The Rich Married Woman episode 4

~THERICHMARRIEDWOMAN~

#EPISODEFOUR

“Were you able to get the grape I told you to bring for me?”. Collins Roland asked me immediately he rushed out of his room after the loud cry of Raymond’s mother and i blinked cluelessly at him because I didn’t understand what he was saying.

What grape was he talking about?

He chuckled and looked up at everyone. “I think Gold is actually a shy person. I told her to help me get grape from the fridge, but since she couldn’t find it, she was looking for a way to tell me because she was thinking I might get angry with her or something. Help me to get strawberry then”.

Collins Roland was diverting the attention of the Rolands and making it look like he had asked me to bring Strawberry for him.

I cooperated and walked to the fridge to get the strawberry he had ordered.

Raymond’s father glared at his mother. “What’s wrong with you? What the hell is wrong with you?”

She sighed embarrassedly and walked into her room.

When everyone had gone back to their rooms, I walked into Collins room and dropped the tray of strawberries on his reading table.

He faced the wall. “Are you suspicious of me?”.

I stifled and looked away. “Not at all”.

He turned to me with a soft glint in his eyes. “Are you suspicious of Jennifer Roland?”.

“Jennifer Roland?”.

“If you are not suspicious of her, then you don’t have to be suspicious of me”.

“Why did you rescue me from everyone just now when you knew that I had eavesdropped on your conversation?”.

He shrugged. “I just like you naturally. I don’t want the good reputation that you have in Roland family to be destroyed, and I believe you should also protect my reputation too just like I just did yours”.

I smiled convincingly at him. “I didn’t even understand what I over-heard you saying on the call you were making to the unknown caller”.

He nodded thoughtfully. “There is no way you can understand, but the little you have heard, I don’t want anyone to hear it”.

I nodded and walked out of his room.

The only way to survive in the Roland mansion was to act like you don’t know what you are doing even when you do.

I will do accomplish everything i want to do and act as if I don’t know what I am doing.

When I got to the room I was sharing Raymond, the big head was already sleeping.

Pa Brian was the one that woke us up the next morning.

I rushed to open the door for him after he had banged so hærd. “Good morning pa’Brian”. I greeted him, rubbing my sleepy eyes.

He walked into our room and observed that Raymond was sleeping on a smaller bed instead of our matrimonial bed. “Ray!”. He called out.

Raymond jerked off his sleep and got to his feet. “Grandpa?”.

“Why are you sleeping on a different bed?”.

He coughed uneasily and nudged me. “We slept on the smaller bed together last night, right?”.

I made eyes at him. “Why are you indirectly begging me to lie for you? Tell Grandpa why you chose to lie on the smaller bed”.

Pa Brian fumed at Raymond. “So you have not been sleeping together and you call yourselves husband and wife? Well I have got good news for you guys! The chairman of love hotel has org-nized a love party in honour of the both of you because our company had once sponsored the launching of their hotel fifteen years ago. Bower bound has a reputation of having a good idea about love because we have the most rom-ntic love advert in the world concerning our Bedsheet product and also the Dominic soap that we produce. The day we had sponsored love hotel’s launching, I had told them that I was inspired to sponsor them that day because the language of the Rolands is love. Go and show them what love represent just like I and your late grandma had done and make sure that you don’t disappoint us and start creating unnecessary rumours. Get set to go to the yatcht party! “. He walked out of the room without hearing our own thought about the idea.

Raymond fumed at me. “Why did you have to come into my life? Huh?tell me!!!”.

I walked to the bathroom. “If you like, after I have finish bathing, don’t come and bath”.

We were both gorgeously dressed as we walked into the yatcht party with entwined arms.

They scre-med at the sight of us and began to take pictures.

Raymond was smiling a smile that didn’t reach his eyes as he bowed officially to them.

The chairman of love hotel, Graham observed us closely. “Such a beautiful couple! Put your hands together for the latest couple in town!!!”. He urged the people and they clapped excitedly for us as we walked into their midst.

The chairman cleared his throat. “I was at your wedding party and because Ray was feeling so sick that day, he couldn’t even k-ss his beloved bride! Bower bound’s soap, Dominic soap has the most rom-ntic scent in the universe! How about if we use the face of Bower bound executives to promote the product? It will be more realistic right? Pa Brian helped me put my feet together and love hotel has now become one of the most recognized in the hotels in the world because of his help! I need to repay him by giving a beautiful shot of the newly wedded couple and suggesting that we use it as the face of Dominic soap! Imagine if we capture beautiful moments between you guys and it hit the business magazine! The masses! Their attention!”.

His wife, Helen cleared her throat. “We will start with the groom k-ssing his bride since they never revealed to the public any open affection! What is rom-nce without a k-ss? Huh? Tell me!!!”.

They hailed us and my heart was beating in my mouth.

There was no affection between I and Raymond and now they were asking us to k-ss???

Raymond was more nervous than I was.

He was sweating despite the cool atmosphere.

There was no way we were going to avoid this one like we had done at the wedding.

Grandfather had already told us not to create unnecessary rumour, so we had to be realistic.

He faced me and placed his forehead on my forehead and their hailing increased.

I could also hear the sound of his heart beat and I was sure that he could hear mine too that moment.

We were not attracted to each other but our hearts were beating because we were going to be k-ssing each other for the first time.

Where was my mum? Should she just come and rescue me?

Should the ground open and swallow me?

Raymond smiled devilishly at me as his forehead remained on mine and whispered. “Why are you panicking because a handsome prince want to k-ss your poverty l-ips?”.

I summoned courage and met his eyes daringly. “I don’t care about anything. I already told you that before, right? The k-ssing is just a necessity and it is not that it is going to change anything between us”.

He reached his l-ips for mine and my heart remained in my mouth as I felt his mouth in mine.

I was tasting strawberry in his mouth as he was still french k-ssing me while the couple and other love Hotel employees who were present took pictures.

Immediately he released me after something that looked like three minutes, I got up immediately and felt the urge to vomit the strawberry flavour that Raymond had poured into my mouth.

They were laughing at me and calling me shy because of the way I was behaving after the k-ss.

Who would believe that I have never k-ssed the man that I called my husband before?

Surprisingly, all through the yatcht party, Raymond played along.

He didn’t grimace at me, he kept smiling at me and touching my hair while they took pictures of us.

After everything,we were finally on our way home.

There was silence between us as we both sat at the back seat of the car and the driver drove us towards home.

There was humour in Raymond’s eyes as he looked at me. “Do you know what you look like right now? You look like a thirteen year old girl that had just gone out for adventure. You remember Alice in the wonderland? That is what you look like right now”.

I rolled my eyes. “Why was your mouth tasting like strawberry?did you take strawberry before we k-ssed today?”.

He burst out into laughter. “Is that your way of telling me that I taste very sweet?”.

I was very embarrassed. In the true sense, does it mean that he didn’t take strawberry?

He smirked and scrolled through his phone. “Grandpa will be proud of us”.

I nodded without looking up at him.

He scoffed. “Inexperienced girl”.

I sighed. “Experienced boy indeed”.

Jennifer Roland heard a sniff downstairs.

She rushed towards where the sniff was coming from and found Matilda weeping heartily.

“What happened?”. Jennifer asked worriedly.

“I don’t want Raymond to get attracted to Gold! I swear, I will kill myself if that happens”.

Jennifer fumed at her. “What are you talking about? You want to destroy the marriage of that couple?”.

“Gold stole Raymond from me after manipulating grandpa! All my life, I have been a family friend of the Rolands, but how can grandpa overlook me and go for a poverty stricken girl?”.

“The person you are calling a poverty stricken girl is now a rich married woman so mind the way you talk about her”.

Matilda shivered. “You like her too? How can everyone like her? She has manipulated everyone!”.

“Even if those couple hate each other, if they are destined for each other, they will find themselves falling in love with each other without even knowing it”.

“God forbid!”.

“Never forbid destiny my dear”. Hi ohene ish on+233544142683 to read more stories from there. She gave her a white handkerchief. ” Wipe your tears because you have already failed”. She winked at her and walked away.

I changed our bedsheets and bedspread.

It was a rule of the Rolands to change bedsheets and bedspread everyday.

I turned on the stereo.

I was bored, that was why I had turned on the stereo.

Raymond was playing video game on his laptop.

As the song began to play loud on the stereo, I began coolval stories to dance to the rhythm.

( I DON’T CARE by ED SHEERAN AND JUSTIN BIEBER).

It wasn’t even up to three minutes that the song started playing that I found out that Raymond had already switched it off.

“Why did you do that!!!”. I fired at him.

“No one disturbs the king when he is playing his video game”.

“If you are playing video game, what do you expect me to be doing?”.

He pointed to the big bed. “What is that thing for?”.

I grit my teeth at him. “You want me to sleep when you are having fun?”.

He gasped. “You are using the song to reminisce about the fake love we displayed this afternoon in front of Love hotel owners? You are using I Don’t Care song by Ed Sheeran to think about when I had k-ssed you and tasted like strawberry? OMG! How come I never thought about that?”.

I was surprised at him. “Do you really think that high of yourself?”.

“Yeah, like when you said that I tasted like strawberry? Which man will not be happy hearing that?”.

“When are they going to separate this our room for crying out loud!!!”.

He lifted my ring finger. “When you take off this ring”.

It was midnight and there was a small family meeting going on in the sitting room.

Grandpa, father in law, Jennifer Roland, Collins Roland, Henry Roland and Raymond.

I wondered why Jennifer Roland was the only woman in their midst.

As I walked into the sitting room, I noticed that Grandpa was wearing a hærd expression because there was a issue on ground. “Jennifer has been paying anonymous designers to design for us and because of that, Bower bound has not had a standard design pattern. We need a good designer for Bower bound. A man that will be recognized just like the deceased mr Dennis”.

Design? No one knew that I also had a talent in designing which I had gotten from my father.

Was this the right time to explore my talent?

Since Raymond was my husband, shouldn’t I help become a good designer for Bower bound?

I cleared my throat as I moved into their midst. “I can become Bower bound designer. I can become a good designer for Bower bound”.

When I looked up, Jennifer Roland was glaring at me..

Tbc