"Once a man dies!" Don Marcello, his hand turned the lever of the parlor door down and like a spirit, he exited, and moved from place to place, until he located Capo Carlsbad's office and entered it.The clock on the wall was 2:00 .On the light? No. Where to start? Where you start? Where to start?Thinking of where to start as he sat in Capo Carlsbad's swivel chair, his forehead rested on the desk. It was a deep sleep. His intention: Since he would be out, the last effort was to garner the information that would ruin Melissa's husband's economy. She will be forced to reconsider her adamant stance.He was thrown up by the opening of the office door.But he was swiftly safe in the store. He crawled into the only place available? The maid briskly walked into the store and took a mob, a pail, and an air freshener.He knew he was covered but did not know what covered him but he knew he had nailed himself like in a coffin, no scrawling out, no sideway movements. What the military calls
Don Marcello. Would he regret it at last if Melissa finds a suitor? Young madam, as she was known by the domestic staff sat at her vanity table doing the final beauty regime as she does. She had just been attended to by the chief maid who styled her hair. But in her situation, she hears and obeys those inner voices: A little retouch, here, yes. All to get back her husband's attention Picking her little comb for a bit of a retouch in her hair, hoping she would look cute, she felt a movement of somebody walking in. It was Don Marcello, her husband. He stopped at her back groaned her name maiden name and handed her an envelope. Her eyes glittered with the envelope bearing the maiden name: Melissa Cole. "Toasting afresh?" Her fingers trembled, pulling out the paper in the white envelope. Exasperated, she rested the back of her neck on the edge of the chair at the vanity table. A while later, she read it again. A divorce paper duly signed. "Don Marcello." she nodded. It dawned
Melissa saw a restaurant out of Cosa town and entered. The manager came in. One of the service girls told him," The girl sitting down there...yes, in a floral gown, she said she wants to see you for a job, maybe."He gazed at her. " Yes, Ms. Can I help you, please? " he asked as he walked to her. She had stood up." Can you kindly offer me any type of job here? I am also stranded," said Melissa."What kind of job!" the manager felt sympathetic rather. Taking her to his office, she asked if she could bring her bag in?""Oh! Do you have a bag? Get it in." he permitted.She pulled it along, up into the restaurant."This way," She followed the manager and left the bag in his office foyer.Sitting before him, he asked her why she was stranded."For now, we have no agenda to employ. The guy that washes plates in the kitchen works hourly."Melissa said." I was driven away by my boyfriend at Cosa.""You want to have transport fare to go home?""I want to work and make a living.""Okay. Tha
Melissa Gets Suitor Mrs P, the MD of the Cottage came around the restaurant cum lodging, seeing Melissa asked, " Who is this? ""She was employed last year, Ma," the chef answered her."Come, keep the plates," she told Melissa.She switched off the plate washer and walked out to the door where Mrs P stopped. "Have you been working as a kitchen attendant?"Melissa," answered firmly," No, Ma. But I am catching up.""No. Come, come, come." she took her away, and entered her office with her." Sit down. You are from where?""Cosa," she answered."Why did you seek for a job?" She fixed eyes on her. "My boyfriend quarreled with me. So, I was stranded. I felt I needed to fend for myself.""How old are you?""25 years"." Did he abuse you?" "No." "Were you engaged to him?""Yes. We were married. He divorced me. ""Okay, you are divorced. Fine. Have you worked in the office once?""No. But I have a degree in economics.""Good. Good. You will be of help. Have you had your breakfast? " "No.
One of the lodgers greeted Mrs P from the balcony of his chalet. She gave him a wave. In the restaurant, she asked the service girls who parked the Bugatti. They told her the new lodger. "OK," she said, "another super customer." She sat in her restaurant because, soon, the men without whom she may not prosper in her business may be coming. They were the regular billionaires who trusted her way: How she ran things for them codedly. Don Marcello came down to the coded restaurant and spotted her and sat with her. "Am I welcome? " Both of them gave each other a courteous smile. "You're highly welcome. I hope you're the new lodger? " asked Mrs P. Don Marcello nodded. "Do you know I'm the proprietress of this place? " she asked him. Don Marcello both nodded and smiled. Mrs P wanted to know his intention of sitting with her. She is the proprietress, not searching. As she cleared that point, she then began the PR. "How do you see this place? Just your honest rating. "Don Marcello
He swaggered into a club called The Cheetah and took a sharp peep into what was going on inside. He gave way from the door and later sat at a table with two girls One of the girls left her seat and sat next to him. "Sir, should I join you" Her smile was beautiful and she asked if his cigarette had finished. "No no. You care? " Don Marcello took out the pack from his chest pocket and opened it. She slipped out one stick clinically from the remaining eighteen sticks. Don Marcello gave her his lighter."This is pure gold? Lizz, see." She struck the light once. Lizzy rolled her eyes at Don Marcello again and again. She had been lusting after him " Sir, you are not living around. I have not seen you before. " she said across the table. Don Marcello agreed. " Does every girl come to this club? " he asked her. "Every girl? No. Do you mean every club girl? ""No. Any girl. Could any girl just follow her friends to come here? ""You are funny. Of course, no.""You said, of course, no.
They came to Cheetah in the at 7 pm dot and waited for the Melissa's friend. She came. A Latino, Don Marcello believed. She was of a different class. She has only a shade of brown on her lower lip that was a bit fuller than the upper. She had on a fez cap, jeans jacket, and a pair of jeans trousers. Her innerwear was brown to go with her pair of Baileys. "You didn't come yesterday." Don Marcello said. "I don't always," she said."You have a tasking job? " Don Marcello asked."Yes." she said and told him," I am an industrial security. I am supposed to be on night duty.""Okay. How about your friend Melissa?"" This girl called me yesterday," she made a gesture," asking of Melissa. Who is Melissa, I asked her, she said my friend. There are many Melissas in the country."Don Marcello agreed. He knew she was being cautious by the defense she was building and too, she ran a great deal of eyes on him " So, who is Melissa? " she cleverly asked. "Can I talk with you privately? " asked
Maria and two other security operatives on duty on the night of the inferno had arrived, before two men. The Crime Officer (CO Clems) and a policewoman who was the Investigating officer called everybody into his office."Now, what you wrote in your statements is what you all are going to say. Or is anyone here who wants to change his or her statement?"There was silence after the CO's question."You. Tell us what you know about the fire incident," he told Maria."I resumed duty on that fateful night by quarter to six in the evening." began Maria," I went round the warehouse, as I always do when I report to duty before taking over. The warehouse was locked with its keys at both entrances. I went to the office blocks, the windows were locked and the A/Cs were off.I went and took over duty.""From who?" asked the CO"From Mr John. Nobody came in. All of a sudden, people outside the premises were shouting fire. I have just finished my patrol and did not detect any possibility of a fire i