CHAPTER 102: INDOORS.

Everything was ready for cleansing Paul and Ivana had visited the traditional village cleanser. He told them what was needed, the white sheep was bought and the guard.

Ivana was to be present during the cleansing. Due to work tight schedule Paul was not attending. Paul had dropped her in the mansion on the way to the office.

The village cleanser was already there when lvana arrived. The process of cleansing started by slaughtering the sheep. The villager cleanser was accompanied by two men who were to slaughter the sheep.

After that the blood was mixed with the herbs that he had carried. He went to the rooms the first one was where Elizabeth committed suicide them went to the room that used to be Evans Bombwe's room.Then went to Ivana's room. He entered everyroom in that mansion, in every room he poured the mixture of blood and herbs that he had mixed. He murmured some chants that Ivana and Milka couldn't understand.

They come back to the sitting room, the villager cleanser was infront as they followed behind. They stood in the sitting room for almost ten minutes without doing anything. He turned and looked in the direction of Ivana's bedroom. He signaled her to follow him alone. 

They entered the bedroom the he changed some words before fishing out a bracelet of an animal skin she couldn't figure out. The bracelet had blue flowers embroidered on it.

"This should protect you from the danger that is looming around" the villager cleanser said while he tied it around her left hand.

"Which danger? Will you please tell me?" Ivana said while following behind. He didn't answer her as he continued descending stairs.

He chanted his last words then said. "From six o'clock in the evening you should not allow anybody to come in here, close the door then you should not go outside, if you want to buy anything do it right now until five fifty nine in the evening. Then tomorrow at six o'clock in the morning start the cleaning after you finish take a shower then open the door. I repeat don't allow anybody else to join you, don't go outside starting from six o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the morning."

Ivana handed him the payment they agreed in the brown envelope then left. 

"Woow Ma'am Ivana l love your bracelet,it's beautiful,can you buy me one too" Milka said happily.

That's when Ivana remembered again that she has a bracelet that will be protected from danger she doesn't know. 'how is that possible, l wish he had told me in details about the danger' Ivana didn't know that she is spacing out until Milka talked to her again.

"Hey Ma'am are you okay,did l upset you?"

"No Milka ,l am perfectly fine, the thing is this bracelet is a mystery. Just forget about it, l will get you one tomorrow but not similar to this one. This one is special to me."

"Thank you ma'am Ivana"

"Milka, l told you are old enough to address me by my name. Just call me Ivana please, Dad is not here so there is no need of being professional. What are we lacking, let's check out l want to send you the market before evening"

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Paul was amongst the panel who were interviewing the interns. They decided to hire some interns and train them. If the intern perfects in his /her work they might extend the contract.

Paul wanted Ivana to be among the interns but she refused saying that it might make their things hard for them. So she didn't want to work under him, maybe being a personal assistant occassionally.

Among the intern who were queueing, there was a young lady mid twenties, dressed in a three piece business suit. She kept on smiling as she moved along the queue.

Only one person was infront of her ,then it will be her turn to go in. She kept on looking behind her, tries pepping in to see who were the interviewer.

'l hope you are among them, l want you to see how wrong you were when you dumped me. This is my chance to be hired and work in your company Paul' she thought as they signaled her to enter.

Paul was busy checking his cell phone when she entered. He wondered why Ivana have not texted her yet. He was about to arise from his chair and call his wife. When the intern introduced herself, making him look at her with astonishment.

"My name is Sylvia Barasa, a graduate of Moi University with.....

Paul swallowed a lump of siliva that were stuck in his throat. He blocked himself from listening to her. He was trying to remember if he had seen an application form with that name.

He had gone through every application letter for interns. Their was no way he had skipped her application letter. 'This woman will not rest until she destroys my marriage' he thought.

The moment he was focusing  on what she was presenting. Sylvia was winding up her presentation. Every intern was to write five thousand word on "What will l do differently if given the internship position." When she finished and left the interview room the interviewer started to clamor.

"I think this girl will make good changes in this company." Mr Wafula head of Public relations department said.

"Yes l think her paper was well written and researched." Mrs Sakwa the head of Human resource department

"I love her confidence, she is someone who is focused"

"Boss what do you think of her? Mr Maina asked Paul.

"Can we finish interviewing all the interns first before we start giving in necessary comments?"Paul said in reply.

"Yes boss sorry boss for our un professionalism" Mr Maina apologized.

"You are praising her about the well researched paper, how sure are you that it's not plagiarized?. I think every intern that will be hired will have to sent their researched paper in company email"