His Cure

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The driver drove inside the mansion and stopped for Beatrice to get down before going to park the car in the garage.

Beatrice walked inside the house.

“I heard what happened, Beatrice. I heard you were quite shaken too.”Melinda showed up In front of her.

Beatrice took a breath in.

“Yes. I will just go sleep now.”she replied.

“Come here.”Melinda engulfed her in a heartwarming hug.

“You’ve had it rough. From the beginning, till now.”she patted her hair slowly.

Beatrice nodded and sniffed in.

Melinda disengaged the hug after some minutes.

“Would you like me to get you something to eat?”

“When I wake up, I will eat then.”Beatrice breathed out a smile at her before mounting the stairs to her room.

She got inside and threw herself on the bed.

The image of Winifred coughing out blood flashed in her brain and she shuts her eyes tightly and curled up on the bed.

Soon, she fell asleep.

…

Zack stared at his phone, moving his thumb closer to the screen slowly, to tap on Beatrice’s number.

He shook his head and locked his phone.

He shouldn’t disturb her anymore.

Besides, she has paid him back in full.

He huffed.

“This is hard..”he ruffled his hair and relaxed back on the bed.

He suddenly sat up and unlocked his phone again.

He is just worried about her, that’s all.

She must be quite shaken due to what happened to Winifred.

He pursed his lips and enveloped his eyes in darkness as he moved his finger to her number.

As he was about to tap on it, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

“Don’t.”Derrick’s intimidating voice came to his hearing.

Zack’s eyes went opened and he quickly shuts his phone closed, momentarily.

“When did you get here?”he cleared his throat, turning to him.

Derrick raised his brows at him.

Somehow, that ate him up, and he found himself saying..

“I wasn’t doing anything. I.. was just about to delete her number.”he avoided Derrick’s gaze.

“Don’t hesitate. That was what I was going to say.”Derrick removed his hand from his shoulder and smirks at Zack.

Even in his old age, he still looks awesomely hot.

Zack frowned.

“Don’t look at me like that!”

As they stared back at each other, their striking resemblance coukd be grasped.

“You’re friends, after all. And what do friends do?. They care about each other. I noticed you’ve been pushing yourself back all these while. It’s okay to be friends.”

“Of course, friends. We are friends from the start so..”he exhaled.

“I know you like her.”Derrick sighed and slapped his forehead gently.

“Well, duhhh. That was because I told you.”

Derrick chortled then turned around and left.

Zack sighed before dialing her number at a Go.

His heart raced up and he placed a hand on his chest to keep it steady.

Her line rang for some minutes but she didn’t pick up.

Perhaps, she has got something going on.

He decided to call her later or she could call him back whenever she saw that she missed his call.

**

Beatrice’s eyes fluttered open.

She stared out of the window at the seemingly hot sun and rubbed her eyes.

She stood up from the bed and went inside the restroom to wash her face.

She came inside the room afterwards and moved to her bag on the floor then picked it up, sliding her phone out.

She turned it on and she gasps a little when she saw a missed call from Zack.

She called him back and sat down on the chair in the room.

“Beatrice. How are you doing?. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”his voice rang out.

“Not exactly.”she chuckled.

She cracked the desk with her finger.

“I was sleeping when you called. I just woke up now.”

“I see.. I just wanted to check up on you. You good?”he asks.

“More good than you.”she joked.

“Well, thank God you could still joke.”he laughed gently.

“Yeah. I.. gotta go eat now. Believe me when I tell you that I’m extremely hungry. How about we chat on Instagram?”

“Sounds good but I have to go through some papers. I have a trial tomorrow.”

“What?!. Who did you kill?!”she exclaimed.

Zack bursted into laughter.

“Oh, my. I’m s lawyer, Beatrice. Don’t tell me you don’t know this.”he arched his brows.

She sighed and brushed her hair back.

“Oh, yeah.. I guess I didn’t but now I know. Don’t worry, I will cause more trouble since I now have a very good lawyer as my friend.”she grinned.

“I’m sorry, miss. If you caused a lotta trouble, I would definitely punish you. I won’t think you’re my friend at all.”

“Well, now you are mean!”she scoffed.

“I slept quite long too, geezzz..”she sighed.

“Go feed your raging stomach then. A goodbye to you.”

“Goodbye and thanks for calling. Goodluck on tomorrow’s trial too. I pray you don’t get a life imprisonment.”she taunted

“Bea..”

She tapped the red button immediately then smiled smugly.

She went down for her food.

Melinda was in the dining area, eating some fried sauce.

Beatrice’s eyes shoned.

She moved to her and picked a drumstick from the plate and took a bite.

“Hmmmm..”she shut her eyes.

Melinda chuckled.

“You up?. Finally.”

Beatrice opened her eyes and batted her lashes.

“Oh. I was rude, Melinda. Forgive me. I was just too hungry that I forgot about my morals.”

“It’s totally fine, Bee – Bee. Sit while I go get yours for you.”

Beatrice sat obediently then ate from the meat again.

…

Jennifer bit her finger in anxiety.

Her heart was beating fastly against her chest.

She just hoped they won’t find her out.

…

###Flashback

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Jennifer went inside the kitchen when they came back from the restaurant.

She called a waiter to a side.

“You know me, don’t you?”

“Yes, ma’am.”he bowed gently.

She brought out the poison from her bag then gave it to him.

“We are going to order for drinks soon. I want you to drop this inside one of the drinks.”

His eyes widened.

“That’s..”

“A thousand dollars would get you to do that, right?”

He blinked.

“That’s a lot. But, ma’am, I.. can’t..”

“Just do what I told you. I will handle the rest.”

She went back and suggests to the girls that they watch movies together.

When the guy knocked at the door. She quickly sat up to open it for him.

“This is the poisoned one.”he pointed it out.

She nodded and shuts the door then went to give the girls their drinks, handling the one with poison to Beatrice.

…

Flasback ends.

..

Winifred just has to drink that juice.

It’s her Ill luck.

She has to make sure the guy spills nothing.

She has to get him out of the prison as soon as the case has been forgotten.

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