Chapter 54: A Clueless Man

Chapter 54: A Clueless Man
Colton’s eyes darkened when he received the report from his friend who happened to be Giselle’s doctor while she was in New York. Colton’s hand tightened around the file he was holding, “Giselle, why did you lie to me? The child belongs to me, and you chose to name Tanner Knight as my baby’s father?”
Anger was coursing through Colton’s veins, he wanted to punch something or someone to take his frustration out. The woman made a fool out of him, and he was dumb enough to be fooled by her!
Colton grabbed his phone and dialed the person that could help him by hook or by crook “Jeff, I need you to find her and soon! She has taken something that belongs to me!”
Giselle, who was in Canada felt a sudden sense of dread and she wondered why she was getting this weird feeling when everything was going fine. Her father is a freeman now and she didn’t have to look over her shoulder for Colton to come and take her babies away.
Jeff had to think of all the possibilities of what she could have done to make Colton so furious! He did not have Colton’s permission to investigate his ex – wife's father but he did not need his permission to investigate the other man in the picture.
He investigated Tanner’s travel and got to know that he has been spending a lot of his time in Canada. He booked his tickets immediately to Canada and started following Tanner. Tanner seemed to be there for business purpose, and he was staying at a hotel, he made sure that he never met the woman Colton was kind of obsessed with!
Just when he was running out of luck and patience, Tanner handed him a perfect opportunity on a silver platter! “Got you!” There she was, Giselle Smith, he knew then that she must have come here with a different identity. “Who are you now, Ms. Smith?” he mumbled to himself as he clicked her pictures.
Colton was becoming impatient as his friend was taking too long to get a simple information on one God damn woman that did not have the means to disappear off the face of this earth without a trace! Even if she had Tanner’s backing it was not easy to disappear into thin air “You have messed with the wrong person, Giselle Smith!”
He swiped his hand across his table making the stuff on his table fall to the floor, his laptop was shattered, and the files were strewn across the room “Mr. Black wha...” Wanda barged into the room and was shocked to see it in a mess. ‘Oh my god! What happened?”
Colton looked at her with narrowed eyes, he did not ask for her nor did it look like she had any work with him! So, why or how did she bare into his office without his permission “Did you need anything?” He bit out angrily at Wanda, making her cower in fear.
Wanda took a step back “N... no... I just uh... I just heard loud noise coming from your office, so ju... just came to check on you.”
Colton scoffed giving her a onceover “Is that so?”
Wanda wanted to respond to his question but the way he was looking at her made her cast her gaze down “Da... Mr. Black, I just came here as your personal assistant to check on my boss, that is it!”
“Are you happy with me, Wanda?” Colton’s question caught her off guard and she didn’t know why he was even asking her that question.
“Are you not happy with me?” She chose to answer his question with a question of her own coz deep down, though she was scared of him, she also loved him obsessively even since they were kids and there was no fucking way, she was going to give up on him now.
“That’s not the answer to my question” Colton raised his brow as he stared at her with challenge in his eyes.
Wanda bit down on her lower lip, she knew that if she opened her mouth Colton would chew her up and spit her out, a risk she was not willing to take. Silence was a better option than bearing his wrath “Answer me!”
Colton’s voice boomed in his office, he had had enough of her attitude “I... I... I...” He scoffed, she could not even answer a simple question from him, and she claims to love him when he was not giving her death glares! “Dan... Colton...”
He raised his hand gesturing her to stop her rambling “You had one opportunity to answer just one simple question with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ and you couldn’t even do that?”
Wanda stepped forward trying to grab Colton’s hand, but he took a step back avoiding her touch “Don’t!” The anger in his eyes stopped Wanda in her tracks. She loves him, she knew it in her heart, but she did not know why she could not voice it out when asked!
Colton went to his seat ignoring Wanda, who stood there gaping like a fish. She had given up too much to get him and was disappointed that he could not see her love for him in her actions, but he rather wants to hear her voice her devotion for him. Biting down on her lower lip she wringed her hands together.

Colton’s PoV
Looking at her made me second guess my choices. I mean, I must have been blind to not have seen this side of hers before. This jealous, dominating girlfriend side was something she always hid from me.
“What? You got nothing to say now?” I scoffed lighting a cigarette. Ever since Giselle left, I have gotten used to smoking a pack a day, a very bad habit, I know, but what can I say?
“Dan... Colton... it’s uh...” I raised my arm stopping her nonsense rambling.
“That’s enough Wanda, you have had your chance to say your bit. Leave” I gestured to her to get out of my office with a shake of my hand. She went out of my office with her tail tucked between her legs. It did not make me feel any good behaving like an ass to the woman that I loved at one point.
“Fuck!” I slammed my hand against the table. Giselle has fucked with my mind so much that I no longer know what I love and what I want to do! She has basically left me a clueless man.
I looked at the report once again ‘She is carrying my child! MY CHILD! And she chose to keep it a secret from me! Why?’ As my anger reduced, I started thinking about the reason why she chose to do so, why she chose to lie to me? I know that I never gave her a reason to love me or trust me.
“It is all my fault!” I raked a hand through my hair roughly. Even if I realize that it is my fault, I don’t think I am willing to accept it coz accepting my fault is as good as accepting my defeat, and that, I am not willing to accept!
“Henry, get the jet ready for tonight, we are flying to Canada” I hung up the call after I gave my orders to pilot. I am going to see her, and I am going to get answers to all my questions.

She raised her arm away from my imprisonment, she looked pretty tired, “Colton, I am not in the mood to argue with you on these topics today, you can go.”
I wanted to ask her to answer the questions that I had for her, but looking at how tired she was, I did not have the heart to burden her with my doubts. I understood her mood, it was indeed inappropriate at this time, but I also knew that if I missed this time, it would be difficult for me to see her again.
“Giselle…” I eased my tone and cupped her face with my hands. I held her face for a long while before I put my hands down, “We will talk in a few days.”
I saw Giselle’s eyelashes tremble lightly, she did not speak, nor did she agree. “Take a good rest, I will go back first.” After stroking her head, I took a deep breath and looked at her as I slowly turned and left.
Although I had the urge to stay with her, she still had Tanner Knight on her side which kind of made me redundant here.
Just as I walked two steps away, the silent Giselle suddenly said, “Do you want to know if the child is yours? What do you want to do after finding out? If… it is really yours, are you planning to... kill my baby or fulfill the responsibility of raising this child?”
My body became stiff, and my steps slowly stopped, I turned and stared at her without blinking my eyes. A few seconds later, I said in a low voice, “I know.”
I heard Giselle gasp but was quick to cover her surprise with nonchalance “What? I don’t understand what you mean.”
“You don’t need to act, Giselle, I know that the child growing in your stomach is mine, I will take responsibility for our child. Why will I not take responsibility for raising our child? As for remarriage, I have no objection!” I might even feel a little delighted if she agrees to remarriage.
Giselle suddenly looked into my eyes and said blankly “You want to remarry me, huh?”
“I was not the one that planned to get a divorce... at least not till the term was up!”
The woman sneered, “You were the one that proposed for the contract marriage and wanted to divorce once the four – year term was up. You did not even want to live with me while we remained married, but now you want to spend a lifetime with me for your children, Colton, why can’t you be a man? Be clear about what you want!”
‘Babies? Did I just hear her say babies? “What?” My lips gradually tightened, watching her without saying anything else as my brain was still processing what she just said.
Giselle’s lips twitched again, “It was your grandfather who forced you to marry me. You are also the president of Calibre Investment. No one is forcing you to marry me. You can fight for everything you want, including the life you want for the woman you like, why bother to come back and pester me?”
I looked at the woman standing in front of me, she looked to be in a daze ‘What is it that she wants? What do I want?’
Giselle naturally did not have the patience to wait for me to understand, and walked in my direction, and whispered as I walked away “The child is not yours, and I will never get married again. I have promised Tanner that I will consider marrying him.”
She shrugged her shoulders, chuckled, and spit out her last words for him, “Goodbye, Mr. Black!”
My fists tightened at the way she lied so easily and how she mentioned that she is considering marrying a man that is not me.