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SECONDS passed, and grew into minutes, Jasira just kept him mute, saying nothing but just staring straight into his eyeballs and twisting her lips.
“Do you realize that you are keeping me waiting Jasira, I asked who was that?”, he asked again.
She blinked her eyes and shrugged her shoulders, feeling like a teen hiding her boyfriend from her father would do.
“Nobody,… no one serious”, she replied, her eyelids flickering as she did.
Lord Lucario raised his eyebrows, like in a form of saying, ‘really?’.
She laughed shortly.
“Come off that Lucario, you are just overthinking of me these days, I am still that little cat you know”, she said, still clutching hard unto the phone in her hands.
He nodded knowingly.
“I see, do not let me find out myself one day. I do not want to believe that you have been late chatting, and that is your reason for waking up late, because this whole scenario…”, he waved his right fingers in the air, “… says it all”, he concluded and got up.
Jasira smiled, watching him as he stood.
“It is not what you are thinking dad”, she said.
He said nothing to her but just walked towards the door.
“Breakfast has already been served, as you now hardly have breakfast with us…”, and he turned to her, his right hand on the door knob, “ring the maid to get you yours”, he said and finally walked out, slamming the door behind him.
Jasira shocked.
“Mmm, getting worked up over nothing”, she said and made a face, “besides I’m not a kid, I know exactly what to do if I get hungry”, she said.
She sat still and motionless for seconds, then she turned to her phone and stared at it for another couple of seconds.
Then she closed her eyes and breathed in and out, opened her eyes, and then picked up the phone and opened her chat box of Jeremy and her.
There were actually too texts from him, one from the previous night, and the other this morning, as she was conversing with Lord Lucario.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Beautiful stubborn lady, I hope you get to see this tomorrow morning, sleep tight.
Beautiful morning sleepy head, I guess you are still in bed huh?
A smile appeared on her face as she rushed to reply to them, just as she was about replying to the first, she paused.
“Don’t you think you are on a rush babes? Slow down, or are you falling for this guy already?”, a voice in her spoke, and she heard it loud and clear.
She went weak instantly and puffed out air from her mouth, rolling her eyes.
She was still thinking and contemplating on what to do when her phone beeped again, another text popped up. It was him.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Please do wakey, someone can’t wait to talk to you.
She smiled again, a bigger smile this time. Jeez! This was every girls dream man, the country’s sweetheart, New Jersey’s heartcode, the domineering CEO of Peterson’s Kiddies World and if by addition, Amelia’s wish…, she paused to laugh, this was him, Jeremy Petersons taking his god damn time, to chat her up, what the hell?
Who does that? Where is it heard? That a man of such caliber would stoop so low to taking the risk of finding out her DM, and chatting her up.
“Ahhhhhhhh!! This is so unheard of”, she wondered aloud, raising her two hands up.
Reluctantly, and before she could stop herself, she replied the texts.
@JBaby: Hi, good morning. I’m actually already awake.
She tapped on the send key immediately.
***
As soon as Carrie had walked out of the office with the piece of paper in her hand, Jeremy heaved a long sigh, Amelia, always giving troubles, unnecessary troubles.
He picked up his laptop and placed it before him, then opened it, he had worked on it for about thirty minutes when he remembered he had some unfinished business from the previous night.
His face broke into a smile as he picked up his phone to see if his beautiful lady has replied his text.
He opened the chat box and saw nothing from her, she hadn’t even read through the chat, meaning she must still be in bed or something.
Well, he shrugged and decided to send her a good morning text, he did and dropped the phone, then turned to his work on the laptop.
Few minutes after, he picked up the phone again to see if she has yet replied, she hasn’t but unlike before, she had viewed the texts, but no reply.
He decided to send another text, and that was when she replied.
“Oh my!”, he exclaimed like he had won a jackpot and immediately rushed to reply her.
“Hmm”, he muttered aloud.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Already awake? Well, I guess not beautiful, you are just trying to save your head. Come on, spill, I know you are just waking up.
Jasira received the text and laughed out loud, cupping her left hand over her mouth. She replied immediately.
@JBaby: Lol.
Well, yeah, somehow.
I was actually talking with dad.
“Oh!”, he mouthed aloud, his eyelids flickering.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Okay, I wish I could meet him.
She gasped. She hadn’t realized she has just spoken about Lord Lucario.
“Jeez! What the hell am I doing?”, she rhetorically asked, “well, let me just flow, I already made the mistake of mentioning him in the first place”, she added, shrugging her shoulders.
@JBaby: Meet him for?
@Jeremy_Petersons: Just so I could give him a handshake and praise him for raising such a smart and beautiful lady like you.
She bursted into laughter, laughing non stop.
@JBaby: You are so funny. Well, that is nice.
He nodded on receiving the reply.
“She seems to be friendly though, she is actually replying freely”, he wondered aloud.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Hey, it’s almost 11am, aren’t you going to work today?
Jasira received the text and rolled her eyes, so what was she gonna reply him now? No, she is an assassin, a Mafia Queen, she doesn’t go the normal 9-5 job, ughhhh.
“This one hits differently”, she said and twisted her lips.
@JBaby: Well, I work online.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Oh wow! What exactly do you do? Hope you don’t mind me asking.
@JBaby: Of course I do, you are pokenosing now.
He smiled.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Alright my bad, my bad, I apologize.
She laughed.
@JBaby: Apology accepted gentleman.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Smiles.
Alright I think I should leave you now to attend to your stuffs, you need to go freshen up and have breakfast huh? I do not want my beautiful lady to starve.
She laughed again, harder this time.
@JBaby: You got me rolling on the floor laughing out here.
Well, sure, I need to go freshen up, and you, I guess you are in the office now, I need to leave you to focus CEO.
He smiled deeply.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Hmm, fine. Talk to you later.
Jasira immediately logged out, and the next thing she fell flat on the bed, dropped the phone on her chest and spread out her arms. She was over herself smiling.
“Jeez! Am I really doing this? Jasira? You? Queen Mafia? Holy Moly!”, she exclaimed out, and bursted into laughter.
“How can I be falling for a man? And not just any man but Jeremy Petersons? Oh my! This is totally unbelievable”, she continued talking, staring at the ceiling as she did.
“Mmm…”, she twisted her lips, “to think that I have already lied to him, about two things, I do not have a dad, I don’t even know who my dad is, and… of course that is even if I do, and I do not work online, oh my gee!”, she exclaimed and sat up at once, as though she has been stung by an ant.
As she sat up her phone almost fell to the floor, she was very fast in catching it.
She sighed deeply and dropped it on the bed and got up.
“It was sweet chatting him though, but I need to go freshen up, I haven’t even brushed, jeeeez!”, she shouted and ran into the bathroom, laughing.
As for Jeremy on the other end, he dropped his phone after seeing she had logged out and then faced his work squarely.
….. Evening…..
Following the reports she has gotten from Tarmah, Amelia decided to go pay a visit to her fiance that evening, she plan on spending the night at his mansion.
To her, distancing herself always from him also contributed to all these nonsense, imagine Carrie too, that low life coming to his mansion, putting on his clothes and making food huh?
Jeez! She still hasn’t brought herself to the realization that it actually happened.
If she as his fiance was frequenting his house, how the hell would Carrie show up to cook?
“Ew”, she mouthed and recoiled her face.
The gigantic gates slid open and she drove in, her tyres making a screeching sound on the interlocked floor.
She halted at the parking lot and turned to take her bag from the other seat, as she did she glanced at the apple wristwatch on her left wrist for the time, and she smiled. She has arrived just in time, Jeremy should be back in an hour’s time.
She picked up her designer Gucci bag and got down from the car. A maid rushed up to her immediately.
“Good evening ma’am, welcome”, she genuflected greeting, and made to take the bag from her.
“Be careful with it, two years of your salary won’t buy that”, she said.
The maid swallowed hard, and nodded like a lizard.
“Okay ma’am”, she said.
They walked up to the mansion and the guard standing by it opened the door for them.
“Welcome ma’am”, he bowed slightly.
She didn’t even give him as much as a glance, let alone reply him. She just walked pass into the house.
They entered the living room and walked up to ascend the stairs.
“To my fiance’s room please”, she ordered and the maid abruptly stopped.
“Um, ma’am?”, she called.
“Yes, why the hell did you stop moving?”, Amelia asked.
“Mr Jeremy’s room is out of reach, he needs to unlock the door with his fingerprint, Ma”, she said and slightly genuflected.
Amelia winced.
“Gosh! That was true, how come she had forgotten?”, she muttered under her breath.
“Alright, take me to my room”, she said.
The maid genuflected.
“Okay ma’am”, and they continued taking the stairs.
In matter of minutes, they got to her room, it was the next after Jeremy’s. The maid handed the bag over to her and walked away. Amelia then opened her door and went in.
She dropped her bag on the center table and freshened up immediately, put on something light and skimpy, then went downstairs to supervise the chef maids on the cooking.
She arrived just in time, the maids were already gathered and had begun washing some of the ingredients.
“Good evening ma’am, good evening ma’am”, they all greeted as soon as she entered, genuflecting.
“What are we having for dinner?”, she asked.
“Honey baked chicken and potatoes”, the chief chef replied.
She nodded.
“Mmm, I see”, she said walking up to the maids preparing the chicken to be used.
“What parts of the chicken you making use of?”, she asked.
“The laps ma’am”, one of them replied.
Amelia nodded again.
“Do cut them up carefully”, she said and walked over to the maids getting the potatoes ready.
Then she moved over to the ones doing the shreddings and slicings of the ingredients.
Soon the latter were done and she went to check out what they had just finished shedding and slicing.
Her face went sour immediately.
“Who did this?”, she shouted, “who was the idiot that did this?”, she shouted again pointing at a plate of shredded lettuce.
“It’s me ma’am, I am the one”, a red haired ran up to her, panting.
“You must be a fool, look at the rubbish you did, don’t you know this things you just wasted can pay your salary ten times huh?”, she shouted and the next thing, she poured the contents of the plate on her.
“Jeez!”, someone exclaimed.
“What the hell is going on here?”, a voice from the door asked and all heads snapped towards it.
It was Jeremy.
Amelia gasped.