The Reclusive Wife

Chapter 8

"sis......is it too late to say no ?"

"what ? what are you talking about Mayu ?"

"i - i d-don't think i can go on with this!"

"Mayu.....I'm sure it’s just wedding jitters, don't think too much"

"i assure you it's not......it’s just

"what, what's bothering you ?"

"It's just I'm not --- I'm not getting a good feeling"

Ferdousi giggled......"not getting a good feeling! yeah okay, i get it, heaving stomach, short of breaths, sweaty, Trembly fingers,. Right ?"

"Don't laugh....my intuitions are hardly wrong, you know ?"

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an hour Ezekiel King was with his name sake wife, he never spoke a word since she commanded him not to.....he just listened

For the first time in 3 years she really spoke.

no stealing glances,

no avoiding,

She.Actually.Spoke, as in complete sentence,

PLURAL, many sentences!

whatever brewing her mind over last 3 years, she talked back.

That little caterpillar could talk in public......

And here he always thought of her as a recluse....well then, wonder never seize to happen.

He literally barged into his chamber where his secretary Matt boyd was already waiting for him.......

and when he asked about today's schedule to him,...."you will be free until lunch boss and at 2 p.m. you have a meeting with potential client from Africa, he's been waiting for quite long time for this meeting"

''Hmm,....anything else ?'' Rikkard sighed and asked, eyes closed, fingers rubbing temple

"Nope.....not for now" Matt replied and stood there for awhile, looking at him.

Ezekiel looked up at him..."what"

Matt's been working for him for 4/5 years, so, he's aware of his boss's sudden changes in mood and as he deduced something happened.....he seemed little hesitant but he asked anyway

"are you alright ,....you seem....umm a little off! How was the date ?"

Ezekiel stopped his furious typing on laptop as he directed his already narrowed eyes on Matt only to see him excited smile, he really was holding back his laugh.

He always teased Ezekiel about his age.....even though they were almost the same age, according to him, Ezekiel should be happily married with at least 3 children by now, and here he was having date after 3 years of marriage

Ezekiel's nostril flared up in anger, f*****g Asshole.....he thought

''Good'' but containing his emotions he simply replied and didn't say anything further.

"Good ?

Just good ? and nothing else,...?

you spent a whole 2 and a half hour with your wife, nothing happened there ?"

Rikkard looked up with a clenched jaw, his knuckles turning white, for one he wasted 1 and half hour trying her patience and another hour listening.....

so, strictly speaking nothing of significance happened, God knows why he decided to waste that much time..... He could have just been there, he could have started with sorry and he could have said Let's start again,....he could have actually given her reasons for heavens sake, but no!

He waited patiently where she wouldn’t be able to see him.....he watched her getting frustrated, he watched her ordering 6 glass of water, he watched her talking to herself,.....he watched her until he decided to show finally himself, he wasn’t 1 and half hour late, he came at least half an hour early, but he came back with nothing.

Matt must have noticed his expression for he almost took a step back realizing he has stepped out of his boundary, as much as it was fun sometimes to tease his boss, but he was genuinely having a second thought right now.

seeing his secretary's worried expression, he unclenched his fist, turning his face neutral, he let out another sigh, rubbing his face with both his hands he turned to his laptop, and answered...

''She ---- indirectly asked for divorce'' without taking his eyes off from laptop screen

Matt's mouth formed a big 'O'

"D-did you ask why" He asked

''No, she wouldn't let me talk''

"What unfairness she was talking about !?....if. i. may. ask" he knew the peculiarity in his boss's marriage, so he try not to mention it.

''Well,...i wasn't mentally ready for marriage that time, i just took over the whole multi-billion dollar business only four years ago ........I needed time to settle down, to think!

but dad was adamant!

Either i marry to his choice or give him my choice which obviously he had to approve and give him grandbabies as soon as possible or he'll disown me as he quoted ( You're not getting any younger and i won't live forever, either you do as i say or you are no son of mine )

I had no time to fall for some money/status hungry whores, he knew that so he literally forced me to marry my God parent's daughter" Rikkard mumbled looking away and continued.....''Parrish' were family friends, so he didn't even ask, just ordered me and within few hours i was married. You may have noticed that i do not really live with her.....i - i thought maybe after some time I'll ask her to move in......in a blink 3 years gone''

Matt opened and closed his mouth few times because he got to know about it when a year passed on this very day, Rikkard asked him send a flower bouquet and anniversary card on his behalf in a certain address.

Matt never mentioned anything after that, every year, same day he is to do that, he was a capable employee, so yes he understood that situation is complicated enough to be not out in office or media yet.

Anybody outside office or small friends circle barely knows anything about Zeke's personal life, he preferred it that way, beside he despised media, gossip and tabloid....

It's just sometime he can't help but just tease him about this secret wife of his.....especially on his anniversary!

He might have found a girl, get settled in future, he just wanted to do that on his own terms, Matt knew how his boss hated being told what to do so he did exactly opposite just out of spite. It was his way of getting back at his own father!

only handful of people he allowed to get close to and Matt truly consider himself lucky to count himself one of them,....all the years he's been with Zeke, he saw so many women tried getting his attention ; Zeke brushed them off like dust but looks like his name sake of a wife was sticky enough to actually managed to get under his skin and now his boss is all riled up!

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