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“What is it Asher. Speak,” Richard spoke in a low voice because he was already losing his patience with his brother.
Ash knew very well that the last thing he needed was to make Richard angry at and with him.
“That day, I found a bracelet in the beddings.
It was golden and I thought it must be the girl’s because it was feminine and I thought that the owner would look for it and we would give it back if it was important but no one came forward.
“I am sorry that I did not tell you about it at that time,” Ash apologized but looking at Richard, he got opposite of what he expected.
Instead of Richard being angry at him, he was smiling.
“Are you okay brother?” Asher asked his brother who was standing there looking as if his mind was far away.
“How about eh security footage?” Richard asked.
“She came at night and since she came to your quarters, the corridor was all dark and when she left the next morning, she was facing down and we didn’t catch her face.
Only her long dark flowing hair was visible.
It looked as if she was crying,” Asher said and that gained him another smile from his elder brother.
“I want to see that footage and give me that bracelet.
I think I know who it was and I am praying that my assumption is right,” Richard said and Asher rounded the table again and walked towards his brother.
The gossiper in him had been aroused and he wasn’t afraid of his brother anymore as he could see that his mood had greatly improved.
“Who is it? Tell me brother.
Have you found out the woman you slept with that night?
But why would you care now anyway? Don’t you have Macy?
You love her and Mel loves her too and she is a good girl.
I advise you to stop looking and be content with the woman you love,” Asher said and that earned him an impatient look from Richard.
“Let us see the tape first and you will tell me what you were saying,” Richard said and Asher looked at him thoughfuly and then shook his head.
“If you say so,” Ash said as she turned and walked towards a shelf that was filled with business administration books and he lifted one of them.
There was a click and the whole wall slid and opened to another room.
“Follow me,” he told his brother and they entered and the wall slid back to place on its own.
After that, Asher walked to a table that was in the middle of the secret room and touched a flower vase that was on the table and the floor slid apart revealing a safe on the ground.
He input his biometrics and the safe rose upwards and sopped when it was around a meter above the ground.
He input his finger print and this time, it opened with a click and the four walls sled sideways revealing a glass box with small shelves that had all manner of items from money to jewelry to CDs and flash drives.
He took a golden bracelet from one of the shelves and a flash drive that was in the same compartment with the bracelet and gave them to his brother.
“Here you are. Let’s play it and see what you want to see,” Ash said as he repeated the same motions with the safe until it was finally a smooth floor again.
They took the couch as Ash sat with a laptop that was on the table and turned it on.
He then inserted the drive and fiddled with the mouse and the video started playing.
There was not much to see and the video was less than two minutes long.
A small girl comes out of the room, looks around to see if there is anyone around, then walks away clutching her purse and she never looked up.
All the while, she looked scared and she had a limp.
“Oh, wait. Why does it… this girl… she looks…. JESU CHRIST! THAT’S MACY!” Asher shouted as she stood up in shock.
He paced around the small room as Richard rewatched the footage.
He then placed the laptop on the small coffee table and leaned back on the chair with a smile.
“OOOH, DAMN! YOU KNEW IT, DIDN’T YOU? YOU KNEW IT!” Asher asked but Richard didn’t say anything.
“Want me to get a public address system so that you can go and shout so that all f DC would know?’ Richard asked sarcastically as he looked at his younger brother who was even more agitated than he was.
“Sorry brother. Its just that…
How did you find out and when?” Asher asked.
This wasn’t the paparazzi him. This was the real him genuinely wanting to know how his brother found out.
“Macy has never really told me about her story because, I guess she has never felt free with me and she has been doing everything she could to make me angry at her and throw her out.
I think she never saw me as someone who could love her and she has really tried to build that gap between us.
But today, after she interrogated Angela and they got to the point of how she was drugged and it was around the same time I was, I started hoping.
Then after that, we came home and she told me everything.
She recounted that night and talked of the bloody sheets. She was a virgin then and we made a baby that night but that…. That woman tried killing it,” Richard gritted his teeth as he thought of all the ways he could make Angela pay.
“Oh my god! Who would have thought?
It looks so far-fetched and sounds like everything that would happen in a movie but it is really happening.
Who would have thought that you would fall for the same woman who broke your virginity!
Ha! Life is so ironical, isn’t it?” Asher asked feeling impressed with himself.
“You have to reward me for making you get the woman you loved.
Today, after she learns about all this, she is going to be so happy that it was you.
I know she felt unworthy of being with you because of that night but imagine when she realizes that it was actually you.
I would want to be there to see her face,” Asher said and Richard looked at him.
Asher was even more excited than Richard himself.
“What about the baby? If I am not wrong, Angela said that the baby is alive and was given out in an orphanage.
Will we be able to trace him?” Asher asked remembering that he was now an uncle to two.
“After we find your son, mama and pa will stop asking me to get married.
They will finally have an heir,” Asher said looking dreamy.
He could imagine going home freely without fearing about what his parents would tell him.
They would have enough children to play with to stop bothering him.
“Let us see what May comes up with by morning.
After you go back to the company, ask Ash to help May if she needs it to make sure that that woman goes to jail with no chances of parole even after a hundred years.
After she is in jail, we will plant someone there to make her suffer as she has never have.
She will pay for daring hurt what is mine,” Richard said as he stood up.
He walked towards the wall and pressed a button and it slid again revealing the bigger study.
“Where are you going and what are you going to do?” Asher asked following him.
“Back to the house. I am going to be with Macy.
I have to make sure that’s he is well and that she knows that’s he is not the only one fighting.
I have to make my presence felt so that’s I change her mind. I have to make sure that she knows that I am the one for her,” Richard said as he left the study.
It was not that he didn’t believe in his workers to keep Macy in the house, it was that he believed if you wanted something done well, do it yourself.
He walked home and found Macy still asleep.
He wasn’t sleepy because he had a lot to deal with and needed to work on it before Macy woke up.
The first thing he did was to do a research of the hospital Macy gave birth in.
He needed to know who helped Angela lie to Macy.
He knew she had help because there was no way she would have been able to get to the baby and get a dead body if no one was helping her.
He also needed the footage from that day and he needed to know what security company worked for the hospital so that he could know what precautions to take.
He needed to do this himself and not send anyone else.
He knew that he getting tot eh hospital and getting the security footage from hat day would be easy peazy.
He sat there as he researched and made calls as he waited for Macy to wake up.
He needed to know what day it was.