Chapter 25

*few moments before the knocking*

“look girl, I don’t know what you are worried about. You sound like you like the guy and I think you’re just getting cold feet. Plus he is someone that would easily pay your bills, so I don’t think I see the problem.”

“Yeah” except that it looks like he is still in love with his ex even though he denies it and he wouldn’t stand for me in front of his friends. I thought to myself.

“Look babe, I have to go talk later.” She cut the call before I could say good bye.

I looked at the phone in my hands smiling like a lunatic, remembering how he snuck Into my room in the middle of the night when he thought I was sleeping.

“I love you bambi” he said as he pecked my forehead and stayed, staring at me for a little while before he finally left.

I won’t lie, that memory wasn’t too bad, to be honest, it gave me butterflies in my tummy.

Maybe Mila was right. Maybe I was just getting cold feet.

A knock came at the door, pulling out of my thoughts.

I went to get it, seeing a new person I wasn’t familiar with, she was wearing the maids uniform so it gave me a hint of who she was.

“I want to the market and there would be no one watch the door.” I looked at her, trying to understand what he meant. “Mr Benjamin said I dare not leave the house without a watch” I could see the way she was trembling “and he also demanded I get the things he sent me to do.. P..lease, would help me keep watch?” she looked nervous like, she was ready to bolt.

“Sure.”

We walked to the door together, seeing Ben lazy around.

I scoffed. If he was going to be a child about it then I had no problem.

She opened the door and a woman was at the other side of the door, hand positioned like.she was about to knock.

She stood, pale skin and eye bags. She looked like she was tired in general, but she still looked beautiful none the less.

“Excuse me” the maid muttered making her way around the woman

“can I help you ma?” I said smiling at the woman hoping she would give me the same energy.

But no. Instead, she sized me from up to down

“I guess you’re the new hoe”

She said making her way into the house unannounced.

“excuse me ma but...” she turned to look at me

“BENJAMIN!!” Ben who was just around the corner came out with wide eyes as soon as he heard her voice

“Penny” he said in a controlled voice as soon as he was able to get his emotions in check.

Honestly, I was jealous of the woman whoever she was, she was able to get out an emotion out of him even if it was for a brief moment.

“ahhh, there you are” she smiled at him. “I see you got a new one” he looked from her to me for a brief moment.

“would you please give us a moment Allison” he couldn’t be serious.

I looked at him, hoping it was some type of joke.

“really?” I couldn’t even stop myself from saying that, even if I wanted to.

“this really isn’t the TiMe To ArGuE WITH ME!!” His voice raised as he said each word.

Typical. I wasn’t even surprised that he had yelled at me in front of a stranger. I looked at the strange woman, the look of amusement evident on her face.

I looked at him, ready to defy him and anger him, just a little further, but I shook my head. Instead, I walked to my room deciding not to make a scene.

“you certainly have changed over the years....” I heard the woman say as I walked Into the room..

To say I was fuming was an understatement.

I placed my ear on the door to try and hear what they were saying, but it was of no use.

They were mumbling.

I wasn’t going to give up though. Five minutes of trying to eaves drop on what they were saying, i got irritated, deciding it wasn’t worth it.

I sat in the spot I was a while before the maid had come to call me.

I was still in awe about the whole decoration and still felt bad that I had rejected him, even though I felt like I did the right thing.

Five more minutes in the room and I was torn between going out from the raised voices and staying back because Ben was angry and I didn’t want to risk angering him further.

With the continue raised voices, I opened the door without thinking. They didn’t even notice me as they were so engrossed in their argument.

“I am done with you” Ben said pointing at the door.

“does she even know? “

“she is my girlfriend, i get to tell her what I think she deserves to know” I so badly wanted to see his face.

“I will tell her, you’re nothing but a monster.”

“Tell me what?”...

they both looked like they had been done doing something they shouldn’t have which fuelled my inquisitivness more.

the woman, Penny, looked like she was ready to spill her guts without a second thought.

"Penny, one word, and you can forget about him. no support or whatsoever"

whatever Ben meant by that seemed to have shut her up real good. she no longer had the cold look in her eyes from when she came earlier, instead, she had a look of..... pity?

that bothered me.

"I really do hope you don't rethis later on" she said looking at me

"Penny" he warned.

"keep your end of the deal and I'll keep the end of mine" with that, she left.

what the hell just happened??