AS soon as Jasira left, Nikky couldn’t get the courage to leave as well, she just stood there, digesting what she had just heard. It was as if her legs were rooted to the ground.
“Ahhh!” She finally let out a wail and then walked out of the room. Mico and Kylo caught up with her at the hallway as she dragged her feet on the floor.
“She has just left, what is the update?” Mico was the first to ask.
Still, Nikky couldn’t find the right words to use, so she kept mute.
“We are talking to you, speak. What is the outcome?” Kylo asked.
Nikky suddenly stopped and looked at them, making them stop as well.
“She is still maintaining her stand, that she wants to leave for real,” she said.
“Really? So the shit was true?” Kylo asked.
She nodded.
“Yeah it was.”
“Come on, is that all? Didn’t you try to talk her out of it?” Mico asked.
“I did, I tried, but it seems like she already had her mind made up a long time ago,” she continued walking, and they did too.
“Unbelievable!” Mico exclaimed.
“So what about us? Didn’t she think of us? Her family?” Kylo asked.
“About that, she said she is gonna send for us.”
“So what?”
“So we wait till she sends for us,” she concluded.
***
“Unbelievable!” one of the men sitting at the table with Lucas and the rest exclaimed.
“Boss J? Quit?” Came another.
“What the hell?” Boogie spat.
“Hmmm,” was all Zach could utter.
“Hahaha, this is a real good news for me, it is another victory, make merry and enjoy people, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy,” Lucas kept on shouting, chewing on a large chunk of chicken.
“Handel!” He suddenly shouted and one of his boys standing at different positions in the dining rushed up to him.
“My Lord,” he replied, bowing his head.
“Hand me my damn phone.”
“Here My Lord,” he handed it to him and walked back to his position.
“I can’t wait to ridicule the almighty Lord Lucario, my rival,” he said as he dialed Lord Lucario.
Lucario was as usual in his bedroom smoking heavily when his phone began to ring. He ignored it, like he hadn’t heard a thing.
Lucas kept on calling and when Lucario couldn’t bear it anymore, he picked up the phone and answered, without even bothering to know who the caller was.
“What the hell do you want?” He barked the question.
Lucas flinched.
“Hey hey, calm down Lucario, it is your friend and foe, Lord Lucas,” he spoke into the phone.
Lucario winced. What the hell does he want?
“What is it?” He asked, “why pester me?”
Lucas laughed mockingly.
“Okay okay, I get it. You were brooding when I called and that was why you didn’t pick up at first ring, alright fine. I only called to sympathize with you over your loss, you know I had always admired and wanted her for myself too, but you always guarded her like -“.
“You fool!” Lucario barked and hung up, then flung the phone across the room, it hit the wall and smashed into pieces.
“Mmmmmmm”, he howled like a wounded wolf, fisting his hands as she did.
“Jasiiiraaaaa,” he roared, “see what you have caused.”
Meanwhile, on the other end, Lucas as expected, laughed out, staring at the phone.
“He hung up on me, hahaha, he fucking hung up,” he said amidst laughter and dropped the phone on the table.
Handel quickly walked over and took the phone.
“So it is really true, Jasira is quitting the family,” he burst out laughing again.
Others joined in the laughter.
“What a pleasant news, gosh! I’m so happy to hear this. Eat, drink and merry,” he said.
***
Jasira entered the room to meet Jeremy seated on the floor drinking, a plate of uncovered dish was left on the center table. She sighed as she closed the door behind her and walked up to the bed to drop her luggage.
“Babe?” She called, “would you stop doing this to yourself?” She asked and he ignored her totally.
Having dropped the bag, she walked up to him and sat beside him on the floor, looking on the floor around her, all she could do was sigh, sigh in disappointment.
There were about three empty bottles of alcohol and he was still holding onto one half drunk bottle.
“You haven’t eaten all day,” she said, “you didn’t even touch the food I instructed Gabriella to get you, and here you are, drinking, drinking yourself to stupor, will you stop this please? Please Jeremy, please,” she pleaded.
Jeremy didn’t even say a word to her, he just sat there taking in gulps of alcohol repeatedly. When she couldn’t take it anymore, she made to take the bottle from him.
“No, you won’t,” he said and began dragging the bottle with her.
“Yes I will,” she said and didn’t let go, they kept on dragging the bottle and obviously, Jeremy had the upper hand.
As soon as he dragged it from her he pushed her, and she hit the back of her head on the edge of the bed, sending stars out of her eyes.
“Oh my!” She exclaimed rubbing the back of her head.
Jeremy suddenly laughed, startling her.
“That is what you get for trying to take my solace away,” he said and looked away from her, then continued drinking.
She frowned.
“You need to stop this Jeremy, you really need to. You just regained a little consciousness few hours ago and you are already up drinking, when you are supposed to eat and rest, just stop can you? -”
“No!” He exclaimed, “never!” He added, laughing incoherently.
“My God!”
“I need solace not rest and food, I need solace, something to keep me busy from thinking about the billion dollars that has just been wasted, is there anything more worse than that?” He asked, laughing.
Jasira winced, it was a sad laugh, a laugh to mask the pain.
Suddenly she got up.
“This must have to end,” she said and grabbing her car keys, she stormed out of the room.