Precious_Onwe

McKenna is a strong-headed defiant girl who went for what she wants no matter what people think.
she believes there is something called love and that it only made people stupid but she still longed for it. 
So she vowed to wait as long as it takes to find the right perfect man that was capable of sweeping her off her feet and together they would ride off into the sunset.

But then she met Jason, a multi billionaire that swept her off her feet quite alright but instead of running off into the sunset, he dropped her inside a gutter.
Now, McKenna has to pick herself up and become better and show Jason he made the worst mistake of his life by breaking her heart.
 
Follow Jason and Mckenna on their Journey to forget each other. Mckenna out for revenge from the man that broke her heart and Jason determine to do the right thing by staying away from the innocent girl that almost made him break his one rule - he just doesn't do love.


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Jason walked towards the entrance Thokozani mentioned and met a woman there. She was an albino, tall with brown boots and yellow dress. Jason couldn’t make out her face from the distance he was standing.

‘Are you the new help?’ Naya asked without looking up. She was placing plates on the tables.

‘No…I am …’ Jason was puzzled that the albino had an accent

‘Don’t just stand there, start setting dinner plate on the table. We have less than five minutes before dinner’ she said without waiting for Jason to introduce himself.

Jason dropped his briefcase by the door and carried the pile of plates near the window and started distributing across the table. When he got close enough to her, he saw her face. She wasn’t an albino, she was white. And she was stunning.
She looked up and stared at him.

‘You don’t look like a help’ Naya said and her face was expressionless.

‘Probably because I am not, I am Jason and I am your new boss’

Naya stared at him and blinked twice.

‘Do not forget to place the spoons beside the plates, boss’ and she went back to what she was doing, leaving a puzzled Jason to stare at her in shock.

THE SECRETARY

'No, Nolani I am not Dada. My name is Jason' Jason shook the child gently to keep her awake. The last thing he wanted was for a child to call him father when he had no intention to stick around.


Nolani looked at the man that was keeping her from a much desired sleep and turned her face to the other side and slept off. Jason's heart raced but he left the child alone. He waited for some minutes for Naya to come out before he dosed off too.


When Naya came out and saw both of them asleep, she took a long look at them and smiled. Normally, Naya would never leave any of the children in her care with the founder's grandson but now, she felt like she could. And trust wasn't an easy thing for her.


Stuck between listening to her head or her heart, Naya went with the most reasonable option – caution.  She took out the sewing machine in her wardrobe; the children had clothes that needed mending.


 Few months after she got to the Orphanage, Naya got the sewing machine after she saw that most of the children walked around with torn clothes that could easily be mended. At first, the children wouldn't come to her with their clothes and treated her with awe and distant fascination. To earn their trust, she would go to the local shops and get each child a gift. When that didn't work, she tried cookies and it got the children's attention but not all the way.


One fateful day after yet another batch of cookies, Naya made her to the little pond, few feet away from the main building and saw a teenage boy there.  His feet were dipped in the dirty pond and he lay on his back on dry land. When he saw Naya, He stood up suddenly and bowed in respect. He picked up his slippers beside him and tried to leave but Naya stopped him.


'No please, don't go' Naya pleaded with him. The boy kept a distance between them but he didn't leave


Naya sat on the grass close to the pond but the boy kept standing.


'I don't suppose you have any advice for me on how to get the children to trust me? I can't bake cookies forever' Naya told the boy.


The boy was mute for a while but then he spoke.


'You are always in a hurry' the boy sat next to Naya. 


'I don't understand…can you explain?' she asked


'You look like you are here just until you can move on to a better place and I think they know that. And while you have the luxury of moving on, the people here don't. So make up your mind because in the last six years, nine people that look like you have come here and they all left within three months'


The boy stood up and picked up his slippers again and made his way out when Naya spoke.


'What about you, boy…do you think I will last here?' Naya asked.


'I don't have an opinion concerning you. It is either you leave before me or I leave before you' the boy told her.


CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO