Silence took over the room after Enoch lay down on the bed and made Abigail lay on his chest, non of them willing to break the uncomfortable silent. Each of them had a lot going on in their mind, but didn't know how to get it out. "Do you mind when people call you a beast?" Abigail asked suddenly.
"I don't mind, am a beast anyway." He said but before he could say anything else, Abigail placed a finger on his lips. "You are not a beast, don't say that again." She said.
"Doesn't this mark on your shoulder prove it to you that am a beast?" He asked, passing his hand on the teeth shaped mark on Abigail shoulder, staring at it as if he was going to bit her again anytime soon.
"that was not intentionall and I asked for it." Turing her face away from him, she spoke. "Ahhhh... What's wrong with you?" Abigail couldn't believe Enoch had bitten her again, and this time, it was more painful than the first one.
"How about now, was it intentional?" He lefted his eyebrows as he spoke.
"Do you know how I suffered to heal the first one, and you bite me at the same place again?" She was at the verge of tears as she confronted him, but all he was thinking of was the taste of her blood. She punched him on the chest when she noticed he was spacing out. " I said it hurt." she lashed out.
" So what do you want, a compensation?" Enoch asked, but before Abigail could think of an answer, her mouth was captured by Enoch, silencing her completely.
The night was short as the two kept making love through out the night till day break, before Enoch gave Abigail the chance to sleep.
"Enoch you jerk, you kept me up all night." She turn to see if he was still sleeping, but to her surprise, he was out of bed. Fear grief her that he might have left, but the thought of her not seeing his car when she came home last night calmed her.
" He won't even get a cab at this time of the day." She said as she got off bed and went to the living room in search for Enoch.
"She doesn't have to know that am not marring her, all that is important now is that am with her." She heard Enoch's voice and even though it wasn't intentional she found herself eavesdropping.
"I won't be with her for long.... If not for the promised I made to her father, that useless girl would have been out of my life by now..... I tell you that girl can't be my wife in any way." Even though Abigail couldn't hear what the other person was saying, she was sure that she was the topic.
" Am I that useless to you? What was I even thinking." She couldn't stop herself anymore, but crying wasn't going to solve her problems.
" Hay you might have heard me wrong, let me explain." Enoch ended his call and walked back to her.
"Let you explain? Am I that stupid that I'll believe you after all that I heard you saying? Oh yeah right I am after all, if not I wouldn't let you fuck me all night less than a week after you threw me out of your house." tears flew non stop as she spoke hurtfully.
" Queen it's not what you think, I wasn't even talking about you." Enoch tried to explain but his words fell on dead ears.
" Get out, I don't want to ever see you again. Get out of my house now." She exclaimed.
"will you let me explain." Enoch tried to hold her but she wasn't in for it.
"I said get out." At that she began to push him out of her house and when he was finally out, she picked his belongings and threw them at him, closing the door in his face so he wouldn't be able to come back.
She sat behind the door and for the first time after their brake up, she cried properly to let out all the pain and anger she had been keeping in her. If she didn't understand why Enoch asked her to leave his house then, now she knew the reason, and she wasn't going to be a fool again.
....
Enoch got home angrily driving his car into his compound in full speed and almost running down his gateman. "Are you blind, didn't you see the car coming?" He yelled at him.
"Sir I was..." before the gateman John could complete his statement Enoch gave him a punch on the face. It felt like he had been holding on to the punch for so long and he felt good releasing it.
"Don't you dare talk back at me unless you want more punches, do you understand?" He yelled again and all the guards and maid who saw him knew well not to offend him. He got into his living room and Gideon was there pressing his laptop.
"How did it go?" Gideon inquire as he stood up. "Aahwg. Did she ask you to punch me?" He asked, not understanding why Enoch punch him so hard that he almost fell if not for the sofa he held on to.
"No, but that was how it went. You ruined everything for me. Now she doesn't want to see me anymore. You destroyed what I worked hard for." Enoch barked at Gideon and stomed upstairs angrily, leaving him thinking of what he did to make his boss so upset that he had to punch him.
....
It been days after Enoch and Abigail broke up for good, but all she did was sleep all day, sometimes forgetting to even eat. The men patrolling her house had stopped coming and she felt that marked the end of the relationship between her and Enoch.
"Who could that be, I don't feel like talking." she frown upon hearing her phone ring. She walked lazily to pick up the phone from her dresser then answered, feeling a bit better due to who was calling.
"Good day miss. Are you doing well or I should call an ambulance?" Gasper asked sarcastically from the other side of the phone.
"Am sure I don't need an ambulance, a simple breakup can't kill me." She tried to sound happy but failed. " Tell me what made you think of me this afternoon." She questioned, inpatient to end the call.
"Nothing really, I just want to know if you have time to spear, I'll like you to visit my mother on behalf of my future girlfriend." He sounded sarcastic and mischievous at the same time.
"And since when did I agreed to be your girlfriend?" Abigail was not happy with the topic, but had to speak anyway.
" No it's not like that. You see there is this girl that I truly like, but the thing is she doesn't see me, and my mom want me to get married so I told her that I love someone. But she insist on seeing the person if not she will get me someone to marry, and of course I don't want to end up in a Loveless arranged marriage." He complained.
His words made Abigail felt like she had been trapped. She wouldn't be able to say no to him nor would she be able to lie to his mother. " I'm not a born liar, I can't lie to your mom. What if she asked me questions I can't answer?" Abigail argued.
" You see, you are not really going to lie. First you are my coworker and then you are my friend, you don't even know if I love you or not, so you are very fit for this job. Please do this for me just this ones." Gasper pleaded
" What if she asks me if I love you?" Abigail asked out of the blue. This question brought silence on both end of the phone for a while, before Gasper managed to answer.
" You can be true to yourself or just pretend and say you love me too." He commented, this time he sounded serious on the phone.
"Send me the address, day and time." She said and just ended the call not willing to argue with him any longer since it was pointless and he won't give up.
Just when she was about to sit on her bed, her phone started ringing again. "Gezz so hard headed." She cursed before answering the call without seeing the caller ID. "Do I have to tell you am going with you before you allow me to charge my phone and sleep." She sounded a bit angry, talking almost on top of her voice.
"Report to work by 8am tomorrow, and don't forget to be in uniform." A strict voice commanded from the other end.
" Sir? Mr Awuku its you?" He ended the call without answering.