CHAPTER 4

The air was charged, there was so much tension in the room, it felt like you could touch it if you put your hands out.

Miss Faye was pissed, okay yes, she had every right to be, it wasn’t like I had come in here sharing a bag of money, I came with a news no master wanted to hear from his underling.

Miss Faye started standing from her throne like chair, yes throne like, you see Miss Faye was so “self”, I mean she had photos of her everywhere and made her house, into some sort of kingdom, when you entered, there was a long hall, that you kept walking down, when you got to the end, you had to enter yet another long walk way before you met the sitting room, did I mention that on the walls of where you had to walk through there were pictures, of HERSELF, presently there was no other space on the wall, I mean even if you were to have pictures of yourself, at least have others too or space it.

The place gave me chills most times, anyway when you got to the sitting room, there was where her throne was, or rather one of her thrones, for this one in the sitting room, there were like 20 stairs leading to a small area, decorated weirdly, with green and of course her gold chair, and right now she was coming down to meet me.

Okay today had a good start, I was having a jogging session and stalking a client, but since jogging had never been my thing, I was already so tired, that was probably why I hadn’t noticed I was being followed, the man had been smart though, he followed at a safe distance because I never did see him.

Till right at the final turn, I made the turn too fast, and fell, so I sat for a while, trying to catch my breath, then I caught sight of a cat, and tried to pick it up, so it ran into the bush right by the jogging track, and I followed it, forgetting that I was supposed to be tailing someone, after a while, I remembered though and had to go back, that was when I saw this man standing there and looking around like he was looking for someone, I stood still and made no sounds, after sometime he picked his cell and made a call, you wouldn’t imagine the words I heard, “the red head is gone”.

My heart actually stopped, before it started in a faster speed, thumping and thumping, I was scared it was a serial killer or these extremist or cult shit, so I waited till he started to leave and followed him, but this time around, I put on my hoodie, even though I was so hot and sweat trickled down my breasts.

After a while he got into a building, an apartment building, so I took some photos and went back home, which wasn’t all so far, I also stayed at an apartment building at the penthouse, yes Miss Faye knew how to take care of her girls.

When I got in and finally pulled off the hoodie, pulled I removed my tank and since I didn’t wear a bra I was naked with just my panties, my favorite way to move around, then I picked my iPad, and checked the name of the apartment, and viola it was where the client lived, I mean he was like there advert postcard, “come live here because Devon Black lived here”, well it did work for them because here they said you couldn’t just get an apartment there it was a whole blaaaa process.

Aghh so he was the one following me, I hummed to myself as I got into the shower and smiled, well this was another turn but I could play it from this angle too, he made it too easy, now the problem would be to convince Miss Faye of this.

Hence my arrival here, and yes Miss Faye should be pissed that I was almost caught but she was over playing it, I mean, I had told her of my plan B, and in my ears, it sounded wonderful and simple but no if it wasn’t her idea it will blow.

“Now look here Raina”, she said from about two steps away from me, she never did come closer, like we will taint her, funny the irony.

“You won’t go around ruining this business for me damn it”, she shouted.

“I’ll fix it, I’ll fucking fix it, I already told you, I do have a plan”, I shouted back.

Her eyes narrowed on me, I guess we were not permitted to raise our voices then. I stared at her though not giving up, one thing I learnt was that the first to lower her eyes practically submitted to the other and till hell froze over I wasn’t going to submit in another way to Miss Faye.

She probably saw it too in my eyes, because after a while she cleared her throat and began to go back to “her throne”

I turned back to go when…, ”I’ll transfer the job to another, you can rest for the main time”, she said.

“Like hell”, I screamed and stomped after her, when I reached the stairs where she was, I got into her face, “you’ll do no such thing ma’am”, I said the ma’am with heavy sarcasm.

“I’ll repair my mistake, and go on with the job, if you give another person my job, I’ll bring down hail storm on you”, I smirked.

“I mean what have I got to lose?”, I shrugged and turn and left.