Early the next morning, Celine is making breakfast when her father comes out of room fully dressed for work. "But dad, you need to rest" She said with a look of disapproval. "Working is like weakening your immune system the more."Paul sighed, he didn't think this far. If he doesn't go to work it's going to make Mr Smith wonder if something was wrong. He should have told his boss of his plan before hand."I won't go after today. I just need to let them no at the office that I'll be taking a leave due to health issues" He told Celine. He couldn't think of other reasons that'll convince her to let him go except this one. "Alright dad" Celine shrugged " but at least have breakfast before you go, and also I have something to tell you" Paul sat at the table to enjoy the breakfast of pancakes and hot chocolate.Celine sat opposite her father too and watched him eat. Her emotions were like a rollercoaster as she watched him. He was the most important person in her life and she wasn't r
Later that night, as Celine was preparing to go to bed, she received a text from unknown number. The person introduced herself as Alexis and said she had been appointed by Mr Smith to be at Celine's every beck and call. More like a personal assistant.Alexis said Mr Smith had planned a date for Celine and Xavier to meet tomorrow. The date was to be at a fancy restaurant, so Alexis had asked Celine to meet her at the mall in the afternoon tomorrow for a bit of girls time before the date.Celine wasn't feeling the need for a personal assistant or even for a girls day out with some girl she had never met. She knew she couldn't back out now, she was doing this for her father.Alexis had even said Celine had to quit all her side jobs. Celine was cool with quitting all other jobs especially that one with the shady coffee shop but one job she didn't wish to quit was the one with the orphanage. She made that known to Alexis over the phone.The next day, she met Alexis at the mall. Alexis wa
Mr Smith had called Xavier into his room that afternoon, he felt like he needed to have a heart to heart conversation with him before he met Celine. Mr Smith was willing to let Xavier in on the little he knew about Celine."Wait! You mean it's not Maria you want me to marry?" Xavier had said in shock.Maria had been his friends since they were kids, they grew up together and basically did everything together. Party, drink and the likes. One the night of his 20th birthday she was also there and was like some sort of comfort to him during that period.Xavier knew his grandfather was good friends with Maria's family, so had thought in his head that he was going to get married to Maria, after all she was from a respectable family and also belonged to the high society."You want me to get married to your employee's daughter?" Xavier asked his grandfather. Some times he wondered what went on in the elderly man's head."Sit"Xavier who was on his fit before sat back down to listen to wha
Celine felt bad about how her date with Xavier had ended. She knew something was wrong but she could not wrap her head around what it was.Did she say something to spite him? She kept asking herself during the ride home.Even Alexis was confused as to what could have gone wrong. “Don’t worry Celine, he could be really hot headed sometimes” she consoled.Meanwhile, when Xavier got in his car and was about to head home, he got a text from Maria 💌 Heyy….party downtown! Wanna come? 💜 💌Of course, perfect opportunity to party away his grievances, he wouldn’t miss the chance. So off to the party he went.Maria was waiting for him by the time he had arrived.“Heyy…haven’t seen you in a minute, what’s good?” she hollered embracing him.“Yes… work and stuff” he replied “how have you been?” “Partying as usual”Xavier really liked Maria, she was his spirit animal according to him. They grew up together and she knew every single detail about him, both the good and the bad.Maria a
When Xavier got home that night, it was late and his grandfather was asleep, so they didn’t have a conversation until the next morning during breakfast. Mr. Smith naturally wanted to know all that went down during the date.“Did you kiss?” He asked.Xavier was about to swallow some tea but he poured it back into his cup upon his grandfather’s question.“What? No? Grandpa!!!”The elderly man raised both hands in surrender.“Just asking” he said “you liked her, right?”Xavier was pretty fine with her, until the point where he found out she was a gold digger. Now he wasn’t sure if he could stand her presence. He didn’t say that to his grandfather, however.“she’s a good girl.” He repliedMr. Smith nodded and continued with his meal. He was impressed that this was going well. A part of him had thought the youngsters would have a hard time getting along. Now it seems like there was nothing to worry about after all.“Any plans for today?” he asked after a minute of silence “Though
Mr. Smith was clearly the most excited about the wedding. He planned a very classy and grand engagement party. He also made sure not to invite too many guests as the wedding day was the real big deal and this engagement was just a teaser.Invitations were hand written by him and sent to only the really important people, i.e. the people of class. The engagement wasn’t going to be a quiet one but what made it special was that not just anyone could waltz in and claim to be a guest.Mr. Smith only sent out fifty invitations. He had asked Paul if he had people he wanted to invite but Paul said no. Celine too, but Mr. Smith had given her five invitation cards, making the number of guests to be expected Fifty-five.The day finally came and all preparations had been put to place. The Smith’s house had been converted into an event center for the night and it looked absolutely amazing.Celine was in a room, with a glam squad, they were getting her ready for her engagement party. Alexis was the
Alexis walked closer Maria and whispered in her ear “Susan doesn’t really have your back!”Maria was taken aback by what Alexis meant, she scanned the room and noticed Susan standing at a corner far off, she had an helpless look on her face.“What did you do?” Maria askedAlexis just shrugged and beckoned on Susan to come closer.Earlier on before the party started, Maria had called Susan into a corner and squeezed plenty wads of cash into her hands and asked her to put the wristwatch in Celine’s bag.Susan was one of the people helping Celine get dressed so it was easy for her to have access to Celine’s bag.Alexis had caught Susan trying to put the watch in Celine’s bag and had threatened to raise an alarm if she didn’t say why she was doing so.Susan told it all to Alexis, who had to think of a way to turn the tables.Susan finally got to the spot were everyone had gathered to watch the scene.“Susan, I suppose you have Maria’s watch with you, right?” Alexis asked Susan wi
Zack had done background check on Maria and had gotten to know the places she often frequented. One of those places was the club downtown, the one where Xavier had met her after his date with Celine had gone wrong.Zack knew if he were to get to Maria, he had to find her in a secluded area and not only that, he needed her to be sober when he confronted her. That meant he had to meet her before she went inside and got drunk.The parking lot was a perfect place, Maria had a special spot set aside for her, all Zack had to do was to pretend he was a valet and that way he was able to get through to Maria.Zack was standing in place of a valet and once Maria pulled up, he watched his steps to make sure he wasn’t facing the cameras directly. Pretending to get her car keys from her, he pulled her close to him and before she could screamed he rendered her unconscious using chloroform which he had previously sprayed in a towel.He put her in the back seat of her car and then got in the drivers