Sabrina version 2.0

Sabrina's pov

I could not believe that I was thinking about him this morning and here he was right before my eyes. I could not let him see the effect he had on me, how he made my heart flutter, made the tiny hairs on my arms rise, made my eyeballs dilate, and made tiny streams of sweat run down my neck down my back through my spine. I had to show him, the strong career woman who wasn't affected by any man, the woman who fought her own battles in silence and emerged stronger each day with a bright radiant smile. Yes, that is the woman I had become, Sabrina version 2.0, next-generation Sabrina. The new Sabrina. So I began the meeting by introducing myself and allowing the rest to do the same.

When it was his turn, he began cockily, "Well as everyone knows am Jake, CEO and founder Jake and Sons Limited but Sugar, mmmh sorry Miss Sabrina can I have a word with you outside?". There really wasn't anything I wanted to discuss with him. Everything between us had been said or should I say, actions had spoken louder than words. Right now what was important was business so I immediately replied back, "I am sorry Mr. Jake but as it is we are running out of time and we wouldn't want to waste these gentlemen's precious time. I think whatever you want to discuss can wait till we conclude today's meeting." There were a lot of murmurings on the table. From Jake's frowning, angry face, I realized I had just belittled him in front of his employees and damn I didn't feel sorry at all. It felt great to overpower him and have him under control.

The discussions were going so well except for the peering, dissecting looks and stares accompanied with numerous cynical, disrespectful, petty remarks from Jake like "miss Sabrina these gentlemen are distracted by your cleavage" or him trying to pin me down with statistical data in my presentation of which he failed miserably because numbers and I are best friends. There were a lot of technicalities to be discussed in the subsequent meetings to follow but for now, we had to end the meeting as I had a 3 pm date with Mr. K at our favorite diner on Moi avenue. As I was walking out of the boardroom, a forceful arm grabbed me and dragged me into my office. How did he even know that was my office? Obviously, there were only three offices on this floor, the boardroom, the secretary's office and of course mine. It all happened so fast, I had no time to resist with his face menacingly inches away from mine poking all over my face trying to decipher what my thoughts were. If either of us moved even by an inch our lips would be touching. Even with this short distance between us, I could feel his minty breath and musky cologne engulfing my nostrils. In my shock, the only thing I could think about was burying myself in his warm loving embrace, until he interrupted my thoughts.

"What was that at the meeting? Are you trying to embarrass me in front of my employees? And why are pregnant, huh? Who made you pregnant? Tell me I want to know. And here I am spending money on private investigators to try and find you, yet you are busy frolicking with men like the loose woman that you are!", shouted Jake

I don't know what I felt or how it happened but all it took was lifting my palm and slapping the living daylight out of him and storming out of the office and into my car and driving off. It felt good to know that he was looking for me but the slap definitely felt better. I needed to be anywhere else but not in the same room as him.