“Hey, how are you?” Henry smiled as he saw Anthony.
“Fine Sir.” Anthony stood up from his seat. “Good day.”
“Yeah, how’s your holiday?” He asked.
“Fine and I don’t even know what else to call it.” He beamed.
“It’s alright, the important thing is that you’re enjoying yourself. Hi Victoria, is Vivian around, i came to check on her
“Let me call her.” Victoria told Henry and walked inside.
“Okay.” Henry waved. His eyes began to dart around the living room, he could see different picture frames of Victoria, Vivian and her son, she never saw any of a man there. “She must be a divorcee.” He finalized within himself. “If not, she wouldn’t be staying with a friend.” He kept muttering till Vivian got to the living room.
“Hello.” She sat down, smiling.
“Hey, Vivian. How are you doing?”
She nodded. “I’m good. I really appreciate the help of the other day, God really bless you!”
Henry chuckled. “You don’t need all that, that’s how this world is meant to be, not being stingy or being wicked. A man that could have shot you too, is meant to die in jail.”
Vivian beamed. “Anyways, thanks once again. do you care for something?”
“Ooh.. Don’t worry. I’m full already.” He grinned.
“No, you can’t come here without tasting anything.” Victoria walked inside the house.
“And I’m really okay.” He repeated. Deep inside of him, he’s been anticipating for what they’d bring out for him.
“So, you just came to check on me, right?”
Henry nodded. “Sure. I have just been busy, I’d have came earlier.”
“Really? What do you do?” She asked.
She had started questions for the gods now, you better don’t ask a question that will keep me quiet.. Henry thought within himself. “I’m into computer.” He replied.
“Really?”
“Sure. What of you?”
“I haven’t been working. I’ve just been there.”
“Really? You have no problem, at least money will still be flowing in from all sides, even abroad.”
Vivian laughed. “Who’s sending money from abroad?”
“Don’t you have a family there? Probably your husband.”
Vivian came out with a tray of juice and straw. She placed it in front of him and opened the juice. “Please just manage this.” She smiled. Thank God! He had thought.
“You shouldn’t have bothered yourself, Vic.” He smiled.
“Please, drink.” She went to sit down.
“Anyways, should I say I never married or he died?” Vivian just said.
“Died? I’m really sorry about that.”
Victoria just cleared her throat and rolled her eyes. Anthony already left the living room when he saw a visitor, maybe that made her talk that way.
Vivian understood Victoria’s code. She just chortled and continued. “Yes, many years back. I have just been living all by myself.”
“I’m really sorry about that.” He carried the juice and started drinking.
** ** **
“I have noticed a change in your countenance, Doris. What’s wrong?” Craig asked her.
She shook her head. “Nothing actually. It’s just that i saw a mark on the Prince and it looks like I have seen it on someone before, I just can’t remember who.” She replied.
“Really? From what I have heard, the mark on him is a symbol of royalty. All royal children have it.” He told her.
“Really? So outside the Royal Family, no one else can have it?”
Craig nodded. “Yes.”
“I just can’t remember who it is.” She tried to mask her feelings.
“Don’t let that worry you, Doris. You’ll remember when it’s time for you to.” Craig told her.
She nodded with a smile.
** ** **
Since Henry already got what he wanted to know, he knew his departure would be quick. Not further than that, he stood up and told he was leaving, He made sure he finished his drink before thinking of leaving at all.
He finally got to Stella’s place and hurried in to break the news. Then, she saw Stella in the room. This wouldn’t be the best time to break the news, he had thought and sat down.
“Stella, where have you been?” he asked
“I slept off.” She replied and stood up. “I have to leave, the food is on the fire.”
“Okay.” He was glad.
As soon as she left, Nicholas rushed up from the bed. He groaned again, he had forgotten he had a wound and didn’t sit up gently. “How far? How did it go?”
“Hey, a question at a time!” He contorted his mouth. “In fact, you called me an idiot before I left, don’t ask me any question.”
“Henry na, please talk!”
“Okay, idiot.” He pulled out his tongue. “She said her husband died long time back.” He told him.
“Foolish boy, that’s all you went there to hear.”
“Idiot! You should have gone yourself.”
Nicholas laughed so hard. “Unserious child. Wait, I hope you didn’t take anything there?”
“Sure. I went straight to business, they wanted to give me juice, but I declined.”
Nick smiled. “Better, because I know you very well.”
“That’s your business.”
“But Henry, do you think I can appear now?”
He contorted his mouth again, looking at him with a side of his face. “Did you disappear before?”
“Idiot, I have forgotten I was asking someone like you a question.” He hissed.
Henry laughed. “Question for the gods.”
Nick laughed and hissed.
** ** **
“Died long ago, really Vivian.” Victoria teased her.
“What should I have said?” She laughed.
Victoria smiled. “At least Nick is not dead.”
“He asked of my husband, not the father of my child.
Victoria clapped her hands together. “So, you’d have answered him if he really asked of Anthony’s father?”
She smiled. “I don’t even know. But your guy finished the juice.”
They laughed. “I thought he said he didn’t want.”
They continued laughing.
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