CHAPTER 2

MY FATE

As soon as the maids had left, they had run straight towards the living room, and along the hallway, they ran into Hon.florence she was actually on her way to the kitchen.

They stopped as soon as they got to her, obviously panting like they had been running a relay.

Hon Florence's eyes widened slowly, in astonishment. These girls were supposed to be at Jeff's room cleaning up, so why the hell were they running along the hallway, and without the mess they had gone to clean up?

She folded her arms as the maids immediately stood straight and took their hands behind them, avoiding her gaze and blinking their eyelids like a shy cat.

She knew something was up.

"What happened?" She demanded.

They hesitated to respond, as they kept glancing at each other and using sign language to communicate to one another to speak up.

Hon Florence saw all these and got peeved.

"Are you guys stupid?" She demanded in a harsh tone.

"Um no ma'am... no we aren't. We are sorry", Kate spoke up.

Kate was actually the maid she had earlier called with the intercom, she was the head of the maids in Senator Bernard's mansion, and so was like their spokesperson.

"Um, Mr Jeff asked us to leave whatever we were doing in the room and leave, we were only just rushing out when we ran into you ma'am", she replied intelligently and bowed slightly.

Hon Florence nodded knowingly, like she knew what her son was capable of doing, she was aware. She sighed deeply and waved her right hand making a face.

"Go back and finish your work", she said to them, with an air of authority.

They glanced at themselves and shrugged their shoulders.

"Okay ma'am", they replied in unison and then turned back, back to Jeff's room.

They got to the door and somehow, they were scared to enter. They knew the kind of human Mr Jeff was, a very brutal and bully guy, they might even lose their jobs and nothing would be done, so it was expected for them to be scared.

"Ahhh!" Kate exhaled deeply and the other two turned to her.

"You know what girls?" She asked and they shook their heads.

"What Kate?" Beatrice one of the other two maids asked.

"We were sent back here by ma'am ..., so I don't think we should be scared of anything, she's gonna stand for us", she said and slowly raised her right hand to knock on the door.

"We're gonna go in there and finish up our job, nothing gonna happen", she assured and the other two nodded their heads in agreement.

At the count of two, and knock knock, she knocked on the door as they waited for a response. There was none.

She knocked again, and again, and again. Yet, no response. They had to open the door and go in.

With Kate's right hand on the doorknob, she turned it and creaked, it opened, and she entered.

The first place her eyes went to was the sofa where he was seated and what! Her eyes widened in shock, and at this time, the other two came in and saw the unthinkable.

Mr Jeff on the floor, looking almost lifeless.

As if her senses were back, Kate let out a loud wail, almost screaming her lungs out. Which calls attention to everyone in the house. Fortunately for Jack he came back to life after an amount of water was being poured on him. Before now, everyone was perplexed especially the Senator and his wife who was walking to and fro like a confused masquerade are now calm and have regain sanity seeing that Jeff is conscious

Few minutes later, The family doctor that Hon Florence contacted came around. He calmed down as quickly as he could.
He is already attending to Jeff. He ran some tests on him and a proper check up including his blood level were all carried out on him.
He advised him to take more rest and be very careful not to subject himself to any kind of stress. He counseled him also concerning relationship and love affairs. To Jack all these things are not necessary now, He just wants to be alone to ponder on what lies ahead.

Thank you doc and everyone as he faces his parents, please if you will excuse me I will take my leave now. Hon Florence was trying to stop him when Sen. Benard protested, don't worry let him be. Jeff thanked his parents once again as he walked away.
He decided to give up on Ann since all his efforts were being abortive, Although he believes that fate can happen one day and their parts will Cross.

On the scene is Stella, a fair, average-height young lady. With her gap teeth and straight legs, These are what constantly makes men pestering around her. Her parents' names are Mr and Mrs Benard. Her gap teeth and straight legs are actually the features she inherited from her late mother. Her mother died a few minutes after giving birth to her.The circumstances that surrounded her survival and growing up after the death of her mum was pathetic. She could remember the story vividly that day while at the hospital.Her mother in the hospital bed was battling with her life, she later held Benard's hand and begged him to take care of the baby. That was her last word before giving up the ghost. Her father decided to honor her word since that was her last wish. Few weeks later, Her dad hired a nurse to care for her. She grew up under dad and nurse pat.she was an angel,she was so good to her that people mistook her for her mother.

After her secondary school everything changed, Her Dad who was a principal started having an affair with a particular female teacher. She was gullible over the whole thing until she packed into our house.

Two months later her father's house turned into a hell for me. She took my father's love from me and denied me of every right I have in the house. She literally turned me into a slave yet my father was too vulnerable to help me, She turned my father into a destitute. She was in charge of everything

The whole drama wasn't going well with Stella because they fight almost every day. She ran away from the house.Althogh her dad and stepmom tried to find her and bring her home yet all their efforts were abortive.
Life wasn't fair to Stella, She decided to go into prostitution hopefully for survival.