Gone not forever.

It was past 3 by the time Mae walked out of the Ge Manor. She had met Prince Ge who again tried to get her to stay, just some minutes more, but failed. She was never going to sleep with another man, only Bryan, she smiled as she saw through the prince's plan. "Didn't you say you will visit me after a business trip to the US?" Mae asked Ge who had run to block her exit.

"Yea, I will visit you over the weekend. How can I fail to?" Prince Ge smiled as he thought of the beauty in front of him being interested in him.

"Please allow me to escort you out." Prince Ge offered as he took her luggage and carried it to the car. Not giving her a chance to deny or accept. He just wanted to impress her.

"Are you done?" Xie Yu asked once they had parked the stuff in the boot.

"Yea did." Mae happily answered. Prince Ge still stood not leaving. 'What do you want?' Mae wondered as she remembered that night, the night she had foolishly fallen into his trap.

She had followed behind the Maid after dinner to Prince Ge's quarter. Though she had been timid at that time... Her mind which had been clustered with grief made her act all out of her consciousness. The maid led her straight without a divert to any other deed to her prey. She had been heartbroken, the weakest time in her life, that was the time Prince Ge had planned to execute his plan.

"Wow! Welcome!" Prince Ge had welcomed her in his room as the maid left without much more to do.

"Please have a seat." He had led her to seat on the wide cushy bed. "I missed seeing you." He had begun his talk keeping a close distance away from her. The room was neatly packed, with pictures of great men like Luther King and Abram Lincoln hanging around the wall, but only one picture didn't seem to join in with the rest. A picture of a white soldier, probably a general, hanging at the end of the line across the room. Prince Ge saw her gaze and answered her, "That is Adolf Hitler. My pick." Prince showed a visible extra liking to that portrait.

'Uh ok." Mae was never going to be interested in those portraits.

"Tell me what you wanted to say," Mae remembered this was not the topic, more so she had not been interested in knowing his feelings for her, she didn't care.

"Are you Ok?" He had asked instead as he lifted her head in his hand to face him. She looked so gloomy then, and more delicate.

"I'm Ok thanks." Mae had replied taken aback by his caring move. To her he was a brother, she had begun to create a liking for him, and he was more caring than Jake.

"Have you had diner?" Prince Ge asked, "you must have been hungry." He smiled drawing his hand down her face, slowly, careful not to glide over her hidden teets to tap her belly.

"Thanks for delivering diner to my room." Mae had answered with a smile not resisting his hand lingering around her lower belly now. She had studied his face then, but only read the care and brotherly love on it. Is not that she did not think of Bryan now as the images of her lover kept popping into her mind. 'What did he see in such a fat woman.' Mae wondered as she got lost in her mind.

The perfect time to strike a rod is when it's hot. Prince Ge saw the angelic face turn purple, she was heartbroken, and he was going to fix her heart.

He had drawn her in his embrace, pulling her up so her body lay on his front. The sweet perfume on her made him lean closer to her neck and talk to her in whispers.

"You don't need to be stressed. There are lots of important things to do apart from loving someone." He had not convinced her a bit.

'You don't understand how much I love him!' Mae answered back angrily, but with her mouth shut.

She could feel his hand pulling her up to sit on his lap now, of which she found herself not denying him to do so as she sat on him, his hands round her body.

"I wish I had a chance to remain like this with you forever." Prince Ge aired making Mae feel loved.

"I'm leaving tomorrow." Mae who had now ignored the presence of Bryan in her life began to talk sweetly with the prince.

"I'm leaving! Can't you hear me?" Mae almost shouted as she saw Prince Ge was not going to step aside. Xie Yu kept looking back and even had to shout out for her to get in the car.

"Bye Brother." Mae hugged Prince Ge who kept blubbering nonsense about his affection for her.

"I will miss you too, take care Bro." Mae stepped aside and got in the car, in the back seat next to Jake.

"Bye." Prince Ge waved back as Berick brought the ignited vehicle into motion out of this compound.

As the car drove silently into the town, Prince Ge remembered she had referred to him as a brother. It disappointed him, not after secretly pouring some money into her account. 'I will travel to the US this upcoming weekend." He noticed his butler hurrying over and informed him.

"Yes, Prince. What should I do for you?" The butler offered as Prince Ge now loathed the elders for welcoming back Jake, a son of the previous Prince. They had made him love his sister.

"Can't we check on Bryan?" Mae asked as the car sped along the highway. This was the same highway leading to the capital, through Dagoretti.

"I'm sorry dear but we don't have much time left, We shall organize a visit instead." Xie Yu who had already talked this out with Miss Old Gindi over the phone broke Mae's heart.

"But..." She was ready to complain and order Berick to stop the car but jake cut her short.

"Bryan will visit you, the important thing right now is to get back to the US!" His voice was plastered with some hatred, she couldn't understand why Jake responded with such a high tone. Or did he learn that I went to Prince Ge while they slept?

She saw herself again with Prince Ge as she reminisced the moment she tickled her out of stress.

"Please stop now." She had cried out loud with tears in her eyes due to joy. Prince Ge had thrown her on the bed pulling her legs up as he tickled her foot.

"Then you have to tell me you not going to think too much of it." His voice warned her as he pressed her foot, ready to begin again if she refuse his command.

"I won't think of it again. Please don't tickle me." Mae laughed as he released her to bump next to her drawing his foot over her waist.

This had begun to go too far, Mae saw it coming and quickly avoided it cunningly.

"I'm so sleepy." She said as she closed her eyes with heaviness.

"You can sleep here." The now excited man had offered. "No, I have to get back to my room." Mae denied it as she felt the excited man belonging to the prince poke her belly.

She almost screamed!

"Sleep with me tonight Mae." Prince Ge shamelessly begged as he pulled Mae closer to rub his slick.

"No. Please I have to leave. I will come back tomorrow before I leave. For tonight no." She too begged as she avoided getting close to him. This had been too much for a start.

"Ok. Tomorrow before you leave I will show you something. I'm not going to force you into anything, ok?" Prince Ge thought that he was acting gentle but little did he know he had let the bunny escape.

"Ok. Before we leave for the US I will come." Mae had promised.

Jake secretly stared at Mae who had gone silent studying the city as they drove to the airport.

"What is she thinking of?" Jake wondered as Mae smiled at her reflection in the window, lost in her world.

There was not much to talk about, hence the silence and few words shared in the car. Berick put on some music to ease the tension as he realised Mae was not going to speak to anyone.

"Hey, Mae?" Xie Yu handed her some crisps from her handbag to share with Jake.

"Thanks, aunt." Mae smiled as she took the sweet crispy potatoes in her hand, tearing the wrapping and letting Jake have some too.

'Are you now ok? Hope you understand the urgency to get back to the US." Xie Yu reasoned but Mae just chuckled, "It's ok."

"Why are you so happy suddenly?" Jake asked.

"Do you want me to remain sad?" Mae asked as she happily enjoyed the feeling of getting away from William Ge, without fulfilling her promise.

"You're just a pervert! You will never be my brother!" Mae laughed as Xie Yu cracked a joke she had not heard.

With her happiness so did liveliness dwell in the car.

"Say Bye to Bryan." Xie Yu made the phone call as they neared getting on the plane.

"Hello. Can I speak with Bryan.?" Mae heard the voice on the other end being Miss Old Gindi's requested.

"Hello, Mae?" This was Bryan. He didn't have his phone and they dared not call him via his phone, not after getting a threat through the line.

"Honey? I'm leaving for the US. Sorry I didn't come to look after you." Both of them experienced the same feeling of breaking down.

"I'm going to miss you so much," Bryan spoke through in a torn voice as miss old Gindi held his shoulder comforting him.

"Babe, I will come back to you. I promise... I love you soo much." The phone ended as Mae wiped tears from her eyes.

"Let's get ready." Xie Yu who ended the call tagged them into the plane.