Mark was someone who anyone can confidently describe as a playboy, and he was apologetic about it, he accepts the title with pride. He is a very handsome boy, tall light-skinned, perfect body, he never visited the gym house, yet he had the perfect body of a model, moderately sized biceps, partially puffed out chest, and a chiselled abdomen, topped with the most vital thing, a sugar-coated tongue. Among his friends he was the one who girls throngs on easily, most of them think it was just luck, they think that he was blessed with a nice tongue, but he likes to brag about it and take all the glory to himself, he told them that it was hard work. Mark was the kind of man who can invest his last money for just a night with a girl and will never regret it after, he calls it a business transaction, but though he love ladies, he had never slept with a real-life sex hawker. He sees that as a game for lazy and weak men who can't win or convince a girl.
So, Lionheart and Love came over after the call by Mark who was not even at home anymore when they arrived, luckily for them, they were no strangers to the house, they met Nne outside cracking melon seed. Cracking melon seeds were Nne's favourite chore since the melon soup was her best soup. They greeted her and she asked them to go and meet their friend in her room. Though Nne might be a grandma, she was still not all that weak and old, she was a very strong lady who does all her chores and even goes to the market by herself sometimes, though Precious will never allow her to go to the market whenever she is around, she still loved going to the market.
Lionheart and Love walked to the door and simultaneously, they knocked at her door afterwards they laughed at each other concerning the way they knocked like it was a planned thing. Though the house was just a normal village house, it was still easy to comprehend that the owner of the house was well-to-do. Precious' father, aside from working with an oil company in Port-Harcourt, also was a very wealthy businessman before he died, after his death, no one could continue with his business because his kids were still pretty young and his wife who only knew the nitty-gritty of the business died with him in the same unexplainable manner. But they were lucky, Mr Raphael was not illiterate, he had made some plans for his children, and he had some money in a fixed account for his son and daughter accessible only when they are twenty-five. The money must have accumulated into multi-millions, and he also had an insurance policy which they had already collected, it was from the life insurance money from both him and his wife that Nne used to take care of the two siblings. They were well aware of the love that their parents had for them before their death, they were not all that small not to remember, they needed no one to remind them, they knew first-hand. Mr Raphael will always takes them to the park or restaurants every weekend, sometimes they even go swimming, there was one occasion that they were taken to the beach in Laga City, Mr Raphael had a business deal in Laga City, so he took his entire family with him. After the deal had been closed, he took them to the beach to celebrate, that was their only experience of the big sea, although they had seen the River Gorgon, but had never gone as close as they were to the beach in Laga City.
After several knocks without any response, they decided to push the door open since it was obviously not locked. They opened the door to find their friend sitting on her bed, she never knew that it was her friends that were at the door all the while, she thought that it was her brother who had vowed to bore her to death with his excessive care. She was actually thrilled to see them but her expression was too dull to confirm her true feelings.
"Baby girl, I heard that you are not ok, your handsome and caring brother said that a gang of two boys molested you, according to him, he was not sure of what they did to you, but he will like us to find out, the boy is really worried, he said you won't talk to him." Love said. Love had always had a crush on Mark, a secret crush though, there was no way she could open up to anyone that she was crushing on her best friend's younger brother, and everyone knew Mark with his ludicrous womanizing way of life. Though she could not find a way to say it out loud, she had always enjoyed helping him out with many problems, she wished that he will understand her feelings through the help that she had been offering him, but the dumb boy only sees her as one kind-hearted and selfless friend of his sister.
She spoke about what Mark said about her past night incident like she was the one that he even called, mark had only called Lionheart who was the shield of his sister in his absence. He had always questioned his feelings about Lionheart towards his sister in the past, the picture was conspicuous, it was obvious that Simba had an additional feeling for his sister, but since he was too timid to say it, he was ok with that, any day that he will ever come open with that feeling of his, the both of them will definitely get some fight, so he had concluded in his heart.
Mark was a young man who never took the feelings of girls seriously, he had never seen them as relevant, he could crush the heart of any girl anytime he felt like it, and he also feared that all boys were like him. He believes that guys might do the same thing he does the other girls to his sister, so he struggled to defend her from any scum, he will literally come physical and beat up any guy that tries anything funny with his sister, courtesy of his thugs and cultist friends who bonds with him. Many of these hoodlums throng around him to get some tips on how to attract girls. Mark was not only good at getting girls, but he was also a good teacher. He called his friends his Casanova student, he usually jokes about opening an all-boys school which he will call "The School of Casanova" there, he will teach the art of being a professional playboy.