Chapter 3 The Adulterous Pair

"Leonard", Mia run after him on the empty corridor."he's just trying to make jest of you, don't take his words to heart". Mia embraced him trying to calm him down.

"He just humiliated me", Leonard pointed at the door, shivering in anger.

"Everything will come to pass with time, very soon your company would expand into a huge empire,no one would ever dare to look down on you again", Mia comforted him.

"Yes", Leonard sighed in determination."very soon I will overthrow him and make him go on his knees.

"Yeah, I believe in you",she pat his back.

"Leonard", Eddie also arrived, panting heavily."brother-in-law",she stuttered nervously upon seeing Mia.

Mia telephone bleated.

"I think I have to go now, work's calling", Mia said.

"Alright, be careful I'll pick you up after work", Leonard smiled breaking the embrace.

"Alright sis", Eddie smiled.

"Okay,I'll make a move first", Mia nod and left.

Immediately Mia left, Eddie hissed and left for her room.

"Eddie, Eddie wait I can explain", Leonard chased her.

"Please leave me alone for a while, please",she said to Leonard who stood there aggrievedly, looking at her as she walked away.

Eddie entered her room hurriedly after making sure Leonard wasn't following her then she locked the door.

"How dare you!",she yelled and delivered a slap onto the waitress who was on her knees in the room.

"I'm so sorry ma'am, I made a mistake", the waitress bowed apologetically.

"Mistake,do you know how much your mistake has cost me, you ruined my whole plan you can't carry out the simple task of drugging someone and taking her to the assigned room ,now everything's gone,how do I get another chance", Eddie yelled agitatedly sweeping the cushions away.

"I'm sorry ma'am, I indeed drugged her and was taking her to the assigned room as planned",the waitress explained.

She added"but then Miss Lily showed up,she almost found out so I just shoved her into the opened room by the side and leave but I can assure you,the room she entered wasn't empty and perhaps your plan worked out because when I was cleaning the room this morning,I found a belt which means the occupant of the room is a male and then the duvet was stained with blood".

"So now you're saying, although things didn't go as I planned,what happened was not far from my aim?", Eddie asked.

"Yes ma'am".

"No wonder she looked so nervous, donning a turtleneck, Mia your end is near", Eddie laughed sinisterly."I would snatch every single thing that belongs to you and this is just the beginning", she twirled, laughing before plopping down on the sofa.

"All I need is the footage,get me the footage",she ordered the waitress.

"But ma'am, that . . "

"Keep quiet, you incompetent old fool ", Eddie hissed angrily.

"Piss off",the yelled and the waitress immediately scurried to her feets and left.

"I must make sure to get the footage by any means".

The beeping of her cellphone distracted her thought,upon seeing the caller ID she smiled.

"Sweetheart are you feeling better now?", Leonard asked from the other side of the phone.

"You promised to break off your relationship with her", Eddie said.

"Yeah, I planned to do that yesterday but Lucian sudden arrival hindered me,I have to keep her for now"Leonard explained.

"All because of the inheritance,then what about me have you forgotten that am also an heir of the O'Connor family", Eddie yelled.

"I know,I know, I just can't break up with her now but don't worry you should know you're the only lady in my heart, after getting the inheritance she's as good as trash", Leonard promised.

"Then what do I do now,sit and watch", Eddie replied.

"Eddie,try to understand me . ."

"Yeah, I do bye",she said and ended the call.

"Coward", she cursed and throw her cellphone across the room."what you dare not to do,I'll do".

"She's just so impossible to understand these days", Leonard muttered begrudgingly before entering the washroom.

"Tsk, tsk,things are actually as interesting as this,the so-called fiancé is cheating on her with her stepsister,so interesting", Mark shook his head as he came out of his hiding place.

Mia entered the elevator hurriedly, shuffling her cellphone in her shoulder bag.raising her head she was surprised to find one more person in the elevator,it was none other than Lucian.

He nod at her in acknowledgement.

"Oh", she began awkwardly."no wonder I thought you look familiar".

"I felt the same too", Lucian replied."it's been years since we've last saw each other".

"Yeah, about. . "

"About what happened,I'll stick to my words and keep my mouth shut, it'll do us no good if such incident get out,so it's best kept hidden",he completed her sentence, smiling assuringly.

"Alright, thanks so much",she replied.

"Yeah, bye",he replied and stepped out of the elevator as it stopped on the second floor and headed for his room .

"Oh,here you are guess what I just heard", Mark strutted in excitedly.

"Forget about what you just heard, I'm leaving", Lucian replied nonchalantly.

"You wouldn't want to miss this gist", Mark said."would you believe if I tell you that something's going on between Leonard and Eddie".

"Stop spewing nonsense", Lucian replied packing his files.

"Am not, just now in the washroom I overheard his conversation with Eddie, turns out he didn't love Mia, he's just toying with her for the inheritance, she's the sole heir so naturally she'll get the highest share compared to Eddie", Mark replied.

"Bastard", Lucian said clenching his fists as be made his way towards the door.

"Hey, where do you think you're going to?", Mark blocked his path."look at you getting all riled up, sure enough only she is able to make you loose your composure".

"You want to approach him,think about the consequences first,she chooses this path herself so whatever is it that happens is her business not yours", Mark replied."you've done enough for her Lucian ".

"Yeah", Lucian nod in realization."it's none of my business".