Lu Jingli’s smile and excitement suddenly vanished into thin air. Did Theresa Mo just called him an idiot?
” Did Zongtian Mo give birth to his daughters for you to change them like you change your panties? Are you even human enough?
You betrayed my trust and conspired with my own family to defraud me and divorce me based on lies and set up so you can be with the one you love.
You drill yourself into my sister while we were still married and now you divorce her and come back to me to marry you? Were you born stupid or you learnt to be stupid?
Don’t you ever come before me and sprout nonsense again. The next time I see you in my office, I will have you arrested.
As for my kids, they are with their father. And I am in love with the father of my kids, we are dating. So stop daydreaming and building your castle in the air…” Theresa lashed out at him.
Lu Jingli was like a hen beaten by rain. He became weak. He sat there analysing what Theresa Mo just said. The content of her words were too much for him to absorb at a time.
“Now get out, I have work to do” Theresa Mo thundered. Lu Jingli stood up sheepishly and stared at Theresa Mo with hostility in his eyes.
The latter stared back at him furiously. She felt like strangling him to death. Such a good for nothing bastard.
“The door!!” Theresa Mo repeated but this time, she stood up and pointed to the door. Her eyes had gone red for anger.
Lu Jingli was going to the door and almost opened it when he turned back and stared at Theresa Mo.
“No, you can’t love a hooker. Those kids of yours were fathered by a hooker, a criminal, a nobody. I am giving you a chance on the platter of gold to get them a proper father and here you are saying you are in love with a hooker.
I am giving you twenty four hours to decide in favour of what I request of you if you don’t want me to deal with you all over the internet..” Lu Jingli smirked.
Theresa Mo smiled. ” I dare you to try it and you will have yourself to blame. Your threats are empty and weightless before me Theresa Mo!”
“It is not over until I declare it over,” Lu Jingli arrogantly declared. “I am the master of the game now and since you want to play, let’s play then” Theresa Mo bragged.
Lu Jingli nodded and Walked out of her office. He marched furiously out of the company fuming with rage and displeasure with Theresa Mo.
He had taken it carefully with her and she dared to be arrogant before him, Lu Jingli? He would treat her fuck up and dragg her reputation in the dregs.
He would sit and watch who comes crawling and begging him later. He would take her back as his wife whether she willingly agrees to be or dragged like a bull into the marriage.
Theresa Mo was like puking out blood. Such a fellow dares to threaten her again? He once threatened her to sign the divorce papers through his lawyer about her mother, but now that outdated method was not going to work on her again.
Threats can’t work on her will power anymore. She would hand it over to Junxie Li to handle. Lu Jingli would learn a lesson he would never forget in a hurry.
After pausing the recordings, she was going to send it to Junxie Li but his phone was switched off.
She decided to wait more. She concentrated on her work and tried to restore her mind to normalcy.
Ms Anna Hu went about her activities that morning and she kept her eyes on grand nanny to know when she would be through with the early morning activities and retired to her Chambers for the day.
Grand nanny was a woman in her Late sixties who had worked in the orphanage for over forty years.
Almost all the children who passed through the orphanage knew her and hence she earned the title ‘grand nanny’
She was unmarried all her life and has no child. She had taken refuge in the orphanage as her home and called all the children her grandchildren.
Every director and Matron will serve and retire but the nanny will always remain after they leave. She has nowhere else to go.
All her life has been spent in the orphanage. Some said she’s an orphan herself and never knew the love and fellowship of a family.
Some believed she had abandoned her family and decided to spend her last breath in the orphanage. But no one can say exactly how the story is. It’s all speculation.
As Anna Hu saw that grand nanny had retired to her Chambers, she quietly went to see her. Grand nanny was happy to see her come to her Chambers.
She smiled at Anna Hu with her lips parted exposing her diastema. She must definitely have been a very beautiful woman in her early years.
She offered Anna Hu a cup of tea and sat down to chat with her on the old sofa. After chatting for a while, Anna Hu asked her if she was in the orphanage at such and such a year.
Grand nanny gave a quick laugh and quickly returned back to normalcy. She said she had been in the orphanage as long as the orphanage had been existing.
Anna Hu smiled. She said she wanted her to tell her everything she knows about a certain boy that year that was brought to the orphanage at one month old.
She gave her the name of the Matron and the director of the orphanage at the time. She was not done talking when the grand nanny placed her finger on her lips and told her to be quiet.
“Talk more quietly my dear, the walls have ears and there are eyes everywhere. I know a few things about the boy. But why do you want to know, dear?” Grand nanny asked.
Anna Hu answered in a whisper and said a friend wants to know a few things about the boy. But she was careful enough not to make it appear like an investigation.
Grand nanny sighed audibly. She doesn’t know what to say about what Anna Hu asked her. She had never asked her any question before. This is the first time and she doesn’t want to disappoint her by telling her to go away.
” Promise me that you will not disclose this information to the wrong person and you would never say I told you” Grand nanny requested.
“I promise you grand nanny,” Anna Hu said.
It was close to noon when Rosa was courageous enough to call Lanre. At the time, Lanre was seriously hoping that Ms Anna Hu would give him a positive response soon.
Lanre’s phone started ringing. He checked the caller ID and saw who was calling but didn’t answer it. She is calling because Theresa Mo must have deliberately instructed her to call him.
It rang for the second time and he answered the phone and said nothing. Rosa was quiet on the other side until Lanre asked “What?”
“Hello Lanre, how are you today?” Rosa asked, with a solemn and sweet voice. “I’m fine” Lanre replied and said nothing else.
” I was wondering if you would be free so we went to lunch together,”Theresa Mo said. Lanre chuckled. Going to lunch together?
” What for?” He asked. He doesn’t know why he would go to lunch with her. If she was in Company of someone else, it is understandable.
But the two of them, no he didn’t want that to happen again. “I want us to talk and iron things out among each other. I want to apologise to you” Rosa was blunt.
“I don’t see any reason why you should be doing that. I have nothing against you Rosa, but we are done and what remains in my memory is our past.
I can’t go to lunch with you for any reason whatsoever. I am answering your call now because I haven’t told you before: don’t call my cell phone number again otherwise I will blacklist your mobile number!” Lanre declared.
Rosa froze. Lanre could say such words at her? Oh because she said horrible words at him, he decided to pay her back this way.
“This is your Rosa, Lanre” Rosa reminded him and the latter replied “my Rosa in the past” and hung up.
Rosa heard the call ended and left the phone still by her ears. He actually hung up on her? Lanre did?
As carefully as someone carrying a crate of egg, Rosa gently brought her hand down to her side. It truly has ended between them.
Her tears came afresh. She has lost him, she lost Lanre. She has grown to love him deeply and passionately. How can she lose him just like that?
She started sobbing. How can she live without him? Where does she start from? How can she overcome her present feelings for him?
She loves him…