Cold Showers — Chapter 36

Two weeks later.

Caleb found himself in Saunders and Co on a Monday morning. He had a meeting with a senior associate of the firm, Mr Tucker, concerning the protection of the new products invented by his company. The meeting went well and Caleb thanked Mr Tucker and other associates who helped out before walking out of the conference room. He thought Jayda was going to be part of the lawyers that would be present in the meeting. He stylishly asked for her and was told she was busy with another case.

As soon as Caleb walked out of the glass-walled conference room, he bumped into his best friend's sister, Olivia.

"Caleb, what are you doing here?" Olivia asked excitedly as she pulled him into a bone-crushing hug.

Caleb chuckled, "I came to see Mr Tucker. We had a meeting with some associates. And you, where are you going?" He asked her.

"Oh, we've been working pretty hard since morning, doing some research for this new case Jayda is working on. I was on my way to get drinks."

"This firm has the best lawyers in the country, make sure you learn well so you'll be like them."

"Sure, that's the goal." She said proudly.

"Oh shit, that's Jayda, I have to go," Olivia said. She gave Caleb a quick hug before disappearing towards the opposite direction of where Jayda was coming from.

Caleb smiled at the thought of Olivia not knowing that Jayda was pregnant with her brother's child. He wondered if Jayda was aware that Olivia was Sebastian's sister.

"Beautiful." would be an understatement for Caleb to describe how gorgeous Jayda was. He stood still and watched as she stopped to talk to someone.

Jayda was looking really pretty and professional in her dress which stopped right above her knees. She had matching heels on and wore her hair down.

If she wasn't taken by Sebastian, he would have tried to ask her out but that could never happen because he was in love with his girlfriend. He wondered what possessed Sebastian to treat such an amazing lady with disrespect.

Caleb composed himself when he saw her coming towards him. He also walked towards her and tried to get her attention.

"Good afternoon."

"Hello," Jayda smiled at him. "How may I help you?" She asked politely.

"You're Jayda, right?" He asked. She nodded.

"I'm Caleb, Sebastian's best friend." He introduced.

"Oh," Jayda said softly. Everything now made sense when she saw Olivia chatting away with him.

"It's nice to finally meet you." Caleb smiled. "I've heard so much about you from Sebastian," he added.

"I hope he told you good things about me?" Jayda said. Caleb nodded.

"We had a fight on the day he denied being the father of your child. Thank you for teaching him a lesson, he realized his mistake and came back to ask for my forgiveness."

"I know I shouldn't be intervening in you guys' matters but I want to plead on Sebastian's behalf. He's really sorry for everything and he wants to be in your life and the baby's life. Please give him the chance to make it up to the two of you." He pleaded.

Jayda nodded after a while.

"Thanks for hearing me out. I hope we'll see each other very soon."

Jayda smiled, "Hopefully, have a nice day!"

.......

Sebastian had been the sweetest to Jayda in the past days. He either sent her flowers, chocolates, gifts, dinner or lunch everyday and once in every two nights, he sent her a text message, asking how she was doing. Even though Jayda read all the messages, she never replied to any of them but she had been wanting to reconcile with him.

She doesn't know if it was her Ego that had prevented her from doing so or the fact that she was afraid to involve him in the next chapter of her life. She doesn't want a situation where she would be too attached to him and then he would break her heart.