A Stolen Kiss From THE CEO!

259 Challenge

Ella could feel her heart thumping erratically as she watched her phone ringing for the second time.

Her eyes narrowed and slightly darkened as she focused them on her nosily ringing mobile phone resting on her desk.

Her head was filled with so many processing thoughts that were popping out scary answers.

One of the most terrifying questions of them all was; ‘where did Leon spend the night?’

Even when she wanted to go over to her desk and receive the call, her feet refused to cooperate with the instructions of her brain.

It felt as though her feet were on a solo protest as they remained glued to the ground.

“Ella, you need to receive your husband’s call,” Denise said softly.

Although Denise was standing next to her, Ella felt as though Denise was a mile away. She could see her mouth moving but her words were very faint and difficult for her to understand.

“I can’t believe Leon left the house with his stuff,” Ella reiterated.

.....

She was still finding it difficult to believe or accept Denise’s statement about Leon leaving.

“Where could he have spent the night?” Ella asked out loud as though Leon was standing right before her.

“Did he go out drinking?” Fear and anxiety crippled Ella’s heart.

As if her bubbling tension was not enough torture, Ella’s unforgiving memory suddenly flashed back to the first night of their honeymoon in Beryl Hula Island.

...

Leon had been angry with her for starving him of sex that fateful night.

Out of anger, he left their rented glass house accommodation and went to the bar to cool off.

In the process of drinking and calming his enraged nerves, he came across a night hustler, who he later took to a hotel room and did only God knows what.

When Ella saw him leaving with the strange girl, she felt her world crumble. But when she later confronted him, he denied having sex with the girl.

Even though Leon promised her that nothing intimate happened between him and the said girl, Ella was mad at him for even hanging out with the girl in the first place.

However, she later forgave him on the ground that he would never cheat on her again. And after four days of loving and trusting him with her heart, she willingly gave her virginity to him.

—

“Ella!”

Denise snapped her fingers in Ella’s face to bring her back from wherever her mind skyrocketed to.

“Huh!” Ella shook her head as she stared at the phone Denise was giving her.

“This is the fourth time your husband has called. Please take the call and hear what he has to say. You can even ask him all those questions that are bothering you,” Denise said pleadingly.

“Okay!” Ella inhaled and exhaled sharply, to steady her drumming heart before collecting her phone from Denise.

“Hello!”

Ella tried to sound as calm as the gentle breeze as Denise kept gesturing for her breath in and out.

However, Leon’s harsh and threatening voice made her throw all her breathing exercises out the window.

“Where the hell have you been? What’s taking you so long to take my calls?! What in God’s name is the matter with you? Why are you trying to make my life miserable?”

Leon’s deep, hoarse but anxious tone conveyed that he was both riled and worried sick.

“Hold it right there, Leon Treshvire! Don’t you dare use that tone ever on me again!” Ella boomed fiercely, making Denise move aside for fear of getting slapped.

The way Ella swiftly change personality from a calm harmless bunny rabbit saying; ‘hi’, to a savage tiger shark saying; your flesh smells delicious, got Denise wondering what Leon might have said to provoke her.

“Ella, did you just...”

“Did I just what? Huh!” Ella took the words right out of Leon’s mouth, without giving him enough room to speak.

“I just learned that you took your things out of our home. Has it gotten to that point in our life where you’ll pack your stuff and leave our matrimonial home? Where did you spend the night, Leon...”Ella’s eyes turned blood shut as so many frightening thoughts engulfed her.

“Ella!” Leon’s tone sounded deep and dangerous.

“You and I have a score to settle.” Ella still prevented an enraged Leon from speaking. “If you know what is good for you, you better come down to my office because you have a lot of explaining to do. otherwise....” Ella hissed out loud and ended the call.

“Phew!” Denise breathed a sigh of relief and walked up the Ella. “You did great, sweetie pie.” She pulled Ella into her arms and gently stroked her back to help ease off her tension.

“Can you imagine he was still talking to me rudely?” Ella blinked severally to push back her tears.

“At least with the way you challenged him, you’ve got his attention,” Denise said in a reassuring tone. “Knowing your jealous and possessive husband pretty well, I have a hunch that he would be jumping into one of his fast-track cars and speeding down to this location, like a man about to jump over the edge.”

“Yeah!” Ella chuckled. “I’m so ready for him this time.”

“Promise me that no matter what, you must not let him see a drop of tears from your eyes,” Denise said sternly.

Ella slowly released Denise and gazed into her loving eyes with unwavering determination in hers.

“I promise, Leon would never see my tears of pain again.”

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In all his years of existence, Leon couldn’t remember the last time someone challenged him or even threatened him with such impunity and got away scot-free.

Even his parents knew their limits whenever they were bantering words with him, due to his monstrous rage.

If someone had ever told him that one day a lady would challenge him with such audaciousness, he would have called the person a liar or even shot the person in the leg as punishment for uttering such a ludicrous statement.

But to think that someone he cherished with all his life, and had practically sold his soul to, would turn around to question and even threaten him this way was like watching the moon outshine the sun in broad daylight.

“Austin!” Leon called in a deep but low growling tone. “Turn the car around and take me to the APB fashion company.”