Chapter 18

When Emily woke up the next morning, she woke up with a banging headache, a strain in her eyes and the realization that she had been kidnapped, but why were they still alive? Why did the kidnappers return them safely? It didn't make sense to her or were they keeping tabs on them? where they watching them seeing if they would run to the police.

She didn't know she found herself checking the window every time she thought about it but when she looked she couldn't find any car or any suspicious movement it bothered her that it had taken so long for her to remember, she knew she couldn't have been drunk, she wasn't much of a drinker and even if she was she always knew her limits.

So how did Leonardo really find her? How did he know where she would be?

"Are you okay my child?" Rose asked. She had noticed that Emily seemed a little bit off, she wondered what was wrong not only had she woken up early she had rushed to the window like she was waiting for something or looking for something.

"She is obviously waiting for her boyfriend."

"Boyfriend!!" her mother exclaimed. Did Emily have a boyfriend? When did it happen and how didn't she know?

"He is not my boyfriend."

"Then why are you refusing to give me his number?"

"I did not refuse to give you his number, I don't have his number, " Emily snapped wearing her shoe.

"You don't say," Chloe rolled her eyes not buying the nonsense Emily was saying.

"Well he's coming to pick me you might as well ask him again."

"Okay, that is enough."

Rose was not in the mood for their tantrums she had also woken up early to prepare food for Emily as she knew that she had to go to work very early, she walked back into the kitchen to bring the food she had dished into the cooler.

she knew Emily would refuse to wait and eat as she was already late and she was dressed.

"So tell me who is really this boy Chloe is talking about? Is he really your boyfriend? because I have never seen you with a boy before except he is your boyfriend."

"Mum what is that supposed to mean? Are you saying I can't have male friends?"

"That's not what I mean but I just find it unusual that a man would drive you all the way, drop you home and still insist on coming to pick you the next day."

"So you even saw him when he came to drop us," Chloe smiled.

Rose had seen when leonard came to drop them but she had decided to keep quiet she thought it was just a free ride but now that she thought about it Chloe had gotten down first and Emily a little while later.

"He is Bella's cousin, that's all."

"Then give me his number."

"What is it with you and his number?"

"I am interested in him that's why I need his number since you are so dumb to not figure it out."

Emily could not believe her sister she was so shameless chasing after a man that didn't even care about her or look away just once, she really didn't have Leonard's number and even if she did she wasn't sure she would have given Chloe.

Not that she was interested in him or not or was she? She's opened her mouth to protest to tell Chloe that she was shameless but she was interrupted by the horn of a car when she looked outside she realised it was Leonard's, he had kept to his word. She rushed back in to get her bag.

"Well don't forget your food I made it specially for you," her mother said.

"Of course thank you so much," Emily appreciated.

"Aren't you going to tell your father goodbye?" Rose asked. She had noticed that Emily didn't ask for her father overnight and even this morning she didn't bother to check on him she couldn't blame her daughter who wouldn't be angry to find out that her father would exchange his children to pay off his debts.

"You can tell him goodbye on my behalf," Emily said and dashed out when she got outside she noticed Chloe was tagging along.

"And where are you going?" the question came out from her mouth before she could process it.

"I am going out ofcourse or what does it look like?"

Emily had been so lost in her thoughts she didn't noticed that Chloe was fully dressed, now that she looked at her she could see that she was wearing a lovely gown, her best bag, a pair of heels and she had even taken time to do her hair into a sleek ponytail, not to talk of the makeup she had on her face.

"Are you really going out or trying to seduce Leonard?"

"What does it matter? Like you said you are not interested in him but I am and since you are being selfish about it I might as well go and get it myself."