Chapter 12

Crystal handing over the menu to the server asked for the same thing that her friend had asked for but with a glass of ginger juice for her instead.
The server left and some minutes later, he was back with the dessert and two glasses of chilled juice and he served them and left.
Georgia had to keep her mouth busy while waiting for the real deal because, at Capricorn restaurant, an order could take up to 30minutes as though they had to go to the market to fetch the ingredients again.
Minus that nerving factor which was no order but their slowness, their meals were exceptional and the personnel at the kitchen were very neat and consistent.
The restaurant is known for its delicacies and its hospitality towards its clients as their client's satisfaction was their top priority.
Blaze had finished talking about the terms and agreement of the contract and its smooth operation if the two companies have to merge to generate more income, then the deal was sealed and the contract will be stipulated.
He wished them both a good day and they walked out satisfied with their deal.
Blaze picked up his things and left for his house as he needed rest.
Crystal and Georgia had finished savoring their meal, so they relaxed for a while, styled their bills, and left gen restaurant.
Georgia was already complaining of tiredness so was Crystal too.
"I don't think that I can make another round of strolling around, my feet hurt and I am full, I just want to take a shower and sleep", Georgia said, looking so exhausted as though she had been fighting.
Crystal not delivering any words more was just praying in her heart to reach her car faster so that she could steam it and get home as she was more tired than her friend.
They both went out of the mall to the parking lodge and entered Crystal's car.
Crystal was driving through the busy road and kept wishing that, there should be no traffic as they returned home because it was a workday of the week, and it is at that certain time of the evening that workers returned home.
Crystal notice that the silence in the car was not normal so while she drove, she looked at her friend who was sitting by her to know why the sudden speechlessness in the car and she found her sleeping.
When a stroke of laughter, Crystal continued driving as she had to drop Georgia at home before getting back to her house.
The traffic was becoming serious and Crystal decided to take another road so that she could reach faster.
The beauty of the evening could be seen as the sun settled at the back of the mountains making way for the heat to go away and for the sweet twilight breeze to set in.
Crystal was already at her friend's entrance, so she horns twice for the security agencies to come out.
" Her friend, we are already at your house", she let out as she tapped her on the shoulder so as not to brutalize her in her sleep.
"What happened to me?", she inquired while rubbing her eyes.
Crystal laughing so hard said that she was sleeping all through while she was driving and that she should get home.
The security agent was seen opening the gate and when he saw Crystal's car, he rushed to greet her happily.
Crystal too liked him as he is a polite and humble young man. She sent her hand into her purse and gave him a few thousand.
"Thank you Ms. Crystal", he said in a pleasant mood.
Crystal told him to take Georgia inside as she was very exhausted.
As soon as Georgia was taken out of the car together with her shopping bags, Crystal waved her goodbye and drove on to reach her house.
While driving in her eat back, she suddenly thought of going to Blaze's house to confront him and take the remaining twenty-nine million francs CFA that was lacking in the briefcase but again, she was feeling too tired from the long day that she had been through with Georgia.
"No I will go there tomorrow morning, and I know that I will meet him at home", she whispered to herself alone in her car.
Georgia was inside her house and she was happy with the things they had purchased and she could not wait to try them out after she wales up.
Blaze had arrived at his house from the office so exhausted that he could not hear a thief enter his room, and the meeting was so many that he had to reschedule some.
Taking off his coat and shirt, he headed straight for the bathroom before going down to have dinner alone as always.
Horns at the gate and wait,
Crystal was already at her mansion and the defense agent, opened the portico for her to go in.
" Thank you", she said as she drove in parking her car reasonably.
She stepped down of the car with her belongings, heading inside the house with her body weighing out of tiredness.
"Welcome Ms. Crystal", Gina, speaks politely she takes her bags from her going upstairs to her room to drop them.
" Thank you Gina", Crystal responded following her from behind as she also
takes the stairs walking as though she was not going to make it to her room.
Reaching her room, she fell on the bed tired and Gina asked if she needed something else, but she had a question she needed to ask,
"Where is uncle Max Gina?", she asked getting up from her bed.
Fine responded saying that her uncle was not at home and had not returned from the office since he left that morning.
Crystal rolling her eyes up and down told Gina that she needed to take a shower and rest and that when her uncle returns and asks for her, she should tell him that she is in her room resting.
Gina nodded in confirmation and asked whether Crystal liked for her to cook something for dinner or she will like to have fruits instead.
Crystal shook her head narrated how they had walked throughout the city all day and she was as full as a tank.
Gina, on hearing this laughed and excused herself as she had to finish up in the kitchen.
Crystal rose to her feet and closed her door behind Gina, and went into the bathroom to have a warm bath.
When she was done with her bath, she came out fresh like a fish and she applied her lotion on her body making it moist to keep it out of the heat during the day.
setting her favorite song on her Bluetooth device, she ascended on her bed and awaiting the sweet hands of sleep to come and embrace her, she could only think of one thing, which was a plan of action against her confrontation with Blaze Jadiel tomorrow.
She could finally feel her eyes heavy and her body not responding to her anymore and darkness filled her while room as she closed her eyes in the overpowering hands of sleep.
It was morning and her alarm clock signal woke her up and she struggled to stop it from sounding all over her room.
The continual noise from her alarm clock always nerves her each morning as it was just too loud.
Pulling her body on her bed, close to the little cupboard standing beside her bed, she stretched her hand and pressed the alarm hard, it's sound stopped and there was silence once more in her room just as she likes it.
Crystal enjoyed it when her mornings were calm and peaceful with her curtains pulled so as to avoid the sun rays from getting into her room through the little openings of the curtains.
Just as she was about to continue with her sleep, a know came into her room and she could not believe that her sleep was to be interrupted once more.
Using her pillow to close her ears, pressing them hard against her head, she heard another knock again but this time it was accompanied by a voice saying,
" Crystal dear, I know that that you are inside your room, can you wake up and open the door for me?".
Crystal putting her head up like someone who had heard the sound of a strong wind blowing towards her direction, filtered the voice in her heart mixed with the sleep she was feeling in her system and she realized that it was Uncle Max who was knocking at her door.
Responding to him as she stepped down from her bed, entering into her slippers at the side of her bed, and taking her robe from the table standing by her table, she put it on her mini nightgown as she walked to the door and unlocked it.
"Good morning Uncle Max and how was your night?", she asked seeing her uncle standing in front of her room all dressed up like someone who was just coming back from where he had gone to.
" Good mining to you Crystal and how was your night, hope it was better than the previous night?", He asked walking into her room and sat on the sofa found in her room crossing her legs over.
Crystal who already has an idea as to why her uncle was in her room that early morning, went back to her bed and had a sit on it waiting for her uncle to still say the reason why he was there that morning.
Uncle Max arranged himself well on his sofa and used his back to fully support his weight on the chair as he leaned backward, he asked Crystal what her new plans are and when she was going to execute them.
Crystal taking a deep breath, responded to her uncle as she scrubbed her eyes with the back of her hands.
She was not certain about the plans she had but if there was one thing that she was aware of, it was the fact that she was getting the balance from Blaze and there was no doubt about it.
Crystal had been through a traumatizing experience that she did not relate to anyone not even her to her friend as she did not know how to go about the story.
She held her neck, as she felt like words were not coming out of her mouth and her throat was itching probably from eating too many sweet things at the restaurant she went to yesterday.
With a calm voice and lowered eyes, she told Uncle Max the plan she had and how she was planning to go about it.
She expected to reach Blaze's house and confront him about the silly game he had placed on her that night and if possible get back all of the money she did not find in the briefcase.
But due to the kind of embarrassment that she had received earlier the other day by his treacherous act, she just decided to continue keeping calm for the moment while expecting to go later in the day.
Uncle Max questions her about how she intends to get back the balance, made her go numb as she was still very ashamed about what had happened to her the previous day as she was raped without even knowing.
" Blaze must pay for everything that he did as I can not let him do what he did to me and go away freely", said Crystal in her mind as all those thoughts were running through her mind endlessly as well as they were all finding enough reason to make her feel very bad at every second that passed.
All those thoughts were disturbing her so much that she could no longer think of anything but just it.
She was so traumatized to a fault that all her head was glued to only one particular thing. And that was what blaze had done to her.
The fact that blaze had drugged her and had raped her was still running through her head endlessly as her head was about to explode with thoughts.
As well as the fact that the money she was supposed to collect earlier that day, she did not get to collect the whole money as she had wanted.
She was just so disappointed in herself that going back to blaze's house was just so discouraging to him. The rate at which she was been traumatized could not be told.
As she was so ashamed and embarrassed to tell anyone about what happened to her.
Considering again the fact that she had never had sex in her life.
But her virginity was just taken like that. And not even by someone she loves but by one of her greatest victims that she had started feeling a tiny thing for since that day but now become her enemy. Where she at that time she was just so lost as she did not know what to do again.
As thoughts started running through her mind moving in a forward and backward direction making her feel so uncomfortable not only where she was, but any other place where she could happen to find herself.
The kind of psychological trauma that Crysta was having at that particular moment could not be explained. The trauma was just so unexpected.
As it was occurring to her every single minute that passed. However, it was a very bad thing though that one person from nowhere could just take her pride away, and what was killing her was the fact that she could not tell anyone.
Though uncle Max had come into her room to ask about her best plan of action, she was just so much reminded of that ugly incident though she was aware that she had to go take the balance from Blaze.
Anyway, the deed has been done and there is nothing that she can do about it. As the highest thing she could do was to get angry at blaze for raping her as well as for making her not collect all the money that she had wanted to collect earlier that day.
" Yes, he must pay for everything he has done to me..... ", Crystal said with a very angry tone as from her voice, one could hear the anger that she had already nursed for the blaze.
As well as the kind of hatred that was developing in her heart for blaze little did she know that the hatred she was feeling will turn to something else as soon as she will be in front of him.
She was planning to revenge what he had done to her but that was just not the case because, after she thought about the avenge that she was going to carry out, she became so demoralized and weak.
The main reason why Crystal had become so demoralized and weak to avenge what Blaze had done to her that day, was because she too had already started falling in love with him.
The love that she had for him had just started sparking off.
That was because, seeing blaze that day, he was different from what she had expected to see that day but the second that she had just seen him for the first time and with all the charisma that he had as well as the facial expressions, she had already fallen in love with him immediately.
As usual, she could never show him that she loved him coupled with the fact that Blaze happened to be one of her enemies. She could not just do with that. She did not have the right to fall for her enemies or even have a few feelings for her enemies.
That was not supposed to happen in any case because she might use her emotions and get weak and getting weak automatically means that she will not have to do anything again.
She will no longer do her job well as well as she will be automatically very weak due to her emotions.
That was the main reason why she was not supposed to love anyone. She was supposed to accept everything as she was instructed as gospel truth without questioning any of the things that were been instructed to her.
However, there was the need for her to respect everything that was been instructed to her because if she did not respect everything that was been instructed to her, it could have penalized her greatly and her uncle most especially because she was the running all those errands but because of him.
Crystal had been carrying out that kind of action as well as she has been going through all those kinds of risks that might even end up her life because of her uncle. Her uncle was just the master planner of all the things that she had been doing.
And had always given her the best advice and protected her against anyone that wanted to hurt her.
No one has ever planned that she should be raped but what had happened had happened.
There was no longer any way to change what had already happened.
But with that notwithstanding, Crystal had already bore it in her mind that she must do something back to him so that she could at least say that she has her revenge
But to Crystal, she thought that there was nothing that she could do at that particular time that could be able to make her know that she had revenged fully from that which Blaze had done to her earlier that day that was so unpleasant to her as well as it was so alarming to both the mind and the soul.
It could never be so embarrassing to be disciplined in such a bad way that was just so alarming to the soul as well as making her have all the reasons to be very angry at each second that passed by.