When Elisa stepped into the room and closed the door behind her. Immediately her eyes greeted the gory scene about few steps away from her, she almost crashed into the door behind her. Pressing her back to the door in dread and horror. Her face suddenly grew pale, her eyes weary. The pupils were bulging so heavily and actively at the sockets. Her hands clasped to her mouth; she had just seen what was close to a ghost; the body of a dead man. Jada opened her mouth but couldn't find the words. She knew she should explain to her, but the words were betraying. They were not willing to be rolled out. One of the questions that Jada wanted to ask was what Elisa was doing there, but of course she knew that that wasn't an important question. "I can explain."Jada finally found the words which had been remote. Though her words said how intentional she was about whatever she had in mind, but her eyes was saying something else. "Elisa I can explain."Jada had seen the way Elisa reacted when
"Shall we get to it then?"Damien raised his voice so that everyone could hear him. He was standing on a podium before the flood of board members of the BMX group. He had tried to count them as soon as he entered into the BMX meeting hall, but he lost interest. They were so many that he could only differentiate them by the length of their heads and necks. But there were few of them with whom he was familiar. Those whom he met few days ago before the party. He looked around for Denzel but the lad was nowhere to be found. "Gentlemen, remember I said I had a business to attend to?"He resumed the discourse as soon as he was sure that he'd had enough of the look-around. "Here we are. This is the business."One of the men put up his hand after Damien took a pause. "Naturally I won't have you interrupt me, but it's okay. I owe you one."Damien nodded at the man. The rest of the board members were stunned at how casually he was speaking with them in such a formal setting. But those who
"How would you explain yourself?"The cop asked Jada who had no idea how to answer the question. She knew that there were quite a number of things which she couldn't say, yet she couldn't afford keeping mute. "I'll do the talking. Leave her out of it. After all, I'm the manager of the company. And as far as I remember, I didn't recall calling the police."Elisa took a pause, looking from the head of the police to the toe. "By the way, how did you make your way in here? I'm a hundred percent certain that I've never seen you in my entire life."The officer stared at Elisa for a while. Elisa's face was inquisitive. She was doing all she could to put Jada's mind at rest. She could tell from the look in Jada's face that she could pass out anytime from that moment. The officer looked away from Elisa to Jada. "Your temporary detention period is over. I'll be taking you to the station."He announced, as though Elisa's argument meant nothing to him. "You can't do that, officer."Elisa had
The door to the manager's office opened before him and he stepped into the office. As soon as he did, both ladies jumped on their feet as though he was there to punish them. Of course they had done that out of reverence and respect, but they didn't appear that way."Stop making a villian out of me and sit down already."He complained, walking briskly, closing the pace to join them. The girls sat down on the couch. He sat on another couch which was opposite the long one. "Now ask your questions. Be quick about it, I should meet with my girls."He added. "How did you know about the incident?"Elisa was the first to go. Damien was actually staring at Jada, thinking she would be the first. But he had no choice but to look at Elisa. "You won't believe if I told you the answer. But I knew."Elisa couldn't believe that that was the only thing he had to say to her. The manner at which she was staring at him, it was obvious that she wanted to hear more. Even if she had her way, she would pl
"What's happening?""Someone tell me that I'm not hallucinating.""Perhaps my mind is playing a trick on me?""I don't understand how this could be possible?""I can't wrap my head around it.""Me too. It seems too good to be true!""Too good or too strange? I mean, who could had thought about it?"The eight girls took turns talking about what they had wanted to talk about all along. The eight girls were gathered in their hotel room, looking from one person to the other. "Damien?""How?""Where did he get the money?"There was more of confusion than shock in their faces. Obviously, they were still having hard times getting over what they experienced in the multipurpose Hall. It was too good to be true. "Were we wrong about him? Could it be that he was a billionaire in disguise all along? Has he been tolerating us even though he was super rich?""Now I feel like a total mess. How could I have acted towards him in such manner?"Lisa was the first to speak so openly, seconding what La
About few seconds later, Jada and Elisa hurried into the room too and stood behind Damien. Damien looked across the room. It was as he envisaged. It was the perfect reaction which he had looked forward to;The eyes of the girls were ready to pop out of their places. They had shock creeping up their faces. SHOULDN'T YOU GET OVER IT ALREADY?He had given them enough time to get their acts together. He had done some many things in the middle to help them adjust to the new style of things. But it seemed as though they were still having a hard time adjusting. "No one stands behind me."Damien announced, and the two girls who were behind him hurried to the front. Elisa almost lost her composure, about to go join the nine girls. "Beside me. I didn't mean that you should run away."Damien called both girls and then returned to him. Elisa stood by his right, Jada by his left. Damien looked back at the eight girls. The little time that Damien gave to them came in handy. The eight girls wer
"What do you think he has in mind?""Why do you think he wants to speak with us alone?""Does he want to make us pay?""If that's the case, then he's been kind.""Kind you said?""Of course... he could had disgraced us before that sassy manager.""But we might be wrong too."Damien had no idea what they had in mind. To think that they had meant all what they had said as whispers was quite funny to him. Perhaps, their words didn't occur to him as whispers because of his super sensitive hearing aid. But he couldn't dwell on that. When he turned back to the girls, he could see that they were trying to shuffle, an attempt to disappear into one another? Like they were trying to get absorbed by their neighbors. Damien had a reason by putting a great responsibility on them. The truth was, he didn't want to get rid of them. If he wanted to, he would had done that long ago. What he had in mind was to bring out maturity out of them. They were too simple minded and thoughtless for his liking
"Huh?""What's he talking about?""Hididng something from him?""I'm not sure if I get his point.""Wait a minute, could he be what we were talking about?"Damien let the girls wonder amongst themselves what his point was. While he waited for them, he brought his phone out and started to scroll through it. He couldn't be sure whether or not they understood where he was driving at. He didn't want to give them a hint either. He wanted to figure what was the most important thing to them. He wanted to figure out if the situation was as deadly to them as it was to him. Or perhaps they were too dumb to see the severity of the situation. He couldn't wait to be disappointed. "It wasn't my fault. It wasn't our fault."Damien's finger hovered over the screen of the phone when those words came. He looked up slowly at the owner of the word. It was Lisa, and she was pointing towards Tendzel,"It was all her idea. She was the one who wanted to give your baby to a rich man. She was the one who