Chapter 96

Miras arrival to the house changed the plan. She and Olivia welcomed each other with a very warm embrace, this took quite sometime before they left each other. Even when they did, they sat on the same seat guessing at each other smiling. It was a touching moment for Lucy and Pat as the watched the twin sisters share love emotionally. They were all dressed up, looking beautiful, it was to be a very wonderful moment for them since they were all ladies. They were discussing and contemplating the place they would visit for a good treat, when Olivia's phone rang. She looked at it, saw that it was a call from their aunt Mary. She picked the call, after few seconds of greetings and asking of other family members, Olivia told her they were going out for food. Mary requested that they come to her house for the get together, telling her she had planned it and making her believe it was a coincidence. When the call ended, Olivia passed the information to Mira and others. They were all excited and immediately Mira called one of the drivers who got ready with the car, waiting for them outside. 

By this time, Mike and Cindy had arrived the prestigious Caribbean restaurant, they were ushered in by a handsome waiter, who did his job professionally. He offered them the menu, while waiting for them to make their choicé, Mike asked that he brought a bottle of Moet with two glasses. They young man left for the drink, this gave them ample time to think through and come up with what they would love to take. By the time the waiter returned, Cindy had decided to go for lobsters and other sea foods. She was actually watching her weight, while Mike went for fried rice and veggies with chicken. He was actually hungry and needed to eat heavy. They were left with the wine while the young man went off to get their order. Mike pooped open the wine, poured some measure of the content into their cups. They made a toast to their friendship before the began sipping the drink. He decided to make formal introduction of himself to the lady.

My name if Mike. He said with a lovely smile on his face.

I am Cindy. She responded, refusing to leave his hand so quick, as she deliberately massaged it seductively.

She enquired of what he does and what he was in the country for. Mike was surprised being that he hadn't at that time told her he was new in town. He was about to ask her how she knew he was new, but he let it slide, rather he told her what brought him was business and that he was a company representative. He needed not ask her what she does, as the compliment card had already shown she was into Estate development and management. While Mike spoke, Cindy couldn't let her eyes off him. She admired every bit of him, his red lips, his dentition, and his sexy eyes. One if the things Mike usually does was to speak in such a way that he doesn't only express himself, he also impress who ever his audience was, most especially ladies. That was the trick he activated while discussing with Cindy. At that point, Cindy fell in love with him. The problem she had was how to make Mike believe her. She knew it was near impossible for a man to believe that a young lady who was supposedly a stranger, to fall in love with him. She waited for Mike to get through with the answer before she spoke. In her speech, she told Mike, why she was in the US, it was also for a business. She had flown in from the UAE, Dubai precisely, that was her country if residence. The waiter appeared with their request, this made them pause their discussion and focused on the food. 

Olivia, Mira, Lucy and Pat, arrived aunt Mary's house at the Beach island estate. It was a sight to behold, Pat and Lucy hadn't seen such a beautiful edifice live before. As the driver parked the car, both of them came down from the car and fed their eyes with the beautiful estate. The houses were well structured with same colour of painting, they were positioned on a straight line, with a well mailed out internal road networks. Aunt Mary's hoise was the number 251st on the right, it had a huge space in front, a space that can contain up to four cars. There was two cars already when they parked, theirs making it three. Mary was upstairs watching them when the drove in, she had thought they were walking in, but when she got to the sitting room on the ground floor and didn't see them, she had to open the front door, seeing how amazed they looked at the environment, she beckoned on them to come in, as there was enough time to go around and have a good look.

When they got inside, Mira and Olivia who were already used to the house, remained indifferent at how the interior looked, while the other two ladies were shocked at kind of decorations that were done in the house. It was as if the find themselves in a house of a royalty. Pat imagined what Olivia's family house would be like, if her aunt's was that beautiful. Lucy who had gone to many rich people houses, was dumbfounded at what she saw. She had to boldly take some photo shots so as to have something to remember. Mary made sure they were comfortably relaxed, before she offered them a bottle of champagne. They shared the drink with the wine glass, chatting as the sipped. Meanwhile, all along, Olivia's thought was all about how to tell Mary she was pregnant. She kept on watching her to see when an opportunity would present itself so she would seize it and talk privately with her. She had observed that Mary was behaving strange, as she was always looking her way as if she read her mind. At intervals, once or twice, she had asked her if she had anything to discuss with her, she denied it. That made her to think around the coincidental nature of the visit. What she didn't know was that her mother was behind the plan.

Mrs Hart hadn't been comfortable since Olivia left her apartment, she had seen her once or twice, smiling and discussing with her sister Mira, but being her mother who knew her children too well, she could tell that her daughter Olivia was not completely okay. She gave it a long thought, mostly at night. It was during such times, that she remembered how close the girls were with their aunt. Throughout their adolescent age, till their University, she was able to hear about their experience of menstruation from Mary. She would tell her that her daughters had reached their puberty age, or that her daughters had started seeing their menstrual circle. By the time she would want to act in her capacity as a mother, Mary had taken care of it. Since then, she knew the ladies could tell her anything no matter how bad it might seem. This was how she decided to get in touch with Mary, she told her the story of what transpired between Olivia and herself, and made it known to her what she was suspecting. Olivia's Mom didn't stop there, she went ahead to tell her they were planning to eat out, she then suggested she host them, and use the opportunity to figure out what the issue was with Olivia. 

Mike ate to his satisfaction, he enjoyed the food. It had been a long while he had such a wonderful meal. The food was prepared in a totally different way from what he was used to. Cindy also acknowledge that the place was worth while. They were through with their meal and focused on the wine. Cindy was the first to break the silence that existed between them. She asked Mike if he was single or in any serious relationship. Mike was truthful enough that he told her about Pat and how he found out her secret affairs, he also told about Olivia and what happened between them. He ended by telling her he wouldn't say it was over between Olivia and himself as they hadn't been able to discuss since then. Cindy was happy that Mike was a straight forward person, she had never seen a man so open and down to earth like that. She had dated men and one thing she kept figuring out was their insincere response when such questions relating to having a girlfriend or wife came up. Mike's honesty, made her love him more. It also made her tell Mike the truth about herself. 

Cindy told Mike, how her best friend seduced her husband and got pregnant for him, which made her quit the marriage. She told him she had travelled to Australia for a business, when the friend called that was in town, trusting that she was her best friend, and believing that her husband wouldn't think that way, she begged him to allow her stay in the house till she returned. She never knew they were having intimacy even when she returned. It was after she had left, a month and some weeks later, she returned to the house. She was in the room dressing up for an outing, when she heard her husband begging her not to raise her voice. She walked out and asked what it was that they were arguing about. That was when her friend told her what had been happening, which resulted to her pregnancy. While she told Mike the story, he could see she was deeply pained, tears began to roll down her cheek, Mike brought out his white handkerchief and offered her to wipe her tears. He asked her to stop the story for now as he was also feeling emotionally down.