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Macy feel asleep the moment she hit the bed.
She hadn’t had enough rest since they went for that celebration party then all what happened with Richard and she was yet to come to terms with the fact that she had just moved in with Richard.
Everything happened so fast that Macy didn’t yet seem to fathom all what was happening.
Mel, on the other hand, was fidgeting the whole morning and she could hardly eat her breakfast in peace.
Her uncle had told her that they would now be living in this new house with aunt Macy and she hadn’t seen Macy yet.
When she asked her uncle to take her to see Macy, he said that her dad would be very angry because Macy had just slept after the a hard night’s work.
As they were taking breakfast, Richard came down all ready and Macy jumped at him the moment she saw him.
“Why are you behaving like a baby today and you hate being held? Didn’t you tell me that you are a big girl now?” I asked Richard teased as she adjusted her weight to hold her well.
“I will always be your baby even when I get to twenty years.
Daddy, uncle says that auntie Macy is here, is that true?” She asked all excited.
“Yes and no. You can’t go to disturb her now.
She had been busy the whole night and has just fallen asleep,” Richard said and Macy got down with a pout and Richard helped her return to her seat at the table.
“You two are no fun. I will eat quickly and go back to my room. I have homework I want to finish,” the little girl said and started eating.
She ate very quickly and within minutes, she was all done and she even ate her supplements and vegetables without supervision.
She then took whr juice and downed it and said, “I will be in my room. Don’t disturb me,” then walked upstairs slowly.
Once she was out of sight of the two adults, she went to her room, took her latest comic book and get drawing book and pencils and them closed the door slowly.
She then went to the door of the room where her uncle had said aunt Macy is and opened the door very slowly.
She saw Macy sleeping very peacefully and she closed the door slowly and then walked in and settled her things on the table.
She then started reading her comic.
She divided her time between watching Macy sleep and reading. Two minutes reading, one minute watching Macy and such.
After she was done, she took her drawing materials and started drawing her sleeping aunt.
She wasn’t an expert but she had a knack for art and she did a good job for a grown girl of six.
She was done with reading her comic, she was done with drawing and she was bored.
Her little body needed action and she really didn’t want to wake Macy up as she also could tell that her aunt needed rest.
So, she carried her small body and sat at the foot of the bed and held Macy’s hand in hers and looked at Macy.
If anyone walked in and saw this scene, they would have been spooked. Mel was looking at Macy with a smile and no one could tell what she was thinking.
After a long while, Macy stired and went to turn but she felt that someone was holding her hand and she opened her eyes and that’s when she saw the little girl.
It was like Macy had taken too long to wake up and Mel had finally fallen asleep at the foot of the bed.
Macy didn’t wake her up. She just stood slowly, scooped the little girl up and put her on the bed and joined her.
The wall clock announced ten o’clock in the mooand since there was no work today, Macy decided to sleep in.
With Mel by her side, sleep came very quickly and in their lala land, they didn’t realize that there was a commotion outside when the maid went to call Mel as per Richard’s orders and she wasn’t in her room.
“Have you checked the cameras?” Nurse Lin asked the butler after they had checked the whole compound and she was nowhere to be found.
That was when Richard came in and found the commotion.
“What’s going on?” He asked the butler.
“Young Master, young miss is missing,” he said and they all looked at the ground.
Richard looked at them and wondered of they were okay.
“Has anyone of you checked Macy’s room?” Was the first question he asked and all of them looked at each other.
Thwy scampered to go upstairs and check when Richard stopped them.
“Mel is a bright girl and she know better than to go out without telling anyone.
Also, don’t disturb them, I will go and check,” he said and walked upstairs leaving confused workers there.
In the room, the two were sleeping peacefully with Macy holding to Mel tightly.
Richard thought that they looked unconfortable and went to position Mel well but when he moved her, Macy’s hands moved by reflex and held Mel well.
Richard didn’t tohch her again and just at the table where Mel was sitting earlier looking at them.
He then took Mel’s drawing book and half of all the photos drawn there were of Macy. The other half was of the three of them.
Richard started thinking of how he had come this far.
He had sworn never to let another woman near him or Mel and now here he was.
Macy had come into their lives so smoothly and silently that by the time Richard was fathoming what had happened, Macy was already an integral part of their lives that could not be let Ho of.
She had grown on his skin and he was determined to keep her. But why? That was the question he also didn’t have an answer to.
He could clearly tell that he didn’t love her. The feelings he had for her weren’t love and all he wanted was to keep her close for Mel.
But why the kiss and why feel possessive of her? He couldn’t answer that.
He remembered how his heart beat fast and he felt like killing anyone who would touch her the moment his brother sent him the dare clip at the party.
He was doing he had never even done for Cassandra because of Macy.
What was so different? Richard couldn’t answer that.
He felt disturbed that he decided to distance himeself from Macy.
He looked at the pair on the bed once and then waled out with mixed feelings.
He had sent Asher to go and make sure that he brought Macy out of her current management house and bring her in Imperial House that was a management house under the Armstrong Group.
But now… He didn’t even know what he was thinking or what he was feeling and he decided to do what he did best when he wanted to drqon himself and forget unpleasant feelings: work.
He calls the butler and gave him instructions.
“Give her anything she wants and treat her like the mistress of this house. And don’t tell mom and dad. I don’t want them getting false ideas,” he said and left.
The old man looked at Richard’s back with a sly smile.
Get any ideas? Who moved them in the middle of the night? Who moved houses for her? Who asked Asher to do all that for her?
He shook his head because he knew Richard well.
He had been with them both since they were young children and if there was something he knew about them, none of the two brothers did anything without thinking it through.
The butler knew that if Richard was speaking like that, he was in the denial stage and he would get out of it soon.
As he was thinking, Macy and Mel came downstairs with Mel shouting to whoever was listening that her aunt was angry and they needed food.
“Come sit here young miss,”hl he said referring to Macy and Macy smiled kindly at him.
“Please call me Macy. And there is no problem. I can fix myself a plate,” she said but before the old man could argue with her and explain all the reasons why she couldn’t, two maids came with trays laden with food and arranged them on the dining table.
Macy had no otherwise but to sit and eat.
“Let’s eat mama,” Mel said as she sat opposite Macy and Macy froze with her butt mid air as she was going to sit.