Esosa's POV

I was sitting on one of the decorated chairs crossed-leg and my glass of wine was on my right hand while my left elbow rested on the table, I took a long sip of my glass of wine to calm my nerves after being judged wrongly for what I wasn't. I couldn't even believe my brother would accept that guy to be my friend. I see Davidson walking up to the table where I was seated and he smiled at me.

"Hey babe" he greeted touching my shoulders and pecked me on left cheek before taking a sit next to me. "Congratulations once more" he added and I smiled.

"Thank you. I must commend you guys did a great job arranging such a surprise for me. I’ve got the best colleagues in the whole world. Thanks so much".

"C’mon you deserve more. I’m glad you love the surprise. Actually at a point I thought you didn’t like it when you disappeared for a short while with your brother" he said and I chuckled remembering how tensed I was with my brother.

"That’s right. But I had to have a rethink of the troubles you guys went through, and when I did, I concurred you guys had my interest at heart for you all to do something special like this for me and besides the surprise was worth it really".

"Of course we do! We care about you" he said and I grin widely at him before taking a sip of my wine.

"So tell me, what is Mr. Arrogant doing in our party?" he asked and I raised a brow at him.

"Mr. Arrogant?" I asked confusedly.

"Yes".

"Who is Mr. Arrogant?" I questioned.

"Are you being serious now? You mean you don’t know that he’s here?" I twitched my face at his question.

"I still don’t get who you’re talking about. As far as I know I never invited anyone to join me here in this party, so what or who really are you talking about?".

Davidson stared at me weirdly like I was lying to him. "If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then why is he with your brother?".

At the mention of that I realized he was talking about that jerk who claimed to be my friend.

"Oh, why didn’t you just ask me who was that jerk I saw with your brother? Even if you were to ask me that I’d say I don’t know. Why? Because I just met him here at the beach after seeing Mr. Richard off and I don’t even know his name because he was so rude to me".

"He was rude to you again?"

"Yes. And what do you mean by ‘again’? I said in quote with  on the air. "Do you know him somewhere?". Davidson rolled his eyes at my question.

"I can’t believe you don’t recognize that guy,  he’s the same guy that was rude to you on board which you replied to in a rude manner two days ago" he said and my mouth flew open in surprise.

I shook my head in denial. "That can’t be" I said still wondering why I didn't recognize him.

"It has already been" my friend remarks and took a sip of his glass of liquor.

I now get the whole picture of what he was doing, he was trying to get back at me.

"No wonder he was rude to me because he must have recognized me. Damn him! Why didn’t I recognize him?" I said aloud feeling upset than before.

I took a long sip of my wine to calm myself down before I'll go search for him to give him a piece of my mind that
he so deserves.

There was a clearing of throat which almost got me choking on my drink. Myself and Davidson gazed up
to see the arrogant jerk.

"Speaking of the devil" Davidson mumbles aloud.

"Hello to you too" the arrogant jerk replied sarcastically rubbing his chin with pride.

"Did you lose your way?" I asked shooting him glared.

He shrugged and opens his mouth to speak.

"Obviously he did" Davidson said making whatever his name was to shut his mouth closed. "Babe, let’s go have a dance" Davidson added.

I glanced from Davidson to Mr. Arrogant and I saw his smirk switched to a frown. I guess he has been intimidated.

"Sure" I answered to my friend David, "Besides you won’t want to leave me here with this…." I paused and eyed him wearily from head to toe. I wanted to say something bad that he would have thought about throughout the night but I kicked against it.

"with him, because if you do I might end up committing a murder case because I can’t stand the sight of him" I concluded and with that I took a sip of my wine and
dropped the glass cup of the table.

"Fair enough then"  David stood up and extended his hand for me take.

I took his hand to mine and he I stood up,  I glanced briefly at the guy standing in front of us and I saw the murderous glares he was shooting at both of us. I smirked at him before we both walked out of his sight to a coconut tree by the right hand side of the beach.

"That guy is so infuriating" I groaned in disgust resting my back on the coconut tree.

My friend chuckled and said, "I know right. That was why I came up with the dancing excuse to get you out of there because I don’t want you to feel all agitated when you’re meant to be happy for your new promotion".

My face beams up with the reminder of my promotion. "Thank you. You’re a good friend" I complimented.

I don't know if it was an illusion but i think I saw a flash of disappointment in his eyes with what I just said but he quickly blinks it off and smiled at me.

"The pleasure is all mines. So tell me, how you feeling about this great news of your promotion because I’m already missing you, even when you are right here next to me".

"I’m so excited about it. I’ll be exploring the world, David! It’s all I ever wanted!" I exclaimed excitedly and I began blabbing about my dreams to him.

Albert's POV

I stood there like a carved statue twitching my jawline in anger. How dare she? How dare her so called boyfriend humiliate me like I'm nobody? I've never being treated this way all my life before. Why was I even here? I was meant to be sitting at the poolside having a sip of my wine and listening to good music but here I was humiliating myself. I clenched and unclenched my fist several times, I felt like punching someone's face right now.

"Hello handsome" some lady called out behind me and I shut my eyes closed trying to calm down to avoid ruining a lady's face.

"Get lost!" I growled not glancing at her.

I heard her giggled and walks towards me; she rested her ass on the table and gazed up at me and I glanced briefly at her. She looked like she was high on alcohol.

"Do you want a drink?" she asked me but I didn't give her a response. "It looks like someone is in a bad mood" she continued in a groggy tone and took a large sip of
the glass of liquor on her hand.

"Don’t worry" she said standing up from the table and she dropped the glass cup on the table. "I’m here to help you get off the bad mood into a good one" she added batting her eyelashes at me.

I groaned inwardly. God in heaven knows I'm in no mood for all this shit, I don't want to get arrested for beating a lady, it's not my style, but seeing her stagger towards me made my anger flare up from 50 to 100.

She stood in front of me and raised her left hand to touch my chin but I dodged it and held her wrist. Is she really serious? Was she testing my patience? How dare she
try to force herself on me?

"I asked you to get lost, didn’t I?" I asked coldly clutching her wrist and she squirms on her feet but nodded with a giggle.

Seriously? She finds my question funny. She's daring me and she didn't know it.

"So what gave you the guts of wanting to do more when I’ve already asked you not to?" I asked ignoring her. I noticed her eyelids were shutting off and I loosen up my grip on her wrist.

"You can’t talk now, can you?" She shook her in response to my question. I was really getting pissed so I let go of her hand.

"It’s, you… you.. in…the plane" she stutters and I furrowed my brows on what she was talking about. I didn't know she was already loosing balance but before
she could hit the floor I found myself grabbing a hold of her gown and pulled her to my chest saving her from falling off. I wrapped my hand on her waist and held her firm.

"Damn it!" I cussed as I stared at her passed out body in my arms. I shook her body trying to wake her up but she has fallen asleep. This was trouble for me. 

"Why would a lady get this drunk to the point of passing out?" I asked to no one in particular. What if someone comes now and see holding her in my arms, they might think I did something to her.

"What is going on here?" I heard a familiar voice asked,and when I gazed up it was her, Esosa Anderson and her boyfriend.

This was really trouble for me. Where do I start my explanation from? Who invited me to this party?

I smell trouble! What do you smell?😋

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