chapter 16

Using the back of her hands to wipe off her tears, she told Blaze that she had just come there for the balance as she had noticed that the briefcase she took was not having the money.
Blaze listening to her carefully asked heat made her so certain that she was going to live with the money alive from his house but Crystal did not answer that.
"I can hear a young girl who does not love the kind of life she is living but is forced to do so just to fulfill certain conditions, so will you like to share your burden with me?", he asked again, but this time walking towards her.
Crystal feeling his breath on her as he approached her slowly, walked to the other side of the office telling him to fix an appointment so that they could ain't down and talk properly as she was in his office.
Blaze smiled and responded to her worries as he told her not to worry about a thing.
"This is my office and I am the boss, I can choose to do whatever like in here and no one will enter here as long as I have not given the go signal for them to do so", he explained telling Crystal to sit down.
Crystal was aware of the repercussions that will take place on her and her Uncle if she decided to talk so she had to look for another excuse to be able to leave Blaze's office.
" I am alright, I just had a headache it happen most of the ", Crystal let out looking at three other sides of the office as she avoided Blaze's eye contact.
Blaze could tell that she was lying so he asked another question that made her more uncomfortable.
" Why are you so bent on taking the money, though it might cost your life?".
That question alone made Crystal realize that she has been playing a dangerous game and it could cost her someday.
Raising her eyes looking at Blaze, she asked what he meant by that with a small voice.
Blaze could see the fear and pain in Crystal's eyes when he said that, and he tried taking back what he said but he could not find the right words to. remedy the situation is he spoke out.
"I have always heard stories about a pretty girl who goes after rich men to ransack their money and made off with it", Blaze spoke as calmly as possible so as not to freak her out.
Yet, it was too late as Crystal was already shaking out of fear after what she had just heard.
Crystal weeping painfully trembling like a leaf that has been plucked from its urinal stem asked Blaze what he meant by that.
Crystal was fully aware that those men she always knocks over from could be very angry and wanted her to pay for her deeds but the way Blaze was talking, it seems like they could be looking for her head.
"He just wants to play with your head Crystal", a voice spoke in her and she held her dress with a tight fist wondering why Blaze will be so good to her all of a sudden whereas he raped her without any pity.
Blaze had realized that she was silent and that was not good for him as she might be thinking of something else.
"I may protect you, Crystal, only if you tell me the truth, I want to know about everything", Blaze spoke out waiting for her to start talking.
Crystal was beginning to sense something fishy as Blaze's goodness was becoming alarming and she was not liking it at all.
Thinking of a way to create a distraction in order to get out of his office as she was not believing in those words of his, she decided to rise on her feet and walk around the office while looking at Blaze with a stare the was frightening.
" You want me to tell you the truth right Mr. Blaze?", Crystal asked with a serious face and a more deep voice.
Blaze answered positively to her question knowing that, his words had finally had outcomes on her and she was ready to say who was the bar behind her operations as she could not be doing that all by herself.
Crystal having Blazes full attention, asked,
"Why did you do it?".
Blaze was lost for some seconds as he could not understand what she meant by that as that was not the answer to his questions.
Wiping his eyes, as though he was listening to her but with them, he arranged himself on the couch, folding the sleeve of his left-hand shirt with the help of his right hand and he answered Crystals question with his own,
" What do you mean by why did you do it?", he raised a question confused as her question did not have its place in what he was asking.
Crystal was slowly regaining herself and the purpose for which she had come to Blazes office as she walked closer to him asking,
"Why did you have to play dirty by replacing the money in the suitcase with papers cut like cash?", Crystal raised her voice and Blaze then understood that, she was not joking about her question and that she was off his Clasps.
Georgia had been crying on her bed expecting that her friend will finally call her back after seeing the number of calls she had left on her cell phone, but it did not happen and she had no idea that Crystal too was faced with a difficult situation.
Uncle Max who was alone in his office began to reflect on the idea that his friend Bassey had advised him to do and he was not pleased with it but if that was going to be a ticket for his niece to get out of the way of him enjoying the wealth and affluence that he was living in, then h to was ready to take the risk.
Blaze pretending like he had no idea about what Crystal was babbling about, asked her whether she was okay as she came off a little bit disturbed.
Crystal getting more furious, asked him if he was by any chance saying that she is eccentric as she was fully aware that he could understand what she was saying but behaved like he did not.
"I know for a fact that you were conscious when it all happened and you are very much conscious now as well, so why to play dumb?", Crustal fired on him with questions.
"I think that the headache you have is making you talk rubbish so I suggest that you go home", Blaze spoke out walking to his seat behind his table and staring at Crystal in fulfillment, he fixed the collar of his shirt and sat down.
Crystal could not believe that her moment of emotions had made her so weak in Blaze's eyes, and she thought of something to shake him off so that he could realize that she was being serious.
Blaze, who had relatively opened a file and was impersonating to concentrate on it, did not expect what he saw in some seconds in Crystal's reaction as he thought that he was in his office with a man woman.
" You do not know what I am talking about huh?", she asked scattering his office table and pushing down all of the files that were on it.
Blaze was shocked with what had just happened that he was left dump founded bringing up with anger and his eyes slowly became red as he looked at Crystal.
"What on earth did you just do that for you crazy woman?", he yelled out in anger as he got up from his seat squeezing his hands as he walked towards her.
Crystal who was frightened did not give up as she said,
" Do you want to know what a crazy woman looks like?", she asked walking to his shelves and pushing the books and magazines on it down.
Crystal blamed him for what had happened to her that night and how he raped her without any empathy for her, slurring what she might have felt after waking up to such an awful scene.
Blaze was beginning to understand what her biggest frustration was what she thought had happened to her,
"If only you knew what I felt that night, having a thief like you in my bed and feeling your sweet tender body close to mine", Blaze said knowing that it was going to make her more furious.
Crystal could not believe that he had said that, so she walked closer to him mad landed a hot slap on his cheek.
" Do you even have an idea of what you did, do you know that you took away my pride and joy as a woman without an iota of shame?", Crystal grabbed his shirt like someone who wants a fight.
Blaze was the only person who has an idea about what had happened that faithful night, and he wanted her to feel the pain of what she had been doing to others as the thought alone of losing her virginity without any consciousness, was enough to hurt her for life.
Crystal scattered everything in his office and with the madness that had gotten into her head, she picked up his laptop on the table, threatening to smash it on the ground.
Blaze opened his eyes in disbelief at what he was seeing and he then realized that, if he did not do something quick about the situation, then Crystal was going to destroy the pieces of information in his laptop.
"If you do not drop that laptop now, I will call the police on you", Blaze mumbled hoping to scare Crystal as she will be back to her senses, but Crystal was hell-bent on making things difficult for Blaze.
" I do not care if you have your life information in here, just know that I am going to make life a living hell for you in this city", Crustal was not bluffing about the world she said.
Blaze, realizing that he was left with no other choice but to use the hard way, took out his phone from his pocket, dialed a fake number, and put it on his ear.
Faking a call, he spoke out in a loud voice making sure that Crystal was listening to him,
"God day officer, this is Blaze Jadiel Speaking and I am having a situation here as a crazy woman is causing a fuss in my office", Blaze announced watching closely at Crystal's aftermath.
Crystal started to shake from what Blaze was saying over the phone, and she dropped the laptop and spoke gently,
" Are you seriously calling the cops on me Blaze?", she raised a question feeling scared about what she was listening to as it could bring her more problems.
Blaze seeing the fright in her eyes brought down the phone from his ears, and hung up the call.
"One more disorderly act from you, and trust me that you will sleep in jail", Blaze added to what she was feeling already.
Crystal could not move an inch from where she was standing as she felt her legs glued to the ground and her body stiff like a stud.
Casting off tears, she looked at Blaze and asked why he had to take advantage of her.
Blaze felt guilty about how she was feeling, but his wish was for her to suffer in pain as she had caused the same to his comrades.
"I will not tell her that all that she saw was staged because I want her to feel what she has been doing to all those victims that fell into her decoys", Blaze thought to himself as he watch her agonize.
Yes, Blaze had indeed tried having his way with Crystal after he noticed her drug his glass and eventually switched it up.
His concern was raised when he tried penetrating her and his shaft didn't go through as her bud was still rigid.
Thinking to himself that night, Blaze had wondered why she was so tight though she is a girl with such a dirty profile.
Rubbing his cranium, thinking of what to do, he came up with an idea to mix a red substance he had in his house and threw a little on the bed where Crystal was sleeping, rubbing some in-between her thighs so that she could see when she wakes up.
Personally, Blaze had no intentions of having his way with Crystal though her victims, said she was so beautiful.
All he wanted was to carry out the task and prove to them that, he could beat the pretty thief to her own game, but when he set his eyes on Crustal that devoted night, he realized that Crystal was not only beautiful as it was an injustice to her physical appearance.
The right term to use was that she was unapologetically gorgeous with a perfect body like that of a top model and he fur was as smooth as that of a newborn baby.
Crystal who has cried so much, held her head in her hands supporting her elbows on her knees for assistance.
The silence between them was interrupted as there was a noise in the office order than the tempo that could be heard from crystals bawl.
It sounded like the sound of a phone ringing and Blaze who was still holding his cell phone in his hand, threw a glimpse at it, but he saw that the sound was not coming from his phone.
While the music continued to play as the calls kept coming in, Crystal took her bag, searched for her phone so that she could stop it from making so much noise.
Grabbing her phone and catching a glimpse of the caller's name, she wiped off her eyes in order not to ignite suspicion and questions.
" Hello", Crystal said as she picked up the call.
Georgia filled with excitement, cried out to her friend as she had been trying to reach her but to no avail.
Crystal noticing that her friend was whimpering, asked what the issue was but Georgia could not speak out evidently as her voice was cracked from crying too much all day.
"Can you just calm down and talk to me properly, you are getting me all worried here", Crystal obliged her friend to stop moaning and talk to her.
Georgia tried her best to stop crying out but could not as each time she tried, she reminisced what had happened and tears could not stop flowing down her eyes.
" I need you, Crystal, Jake cheated on me again and I have been crying since morning, I can not take this anymore, I feel like I will die", she cried out to her friend.
Crystal on finding out what was happening to her friend told her that she was coming to meet with her immediately,
"Do not do anything preposterous Georgia do you hear me?", Crystal said to her friend as she picked up her bag rushing to the door to leave when Blaze held her hand from behind.
Crystal turned to look at why Blaze had held her hand, hung up the call, and without a word, Blaze asked her if she could have dinner with him the next evening of course after settling whatever problem she was going to solve.
Crystal dumbfounded did not know whether to say yes or no, as the invitation was not well stretched as she could not say for sure if he was distinct about what he was asking from her.
Crystal rubbing her and getting the right words in her mouth, asked,
" At what time and where?".
Blaze responded with a smile telling her that he was going to send her the address by text.
Crystal who was not in the good to share his pleasantries whacked her hand off his and left his office for her friend's house.
Blaze was glad to know that he will get to have a heart-to-heart conversation with Crystal as he believed that, there was some goodness found in her despite all that had happened in his office.
"I have to make sure that I get to know why such a pretty, educated, and fragile young lady, will indulge herself in such a risky undertaking which can cost her life.
Crystal had already left the office, walking towards the parking lodge tone where her car was parked to head to Georgia's house as her choice of words over the phone were ominous.
Crystal entered her car and drove off to her friend's house and on her way, she noticed that a strange number had called her twice and was still calling again.
setting her Bluetooth device, she picked up the call asking for the person to identify him or herself.
"You will never change, still that old hard lady huh?", the caller asked cracking up behind her phone.
While keeping her attention on the road, she had already realized who it was just from the sound of his voice as she let out,
" Simon, I have no intentions to change as I like the hard woman that I am now", keeping her focus on the road.
"Can I at least meet with you?", he asked hoping for a positive answer, but Crystal coldly told him that she could not catch a glimpse of him as it stands because she is going to Georgia's house at the moment.
"We could just meet some other time if you do not mind", Crystal said, taking the turn on her left as the avenue led to her friend's house.
Crystal, telling Simon that she had to cut the call as she was approaching Georgia's house, said she was going to send him an address on where they will be meeting so that they could have a chat.