The heiress episode 31 – 32

🌺THE HEIRESS🌺

{She is cold, he is secretive}

Episode 31

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By : Kebby NG Media Services

“What do you have to tell me about Nick ?”Celine asked as she stared at Thomas who sat at the opposite seat, admiring the house.

“Nothing interesting, I only used that as a way to get you to talk to me, I knew you wouldn’t want to talk me and so I thought of this way to get to you”He said

“Okay. Now that you have gotten a way to see me,tell me what you really want”Celine asked

“Won’t you even offer me a drink?”he asked

“No”Celine replied sharply

“You are quite blunt….okay then if you won’t offer me a drink then you can as well show me around your house “Thomas said

“Mr Daven port will you just get to the point, as you can see am a busy person, so are you”Celine said

“Well then since you want me to get to the point then I will start by asking you what your decision will be to what I asked of you last night?”he asked

“My answer would be no”

“May I ask why?”Thomas asked

“I found some better”She said thinking about Nick

“Your guard for example?”He asked

“Yes!you were right with your theory last night, I like my guard so very much sbd it turns out that he likes me back, he proposed to me and I accepted. So is that all my Davenport”he asked

“But you know that with your refusal to me, you will be losing a lot”he said

“If you mean that I will be losing the company control, am not fine with that and I intend on fighting to get back my father place but I won’t have to marry you to do that, all I need is Nick “She said as she stood up

“Since that is all you have come to talk about, you might as well leave, if you choose to side with Bruce after this l, I will consider you my enemy “She said and Thomas who was quite disappointed that Celine refused him stood up too.

“Fine then, you have chosen your guard over me. I can very well say that you chose wrong Celine, the man you might have put your trust in might just betray you later on”Thomas said as he turned to leave

“What do you mean by that?”Celine asked and he turned to stare at her.

“You find that out soon enough. Good bye Miss Celine”He said and walk out of the house.

Just what did he mean by that? She thought as she kept starring after him.

“Was he bothering you?”Stacey asked as she came to her

“No he wasn’t , I was just refusing his offer of yesterday”Celine said

“What was his offer?”Stacey asked

“That’s a secret and besides where is Nick? I haven’t seen him this morning”She asked

“Oh! I forgot, he actually got a call this morning and it was from the police?”Stacey said

“The police? Why”Celine asked

“Apparently, the owner of the body guard agency he works at was found dead in his office this morning and since he is very close to……”

“My God! Why didn’t you tell me about it?”Celine said as she began to limp up the stairs to get dressed.

Nick stood admits the paramedics and the police who were at the scene, taking out Zack corpse.

He still can’t believe that Zack is dead! He had just spoke to him a few nights ago and now the man whom he had grown to love for a year is now dead.

“You must the deceased relative?”A police officer said approaching Nick.

“I am, well we are not really related but I think of him as my father”Nick said and seeing his corpse deposited into the ambulance made him feel so sad and bereft.

He had been asleep when Stacey had come to him saying he had a call.

A call which was to tell him that Zack is dead, his body was found in his office apparently holding his gun in his hand with a darn letter explaining why he had to kill himself.

“From what we saw at the scene of the crime, Zack had killed himself but I find some thing strange”The police officer said

“What do you find strange ?”Nick asked knowing the man was going to voice out what have been bothering Nick for an hour now.

“Do you think he had any rival or sort? Was he in a fight with some one you know? Cause judging from what I see, it’s not suicide but murder”The police officer said

“He never had any rival, neither did he fight with any one and am also guessing the same with you, he was killed and i want you to do your best in finding the culprit”Nick said and the officer nodded knowing he was talking out of grief.

“I will do my best to get to the bottom of this!” The officer said and then went back to car, driving after the ambulance.

His body will be taken to the mortuary and knowing that he has no relative. Nick have to go there to claim it but first, he has to return to the office to do more investigation him self.

The employees have been asked to leave the company for further investigation, the company had to be shut down and it hurt seeing closed like this.

He got to the office and though the room had been seen by the police and medics who came to take the body away it still looked like room a murder had been committed

He began to walk around the room, careful not to touch or dis arrange the stuff the police had kept there.

Blood which had been Zack had been splashed on the table, it hurts seeing the blood of the man he loved like this.

There was no doubt that the man who killed Zack is also the same man who is after Celine life.

He had been sure that he would succeed in getting him to tell him who is behind Celine life and also threatning him.

Zack wouldn’t have gotten involved with some one if he wasn’t threatned.

Nick sighed softly and turned to leave the room only to stop when he noticed some thing.

He walked a few paces to the book case and pulled out a book which had a piece of paper stucked in it.

He opened it to Zack hand writing scrawled on it.

“You must know me very well,if you end up
Finding this letter. I would like to
Apologise, for having kept the truth from
You. You are a very good boy Nick and I
Want you to keep on being that way, I
Don’t want you to end up like me who
Had been lured by money and the fine
Things in life. What am about to tell you
Is some thing that have been kept hidden
For years. I joined a gambling den just
For the fun of it and it ended me this way
The gambling den was quite lucrative
And I ended up going back to get more
Money, there I met a lot of wealthy
People, people in politics, people
That are not meant to be found in an
Illegal gambling den. Every thing was
Going well until some one began
Threatning to expose us all. The
People with power didn’t want that and
So they decided to shut the man up but
He ended up taking a confidential
Thing along with him.
It was a book which had the names of
Every one involved with the den. We
Have been trying to look for it but we
Have got nothing but the believe that
He left it with some one who is very
Close to him and that is Celine Clifford
The daughter of Marshall Clifford. Keep
Her safe because they are coming for
Her”

Zack.

On reading the last part Nick raced out of the building heading to his car to get to Celine.

🌺THE HEIRESS🌺

{She is cold, he is secretive}

Episode 32

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By : Kebby NG Media Services

Nick got back to the mansion only to see Stacey looking haggard and disturbed.

What was the matter? Where could Celine be? Could some thing have happened? He thought as he went towards her.

“Where is Celine? “Nick asked as he stared at her

“Well… she…..she”Stacey stopped to stare at him and when he was already thinking the worst,he heard her calling his name.

He turned to see the her walking out of the lift and quickly he ran towards her pulling her into a tight hug.

“What’s wrong?”Celine asked as she hugged him back fiercely.

She had been getting dressed, so she could go to him, Zack must be very important to him and knowing that the man is dead must be very devastating for Nick.

“Just let me hold you”He said softly pulling her into his embrace

Stacey had some how left them to be on their own.

“Hey! Am okay. I heard about Zack death.Am really sorry for your loss “she said as he moved out of her arms to stare down at her

“Thank you”He replied softly still treating like a fragile glass.

“You look tired, why don’t you come sit over here”she said and pulled him towards the chair.

“You haven’t eaten yet. How about I make you some camomile tea and while you are drinking the maid will……”

“Don’t go “He said softly and Celine stopped what she was saying to stare at him

“Am not going any where, I just want to get you….”

“Hold me”Nick said and knowing he must need a lot of comfort, she opened her arms and he moved into it, holding tight while she cradled his head in her arms.

“Hey. It’s going to be fine, am sure that where ever Zack will be, it will be in a very fine place”she said

“I doubt that”He muttered

“Why do you say so?”he asked

“This has some thing to do with you too”he said as he pulled away from her to pull out the letter he found.

She took it from his out stretched hand and read it.

“They are after my life because they believe a ledger is with me?”Celine asked shocked by what she read

“Yes! Apparently your father stole the ledger that contained the names of every one who participated at the gambling den, they were putting a lot of pressure on Zack to get him to find the book and when he didn’t,they killed him”he said and Celine gasped out in shock.

“Tell me. Don’t you remember your father Giving you some thing important to keep or where you might have keep it, I know you lost your memory after the accident but then you will now have to try to remember some thing, if we can get to know where the ledger and every single one of then is exposed, then we would all be safe “He said as he took her hands in his.

“Actually I do remember a bit but I think it’s not all of them,it’s all like a puzzle coming back to me”She said as she went to stand in front of the opened window.

FLASH BACK BEGINS
(A year ago)

“Father, please talk to me. What’s going on?”She asked as she kept on starring at her father who was packing up his stuffs in the study room, he looked scared and a bit frightening.

“They are coming Celine! They are coming, we need to pack up! We need to get out of here”He said as he kept on packing.

“Who is coming dad?”She asked as she stared at him

“Some very dangerous peop…..they are here!”Her father stopped what he was saying to listen to the foots step coming from the sitting room.

“Take this bag with you “He said giving her a little black bag.

“It contains a book , a book which has a lot of people name, take it to the police station, i won’t let my death be in vain”He said as he gave her the bag .

“What death are you talking about? Why are you talking like this father”She said as she began panicking for real.

“Please Celine, do what I ask you to do, take the emergency route and leave, make sure you go to the station and hand the bag over to the police, tell them that it’s gambling…..oh no! Get out of here”He said pushing Celine towards the emergency door way.

She couldn’t get to say good bye because the study door opened and those men barge into the room.

She was too late in running with out them seeing her.

While some of the masked men stayed with her father, some of them ran after her.

As soon as she ran out of the mansion, heading to the streets,she clutched the bag tightly in her arms.

She must at least take the bag to the police station, that was her father last wish and she would be damned if she doesn’t get to fulfil it.

She was an athlete and so running fast was some thing that was easy for her.

She kept on running until she stumbled on a stone.

Her foot got injured but still being determined to take the bag to the station, she began to run again but not as fast as before.

She could see the men coming for her and so she ran into the streets with out watching the road only for a car to drive into her.

PRESENT TIME

Celine closed her eyes as she remembered the last part.

That day she lost her father and her career, she thought as she tried to stop the tears that threatned to pour.

She felt Nick arms around her as she tried to speak again and she snuggled close to him for more comfort.

“You must have really been hurt back then, you lost your father and then your career”He voiced out her thought.

“And the people that should have been there for you weren’t there at all, just thinking about you being at the hospital all alone and also knowing that your father was dead makes me want to kill who ever was after you that night”He said angrily and touched by his words, she turned in his arms to give him a k-ss.

“Am okay now, with you by my side, there is nothing that scare me”She said softly and he nodded, pulling her into his arms again.

“Promise you wouldn’t leave me”She said stiffly

“I won’t okay,I like you too much to leave you Celine, never ever doubt that okay!”He said and she nodded in reply.

“The bag and the book was never found on me when I got to the hospital and so I can’t help you with where it could have been,am sorry”She said softly

“Don’t be! I can certainly look for the book and when I do, I will expose each and every one in the gambling den”He said softly

“I don’t want you putting your self in trouble”Celine said quickly

“I won’t, I promise”He said and she hugged him close again

“And you know what?”,

“What ?”She replied starring at him

“Am happy, happy that with what happened that day, you are still alive and here with me”He said and knowing what it meant to have some one say that to her made her like him even more.

“I really really like you a lot”She said softly and that brought a smile on Nick face.

“And I do too”He muttered.

They stood together hugging each other tight and unknown to them they already had an audience.

Stacey coughed slightly and that pulled them apart.

“I didn’t see any thing, I was just passing by.i will head to the kitchen now”Stacey said giving the both of them a knowing look before walking towards the kitchen.

“Knowing Stacey, she will come back”Celine said smiling up at Nick

“How do you know?”

“Just wait….five…four…. three…two….”

“Oh I can’t just walk by with out congratulating the both of you, am so happy for you Celine”Stacey said as she walked back into the room.

Celine gave Nick a ‘I told you so’ look before hugging Stacey and chattering with her.

Nick stood watching the two women heading to the kitchen to prepare a chocolate cake for dinner tonight.

Celine had decided to stay home and cheer him up , the chocolate cake is a way of cheering him up too, he thought as he watched them walk off.

His phone began to ring and he picked quickly, it was from the morgue.

“You said we should give you a call if we find any thing “The lady on the other end of the line said

“Yes. Have you found out some thing”

“Yes, actually when we performed the autopsy test, it revealed that he indeed committed suicide”The lady said

“That’s impossible. Zack was a perfect person,he wouldn’t have committed suicide, he was killed. The autopsy test again”Nick yelled at them.

“Even if we were to do it again, it will still be the same result, he committed suicide sir, this isn’t a murder case and ……..”Nick didn’t let her finish her word because he cut the call.

He was still looking troubled when Celine walked into the sitting room

“Hey what’s wrong?”She asked as she sat down beside him

“They said he committed suicide Celine,the autopsy confirmed that Zack killed him self but Zack wouldn’t do that, he is a coward when it comes to taking his own life.those bastards killed him and made it look like he killed himself”Nick said angrily.

“What are you going to do now?”Celine asked

“Make it my job to get revenge for Zack death, to protect you and also to expose each and every one of them “Nick said

“I know you would want to get back at those who killed Zack and i won’t stop you but one thing must be clear, you mustn’t get hurt, I don’t want you hurt okay”She said and instead of answering.Nick hugged her tight, telling her his answer that way.

“Come back here ! Come back here!”The men chasing Celine called out as they keep running after her.

Injured on her foot, Celine kept on running until she got to the street and not wanting them the catch her, she ran into the streets only for a car to hit her.

For a while, every thing was blank….Celine could feel her self slipping off but the voice which called her name made her open her eyes a bit.

The car that had hit her was still parked at the front and she was still on the floor with blood gushing out of her head.

“Shut up!!!” A voice yelled suddenly and she knew that who ever it was had been the person who hit her.

“She is dead already”The man said again

No! No am not dead, Celine thought as she tried desperately to show him that but she just couldn’t move her body, it felt sore.

The bag was still in her hand but it was taken from that man.

“Looks like you won’t have to need this any more”He said again

“He..lp…..help”She said as she heard him striding off but he stopped and she knew that he had heard her cry for help but still he went into the car and drove off leaving her there to die.

Celine woke up with a start, she found her self breathing hærd as the memory which she had forgotten came back to her.

She now knew why the bag and the book couldn’t be found that day.

The monster that had hit her and had left her to die had taken it.

T C B👇