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Rachael parked her car in front of her supermarket; she sat in the car for some minutes with her head on the steering wheel, after a while she got out and headed into the store

“Good morning Ma” one of the sales girl said

“Good morning my dear”

“Ma your sister came to the store yesterday and took #370 thousand from the locker saying that you asked her to bring it urgently”

“What?” she almost screamed

“And you didn’t call me?” Rachael was pissed

“I'm sorry ma, she said it was urgent"

Rachael became so angry, she left the supermarket & headed back home.

She parked her car outside the gate & entered the compound, went to the door and as she got in she saw David dancing with her sister

“What are you doing” she said angrily, they ignored her. She went over and turned off the DVD

“What the hell?” David said

“Are you crazy? What are you doing?” Rachael said

“We are dancing” Rita said, sweating dripping over her body

“Dancing?” Rachael repeated

“Rita why did you go take money from my store”

“Me? I didn’t”

“Shut up you liar. You took #370 thousand from my store, why?”

“Oh that” she said unseriously

“Yes that”

“I used it for some bills with my friends in school”

“What?” Rachael said angrily, she immediately slapped her sister

“What! You slapped me?” Rita said

“Why did you do that?” David said to Rachael

“Shut up, I’ll do it again” she said and suddenly Rita returned the slap, Rachael froze in shock, couldn’t believe it

“You slapped me? Rachael said and wanted to beat her but David held her

“Leave me alone” she struggled

“Stop it, you slapped first” David said, Rachael looked at David with disgust then pushed him away from herself

How dare you? You supporting her?” Rachael said with disbelief

“You started it” he said

“Rita get out of my house and never come back” Rachael said angrily

“No problem I’ll leave” she said & walked inside

“What are you doing?” David said but Rachael walked out of the house

“Rachael” he called but she walked away, David sat down relaxed knowing it was a bluff because it was not the first time Rachael was sending Rita away with only words but no action...

Yvonne was still thinking as she entered the house; she refused to go into her bedroom because she didn’t want to see James so she went into the guest room to take her bath and after she did she decided to go upstairs, pack her things & leave.

She walked upstairs slowly with, a moody face, she opened her room door only to see a man with a white towel round his waist and then her husband came out of the bathroom too with towel round his waist she was surprised

“What’s going on here?” she asked

“Yvonne you are back” he said without a surprise look

“Don’t tell me it’s what I think it is”

“Yes it is” he said holding the man

“What? You are gay. How can you do this to me?” she said loudly

Sorry you had to find out like this… didn’t mean to hurt you” he said to her

“(Chuckles) Hurt me? You are dead to me dude" she said

“Anyway, your things are packed already" he said, she was surprised that he had already packed her things

“Waw, thanks for saving me the stress" she just passed them and went over and picked her things from the table & packed her bags & left without anymore words

She got to her car opened the backdoor & dropped her things in there then she entered & drove off to nowhere in mind.

She decided to lodge in a hotel for sometime

She drove into the hotel premises, then she brought out her bags and immediately someone came with a bag carrier

“Good morning madam, let me help with that?”

“O thank you” she said & handed the bags over He followed behind her, she entered the reception & went to the counter

“Good morning” she said

“Good morning ma… Welcome to Golden Feather Hotels and suites” the lady said smiling

“Please I need a room”

“What type of room please?”

“An executive suite… Your most comfortable” Yvonne said

“That’s King Solomon’s suite ma”

“How much?” she asked

“How long do you plan on staying”

“A week”

“Ok ma that’s going to cost you #1.5 million including all other benefit and feed” she said smiling

“Ok let’s say a month” she said, the receptionist reacted a little surprised

“Ok madam we’ll give you a discount of 10%, so you’ll pay 5.5 million”

“Ok that’s fine” she said and brought out her credit card and handed it over and after some seconds she received it back.

“Thank you ma”

“Thank you” she said and walked away.

A valet was assigned to help her take her things up with the room key. Yvonne was a very senior staff at Shell oil as well as a cryptocurrency trader, so don’t wonder how she got such money.

She arrived at room 201

“Allow me” the valet said collecting the key to open the door for her

“Thank you” she said smiling. She walked in and he followed her with the bags

“Put it there, thank you “she said and he dropped it and about to leave when she called him back

“Here have this” she brought out some cash from her hand bag 1000 naira notes without counting she handed them to him, he was full of excitement, looking at it he could see about 8 notes

“Thank you ma” he collected it with both hands & bowed

“You’re welcome” she said smiling, he left & she closed the door, she looked around the place

The hotel was exquisite, her apartment had a living room and bed room, the living room had nice couch set, a flat screen HD TV on the wall, the tiled floor glowed, there were two air conditioners in the living room alone, a fine glass table sat in the center of the living room while the chairs formed a U curve round the table. The bedroom had a large bed with bed sheets neatly dressed, a fine wardrobe with extra sheets and white towels, the bathroom was pretty comfortable too, she packed up her things and started arranging them because she knew she would be here for some time...

The night came but Maria had not seen her husband, she looked at the time it was 9:30pm, she dialed his number but he didn’t pick

“God I hope he’s fine” she was really scared because Max always came back by 6:30pm & now it’s been 3 hrs. but no sign of him but as she panicked she heard the horn of his car, she quickly ran outside she saw the gate man run to the gate and opened the gate and Max’s car came into the compound

“Thank God” she looked quite excited

Max came out of the car with an apple laptop in his hand; she opened her arms to give him a hug but he just walked past her without a smile. She felt embarrassed; he walked into the house and went up stairs& into their room. Maria came into the room still surprised about his attitude

“Max what was that outside?” she said referring to his unpleasant attitude. He was silent as he took of his suit & tie, taking of his shirt she asked again

“Max what’s wrong with you? You stayed out late and you are back without saying a word. I welcomed you & you ignored me” she said loudly but it seemed like he had gone deaf cause he didn’t utter a word; he didn’t even look at her face. She was becoming angry; he just took his towel and walked into the bathroom and locked the door. Maria was surprised because he had never done that ever since they got married—she had quickly forgotten what she had said earlier that day or maybe she thought that before he would have gotten over it, but this time she was wrong.

“Max please talk to me “she said knocking on the door

After 15 mins, he came out of the bathroom, he saw her sitting on the bed; he walked to the wardrobe, took out his night wears and after wearing it, he walked over and sat down on the bed, he grabbed his laptop from his bag and opened it

“Max is this about what I said in the morning?” she said turning to look at him but he didn’t respond

“Ok, my love I’m sorry… (silence) please it won’t happen again… (silence) I’m really sorry” she said but no response they were both quiet for 5 mins until she said

“I prepared some Jollof rice and turkey for you” she said smiling but he continued with what he was doing—he had eaten outside to his fill

“I already served yours or should I bring it up here?” she asked but he didn’t utter a word he just closed the laptop and laid on the bed & closed his eyes. Maria laid on the bed facing him but he turned and backed her. She decided not to disturb him and soon he was asleep...