Chapter 5

"Oh.."

"So I tend to take charge and get full custody of my son before she makes any irrational decisions."

"How do you plan on doing that?"

"Divorce."

"What?!! No!!"

"How do you expect me to do it then? I caught her with my brother in the same bed. What wife goes and sleep with her husband's brother? Come on, kid."

"I beg my pardon sir, for I understand the difficulties that are currently present in this given situation but think about Leonidas. Imagine what he will go through thinking that his parents will be separated and he can only live with his father?"

"I am sure he is capable of handling it well. If he was able to survive living with his mother for this long, I am positive he would not care if me and her were to split. Besides it's not like we know each other."

"You don't have a relationship with your own son?"

"I forgot I even had a son, I am a busy man with a busy life and have no tolerance for kids."

She spurn from saying anything any further and I respected her decision.

"I want you to do me a favor."

I said looking down at her.

"Yes sir?"

"I am seeking an answer of pure honesty for I do not want to force you into this but as I try to clean up this mess, I have made, I need someone to look after Leonidas while I am gone."

"But sir.. I-"

"I can't rely on my brother for he is too irresponsible and I don't want him to be with his mother for God knows what she will do to him and that will defeat the whole purpose of what I am trying to do. You can stay in the house if needed because I will be busy dealing with this case in order to pay attention to him too."

She remained quiet and I can see the worriedness hiding behind her pupils.

"I-"

"I'll pay you extra.... but once again, you don't have to get involved if you don't want too, it's just that since we are here on this topic, I might as well ask you."

I can see how hard she continue to think about it and the more troublesome her face became.

"I will do it."

A smile spread across my face with pleasure. Now with that out of the way, I can start forming the plan into action.

I woke the next morning, jumping out of bed and rushing to get myself ready for the day. I headed to the study to call Marquez one of my close friends.

"Hello?"

"Quez, you have the petition that I told you to hold on for me from three days ago right?"

"Mmm."

"Good. Bring them here before I get home from work."

"Cool. You coming for drinks later?"

"Sure."

"We will be celebrating your release from el dragon."

I heard him bursting in tears which made me chuckle and end the call.

A knock came on my door and entered without permission is Connor. I took down my tie and started tying it around the collar of my shirt. He came and sat on the edge of the side of my desk, arms folded as he watched me. I continued finishing tying the tie and just pretended like if he wasn't in the room.

"Hi? Hello!!! Are you not going to talk to me?"

"What do you want Connor?"

"Nothing. Where are you going?"

"Where else do you think I could be going? To work. You want to know so you can bring Annie who is your brother's wife, by the way over so you can finish her off?"

"Christian... I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"

"Don't start with all of that, because we all know that from since we were young, you don't apologize for anything especially when you are fooling around with women. Why? Because you are unapologetic about anything you do."

"I screwed up."

He sighed as a depressed look came over his face.

I walked over to my chair to pick up my suit coat and threw it on.

"Welp, what can I say?"

I said buttoning the middle.

"Why does it seem like, your not as upset about this as you should be?"

"What can I say? Somethings happen in life where there is no need to have so much of a reaction to."

I grabbed my suitcase ready to head out the door when he came in front of me, blocking my path.

"Tell me the truth brother."

I rolled my eyes.

"If you need to know, I am filing a court case for a divorce."

"Are you insane?"

His eyes widen in shock.

"I know things were bad and what happened between me and her made it worse, but you are seriously going to go through with this?"

"Yup and you are going to help me."

His expression turned into one where he can imagine himself being infront of the woman of his dreams and a minister in a courtroom about to be wedded. Stunned.

"WHAT??"

I nod my head in agreement.

"You, my dear relative friend are going to assist me in making sure I win my case over Annie by being my witness and basically telling the truth in testifying against her. Now excuse me I have to get to work."

I said moving away from him and heading towards the door.

"Bro! I don't want no part of this!!"

"So why did you sleep with her?"

He paused as his lips parted and then instantly shut his mouth right after.

"You know how she is, how she acts and what she does and you still persisted in going that far, for God knows what. I bet never once, you thought about me or how it would have affected me in any way but that's fine."

"Chris, listen. You know that I will have your back through thick and thin but I honestly don't want to be dragged in this thing, the two of y'all got going on."

"Is it you don't want to get in-between or that you just don't want to appear in front of the court?"

"Both..."

He replied with a nervous smile and chuckled lightly.

"Kind of sucks to be you. It's either you go and do what you know you have to do or you leave my house and lose the rest of you positions that comes with it."

I said with a straight face.

Connor looked towards me with the fear of disbelief and his breathing became more rapid as he tried to process what I said. He hung his head low as I got the hint that he made his decision and knew what needed to be done.

"Good boy."

I turned on my heels, ready to exit the room but stopped suddenly.

"Oh and tell Annie, I want to see her in the living room on the second floor before I arrive home."

And with that I exited the premises.