Mysterious Night Stand With A Pimp Turned Mogul by John Rice (novels to read in english .TXT) 📗

Chapter 14

When Ida woke in the middle of the night, she looked around her dimly lighted room and sat upright. Her mind trailed back to what happened yesterday. She had drank herself to stupor that she lost totally consciousness. But she remembered that she was in the living room, how did she find herself in the bedroom?

 

She couldn't make sense of it, she stood upright and found her way to the bathroom where she had a quick shower. She dried her body and went back to bed. Her mind almost trailed back to what had made her sad a couple of hours ago but she shut her mind and hoped to see Beau during the hours of the day. She soon fell asleep.

 

When Ida was almost closing at work, her phone rang but she was too busy to answer it. The call came through again but she was so engrossed in what she was doing that she didn't even look to see who was calling. But when the call came through the second time, she had to sigh in frustration and pause what she was doing.

 

She looked at the phone and picked it up, seeing that the caller ID was her mother, someone she had severed ties with a long time ago , she frowned deeply.

 

Why was she calling her now? Didn't she say that she wished that she was dead? But her mother will always remain her mother so she answered the call, as soon as she placed the phone in her ear, a loud and angry voice sounded from the other end," you bitch!How dare you ignore my calls? Have you grown balls now that you dare to snub my calls?"

 

Ida was less surprised, this was how her mother acts towards her everytime. It was Janie, her sister that always receives the affectionate side of her mother.

 

"I was busy," she said simply.

 

The woman on the other end of the phone scoffed, "busy?" She said in a mocking tone, "busy doing what? You are such a disrespectful child and that's why I hate you with passion."

 

Those words were like arrows, piercing her heart and at the same time, piercing her body. She shut her eyes while trying to absorb the pain her mother's words were causing her because she doesn't want to break down in tears publicly.

 

When the woman realized that she didn't say any word, she then continued, " I need you to come over to the family's house today."

 

"I'm busy, I won't be able to..."

 

"How dare you?" The woman interrupted. "If you don't come, I'll hunt you down. Don't dare me?" The woman threatened and hung the call up.

 

Ida dropped the phone gently on the table before her, she smiled shamefully at herself as tears streamed gently down her face, the tears kept dropping on her desk while she languished in the pain her mother's words caused her.

 

If her mother knew she has less than twelve months left to live, would she still be cruel to her? She just want to live a happy life for the remaining months she has left to live.

 

She cleaned the tears in her face and resumed work. Once she was done at work, she stood and walked out.

 

She knew she dared not to go to her family's house. The last time her mother told her to come home during her second to the final year in her university days, she refused but her mother unexpectedly show up in her hostel and embarrassed her before her colleagues.

 

Ida knows if her mother can find out where she is working and then come over to embarrass her before her colleagues. She can't stand that kind of shame cause it will make her feel ridiculed.

 

She took a cab over to the Clayton's family house. Her surname from birth was Clayton.

 

She soon began to walk over to the entrance of the house, on getting before the door, she pressed on the doorbell and almost immediately, she heard steps approaching the door.

 

Once the door opened, she saw her sister with a bright smile on her face," hey big sister, please come in."

 

Ida frowned deeply on seeing her, she knew Janie's smile was only a pretentious act, she snubbed her and walked inside . She wasn't surprised to see her mother sitting, but she was surprised to see a stranger sitting on the couch opposite that of her mother. Also, there were two bodyguards behind the stranger who was clearly an old and ugly man.

 

"Good evening, mother," she greeted and her mother motioned for her to sit without even responding to her greetings.

 

She sat nonetheless, wondering what her purpose of being invited here was. Her sister, Janie, also came to sit beside her mother, she even leaned on her mother's shoulder.

 

"Is she the one?" The old and ugly man pointed at Ida.

 

"Yes, she is?" Ida's mother, Geneva said to the old man.

 

"Mother, what's going on?" She asked innocently and politely.

 

"Well, Mr. Edmund has offered us a million dollar for the purpose of marrying you. You can't even refuse cause you have been useless to this family since you were born. It's time you repay all what we have invested in you, "Geneva said .

 

Ida could not beleive her ears, so her mother had invited her over for the purpose of selling her off to an old and ugly man, she smirked painfully and said, "so I've become an object that you toss anyhow you like, mother ?"

 

"Watch your mouth, you bitch!" Geneva pointed at her angrily.

 

"Pretty, I never knew you will be this beautiful, I know you won't reject marrying me. Afterall, I was told you had divorced your husband many years ago and have remained single since then," the old man, Edmund said.

 

Ida smirked, "I can't even marry you in my dream talkless of real life, forget it."

 

"You will marry him, Ida. It's not for you to decide, it's my decision. Don't even think we will return the one million dollar that is already paid," Geneva said.

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