The Billionaire's Proposition

Chapter 12

Damon got to Malero club. He
was met by the manager who was known as Mr  Adam.

Mr Adam lead him to where Caroline was. She saw him and smiled at him.
"Darling, I knew you would come. "
She tried to wrap her arms around him but he refused. He dragged her out of there and into the hotel attached to the club.

She threw up on him and he had to remove his suit jacket. A man beside him offered to hold it for him while Damon took Caroline to her room.
Damon in his anger didn't think twice and he did so.

Damon didn't notice the guy slip away with his suit jacket and his phone in it.

He took her to her room. He tried to leave but she wouldn't let him.
"Stop this nonsense, Caroline. You have gone too far this time . Whatever it is you are up to, leave my deceased parents out of it."

Caroline stubbornly continued.
"Damon, I didn't do everything I did to end up losing you. I made sure your father put his will the way I want it just to be with you. I won't let a nobody take you away from me, I won't."

Damon was shocked.
"You? You are the reason father put that clause in his will. The condition that I find someone to marry or end up forced to marry you or I lose everything. You are the reason for that? "

Damon paced the room. He couldn't believe this. Caroline stood on unsteady legs and walked towards him. She didn't mean to blurt out her role in influencing his father's will.
She tried to touch him.

"Damon, love, I can exp....."
Damon stopped her from speaking and pushed her away from him .

"Don't even think about it. I cannot believe this. Do not come near me again. I am telling you for the last time, I am married. Shal may be a nobody to you but she is worth more than a thousand you. I love her and will never divorce her. There is no room in my life for you. Good day."

Damon left her and walked out of the room. He was very angry but he tried to calm himself down. He searched for his phone and couldn't find it. He remembered it was in his suit jacket. He searched for the guy he gave it to but couldn't find him.

He was about to leave the hotel when the man with his jacket walked up to him. He gave Damon his jacket dry cleaned.

Damon thanked him and left . He knew he was going to be late for dinner with Shal.

***

Caroline poured herself another glass of wine. She recalled her encounter with Damon as she sipped her wine.

She hadn't meant to talk about how she made the deceased Mr Bolt put his will in the way she wanted. She wasn't discouraged by Damon's attitude. She would continue with her plan.

Her accomplice slipped into the room. She turned to look at him.
"Mason, have you done what I asked you to do?"
"Yes, we are waiting for your next order. What do we do now?"
He answered her.
"Good. You know where to take her. I will be joining you there soon."
Mason nodded and left.

Caroline smiled and finished her wine.
"Damon, you will soon be mine,. Just a little more time and we will be together like it we were meant to be."

She fell on her bed and slept off.

***

Damon got home. He went into the house but he didn't find Shalimar.
"Shal, am home."
"Shal."
He called her but he got no answer. He searched for her in their bedroom and the bathroom attached to it but she wasn't there.

He wondered where she was. He went into the sitting room. There he found an envelope. He opened it and the first thing he saw was the letter addressed to him. It was Shal's writing.

Dear Damon,
Am sorry but I can't continue this farce of a marriage.
In the photos accompanying this letter, the man is Mason, I met him and we  fell in love.
Thank you for everything.
I am sorry but am through with this marriage.
I will send you divorce papers. Please sign them without fighting it.
Take care and good bye.
Shal.

Damon brought out the photos. One was of Shal kissing the man she called Mason. Another showed her in bed with the man.

He was stunned. As he stared at the pictures, he felt pain engulf his heart. He loved her and she left him. The letter and the photos fell out of his hands as he sat on the floor and put his head in his hands.

He couldn't understand why she left now. He thought things were going so well between them. What will he do without her? What would Emma do?

Emma!

He bolted up at the thought of Emma. Even if Shal left him, she wouldn't abandon Emma.

He called the hospital and asked them about Emma. They told him that she was still there and doing well but Shal didn't visit that day.

He knew Shal. She loved her sister dearly. Now he was calmer, he recalled how they lived together and that they made plans to go out that day.

Shal couldn't leave everything like that. It only meant one thing.

She was in danger.

He brought out his phone and called his friend, Jesse.
"Hello, Jesse. There is a problem."