Chapter 229
Knight
I was too engrossed in feeding off the pleasure I got from kissing Cassie. Her lips were so tasty and I couldn’t get enough even when she asked me to stop. I couldn’t, I was like a train that was unable to just stop. I tried to get myself to calm down by kissing her neck instead when she pulled away from the kiss, I had to know why she wanted me to stop. If she was uncomfortable or maybe I was way all over her that she needed to catch her breath.
When I saw that Mike was the reason, I felt startled even though I was able to mask my shock as he had caught me off guard.
“The messengers are here.” He said and I got a little scared of what the result of their findings would tell. This was my best way of helping Angel in his redemption process. At least if Carl was alive Thea wouldn’t feel guilty anymore. I knew her child was irreplaceable but this was a start.
I saw that Cassie was feeling quite embarrassed after we were caught. I wish I could just make our relationship open already but I was going to ask her how she felt about it. It was quite insensitive to do so amidst our present situation. The fact that her brother was my best friend and was at the brink of losing the love of his life didn’t make it any easier.
“I’ll handle this okay.?” I said to Cassie and kissed her gently on the lips. I wanted to delve deeper but I had to hold back. Here wasn’t the appropriate place for it.
I went to our meeting room to see the men. Mike and Caspian were already present waiting for me.
There was a long, brown envelope placed on the desk and I got more anxious. I looked at it and glanced at the men whose expressions weren’t giving me a hint of what I was to expect.
“Take a look. Pictures….” Caspian said giving me a go ahead.
I took the envelope and as I expected, they were pictures. I looked at the men again but they just stared at the envelope instead. They wanted me to see for myself.
The first pictures I saw were just random images of a small wooden house in a remote area.
“What’s all these?” I asked getting impatient.
“Keep going.” Caspian urged and I did. I finally saw the picture of a woman over her fifties and I squinted curiously. Who was she? I kept going, it was practically a woman with a small bar business but then I suddenly stopped, my heart beat increasing as I looked at the next picture with more interest to be certain I wasn’t seeing wrong.
“Is this….?” I couldn’t complete my words as I trailed quzzical gaze from Caspian to Mike who were now beaming with smiles. “Hell no….” I muttered checking out the next photos that showed a seemingly healthy Carl helping out with his aunt’s business.
I chuckled and then laughed feeling a huge relieve at the sight before me.
The fucker was alive all these while.
“How? You said you saw it. Angel shot him and there was no one there with you guys.” I questioned wondering how it was possible.
“Apparently his Aunt got the message after the men showed up at her bar asking about Thea, turns out she hurried home after sending Thea away. She found Carl and rushed him to their local clinic with the help of one of her male workers.” Mike explained and I slumped on the couch with my hands coming through my hair.
This was the best news since the night of the attack. At least their was hope in winning Thea over. A little hope maybe.
“Hold on….” I said standing to my feet suspiciously. “How did you get the extra information on what happened that day? Some folks spilled?”
Mike let out a chuckle. I could see he was looking proud of himself.
“You should be thanking Caspian instead. He flew all the way down the other day, said he wanted to speak with Carl and his Aunt after I informed him that they were alive.” He said and I shifted my gaze to Caspian hoping for more clarification.
“If we’re trying to help Angel win Thea back we need to use every card available. I figured that knowing Carl was alive wasn’t enough for Thea to even consider forgiving Angel….” He said and I got more interested in what or how he did what he did. “He needs to be seen alive by Thea.” He said and I narrowed my gaze at him fixing dots.
“Don’t tell me….”
“Yes, it was really hard and scary for them but I was able to convince them to come to the mansion when ever they chose. I told them of how Thea had felt guilty because she thought she was the reason for Carl’s death. I did add a little spice in there though … I mean I had to appeal to their conscience.” Caspian said sounding uneasy.
“What did you say to them?” I asked and he hissed regrettably.
“Well, let’s say I just made Angel out to be the bad guy.”
“How exactly?”
“Told them Thea had suffered under his hand and now he was doubting his judgement about her betrayal and they were the only ones who could clear his doubt.” He said and I sighed.
Good strategy. Now Carl’s going to kill Angel.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
“Well done.” I said instead. “Now we need to get them here and have Angel see for himself.” I said and they nodded.
“If we’re done here I need to be somewhere else.” Caspian said but I knew that look too well. He was about to snatch Camilo from the ladies. Damn! Thea would be bored, I felt bad. I had taken Cassie already and now Caspian was about to take Camilo. Florentine was said to be at the clinic, she really didn’t need to be alone. I only hoped that Camilo would refuse to go with him.
Those two couldn’t bear to be away from each other especially now that they were officially a couple. Happy for them but fuck them too, they made me feel loveless all these while.
Caspian left and Mike followed but I had to clarify him on what he had seen earlier.
“Mike.” I called and he stopped. I crossed the distance between us facing him directly.
“Yes boss.” He acted normal, pretending like nothing had happened.
“About what you saw earlier….” I said and saw his eye twitch, he now wore a more casual look at me. He scratched his head looking quite uncomfortable but I had to do this.
“She’s the boss’s sister Knight, I know you’re going to ask me to pretend like I didn’t see it but I swear I’m still shocked.” He paused giving me an expression that said he wished he never saw us. “How did you two come to that?”
“It’s been ongoing for a long time.”
“You’ve been seeing Cassie for a long time?” He questioned looking more shocked than ever. “She’s nineteen, a college student and your best friend sister. Angel would think you took advantage of her knight!”
“It didn’t happen that way. We just got together recently.” I said and he relaxed back but still had that confused look on his face. “We’ve loved each other for a while now but it’s been rocky and full of uncertainties. We just got the courage to let go of everything and just embrace our love.” He tilted, a spark of shock in his eyes. It was normal for him to react that way.
“I mean, we all knew she was all over you right from the time. We even joked about her having feelings for you. You have no idea how many rumours about you two I had to shut down before it got to Angel’s ears. To think that you two had a real thing going on all these while…. I’m speechless man.”
“I know and I’m not asking you to pretend like nothing happened. If it weren’t for the situation at hand I would make our relationship open regardless of however Angel might feel about it. I’m in love with Cassandra and I’ll do everything to keep her by my side.” I said standing firm on my word. Mike stared at me and nodded afterwards.
“I can tell you’re serious about her, I’ll keep it a secret but don’t say I didn’t warn you. You’d be fucked if you ever broke her heart and not to think of how weird it would be for everyone in the Mansion if such a thing happened.” He said and I understood his point. I was damn serious about Cassie, to me she might be young but I knew it in my soul that there was no one else I’d rather be with ever in this life other than her. I was the one on the weak end should she advance more in age and maybe find someone better than me. She had an entire college full of guys. If anyone’s heart was to be broken here it would be mine.
I simply nodded not having anything else to say. Mike left and I went ahead to find Cassie.
“Been waiting.” I saw Cassie still leaning on the wall from where I had left her. I sighed and went to her.
“You should have found somewhere more comfortable to wait Cassie. I’m sorry I took your time.” I apologized but instead she smiled at me and pushed herself out of the wall. She looked at me with so much longing in her eyes that it got my heart pounding fast.
I fucking loved this beauty before me. She wrapped her hands around my neck and I stared down at her eyes and lips wanting to just hug her so tightly.
“I missed you.” She said causing a smile to appear on my face.
“Really? I teased giving her seductive look. “… But I was only gone for a few minutes.”
“Still, I missed you so much.” She got my heart beating in excitement. I let my hands arc her waist and she didn’t seem bothered by it.
“You’re not scared someone might see us anymore?”
“I am… I just don’t care at the moment.”
“I couldn’t stop thinking about you.” I said and leaned towards her lips to steal a kiss from her.
“Mmmhmm.” She moaned to my kiss and my groin twitched.
“Let me take you out of here. We’ll have a lot of that while we’re away.” I said and dropped another kiss on her lips.
“Alright.” She said and nodded. She held my arm leaning on me as we left the building.
I hopped on my bike and she got behind me putting on her helmet as well. She wrapped her hand around my waist and I started the engine of my bike and in a matter of seconds we hit the road.