Nokukhanya (Chapter 18)

Chapter 18

●Nokukhanya Ngwenya

Days passed without hearing anything from him. I even unblocked him everywhere just to make sure that I did not miss any communication from him, but there was nothing from him, not a single word from him. I replaced that glass that I broke the same day his son was born. Yeah, he has a son now. Linda told me, well he didn’t tell me straight it was indirect, but I knew he was saying it out loud for me to hear that his brother has a son now when he came to see uNonjabulo. He said it so loudly that I could hear it from the kitchen while they were sitting in the lounge. Apparently, he is over the moon on the birth of his son. He deserves this moment with his son and wife because somehow, I did rob him of the opportunity to be involved with his daughter from day one.

Today, I’m going to the office for my part. There is meeting for the shareholders to announce that Langa will be taking a break to raise his son and in the interim, they are going to choose a CEO who will be in charge until he returns. Not that I think this was necessary for him to take three months leave as his wife, I mean how long do you go to maternity leave for if you are a guy? Isn’t a week or something? Argh! Who am I kidding, its his damn company and I’m sure he can do whatever he wants, right?

Since I had my daughter, I gained weight in the right places. Your girl got curves now…in all’ll the right places. Oh well, since I know that he is going to be there and that he has been ignoring me ever since we had sex, I am going to make sure that he remembers me. I’m wearing an off the shoulder, figure hugging black bodycon dress with red heels. And yes, you guessed that right, it is a short dress, and I will be turning heads with this number. And the only head I would like to turn and probably have in between my legs is my baby daddies.

Don't look at me like that.... I have needs.

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I am very early, but I am going to sit here in my car and wait so I can make a grand entrance, phela I want him to see all of this and not to think about that woman who looked like she was carrying the whole of South African inside her belly. I’m browsing through the internet checking out cars and houses for my upgrade. I think I need to represent since I will be one of the major shareholders in the biggest property company in SA.

“Hello. I’m here for the meeting.” I say to the receptionist, and she ignores me. She is going to the first person to be terminated, I don’t like her attitude. She tells me which board room they are using, and I make my way there. When I get to the lift, Linda appears from no where and my prayers for the door to close quickly don’t even reach the third floor to heaven because right now I am stuck with him.

“Baby Mama, what are you doing here? Are you here to break more glass?” He laughs. He is such an idiot. Where did they find him vele and is there a return policy for him? He is sure going to drive me crazy.

“I’m here for the meeting.” He stops laughing to look at me.

“For what? Were you invited?” He asks. And I’m so pleased with the look on his face as he looks me up and down.

“I don’t need an invite, Linda. Just like you I have every right to be here.”

“Is Patrick coming also.”

“Nope.” I leave him there.

‘He can’t stop looking at you. Please sway your hips like a model.’ For the first time in such a long time. I follow this bitches’ instructions as I sway my hips in a very sexual and seductive way as my daughter’s uncle follows me.

“Gentleman, sorry I’m late.” That’s my greeting interrupting the four men as he shows them pictures on his phone.

The look on their faces.

Priceless.

Must I remind you that I am the only female here, well, minus Langa’s PA.

“Miss Ngwenya. Can we help you with something?” He speaks.

“No, I am here for the meeting. I need to know who will be handling my investments since you will be taking a break.” Listen to me speak as if I did contributions towards this business, kanti nix just my brains and that I was blessed with wonderful human beings who regards me as their own.

“Your investments?” Eye roll. He can be slow sometimes.

“Yes. Mr Gumede, my investments. Just like you are an owner of this company, so am I.” Linda laughs, and he gets reprimanded.

“Partner?”

“Yes, Langa, partner.” This man. I watch him as he struggles to connect the dots or maybe he is just pretending you will never know with this man.

“Can we please carry on with the meeting?” I ask and some of the members nods their heads with agreement with me but…

“NO! I want to know how you got to be partner?”

“All you have to know right now, is that I am now a legit partner and how I got these shares is none of your concern, Langa please carry on and stop wasting these people time.”

“ I am not wasting anyone's time lana, I’m sure everyone would like to know how you got your half.”

Yho!

“Linda, are you interested in knowing how I got my shares, or you want to know who will be the acting CEO? Mr Ngema, you?” Both shakes their heads which sends Langa over the edge.

“Nokukhanya!” Argh! Here we go again.

“This is not the time Langelihle.” Bathong! What is wrong with this man? These people are looking at us going back and forth arguing. I’m not even sure when they all walked out to give us space to carry on with our childishness.

“This is stupid.” I say after a while of him screaming at me, I’m out of words and its not even my style. I always prefer to be the one who has the final word and with him going off like this at me is driving me crazy, I swear I am going to murder him.

‘Deep breaths Nokukhanya. This man is still the love of your… I mean he is your baby’s father, and you need him alive. Ask him why he hasn’t contacted you? find out if he stills wants to marry you.’ This bitch.

You know my brain can wonder off sometimes, instead of focusing at the situation at hand, it just wonder off on its own and leaving me in an awkward situation like right now. I want to know if his offer is still available, and I want to kiss him.

“This is so stupid.” I say again slowly as I  sit down defeated.

“I know.” He sighs and sits down joining me. I’m sure the whole office heard us going off at each other.

“Look, Patrick gave me his shares. That’s all you need to know now.”  He stares as I explain what happened.

He is beautiful.

I stare back. My daughter looks exactly like her father, that little traitor! It is so bizarre as I am looking at him and I see her, their pointy noses and big eyes are the same, its like I’m looking at the older male version of her, so weird.

“And you were waiting for this very moment to announce that you now own 50 percent?”

“I haven’t heard anything from you in days Langa. So, forgive me if I thought that this was a good time.”

“I know. I’m sorry” He sighs.

“Is the offer still available?” I had to ask.

“Uhmm, look...” He hesitates and I get my answer as my heart starts pounding in fear.

I quickly rush out while he tries to explain himself to me after he hesitated and run out the building. I do not take rejection well and certainly will not stand being rejected by him.

But why did he hesitate?

‘He said he loves you only because he wanted to bed you, Khanyo.’

This time this bitch will be permanently deleted from my brain...

I cannot believe I’m crying because of him. You see that’s why I never want to get attached to people because of this. Yeah, I did get attached to him after we slept together, even from the first time we slept together I got to so attached that he was the only thing on my mind. He was the only person always on my mind and I cannot even blame my stupid heart because he loved me so good.

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Oh well, this was not a productive day at all. I wanted to make a statement with my arrival at the office, but all I did was cause havoc as usual.

I clean around my house before the princess returns from the grandparents. I really need to get a babysitter before they leave for abroad. They have been spending a lot of time with her as they will be gone for months for Patrick’s treatment and I’m praying everything goes well, I am not ready to lose another loved one.

There’s a knock on my door and I attend to it.

Unbelievable!

“Are you not going to let me in?” She asks with a grin on her face and my eyes goes straight to her big belly.

How the hell did she find me. That’s all I want to know. For now.

Damn this stupid security company for not notifying me!

And damn my brain, the bitch, for deserting me right now because I just had a brain freeze.

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