. THE CEO’S
BLOCKHEADED
WIFE??
*She’s stubborn and Sassy???
__But she’s still his baby?♥️??
Billionaire Romance
Comedy?
Rated 18+
Don’t Copy Or Repost!!!
Written by Nnenna
CHAPTER FIFTY ONE
LUCIA’S POV
Look at her! Look at the witch making headlines, all over the internet! She’s everywhere I go, I sit down and it’s her name that I hear. I stand up and it’s her! I open my phone and it’s her that I see. I come to work, and it’s still her that’s on everyone’s lips.
Antoine made sure I had the first hand news. “Have you heard about your rival Carmen? She’s so tenacious! I love that woman, I would love to sign one or two deal with her in the future.” She had said before she walked off.
Eyes were cast at me, the directors made fun of me during shoots just to get on my nerves just because of Carmen. My co actors were nothing to write home about.
“Lucia, is it true?” Director Cheng began, “is it true that Mr. Ricardo settled for Sebastian’s teenage daughter?”
“Yeah, he did.”
“Awww, that’s so bad. I mean, you guys loved each other so much. Maybe he didn’t marry you because you looked too old to be with him.”
I gave out a hurtful chuckle. “Lol, I’m only twenty four, not that old.”
“Exactly, Carmen is young and energetic. She’s like a lion. Everyone is rooting for only her in the Alejandrozz family. The Alejandrozz are bloody, we wish she don’t get crushed as quickly as possible.”
“Oh, that’s cool Mr. Cheng.”
He was coming close to me. “I heard from someone that Miss. Carmen someday in the past dealt with you. Is it true?”
I clenched my fist. I know what he wanted to hear. That’s why he’s been pressuring and saying useless words and going around in circles. “No. Where did you get that from?”
“Well, that’s the period when you couldn’t act for close to two weeks. Everyone complained about how you got so hurt like that.”
“I told you all that I got hurt when I went hiking.”
“With who?”
“My gay boyfriend, George.”
He nodded, eyeing me suspiciously. If he knows the truth, why is he asking me? What does he expect me to tell him? About my pitiful love life with Ricardo? He should go fck himself!
Each day, I am forced to remember the good times I had with Ricardo. The sweet old days where I will lie side by side with him and he will cuddle and sing times without number for me. We do talk for hours over nothing on phone. He loved me so much and he had such a marvellous voice.
I don’t need to say anything before he gets me anything I needed. Even though I didn’t realize the depth of feelings I had for him then, everyone saw me as one powerful being since I’m hot, one of the most prettiest ladies in Spain and then, I was dating an Alejandro. It was so great. Everyday was a happy day.
And now, I regret it. I regret everything I did which made him turn his back against me like this.
“I don’t like Ricardo, I am just dating him because he’s all I need to keep soaring high in the movie industry.” I had once told George.
“Bad girl! You’ve brought your games to Ricardo again? He’s gonna be definitely heart broken when he gets you saying this.”
“But one of his personal bodyguard is so hot. I think I love him. He’s been giving me the eyes and passes, maybe I should be serious with that one, so that when I finally break up with Ricardo, I will run to him.”
I’m sorry Ricardo, I’m sorry I ever thought about that. You are mine. You were always mine. I know you’re being swayed. That tiny being is lording over you since she’s Sebastian and you need her help, I know that. And that’s why I’m trying my possible best to get you out of her grasp.
And if I can’t get her out, I will have no other choice but to force you to look at me just like you used to look at me.
A strange phone number came into my phone screen before it started vibrating. I panicked. Maybe the unknown guy is calling at last. For so many days I’ve waited for him to contact me again. Why did it take him so long to get back to me?
“Lucia, can’t you see we’re on a shoot, you should’ve turned off your phone and concentrate.” Assistant Director was shouting at me while I nodded in apology.
“I’m sorry, I was just expecting a call from someone for a while now. I’m sorry but I need to take this call.” I said as I ran out of the set and rushed outside to attend to my phone.
I took the call. “is that you Lucia?” The voice was deep and loud just like the first time I heard it.
Tension gripped me but I had to compose myself. “Yes. What about our deal? I asked you to bring Carmen to me and I think, you’re yet to do that.”
“I don’t want to bring Carmen to you anymore.”
I frowned, getting furious. “Why? You suddenly realised that you’re no fit for Carmen. Lol, it’s hard to think that the little witch is even above you.”
“Watch your mouth Lucia, you won’t like it if I gun you down right now.”
I looked around me immediately as I heard his threatening voice. He commanded his words, not like he cared about the deal at all and moreso, he sounded as if he could see me while I can’t.
“I have a new job for you.”
“A new job for me? But this is not__”
“Kill Carmen, afterall, you want to kill her in the first place and I’m providing you with the perfect opportunity to do so.”
“How am I supposed to kill Carmen when you didn’t get her to me like we promised each other.”
“I owe you no promise. And secondly, someone is coming over there to meet you now, he will give you something you can use and eliminate her.”
Like he said, I saw a man coming towards me from a distance. Maybe it’s him from the way he’s dressed. All black, from head to toe and a black sunglasses too.
“I’m giving you two days to get the task done so we can breathe.”
“And what happens after I get Carmen out of the way?”
“Don’t you need my brother anymore? You can have him all to yourself after you take Carmen out of the way.”
This is the kind of offer I wanted. Kill Carmen. The object of all my frustrations. The witch who’s about to ruin my perfect life. A life I created for myself and someone from nowhere wanted to ruin it all. Who does she think she is? I will make sure I deal with her. I must set my acts in motion so that before tomorrow, I’m going over to Ricardo’s place to console him over his lost wife. Let me see how he’s gonna have the power to reject me again when there’s no Carmen.
“We talk again after the job is done.” And he hung up, the man approached me and bowed before he placed a wrapped substance into my hands.
“My boss said I should assist you with all the help you will need.”
“That’s good.” I examined the content I had in my arms. “Start by tracking Carmen’s location and what she’s doing at the moment.”
“Yes ma’am.” He bowed and then left while I heaved a sigh of relief.
Carmen or wh@tëver your name is, you’re not a star, you’re just a stray bullet which should not have been fired in the first place and I’m going to treat you just the way stray bullets are treated in this life.
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CARMEN’S POV
And he held me in his arms. So tight. He didn’t want to let go. I was getting out of breathe but he held me tighter, I’m his lifeline…that’s what he said when we got out of the company earlier. I’m all he needs to breathe in this life. Yeah, there’s God but life can be so meaningless if there’s no me in it.
That’s why he had lived meaningless lives in the past until he met me. I should never leave him. Not like I was going anywhere without him but it felt so nice hearing him be so happy because of me.
But I know that I need to protect him. I have to. What I saw in that company wasn’t pleasant at all. Cardo is struggling to live over them but he’s still subdued.
The kind of people he had to deal with, even in his inner circle, there’s no one on his side. Almost every worker is against him, if not, they won’t be allies to Bernadette, Juan, Fernando and so many of the grand uncles and foolish uncles of the Alejandrozz!!
I wanted to scream my head off because of all the things I saw. I didn’t stop firing workers. I couldn’t, I had to request for an interview in that company and it’s gonna happen tomorrow and I must be there to see the kind of workers they’re going to bring into the company again.
I know I’ve been trending all afternoon. The most searched name on the internet today is me.
MR. RICARDO’S WIFE, THE LION OF THE HOUSE.
CARMEN AGAINST THE WORLD.
CARMEN GIVES EVERY WORKER A SACK LETTER; WHAT DOES A YOUNG TEENAGER KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS?
MR. AND MRS. RICARDO: HOTTEST COUPLE OF THE DAY
Then, he held my arms and took me shopping, something he rarely does by himself. Like he was determined to show me off to anyone who cared to know. I’m his wife, he told anyone he passed. The camera men, parapazzi never stopped taking pictures.
For the first time I’m officially feeling like Cardo’s woman. “From here to there, bag it.” I told one of the female attendant and she nodded and began to take out all the dresses from the hangers. The company bags were brought and the clothes were bagged. I went to the shoe area, I pointed from the top to the down part of the rack.
“I want these shoes except the green one. But that lemon is very compulsory.” I said and the attendants rushed and began to attend to it.
Cardo was sitting down on the customer’s couch, looking at me and smiling cheerfully. “You need to try out the lemon, I think it’s gonna look good on you.”
“You think so?” I asked and he nodded. He stood up and helped me get the lemon heels from the attendants, he sat me down on a chair, and reduced his height to a squat, and unbuckled the heel I was wearing and began to put on the lemon heel.
“See?” He said looking up to my face and smiling, “it’s so sëxy, it compliments your beautiful ankle.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, I love it!”
“Then I will buy three of it!”
He giggled.
Cardo is so childish sometimes, especially when he can’t take his eyes off me. Maybe he thinks that if he stops looking at me, I’m gonna fly away, though sometimes he acts like I’m not in his life at all. I think I’m just blessed to steal his eyes from anything else today.
Otherwise, he would be buried in books, docvments and phones all day. The only time I get to see his face is when we want to eat or sleep. And sometimes, he cuddles me to sleep while he’s busy with his laptop.
So today is quite exceptional. I’m blessed. Totally blessed to have Cardo in my life. I know so many of these attendants have been drooling over him, I don’t blame them, My Cardo is so pretty. Only his eyes can get you wishing you’d had him in your life.
And lucky me. I’m the only person who owns Cardo. Such a pity they didn’t get to meet someone like Cardo in their lives.
“Let’s go home or you still got something to buy?”
“Yeah, bags. I haven’t had new ones in a while.”
“The last ones you bought, how many times did you use them?”
“Still, I’m a woman and every woman should have bags, even if it’s one. I don’t even have jewelries.”
“You know that’s a lie right? Because you have tons of them in your closet, you don’t even know where to keep them, last Sunday, you said something about getting a room for all your jewelries, isn’t that what you told me?”
“Okay, fine but I still gotta try out new ones.”I persuaded.
“Alright.”
And he followed me around while I picked things I needed, even the ones I never needed. He was sweet but his nagging side when it comes to unnecessary spending was there too. Carmen don’t get this if you know you don’t want it. But who am I not to get it? I have a rich husband, he has money, money which I can’t even finish in a year, ten years! Why won’t I buy all the things I need. I’m sorry I was born with a gold spoon, I don’t know how to put myself in any poor person’s shoes. I don’t even know how to think of being like that.
“You sure you want to get this Vintage?”
“I want it.”
“But it’s just a material.”
“I want you to make a dress for me with it. That’s when we get home.”
“You know I don’t have time for that.”
I turned to look at him. I dumped the wears in my hands to the attendant’s and came close to Cardo. “Cardo, don’t you think you need to take a step back from being the CEO?”
“What do you mean by that?” He asked with a panic stricken look on his face.
“I mean, don’t you think you should enter that your design studio yourself and make things better? You know what you’re good at and you’re making it rub shoulders with the mud simply because you want to keep family peace?”
“Carmen, I’ve tortured my relatives enough by being the CEO, getting all the products, being the one to design them and have them produced will kill all of them. That’s for my sisters to do. I want them to have the glory of being good fashion designers and stylists, I can’t take that away from them.”
“How about you try it?”
“What?”
“Try it. I’m always by your side. We will pull through together.” I said smiling and he chuckled looking at me. “That’s what you suits you best. I watched all the designs you made on papers and well stashed in your design room, and they’re so pretty. The only thing left is bringing all those ideas to life. I think that’s what you have in you Cardo.” I said, winked and then bounced away.
And I heard his soft steps behind me, “Hey wait up!”
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We were done shopping, the body guards were with my baggages as Cardo and I walked out of the shopping mall. All eyes came back to us as we came out. Of course, every press man wanted an interview with the most hottest couple on internet today.
Cardo guided me into the car amidst struggles from the crowd who gathered around us. We came into the car while the chauffeur drove off. We held hands and I leaned my head on his shoulder.
“Carmen.” He called after several minutes of silence.
“Mmm.” With my eyes half closed.
“Do you know that today is one of the happiest day of my life?”
“I know.”
“You know?” He eyed me and I chuckled.
“Because you just told me and I knew that today is the happiest day of your life.”
He smiled. He pecked my forehead and began to caress the back my neck. “You must be hungry.”
I nodded and he beckoned to the chauffeur to stop at the nearest eatery around us. Of course, this is Alejandrozz street and everything on the streets belongs to them. The car quickly stopped at one of the largest Alejandrozz restaurant around and Cardo came down, helped me out and we walked into the noiseless and unoccupied restaurant.
The waiters were at our beck and call the minute we sat down, our orders were brought. And we dug into the food, we ate cautiously spending more time looking at each other than paying attention to the meal.
And then: I felt a rumble in my stomach. I ignored it trying to follow up with Cardo’s gist, I tried to laugh at what he’s saying and the rumble came again, harder and more painful this time.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah…uhm…” He helped me with water, I drank a little and I think it got worse.
“Arggghh!!!”
“Carmen! What’s wrong?”
My stomach is on fire. Ugh!!! Gosh!!! Why is it so painful? What did they put in the food? Cardo was behind me immediately, “are you sure you’re okay?”
“Carmen!”
My eyes were closing. I can’t take it anymore. I can’t feel my stomach, I can’t feel my instestines. I was looking at Cardo but I can’t see him.
“Carmen!!!” His voice sounded so faint in my ears.
“Carmen!!!”
Carmen!!!!
TO BE CONTINUED….
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