HÖRNY BOSS

Chapter 12

🔞 JACKSON 🔞

I sat down in Hannah's kitchen and sipped the iced tea she offered me while we talked. I had come straight here to see her when I left Nathan's office.

"I know you are worried about her, and I am not telling you to trust me, but I want you to know that I won't hurt her intentionally," I assured her.

"That girl has been through a lot. Much more than words can express, I don't want her to go through heartbreak again. She almost died after loosing…" 

Hannah abruptly stopped herself from revealing what I figured could be top secret between her and Vera.

"You don't have to tell me anything that you don't feel like… There's a few days left for the contract date to expire. We can't feel anything strong for each other in ten days, it's impossible, right?" I shared to get her consent.

"What about your son who's already picturing her as a mother figure? Vera might be a bîtch, but she has ways of winning children's heart without knowing. It's the only gift she has, they love her unconditionally, even my own kids!" She indicated.

I swallowed a lump in my throat. She's right, my son is already asking to call her mother while he knows her for only two days! 

"I can still get my son to forget about her when she leaves, they will definitely not cross paths again, so that clears up whatever he might be feeling," I assured her.

"You think it's easy to talk children out of something? Well, you are lucky you didn't meet my kids at home." She played.

"What about them? And where did they go" I laughed.

"They would have pulled down this building and I would be shouting my voice off trying to calm them down, we wouldn't have talked this long. My husband's parents live nearby, so they will stay with them for now," she said.

"Troubling their grannies right about now. Children can be a handful especially at younger age." I agreed.

"But Vera does magic with them, she would make them stay calm and do whatever she wants. They are always excited to see her but she doesn't frequent here anymore no matter how many times I tell her that they miss her." 

"You don't think she's running?" I wondered.

"No, let's say she's avoiding them because they remind her of what she had lost. Jack, take care of my friend, I won't forgive you if she ever gets hurt again," she reminded me.

I nodded and stood up to leave when the door opened. A tall red-haired man came in. His eyes were the same color as his hair, he's not too skinny. He's simply good-looking.

Hannah ran into his arms, took his briefcase and planted a welcome kiss on his small lips.

I looked everywhere but at the couple. Monica wasn't anything of that nature during our marriage, she was richly spoilt by her wealthy parents before their company went bankrupt.

Monica is lovable, sociable, beautiful and sexy, but being a wife is a liability to her. She is always partying with her friends and never has time for the little family we were trying to build back then.

When I tried stopping her, she turned my house into a clubhouse. Always throwing pool and dinner parties to make sure her friends are there.

She loves our son as much as I do, but not enough to stay by his side even when I was dying in the hospital. 

She welcomed me home the night I came back from the hospital by calling me a beast and the next day, she threw divorce papers at my face.

"I see we have a visitor!" The man smiled at me. "Hello, I am Oscar." He shook my hand.