Greg’s POV
“Yes, I did. We had eye contact and I saw her taking the elevator to the floor where Nicholas’s room was” I said, my brows knitted together in a deep frown.
The worst part of everything was thinking you’ve finally gotten the enemy in your hand and realizing that they were never in your hands in the first place.
“Mia said this lady was good at what she did so how did Monica end up in Nicholas’s room?”
“I have no idea” Ethan replied then looked at his phone which was buzzing loudly in the silent office. “It’s Mia,” he said before picking up and placing the phone on his ears.
I didn’t pay attention to whatever conversation he was having with Mia because I couldn’t help but wonder why things were just so difficult for us.
It would have just been easier to kill Monica and make Nicholas devastated but Ethan wants Monica. The kids can’t be touched also because Mia wants the kids.
I want the company and the only way for me to get the company is if Nicholas is out of the way but that doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere closer to me.
“Mia is here already. She is coming here” Ethan said, his gaze on his phone as he spoke.
“What is the name of the lady Mia hired to meet with Nicholas?” I asked, thinking deeply about the issue and wondering why everything didn’t go as planned.
“freeda” Ethan replied and I went mute.
“What did I miss?” Mia walked elegantly into the office with a mini bodycon gown and I couldn’t help but lose concentration for a minute and stare.
Her curves endowed her slender physique as her skin radianted beautifully. “You can have her if you want” Ethan uttered, jolting me out of my thoughts as I faked a cough and turned my gaze away from Mia.
“Freda didn’t sleep with Nicholas. Monica did and the sex clip we have isn’t Freeda and Nicholas but Monica and Nicholas” I explained, summarizing our little discovery
“That’s not possible. Freda said she had slept with Nicholas” i and Ethan exchanged confused and shocked glances.
“But Monica says she met with Nicholas that night in his hotel room and they slept with each other. She said Anthony called her that something was wrong with Nicholas. She even knows Nicholas was drugged” Ethan said and I stared deeply at him.
“I hope she doesn’t know it was I who drugged Nicholas” Ethan fell silent and swallowed hard and I suspected he had rated me out
“No, she doesn’t. She only knows he was drugged” Ethan replied but for some reason, I doubted his honesty.
“If I ever find out that you said something about me, keep in mind that as I’m going down I will drag you down with me” I warned, glaring at Ethan so he realizes how serious I am.
“This is not the time for threats now. We have to think about what might have gone wrong. If Freeda didn’t sleep with Nicholas, then who did she sleep with?” Mia said and I found her Words worth thinking about.
I saw Freeda that night taking the elevator and we told her the room in Which Nicholas was staying so did she fool us or did she sleep with another person mistakingly that night?
“I think we should call her to find out. Thinking won’t bring answers to us so we need to hear from her” Ethan suggested and I nodded my head in agreement with what he said.
Mia reached for her phone in her clutch and dialed Freeda’s number with speed, a deep frown forming between her brows.
The phone began to ring, my heart pounding on my chest with fear as the ringing continued with no one picking up. “Was she a fraud?”I muttered under my breath as I listened carefully to the ringing of the phone.
“Good day, Ms_,” The voice said on the sixth ring.
“keep the greetings to yourself. You had only one job freeda. Just one job but you still couldn’t even carry out your job properly. I thought you knew what you were doing” Mia yelled rudely on the phone, her veins threatening to pop out of her neck.
“I did the job ma’am. I did the job as you had instructed” Freeda’s voice trembling from the speaker.
There was something about Mia’s aura that screamed coldness and danger that made Freeda voice who wasn’t even present with us here begin to shake.
“Did you sleep with Mr Nicholas Sterling?” Mia asked
“Yes ma’am I did” she replied and Ethan exchanged confused glances with me as we listened to the call between Freeda and Mia “I went to room ninety-one as you had instructed and I slept with the drugged man I saw there in the room”
“So if Freeda slept with Nicholas, who then did Monica sleep with because all these right now are making me go nuts. It just doesn’t make sense” Mia said, sighing in exhaustion.
“Is Monica lying? Did she say all those things just to confuse me?” Ethan asked and then Mia suddenly gasped, her eyes widening as she stared at the phone in her hand in disbelief.
“What room did you say you went to Freeda” Mia asked, awaiting Freeda’s reply.
“Room ninety-one ma’am” Freeda replied and I could see Mia gritting her teeth in anger.
“You illiterate. I simply instructed you to go to room sixteen and not ninety-one” Mia barked, gripping tightly to the phone in her hand “You’re so lucky you’re not here because if you were, I would have smashed your head on the wall so that you could borrow some sense from the wall” mia said then hanged up instantly.
“But you told me you gave Freeda the card which had the number printed on it,” Ethan said, frowning at Mia whose both hands were on my desk with her head hung low
“Yes, I did. I printed out two of the cards personally and handed them over to her that night” Mia said.
“Then how did she end up in another room” Ethan asked, a look of displeasure on his face.
“I have no idea,” Mia said.
“Do you have a sample of that card?” I asked, interested in seeing the card myself.
Mia dipped her hand into her bed as she searched for some seconds and brought out a card that had a number printed on it. The card was the size of a business complimentary card but was a little thicker.
I stared intently at the card and saw the number sixteen. Turning the card upside down, it shows another number and I finally realized that Freeda might have mixed up the numbers.
Turning the card to face Ethan and Mia, I stretched out the card in my hand so they could see clearly what I was about to explain.
“If you look closely, you will see ninety-one but if I turn this card, you will see number sixteen,” I said, turning the card upside-down for them to understand what I was saying.
Mia slapped her forehead in frustration “I should have just used another number. This is all my fault” Mia uttered, her voice tiring and low
“What should we do? The plan didn’t go well. It failed almost immediately” Ethan said.
“I think we should come up with a new plan” I suggested, smirking as a devilish thought crossed my mind. Nicholas won’t know what hit him this time.