"Hmph." Akeelah sneered and my phone beeped.
"Hello? Hello?" I say into the phone and bring it down from my ears.
"Did she just hang up on me?" I angrily ask the Butler who takes a step back
I redial her number and it rings but nobody picks it up
"That bitch woman." I fling the phone and wheel around back into the room
On the bed lays the package I saw earlier.
I pick it up and examine it on the outside. Could she have left me a bomb? She would have been justified to do so anyway but I don't regret it.
I shake the package and it seems like a box. I relax and open the gift.
The box has a Prada logo on it. This has piqued my interest. I open the box and in it is a wristwatch.
Silvery on the body and on the face, it has studded multicolored jewels. The pointers also look like wood but it obviously isn't on closer look.
This watch looks like something I've seen before.
I hurriedly take a picture of it on my phone and search for a lookalike online.
In a few seconds, results are out.
"What?!" I unconsciously blurt out when I see the make and price of the watch.
I don't remember giving her this watch but where did she get it?
A One Million Dollar worth watch? Left for me? Above Divorce papers?
If she can afford this, I didn't marry just an ordinary nurse.
Yet she married me and stuck to me for a year.
Who the hell is that woman?
A Nurse?
Or More?
*Akeelah*
It felt really good to leave that house. That stifling mansion.
There's only a step further I can take for now. I have to own up to my responsibilities. The ones I shirked for so long.
Inheriting The Rose Group.
Immediately I left Andrè's home the previous day, I went to Rose Hospital. A subsidiary of the Rose Group where my brother, Leo is a Director and a well known Doctor.
Leo is my elder brother, the one who I can relate with for now as he is the one who took me in after my parents accident and after I went undercover as a Nurse.
I was also in the accident that killed my parents. The car went over the guardrail for no reason and I survived from that one narrowly because I had dropped from the car just a few metres away to get my bag.
I saw parents die that day. They died on the spot. Remembering my Dad's last words to me still gives me goosebumps but it only fuels my anger anytime I remember that incident.
And after their deaths, another death attempt was made on me. This time orchestrated by someone I knew and someone I trusted and loved like my own sister.
I will make sure every single person behind my family's tragedy reaps the fruit of their labour.
Now again, I'm on my way to Leo's office to let him know I'm officially back.
I enter his office, the receptionist stops me.
"Can I help you ma'am?" She asks me with a sweet smile
I couldn't help but smile back
"I'm here to see Leo."
Her eyebrows furrow at the use of his first name.
"Personal visit?"
"Yes. He'll let me in if he knows it's me. Tell him Akeelah is here."
"Yes ma'am." Her smile gone this time
Why does she seem angry? Did I say something wrong?
"You can go in ma'am." She gesticulates and waves me into the office
"Thank you."
I say and go inside. Inside the office is well furnished with a light blue recliner by the floor to ceiling window and a couch not far from his table.
And the table was a wooden office table, intricately made obviously by expert hands.
Now behind the table and in the chair, sat my brother.
"You don't look like you aged a day." I tease him while I made my way over to the couch to make myself comfortable.
"And you look like you aged on my behalf. Was he that bad?" He teases back and walks over to me and gave me a hug.
I reciprocate the hug with sincere feelings. I missed him.
I didn't see him for a year but we kept in contact thanks to social media.
"And you got more awards. That's smooth."
"I have this one alive at least. Other subsidiaries of the Group have fallen into red graphs. The hospital is the only one funding the main group now..."
I don't say anything and just listen to him tell me the situation of things.
"... Rose Construction is the worst of all, it's literally on the edge of getting closed down. The Nursing home is doing averagely well even though it could do better. The School has been deteriorating since a student reported the school to the Ministry for feeding them expired food and the Art Centre is only for Toms now. No Operas, no acting, well acting for movebys and low budget auditions only. It has become so bad."
"And what are the supposed Major shareholders doing about it all?"
"They all spent the proceeds and that's why they need money now."
"Hm. I'll start there. I'll buy their shares because they need money."
"That's good. Coupled with the ones Dad left for you, you'll make it to be a major shareholder in no time."
"I'll buy their shares under an alias and then supposedly sell it to me so they won't know until I make.myself known."
"That one year, you must have thought a lot."
"I did. I just didn't expect it to be so soon."
"Do you want me to take care of that Bastard for you?" Leo asks as I rise up to leave
"Don't bother about him. I have plans for him too." I smile at him.
It has been a while since I actually smiled at family. A really long time.
Just then, my phone rings.
"Speak of the devil."
"Do you want me to pick it?"
"And let him think I'm a pathetic female? No thanks."
I hold up the phone to my ear and say nothing at first
"Did you really leave?"
I contemplated just cursing him out but then I won't
"Any reason you want me there?" I ask him coldly
Leo just keeps looking at me like I grew horns or something. I touch my head just to be sure I didn't
"...Send me your account details."