Diego stopped in his tracks and went back to the dinning, he sat down on one of the chairs and served himself some greens and ate it up in a few minutes, hungrily.
"What happened to you son?" His mom asked concern, she has never seen him act this way before.
"I am fine mom." Diego said and forced a smile.
"And yes, old man. I will arrange your grand birthday party." He now said facing his granddad.
"Good to hear." Mr. Mateo said and heaved a sigh of relief in secret.
"If you need money or anything for it, just go to my safe and get cash, get as much as you want." Mr. Mateo said to him and he nodded.
"Yes, old man."
"And stop calling me that, do you want my guest to think that I didn't raise you right?" Mr. Mateo thundered getting upset.
"I can't stop old man. But I will try to if I get some extra." Diego said to him with a sly smile.
"Extra what?" Mr. Mateo asked calmly.
"Don't pretend not to understand what I am saying." Diego replied.
"Brat." Mr. Mateo said, Mrs. Lucia and her mother-in-law bursted out laughing.
"You should also invite all my nephews, your grandaunt and your mom's siblings." Mr. Mateo said suddenly changing the atmosphere and everybody's mood.
"Why do we have to invite them father-in-law?" Mrs. Lucia asked frowning.
"Because they are family." Mr. Mateo replied and they heard Mrs. Sofia say.
"My sister can be invited but your nephews and her lousy siblings can not be invited."
"Mother-in-law?" Mrs. Lucia cried out when she heard her mother-in-law call her family lousy.
"I can't believe you are insulting my nephews, how is your sister Malinda better than them?" Mr. Mateo questioned her with authority, she kept quiet because if she spoke this argument would become a never ending one.
"Invite them all, end of topic." Mr. Mateo added before keeping quiet.
Diego knew his granddad to be annoying but why on earth will he decide to invite those thugs to the event? That, he wondered.
Diego was woken up the next morning by the continuous ringing of his phone, he grumbled and moved his hand around the table in search of the ringing phone, he finally found it after the call has ended.
"What the fuck, it has stopped ringing." Diego said and hurriedly got up into a seating position.
"Why is Emelda calling? I thought she'd be upset about yesterday." Diego said to himself after seeing his call log.
He tapped on her number to call her, it rang for while before she finally picked up tge call.
"I thought you were angry with me." Diego said immediately.
"I want to know about the preparations for the party." Emelda said without giving an answer to his words.
"Is that the only reason why you called?" Diego asked and Emelda replied.
"Yes. I spoke to uncle Mateo and he has also agreed to helping out with the preparations." Diego was surprised and asked.
"When did you talk to him?"
"Last night and he was glad that I wanted to help." Emelda replied.
"And why is that?" Diego whispered, she didn't hear what he said and asked.
"What?"
"Nothing, I am on my way to your house right now. We need to start preparing as soon as possible, so I need to meet you and that P.A of yours."
"Why is she so obsessed about Benjamin?" Diego whispered again but this time, she didn't ask him what he was trying to say even though she didn't hear him properly.
"Alright, I will be waiting for you. Me and Benjamin." Diego replied and hung up.
He sighed getting upset about Emelda bringing up Benjamin constantly, one thing he hates is seeing the woman he wants interested in another and right now, he really wants Emelda. He picked up his phone again and called Benjamin.
"Get to the Wylder Mansion immediately." Diego said immediately after Benjamin picked the call and then hung up before the sleepy young man could reply.
Benjamin was already feeling so tired after looking after his daughter who ate all sought of sugary treats and could not sleep because she was hyper, all night long. Rebecca his wife stayed behind to spend the night at the law firm piling and compiling evidences over a new case about a young lady barely twenty years old who was murdered by her fifty six years old boyfriend in her rented apartment in downtown Atlanta, Georgia a few months after dating each other. The two met on a dating app and started chatting, afterwards he asked for her nude pics and in return, he would pay her large sums of money and she did send them because she was a naughty young girl who is involved in things far greater than her age. He liked her nudes, sent her money several times for more and soon they arranged a meeting to see in person and afterwards they started dating, had sex several times, she got pregnant several times but aborted them after discussing it with him.
Two months into their relationship, he started abusing her demanding for several sex poses and even using handcuff and rag to gag her mouth. She didn't like it and refused to do it one day and so he beat her to a pulp and choked her until she died.
According to lawyer Rebecca Theodore, the evidence she had, showed that the young lady was truly murdered by the old man and in order to hide his crime, he hid her in his underground house for days and did stupid things with her body, like having sex with a dead body, kissing and more things you wouldn't want to hear of before discarding it in the bushes.
The old man seemed mentally ill, Rebecca discovered this after going through his criminal records and medical records. The evidence she had were the victims diary that showed every detail and told the story and also the defendant secret phone which had all soughts of disgusting videos of what he did with her.
He finally got to sleep at three in the morning and now his boss has ruined his sleep with that very rude call.
"Why is he like that?" Benjamin asked himself and sighed.
He got up and went into the bathroom to shower, he didn't need to prepare his daughter for school because it was a public day. After taking his shower, he got himself ready by putting on a silky lustre T-shirt, jean pants and a brown slipper.
Daddy!! His daughter called and she ran inside happily.
"My baby." Benjamin said and picked her up as she ran into his arms.
"Good morning daddy." She greeted and gave him a peck, he pecked her back and asked.
"Good morning baby, how was your night?"
"Oh no daddy, I wanted to ask that first." The little girl said folding her arms together while making a cute sad face.
"You are so adorable. Go ahead and ask how my night is first and then reply my question." Her dad said smiling at her.
"How was your night? Because mine was amazing." She said and giggled, it was so cute.
"It was also amazing." Benjamin replied and then suggested.
"Should we call mummy?" She was about to respond when his phone suddenly rang.
"Hello love, Good morning, how was your night?" Benjamin asked in one breath.
"It was okay love although my neck is stiff from sleeping on the chair, how was your night and how how is my baby doing?" Rebecca asked rubbing her neck as she sat down before a ton of files and paper.
"Hi mummy." Her daughter screamed into the phone.
"Oh my Gosh baby, my ears are hurting now." Rebecca said jokingly.
"I am sorry mummy. Come home soon so that I can massage your ears." Her daughter said making her and Benjamin laugh.
"I will be leaving Maria with your sister." Benjamin informed his wife and she asked.
"Why?"
"Love, that brat called again." Benjamin said and his wife said.
"I told you not to call him that anymore."
"Why shouldn't I, that brat always manages to irritate me and spoil my happy moments with you and my baby." Benjamin said upset.
"Love, let it be. Just go and do your work." She said to him and also said some comforting things to him.
He left the house after leaving his daughter in his sister-in-law's care.
He arrived at the Wylder's mansion and asked Helena to inform Diego of his arrival.
"It took you long enough." Diego said as he saw Benjamin.
"I am sorry sir." Benjamin apologized.
"Now, we have to wait for Emelda. She will take long, she is a princess after all." Diego said making fun of her before Benjamin, maybe he thought something was going on.
"We only have a day left, so we need to hurry up with the preparations." Emelda said as she walked in hurriedly.