After a thoroughly decadent night, Reyona woke up the next day feeling perfectly lethargic.She had somehow ended up close to the edge of the bed with her face turned away from him.She smiled drowsily as she remembered that she had slept off wrapped in his arms while they were still trying to catch their breath after the…Well, she had lost count anyway and her brain was too lazy at the moment to start thinking of what she couldn’t probably count on both hands.She still couldn’t understand when she had become so insatiable.Was it just the hormones or the man?If she was honest with herself, most of her anger and frustration with him beforehand had also had to do with the tenuous pull of attraction she had felt for him when she had no business feeling such things.The man was just too hot for his own good.Or her own good in this case.She felt slightly sore down there, yet it was the most delicious type of soreness she could think of.When she stretched her hand backwards and felt
The house always had a kind of liveliness to it with the amount of staff inside the mansion and around the house.Though she had never really paid much attention to it, Reyona realised there was always a subtle sound going on somewhere in the house from someone doing something or going somewhere.At the moment, it seemed like she was the only one in the house.“Where is everyone?” she wondered.“Maxwell?”“Jane?”“Toria?”Maybe she should have checked Toria’s room.But knowing her sister, she knew Toria would not be in bed till now unless something was wrong.Or if she had gone partying.They had met her at home the day before while she was busy working and giving some suppliers hell for delayed delivery.When they had their dinner sent to them in bed, Reyona asked if Toria and her mum had sat for dinner, but the maid had said Miss Dexter was still busy with work and Mrs Rochester had eaten with Junior and Jane.It looked like Toria had worked late last night, so she wouldn’t have had
The carpet led towards the foyer but not to it.It took a detour to the left just a few paces away from the foyer.Reyona looked up at Maxwell’s grinning face and decided not to ask.She was sure he wouldn’t tell her anyway.Soon enough, she saw where it led.It led straight through the door of the ballroom she had once marvelled at when he first gave her the tour of the house.The door was locked though.Yet he kept walking towards it.She chuckled as she began “Don’t tell me you are about to show me your superpower of walking through…”The door suddenly burst open with a chorus of “Surprise!”Everyone seemed to be in the glorious ballroom!In Reyona’s excited shock, the first thing that popped into her mind was that everything….glowed.There was no other way to describe the enchanting, magical ambience created in the ballroom with soft, warm lighting that complemented the chandeliers described.Fairy lights are draped across the ceiling and around the tables, adding a sparkling effe
Toria returned to Cyprus the day after the event.Their parents and Maureen left soon enough as well.The excitement of the discovery got Reyona in a frenzy for the next few days as she wanted everything to be perfect for her babies upon their arrival.She was glad that she still didn’t know their genders yet, but the fact that she had two lives growing inside her was more than she could have ever hoped for.For eight years, she had tamped down her needs for a family just because of a man who was not worth it.Her thirtieth birthday had been marred by the realisation that she was growing older.She was even beginning to think that she might never be able to change the mind of the man she had thought was her lifelong partner.She had pushed aside all that she had ever wanted, all for someone she shouldn’t have ever given the time of the day.She would probably have gone all her life not fulfilling the dreams she had always had as a child.To have a family of her own.She had always wan
Reyona told the staff to leave the array of refreshments on the table.“It is fine. You can go.” she almost snapped in her anxiety.The kitchen help bowed to them and left.“Is this about the call you just received?” Reyona asked immediately. “Who was it?”“Officer Guy,” Maxwell answered instantly.Reyona’s heart kicked as she knew who Officer Guy was. And his call could mean anything.“What…?”“They were finally able to reverse the funds back to your account,” Maxwell said as she listened to him with rapt attention. “It was a bit tricky to get the source of the dummy account that the dead guy used. It was an offshore account and, thankfully, it had not been transferred to the intended account. After some back and forth with the bank, they were able to reverse it. He called to ask if you had seen it.”Reyona patted her trouser pocket before she remembered that her phone was in their room.“My phone is inside,” she said tersely.She was glad that the money was returned.That meant she
Reyona had thought she would have to go to the detention centre where Maze was held.He was held in Kayooma Federal Detention Center after his lack of cooperation in the first hearing.The judge had been pissed off and had him sent there to cool his feet for a week before the next hearing.In the meantime, the police were gathering more evidence based on the recording that Maxwell had made.The recording in which Maze had denied his own voice.Reyona still wondered why Maxwell had thought it would be possible to have someone like that strike a deal with them.She was sure the bastard might even prefer going to a long-term jail just to spite them.After all, Maxwell had played him.With the new evidence of his gasoline purchase and other incriminating information that Officer Guy had gotten from Susan though, Reyona supposed he might decide to be more reasonable when he realised that his “I-know-nothing, I did-nothing” tactic was not going to work.Any environmentally aware person woul
Maxwell couldn’t be more proud of how Reyona handled the man who had started out acting as if he didn’t care about anything.Oh, he tried to get under Reyona’s skin.He even tried to taunt her for being the clueless woman who had allowed her husband’s mistress to get the better of her.At first, she had let him think he had the upper hand, as he practically insinuated that they had nothing on him.Maxwell trusted Reyona, yet he had been rearing to get in that bastard’s face and tell him what was what.But then, with a few strategically worded sentences, she had pulled the rug from beneath the cocky bastard.She made him believe their meeting was the best thing to happen to him in his current state.Then she added that Susan had all the evidence of the deeds he had done for her with her.Evidence that she had handed over to them.When Maxwell could see that the Maze’s former confidence was fading already, she idly flicked at her nail and turned to face Officer Guy sitting beside Maze.
Despite the Rohans' declaration that they would decide to let go of the case if the culprit fulfilled their demand, the Kayooma law still bound Maze anyway.Arson wasn’t just a crime against the victim, it was a crime against the state too.Reyona and Maxwell demanded that for the next three years, Maze would donate a pint of blood every eight weeks.That would be about 7 pints of blood that he would donate in a year.Altogether, in the three-year duration, he should have donated about 20 pints of blood.Then, apart from that, as long as he lived, he would be on hand for any blood donation that the Rohans would ask of him.With compensation, of course.There was also a clause that he should pass this knowledge down to his generation.For as long as they live, any of his generation with the Rh Null blood type can go to any branch of Saintwell Hospital anywhere in the world to donate blood.No questions asked, and they would be generously rewarded too.Though Maze had scoffed at that as