Chapter 21: Trusted an evil man
“… how can you pretend to be a saint Patrick? It was your idea that we make the accident happen so that your brother and his wife would die and make us the most important member of the Davis family.
You did it for Betty so she can become the wife of the eldest master of the Anderson family. Who knew only your brother would die and Temisa would be alive? How can you blame me so much?
Well I don’t know anything about where the corpse of Temisa was kept. What good will it do you in the first place? When she was alive and in a vegetable state, was she useful to you? Why the sudden interest in her corpse?” Sebrina quarrelled.
Jenny felt like screaming in shock. Her uncle knew all about the unfortunate incident that happened to her parents? They masterminded the accident? How?
She lived all her life trusting her uncle so much. He was so mean and evil towards them? He did that to her parents? What a wicked world. She was yet to finish accessing what her aunt said when she heard her uncle’s reply:
“Is that why you asked the doctor to kill her? Haven’t we done enough? We made that accident happen, we ensured Temisa remained in coma for two years and finally succeeded in giving her daughter to be married to Eduardo in exchange for Betty.
What did we gain after doing so much evil? Eduardo was involved in an accident and became cripple. What led us to be mean to my brother and his wife finally didn’t interest us anymore.
The least we can do is to let Temisa come out of the coma from which we have kept her. I already told the doctor to stop the toxins he was injecting into her. She was supposed to be out of coma after two days.
Now, you finished her off. Are you not afraid of Karma? What is our profit in being so wicked to people who have done us no harm. Why Sebrina? And the most annoying part of it is that you can’t say exactly where the corpse was kept…”Patrick Davis was saying when Jenny closed her ears.
She’s heard enough. How can people closest to her family do this to them? How can Uncle Patrick be responsible for her parents death? He and his wife were guilty of blood, her parents’ blood.
They did all that because they wanted their daughter Betty to be Eduardo’s wife. They didn’t know he was going to be involved in an accident and lost the ability to use his both legs. No wonder they were happy to give her off to Eduardo.
She stood up gently from the floor she had crunched into. She needs to leave that premises. They mustn’t know she heard them. She quietly turned and left.
Emma and Ella went shopping together. She was going to become one of the social ladies. She was going to get engaged with Rodrigo soon, she needed to Become a well known face in the social circle especially now that she was going to be engaged to Rodrigo.
As they walked in, it wasn’t quite five minutes, Rodrigo arrived at the same boutique with Camilla, holding her by her waist and whispering some lovey dovey into her ears.
Ella and her daughter turned in time to see Rodrigo , the usually expressionless faced man smiling and holding Camilla so intimate. He appeared to be deeply addicted to her.
The mother and daughter pair froze. Never had they thought that Rodrigo would be a lover boy like he was displaying with Camilla. That made Ella jealous and Emma crazy.
How can a man whose family had assured them that he would be married with their daughter go about arrogantly with another woman. And the most annoying part of it was that the girl he was with was of a lower status, a completely classless girl.
Emma felt her palm form a fist. She was going to be engaged to him and he was flirting with another lady, dirty filthy trash. She should be the one by his side and not the other way round.
Her complexion turned Ashen and the veins of her neck popped out. It took her great strength not to walk over to where the two were and throw that bitch out.
Ella perceived her daughter was feeling unhappy and quite understood what trauma Rodrigo and his classless girl were causing her daughter. She must see that these two do not have an end together, no future as a couple. Only her daughter Emma deserves to be by Rodrigo’s side, only her.
Rodrigo already knew Ella was in there, possibly with her daughter. He already saw her car in the parking lot when his chauffeur parked the car.
Rodrigo asked to see the manager and when he arrived, he asked that every customer be sent out until his girlfriend was done shopping.
Immediately, the manager went into action. Rodrigo is the eldest master of the Campbell’s family and the richest dude in the country. He cannot afford to annoy such a high rank bachelor like him.
There were rumours about how much he cherished his girlfriend. Now he saw it for himself. She was the estimable jewel he had.
When the manager arrived before Ella and her daughter, he asked politely that they should go out. He has an important customer who wants to shop with his girlfriend.
Ella got provoked. How can Emma be sent out because Rodrigo came with that stinking bitch? A fiance sent out because of a girlfriend? Never, she’s never going to let that happen.
“Sorry, we cannot leave. Tell the eldest master of the Campbell’s family that the eagle doesn’t bow to a butterfly..” Ella declared and held her daughter’s hand, kept going around and checking out what they wanted.
Emma felt a little uncomfortable. She doesn’t want an argument between Rodrigo and her mother. Rodrigo was known to be ruthless and arrogant. He might take it personally and cause a rift between them.
The manager suddenly began to sweat. How can he return to the young master and deliver such a message? He is a manger and not errand boy nor messenger.
He kept coaxing Ella to leave. She can come back when the eldest master has gone. He went ahead and promised her a 30% discount on all she would buy when she comes back but Ella would not listen.
” Hey everyone. How can my daughter and I step out because her fiance has come shopping for a girlfriend? That’s unfair?” Ella spoke on top of her voice.
She was deliberate. She wanted to create a scene and get everyone’s attention to the fact that her daughter was going to be Rodrigo’s fiance. She can’t step out.
Many had left, but the few customers who were on their way out paused. They turned to glare at Ella. She was referring to Rodrigo Campbell? He was her daughter’s fiance? Then who is that lady with him, a third party?
Ella’s voice attracted Rodrigo and Camilla’s attention. They looked in her direction and from the split vision, could see other people paused and stared at them. They definitely were having unfriendly thoughts in their heart, considering how they looked at Ella with pity.
Ella shrugged when Rodrigo glanced at her direction. That’s what she wants, to see his fiance with her mother while he was with some dregs called girlfriend.
Rodrigo’s displeasure was visibly seen. He walked a few steps towards Ella now holding Camilla than before. His face had turned cold and he was emitting a compressing aura.
Emma looked away when she saw Rodrigo approached with a chilling aura. How can she dare to look at such a man at a time like this. She tucked it on her mother but she didn’t care a bit.
Rodrigo stood before Ella and her daughter. He looked at them with a cold stare. The manager was now feeling uncomfortable. He wishes the woman and her daughter would just leave at once and save him the trouble that is about to ensue.
“Send everyone out. And whoever doesn’t want to leave, have my bodyguard throw them out like a stack of papers..”Rodrigo ordered. He was talking to the manager but his eyes didn’t move away from Ella and Emma.
“You can’t order Emma and I out President Campbell. She’s getting engaged to you in a few weeks. It is not proper that you compare an eagle with a butterfly…” Ella refutes.
Camilla felt her belly rumble. An eagle with a butterfly? Has she been reduced to something they now compare butterflies with? She was not significant. Is that what Ms Ella meant?
Rodrigo’s facial expression became something else. He didn’t say a word but immediately beckoned to his bodyguard. As the bodyguard came closer, he turned and walked away with Camilla.
What Camilla heard next was the noise of protest coming from behind her. She knew that was Ella and her daughter. The most annoying part of it is that Camera was flashing on them.
She wanted to look back but Rodrigo forced her to look only in front of her. There were screams from Ella and her daughter until a few minutes later, everywhere was silent.
The sales girls all stood before Camilla each asking to hide her in the show section, another the jewellery compartment and others dress. She doesn’t know where to start from. She sighed as Rodrigo beckoned to the sales girl In charge of guiding her through Jewellery selection and Camilla stood up, and followed.
An hour and half later when Rodrigo walked out of the boutique with Camilla, everyone was staring at them. Camilla had a shade on, similar to Rodrigo’s as they made their way to their car.
Rodrigo knew what was going on and why heads were turning in their direction. Camilla may not know yet, but he does and when she knows what was going on in the internet, she will be spellbound.
The car trunk was filled with Camilla’s things, worth millions of dollars. The sales girls had it all placed in the trunk before the lovers came out.
As the lovers settled into the car, Camilla took Rodrigo’s big hand in hers and gave it a light squeeze. ” Don’t take it seriously with Ella and Emma. They only felt jealous and anyone in her shoes would. Please let it end here” Camilla was pleading.
Rodrigo squinted. She was pleading on behalf of those who want to destroy her and ruin their relationship? Why is Camilla so soft?
” You need to be ruthless at times, Camilla. Being gentle and soft minded sometimes often caused more harm than being ruthless. Check the internet and see” Rodrigo said and looked away.
Camilla immediately knew Rodrigo was up to something. She logged into the internet and there were several pictures of Ella and her daughter being thrown out. Infact, Rodrigo’s bodyguards lifted them off their feet and placed them on their shoulders like baggage and threw them on the floor like a piece of wood.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.
Camilla gasped in shock. The women would definitely be injured. Cameras were flashing and unknown to them, they were yelling and talking aloud, cursing those bodyguards. Of course they didn’t curse Rodrigo who ordered the men to throw them out.
Their hair was in disarray and Emma’s ankle hurt because she was on heels where she was thrown away. She was leaping and picking the items in her bag that fell out.
“Why did you do this Rodrigo?” Camilla was furious. He could ask his men to throw them out but not to be so mean. This is too much to be done to ladies. He turned and glared at him but he looked like he didn’t know how unhappy she was.
” What did I do wrong? Look Camilla, that’s who I used to be before I became this weak because of you. If anyone provokes me, I will make such a person know what it’s like to toil with fire. Did you hear her comparing you to a butterfly?” Rodrigo demanded, he seemed not to be remorseful.
“But I am not angry. That is nothing to be compared to everything I have endured before now. You shouldn’t have taken it so far…”Camilla was reprimanding him when Rodrigo became offended.
“It’s not about you but me. No one can call my girlfriend a butterfly, right before my face and I do nothing simply because you said you are not offended. I don’t care about what you have endured before now, but since you have become my woman, you must be accorded the respect of being Rodrigo Campbell’s woman ok?” He
declared.
Camilla sighed. She thought he would have changed. His brutal personality would be transformed. Rodrigo is still who he used to be.
Camilla doesn’t know what to do about Rodrigo’s ruthless attitude at times.
But little did she know that the next time she witnessed his ruthlessness and brutality, it would be toward her and their world together, would cease to exist.