Everyone looked at her with mixed feelings but she only locked her gaze on the one that matters or the one she taught her mind to think important. As she arrived the floor, she bowed in front of everyone.
' Oh my daughter, you don't have to be too formal. Please come and join me '. Mrs Stone said as she walked to Rosella with open arms.
Rosella saw the woman coming and immediately felt like she had acquired a second mother. As the woman hugged and gestured her to the space just by her side on the sofa, Rosella couldn't help but admire the woman's beauty.
The woman by her side was in her early fifties but she was glistering and shinning like a lady in her early thirties. She couldn't even bring herself to call her, her mother inlaw because her beauty surpassed that of a young lady.
She glanced at Josh who did not even lift a brow to look at her, he really looked like his mother. No wonder girls were dying to have a place on his bed. He took his mother's beauty and refined it into the perfect features of a man. She could no more wait to be his wife.
' We come here today to plan the children's marriage. As we all know Rosella got engaged to my son last week and all the media houses of our nation captured that event. Now the masses are waiting for the date of the wedding since it was not released on their engagement day '. Mr Stone spoke first after Rosella has settled down by his wife side.
Smiles were on everyone's faces, many were faked, few were genuine. But even with that, their faces still brightened up at the announcement.
' Ok then, we should not delay. Let's excuse the children first, so that we can plan the wedding as adults '. Dr Neil said in agreement and the children comprising of Josh, Rosella and Mina were excused. Her fate was sealed.
' Are you with it? Have you agreed to the option? This is your chance, you can take him to your room '. Mina whispered to Rosella as they left the sitting room.
' I am not doing it. It's under my makeup kit, you can get it yourself '. Rosella shrugged her off and enter the garden after Josh. She can get Josh's love without disobeying her dad's instruction. She and Josh could just interact and that would be enough.
Mina shook her head. Every girl in their social circle knew who Josh was but her sister did not. To get a man's heart, you have to give him what he loves first, before you give him what he wants but Rosella did not know this.
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' What's this? '. Mrs Jason asked her husband as she saw him opening a box.
' It is called Neurotek '. Dr Jason replied and typed four digits on the box which was meant to be a code. It made a sound and then it opened.
' Neurotek? What does it do? '. She asked out of curiosity as she saw the curio.
' It is more like a power bank for the chip. A body regulator for the recipient of the chip and a tool to check the energy level of the chip and the electric signals of the patient's brain '. Dr Jason replied as he connected four of it's cables to Alina's head. The latter laid unconscious on the theater table with no knowledge of what was going on around her.
From the back of the box he took out another cable and connected it to a screen at the corner of the room. He switched on the screen and Neurotek in capital letters displayed on it.
Mrs Jason watched in amazement as her husband one more time proved he was the best in his field because she was still benighted of the fact that it was Dr Neil who paid a team of scientist to build the chip for him. Could her husband do it? Yes! but unfortunately he was not the one that made this model. So when this project lands on the ground, those scientist that made the chip would now be ranked high in the field and her husband would take the backseat. But would that happen?
After some seconds, the screen displayed some information and Dr Jason recorded each information.
Her;
Memory status: 48%
Mobility rate : 0%
Thinking capacity: 0%
Dormancy: 100%
Others blank.
' What's wrong? '. Mrs Jason asked when she saw the worried look on her husband's face.
' The diagnosis can not be conducted in her mind's absence. She needs to be awake '. He concluded and removed the cables from behind her head and screen then he wrapped the box up.
' So what are we going to do now? '.
' We will wait till she wakes up '. He answered and placed the box back in the cabinet he took it out from.
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Rosella stood, waiting for Josh instruction, but the latter just gulped his wine not minding if she had been standing there for more than ten minutes.
' I don't know who asked you to stand there, because I certainly did not ask you to stand '. He finally acknowledged her presence as he dropped the wine glass on the table and looked at her.
Rosella quickly sat down. She stood because she didn't really know the type of person Josh was or what he was capable of doing to her if she sat down without his permission. Was he worst than her father or not?.
' I am very sure you have heard the rumors, I am not going to deny them because they are all true. If you are going to be wife then you should be able to release your body to me 6 hours a day, 42 hours a week '. He said and refilled his glass.
Just mere looking at him, Rosella already concluded that apart from womanising which was his expertise, he was a professional drinker. He finished eight glasses of wine plus the one he was currently drinking.
When she digested what he said, she swallowed twice and looked at him, startled.
' Also we would not use condom unless you are in your period '. Was this man serious? Was she marrying him to become his sex doll or his wife?. How was he even going to have sex with her during her monthly period?.
Forget that, how would a man spend two thousand, one hundred and ninety hours a year having sex?. Her hatred for her father deepened. Why did her father not engage her to Clifford Jason, who was wealthy and even more reserved?. At least with Clifford she would still get protection and her dad's property with more advantage to that, because he would treat her like a queen. Why did he engage her to this monster?.
' For no reason should I see diaphragm in your belongings '. Wait was he really giving her his rules? Couldn't this man just wait till they get married?.
' You will bear me two children, a boy and a girl. I don't need to explain why to you '. Seriously? He is still talking.
' You are not to go near any man both in my presence and in my absence. You should stand at least three feet away from them '. Here comes the social distancing rule.
' Before I forget, when I give you control you are not to use the same position twice. That is, you should change position every day. I will explain to you later '. Someone should save her now.
' I will go inside now. It was nice meeting you '. He got up and stretched forth his hand for a handshake. Rosella hesitated for a while then she shook hands with him. It was like he was welcoming her to his world of lascivity.
The moment he left the garden, she sighed. She have to bear. Good things always comes out of worse situations. She then got up and went to the wine bar.
She was about ordering when Mina walked up to her with two glasses of orange juice.
' You should not be drinking wine in front of your visitors '. She said and handed her one of the glasses.
' How is he? '. She asked after Rosella had her first sip of the juice.
' That guy is a monster. I don't really know what girls like about him. Yeah, he is handsome but he is a devil incarnate '.
She remarked and drank half of the juice.
Mina laughed heartily at her remark. ' Don't tell me you want to back out now. What would you have expected of a sex addict? '.
' I am not backing out. I will just get rid of him by the time I get what I want '. Rosella answered and glanced to her side only to see Josh eyes filled with lust in her direction.
' He is very handsome. That's why all the girls are dying to have him '. Mina said and drank her juice.
' They will keep on dying until they see his true colors '. Rosella said, drank the remaining juice and asked the bartender for a glass of wine. Since he knew what she liked, he did not bother to ask her.
' You know, he have slept with almost all the girls in our social circle '. She asked the bartender for a glass too.
' Almost? Well maybe because he exhibited his good side and they bought it '. She drank the wine and twirled the glass in her hand.
' Or maybe they were desperate '. Rosella dropped the glass and turned to her when she heard the sadness in her voice.
' Did...'.
' Yes. He was the one that devirginated me '. She replied her incomplete question, faced the other way and used her four fingers to wipe her tears.
' Mina... what happened? '. Rosella asked in between tears.
Mina wiped her tears again and sniffled. ' I was desperate. I was desperate for something that I know daddy won't give me '. She answered and took out her handkerchief from her purse and blew her nose into it.
' But don't worry, let bygone be bygone. You just have to focus on yourself now '. Mina forced a smile on her cheeks and held Rosella's hand as she spoke.
' That monster needs to die. Couldn't he had just helped you without sleeping without you? Mina, you are still a minor '. Rosella switched position with her and held her hand instead. Mina bent her head and rose it up after a while to look at Rosella.
' Rosella let it go. I am not regreting it, I am only sad because you too have the same fate as mine but the only difference is that yours is worse. Rosella, now you have a new reason to marry Josh. Don't..... don't back out now sis, help stop this beast before he completely ruins the destiny of our future generations, pls Rosey. Now is your chance '.
Rosella nodded. She will have to send that monster to hell while he is still on Earth before she completely send him to the real hell where she will allow Devil torture him.
That man had no conscience, taking a seventeen year old girl's virginity in return for the help he offered her. That was simply preposterous and inhumane. He does not deserve to be treated like a human.
' I think I know the reason why daddy agreed to let you go in marriage to Josh '. Mina spoke when she saw her bemused sister.
' Why? '. She asked but she no more cared about the reason. All she wants now is revenge for her sister.
' Mr Stone asked for shares in dad's companies and dad's condition was this marriage '. Mina answered, drank her glass of wine and asked for a refill.
Rosella only sighed. She had actually expected the worst. Her dad was really evil.
' Hey, why the reaction? Dad is actually doing this for you '. Rosella took the refilled glass the bartender passed to Mina and sipped it as she cocked her brow.
' What do you mean? '.
' Ok, now think this through. I asked him for a refill so as to quench my thirst and you, because you wanted the drink, stole it. Here is how it works. Mr Stone was desperate for shares in dad's companies so that he could give them to Josh and Dad thought it through. He still wants the shares under his name, I won't say for you though, because you know dad, he is very selfish. He then gives a condition to Mr Stone and your marriage to his son was that condition. He wants to you marry Josh and make him put the shares under your name, so that they will come back to the family '. Her excitement as she spoke made Rosella think.
So what she wants is not completely different from what her dad wants.