm in the evening. Hearing a light knock at the door I asked my secretary to come in. She was holding some files in her arms. sir, these are the files that you requested for she said. Drop them on my desk. What are my schedules like for tommorow ? sir you have a meeting with the board members by 10.am in the morning, after which you are going to the site for the w****y supervision on the Price project she replied. I sighed, then saved my work and switched off my laptop. I needed to leave right now if i am going to meet up with Ethan this evening. Is there any other thing you would like to be done sir? She asked. No Sarah that will be all , just tidy up my desk then you can leave I replied standing up. Very well sir, you have a good evening. she said going about putting my desk in order. You too. I replied going out of my office. I sent Ethan a meassage telling him i was on my way home to take a shower and then i will meet him at the bar. I also let him know that I will be coming in a bit late. I sent the message to him before pocketing my phone and making my way to the elevator where Lyon was already waiting for me at the underground garrage.

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I was humming to a tune as I took a hurried shower in my luxurious bathroom, I shampooed my hair and then rinsed off. After my warm bath I grapped my towel and wiped my body dry before using my hair drier to properly dry my dark hair. I have decided that I will change the color of my hair but I haven't gotten the chance to do so. Getting out of my bathroom I went to my walk- in closet to select what to wear for the evening. I settled for a black Jean , a collarless button up shirt with a black leather jacket. I paired them up with my white vans. I quickly wore my clothes and put on my Rolex watch, applied my cologne before lastly wearing my vans. I then got to styling my hair, gelling and styling it backwards and looked at my reflection in the mirror. I looked perfect, take me to court. My electric blue eyes were to die for. My height and build added to my perfection. I sure looked like a Greek god. But looks alone was not the only appealing thing that made me unique but I was also very smart which is why I was able to achieve alot in life until now. Looks alone is not enough but you have to be smart as a person in order to survive in this world.