All Chapters of The Beauty of Love: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Omotayo        I sat impatiently beside my mother and opposite my elder brother who seemed to find my impatience and anxiousness amusing. He hasn't stopped blabbing about how dad summoned this meeting for my sake and that worried me because dad doesn't just call for family meetings like this without giving us a heads up or at the very least a reason for the gathering.    "Dad knows I left work for this meeting, right?" Temitope grumbles and almost immediately dad shows up behind him and smacks him from behind. "Why is patience so far from you?" He asks irritably and I chuckle when I see Temi's expression to the question, he looked so gobsmacked and confused and it actually felt good to be the one laughing and not vice versa.  "Omotayo,  how are you?" Dad asks suddenly and the g

Omotayo  "So the hotel is being sued by a guest who claimed to have suffered food poisoning?" I ask my secretary after going through the case file she tagged as urgent.  "Yes, that's correct ma. Mr Davids had specifically asked that you take care of this case because he believes that when we win this case, we'd be adding one of the biggest hotels in Nigeria to our list of clients which is financially convenient for us." She replies and I go through the file again still wondering why dad had specifically asked me to take the case.  The case didn't seem like something too complicated or deep which were the only type of cases I handled but seeing as he didn't pick any other lawyer to handle it, means he had his reasons for entrusting me with the case and I had no choice but to com

 Omotayo "Maria please bring me Mr Morrison's case file again, It seems I missed something important." I order my secretary immediately she hands me my aspirin and she scurries away immediately.  Every person in the office has been avoiding eye contact with me since the drama I created earlier this morning at the parking lot. It was partly suffocating but also another way I reassured my position as the no nonsense boss.  Three hours earlier...    I hurried out of my car like a crazy woman trying to meet up with a scheduled meeting that started thirty minutes ago. I hated it whenever I wasn't punctual, it made me feel irresponsible and sick to my stomach. I blamed Ini and Lagos traffic for my misfortune

 Omotayo"Oya buy this one na, it's pretty." Angela, a mutual friend of Ini and I suggested in a hurry but I'm quick to refuse since I wasn't feeling the colour of the dress. I didn't blame her for hurrying though, we've been here for almost two hours and yet I've not found a dress that I genuinely like. "Yellow is too much for me. I don't like the colour one bit." I tell her and Ini quickly throws me two more dresses to try on, the stress lines on her face showing she's about to give up on me. "I hate shopping with you Tayo, you can complain for Africa. We've being here since and not one dress has suit your taste but if it's to pick baggy pants now with your oversized blazers, we would have been out of here a long time. Your kind person sef ehn! " She hisses and rolls her eyes irritatedly but I could care less about her opinion. If I'm not comfortable with something, I won't buy it. Simple!I decide to try on one

 Omotayo  "Do you have his number?" Ini asks."No." "Does he have yours?" She asks again."No." I reply boredly. "Did you ask where he stays?" She asks and this time, I had to roll my eyes. "No, and why should I?" I retort and she hisses at me, wearing a frown on her face."Lord knows, you're a fool. A very big fool and the painful thing is somebody will see you now and say you have sense meanwhile, that space upstairs is halfway empty." She hisses harshly, scowling at me again, like she has been doing since she got here this morning.   "Ini, for once in your life, please be reasonable, use that number six of yours. How can I ask for his number much less his home address? Does that make any sense? Does he know me from anywhere? So, you sef use your head reason am na." I fire back at her. (So, you should also be reasonable.)  "If you don't