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FOR more than a moment Amelia just stood in shock, her mouth ajar as she looked on, at Zoey in fright.
What has she just heard? That that lady was the right hand man to the most dreaded Lord Lucario? Oh heavens! What has she done?
Meanwhile, Zoey saw her lost completely in her world of thoughts and tried bringing her back to the reality, as she waved her right hand at her face.
“Hello… are you here?”, she asked waving at her face.
It was after a fe byw minutes that she realized herself and sighed deeply.
“Jeez! Why you thinking about that? What exactly you thinking about? You have it all remember?”, she asked and Amelia couldn’t tell if that was teasing or encouragement.
She sighed again.
“Yeah, yeah, I do remember”, she replied with a start, her eyelids flickering.
Zoey nodded and was about walking away when Amelia gently pulled her back, and she frowned.
“Ahhhh! Aren’t you done yet?”, she asked, “what again?”, she added.
Amelia twisted her lips.
“Tell me Zoey, how come you knew?”, she asked.
She rolled her eyes smiling and then turned to her.
“At the instant I saw her guys, I knew. Elvis one time in the past, employed their services, I got to know of her from there”, she replied.
Amelia looked away.
“Oh! Okay”, she nodded. Elvis is Zoey’s eldest brother, and she knew he was capable of meddling into such things.
“Well, can we go in now and get what we have come to shop? We have stayed longer than usual”, Zoey said.
“Yeah”, Amelia replied and they both walked into the mall.
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Jasira got home in utter anger, her heart was filled with fury, even when Greg and Kylo tried calming her down, she didn’t, she was boiling in anger.
Jeez! What insults that has been poured on her today? And by a good for nothing fellow, a shouting mad dog, hmph.
She and her guys had just decided to visit the mall that day, as one of them wanted to get a laptop, Kylo to be precised.
So they had pleaded with her to accompany them and she did, not knowing she was gonna meet with crazy.
“Boss J, please you have to calm down okay?”, Greg spoke.
Jasira wouldn’t hear anyone, as she just paced about the living room, fuming.
At this juncture, Lord Lucario entered. He had already been informed of the latest happening as soon as they returned. He saw his daughter pacing about the room looking so furious, he moved closer to her, and stopped her from further pacing, and she did.
“Little cat, what the hell is the problem?”, he asked her.
She calmed down, ready to reply him.
“It’s one dunce girl I met at the parking lot, telling me that I had parked my car at her space, imagine! Who does that?”, she rhetorically asked.
“What happened next?”, his deep emotionless baritone asked.
“We had a brawl, and do you know? That imp smashed my phone on the floor, jeez! The latest iPhone that is not even up to a year I got it, that idiot smashed it”, she said and looked away.
Lord Lucario was quiet for a while, as his brains did some working.
“It’s just a phone Jasira, besides you have more than one of it”, he said.
Huh? She looked at him.
“I have just one of that type”, she said.
“So what do you intend doing now? Go to her and smash her phone as well? Or give her the beating of her life? Which?”, he growled the question.
Jasira didn’t say anything in reply, she obviously didn’t know what to say, and he continued.
“You see, you can’t do any of those. Just let sleeping dogs lie. Besides, she is an heiress, they get away with most bad things they do to others in the society, because they are rich”, he explained.
“Hmm. I really do wish I could give her the beating of her life, she is just so saucy”, she said.
Lord Lucario laughed.
“She is the supposed fiancee of Jeremy Petersons, you can’t actually do that”, he said.
Huh? She looked at him. The fiancee of Jeremy? How come she hadn’t realize that? Jeez!
“Well, whatever”, she turned to look away.
“Just let go of that little cat, you have more phones. If you need that exact type, and you do not want to get it yourself, I can do that”, he assured.
She nodded, she knew he would.
“Thank you so much Father”, she said.
“You are welcome, anytime any day little cat”, he said to her smiling, and she had no other option, she smiled too.
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Amelia has just arrived the Peterson’s mansion, Jeremy has sent for her.
Few hours earlier, he had seen the videos of she and his beautiful lady exchanging words at the mall, and he was so disappointed and angry at the same time, all at Amelia, that rude brat.
He never cared to know who it was that is at fault, all he knows is that, Amelia should be scolded, as long as his beautiful lady was involved.
So he had sent for her at the instant he got home from work, and Amelia after receiving the text, was all over the moon, ahh, Jeremy? Asked her to come over? It was worth rejoicing.
She was actually tired after the mall saga and was about having a rest, when the text came in. Instantly, the tiredness eluded her, and strength cropped in.
Now, she was at the Peterson’s mansion, impatient to see him. She knocked at the door to his room and entered, without even waiting for a reply.
“Hi baby”, she said, smiling so broadly as she walked up to him, he was sitting on the couch, busy with his laptop.
He said nothing to her, neither did he look up, this annoyed her and she frowned.
“Hey”, she called as she got to him and stood. He still said nothing and she sighed deeply.
“You asked me to show up”, she said.
Immediately, he picked up one of the phones lying on the side table and handed it to her, his eyes were still fixed on his laptop.
With curiosity all over her, she collected the phone and glanced at him, then back to the phone.
There was a video on pause right there on the screen. She was befuddled.
“Play the video”, came the order from him, and she did.
She began watching and jeez! It was the saga at the mall hours ago. Jeez! So it has gone viral already?
She couldn’t watch anymore, she paused it and slowly turned to him, and that was when he finally looked up at her, their gaze met and she looked away instantly.
“So what was all that for?”, he asked in his cold voice, and she cringed.
She kept quiet, not knowing what to say in reply, so this was the reason he had called her? This? Just this? Ahh! She felt so disappointed.
Subconsciously, she turned to him and found out he was still staring at her, patiently waiting for her reply.
Then she sighed.
“I… I… the lady actually parked at my space Jeremy, I had to fight for my right”, she said, frowning her face.
He snorted.
“Really? Fight for your right? You call this fighting for your right?”, he asked, and she nodded, pouting.
“You are actually justifying this madness you made here in the open as fighting for your right? Smashing the lady’s phone? And calling her names?”, he continued.
Amelia pouted all the more.
“Mmm, Jeremy, she was stubborn, I had to show her…”.
“… your rude part”, he interrupted.
“Huh?”, she mouthed.
“Yeah, your mad part. She was stubborn and you had to show her your rude self”, he said and she frowned, “come on Amelia, I actually thought you were better than this”, he said.
She felt so bad hearing that from him, of course she was. Why would he say that huh?
“And to think that you are my supposed fiancee, a chic, expensive and classy, you are acting like this in public. Maybe your actually waiting for me to tell you that you are a public figure, before you realize that”, he said.
For the first time since the saga, she was actually feeling sorry for what she did. Not because of anything, but because Jeremy has just showed concern.
Although she was still at a loss as to what he was trying to prove saying all these. If really he wasn’t in to her, then why the hell would he be saying all these to her?
Hmm, she smiled inwardly. This made her know he was interested in her, just that he is trying to prove the man that he is.
“I’m so sorry for doing all that Jeremy, I’m sorry. I was just… carried away, I was vexed”, she said, “I’m sorry”, she pleaded.
He laughed shortly, Amelia? Sorry? He laughed again, making her look perplexed. Well, that wasn’t his concern, he had actually called her for something else.
“Well, to the main reason I called you”, he said and stretched out his left hand for his phone and she put it on his palm.
He withdrew his hand and dropped the phone on the table where he had taken it from.
“You would have to apologize to that lady”, he said in an emotionless voice.
“What!”, she lowly exclaimed. Apologize?
He wasn’t done yet.
“…. and get her a new phone, the exact one you smashed”.
“Huh! Jeremy!”, she mouthed.