Chapter 46

Maxwell stood at the window of his spectaculous office and gazed out to the city.From his position he could see the whole of the city but that night he didn't.His mind was back at his family mansion and all he could see before him was Ammy.Her beautiful face, her smile and those eyes that seemed to arrest his soul when she looked at him.He was engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't hear the knock in his door.Monica walked inside when he didn't answer and moved closer to him.She looked at his beautiful back,he was very handsome and masculine.She had loved him ever since she met him and was glad when she started working as his personal secretary.She loved being close to him and she was always doing her best to win him over to her but he never even noted that.She was constantly hurt that he never noticed her efforts and when she read the invitation to his engagement party which had been sent to all the office workers,she was heartbroken and her heart shattered to pieces.Max felt somebody's presence close to him and he quietly turned around to see who it.His eyes narrowed when he saw Monica staring at him.He knew that he always had this effect on every lady he came across but he had never seen her drooling over him.He sighed silently and cleared his throat loudly to get her attention.Monica was finally back to her world and her eyes met the bright eyes staring into her own.She gulped and took a step back and straightened her skirt before talking.

"Am sorry sir, I just came to tell you that it's already late sir,"she spoke shakily.Max nodded at her and she hurried off.Monica rushed back to her office and sat on the table panting hard as though she was from a marathon.

"What's wrong with me...now he caught me staring and drooling over him...what now?"she questioned herself while hitting her forehead lightly with her palm.She was embarrassed by her own behavior.Max walked over to his seat after Monica had left.He grabbed his coat from the chair and picked his briefcase and walked out.He took his elevator to downstairs and walked to his car escorted by his guards.One of the guards opened the car door for him and he got in.He loosened his tie from his neck and gazed at his watch, it was some minutes to nine o'clock.The car drove off from the parking lot and sped to his house.The drive was as long as always but it Max was perplexed some minutes later when the driver told him that they were home.

"Did you over speed the car?"Max asked before alighting the car.

"No sir...it has been an hour drive as always,"the driver confirmed to him.Max got off and walked to the mansion.

"Welcome back master, dinner is already served,"Colbert informed him.

"Thank Bert but ask Ammy to bring my food upstairs,"Max answered absently.

"But madam isn't back yet sir,"Colbert answered confused.Max pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed silently.

"I know that Bert...I just meant that you can serve or ask one of your maids to serve my meal upstairs,"Max corrected and walked away before his butler could say anything else.Colbert looked at his boss's retrieving back and smiled happily.

"That's a good sign....the poor thing is finally in love again,"he exclaimed still smiling happily.He rushed to the dinning room and set his master's food on the tray and took it upstairs.He knocked on the door and when he got no response,he walked inside just to find his master sitted on the bed and gazing into space.

"Sir here is your meal,"Colbert announced in a low voice.

"On the table please..."came Max's answer as he stood from the bed and began walking towards the bathroom.Colbert did as asked of him and left the room.At the bathroom, Max stood under the running shower for almost an hour until his phone rang from the bedroom.He grabbed the towel and went back to the bedroom.He reached the glass side table and checked his phone but it was unknown number.Max picked the call and remained silent until a voice of a young lady spoke from the other line.

"Hello..."came the small voice.

"Yes..."Max responded curiously not knowing who it was.

"Am sorry for calling at this time but I found your number written on a paper and placed under my pillow on my bed some days past but I couldn't call because I didn't know who it was but I have now...."the girl explained herself.

"I see that you have Andy..."Max responded calmly.The girl was quiet for a while then asked a question.

"How do you know my name?"she asked calmly though she was clearly afraid and had panicked when she called her name.

"Andy Walker....I do know you and I infact know everything about you and I want to help you out...meet you on Saturday at 10 am at the park,"Max spoke and ended the call.Andy was about to ask who he was but the call got ended béfore she could.

"H-hello...."she called but the call was already hanged up.She stared at the screen for a while and placed it back on the table beside her bed.

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FLASHBACK

Max remembered the night during their engagement party.When he saw tears in Ammy's eyes, he felt guilty and he was hurt as well.

"Is something wrong Ammy....why are you crying?"he remembers asking her that question.

"I wish my mother was here to see my day or my friends and my sister...I wish they were here with me just like your family and friends are here with you...I feel so lonely Max,"she answered him still crying.He had promised to reunite them when they were finally married but her sadness and loneliness was consuming him and made him guilty.Since he had sent his guards to find out where she lived even before they signed the marriage contract,he knew where she lived and he instructed Sham, his chief guard to sneak into the house and leave his personal number somewhere she could see easily.That night, Sham reached Mrs Emmy's residence,and he could see all of them sitted through the window at the living room watching and Andy sat hugging Richard as they watched.He went at the back of the house and luckily the back door from the kitchen was unlocked.He quietly opened the door and sneaked in and walked slowly upstairs without any of them knowing.He opened every room and checked until he came to a room painted blue and many drawings and photos were on the walls.Most of the photos were of a young girl who resembled Ammy as though they were identical twins but she was younger and she had deep brown hair which was just shoulder length.Other photos were of Ammy and the girl and a woman who had deep brown hair and resembled the girls as well.There were books on a table besides the bed and they had name stickers, Andy Walker.He took out the piece of paper he had written the number on and placed on the table on the books.

"What if someone else comes first and sees it?..."he questioned himself and ended up putting the paper under the pillow and continued his survey on the books.Few minutes later, Sham heard some footsteps approaching and he hid behind the curtains on the window.The young ladies in her pyjamas entered the room and locked the door behind her.She noted that her books were displaced a little.She moved to the table and kept her books in order before moving to the bed.She pulled the bed sheet and got in between the bedsheets.She picked the pillows and placed slanting and that's when she touched a piece of paper.She picked the paper and examined it but it was just a number.

"Who placed this here?"she murmured the question to herself.She read the number silently again and got off the bed.

"Hello somebody there?...hello?"she called and Sham saw and heard everything.He knew that she was loud enough and the rest would come to see why she calling out but he couldn't get out since the windows were shut and opening them would cause a clicking sound and he could get caught.

"Hello....?"Andy called again while checking out the room.She had checked the wardrobe and under the bed and behind the sofa but there was no one there.She slowly walked towards the window but before she could move any further the door flung open and Richard walked inside giving him a chance to shift from the curtains to the wardrobe and he his behind it securely.

"Andy, what's wrong?...."asked Richard.Andy was quiet for a while, not knowing whether to tell him of the number that had mysteriously get to her room.She finally decided to keep it to herself until she knew the truth.

"Am fine Richard....I just thought I heard something but there is nothing here,"she finally spoke.

"Okay fine....should go to bed now,"Richard told him and locked the door on his way out.Andy reached for the window and checked behind the curtains but there was no one.She went back to bed and switched off the lights.Sham went back to the mansion and informed his boss of his success and he had been waiting for her call.