"Good morning" Dola said to her mom as she descended the stairs.
"Morning baby" The woman smiled and raised her head to look at her daughter from the magazine she was holding. "What happened to you? Have you been crying? "
"No" Her voice had reduced to whisper from crying too much.
Her mom stood up to hug her and stroke her hair. Dola had made up her mind never to cry in front of anyone but the memories were just too much for her.
"We were so happy together mom" She sniffed and rested her head on her mom's shoulder blade. "He proposed. He said he was crazy about me"
"Shhhh" Mrs McBride felt helpless. Tears was already rolling down her eyes too. Dola had not come out clean to tell anyone what happened exactly and she always put out a strong fake front so she really thought her daughter had gotten over it. Seeing her breakdown like this when she was just happy yesterday, Susan(Mrs McBride) felt she had failed as a mother.
Susan led Dola to Dola's room and sat her on the bed. She allowed her baby girl to cry for a while on her shoulder before she slept off. Susan carefully tucked her daughter in and kissed her forehead.
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"Safe journey son" Susan said as she hugged her son.
He smiled and pulled away from his mother. Facing his wife he frowned a bit and pouted.
"Baby" He called and she moved closer to him cupping his face with her small hands. They stayed in that position for a while and without warning Mr McBride pulled his wife closer and ravaged her lips with his. Although Jumoke was caught off guard but it didn't take long before she got lost in the kiss.
His hands started exploring the insides of her t.shirt and she found herself moaning in his hands, in the middle of the sitting room, when her mother-in-law was in the kitchen and might burst out anytime soon.
She was wearing a big t.shit with nothing underneath so it was easier for Phoenix to touch her sensitive parts without lifting up the fabric.
"Hmm someone is wet" He whispered as he moved his kisses to her collarbone.
"Master.Young madam" The butler called and as if nothing had been going on earlier they both separated and Jumoke faced the window.
"What is it? " Phoenix asked even if he knew what the man was about to say. He still didn't face him because he didn't was the man to die out of embarrassment after seeing his hard on.
The butler cleared his throat. He had been contemplating earlier if should interrupt the couple or not but he knew better than not doing his job.
"You told me to remind you that you will be visiting the company by 7am before your flight takes off by 8"
"Owwww f**k" He said and his wife gave him the look. "Well Chidi... Change of plans " He said as she picked up his wife in a bridal style.
The butler was dumbfounded and he could only shake his head at this master of his.
"I'll be down by 7:15 and we will drive to the airport " He said as he took long strides and headed to their room.
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Flash back... 3 years ago
"What do we do now??"Don paced around the room feeling troubled.
" Well we won't have to worry about that if some people knew how to stick to the original plan"Mike was mad beyond expression. First the plan was to just have a circle of rich friends that they can chill and vibe together with which was ruined by...
"Egbon you can't blame it on me nah"Kenny instinctively defended himself." Should I have gotten shot instead??"
"Alaye shut up jare. Shey na today we dey go mission" Buzz roared from the other end of the room.
"Oh great! There have been several missions" Mike whispered in Don's ear with utmost sarcasm.
"You could have dogged it or find other ways to defend yourself" Buzz ignored Mike's comment and faced Kenny.
"Buzz no dey whine me. You of all people should know that I wouldn't have shot him if I had other options" The latter defended standing face to face to Buzz.Mike and Don stylishly found their way to a corner of the room away from preying eyes.
"Guys this is not the time for fight" Deja stood up to calm the guys down before a fight erupts.
"E tire me oo. Instead of them to be looking for a way out. Which kind mumu una be?"Ngozi mocked and all eyes turned to her making her lower her head.
"werey why u no shoot am for leg abi hand or any other f**king place"Ay and Sam stood up simultaneously. It looked like everyone was against Kenny shooting the guy.
"I go say make una clam down oo" Naomi blurted out. "Calm down na. Deja tell them"
"You mad??" Deja faced her making the girl move back a little. "If you no dump Kenny shey all this one go happen??
"Okay.What the f**k is she saying?" Mike whispered startling Don who had forgotten for a moment that the guy was next to him.
"F**k.Can you stop doing that?" He complained sticking one finger into his ear."Kenny and Naomi used to be a thing. I think from secondary school then the bitch dumped him in her first year when she met Carmine fine boy"
Mike chuckled at the irony of what his cousin said. "Watch as Deja is senselessly going to ruin the atmosphere"
"What?" Mike asked cluelessly and Don grinned at him.
"Bro how fast are you at running??" Don asked and Mike blinked looking all puzzled.
"Don't talk to me like that! Na all of us get hand for this matter" The two ladies were now exchanging words and the guys could only sit down and watch. "I know what you're doing. You're trying to shift the blame on me"
"Who's blaming this one? " Deja adjusted her skirt and stepped forward.
"Mama kole werk. You think you can treat me the way you treat your little rats" Naomi said and everyone laughed except the actual rats that felt offended.
Well girls being girls arrrgh.
"Why will you call us rats??" Aliyah aka Babe questioned. She laughed sarcastically and clapped her hands together. "Are we the one that asked you to be a who*e that everyone want to stay away from. Deja abeg no be this kind pesin you suppose they beef with. This wan no get class jare"
"It's your mom that is a whore. You know the amount of men wey she don f**k before she born you?" If Deja and her girls think they can push all the blame on her, they are soo wrong.
"Bi*ch don't bring my mom into this conversation. I go change am for you oo. If we dey fight na we dey fight . Aje emi e on ni gbe oo(swears you won't be able to withstand it) " Babe brought out her full ghetto girl attitude and it became intense.
"Enough" Buzz's voice resounded around the room and like a spell, everywhere became silent that even a pin drop could be heard."Deja what is all this??" He spoke again and all eyes turned to the black skinned lady with furious eyes still standing face to face with Naomi.
"Good" She said with a smirk like a villan. "Since this is the way we want it...we might as well just let it out. Don't you dare give me that look bitch" Deja took few steps away from Naomi.
"Baby" She called Buzz stroking his back in a sensual way and the audience could only roll their eyes at her. That was the same voice that spell bounded Buzz when he met her and also made him lost every ounce of sanity.
"Get those hand off me now" Deja shifted back immediately as if she was scalded by something hot. Buzz reaction obviously did shocked her.
"No! All my work won't go in vain. You cannot turn your back against me now" Her head was in chaos and she thought if I go down I'm taking you all with me.
"Ehhh Kenny then tell the circle your relationship with Nonso's girl(Nonso is the guy that was killed)"Kenny gave Deja a murderous look.
"You just had to drag me into your mess didn't you??" Kenny said between gritted teeth. "How desperate are you?"
"What the fu*k is she saying? " Ola finally interfered.
"Your babe here..."
"Bitch you knew Buzz was definitely going to pin it on you because if was your f**cked up idea that got us all into this trouble in the first place so you decided with that little brain of your to use me as cover" Kenny cut Deja off before she could even say anything but Deja clearly getting non of it decided to proceed with her speech.
"Alaye go sleep joor. Na your mama be bitch. Is it my fault that your prick can't calm down.Chasing after everything in skirt you didn't know when you had cult leader's girl. You think say na like this small pikin play way una dey do for here dem they do for poly" There and then 'oh so bitchy' Deja revealed.
"Don't tell me you killed the guy on purpose!!" Ada exclaimed and whispers erupted.
Everyone started letting out their opinion and regretting their decisions to join the circle. They didn't notice the change in expression on Buzz's face.
"You had it planned didn't you" Buzz asked and for a moment no one knew who he was talking to. "Adejare!!!"
"These are times when I wished I had just stayed at home" Don complained with an expression of boredom on his face.
"Well you would have missed the show and I don't think you want that" Mike folded his arms and tilted his head looking at the trio at the middle of the room.
"Yeah you're right. I came here to see the show anyway and thank goodness I did coz that bitch didn't go according to the main script" Don chuckled and put his phone in his cross bag before hanging it on his neck.
Mike didn't understand why Don was nonchalant about the whole thing. He was still trying all it takes to not stand up and give these idiots beating of their lives for the three years that he was about to loose. He already agreed to go with Dola to the US.When they called for the meeting, Dola advice him to go in order to be posted if are changes and f**k he wished he hadn't listened to her.
"Wait.You knew all these already??" Mike almost burst his cousin's eardrum out of realization.
"Keep it down bro we don't want to attract butterflies to our little garden do we" He shrugged and the corner of his lips lifted up.
"..." Mike.
"Buzz is finally using that tiny thing in his head. Deja was a student of that Polythecnic before she was chased out if school and from my theory I think that Nonso guy was the one that blew her cover so in order to get her revenge she convinced foolish love stricken Buzz to... you know the story bro" Mike have never heard Dominic speak this much. The guy was just too smart and he was wondering if joining 'the circle' and all was all a conscious action.
"In other words flower boy, the real boss here is Deja and we are just her pawns. Everything, evey damn action we did was as a result of lies we were told by Buzz and Deja"
Mike's eyes stung for a moment. He wondered how he got caught up in the web of dangerous people like this.
"You knew didn't you??" Mike asked all of a sudden.
"What??"
"Don't f**king act like you don't know what I'm saying" Mike was already at the brink of tears by now. "You knew that the circle was not about rich..."
"Don't you dare pin this on me. You're not a child Mike. There's no such thing as bunch of rich kids showcasing wealth. You know that"
By now Buzz and Deja seems to be having an eye to eye talk as the just faced each other saying nothing. The music in the background made it easier for Mike and Don to have their litter conversation without attracting attention to themselves.
"Oh gods! Don I trusted you. I didn't know and you could have done the honor of telling me before all these" Mike felt stupid. He had being a boss himself in secondary school and he wouldn't have believed of someone had told him that all these will happen to him he wouldn't have believed.
And to think that it was his own blood that lied to him...
"I asked how fast you are at running " Don repeated standing up and walking fast heading to the door making Mike jolt out of his his train of thought. He could have laughed as the atmosphere changed from emotional talk moment to temple run for your dearest life moment but... Maybe later. Not now he still had to catch up with walking robot a.k.a Don.
"Well that is not a good way of saying 'time to go' bro" He literally jumped out of his seat and ran after Don. Immediately they got out of the room , they started hearing the sound of clashing bottles.
'Yeah just about time' He mused scrambling his pocket for his keys.
"The show has just begun. It's a pity that we will be missing it" Don said with a hint of sarcasm. "Where are you heading to flower boy??"
Don bit back a grin as he watched Mike turning around a spot confused at what direction to take.
"Damn" Mike cursed inwardly. He wasn't in for Don's joke. He ignored the man and took the North route about to begin his race when...
"What the f*ck do you think you're doing??" Mike was really holding back his anger and if not for the situation he would have punched Don but then the way the man pulled him reminded him that he would get a beating of his life if he tried that.
" Obviously going to my hostel" Mike stated in a matter of factly way.
"You can't go there. One, we might...No we will run into the school's watch guards if we take that route and I don't think we want to get them involved in our little parrry" Mike mouthed 'o' and started thinking hard of where to go to other than his hostel. "And two silly do you think they will spare us for running away??"
"Let's go to Dola's place" Mike blurted out as soon as he remembered.
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Heyy, to my loyal readers.
This is actually my first published book and I hope you will support me immensely. It's going to be banger and I do hope you guys stay tuned to the end.Please don't forget to vote for me in appreciation and also drop your reviews and comments. Love y'all.
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PS:I really hope you're enjoying this book. Please drop comments and vote. It's not encouraging to have ghost readers. I'm sorry buh y'all I'll not be interpreting the Nigerian languages used, but I will try to put them in a way that you will be able to comprehend. What do you feel about Dola and Micheal?? Are you envious of their love??
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