Chapter 13: Not a suicide, nor natural!
After spending time with Broe, Presch went back home to her mother in the night. She sure had a long tiring day, yeah, with all the different positions she had displayed for him just to satisfy him. On getting home, the house was lit up with light, she had thought that her mother would have gone to bed.
"Mum, why are you still up?", she asked feeling worried.
Cylene watched her daughter walking slowly as if she hurt her legs. "I should go and sleep when my only daughter isn't back?, come sit beside me baby".
"Is Royce not back? Hope you have eaten? He supposed to be here helping you out with somethings". She said stretching her body.
"Ohhh, that one? He just resembled his father with his disgusting personality. I am sure he is at the club by now where he flirts and carries those girls around, so dumb like a fool, I wonder if I am truly his mother", she puffed and hissed.
"Mum, it okay, let me take you to your room". Both of them supported themselves into Cylene's room.
"That reminds me, what about where you went to today? Hope it went as planned?", Cylene asked her daughter curiously.
"Trust me Mum, I and Broe had a nice day today. I had taken the pill before approaching him, and he fell easily to my bait", she smiled and laugh while trying to hide the pain coming from her down part.
Cylene noticed her discomfort and asked, "Are you okay?".
"Yes mum", she smiled.
Cylene nodded her head telling her she had heard her.
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Silver Scott had a very long day at work. He had been so busy with the ongoing project in the company, he thought of calling his wife to ask if they had gotten home.
He called her and she picked her call within few seconds the phone rang... "grhhhhhh grhhhh grhhhh, hello".
"Hello", Flora was confused on how to reply him. She then remembered the two ladies beside her might suspect something, so she immediately changed her tone and words.
"Hello honey", she said calmly.
Scott smiled on hearing what she had called him. "Hmmm, hope you enjoyed your day today?", he asked trying to play along.
"We do actually, what about you?", she said smiling to herself.
Beauty and Aria glued their eyes on her, acting like they have never being in love. "What are these love birds trying to pull? Huh?". Aria shouted with laughter, purposely making her brother hear her.
Flora and Beauty laughed also, even Scott who was on the phone laughed. "Who is that jealous single lady, hope you didn't stress my wife today or else you will receive a query". Scott chuckled and said.
"Are you guys home already", Scott added.
"No, we are on our way, few minutes to getting home baby", she sounded very romantic which triggered Scott's body to react.
"Okay wiffy. I'll meet you home shortly". He smiled and was expecting hearing her respond, but she had already cut the call.
It was as if Joel was hallucinating, his boss was chatting sweetly with his wife. "Godamn, it seems I have to get home quick, so I can see my wife too". He said to himself.
Scott realized he has been indulged into the little conversation he just had with Flora, he was surprised he had spoken sweetly with her. He told himself it just an acting, it wasn't real.
Almost 9pm, the three ladies who went to the beach got to their various homes. Aria, entered her room and went to freshen up. Everyone one had had dinner before coming home and they were all exhausted. Flora also went upstairs to freshen up, she had plan to study the documents she had gotten from Prum regarding her parent's investigation.
When Scott got home, he went upstairs to check up on Flora. He had missed her all the day, especially after the call today.
"Oh, you are back? Welcome. How was work today?". She asked him as she was arranging her clothes.
"Work was a little bit stressful", he stood across the bed looking at her.
"Or is there anything you want to help me with?", he smiled looking at her as if he was planning to trick her.
"Yes, sure. Huh?????". She shouted in amazement, she didn't know when she replied him with "Yes, sure". "Hmmm, I mean what is that?", she asked confusingly.
"This man is up to something this night, I wonder why he is like this? What I did today was only acting, don't he get it?", she thought within herself and touched her temple sighing..
Scott didn't mind what she was thinking or doing, he left her without saying anything, pulled off his clothes and left for the bathroom. Flora sighed and continue with what she was doing.
"Aren't you going to bed early?", he asked her as he came out from the bathroom, a big towel was tied round his waist, leaving out his upper white bare body.
Flora closed her eyes as she bowed down her face. "Smiles...what is it? You want to tell me this is your first time seeing a man's body?". Scott smirked and said to Flora.
To avoid much talks with him, she lifted up her face to avoid him embarrassing her. "Prfff, what? I am not a shy type. Don't look down on me".
"Really?", he sat on the bed beside her, touched her face and then to her lips. "I see...you said I shouldn't look down on you. Tonight, I want a massage from you. Pretty lady, what will you say to that?", he said coldly with a pleading tone.
"No no no, this guy is faking everything just to seduce her, Flora don't listen to him, pleasesss". Her inner mind told her. She wasn't feeling comfortable with his touch on her face, at the same time she wasn't feeling bad. Infact, she somehow love it, her body seems to respond to his hands, she felt her heartbeat beating faster and found it hard to breathe.
"Okay, okay, okay, I'll do it". She had no choice than to agree to his request. "Just tonight, yes, just tonight".
Scott smiled silently, he withdrew his hands and lied on the bed, his face facing the bed sp she could massage him. "I thought you would not obey it, because you had promised me earlier to help. Well, pretty lady, that's what a lady should always do, keep to promises". He laughed and teased her.
Flora couldn't talk back, she just held in her anger and started massaging him. How she wish she could hit this man, then he passed out till morning. She had suspected he was trying to play some tricks tonight, she promised to pay back. What she kept on thinking was how her hands would suffer tonight.
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At last, the massage was done to his satisfactory. He stood up, dressed up in his sleeping wears and left for his study room. Flora almost cried from the pain she was bearing from her two hands.
Scott knew what was happening to her but continue smiling to himself as he walks to his study room, he picked up his phone and dialed a call.
Since Prum had informed him about the information he had gotten regarding his wife's parents death, his mind had hardly stay calm. Though, he wasn't scared of anyone, Flora was now his weakness, he had to protect her with everything he has, even with his life.
"Hello boss", Prum answered immediately the call connected.
"Any information about my request", he asked coldy, his tone lacking mercy.
"Yes sir, I was about calling you to inform you", he responded sacred of his boss reprimanding him.
"Come to my office tomorrow. I am sure their death wasn't natural", he looked over to the door, making sure no one was there.
"Yes, boss, I'll do that".
"Let this just be between us and..", he paused.
"And what sir, am all ears", Prum asked his boss.
"Tell Xapher to dispatch some men to keep guiding my wife, make sure she ia always being protected all time".
"Yes boss". Scott ended the call, he sat down, open his system and starts working.
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Broe drove himself home, his driver had taken leave for some days. He stumbled inisde the house, he didn't even remember closing the door, the servants helped him instead. They knew it was him already, so they had opened the door on time.
Broe's mother had ordered them to always stay awake whenever her son didn't come home early, until he comes back home. She will always remind them and goes upstairs to sleep. What a useless mother!
No one asks him anything, they closes the door and go to their rooms. Broe managed to walk into his room, he wasn't drunk nor tipsy, but his tiredness was as a result of everything that had happened between he and Presh, his fiancée at his office today. When he took some few steps, he fell on his bed and slept off.
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Past 10, both couple at Silver Scott's mansion hasn't slept yet. The husband was in his study room working, while the wife was checking out some documents. The documents are the ones Prum had gave her that day. She quickly brought the out, before Scott comes in, she wants to read through them.
Both were lost in their sense of working, they hadn't thought of time to rest. On a long run while reading, Flora discovered her mum hadn't gave birth to her before her dad married in Cylene. Her mum had been discharged from the hospital few days after Cylene came into the house, even before given birth to her. "What had happened?", she asked herself rhetorically.