Chapter 20: Chapter 20

It was just three days to Christmas and Bethel hasn't spoken to Precious since his last outburst on her. She was angry with him and hurt too.

He hasn't called her to his room and she didn't bother checking up on him.

Bethel was expecting Beauty in his house today as their parents said to keep meeting up and getting to know one another.

"Precious, could you please get this to Bethel's room, he has a guest," One of the maids asked Precious.

Precious groaned, she didn't want to see him knowing he was going to be with Beauty. She just hated the both of them together.

She carried the tray in her hands as she climbed the curvaceous staircases towards Bethel's room.

She knocked on the door and was asked to come in after some seconds. She opened the door and let herself in. She saw Beauty on Bethel bed typing on her phone and Bethel just coming out from the bathroom. She cussed underneath her breath.

Beauty smirked, Precious was a maid and she worked here. She thought of something devious.

As soon as Precious got close to her, she put her leg on the way but Precious was quick to dodge it.

She dropped the tray on the nightstand and turned to leave when Beauty called her.

"Could you please clean my shoe?" Beauty asked, striking a nerve in Precious. How dare she? She thought.

She wasn't a maid to anyone and she wouldn't do it.

"Sorry, I can do that," Precious spoke, turning to leave. "Aren't you a worker here?! I'm guessing you must know who I am or else you wouldn't dare me?!" Beauty warned through gritted teeth.

Bethel stood watching the entire scene as he said nothing. Precious turned on her back to walk out when Beauty pulled her back, she took the glass of water from the tray and threw the water on Precious.

Precious gasped, Beauty then slapped her right across the cheek.

"It seems you are forgetting who you are and who I am!"

Precious wept, the entire scene was like a movie in her eyes and Bethel did nothing but watching It all. She hated Bethel, she didn't know why she wanted him to intervene but he didn't. She rushed out of the room in tears.

"Get out Beauty!" Bethel said through gritted teeth. "What?!" She gasped confused by his statement.

"Leave my room and in fact this mansion forever. I don't wanna ever see your face!" He deadpanned.

He wondered why he hadn't stopped Beauty on time. His heart ached seeing Precious in tears.

Grace was on her way back from the supermarket when she got carried by two hefty men, covering her mouth from screaming.

She struggled to get out of their hold but couldn't. Suddenly the man drops in in an isolated hallway with a man standing in front of her, trying to stand well.

"Who...who...are you?" She stuttered, trying to calm her nerves.

The man said nothing and she started to get sweaty hands. She waited for some seconds before the man turned his face looking at her. She tried recollecting the face, it looked familiar but she couldn't be so sure.

"Gideon!" She called out.

"Yes, it's me sister Grace."

Grace gasped, it was her younger brother, after seventeen long years, she saw him again.

Her eyes started to get teary, how did he find her? how did he know where she was?

He walked closer to her and hugged her, he missed his older sister so much.

"How have you been?" He asked her. He was the one that had given her his entire saving the time she was chased out of home. Two thousand naira was a very big amount in the year 2001.

"I'm fine and you?" She asked.

"I'm fine." He retorted.

"You look good Gideon, you are all grown, how did you know it was me?" She asked to take a closer look at her brother.

" I saw you some days ago but wasn't sure, so I didn't make any underground findings by getting some men to follow you."

She hit his arms, "you are a fowl, you sent those creepy men to stalk me?!" She scoffed.

"You scared the living hell out of me!" She spat out.

"I'm so sorry, where is your child? Don't tell me you aborted it?" He asked with a blank expression.

"No, I did not. She is fine." Grace said, opening her phone to show him a picture of Precious.

"She's beautiful just like you but she doesn't look like you that much," Gideon said.

Grace sighed, "I know. What do you do now, you look successful." She said.

"That's because I am successful. I am an engineer, I work for NNPC. I studied in the university of Ireland, dubling, I returned to Nigeria last year."Gideon explained.

"Wow...you've made it." Her eyes glistened with tears. "How is mum and dad?" She asked.

"They are fine although mom hasn't been the same since you left. She missed you." Gideon said.

"She was hurt and things took a drastic step in our lives. She tried finding you."

"Really" Grace wiped the tears in her eyes.

"Austin came to look for you some months after you left but father chased him away with a cutlass."

"That bastard!" Grace spat out.

"I saw him a few days ago, he was with a woman and a child, probably having the best time of his life." She spat out.

"I have to go Gideon, give me your number," she told him.