A man in his mid-sixties was working on his laptop in a towering building in the heart of M-City when a thud sound from the door boomed around the room, revealing a young woman with a furious countenance. As their strategy failed, the woman hammered on the door, glancing at the man.
“Are you telling me you failed?” The young lady frowned.
It seems to me that the pregnant woman cast a spell on him. But I have just a plan. Since he didn’t chase me out and decided to watch the whole act, I might as well next time make her put to bed right away. I mean, the scumbag child that she is carrying has no right to live and ought to perish. I ought to be the one who is expecting a child, not that worthless, worthless, good-for-nothing, nobody.
“What are your plans?”
“Let’s just say I know he won’t inform his wife about my actions today, since he doesn’t want anything bad to happen to her or his baby. I’ll take advantage of it.”
“Hmm, that family embarrassed us. I did some research on the man who strolled in that day. He is Zion’s cousin. He is also wealthy, like Lord Archer, but he and his wife are inseparable, like a belt and trousers. I saw how he humiliated his ex-fiancee on television and forced all of New York City to watch the poor girl sleep with her stepfather. This man is a real badass. I’d rather advise you to stick with Zion. They are equally popular, and having them on our side can be advantageous. Make every effort to sleep with him. You can’t tell me that a dead pregnant woman is superior to you. Make sure you become intimate with him, since we’re going to record it on camera and show it to his wife.”
“Don’t you trust me again?” That is what the young lady remarked before leaving the office. A message buzzed on her phone, and she smiled slyly as she looked at Lady Archer’s phone number. She then decided to make a test call to her victim. She became irritated since she was unable to get in touch with her target despite the fact that the phone rang several times, but no one answered it. She made the decision to phone the number once more, and this time the person who was on the other end of the line answered.
“Hello”
The woman came to a dead standstill and glanced at the number once more after hearing what could only be described as the unmistakable voice of a small child. The person on the other end of the line repeated their greeting before asking,
“Hello, is anyone there?”
The woman was so angry that she threw the phone on the ground and let out a piercing scream at the top of her lungs.
“How dare he give me the wrong number!” She yelled at such a high volume that the employees almost believed that she had gone completely insane. As soon as she recovered control of herself, she looked down at her phone and continued staring at it. It was already strewn across the marble tiles. She stomped the phone numerous times before leaving to get a new phone. She then decided to hire a fresh individual to obtain her the required number. The other person didn’t take the time to get her the number. She decided to contact the number after receiving it. The phone was picked up in a single motion.
“Hello,” said the same voice that had answered the phone before. She stared at the phone in shock as she tried to make sense of what was happening.
Are these cretins stupid? How could they have given me the erroneous number? But then she thought maybe it wasn’t a wrong number after all.
“Hello, I was wondering whether I could get in touch with Maya.”
She asked the question in a nice manner, and she was aware that if the number was in fact Maya’s number, the little girl on the phone would call out to Maya or tell her that she wasn’t around or anything of the sort.
“Who is Maya? Who is that?” The woman’s face turned bright red. What in the world is going on? Only if she knew that the person on the other end of the phone refused to let Maya be addressed by her given name. Sophia, who is now Sophia Archer, expects everyone to address Maya as Lady Archer, so if anyone calls her Maya, they are in for a surprise.
“Maya Jones or anything like that,” she says. The woman continued by saying that she would not refer to her as Maya Archer since she considered that the title of Archer belonged to her and not to Maya.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t know who that is. I believe you have the wrong number.” The small girl murmured this before hanging up the phone. The woman was awestruck.
*****
~Maya’s POV~
Since this morning, Sophia has been keeping herself occupied with the games on my phone. That’s fine with me as long as she doesn’t leave my side. She keeps me entertained. I stood up and went to the kitchen to make some fresh orange juice for myself. Since my legs were swollen, I preferred to move around on my own rather than ask the servants to do it for me because I’ve seen that sitting still makes my condition worse. So walking around was the greatest option for me, and I believe it is beneficial to blood flow. I walked to the kitchen and prepared myself some orange juice before returning to the room to find Sophia on the phone.
“Who was that?” I inquired, and she shrugged.
“I’m not sure. After I picked up the phone, the person who was calling was silent and then hung up. She remarked this while continuing to play games. I sat down and watched while Sophia played games while talking to me. Emma refused to give her the phone that, father had purchased for her because she claims Sophia can’t do anything while on the phone. That made me laugh since Sophia can multitask. I mean, she’s on the phone, but she’s still talking to me. She’s not losing balance from the game she’s playing and me. After drinking the orange juice, I stood up and went to the restroom. When I came out, Sophia was on another call.
“Who was that, Sophia?” She gave me an unassuming glance before looking away.
“Spam phone call. It was some sort of automatic message that said, “Press one to play.” I sighed as she spoke. You can have my phone when Brother Zion calls. Bring the phone to me, anyone else, just tell whoever it is that I’m sleeping. I went to lie down after she nodded. I’m getting pretty lazy these days.
*****
Meanwhile, Sophia was occupied with her games when she received yet another call, which she promptly answered.
“Hello”
“You must be Sophia.” Is Lady Archer around?”
“Yes, but she’s sound asleep.”
“Argh, shame. Tell her that Mishka called and that she should return my call.”
“All right, Mishka.”
Sophia groaned and looked at the phone before deciding to check on the first two calls from Maya’s phone. She exited the room after raising her head to peek at where Maya was sleeping and then closing the door behind her.
Why did that caller drop the call? Why did she sound suspicious? Most importantly, why isn’t the caller’s phone number saved?
The same number was called twice, and for the first 2 minutes, the caller didn’t say anything. She pulled out her laptop and checked to see who the phone was registered to. She then found out that the number was owned by Kelly Martins. After that, Sophia performed a background check on the name and brought up any information pertaining to Kelly Martins. During her research, she discovered that Kelly had been engaged to Zion, but then Zion ultimately ended up marrying Maya. After that, Sophia blocked and wiped Kelly’s number off Maya’s contact list and cleared off the call log on her phone.