20. Games 1
In a big mansion that was situated an hour away from the bustling city center and another hour away from the main road and into a forest, there sat a woman on a beautiful and expensive couch.
She was wearing a large coat that covered everything from neck to below the legs and unlike what everyone would expect (that she hangs the coat on the coat hanger) she kept it on.
She had a vibrant smile on her lips and the perfume she wore drifted all over the room and even outside.
“Is everything okay? The wine and the food?” She asked the middle aged woman who had walked in.
“Yes ma’am. Everything is as you asked and I have already set the table. All is ready,” the middle aged woman said and the other lady smiled.
“Good. Take this and leave. Don’t speak of what has happened here today to anyone,” the lady on the couch said and handed the woman an envelope.
She received it with a big smile and then left.
…..
Earlier in the day, Claire was very indignant. She had thought that Kim would be intimidated by her because she was just another girl from the streets but she was wrong.
“I can’t believe that a hilly billy would dare take my man from me. I will make sure that she doesn’t live to tell it and by the time I am done with her, Ely will be all mine,” she had said as she returned home after a failed mission.
…..
Ely was in a warehouse inspecting the newly arrived shipment with Jamal and the others when he received a call from the bodyguard he had left in charge at home.
“This better be important,” he had said once the call connected.
“Boss, Ms Claire is here,” he said and Ely froze.
He wondered if he had been so lenient to a point that someone like Claudia thought that she could go to his house and do whatever she wanted with his woman.
“Record everything she does and send it to me. Don’t touch her unless she touches your madam,” Ely ordered and then continued with his work.
“Is everything ready?” Ely turned and asked Jamal after they were sure that all was as ordered.
“Yes. The police have been dealt with and the other competitors and we are ready to head out tonight,” Jamal answered.
“Good. Make sure that everything reaches the clients as ordered and kill everyone who might try to sabotage the mission,” he ordered and then he spent the day going around his casinos making sure that all was running well.
In the afternoon as he was having lunch in one of his hotels that was a front for other activities underneath, he called Claire.
“Elyes? What a surprise?” She said and it was true.
She had known Elyes since they were little and they grew up together going to the same school and all but she could count on one hand’s fingers how many times Elyes had actually initiated a call with her.
It was very few times and even the times they had slept together, she was the one who had initiated them and the first time, she even drugged him waiting to get pregnant but she never did.
The second time, Elyes made it very clear to her that nothing could happen between them because he could never love a woman and she was okay with it because, at least, that meant that she still had a chance to try.
But who would have thought that he would go ahead and renege on his words and go ahead and bring a woman to his home, a place she wasn’t allowed to go to and let her stay?
That was… unacceptable to Claire.
Thus, when she received that call from him, she was ecstatic and she took it as him learning the error of his ways.
“Can we meet today? I was told that you went home to look for me but I had already left,” he said in a voice that she has never heard him use.
“Of course. Where and when?” She had asked.
“At my secret hideout. Can we go there? Just us two and maybe… if you are willing… we … we could…” Ely said and he felt nauseated just by acting that way.
“Anthing you want,” she finished when she noticed his hesitation.
“I want to meet you and apologise,” he added.
“No worries. Is seven okay?” She asked.
“Yes. I will be there,” he said and added, ” see you then,” and hang up.
“Call Calisto and see if he’s done with what I aided. I want him to be out by the time Claire gets there and if I know her well, she will be there well before time,” he said and Jamal went off to make the call.
“This has been long coming,” he had said and smiled sinisterly.
….
Shortly after the middle aged woman left, there was a gentle knock on the door and then the sound of keys in the lock and by now, the woman on the couch was no longer in the long coat.
She had removed it once the maid left and beneath it was her perfect body in seductive lingerie.
She had bought it for this night and she was sure that no man could resist her and she was ready.
It had been more than a year and it was time.
When she saw the person who walked in, she frowned and rushed to take her coat and wore it hiding her body.
“Where is Elyes and why is it you?” She asked in an angry voice.
“Sorry Ms. Change of plans. Boss wants me to take you to the new meeting place,” he said and she was uncomfortable.
“Why? I am ready and I even prepared supper for us. Can’t he just come here? I don’t want to go anywhere else,” she said and sat down with a huff.
“Why did nothing go as planned? If all goes well, Ely will sign those papers tonight and then he will be my husband,” she thought as she watched the man standing there taking out his phone.