Chapter 31

Scared of the unknown, his lips had gone pale out of thinking of the worst, and with a deep breath in and out, he mustered the courage to tap her on the hand. His white t-shirt had already come like a singleton him because of the sweat that could not halt running out of his body and his kegs shudder in weakness.
With the hand of a man, he held her hand and shaking it her name could be head making its way out of his mouth.
"Crystal, wake up now, your coffee will get cold", he murmured shifting himself on the bed to check her eyes. Struggling to open her eyes that were closed up as a result of the so many tears of last night, Blaze noticed that her eyes were so puffy.
Letting out a sigh and a calm look as he was thinking of the worst for nothing, he stepped down of the bed, leading the way into the privy to moisten a towel to place it on her head.
Talking over the phone and raising his voice in his room, his guards could feel his wrath as he instructed Ethan not to call him to ask nonsense questions again. Banging his door as he left his room, he came outside asking for the whereabouts of his guard and another telling him that he was in the washroom, Max ordered that he to go fetch for him and tell him that he wants him in his room as soon as he gets the messages.
Walking back inside his room, Max had understood that the situation was a very delicate one as he feared for his reputation and all he had ever built.
" Where ever you are my darling niece, I am going to smoke you out pretty soon like a wild animal", he grumbled alone kicking off the edge of the bed with his right foot to let out his anger.
Max's mind was crowded with a million reflections as to where he could find Crystal but each time he tried, his only destination was Georgia. While still stuck in his thoughts, his door could be given attention to as his defense walked into his room.
"Good morning boss, I was informed that you wished to see me urgently. Is there anything I can do for you?", he raised a question with his head lowered to the ground.
Veering around his head and sighting him, he picked up the vase that was standing on the table just beside him and shouted him with it, the guard dodged it and Max walked up to him with a heavy punch on his face yelling out like a mad mad,
" You incompetent fools, I do not even understand why instill have idiots like you working for me. So you mean to tell me that, you could not find a young girl who had nowhere else to go?".
The guard pushed to the limit to explain himself but Max still very angry, equalized his jaw with another blow that threw him on the surface this time around. Veering around and looking the other way, he said,
"If I don't get to have Crystal on this house in the next 48 hours, then consider yourselves as dead meat".
The guard struggled to get up on his feet and wiped the blood that was hanging my his mouth with the back of his right hand, he apologized to his boss for failing him.
" I guarantee you that we are going to be her here sir". The guard spoke out and Max told him that he hopes that he asks his men to be needful, he asked him to get out.
The lookout nodded his head, and just when he was about to leave the room, Max halted him at the door and told him that he should focus on Georgia as she is his nieces best friend, it is but normal that she could lead them to where Crystal is hiding if she is not in her house.
"That was what I was about suggesting to you boss because I do not think that her friend knows where Crystal is but my boys and I are going to monitor each of her movements till we find a lead", he ascertains.
Max bringing about a smile on his face for the great idea, made him a sign with his left hand, the guard understood that he had to leave the room and he instantly picked up his phone to call his friend Bassey to ask him the next step to take.
The decorations had remained downstairs and the event had stopped in a painful way for Max. His heart kept on raising and feeling like he could not take the embarrassment anymore, he stood at his balcony thinking of the next step to take as he knew that, Bethany was not going to sit down and do anything while her inheritance was still with him.
" Hope you feel good now?", Blase inquired caressing her face while Crystal just laid back taking a look at him. Nodding positively to his question, she thanked him for taking care of her and for not letting her be alone.
Keeping the towel stable on her forehead, to decrease the headache that she was feeling, he told her not to be afraid as she was never going to be alone again. Tears cropping up in her eyes as she maintained eye contact with him, she flickered at the sight of him and asked why he was being so nice towards her, Blaze let out a smile on his lips as he raised a question,
"Do you want to know why?".
At the hearing of his question, Crystal could feel sweat running down her crest and not being able to talk as her voice had gone pale, she started at him further thinking about what he had said to her the previous night.
With a feeling of weakness, she told Blase not to put her in a more complicated situation than the one she was facing already but after he got up from the couch and went closer towards her, his gaze became sentimental and she could observe the glints that were glossy in them.
" Is there anything wrong for me to tell you how I feel about you?", Blaze asked letting his breath caress her skin while he rubbed her hands against his. Crystal did bit know what was going on with her but her body suddenly seemed to have lost control over the situation and her mind was beginning to think of unknown things.
Closing her eyes in the warmth of his hands fused with hers, her breath had changed its rhythm and tears began to run down her eyes.
"You do not need to fight what you are feeling for me Crystal as I can tell that you are dying to bring into the world all the affection that you carry inside of you though you want to prove the contrary", he muttered realizing how much his words were affecting her.
" I can not consummate this love which you offer to me Blake and you know the reasons for it, so please do not make things more difficult for me", her lips trembled in fear as she could not look at him again. Taking advantage of the fact that her whole being was in mayhem, Blaze stepped down from the bed and walked away from her.
"He must be angry because of what I had said", she murmured inside of her, and without thinking, she took off the wet towel that was on her forehead and bad going out of the bed suddenly without taking into consideration her state of health, she slumped to the ground and feeling the pain as her foot hit the bottom hard, she screamed out.
Attracted finger voice, Blaze heart was in panic and veering around almost as soon as he had given attention to her voice, he was shocked as he caught sight of her On the floor.
" How did you fall, and what were you thinking in your head?", Crystal could feel the anger in his voice as he yelled out at her and lowered her gaze, she could feel his hands going around her waist, and without any dash, he lifted her from the floor and laid her down on the bed.
"You need to be careful next time or else you might injure yourself", he said fixing the pillow under her head and telling her to indicate where she had hurt herself so that he could rub it before it gets swollen but she was lost in his cuteness and the fragrance from his body was a turn off for her.
Her lips yearned for him to lay a kiss on them but her mouth was too heavy to say anything shouts which she wanted. Noticing the way she was staring at him, Blaze told her to either decide to ask for what was going on in her mind or rather close her mouth as flies could be seen going and coming out of it. Crystal felt shame after listening to him say those words to her and making an effort to get even with him, she told him that she was not thinking about anything and her mouth was not open.
" I see that you are a good liar apart from being a cry baby", he teased her even further and Crystal taking offense to that told him not to call her that again.
"If you were not fantasizing about me as you say, then can you tell me why your eyes were glued to my skin and your mouth wide open?".
" I was just thinking about something else".
"I guess it is not about your uncle because I am going to take care of him myself for doing all these to someone he is supposed to protect", his words fell out of his mouth and the tension In his face could be seen as he talked about the issue.
Not feeling comfortable about it, Crystal lifted her left hand and laying it on his face she told him not to bother as it is her fight to do but Blaze in total disagreement with what she was saying, explained to her the dangers that were involved if she expected to face him head down alone.
" A man who cares about you, will not do all the things he did to you just because of something that does not even belong to him in the first place".
"But he is still my uncle can't you understand that?", she asked.
Taking a look at her, he held her hands and said,
" Wake up from your sleep and smell the coffee Crystal, that man put you through a traumatic experience, and before you say anything else, you were scared to the core yesterday and that is the reason why you had to sleep in my room".
"I was?", she asked in a state of confusion, as she looked around and noticed that she was not in the room that she went to sleep in last night.
Seeing the gravity of the state she was into, he shook his head in pain and let out,
" I have booked an appointment with a therapist and we have to be at his office in like an hour from now".
"Therapist?", she thundered in shock. What for, I am fine I do not need any therapist to talk to me.
" Good morning boss", Max's guards saluted him as he walked into the living room heading to the kitchen. He had made an announcement to his friends about his urgent need for a maid and she had arrived that morning. Seating in the living too, she could catch a glimpse of how I kept it was and wonder what had happened for it to be in that state, she and a clue just by looking at the decoration that had been left out for everyone walking in to see.
"You just be Annabelle?", Max asked putting on his best smile and showing his teeth to his new maid. Annabelle nodded in confirmation, maintaining her gaze to the ground. Max asked her to take a seat and put his buttocks on his favorite chair, he thought of going to his office to discuss with her but it was of no use as she was there to look ready to start.
Max enlightened her about the things that were to be done around and her allowances and benefits for her services if she is of good behavior. Annabelle feeling happy to have been given such an opportunity, thanked him saying,
" You will not regret this sir", she spoke out.
"You start right away if you have no problem with it", Max said as he rose to his feet making his at through the scattered things as he head back upstairs.
Walking up and down in a disturbed mood, Simon could not seem to wrap his hands around Crystal's sudden quietness, and not being able to contact her, which was the worst feeling that he could ever have. Thinking of the worst, he was forced to ring Georgia's phone to get information about her. He picked up his phone and dashed into the balcony, where he called her phone and hoped that she could pick up the call, his wish was been granted as he could listen to her breath on the other side of the call.
" Hello, who am I speaking to?".
"Hi Georgia, it's me Simon", he spoke out holding his cruiser tightly while Georgia searched her head wondering which Simon it was. Thinking of the Simon that she knew, she screams out in joy as she thought back to their school days.
Feeling happy to hear from him, she asked how he was doing and what he had been up to but Simon not sounding good, told her about his present situation.
He had gone on a business trip and while there, he had been making an effort to reach Crystal to no avail so returning home, he thought that he could get in touch with her but unfortunately, her line was still disconnected.
A liquid gave birth to a tap on his forehead in the form of sweat. He felt an uneasy feeling taking over his whole being and finding it difficult, he was
not ready any scandal from her, he immediately twisted his face as he had realized how stubborn she was and had decided to stick him everywhere.
"Hi Simon", Becky spoke out, pulling the chair that was beside her on the table and sitting in front of him as she wondered what he could be working out there alone.
" What do you want from me now Becky, are you stuck in me?", he asked with a change of tone that had attracted the stares of other clients that were seated in the restaurant. Becky looked at the eyes that were already on them and with a low tone she pleased with Simon to lower his but vice but it seems like he was not in the mood to talk with her and he did not care whether people were having a look at them and murmuring under their tables.
He just wanted her to leave him alone and her incessant attitude of following him around made him even angrier as she had turned to be more desperate than she had imagined and that was a characteristic he detected so much in her, not knowing when to leave.
Georgia was spotted entering the restaurant and Simon not wanting any form of trouble from Becky, told her to behave herself or else she will not hold it against him for anything that she was going to see. Not being able to make out what she was going on about, she heard a voice from behind saying,
"Hi Simon, I am happy that you could make it and I apologize for reaching late I was stuck in traffic", Georgia spoke out as she approached him and noticed someone crouching with him, she had no idea that it was Becky.
" You?", Becky asked rising to her feet and Georgia dump founded as her countenance shifted from a smiling one to a dumbstruck one, she turned her case to Simon not understanding what was going on there.
"Welcome Mr. Jadiel", the doctor spoke out as we rose to her feet to receive him onto his office.
"Thank you doctor and I hope we did not keep you waiting for too long?", Blaze inquired letting out a smile off the sleeves of his lips, but the doctor nodding her head in refusal, said it was played and she did not have any urgent case to attain to.
Beside him was a young and beautiful lady which the doctor asked whether it was her patient and Blase ratifying to her doubt, told her that she was the one he had booked the appointment for.
" Welcome one more into it bureau, and I am Doctor Mia Rivera and I am thrilled to have you here today", she spoke out with a lot of ease that made Crystal feel comfortable. Her uncomfortable state could be seen leaving her slowly as she became a little more relaxed on the seat.
"I am Crystal Melody Taylor", she spoke out turning her view to Blaze as though she was asking for some sort of permission to speak out.
" Okay Crysta, I am here to help you develop better cognitive and emotional skills and also to reduce symptoms of your mental illness, hope you are okay with that?", she asked politely with a smile on her lips at every given question but Crystal not appreciating the fact that she had spoken of a cognitive ailment in her words, and seeing it as bad loosed her temperament as she asked Blaze why she was referring as being mentally unstable.