"Sure" she nodded nervously, wondering why he had come to her room. He stepped in a stood resting on the window while Mary just stood there playing nervously with the helm of her top. "Looks like you are already getting ready for bed". "Not exactly, I was just reading a book before you came in" He nodded. "Let's go out in the garden" he said studying her. "Well unless guy want to continue reading your book" he added the last part as an after thought. "No. No not at all, I was already getting bored before you came in" "So how are you putting up with Emma?" "Your grandmother has been very cruel towards me" she answered plainly without mincing words. "I'm sorry on her behalf. I bought you a dress for the ball". Mary could almost not believe her ears, not only that she was invited did the ball, but Adonis, the Adonis Scott bought her a dress for the ball. He hands her a bag she did not realize he had been holding. "A dress for me" she ex
Mary ran quickly to the door, the door of the room that Adonis had asked her to stay away from. Mary tried su hard to hold the helm of her dress with both hands to prevent herself from falling. She had not had time to take off the dress, she was in a hurry since Adonis could be home at anytime. She pulled the handle gently but was disappointed when it did not give way like she expected. It was locked from inside. Still she tried to push her luck, she pushed even harder and made a sound. "Are you okay miss" a female servant asked her from behind. She turned around slowly trying to wipe every suspicious looks from her face. "Uhhhm ..... Yes, I'm totally fine. I might have missed the way to my room" she said smiling nervously. The maid smiled back at her. "Of course, it happens. The house is really a big house and you would tend to miss your way more often than not especially since you are new here. I'm certain you would get used to it soon". Mary nodded and let out
"What happened to her? Where is she" Mary asked with her gaze focused on Emma's face. Her heart beat even faster in anticipation of the information she was about to get. "Poor child — she really suffered". "What happened to her?" Mary asked again impatiently. Emma was about to open her mouth to say something when the door burst open. Both Mary and Emma turned around in shock to see who it was that had the guts to barge into Emma's room with that muck noise, and no dear at all. "Have you no respect at all young man?" Emma asked a bit jokingly. "I'm sorry grandma, I was in a bit too much if a hurry to give you your earrings" his gazed remained on Mary while he spoke to his grandmother. Mary on the other hand tried to avoid his gaze, she wondered if he had the idea of what she was trying to do. "Meanwhile I would need to steal Mary for some time" he announced not taking just gaze off her while she tried to looked every other place but at him. "Mary do I have
"Yes!" Adonis continued. "I had to struggle too to be able to afford some basic needs in life. Emma is part of my Success story". Mary nodded her head. "I can see why you love her so much" "I can do anything for her". Mary talked more about her childhood, and how things were always hard for them. She talked about how she could not go to college and how sad that made her feel. While she talked, she made sure to avoid mentioning her newspaper. "So so you have plans of going back to college?" Adonis asked. "Maybe when I might have saved up enough money". Adonis nodded. "I really admire your fighting spirit Mary" he lightly tapped her shoulder. "So what would I do to make you play cards with me?" Mary asked excitedly as they drove home on Adonis car. "You really want to play cards huh! How sure are you that I would not beat you the same way I just did?" "Because I am a master of cards, I have taken time to study all the tactics of playing ca
Mary immediately stopped on her tracks, her heart beating speedily. She slowly turned around to face him. "You are still awake?" She asked pretending not to have seen him earlier. "Yes! I had some late night work to do" he said looking her over. Mary tried to read his facial expressions, if he had Known she had been eavesdropping on him. "I can see you are just coming back". She nodded, he moved closer to her. "You smell like alcohol, did you drink?" "Just a few bottles" she said with a silly smile on her face. Must have been the effect of the alcohol. "You should go get some sleep, you look wasted already". Mary staggered as she went up to her room. She fell into a deep slumber even before her head touched the pillow. That night Mary had a dream, she saw Adonis holding a gun with blood stains all over his hands and clothes. She was awoken the next morning by the ringing of her phone, she stretched her hand to pick up the phone on the side table while massaging her
Mary hardly got any sleep that night, she kept tossing and turning on the bed, she was at the Verge of losing her job and nothing seemed to be working out at all, nothing. She punched the bed repeatedly as flickers of tears kept dropping from her eyes and soaking her bedsheet. Although things seems to not be going as planned, she was determined to not give up, after all she was a fighter.She woke up the next morning with a weird feeling, there seemed to be a very big pit in her stomach. When she stepped out of her room, she could hear Adonis downstairs talking on the phone, she could hardly get anything out of what he was saying, the only thing she knew was that he was irritated and angry. She wondered what could have gotten him angry that early in the morning. She tried to draw closer, to hear what he was saying.She stood at the foot of the staircase when he lifted her his head and saw her, she smiled at him but he does not return her smile instead he walked away on her ang
"Huh" she raised her head to look at him in shock. "Read the story on the first page" Mary faked rapt attention as she read the story in the newspaper. Mary's hand shook as she read the story on the paper. Adonis looked at her intensely. "You see mary, one particular newspaper managed to get that story linking me to a mystery mother case, and the man called me to ask for bribe to prevent the story from getting leaked" Mary listened attentively to him as she spoke, beads of sweats breaking out on her forehead. " I paid huge amount of money as bribe to prevent that story from getting published, but as you can see. Even my money could not save me from getting linked to a murder case". Mary's heart was beating even faster now. "What do you think I should do Mary?" She looked up to meet his blue gaze, wondering what he wanted her to say, or why he would even ask her that in the first place. She thought in her mind that he probably knows she was responsible for lea
Mary borrowed Mia's clothes, since they were almost of the same size and age, it was not hard for Mia's clothes to fit in on her. They got to the club, Mary felt a bit awkward at first. "I have never been in a strip club before" Mary whispered to Mia as they got inside. "Neither have I" Mia answered. "So how come you have these clothes?" Mary asked suspiciously. "You ask too many questions mary, we both came here to have fun, just pretend you are a stripper and just do your thing, and get rid of that awkward feeling. We don't want to look odd do we?" They had a few, maybe a little too much. Mary gradually started to loosen up after drinking and she watched other strippers and started to do a strip dance, although she was a bit clumsy. After a few minutes, some group of men walked into the club, Mary saw a familiar figure among them. "Adonis!" She exclaimed. "Mia, Adonis is here" she whispered to Mia and started acting restless. "Come on Mary you do n