Chapter 8

• CHAPTER EIGHT.
• "Come to my office after dinner, I need to speak with you."
• Jamal’s words echoed in Adele’s mind as she made her way to his office.
• She could not help but wonder why he wanted to see her all of a sudden. There was this tingly feeling in her heart that she could not understand. For some odd reason, she thought he summoned her to actually appreciate her for the delicious meal she cooked.
• When she got to the door, she knocked on it and almost immediately, Jamal’s voice came through, signalling her to open the door. She opened the door, hoping to see Jamal smiling at her, but she was surprised to meet a very angry looking version of Jamal.
• Terror overcame her as she walked into the bedroom and closed the door behind her.
• He was leaning on his desk with his arms crossed and as she approached him, he looked up at her with blood red eyes.
• "Sit down, Adele."
• He ordered and Adele immediately complied.
• As she did that, he extended his arm towards her with his ipad in it.
• "Tell me,
• what is this?" He asked icily.
• Adele hastily took the device from his hand to see what the hell he was talking about and the moment she checked, her heart sank when she saw the article she had worked on that afternoon.
• A wave of disappointment downed on her when she realised that he just wanted to talk to her about work.
• "This is the article I worked on this afternoon.” She replied innocently as she confidently raised her head up to look at him. "I won't ask how this supposedly confident draft ended up in your hands before it was even published because I know how resourceful you are, but why? Why do you have it?" She asked curiously, handing over the ipad to Jamal and his gaze darkened.
• "Are you aware you're accusing Thomas Richardson himself of theft? Are you even aware of the danger you're throwing yourself into? This article is full of nonsense, that is to begin with. Both your accusations and proofs are not valid, I checked them all ages ago myself. This is wrong news!” He scolded in anger as he angrily threw the ipad on the table.
• "It is my superior's work" Adele began to explain “l was only assigned to write the final draft, I checked our sources though, everything is genuine and true, I won't willingly accuse someone if I was not sure." She defended herself and Jamal only grew more enraged.
• "Are you saying I'm lying to you?" He asked in a deadly tone as he rose to his feet and walked over to where Adele was seated.
• Adele stood up as well, and looked at him intensely.
• "You were implying I'm stupid, I didn't ask whether you're saying I'm stupid though, did I? So let us not take this personal, you do your job and I do mine." She blasted and Jamal took a deep breath to calm himself down.
• "Thomas Richardson is a direct business associate of mine. Any word of accusation to him will more or less inflect on me, Do you wish to throw me in jail Adele? As if that would even ever
• happen! I already checked everything before our partnership and he is clean, everything you mentioned in your article is baseless, and if it was published, It would have been me against you!" He scolded in anger as he walked away from Adele.
• "Are you saying you banished my article already? It won't be published?" Adele yelled back at him and he went silent.
• “Jamal you can’t do this! I spent days researching and editing that article, you can’t just cancel it because you have the power to do so!” Adele yelled all the more but Jamal still said nothing to her.
• He had nothing more to say to her.
• Feeling the
• total injustice she continued to express how angry and disappointed she was, but no matter what she said, he only remained silent as if he was just waiting for her to finally shut up and leave.
• And she did that eventually.
• She rushed into their bedroom and shut the door hard behind her. She had hoped that he had called to tell her something nice, but she had given her the scolding of her life and canceled her article which had to be published the next day.
• He was such a cruel man!
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• Adele was working on her laptop when Jamal walked into the bedroom, she instantly closed the laptop and kept it aside and pretended to fall asleep.
• When she left his office after the argument, she texted a few colleagues to ask if the article had truly been cancelled and they confirmed.
• She was truly disappointed.
• First, he had demanded for her to cook him something to eat and she had done just that. He did not even thank her for the meal, instead he called her into his office and scolded her properly.
• To say she was angry at the moment was an understatement, she felt murderous!
• “The driver told me you sometimes refuse to let him drive you home after work” He spoke from the other side of the bed, but Adele did not bulge.
• She kept her eyes shut and made up her mind to give him the silent treatment.
• “Adele, don’t fake falling asleep, I can see you blinking” He told her clearly, but Adele did not open her eyes. “Adele I’m serious”
• He spoke again but Adele still did not open her eyes.
• “Adele, my shoe is missing” He added and Adele tried to keep calm but laughter failed her.
• She burst into laughter and quickly covered her head with the duvet.
• She did not mean to laugh, but Jamal’s last statement took her off guard. She had no idea he would mention a thing like that.
• “Adele, the shirt I would like to wear is not ironed, would you please iron it for me?” He ranted and Adele straightened her face before taking off the duvet from her bed.
• Without looking at his face, She quickly sat up from the bed and walked into the closet where she took out all his white shirts and began ironing them.
• She was angry with him and needed an apology and she was going to get one out of him whether he liked it or not!