The Billionaire’s Pretty Thief

Crystal had thought of going to her friend’s house but she had also thought back to the fact that it would be the very first place that her uncle would go to look for her after finding out that she had gone missing and she did not want to put her fitness life and that of her mother in danger.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

Gina was scared of what could happen to them if Max succeeded in getting his hands on them. They were in the car of a passerby who was passing by and had taken pity on them.

“Where are you going to again?”, the man asked them, and Crystal panicking in the front seat, gave the location to the man.

” Okay then it is on my way so I will just drop you off at the street”, he spoke out with a smile. Crystal was grateful to have met that man there as there was no way to get a taxi as it was not going to be easy.

Max men were all over patrolling the whole streets while Max was under serious pressure as the Minister was already present at the arena to officially bond the two parties by the constitution.

Taking out his phone from his pocket, he called out to his guard’s phone asking whether there was any news about the whereabouts of both ladies but the guard gave him a negative response, told him that they were still searching and doing everything they could to look for them.

“If you do not find them, then do not return to this Mansion”, he yelled out as he hung up the call and screamed out in anger. Wondering how they had managed to leave that house, he thought back to the people that were upstairs and with that anger, he went back into the house, taking the stairs.

The man looking at Crystal and Gina wondered what two beautiful ladies like them were doing on the street all frightened but he did not want to interfere as he just wanted to help them. They looked scared of something or someone and were as though they were being haunted.

He has driven through the traffic as Blaze’s house was a little bit far from where she lived so they had to take some time on the road. It was very dramatic for her to have gone through all that she had gone through but she had understood that it was part of life and there was nothing she could do to then back to the hands of time except to live it and face it.

Taking the street that led to Blaze’s house, she was happy as she felt that her troubles would be over and that she could only think of Blaze as her uncle could not think that she would go to him. Catching up with the supposed house, she told the man to stop there as they were going to drop down there.

The man who had noticed Crystal’s beauty all through the way raised a question on how he was going to see her again and she responded that she was not a good person to be caught a glimpse of again. Though her face had healed a bit, the scar on it could still be seen a little.

Gina helped to thank the man for saving her life and he drove off. Turning to the Mansion, Gina was wowed to see something that was more huge and glamorous than the one that she was working on there.

Not being able to hold herself, she asked,

” Where are we and who lives here?”

“My enemy”, Crystal spoke out and her response fell on Gina’s ears like a branch of wood making hearing difficult to get.

” How can you say that your enemy lives here, Hate is a strong word Ms. Crystal and I have never known you to be a person who holds grudges so what happened?”, she asked but Crystal was too tired to even give her an answer so she just let out a smile that made Gina more suspicious.

Gina could not still wrap her hands around the mystery that was going on so she just stood and waited. Crystal felt weak to ring the bell at the portal, and with a sad and frightened look, Gina could read every sign of her expression.

After waiting for some time without any response, she rang the bell again and a security officer came out. From his looks, Crystal could already recognize him and she greeted him politely.

“Hi ma’am, what can I do for you?”, he asked.

Crystal looking at Gina, said that she was there to see his boss Mr. Blaze Jadiel and the security officer asked her name and she gave it. With a thoughtful look, he told her to wait for some minutes while he was inside to place a call across to him.

Crystal was happy that she had come in a day that he was home and due to all the stress and tiredness, she could not stand on her feet for long anymore and she became shaky.

“Hello Sir, there is a lady out here asking to see you”, he spoke out waiting for his boss’s response, and Blaze asked who it was, the security officer said it was a certain Ms. Crystal Taylor.

” Crystal Taylor?”, he asked with a surprising hue, and the officer repeated the same thing that he had said.

Thinking to himself whether she had finally thought about her behavior and had come to see him, he told him to let her in and the officer answered back positively hanging up the call to go outside and ask them to enter but on reaching outside, he saw Crystal down and Gina shaking her to get up, wept bitterly.

The security officer was confused and without much hesitation, he went down and carried Crystal up taking her inside and asking Gina to follow them into the yard too. Blaze who had not gone to work that day because of his unstable mind and spirit had agreed on staying back home to get over certain issues that were disturbing his psyche.

Catching a glimpse of his security officer, walking into the Compound, and with a deep breath, he left his balcony, walking into his room and out of it along the stairs as he came down to the living room and rushed outside to understand what was happening, he saw that he was indeed carrying but Crystal in his arms and she seemed to be unconscious.

“What happened to her and who are you?”, he asked throwing his gaze at the security officer and Gina. Taking Crystal from the security officer’s hands, he asked Gina to follow him into the Mansion calling out on his maid to call his family doctor to come home as fast as he could.

The maid nodded and did exactly what he had asked and with a frightful look, he took Crystal and Gina upstairs to his room mad Gina was heavily crying out.

Blaze was confused and could not tell why they were both dressed in maids’ clothes and what could be the problem.

” Who are you and what happened?”, he asked entering his room and playing Crystal down on his bed while waiting for Gina’s explanation. Skeptical about him, she did not know whether to narrate everything or not as Crystal had said that the owner of that house was her enemy.

Lowering her gaze, she said that it was a long story and that she would prefer for Crystal to wake up and tell. Blaze was more convinced that something was wrong somewhere and veering around his gaze back to Crystal he could see that one side of her cheek was giving birth to

some deformity.

Taking a look at more as he lowered his look on her, he asked with an angry tone,

“Who is the bastard who has done this to her?”.

Gina trembling closed her lips and with tears running down her eyes, she looked at Crystal in her oblivious state, she felt bad faced with that situation that she could not talk much about.

It was an awful experience and she could not understand who Blaze was to Crystal, so letting out anything there, there would be tantamount to betrayal. Blaze decided not to ask her any further questions again after watching the fear in her eyes.

The atmosphere was saved by the consultant who had just walked inside Blaze’s room.

” Welcome doctor he rose to his feet”.

“Thank you Mr. Jadiel, what happened here?”, the doctor asked laying his medical box on the table while taking out his apparatus to check up on the patient.

He explained that she had stumbled in front of his gate and the doctor asked who she was to him and he responded,

” She is my friend”.

Examining Crystal, he said that he could not see anything to be scared of except for a few places that were swollen either from falling or being beaten by someone.

“She needs plenty of fruits and vegetables as well as plenty of rest”, he spoke out some more.

He further said that her state is stable and there is nothing to worry about and Blaze thanked him for his time and efforts and walked him out of the house.

Gonna who was left alone with Crystal got up from her seat and walked towards her, she knelt by the bed and crude out,

” You have to wake up Ms. Crystal.

The Minister and the others were already present as well as Nathan and his friends. everyone was waiting for Maxwell to go inside and bring his niece but he was just turning around imploring the Minister for some more time as there was a minor issue.

Mr. Bassey who had noticed the stress on his friend’s face got up from his seat and walked to him asking what the issue was Max looking at him shook his head and said that Crystal had escaped.

Shocked by the news, he asked his friend how that was even possible and his friend said that it had happened just before his guard’s eyes.

“This is not good at all”, he said smacking his foot against the ground and asking what Max had done to remedy the situation, he told him that he had sent his boys out to look for her.

Bassey thinking of where she could have gone, asked Max whether she has any family members or close friends who could take in given the situation Max said no but after reasoning what his friend had asked, he turned to him and with a long stare he voiced out,