Chapter 9
Blaze was awakened by the screaming of someone who penetrated right deep into his dreamland.
He jumped up from his slumber mystified only to find Crystal seriously whining.
Crystal couldn’t understand how she was still there and what had happened throughout the night.
She couldn’t remember anything from last night and all she noticed was blood.
“Oh my goodness, is that blood I am seeing?”. Blaze stammered.
Yes, it was blood and this was because she had been playing the game but had never slept with any man all through her life.
That was her first time and it was snatched like that without her having any souvenir of the moment.
She looked at Blaze with so much scorn as though she wanted to reap him up into pieces.
” How could you do this to me, how could you take advantage of me you pig?”. She yelled out.
But Blaze was as confused as she was and he just took the briefcase and handed it over to her.
Without any hesitation, she left there running as fast as her legs could carry her crying like someone who had witnessed a man’s slaughter.
Blaze called her back but she had already left. She pushed the man downstairs and didn’t look at her and just went.
He went by his bed and picked up his bedsheet looking at it like he had never seen one before in his life.
“She was still pure and I defiled her”, he murmured in guilt.
Crystal had arrived home and she sneaked into her room avoiding everyone especially her uncle from noticing what had happened to her.
It was morning and the guard had not yet come to call on her as her uncle usually sends her every morning after she comes back from a mission.
Crystal was familiar with this if he had noticed that she wasn’t back home from last night’s mission, he would have rung her battery out and the house wouldn’t have been so calm and serene.
Crystal took off her clothes and went into the bathroom. She could feel pains in between her buds as she tried urinating.
The pain was excruciating and she screamed and held her mouth simultaneously.
She pressed the heel of her hand on her forehead clinging to the bathtub tightly just to urinate.
The pressure was so much that she was sweating profusely even under the shower.
When she fell the urine came out, and she opened up her hand as a sign of relief breathing as though she was in contractions.
The images of last night came flashing right in front of her and she couldn’t understand where she had missed a step that cost her such an important thing,” Her virginity”.
She blinked as if coming out of a trance and she took her bath and came out of the lavatory.
She dried out herself still sobbing and she couldn’t do anything but console herself with the money that she had gotten.
“I didn’t go there for nothing”, she said as she looked at the briefcase on her bed.
Crystal sat down on her bed for a while straighter, but the pain in between her legs was still there.
She got up and stood in front of the mirror in her room as though she was hoping to see someone else or to find out that there was a missing part of her body.
She turned to her wardrobe and took out a pair of jeans and a blouse that fit just well.
She mustered some courage, took the briefcase, and opened her door to go meet her uncle.
Blaze looked out of his window from the time Crystal left his house till he was suddenly called by a friend.
He wasn’t feeling happy whereas he had won the challenge he took up against the pretty bandit.
” Why do I feel unhappy?”, he interrogated himself.
He had questions he couldn’t answer and it was very confusing how a bad girl could be pure.
His thoughts were still interrupted by another incoming call and this time he had to take the call.
His friends and allies were waiting for him to bring the feedback from the bet they had taken.
Blaze’s mood wasn’t the same any longer as he had discovered something incredible to the eyes.
He prepared himself to leave the house with proof of what had happened throughout the night and he left wondering whether he was going to see her.
Crystal pushed the big door that was in front of her as she went into the dining room to have breakfast with her uncle.
“Her comes my beloved niece in whom I am well pleased, he said opening his arms wide open like a happy mother welcoming her child back from a voyage.
Crystal was fully aware that it was the money inside the briefcase that was of interest to him as always.
” How was your night?”, he asked holding me against his chest and laughing.
“It was okay”, she responded plainly.
She sat down and her uncle too, and a long moment of silence followed thence broke up the silence in the room.
” Can I see the briefcase?”, he asked with a smile.
Crystal had to take some seconds as she was thinking of what had happened last night and she didn’t listen to what her uncle Max had asked.
He looked at his niece and noticed that something was with her so he whacked his hand in front of her eyes and she came back to herself.
“The briefcase”, he asked with a serious tone.
She handed over the briefcase to Uncle Maxwell and he took it praising her and saying all sorts of good things about the brilliant woman she had become.
When he opened the case and saw the money he was very happy. He went through the money, took out some cash, and smelled it laughing loudly saying,
” Thirty million francs CFA”, Uncle Max shouted out with so much joy.
Crystal glanced at him as he was enjoying the moment and she stood up to retire to her room when she noticed that her uncle had stopped laughing and his face had gone pale.
Uncle Max began to scatter the briefcase like a deranged person and his niece couldn’t comprehend what exactly he was looking for.
When Uncle Max had confirmed what he had seen he screamed out furious, “Crystal what the hell is this sick joke you are pulling on me?
She was dumbfounded looking at the briefcase blinking her eyes as though she wanted to perform some magic to disappear.
She couldn’t believe what her eyes were seeing but yes it was really what she was seeing.
The briefcase was filled with some cash on the top but the bottom was filled with so many papers cut in shapes like money.
“Can you explain to me what in the world is happening here young lady?”, he asked as he slammed the box with a huge force.
Crystal couldn’t even answer because she had gone through a lot that night and she didn’t verify the briefcase when it had been given to her as she took it and ran off.
” Uncle I don’t know what happened, I am as confused as you dare now?” ” she responded with her head down because she was as lost as her uncle.
Uncle Max didn’t want any of her silly explanations and he said that if she doesn’t bring to him the thirty million Francs CFA, she should forget about her father’s company.
Crystal’s eyes got wide open as she heard these words fall out of her uncle’s mouth.
She was in a total state of shock as her uncle was using her as though giving her the company was a favor he was doing to her.
“That is my inheritance right there we are talking about Uncle Max, so how could you say such a thing to me? She asked very hurt.
But her uncle wasn’t serious about handing her back to her late father’s company and that was why he was using her to get what he wanted.
He pulled the seat on the dining and arranged his cruiser he sat down and said,
” We had an agreement, and until you bring me that thirty million from Blaze Jadiel, this conversation will remain closed till further notice.
She felt so bad about the words that her uncle had said so she ran off into her room and closed her door.
She seemed for hours upon hours and couldn’t surmise that she was the one who always lures men to steal from them, but last night she met a match that beat her to her own game.
She was very furious with Blaze and was determined to get the rest of the money from him though she didn’t know how to go about it.
“He played me for a fool and to top it all he took away from my virginity”, She said to herself.Please check at N/ôvel(D)rama.Org.
She was eager to make him pay and for that, she had to come up with a good strategy so as not to be the victim again for the second time.
Crystal lay down on her bed thinking of her father and mother and wondering if this was the kind of life they would have wished for their daughter.
Blaze had arrived at the venue where he had to meet with his friends and they all were waiting for him precipitously.
He was like a king in their midst as he had taken up the challenge and won.
His cigarette was puffing out smoke like a chimney and he had come with edited pictures of the night he had spent with the pretty thief.
His comrades were glad that he got to avenge everything that she had done to them so they asked where he was keeping her, but little did they know that Blaze had started developing feelings for her because not only was she a thief, but she had stolen something else which was his sanity to think about anything else since she left that morning.