Chapter - 59
A new day, a new beginning. When Alex woke up, he looked a bit drained. Though he slept like a log, throwing away all his concerns, the mont he woke up, he rembered Karen's husband and his unkempt appearance. Just thinking about it, Alex could not help but shudder. How could she marry soone like him? The two of them were so apart. Karen was like the only shining star on a cloudy night while her husband was the dark, black cloud trying to hide it.
"Yuck... What the Fuck!" A strong stench penetrated his nose. Covering his nose, he looked around for the source of the sll, but nothing seems to be rotting in his room. Alex lifted his blanket and sll it.
"Fuck! What's this shit?" The sll was coming from his blanket.
'Don't tell I peed in the bed," Alex was scared shitless. If his mother ca to his room right now, what face will he have?
Just when he was about to check his pant, he looked at his shirt and knew what was the cause. He forgot to change his clothes last night and crawled in his bed with clothes covered in Margaret's puke.
Dejected, disappointed, drowning in dismay, he dragged himself off his bed and pulled with him the blanket as well as the sheets as he made his way to the bathroom to wash up. Soon after dressing nicely, he went downstairs for breakfast.
When George and Martha saw Alex climb down the stairs dressed splendidly, they thought their son was going for so kind of a party. The kind of parties which usually takes place in those ivory towers where people wearing diamond studs, with champagne in one hand, and they talk about the problems of the country. They were amazed by his transformation.
They asked him what was the occasion for him to dress so nicely, but all they got from him was that he just wanted to. Alex left soon afterwards without going into detail for the reason he dressed up like that.
In the office,
When Alex reached the office, he found the usually bustling office in complete silence. He greeted the ladies, but they just nodded towards him and signalled him to keep his voice down. No one seems to have noticed the efforts he put in to dress himself up.
Alex walked to his desk and whispered to Amber, who was sitting beside him, "What happened here? Why are they so deadly silent?"
"Don't ask . I only got here a couple of minutes before you," Amber shrugged and went back to painting her nails. This girl literally had all the ti in the world.
Alex didn't like this unusual atmosphere. He has gotten used to the constant chatter, occasional bickering and the ladies running around him. His stomach was churning with the urge to know what was happening going on. He took out his phone, wrote a ssage and sent it.
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Ellaine picked her phone and found a ssage from Alex. She looked at him, and making faces, turned away.
Alex was taken back by her gesture. It didn't even cross his mind that what he did yesterday could have been the cause of it.
"Chee... Chesshh..." Alex let out so weird sounds to get her attention, but Ellaine ignored him whatsoever.
By now, Alex knew that Ellaine was playing deaf, so he could only pin his hopes on soone else, and who is better than Hazel after Ellaine?
He forwarded the sa ssage to Hazel. When Hazel saw the ssage from Alex, she looked at him with her brows raised, which ant, 'What's the ssage for?', while Alex gestured for her to read the ssage.
Hazel read the ssage, 'What is the matter? Why are you all so silent and behaving this way?'
'Don't ask. Karen is in a very terrible mood,' Hazel wrote back to him.
'What happened?' Alex asked.
'Evidently, she argued with her husband, at least that's what we all think,' Hazel told him.
'Why?' Alex wrote back.
'You tell . You went to drop her ho last night,' Hazel questioned him. Alex, after reading Hazel's reply, looked at her while she gave him a suspicious look.
'Is it because of ?' Alex wrote back. He did think that he might be the cause after his slight, not worth ntioning, an altercation with Karen's husband.
'Maybe, You tell what happened when you went to drop her ho. Don't leave out a single detail,' Hazel now sniffed sothing from Alex's replies, and she was curious to dig deep.
'Should I go and test the waters?' Alex suggested.
'Are you tired of living? Right now, she might even devour you raw,' Hazel outright rejected the idea.
'Then what are we going to do now?' Alex asked for her suggestion.
The mont Alex asked this, he got a couple of notifications on his desktop. It was an invitation to join so sort of group.
'I have sent you the invitation to join the two departnt groups,' Hazel ssaged him before he could ask.
They were the invites to join the two groups of the PR departnt. One was more official that was nad, 'Work,' while the other was, 'Ladies of the PR.' As soon as Alex joined the group, ssages began to pour in. his phone began to buzz non-stop, and welco ssages from everyone were sent.
"The newbies are here, everyone," Hazel wrote.
'Welco newbies'. Ellaine was the first one to greet.
'Now both of you are truly a part of the PR departnt. Congratulations,' soone wrote.
'Welco,' Jennifer's ssage was simple as always.
ssages like this flooded the group.
'Excuse , but don't you think we need to change the group's na?' Alex wrote after a while. Now that the group had a man as well, they needed to do away with the existing na.
'Yeah, we now have our errand boy join the group. I think we should change the na,' Hazel agreed with Alex.
'Only you and Ellaine can treat such cutie as your errand boy,' soone wrote.
'Well, we know how to use the resources well, don't we, Ellaine?' Hazel wrote back.
'Hmmm,' Ellaine replied, 'Don't we have a na to think of?' Ellaine diverted the topic smoothly.
'Yeah. What should we na it?' soone asked.
'Office mbers?' Jennifer suggested.
'Nah... it's too bland,' Hazel rejected it right away.
'I have a suggestion,' Amber wrote.
'Ohh... the new mber is going to suggest. Let's hear her out.'
'How about 'Prey among Predators'?' Amber asked.
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