Must Read: Taking Chances

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Taking Chances

Jide drove into his compound at about 7 in the evening. He was feeling tipsy, consequence of the few hours he’d spent alone at a bar drinking whilst he glanced absentmindely at a repeat broadcast of a match between
Chelsea and Barca. He had left Grace’s place at about 4pm, not feeling like heading home just yet, he’d opted for a bar instead. Hopefully Daisy and her friend would be over and gone when he returned. He thought.

He hadn’t felt like hanging out with his friends either, and though he’d thought of calling Dave since he was the one he could relate more with, he had stopped short before he completed the task. Dele was strange enough and Ade was simply badluck, he could still felt the sour taste of his last gimmicks. And after all that’s said and done, he kept to himself
and enjoyed it too.

Jide pushed open the door to see Daisy relaxing comfortably on the
settee, wriggling her legs in pleasure while she answered a call. She didn’t notice him at first, but when she did, her countenance changed
and she hurriedly mumbled some words and cut the call.

Jide walked forward, he had half expected her home, since that happened to be the new status quo. He noticed she was wearing a pink short gown, he’d never seen it on her before, grudgingly he admitted that it flattered her complexion and made her look more s*xy** than he could ever
remember she was. But he wasn’t appeased.
‘madam’ he stressed with a sarcastic tone, ‘I see things are uping wonderfully well in your camp?’ he added.

Daisy said nothing. She forced her eyes to stay on the television, while she wriggled her hand frantically. How had Brenda ‘coached’ her to react to him? She wondered helplessly. Yes! cool!


Brenda had said: ‘act so cool and nonchalant when he brings up that attitude’. Daisy glanced
at her shaky palms and exhaled, so much for acting cool. She thought drily.

Jide stood now, considering the form of Daisy as she sat there
pretending that he wasn’t even in front of her.


Her and this pink gown of hers which exposed her thighs conspicuously and a neckline which revealed a tip of the pure haven he was sure lay just below, he felt a sudden urge to drag her up and kiss the immobility out of her limp body
and draw a sound out of her silent lips. God! She was teasing and
driving him insane with all that annoying docility of hers.



Daisy felt uncomfortable, she sensed his hot gaze on her skin, suddenly she felt weak and started blaming herself for not running to her room
when she heard his car drive in. Losing fate but determined to leave the parlour, she stood up, colliding directly into him.
Jide made no move to shift.
Daisy muttered an incomprehensible apology or something and made to by
pass him, but before she could take a step forward, strong hand grabbed at her arm and pulled her back.
Daisy found herself in facing Jide, it was the closest she had ever been with him, immediately her heart started thumping. The smell of alcohol wafted to her nose, she couldn’t bring herself to stare at his face. Her height perfectly matched his, though she was a trifle shorter.
After what felt like hours since they’d been standing, Jide finally
spoke between clenched teeth.
‘don’t think you call the shots around here, because of your seeming new acquired power, i still remain the MAN here, hopefully, you’re not
planning on remaining ‘chaste’ forever are you? Cos i own every damn thing about you,’ a pause, then ‘Everything’ he stressed.



His eyes travelled appreciatively then, from her face down, lingering on her bossom, then sliding up again to her face, where his eyes met hers peering intently at him.
Their gaze locked. One defiant and unyielding, the other surprised and awed.
Somehow, those words of Jide had melted something in Daisy’s heart and
she had found herself bravely staring up to match his gaze. The
expression she’d seen and read on his face dissolved all her senseless
fright and in its place was a renewed feeling of strength and power.
This man that had terrorized her in fantasy and reality was finally
falling for her! As that realisation struck her, Daisy found her heart
pinning for revenge, a desire to make him suffer just the way he’d made
her. If love had ever inhabited her heart for this man standing before
her, she didn’t feel it at that moment.
Jide on his part, had become lost and awed at the depth of her eyes, he
didn’t know they were this beautiful and compelling! But then this was
the first time ever he was actually seeing this woman that was his wife.
She was indeed charming with an angelic face, he felt he would happily get lost in the spell her eyes cast.
Daisy smiled slyly then, a grin playing at the corner of her lips. Jide could bet that that smile of hers could light up the whole house, even his heart was already electrified by its warmth…no, maybe not warmth, the eyes held…something like mischief?