Chapter five

Chapter five

"Okay, tell me, who's going to pick you up? Do you have anyone we can give a call?" Dean asked and was not ignorant of her reaction, immediately she heard his query, she became all moody.

"Cindy please say something, I know you have a lot going on in your mind right now, but you can still share it with me or are we, not friends yet?" He asked and as he was just looking at her, she replied,

"I don't know why my mind is unburdened with you to share my misery with you, I trust you and I'll tell you everything." So she stood up from where she was sitting and folded her arms.

"I don't have anybody, my parents died in an accident years ago, but..." Saying that she hesitated and raised her head looking into the space.

"But what? Cindy?" He wrinkled and asked all patiently. 

"Yes, I have relatives who had always taken advantage of me as a maid, my uncle had never in his life taken care of me, even when people tried to help me because of my academic excellence, he warned me never to accept any of them.

It's only his son Desmond who has been assisting me, but this time he wasn't at home and my uncle made an effort to force himself on me, so I was left with no option but to run away from the house." She took a deep breath and continued,

"I don't know what to do, I'm lost and I'm not gonna go back to that house, even if I'm dying." Saying that tears started pouring down her eyes.

"Because I was lucky to have evaded yesterday..., maybe... by next time I won't be that lucky, I hate rich people with passion, they are always cruel and scornful." Dean turned to her and wiped her tears with his index finger.

"Including me?" Dean asked jokingly to ease her sulky mood.

"Oh come on..., you're not included," She moved her hand in the air and continued, "At least you showed care to someone." She responded quickly.

"Really?" He asked.

"Yeah..., sure," Stretching her torso she continued,

"Even if you report them to the cops they would sort everything out with money, so I believed that running away could be the only way to give myself freedom from my uncle's grip." 

She said with a creaked voice and Dean knew that all he needed to do then was to console her, so he stretched his arms and asked,

"Can I hug you?" She smiled and while nodding she said, "Yeah..., we are friends after all." He hugged her tightly and rubbed her back and both of them stood there for a moment, before letting her go.

"Cindy, I don't have a brother or sister but I think I've found one, will you like to be my sister?" He asked and listened to her to know her mind.

She looked at his face smiling and hugged him, "Yeah..., I'll like to be your sister, Dean, thank you." 

She thought to herself, 'Here I am saying he's my friend while he has taken me as a sister, wow.'

Cindy became emotional and unknowingly to her a drop of tears fell from her eyes.

"Hey, please don't do that, you gonna make me cry too," Dean said as he wiped her face with his thumb, she forced a smile and hugged him again.

******

The next day was very good. For a very long time, Eduardo has been waiting for an opportunity to get a better contract, though they worked on many products lately but he needed a bigger contract for the quick growth of the company, reaching his company he walked into the building gracefully.

"Good morning, Mr Eduardo." The receptionist greeted him immediately she looked up and saw him entering the building, but as usual he didn't even look in the direction where she was, he only waved his right hand in response to her greeting, so she looked at him fixedly and shrugged as he went into the lift.

The lift halted at the sixteenth floor which was the tail end floor of the building and that was also part of the building where CEO Eduardo, his team and managers stays, he slowly strode out of the lift.

Walking into his office, he removed his suit jacket and placed it in the wardrobe. Whenever he's in the office he prefers wearing his sleeves only, despite the air-conditioning, he is an elegant and fashionable young CEO, and he has a superfluous of items that he needs for his care in the office.

That same morning before Eduardo came, Fredrick searched through the company platform and found a contract message and it was a new product that needed a front page for an advert. So he went to see Eduardo and as well submit the contract message.

"knock, knock, knock." Fredrick knocked at the door.

"Come in," Eduardo said, Fredrick entered and closed the door, more steps to his table Eduardo stopped what he was doing with his laptop and gave all heed to him.

"Fredrick, please sit down." He said while pointing at the chair opposite him.

Then Fredrick sat down and gave him the contract file which he printed out earlier so that he could go through it.

Doing that he explained, "I found this contract in a platform this morning and the benefit is much, I think we should give more attention to it." 

Eduardo collected it reluctantly at first, but as he went through three lines on it, he was impressed with what he saw, then he uttered, "Wow, this is interesting, I guess we have what they needed."

"You know the right step to take Fredrick, just go ahead and get in contact with them before 24 hours and whatever you guys conclude with just let me know."

Eduardo returned the file to him and continued with what he was doing, and then Fredrick gradually went back to his office.

After the third meeting and some other work that day, Eduardo decided to go home and rest.

On his way home, he looked in the side mirror and discovered that a small red car was following him, he knew it was one of the groups that wanted to kidnap him but he knows how to treat their fuck up.

"Cain!!!" Rock called his name with anger.

"Yeah, you don't have to yell at me, I told you that this guy is ready for this game, it won't be that easy for us," Cain said and leaned back on his seat.

"Shit..., I don't even know how he disappeared," Rock said on their way back to camp.

Immediately he got to their camp he g****e about Eduardo and It was then he discovered that the task was not going to be easy for him.

******

Dean doesn't belong to any force like the CIA, but he has always acted like one. That same day he noticed that someone was trying to steal from Eduardo's company and immediately, he demanded more security service from his men.

Eduardo got home at full speed, he entered his house looking more dangerous and merciless, and he walked straight to his room, his mind ran back to the red car that was after him as he paced around his room.

His eyes were shining completely red in anger, he would definitely not spare anyone who was involved in trying to harm him.

Dean was sitting in a restaurant, waiting for his order and immediately he started eating his phone buzzed, he removed it from his pocket and it was Eduardo calling, so he picked it up on the first ring.

"Hello, Dean I want to see you now."

"Now? You mean right now?"

"Yes Dean, right now," Eduardo responded angrily and Dean knew what to do.

He was the last person to extend their conversation whenever he heard the sound of his voice.

"Sure thing, I'm coming over now." Saying that he stood up and gave the waiter a sign to pay his bill.

Reaching the parking lot, Dean sensed that some people had been monitoring him as he walked out of the exit to his car, so he stood there and looked around but found no one, he thought it was nothing, then he quickly entered his car and sped up.

On his way to Eduardo's house which was a bit far away from the restaurant, he scrolled down his contacts and clicked on Cindy's number so that he could hear from her since in the morning he left the house.

Right in Dean's house, Cindy was bored as it was only her in the house.

"Oh my God..., how does he cope with the loneliness in this big house, nobody to talk to and all the workers leave the house immediately after they are done with their work."

She was still murmuring when her phone started ringing, she removed her phone from her pocket and it was Dean's call.

"Hello, Dean." Saying that she wrinkled and pouted at a time.

"Hi Cindy, how are you doing over there?" He asked while smiling because he knew how bored and upset she would be by then,

"Mmm...." She sighed and took a deep breath.

"Looks like someone is bored to death," Dean said as she didn't answer his question and only sighed.