Mary tried to wake up as early as she could in order to join the morning prayers. She does not want her parents thinking that she had turned wayward. She rubbed her sleepy eyes lightly and looked herself in the mirror, as usual she looked a mess with her hair scattered all over her face. She gradually swept it backwards with her fingers and packed it into a clean ponytail. By the time she got to the sitting room, her both parents were already awake and sitted. "See who has come to join us" Mr Wilberforce announced excitedly on seeing his daughter. "Good morning dad, good morning mom" she bent down to kiss each one of them on the chin. Mr Wilberforce said the prayers today, and it was relatively a long one like always. As a kid Mary always hated when her dad would lead the prayers because it always took lots and lots of time, it was as if he was praying for the whole country. Mary sighed when the prayer was finally over, she went back to her room, hoping to catch some mor
Mary raised her head so she could meet Taylor's gaze. "Well I do not have a choice in this situation" she said with a low voice, she tried hard to fight the tears that were threatening to rush out of her eyes if she kept being emotional. "I'm so going to miss you" Taylor cried out, putting her arms around her and embracing her tightly. "I'm going to miss you too". She said rubbing Taylor's back lightly. "I should go see Mr Greg now" she said as she pulled away from the hug. Mary asked if Mr Coleman was still in close contact with Adonis and Taylor affirmed to that, she had heard him on call with Adonis a few times. But Taylor felt there was something fishy about it since he was trying to keep it hidden. Mary thought about it for sometime and wondered what it could be that Mr Coleman and Adonis had with each other. They waved at each other before Mary walked away, to her bosses office. Mary knocked slowly on Mr Greg's office before she pushed it open and walked in. He w
"You mean you have been forgiven? And you cans still work here?" Taylor asked excitedly with her eyes wide open. "Yes" Mary nodded happily. The both embraced each other tightly. "I'm finally going to have my roommate back" Taylor said. "Are you girls not going to include me in the hug" Chris chipped in from behind. "Or do I not deserve to celebrate with you?" "Come on" Mary said stretching out her arms towards him. "You are lucky today is Mary's lucky day, I would have showed you". Taylor said to Chris after they disengaged from the hug. Chris rolled his eyes at her in his typical feminine manner. "So you both are yet to out grow throwing tantrums at each other" Mary said laughing. "Well you should be talking to Taylor, she would just not let me be, I think she is jealous". "Jealous of who? You?" Taylor made a face. "I rather kiss a frog than get jealous of you Chris". "Then I would go find you a handsome frog to kiss, meanwhile I have to go continue my work. And c
"Of course not" Mary said in hurry. "I do not have boyfriend mom" she said shyly. "It seemed like you were so passionate with whoever you were talking to on the phone" her mom said jokingly. Mary wondered how much her mum heard, she wanted to aske her, but it would raise suspicions. So she just let it be. The food was almost done by the time they both went back to the kitchen, Mary and her mom set the table together. Her mom teased her some more about having a boyfriend which as responded to shyly. By the time Mr Wilberforce came back from work, the table was already set. "Dad" Mary greeted kissing her dad's chin. "I smell something delicious". He said sniffing the air. "Guess what dad, we are having Mac and cheese for dinner". "Wow!" He exclaimed. "My mouth feels watery already" he joked. They both laughed as they walked inside holding hands. "I would just drop these and come back for dinner, I can't wait to pounce on this delicious meal" he said jokingly.
Mary stopped in her tracks, with eyes wide open as he turned around to face her, she stood dumbfounded as those familiar blue eyes stared into hers getting her stuck where she stood. Her heart skipped several beats as she looked at him, her first instinct was to run into the kitchen where her mom was making breakfast and run into her arms where she would be safe from the monster that now stood in front of her. "Hi. Mary, long time no see" he said with a smile. Mary was calm a bit, his voice sounded friendly and not the cold murderous voice she was expecting to here. But what if he was being sarcastic? "What are you doing at my house? And how did you know my house?" She queried. Should she even be surprised that he knew her house? She was fully convinced then, since she had more reasons to believe he actually sent her threats the last time, he knew her house that was why he was able to send her threats. "Won't you even welcome me? Do you not miss me?" Mary thought she saw
"Oh! She mentioned to me once that she went to Tribeca for some work" Mrs Wilberforce said. "Mary you didn't tell your dad and I that you are working with Adonis Scott" she asked turning to Mary. "Oh! She might have forgotten to add that too". Mary bit her lips so hard that she started to feel the pains, she wished so badly that she could shut both Adonis and her parents up. Thankfully, they stopped talking about her for a bit. Adonis faced her dad and they started talking about business. "Thank you so much for inviting me to have breakfast with you" Adonis announced as they finished eating. "We are actually very hospitable people" Mrs Wilberforce said with a smile. "I would leave you and your friend to talk then" she said as she packed the dishes to the kitchen to wash them. "Mary, won't you come with me? Emma needs you so much at this time". Adonis said as soon as her parents were out of sight. Mary kept staring at him, he sure was a good pretender, his acting looked
Mary slowly raised her hand and rubbed Emma's back lovingly, trying so hard to comfort her. She could see that it was obvious that Emma was terribly shaken by the fire incident, she wondered how much damage the fire had caused and how it even started in the first place. But something inside of her told her it must have been Adonis who had set the fire, he has been proven to be a monster, but what kind of monster tries to hurt his own grandmother like this? Mary was heartbroken seeing Emma like that, that she almost started to regret leaving her. "Stay here while I go get you some juice" she said and tried to get up, she thought getting her juice would help calm her down. But all of a sudden she held unto her, asking her not to go away again. "I'm not going away again okay? I would just go get you some juice and I would be back immediately". It took much convincing before Emma finally let her go. Mary saw Adonis sitting in the sitting room before as she walked to the kitch
Mary's first instinct when she woke up the next morning was to check up on Emma, after making sure she was not looking the mess she normally looked every morning before she came out of her room. She went straight to Emma's room, the old woman was already awake and sitting on her usual spot, she looked quite calm that morning and okay too. "Good morning Ms Emma" Mary greeted with a smile on her face,. She responded to the greeting with an even broader smile. "How are you doing this morning and I hope you had a good night's sleep?" "I did, thanks to you" she said smiling. She requested for tea and toast that morning, Mary walked to the kitchen to get it ready for her amidst fears that it might be a trap and of course she was looking for a reason to become edgy and have another mood swings and that was why she requested for something different today. She however succumbed to her wish and made what she wanted. While Mary walked to the kitchen, she saw Adonis going out. He