CHAPTER 90

Revealing Their Secret

The air in the living room was thick as the two ladies were waiting for what Alexa was going to say.

It was not like they respected Alexa or even really wanted to seek her approval; they just wanted to prove to Maurice that they could be more dangerous and desperate if it warranted them to stay in that house.

"What are you doing? Why are you begging me? It's not like I am the one that asked you to move out of the place..you are barking at the wrong tree guys," Alexa says with a glare, and she decided to move away from the living room, but the girls were not allowing that.

"You really have to help us..you are the reason my cousin is sending us out so please let us stay," Benedicta pleaded trying to make Alexa feel special even though she was scoffing inwardly.

Since Alexa was angry with Maurice with what happened in the car she was more pissed to get compared to getting special treatment because she was his wife.

She doesn't want to feel special about the man's actions when she is sure that there is a reason behind his actions.

She was done feeling special.

"Looks like you have a bad memory cousin-in-law, your cousin did not ask you both to leave he just asked one of you to leave, and I do not know when my judgment came into that so I hope you would behave yourself and stop getting me involved," Alexa says, storming off from the living room not caring about the girl's pleas.

Benedicta was irritated by Alexa's actions, but she had to swallow her pride because she was sure that Alexa was their only way to redeem their stay in the house.

"That was a nice performance, Benedicta, I was impressed," Maurice commended looking at the two women.

She knew that people took drastic measures if they were in critical times, but she never knew that the women would resort to bootlicking Alexa to stay in the house.

"Cousin, why are you doing this? Are you really trying to kick us out?" Benedicta asked with a puppy face and Maurice shook his head.

"No you are wrong, I am not trying to kick all of you out, but only just one," Maurice says, and he watches as the two get greedily and they bite their lips awkwardly.

Maurice smiled seeing their complicated faces, and he knew it was only a matter of time before the two girls snapped at each other.

'I just want to see you go for each other's blood and expose your crazy deal' Maurice thought inwardly, and decided to leave the living room to his study room. Since Alexa has turned into a hedgehog he decided to let her cool down a bit.

Benedicta's face was filled with different expressions as she watched the man leave.

'Looks like my cousin meant really kicking me out..there is no way he is going to kick Penelope out with the picture we painted it has always been me all this while, I was his target all along' Benedicta thought, and she stormed off angrily leaving Penelope to her thought.

Penelope was confused about what was happening and she wondered what steps she was going to take since it looked like she might really be leaving the house so she went to her room to make a call.

Freya, who had been looking at the situation in the room with a curious face, was relieved to see the girl in their various rooms and she summoned the courage to go and meet Maurice.

There was no way she was keeping what she saw with her. She must reveal everything to Maurice so he can learn about the girl's scheme.

Freya was already jelly with fear as she knocked on Maurice's door, and she almost ran back in fear when she heard the man asking her to come in.

"You have already got this far you can do this," Freya mumbled to herself and she summoned the courage to push the door open as she walked in.

"Good evening sir," Freya greeted, and she saw Maurice looking at her with questions, probably wondering what was going on.

"I am here to talk to you about something sir," Freya says, with her head bowed and Maurice was surprised to hear that.

He wondered what a maid could be meaning to tell him because he was not fond of having conversations with his maids.

'Why is she here? Is she here to ask for money? Leave? Increase in pay?' Maurice wondered, but he abandoned his thoughts seeing that he had not been able to come up with a reasonable explanation for it.

"What did you want to say?" Maurice asked, his voice carrying an augury tone that somehow intimidates Freya, but she doesn't chicken out.

"It's about Ms. Benedicta and Ms. Penelope," Freya says, and Maurice's eyebrow wrinkled in confusion and he wondered what the lady had to say to him.

"What about them?" Maurice asked with keen interest, but he was prudent to not let his curious side show.

"About that…" Freya says, walking close to Maurice's desk, and she places down her phone.

"I think the two of them are planning something bad," Freya says with clear eyes and Maurice picks up the phone and checks the content of the video displayed on the screen.

Maurice looked at the screen intently, and Freya was afraid he was going to bore a hole in her phone and she watched him as he stared at it with his expression flickering at intervals and she was expecting him to flip.

Freya was going to flip at the moment, but Maurice was rather composed with just his expression flickering with each menacing word from the video.

After having enough of the video, Maurice placed it down and he heaved a sigh.

"This…where did you get it?" Maurice asked, his voice carrying a hint of threat…