Chapter 53: Let them smile for a while.
"You haven't told me where you were coming from?" Aria asked Maxson with a cloudy eyes.
She looks like someone questioning her husband for coming home late. Maxson ignored her, he shook his head, pissed off at his sister for questioning him unmeaningfully.
"Is this what I get in return for my help?" She chuckled in between.
A fierce look erupted from him, he got confused about what she was saying. "What help madam?". He released his squeezed face and smiled.
He drove the car slowly, wishing he was sitting with Joan right now. "Ouch". Aria cried out, the car just hit something hard and she had bumped into the car's seat.
"Have you lost insight of seeing? Do I have to get you a personal coaching driver?" She asked rubbing her left hand.
Maxson sat still, looking at something unknown outside the car. "Maxson!! You've been acting this weird since you rushed into the hospital this morning. What happened? She broke your heart?" Aria said excitedly.
The expression caught him. "Wait! Are you happy she leaves me? You want her to?" He asked her, looking upset and sad. Why would she want that for him?
Aria cleared her throat. "Huhmm? No, I am just curious of why you were acting unusual".
"At least tell me if anything is wrong, I promise not to tell anyone". She said peacefully.
Aria gestured to him, her hands holding her two lips together. Maxson watched her acting, he never knew of he could trust her or not.
"Uhmm, we...eeeee, wee".
"You kissed?". Aria opened her mouth wide, it took her some seconds before closing it.
"How did you know?". Maxson regretted telling her, he shook his head as he resumed driving.
"Please be careful on the road, don't start reminiscing about your kissing scene with Joan while driving me, I need my life to use". She smirked and looked outside the window car.
"At least, you have explored a lot of romantic life, while I, Aria, I haven't". She said, remembering Duncan's cute face.
Maxson knew she was hiding something too. "You don't want to tell me?" He asked her deliberately.
"I will if you tell me everything that happened between you and Joan, I felt there is more to it".
Ohh, she quickly discovered his hidden words.
"Okay, we,...we made out". The words came out shyly, he was ashamed. He just stared forward looking at the road.
"What? You guys....wowah!".
"Hmm, it no big deal, you guys are adult afterall". She smiled at him.
Maxson knew she was planning something else.
"Okay, tell me yours". He said while driving.
"Mine? When did we enter into a childish agreement that I would be telling you mine?". She teased him with a serious face.
"Ohhh, is this how the game is being played now?". He laughed also, but was pained a little.
"Hmm, I'll tell you when we get home, just drive faster". She said at last.
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In another country, noon time....
There was a cup of hot tea sitted on a centre table in a big suite. Cylene just finished taking her bath when she came out on a bath robe. She took a clean towel from the wardrobe to dry her hair.
She took her phone to check for any messages in her inbox or mails. The messages were much, but there was one that caught her eyes, it was so eye-catchy that she quickly opened to check the content.
"Flora is alive, she is living healthy and happy with her husband". It was from a private number, she knew it was from that strange bastard who had threatened her with her son's crimes.
All her thought was that, it was the strange man that had arrested her son. She wondered why he would harm her and still want to help her.
"Why is the bastard giving me this information? To trap me?" She laughed out loud, took her cup tea and sipped little of its content.
"Does he think I'll fall in his bait? Flora had been long gone, she already said her last goodbye to this world". She smiled wickedly when she remembered how the hired assassin had told her.
"If the enemies would arise again, then, I'll let them smile for a while". She smiled wickedly.
She checked other messages from her phone, it was just as if they weren't important to her, she dropped her phone in disappointment, awaiting her desired message.
She had sent a lawyer to go defend Royce. "He should have called by now, why his he taking much time". She pondered.
Then she called her daughter Presch.
"My princess, how are you and the baby?". She asked with care.
"We are fine mum, what about you?" She responded slowly.
"I am good over here too. Presch, what happened? You aren't sounding so good. Is there anything wrong with you, speak to me". She dropped the cup of tea back on the centre table.
"Yes mum, I'm not fine. I have been trying to wade off this scan of a thing, Broe had been telling me to go for the scan of the baby, but I have been rejecting him. I don't want him to suspect anything". She complained.
"You can keep on delaying him till we find a solution to it". Cylene suggested.
"Ok mum, but if I can't keep doing that, we must find something to do". She said almost crying.
"Don't cry my princess, I'll find a solution to it. We should be able to get something to use that could change the sex of the baby. Don't you trust me?". She brought up an idea.
"Does that exist?". Presch was amazed, she never knew such technique could exist.
"Remember I am your mum, I'll do anything for you. Keep stalling him, if your mother-in-law persists you also, try to talk to your husband, he knows how to talk to his mother".
Cylene never liked that wretched looking Sarah, if not because of the love her daughter has for her son.
"Alright Mum, but you need to be fast with the solution". She reminded her.
"Alright, bye". She heaved a sigh of relief.
"Beeeeeeeeeep".....
Cylene checked the new message popping on her phone screen. "Yes!"
She took the cup of tea from where she had place it and resumed drinking.
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Flora was tired of being stalked in the hospital, she was made known to, how long she had being in coma. Now, does she have to spend more days recuperating in the hospital? She missed her work and home.
Scott's house now gave her a sense of home, she had gotten herself an abode, an abode where she was always being cherished and treated well.
Scott came into the ward after he finished receiving a call from Joel regarding the activities of the company. He met her sitting on the bed, looking isolated and unhappy.
"What happened to you darling?" He asked her.
He walked to her bed, neatly arranged her scattered bed cover. "You did this?".
"Scott am tired of this place, I want to go home". She started crying unexpectedly.
Scott thought she was talking about her home, where her and her parents had lived. "You will dear, what's the address of your home? When you get discharged I'll take you there". He patted her back.
"Huh?". Flora quickly lifted up her head. "Don't you know our home? Our mansion home". She smiled brightly at his face.
Scott felt he was too dull to understand some things, and he was known to be brilliant.
"Yes baby, our home". He quickly pretended to understand her. A surge of happiness grew within him, she had pictured them as one family now.
What a great joy!
"If it is that, I'll prepare your discharge with the doctor today". He said kissing her lips.
Flora returned the pleasure back.
They were immensed in it when a knock dismantled them. "Huh?" Flora moved her blushing face away.
"We can choose to ignore the person baby, let's continue". He said without worrying.
Flora was strucked, how could?".
Her thought was disturbed with another alarming kiss.
When the person knocking heard no response, they left.
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In the prison, evening....
"Mr Ryain Royce, you have a visitor". One of the sergeant said.
Royce who was asleep was woken up with the echoes of his name which he heard. The prison door was unlocked, Royce walked outside as he was directed to the visitor's room.
On the sitting chair, he saw a young handsome man sitted, he wore a new set of clean spectacle as his suitcase rested on the table.
"Good evening Mr Ryain". His voice was clean and smooth.
"How may I help you?". He didn't even respond to the man's greetings.
"Well, I am Mr Vincent, the lawyer your mother had sent to defend you". He introduced himself.
"So? Should I appreciate her for remembering to help me now? Or I should thank her for recognizing that I am her son". He said rudely.
"Mr Ryain, that is not my concern, it is between you and your mother to settle. I only came here to explain my job to you and carry out the necessary actions". He smiled while talking.
Royce felt annoyed with him, he felt he was acting like those Silver's kids. "From what chamber do you work?".
"I have sent my details and some set of files to the sergeant in charge of you, he would give them to you soon".
The young lawyer stood up. "I'll take my leave for now, see you soon Mr Royce". His smile bloomed again, making it hard for Royce to admire him.
He hated the fact that he was just smiling. "What a fool!!!