Chapter 5 Five

Daniel's POV

My heart couldn't stop pounding fast as I circled round the room.

What was that? My old nemesis Milandro getting married to my ex wife. Of all men why did it have to be him?

Although it did solidify the point that she cheated and everyone now believes that. That move alone cemented their belief. Wrong move my darling Emily. Hahaha.

But Milandro, that sneaky devil.

"Please Daniel can you stop turning round, you're twirling my eyes." Daniella begged.

"I can't stop. I won't stop. Do you know what this means Daniella? Do you know what this means? It means there is war." My eyes were heavy and my heart was heavy as well.

"Daniel what is the meaning of this?" mom stomped right into the parlour. "Milandro?"

"Mom that's what I'm trying to figure out till now. I thought he was dead. I thought we killed him."

"You killed someone?" Daniella blurted out confused.

Mom looked at me with a warning gaze cause I just set my big mouth open just like that.

"Daniella," she faked a smile, "can you go to the bedroom so I and Daniel can have a proper discussion."

"Yes ma." She scurried off.

Mom went closer and closer to me then whispered in my ears. "Look what your big mouth has caused. Now we have to get rid of another body."

My heart sank inside me. But it's nothing that I've never done before.

"You know what to do and as for Milandro I'll figure something out." She zoomed off.

Look what my big mouth caused. God!! Perhaps she was just unlucky.

I found myself in the room after tweaking the door open. Daniella shifted her weight further to the other side. You could tell she was terrified by the look in her eyes.

"Let's go out."

Her eyes shone bright, "to where?"

"Somewhere I'm sure you will love."

"I'm not going anywhere." She refused.

"So we can't go out as a couple again?" I questioned. "Is it about what you heard about today? Daniella I am a business owner, the first and only son of this family, it is my responsibility to remove any possible threats that try to diminish our growth."

"By taking a life?"

"You won't understand. You're a woman. And don't sound as if you are innocent or holy, you literally presented yourself before me forgetting that your best friend was married to me. Not thinking of whether it would break her or shatter her but you had what you wanted."

"What I want?" she chuckled, "What I want is to marry you Daniel. I want to have your kids. That is what I want and no! I have not gotten what I wanted."

"Hahaha," I chuckled so hard because knowing mom, with all this scandals going round having a wife would be the last thing she would ever want for me at least until the matter dies down.

"You still love her don't you?" Daniella got up with tears welled up in her eyes.

What the hell is this delusional chick talking about?

"What are you even saying?"

"You love her don't you? You love her. You used me. You used me." She started hitting her hand on my chest and beating it with her little hands.

I grabbed her hands firmly and threw her on the bed then pressed my body against her.

Mama's wish anytime any day.

I pressed my hand on my neck while she choked, struggling to free herself from my grasp but there was no escape route. She finally gave up fighting and her eyes rolled back.

I checked on her pulse and it was as dead as ever. Then put her in a suitcase leading to the back of the house. Dumped her body into the metal drum and poured a bit of gasoline, then finally lit a match.

The body I once savoured was now burning away, turning to nothing but complete ashes.

Once her body was completely burnt I put the ashes in a bucket and threw it inside the river to dissolve with the waters.

No one was going to look for her. I was sure of that. I would just tell her mother that she left one morning and never came back. Maybe even file a missing person's report.

I had bigger problems to deal with other than her. She was a liability now. Someone that I used for my pleasures and like my mom always said... women are replaceable.

My phone kept buzzing numerous times. I checked and it happened to be news about Emily and her new found lover. They were already having their honeymoon in Maldives.

Emily had become a global star all because of me. Everyone now knows her now for the wrong reason. Her social media following increased significantly following the media manipulation that happened. Not because they liked her, I bet they were all just haters cause they kept throwing biles at her comment section.

It affected her so much that she had to lock the comments for all her posts, both the old and new ones. Three years back this was me and her. But we had ours in Paris, the city of love.

I chose it because I had heard so much about that place. And someone once told me that if you have your first kiss at the tower of Paris, you and your lover will never be separated and I waited so long because I believed in that myth.

Now look at me and Emily. Such a sham! Fighting ourselves. And the very person that caused the rift – DEAD!

I put my phone back into my pocket and headed back for the mansion. Milandro. That bastard.

The next day we had a press conference organized by my personal assistant, Salome, she was a very dedicated staff of mine.

"So Mr. Clay what would you say about your wife's recent action? Taking a new husband."

"I would say it happened really fast. It was almost as if she couldn't wait to get away from me. It still breaks my heart each time I see her on the Internet." My eyes turned red of course to get public sympathy. Mom sat beside me and rested her palm on my thigh to comfort me in the eyes of the media. "Humans are complicated beings you see. You don't really know what they have in store for you. I had good plans for her and she had plans to hurt me." My voice cracked in pain.

I could see the eyes of the lady reporters in the room. They were looking so hurt like – just take a look at this poor man. His wife cheated on him.

"The worst part was that I was willing to make the relationship work. I was willing to take her back if only she promised not to do it again but what did she do? She slammed the divorce paper right at my face and called me impotent."

The entire room started buzzing with murmurs.

"If I remember clearly, my medical scans said that I was perfectly fine. Can't say the same for her."

"I can't. I can't. I can't." I rubbed my eyes and signalled for them to cut the camera then I zoomed out of the room.

That press conference alone sent enough noise to shake up the entire world. I was so so satisfied.

"Nice acting son." My mom tapped me on the shoulder.

"I learnt from the best." I said smirking.