CHAPTER SIXTEEN, SUSPICION ARISING

 

"Can I take the mail inside, instead of you putting it in the mailbox?" Mylar asked the man and he agreed to give it to her.

"Please sign here ma'am." He said as he opened some kind of file before her, she collected the pen and signed on the part he showed her.

"Thank you." He said, got on his bike and drove away.

"What could this be?" She asked herself as she looked at the brown envelope, a name J and J was written boldly on it.

Out of curiosity, she opened the envelope. On the first paper at the top was written Property papers.

"Property papers." Mylar read aloud and decided to bring out the papers completely to see what was written on them. As she was pulling it out, she heard someone call her name. She got startled and quickly pushed the papers back into it.

Mylar! Vida called again as she approached her, Mylar opened her arms for a hug and they embraced each other.

"What's wrong with you?" Mylar asked after seeing Vida's worried face.

"Let's go in and talk, we can't stay outside and talk," Vida replied and Mylar nodded.

"That's right, let's go." She said and they both went inside.

As they sat down to talk, one of the staff in the house Eric who usually cleans Mr Julian's room came out of the kitchen and Mylar's thoughts went to the envelso she called him.

Yes, Miss Mylar! He answered and quickly went to her.

"Take this." She said and handed it to him, "Keep it in father-in-law's room." He nodded, slowly turned around, and left the sitting room.

"So tell me, what's wrong with you?" Mylar asked after he was gone.

"My guess about Ozzy was right," Vida said and Mylar watched her quietly as she told her everything.

"Ozzy owes a drug mafia Jason Lionel known as Lion, a dangerous drug lord a lot of money and is now unable to pay. According to what he told us, he has been given just two days to pack everything he owns and leave the club."

"Goodness, that Ozzy is an ass," Mylar said in despair.

"True, that's not the only problem now. Lion refuses to keep any of us at the club anymore, he's bringing in new ladies to work for him."

God!! Mylar exclaimed.

"That means no more jobs for all of you?" Mylar asked.

"Yes," Vida replied and bowed her head in sadness.

"Hey! Hey, don't be sad. We are gonna get through this." Mylar said as she hugged Vida and patted her back.

Camilo walked in on them, he just come back from his morning routine exercise. When he saw them, he scoffed.

"Slowly you are beginning to bring all your club strip members to invade our house." He said.

"Do you ever have anything nice to say?" Mylar asked him.

"Yes but not to your friends," Camilo replied.

"You are unbelievable," Mylar said and they both started arguing.

"Stop, let it be," Vida said to Mylar.

"Whatever," Camilo said and went inside.

"He is always so spiteful and irritating," Mylar said as he went inside and she hugged Vida again to comfort her. They had to look for a way to get Vida a job and that wasn't going to be easy.

"We called for this meeting to decide between the two major shareholders of the company who would handle the creation of the new branch." Mr. Julian said as he sat down on the large chair facing the round table surrounded by men of wealth and affluence, the shareholders of the company, and many other companies owned by Mrs. Isabella.

Dad!!! Elio called, and he quickly corrected himself.

"Sorry Mr Julian. I think we should let Camilo handle the new company because as you know I already have a company of my own that I am still working on. I need to focus on that." Elio said and as he said these words Mr Julian looked at him disappointedly.

After all his struggles to make way for Elio to handle this project, he was simply pushing it to his older brother and this was indeed disappointing to him. Camilo smiled with satisfaction, he was glad that no one was dragging it with him.

"And what stupid company is that?" Mr Julian asked trying to suppress his anger as he spoke.

"You know I want to make my company bigger than Fenty, Rihanna's company and I need time to work on it," Elio replied to him. The others watched father and son banter words with each other for a while.

"I give you three months to try and match up to Fenty even if it's just a little bit."

"I know you can never be better than that company and if do not manage to do that within that space, then your time is up and you will do whatever I want." Mr Julian said lastly after exchanging words with his son for so long before the board members.

"But Dad, three months is too small. I can't do anything within that time. I can't do it." Elio complained but Mr Julian ignored him.

"I am sorry for behaving this way before you all." Mr Julian apologized to the board members.

"Camilo will handle this project. We've come to the end of the meeting." Mr Julian said and got up to leave the room. He turned towards Elio who was still begging and said.

"Make it work." He opened the door and went out, his secretary went after him.

"You lose to me again," Camilo said to Elio after everyone had left the room. Elio wasn't in the mood to speak so he left the room without replying to Camilo.

"That brat," Camilo said after he scoffed at Elio.

Mr Julian sat in his office, his head beginning to weigh more than usual after thinking so much again Elio.

"How could my son refuse whatever I say is best for him?" He asked himself and sighed.

His phone rang suddenly and he quickly picked it up without checking the number.

"Hello." He said and he heard the same hoarse voice from the day before replying to him with a question.

"I hope you have seen my gift?" Mr Julian was silent, he wondered what the crazy man could be talking about.

"Or has someone else seen it instead?" The man asked.

"Go straight to the point." Mr Julian said to him a little irritated.

"I like that Mr Julian Wylder or is it Ju... No, I shouldn't say it, you already know your identity so I don't need to tell you again." The Man said and a crooked smile played around his lips as he spoke.

"What do you mean by Ju? Stop trying to scare me, it won't work." Mr Julian said to him.

"I can threaten you if I want to. Who the hell are you to ask me not to?" The man asked in a fierce thundering voice.

Mr Julian scoffed at this and then said.

"Anyone who dares threaten me must have someone big to back him up because if that's not the case, then consider yourself a walking corpse."

"We will see about that. Just make sure to check my gift, a brown envelope." The man said and cut the call without saying anything else.

Mr Julian thought about it and saw that the man could be telling the truth.

"What if there's something incriminating in that envelope, I need to go home and check it." He said and got up.

The clock on his office wall read sixteen minutes past four.

"Anyways it's almost time to close. So this won't raise any questions." He said and picked up his jacket, and his car key and left the office. When he got to the parking lot, he noticed that Camilo and Elio's cars were not there.

"Those two jackals. They must have gone home ahead of time." He smiled and got into the car. Then his smile disappeared as he thought of the possibility of them seeing the envelope. He stepped on the accelerator and drove roughly out of the office premises...

Mr Julian got home and Eric approached him.

Sir!!! He called out to Mr Julian and he stopped and turned towards Eric.

"Miss Mylar asked me to keep a brown envelope in your room. It's on your bedside table." Eric said and went away after Mr Julian asked him to.

"Brown envelope." Mr. Julian thought as he was about to go inside, at first it didn't hit him that it might be the gift that man was talking about but when it suddenly did hit him.

Mylar!!! He gasped and his heart skipped a bit. What if Mylar had seen what was inside the envelope?

He wasn't sure of the envelope's content but whatever it was, it had to be good enough for a nobody to be threatening him, Julian Wylder.

He quickly turned and went back to the sitting room, Mylar was sitting with Elio and they were busy chatting away while Camilo glared at them from the opposite chair. His heart was filled with rage and he could feel his hands shaking, he felt like punching Elio each time he made Mylar laugh.

Mylar!!! Mr Julian called out to her when he got to the sitting room. Mylar turned around and answered him.

"Yes, father-in-law." She got up and went towards him. He was feeling a little bit nervous about the question he wanted to ask.

"Have you...." He stopped himself before he could complete the sentence.

If he were to ask her such a question then it might arouse suspicions. What if she didn't see what was inside, he decided to go and check what was inside first, and if it turned out to be one of his dirty secrets, he would look for a discreet way to make her spill what she knew.

"Father-in-law," Mylar called twice before he got out of his thoughts, he noticed that his son was also looking at him.

"Exactly what I mean by suspicions." He said to himself.

"I wanted to ask if you have registered for this checkup, ante...natal?" He asked after quickly forming a lie in his head.

"Oh, no I haven't," Mylar replied.

"Why? What has Camilo been doing, it's been months now. He's so irresponsible."

"Dad I don't want to go for her to any checkup." Camilo said quickly, just in case his dad was thinking of asking him to go with her.

"Then I will go with you," Elio said and Camilo looked at him angrily.

"What is his problem?" Camilo said sharply under his breath.