After the auction, Mich a and Ivory had a few meetings that need just signature work and minor details. It was almost 7:00, so she drove Ivory home and went to Riggs, she wanted to be early get there first and clear her mind but she isn't early enough. Jones was already seated at the corner near the photo booth. He had a drink in his hand and if you didn't know him very well, you would think he looked very great, I mean he looked like he was much in control. But he wasn't, he had a lot to say and didn't know how to say it or from where to start. Micha approached him very slowly ad took the seat opposite to him. Looking straight into each other's eyes like they were trying to read what was going on in their minds, finally, Jones broke the silence
"This place has changed a lot..."
"I'd like to think you didn't come here to comment on the upgrade, so if you please let's go straight to the point. Why did you hide from everyone for five good years..." She spoke almost like she hated the person sitting opposite to her. That wasn't the case, she just didn't want to act like all was okay when this friend of her's abandoned her, his own family and the dreams they had to share.
"I'm sorry Mi, it's a long story. Let's order something and I'd tell you. You can't hear it over an empty stomach....." He said in a very low and sad tone.
"Do you think I came here to eat with you you're a stranger, only God knows if you're really Jones or just impersonating him. You know that's illegal right...." She stood to leave but halted as she heard the man speak again.
" The accident your mother and Mrs Patterson had was meant for you.... Paula never liked you she claimed you ended the friendship I had with her and her family also wanted to revenge for something they claim our families did to them in the past. Some project or so, I've tried so hard to get the whole truth but I still don't have much. Paula killed your mother and made your aunty a cripple..... She was the one, who poised your drink when we were in school."
She went back to her seat and didn't know what to say or believe or even how to react, but she knew the exact emotions she felt, angry or more like enraged and sad.
" Paula is obsessed and crazy..... She attacked my family after, so I had to kill five of her men to save my mom..... Micha, they were about to rape my mother and they tied up my father, they were hurting my old man ..... He had tears in her eyes now, Jones never cried but those memories scared him. I went to report to the police, but I rather sent myself to the lion's den. Paula paid them off, so they didn't care. They alerted her and she took away in some van they tortured me till I gave into a deal. She made sure no one heard about anything, she wanted to kill me and kill you too if I didn't comply....." Micha was dumb founded".