Chapter 154

Chase couldn't understand the natural twist and turns of life, it had been years since he heard from Charles, the last time they met, Charles was still in Africa. Then he was still working on his visa to leave the country. They had known way back in school days, although he (Chase) was a junior to him. At first, he couldn't recognize him through his voice even when he (Charles) tried the much he could to explain and describe in details. It was until he now reminded Chase of Queen, that Chase shouted loudly. The name of the lady brought Charles face to his mind instantly. It wasn't an incident he would forget ever in his life time, they had to use the better part of their time laughing over what happened between them and Queen. 

When they were done with the catching up and jokes, Charles went straight to the reason he reached out to him. He explained what the job entailed and made him understand why he should get the best hand to handle it. Chase listened attentively while he was talking, without interrupting him. He actually understood everything and what he needed, but he was waiting to know what was in it for him. As usual, when such private jobs come, they make money from it. In fact they prefer private jobs than the official ones. 

Charles and Chase reached an agreement on what it would cost to execute the job, then Charles promised to send the picture of the person and his details. This he would do through the wassup messenger. He also promised to get back to Chase with the deposit after getting feedback from his client.

When Charles got off the phone line, Chase couldn't help but laugh out loud while alone in his room. He remembered what happened between him and Charles, it was still very fresh in his memory even though it had been long it happened. It was an incident that could possibly destroy a relationship if not managed. He thanked God that they were able to handle it maturely. They had lived together in same apartment, for so long Charles had told him about his girlfriend and her expected visit. When he mentioned the girls name as Queen, it rang a bell in Chase's ear, but he never saw any reason to be afraid, being that his girlfriends name was also Queen. His was in another town while from Charles story, his own Queen stays and lives in the same town. 

On the faithful day that Charles's girlfriend was to visit, Chase decided to leave town so he could bring his home too, for a kind of party. Charles insisted that it was better that Chase call his girl and not to travel as he would want him around. Chase tried persuading him, but he insisted the more. So he (Chase) had to call and Queen told him he was coming to the city to meet her girlfriend so she would from there come over. The young men were happy as they arranged the house and made everywhere clean. They had to stock the house with groceries. Finally they took their bath and looked their best. Both of them say down in the sitting room sipping some bottles of beer and looking at the wall clock. 

After a while, the door bell rang, and Charles asked Chase to go for it. Chase would have obeyed, but his phone rang almost on immediately. So he picked his phone, while he was answering Queens call, Charles had gone to the door and opened for Queen. Coincidentally, it was same Queen that both of them were expecting. As soon as the young lady noticed what happened, she turned back and ran away. The young men didn't know what else to do, they looked at each other for few seconds, then they burst out in laughter. It happened that each time they heard the name Queen, wherever they might be, they won't be able to hold back the laughter. This was because all they did that night was to drink their selves to stupor.

There was no way Cindy would have known that Charles knew Chase, neither would she have known that her contender was about to get knowledge of her plans. She was still basking in the euphoria of joy that Charles was already making progress as he gave her feed back. She didn't even want any kind of negotiation, she told Charles's that she was ready to pay whatever the young man (Chase) asked for. All she needed was result. She asked that Charles make available the account details so she could effect payment. 

Chase was dressing up to go out, he had been contemplating on whether to take the job himself or contract it out. It wasn't as if he was too busy or engaged at the moment, all he was sent to do in UK was to receive someone, a high profile diplomat. As it was with their Office policy, it was only agents at his rank that was sent to do such jobs. He also knew that if he asked Olivia for permission to go for the new one, she would accept. All he needed right now was to get details on who the person was and what was at stake money wise. He was about to lock his room door and walk down the hall way, when he got the beep signaling that he had some messages waiting for him on wassup.

Olivia got a call from Chase that late evening, she hadn't received a call from Chase later than 6pm, no matter what the issue was. She felt that it must be an extraordinary issue that would lead to such call at that hour. She picked and it was a quick one, Chase apologized for calling at that time, and told her to check her wassup page so as to confirm something he sent her. As soon as he was through, he dropped the call. Olivia got up from the bed, took her phone and put on her mobile data. She waited for a few seconds for messages to drop. She then flipped through and scrolled to Chase's number. 

When she saw the picture, she was confused. First she was afraid that something bad might have happened to Mike, or probably he had an accident. She couldn't sleep again, all she did was walk to the sitting room where she sat thinking of what to do. Should she call Chase at that hour, she thought. It was already late, and what he asked for was a confirmation. If that be the case, she decided to use the same means to ask him questions. So she asked him what happened to Mike and added few other questions she felt was necessary. This she did after confirming that the image sent was Mike.

Chase got her reply and the questions that followed, he hadn't the time to tell long stories. He was as surprised as Olivia was when he got the picture, it wasn't one picture that was sent, but he knew the impact some of the other pictures would have on Olivia. He knew that the person on the picture was Mike, but he wanted to be sure and use the opportunity to pass a message to Olivia. It was like naturally events were somehow hovering around Mike, especially on issues bothering on women. He was just through with the investigation on Margaret's family, now another lady had surface.

Chase did not reply Olivia her questions that night, he wasn't ready to chat. He knew and understood women so well that he needed to avoid starting what he wasn't ready to finish. He sensed that if he answered her questions, more questions would follow. When he had got the confirmation he needed, he took his laptop and searched for Cindy's information online. His instinct had already told him that she was bird of same species as Olivia and the restless, he had seen some attributes of such from the story Charles told him. They were ever ready to spend money for things the ordinary lady or man would see as unnecessary. 

Even though his instinct had told him so, Chase insisted on getting one or two things he could lay his hands on about Cindy. His first search returned void, there was no such name as Cindy Morgan. He felt he didn't input his query the right way, so he rewrote his query once more. The Google search returned same error message. Chase took a little time to think, she might be using another name online he thought, it was the way of life of most of the ladies from very wealthy home. It was same with Olivia and Mira. Margaret too had same when he searched. 

Chase made up his mind to search through other engines before concluding what he had assumed, so he switched to Ask.com, when he didn't make head way, he tried yahoo search, so he continued until he got tired, he turned off his system and slept off.