Percival opened his eyes. He was gazing into Michelle's lovely face.
"Wake up, Percival." She said softly.
"I don't want to . I want to be with you." He muttered.
"You don't belong with me. Go back." She smiled as her face came closer to his.
Percival pressed his lips together and Conrad's face came into view.
"Guys , he's doing something weird with his lips?" He tapped Avyanna .
Levi felt around his head. "Maybe he has a concussion."
Avyanna snickered.
Percival got up abruptly and looked around. It was over. They were at the mouth of the cave waiting for Kyra.
Kyra finally came out dragging the three men and their pick axes. She had tied them all together with their own ropes they had came with to dig up more gold.
The greed of men.
Levi wanted to say something when she stopped him."Don't ask."
He smiled .
Conrad went up to the entrance of the cave and dropped some things around it.
He moved some metres away and then threw a match. In one second there was a huge explosion as the cave crumbled in on itself.
"No !!!!!!" Avyanna cried as she knelt in front of the cave. She dragged Conrad by his collar. "Why the fuck did you blow it up!!!! All that treasure gone!!!'
"That was treasure that blood had been shed on. And besides I felt like blowing stuff up!" Conrad grinned.
Avyanna groaned. "And you said you had no more explosives to help us out."
Conrad winked.
The four set off in the path of the palace, but Percival didn't follow them but went in the opposite direction.
Avyanna went after him and held his shoulder. "Where are you going?"
"There's nothing left for me in the palace. I've been continuously lied and betrayed so I'm leaving to find my purpose." He replied .
"You could join us if you'd like." Avyanna smiled.
Levi stepped in between the two."Slow down!" He looked at Avyanna."Stop that. You're embarrassing yourself!" Avyanna frowned .
"And you," He pointed at Percival."Everyone one in this world has been betrayed before but they didn't join us. So you can skidaddle out of here and find a meaning to your life elsewhere."He said unsympathetically.
"Don't be that kind of person Levi. Give him a chance." Kyra pressed his arm.
Levi stated hard at Percival And turns away. "Any wrong move from you and I'll personally disembowel you." Levi grabbed Kyra's hand and drew her along with him. Kyra couldn't believe it . Her body felt warm all over. Levi shot a kind glance at her. "Are you tired?"
She nodded sheepishly.
Levi bent down and scooped her in his strong manly arms and he looked deep into her eyes.
"Hey , who's going to carry me!!!" Avyanna yelled after him.
"Shut it!" He dissed her.
"How dare you..."
Conrad held up the tied men and were pushing them along.
Avyanna looked back at the cave wistfully. "All that gold and diamonds, gone!"
She sighed.
Kyra chuckled herself. From the inner folds of her garment she brought out a ruby as large as a pomegranate and waved it in Avyanna's face
"No way!!!! " She shouted shocked and Levi chuckled.
Conrad shook his head and beamed inwardly.
She could never resist a steal.
Kyra carefully deposited it in her pouch and tightened it. That was her souvenir...
And it was hers to keep.
She then lay in Levi's comfortably once more...
And wanted this carriage to last forever.
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Eva and John sat in the hospital awaiting the DNA results. The nurse had just informed them that in a few minutes their results would be ready.
"Why did you follow me out here? Don't you have like a gala to attend to ?" Eva queried.
"This was an excuse to ditch it..."
Eva scoffed.
"And ..." John added. "I always make time for my best friends."
Eva had told John about all her suspicions of Betsy being her biological mother.
"Why do you want to know, anywhere ?" He asked.
Eva had no answer to that question. "I guess I just want to know."
John leaned in and looked her directly in the eyes and rested on the chair. "But would that change anything? She would still be your mother you know." He said again.
"But i want to know! Why she abandoned me!" Eva challenged.
"As far as mothers abandoning their kids is concerned , your mom is one in a million. She still came back for you after all those time. I even have my biological parents that don't give a crap about me..."
Eva felt bad . She knew how John was with his parents."John l...
"What I'm saying is, could you live with it if you knew?" He ended.
Eva sighed and glanced around the ward. She saw different people moving about . Children holding their fathers crying for their mothers and women holding their husbands weeping over their children.
Why the hell would she want to jeopardize that?
She stood up and took John's arm and led him out of the hospital. She jumped into his Top notch, $200,000 Black Ferrari and hopped the driver's seat while John sat beside her. He was delightedly startled when her hand went to his trousers ...
But got untimely disappointed when she reached into his pockets to bring out the keys.
"What are you doing? " John asked as she handed him her glasses and revved the engine to life.
He had never seen her this full of life.
"Let's go buy a six pack. And I'm dying for some fried chicken."
"Are you allowed to drink?"He raised an eyebrow.
"No one will know". She gave a sexy laugh. "Or are you afraid I'll beat you in a drinking contest?".
John put her glasses on the dashboard."You wish!"
He held her hand and she looked at him.
"Are you sure you don't want to know?"
Eva nodded and got on the highway.
"Scratch that!" She yelled."Lets get into some trouble." She grinned widely.
John laughed.
This was what he loved about her. Unlike all the bevy of girls he'd dated Eva was different. She was so unpredictable, so beautiful,so...
Real.
He clasped her hand as They drove off into the moonlight.