Love Hate Relationship - Chapter 31：What went wrong?

Gary stood beside her, he knows she has questions but he is not going to say anything unless she ask. Sasha sat beside the bed and watched the man laying there, her eyes moistened again when she remembered what the doctor said, it’s only temporal Sasha, only temporal, she told herself looking at his legs.

She sat watching the man for a good while before remembering that there was someone else in the room with her, she turned to look at Gary, her face revealed that she was studying him and not too sure about her memory. Gary chuckled at that “you can stop now you know, whatever your mind is telling you is the truth” he smiled to her.

Sasha nodded once “then that means you are the one that has been sending contracts to my company, I have seen you twice.”

“Yes I am” he admitted to her accusation.

Sasha waited for him to say something else but the man remained silent, so she decided to probe further “so, how did you get to know Michael?”

Gary chuckled lightly again “I have known Michael since he was eighteen, been with him since then. His father hired me to be his assistant and I must admit to you, it took me three long years to enter his good book” he looked at her and smiled gently “to get close to your husband is really difficult. For one year, he lived like I did not exist, the second year, he turned me into his slave, always ordering me around. The third year, he started confiding in him but that was after I saved his life, ever since then it’s been the two of us, I guess but I know he has never treated me bad since then again and sometimes he even ask for my opinion before he does some certain things.”

Sasha took her time to digest the new information before looking at him again “so, Michael is the one that orders you to send the contracts or you do so on your own accord?”

“I can never take such decisions on my own. Rest assured mistress that whatever I did was a direct order from him” he replied.

Sasha was lost to her thoughts and didn’t speak to Gary again, so Michael had him sending all those contacts these past months, but why? He doesn’t talk to her at home but he sends her contracts, what does he want exactly? Ever since that night they made love, he has never talked to her again and that was seven months ago but he has been helping her to upgrade her company, now the company’s name is making it’s way into the lights even without the Jack and Jones contract.

But what is the essence of him helping her in work but was cold to her at home? For seven months her husband have not talked to her and she only gets to hear his voice if she happens to see him taking a call, she looked at the man on the bed and sighed, if he really loathes her then why help her? Don’t he realize that this thing he is doing is making it difficult for her to stop loving him but rather she is falling deeper for him? She sighed and caressed his long and slender fingers, he is cold to her at home but he still had her best interest at heart.

Sasha felt her heart moved at that, he cares for her but why don’t he wants to show her? What could she have done that make him hate the very sight of her? She remembered how he use to be back then in high school, even though he doesn’t talk to her but he never fails to acknowledge her when she pass by him, when she will say her hello, he usually nod in greeting to her, when she says her hi, he always offer her a warm smile, when she says goodbye, he waves back at her. If she is to think on it, he was kind, gentle and charming to her back then, although they have never sit on the same table for lunch, although they have never shared a desk in class because he was her senior then, but he has never been hostile towards her.

So what could have gone wrong? What could she have done to make him despise her to this extent? The more she think about it, the more she can’t help but feel that there is a mystery there, something might have happened, but what? Why does he hate her now?

Others might not understand this but he knows better because he is the one that he always sends on such errands, his boss will not ask his wife if she had eaten when he sees her rather he will stare ahead of her and act aloofly but once he gets to the office or where she was not around, he will ask him if she and eaten and will also ask him what she ate, his attitude dumbfound him atimes and he knows no one else will answer this question but the boss himself.

He has also not forgotten how he planted people to watch her when he was out of the country for his education, he can remember the men reports to him every night about what she did that day and unbelievably what she ate in the whole day, he had always thought his boss was madly in love with her and might have been shy to tell her which was why he was so happy for him when he was getting married to her, he had thought to himself ‘finally boss don’t have to be shy about confessing his feelings, he just needs to act well and his marriage will be blessed’.

But who could explain his shock when he saw how he was treating her, he had been perplexed and had thought to himself ‘why have people watch her everyday life when you hate her? Or better still why marry her?’ That’s why he said, although he has stayed by his side for ten years now, the man is still a mystery to him because he finds it hard to decipher his thoughts. Gary sighed and sat on the chair outside the room, he really wonders about the fate of his mistress in this marriage and now his boss will be crippled temporarily, maybe things will work out now, who can tell? He heaved a low sigh.

Sasha stayed in the room for a long time beside Michael, doing nothing but just staring at him. Her tummy rumbled to remind her that she hadn’t eaten since afternoon. She sighed and got up and walked out of the room to see Gary sitting on the chair, his head was resting on the wall and his eyes were closed. Sasha suddenly found it difficult to wake him up, she thought about going out to look for what to eat herself, she looked at phone time and it was already 10:30, it’s been five hours now since Michael came out of the emergency room.

Three more hours and he would wake up just like the doctor said, she found herself praying silently that it will work like that, that he will wake up. She walked back into the room and got some money from her bag before walking out again, she debated about waking Gary up to tell him she was heading out but decided against it, it’s still the same thing, waking him from sleep.