Maya’s POV……..
I woke up with a throbbing sensation flowing through my head, I felt like my head felt heavy against my body, I had realized that I feel asleep in the living room, after Adam left last night, I was constantly thinking about everything that was happening, and I ended up opening a bottle a wine and I ended drinking half the bottle of wine; when I started I didn’t think or stop; I had different thoughts that flickered through my mind.
My life has changed in the last few days, two days ago, I had thought was getting married to the love of my life and I had thought everything in my life will be different, I had thought everything was perfect, and we would be happy; I had thought about our life; how it would be and how perfect I was going to have my life, for the first time in years, I was happy; I was not scared, and I didn’t bother about anyone.
For the first time I placed my happiness first and now everything has been ruined; I am not getting married, I have been betrayed by the man I had thought loved me, he has been cheating on me for a while, and he has a pregnant girlfriend that he loves, he never wanted to marry me, and now I am about to lose a business deal that define the next five years of my life.
Adam’s deal was too good, with his money I would be able to have the life I have always wanted, I would be happy, and I would not have a care for the world; I would not even have to work for Jonah, no one would be able to trace me and after this meeting with them, I would never have to see them again, they wont find me to send me another package to come and see me; they won’t have any idea where I am, I would be able to get everything that I need, I would be happy, and I would be away from Harry.
The deal came with a price, one that I have no idea if I would be able to handle, if I would be able to deal with it and I didn’t want to get married to Adam, I hated the sight of his face and I can’t even stand him longer than a minute in a room, he wants me to get married to him, and we should be married to a year.
That’s a year of being with someone that I hate, and he is obnoxious and cocky, and he thinks he can get anything that he wants in the world, I don’t think I could handle him, I don’t think I want to be with him.
I knew that I had to find a way around this, I have to find a way to solve every problem that I had; I don’t care about the money is willing to offer at the cost of my mental health and if I could return my work with Jonah, it would be great, I wish he could understand that I may not be able to bag this deal and I need to keep my job.
I shook off the thoughts and I headed into my bedroom; I needed to get out of these close and maybe find a way to speak to Joan; I made sure to take a quick bath and I changed into something formal; it’s a Saturday and I know that there are only a few people in the office and Jonah is one of them, I made sure to take an advik before I left the house.
I know that I didn’t even have much food, I had to go grocery shopping, my life is a complete mess and the more I stared I realized that I have an invitation that I have to upload the more annoyed I got at the situation and I did not like it, it annoyed me more, I need to fix my life, I can’t go there like this, and they can not see me this way, I needed to fix up before the dinner and I have a couple do weeks before that, it’s on the night of Christmas Eve and the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it’s going to get closer and closer until I can’t run away anymore, until I figured out that everything else is not real and this party and I have to be there for two days.
I shook off the thought and I got cab, I would rather not drive to the office, I was worried that I would start driving, and I would end up getting my mind being invaded by something else, I was worried that it’s not going to be good, and I may end up causing an accident; either way I didn’t think it was a good option.
Not only that, but I was pulled out of my thoughts when the car came to halt, and I walked out of the cab, it’s a good thing there were not much people, the last time I was here everyone as seen the video and I can’t even explain how I felt when they all stared at me: and I knew that they gossiped a lot about me, I know that they think otherwise of me. It’s bad enough not many of them like me, and now it’s even worse than I had thought.
I shook off the thoughts and I headed to his office, I laid a knock, and the number a come in, I walked in on him smoking a cigarette and when he saw me, a smile appeared on his face.
“Maya, just the woman I wanted to see, tell me you have some good news either that or you are handing over your resignation.” Jonah
smiled. I can tell he was enjoying this, he never really liked me.
“I wanted to speak to you about something, about the deal that you want us to sign.” I said, the moment I said that, I watched as he sat up, and he dropped his cigarette on the plate, his attention was focused on me.
“This better a good news.” Jonah gritted through his teeth, “if you are here to beg me or to make me change my mind, it’s not going to work, and I assure you Amaya, this deal is the most important for me and for my company and the beloved CEO is not going to like the fact that you cost us this, it’s the deal to the year and you have no idea what I had to do to make Adam listen to them.” He gritted through his teeth, his tone was laced with anger and I could tell that he wanted to yell at me.
I didn’t say a word, instead I nodded; I realized that it’s either I send him a resignation letter or the deal, and I have a feeling that I can’t resign, if I did, I would not be able to get a job; it’s that time of the rest it’s hard to get a job, I would have to wait until next year and I'm done have enough money to pay my rent, and if I am going to honor the invitation, I need enough money to hook a flight and get there and back home, I was hoping I would get paid; we always get a fat check toward the end of the year and if I get this deal, my check will be a lot more than anyone else.
I felt my chest tightened against my heart and I felt like everything was being ripped from me, I didn’t deserve to go through this; I did deserve to be happy, to get what I had worked for and what I wanted.
I didn’t want to cry in the presence of anyone, so I headed out of the office and I hailed a cab. The moment I got to my apartment, I found someone standing in front of the house, he looked like someone I had seen before.
“Miss Smith.” I heard the man say, he had a paper in his hand; when I moved closer to him, he handed me over the paper, and he didn’t say a word; he just walked away.
It was a rent increase notice, it says where they would increase by two percent and I need to pay my rent before the end of the week of I would have to leave the house, I knew no one, and I had no one, I am about to lose my job, my home and everything that I had, I would be forced to live on the streets and I knew I had only one choice.