Chapter 32
Rodrigo talked with Camilla late into the night. When they finally hung up, Rodrigo smiled to himself. Jenny said she had a lifetime surprise for him when he returned.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
It wasn’t his birthday. What could that surprise be? Anyways he would soon Return back to City A and that surprise, he wants to know it badly.
He called his grandfather and the old Man said he is fine now. Everything is fine and asked him how was the meeting for which he travelled?
Rodrigo told him how he had successfully gotten into the heart of the City and found how he would win the hearts of the companies there to partner with them.
His grandfather was impressed. And told him when he returns, his sister Mirabel would join him in a way of assistance so that he would be more at ease.
That reminded Rodrigo and he asked when Mirabel was returning home? His grandfather said she would return in two days time and there would be a welcome party the next day for her courtesy of his mother.
Rodrigo said he would return the day of his welcome party. When the call ended, he thought of an idea, why wouldn’t he just get engaged to Camilla that day?
It would leave everyone speechless. Fine then, he went online and searched for the most expensive diamond ring, with which he was going to engage Camilla as his fiance.
He sighed, he was happy again. It’s going to be a surprise to Camilla herself. She knew they would get engaged but might not know he would be doing it right after stepping into the party organised for Mirabel.
He found the ring he desired and asked for Camilla’s size. He knew her size of things ranging from her panties to her footwear. He just knew those important things and often bought things for her.
He ordered it and paid. It costs millions of dollars and Rodrigo was happy that he got it. He was ready, fully ready to be engaged to his woman, his love.
Next Morning, Eduardo drove to his parents house. He has a question to ask his mother. He wants to know if the one after him and his brother was truly Aunt Clara.
As his chauffeur drove into the vast compound of the Anderson’s Mansion, Eric was surprised. He had never seen Eduardo look this serious or rather furious.
He got into his wheelchair and Eric helped him into the Mansion. He met his parents having breakfast and he waited, looking furious and tapping his fingers on the handle of the wheelchair.
Mrs Anderson looked at him and knew he was worried. He hoped it wasn’t about what happened the previous day between Jenny and Clara? She saw Jenny wouldn’t be such a person who would let her husband take drastic measures for being insulted by his Aunt.
“Eduardo, is anything the matter?” Mrs Anderson asked, turning to look at her son. She doesn’t know why but she can’t remember when she last saw her son with this kind of a mood.
His father stood up and came over. He loved both of his kids and seeing his eldest son like this, he couldn’t take it. He tapped him on his shoulders and asked ” Eduardo, what happened, Why are you like this?”
Eduardo looked away. Jenny’s words were ringing in his head. Could his aunt be the one he has been searching for all these while?
” I want to ask you a question mum,” Eduardo stated. He looked at his mother waiting for her to give him a go ahead with the question.
” Anything Eduardo” His mother said, coming over and standing by his other side. She knew, if her son hadn’t lost the ability to use his legs, he would have been pacing back and forth since he walked into the house.
“Your sister Clara, does she have a birthmark or something on her back? A mole, tattoo or something?” Eduardo asked and his mother answered almost immediately.
“Yes. Clara has had a mark on her back since she was a child. But why are you asking?” Mrs Anderson asked but the next minute, Eduardo beckoned on Eric to help him out.
His parents turned and looked at each other. Is that what Eduardo came to ask them in the morning? Couldn’t he have called on the phone to ask them? Does he really need to come to the house?
When almost out of the door, he glanced back and told his parents “Nobody must know that I asked such a question” he declared and went out.
In that car, he asked ” The specialist handling the recovery of the surveillance, they should be through now right?” Eduardo asked.
He was already guessing and suspecting someone, but the surveillance camera will not allow him or her to deny and claimed she had been bad-mouthed.
“I would contact their boss,” Eric answered. This is the first time, His boss talked to him besides the orders and instructions he had given him since he resumed that morning.
” Fine, ensure you do. I need a positive response. In the meantime, let there be a 24 hours watch over my Aunt, who she calls or where she goes…” Eduardo was assigning him another duty.
“As you wish, boss,” Eric replied.
Sara Dickson had known that her daughter was pregnant. She was partly happy but somehow, she wasn’t. She was happy tahtbjer daughter was pregnant and didn’t allow the thought of abortion cross her mind.
But she became unhappy because she didn’t know what Rodrigo and his family would think. Would he think she trapped him with the pregnancy to get him to marry her?
What about his family? Would they accept Camilla and her baby? Would they treat her child as illegitimate and not count the child as a member of the Campbell’s far.
These thoughts have troubled Sara. She doesn’t want her daughter to be trampled over by anyone. If they reject and not welcome Camilla, it is only definite that they would do the same to the child when it’s born.
This shouldn’t continue and she cannot advise her for an abortion. Camilla herself would never think of such thing as abortion. She would rather raise the child alone than have the pregnancy aborted.
When Camilla was about leaving for work, Sara was having this uneasiness within her. Something is about to happen and it appears it’s related to her daughter and herself.
She called Camilla and told her “Why don’t you tell Rodrigo about the pregnancy? Know what he feels about it and his intentions about you and his unborn child” Sara advised.
She knew Rodrigo had travelled out but her daughter was definitely in touch with him as often as she drinks water. She should tell him she was pregnant.
Camilla smiled and tapped her mother. She didn’t say yes nor did she say no. She was going to give a surprise present to Rodrigo when he returned. This is what he had always wanted.
She wants to see his eyes, his excitement when she tells him about the pregnancy. She doesn’t want him to be excited alone when she’s not there. They definitely were going to be engaged when he returned.
Camilla walked out of the door and Sara walked her to her car. She saw her daughter’s smile and excitement and had this feeling that it would take a long time before she saw her again. Many things were going to happen but she doesn’t know what.
“… the deleted record had been retrieved” Eric announced, presenting a microchip to Eduardo. He asked the experts working on the retrieval just as they said, they were about to deliver the message.
As Eduardo stretched his hand to collect it, Eric saw a faint smile across his lips. It’s obvious that the eldest master was eager to find the one who took his sister away.
Quickly, Eduardo inserted the chip into his computer and he watched it. It was faint and an old recording but one can still get what he wants. He looked intently and he saw a certain person carrying a baby out and looked at both sides before dashing away into the distant.
Eduardo’s face gradually turned into a frosty one. He looked icy as if he could punch the fellow in the recording. He clenched a fist and looked away angrily.
He knew what he would do. He had to confront this monster and silence her forever.
Camilla arrived at the office that day and went about her duty. It wasn’t long, around the lunch hour, an unknown number called her. She was surprised, who could that be? She can’t remember anyone using such numbers to call her.
She answered the phone all the same. ” Watch the video sent and do just as you are instructed” the caller instructed and hung up.
Camilla squinted. This is weird. Has the person made a mistake? Perhaps the caller took her to be someone else. He placed her phone on the desk and arranged the files on it when there was a peep on her phone.
Not expecting to receive a message, she took her phone and unlocked it. She saw a video and she froze. Her hands were shivering and her phone almost fell off her hands. She was breathing hard as if at any moment, her heart was going to jump out of her rib cage.
Her eyes immediately welled up in tears and she was sniffling when the strange number called her again…