Chapter 48

"We need to get to her Blaze, my friend is in trouble, we need to be her," her words came out from her mouth and she was trembling in fear with tears flowing out of her eyes like a running tap.
"Calm down Crystal, nothing will happen to your friend I can assure you that," he said gilding her head on one soot in an attempt to ease the pain that was feeling but it seems like seeing her uncle again had woken up the fear that was inside of her.
Crystal began to misbehave with her mouth blabbing so many words at the same time, and Gina became worried and scared saying that Crystal could not have digested the sight of her uncle and knowing how wicked he had been to her, the trauma that she had gone through was back.
"Call my doctor now," Blaze shouted out as he called out Helena's name and looked at everything that was happening, she felt sorry for Crystal who had been nothing but nice to her since the day that she had walked into the mansion with Gina.
"Stop this Ms. Crystal, you have to fight your fears, and trust me, nothing will happen to your friend," Gina said but Crystal looked very unstable.
Taking her into his arms, he headed for the room where he had to take care of her and talk to her if not she was not going to achieve anything by being weak. Blaze was ready to explain his own life story to her making sure that she derives picks out something from it no matter what it was going to cost him.
Max was set free as there was not sufficient evidence to lock him up. His face brightened up while his eyes looked for Georgia in the crowd. Turning his head to the other side, he spotted out Yvonne from the flock of people who were standing outside and thinking of going to have a word with her, she saw him too as their eyes met at the same time.
Covered with fear, she thought that Max was going to devour her raw knowing how he operates but her heartbeat stopped beating when she saw Maxwell blocked by the correspondents who were just waiting for an opportunity to be able to talk to him.
Seeing how essence had saved her, Yvonne shifted a little to take to her heels, when Simon held her from behind saying,
"Come with me Mrs. Yvonne, your daughter is waiting for you."
Georgia was restless inside the car and wondering what was happening in front, she thought of unlocking the doors to go outside but Simon's voice came back into her head, reminding her of what he had said to her and instantly Georgia decided to take out her phone to call him instead.
The atmosphere was so thick and her eyes had become very vigilant, Maxwell was not the man she grew up knowing and reality had hit her hard like a blow that was inevitable to dodge. Sitting her lips in anger and wondering where he could have kept her friend, the vibration from her cell phone in her hands jerked her soul out of her body and brought it back before she could realize that it was only a call.
Georgia had been attentive that her mind had turned out to be suspicious of everything. Looking at the caller, it was an unknown contact so in wonder, she squeezed her face and but her lips in fear.
"Could it be uncle Max calling that is ringing my phone to threaten me?" she asked taking her head up to see him still stuck with the reporters in front of the police station. Holding her head in frustration, she realized that she was getting a bit paranoid and it was not good for her so she took a glance at her phone again, wanting to pick up the call but it had ended.
"Oops I missed it," she spoke out feeling sad but well she thought to herself that the person was going to call again if it was serious. The car door opened up just when she was thinking to herself and seeing her mom, she felt a warm feeling that caressed her body, seeing the tears that had cropped up in her eyes, she said,
"I am sorry for talking to you in that manner mommy."
"It is okay sweetheart, what is important is for us to leave from here now," she said panicking.
Starting at how scared her mom was, Georgia asked whether there was any problem but she just told her never to get involved in Max's affairs again but before she could finish her statement, Georgia had snapped out again and with an angry look, she asked her to tell her the reason as to why she has always been so scared of Max and she yelled out in fury,
"Stop asking me questions and just do as you are told."
Her reaction had confirmed to Georgia that her mother was hiding something and it was very abnormal for her to just stay off Crystal's disappearance just like that. Simon too had felt that something was not alright but he could not say exactly what it was as he was just meeting her for the first time without being familiar with her.
Holding her temper, she sat in front of the car looking at the other side of the road with her mind not being able to understand the power that Max had on his mom and that was the moment some certain things began to make sense to Georgia and a whole lot of them at that.
Yvonne was scared that Max could track her down if she went back to get her car, sons he decided to drive with her daughter in her friend's car while hoping to send someone to come pick up her car at the police station parking lodge.
"She is not responding to my calls," Blaze spoke out to Crystal who was somehow calm after taking the prescriptions that the doctor had given to her. He has advised Blaze not to let anything stress her up and to also do his best to take her to see the people she loves or better still the things that she loves as well but Crystal felt like the journey she was embarking on was going to create a war that will hurt a lot of people.
She couldn't believe how much her friend loved her but at that point, she felt that the bond that she shared with Georgia was special as she had the vigor of accusing her uncle of keeping her friend against her will which was tantamount to kidnapping.
"Are you okay?" Blazes voice broke the ideas that had filled her mind as she turned her head slowly looking at him with so much pain in her and asking,
"Our kids always this complicated?"
Blaze asked the doctor whether there was anything else to be done but he said no while telling him that she needed a lot of rest as well as fruits and vegetables as she was getting too weak.
"I will do just that Donald," Blaze confirmed it to his doctor.
"I will take my leave now and if there is any problem, you know what to do," he said before picking up his box as exiting the room. Blaze waited for him to leave completely, before rising to his feet to go close his door.
Walking back to Crystal, he wiped off her tears and assured her that he was going to ring up her friend's phone again, he asked,
"Do you trust me?" His question was very straight and he needed an answer. Blaze knew deep down in his heart that Crystal was madly in love with him though she was still trying to get to know her feelings more to be able to manage it that response from her at that point where they were seated was very important to him and Crystal starting at him with her breathing adding she nodded while her words followed softly,
"Yes, I trust you Blaze with everything that I hold dear to my heart."
"Then listen to me and what I have to narrate to you now," he muttered climbing into the bed to make her comfortable on his chest before saying what he had in his mind and what he had never told anyone apart from his lawyer who is also one of his closest friends and also a victim of the tragedy that fell on him and his family.
Blaze patted her head on his chest and with his chest rising up and down, he began with his story and the first thing that came out of his mouth was,
"I am not the biological son of late Mr. Edward Jadiel, I was adopted at the age of five." His words got into her ears and she was shocked to the core. Taking her hand up and looking at Blaze in the face, she had realized just how sad he was as he recalled his past.
"So you don't know your biological parents?" Crystal asked feeling his pain but Blaze shook his head in denial. Her feelings were hurt stripped as she could see that life was full of surprises.
She had been given the chance to see her parents and for some years before they were taken away from her by the cold hands of death but there he was, with a void that will never be filled up because there was nothing as good as knowing ones true parents no matter how they look.
Blaze cleared up his throat and continued with his story while keeping his start on his hands from time to time before taking them back to have a look at Crystal. He further told her that he was the only child in that house and as such he had all the love and affection a child could ever ask for.
Growing up, he loved his parents so much and he had no problems with them not even till he had become a young adult but someday, something awkward happened and it started to get his curiosity in many things that were happening in his family and household. His Paternal aunty had suddenly started behaving somehow towards her and she constantly give him the disgusting look whenever she was around.
At first, Blaze thought that it was because she had something going on with his mother but it was strange as that particular aunty of he's had always loved him with every fiber in her heart, so what had changed, he questioned himself with no means of getting answers.
Crystal listened to him closely without interrupting each word that comes out of his mouth as she saw that moment, as an opportunity to get to know the person she was dating and in love with better. Her eyes were blinking with sadness over what he was telling her and wanting to listen to everything and to console him as he will always do to her, she listened attentively.
"I have always been a good son or so I thought till the day that I had heard my aunty tell me, mom, in a heated argument that she should go give back her bastard child she had brought into my brother's house to wherever she had brought him from."
His heart sank into his stomach on paying attention to that from the balcony and not being able to digest what he had heard, Blaze went down the stairs to go get some fresh air outside. He walked kit of the house not being able to digest what he had heard and that was the worst feeling anyone could have. He could not believe that he was joy a real Jadiel and did not have the blood of his father glowing through his veins but he could not understand how they could love him that much.