Chapter 8: My girlfriend
They all turned in the direction of the door where the voice came from and the agency staff was stunned as much as everyone else.
What! He is here? What does he want and how did he know what was going on that he left his responsibility to be in a place like this.
He was suddenly sweating? His hands were sweating and his forehead suddenly were filled with beads of tears. His breathing was heightened.
“Ahhh… I mean… yes… Mr Campbell… good to… ha… ve you here” he stammered. He himself didn’t know what he said. He just knew he uttered some words.
Camilla was shivering as she saw the man. He was the man she saved last night and who made her lose her purity. How did he know where she lived and came?
What does he want here? Has he come to find and deal with her? She’s had enough worries already and cannot afford to add more worries to the already existing ones.
Losing her job was the least but losing her virginity because she tried to help him was something she cannot ever regain again.
Sara and Jared were surprised at the sight of the man standing in their sitting room. He is a dignified fellow and rich. What does he want here or has he lost his way?
Rodrigo looked at Camilla with those eyes that made the latter feel her entire nakedness was being looked at by the man. It’s as if his gaze was penetrating through the dress she wore.
He stared at her for a while so that she didn’t know what he was staring at so much that everyone present knew those eyes were not to harm her but to favour her.
Rodrigo didn’t say a word but simply stretched his hand and Joel offered him a stick of cigarettes and quickly lit it before returning to stand behind him.
He inhaled the smoke and puffed it in the direction where the agent called Cameron was standing. He coughed thoroughly and yet smiled through the smile, not wanting to offend the man standing.
“I didn’t know you were coming” Cameron stated, trying hard to appear calm without any iota of grievance at Rodrigo’s presence.
” I don’t need to inform you before coming to see my girlfriend,” Rodrigo stated, his eyes fixed on her as if waiting for her to accept him.
She looked away pouting her lips. How can she be a girlfriend to this demon-like man? She tried to save him but he paid her back with evil.
She would be careful in the near future that she would be careless about what doesn’t concern her and concentrate only on her business.
Sara glanced at her daughter at the man’s words. When did she become his girlfriend? What about Felix Chapman?
But she shrugged, indicating she had no idea about what the fellow talked about. She can’t be his girlfriend because she had her own boyfriend.
” Oh.. I guess so. I have come to pay homage to her family” Cameron stammered. At this time, he was sweating profusely.
He definitely must have cursed Rodrigo in his heart. Why on earth did he come at such a time? He was smiling but was sweating and confused.
“Bastards, you came to pay homage to us and you were hitting me and wanted to send us out of our home” Jared countered him furiously and Cameron smiled.
“Sorry about it, mister. These men I brought to help clean the house were supposed to have been professional enough.
Can’t imagine they are dumb and cannot successful carry out a proper responsibility. I sincerely apologise for their lack of professionalism and training” Cameron said clasping his hands together.
He turned and would have left when Sara asked “But you can’t leave. The house needs thorough cleaning. The kitchen, restroom and the entire compound needs a professional touch.
We couldn’t do it well because we weren’t trained to be cleaners. The trees at the back, go up on it and trim the branches, sweep the floor and wash the walls, scrubbing it to become white…” Sara was recounting what needed to be done and the ones that didn’t need attention.
Since they walked into her apartment to molest and beat her son, she would make them pay for it in a hard way. This is a chance of a lifetime.
Camilla and Jared glanced at each other in shock. Their mother was the sweetest woman they had never known. She never stepped on anyone’s toes and stayed away from trouble.
But this actions and words of hers now shows she was flying on the wings of Mr Campbell. He came to the right and salvaged the situation that would bring them shame.
When Cameron heard the words of Sara, he felt his throat suddenly choke. The woman was mean. Does she really want them to do such strenuous work?
These men were hired to terrorise her and send her and her kids out of the house. Now luck had run against them. Who is going to pay them to do such work, and do they even know how to do such work?
Rodrigo Campbell gave a smirk. He loves things unfolding this way. He knew the miscreant who had wanted to ruin him and employed her to do it would come after her.
He had asked them to trail her and he ended up here. He was going to destroy Cameron and that fellow who paid him to humiliate Camilla. The girl’s name is Camilla, that he had found out as well.
“Oh yes we are starting right away” he stuttered, and turned to the men he came with. He could see that their eyes were shooting daggers at him but at this point, he prefers the dagger shooting than falling into Me Campbell’s black book.
He owns the agency where he worked. The entire company falls under his group of companies. If he lost his job, where would he get such a lucrative job again?
” Get to work already. You go get the mob and you a duster, the work has just begun” he hurriedly instructed.
The men could see he was shivering and his eyes had gone red. The beads of sweat on his forehead were capable of washing his face clean.
They had to cooperate with him. The fellow who just came in has a powerful personality and could make their lives miserable forever.
One of the men headed toward the bedroom to get a duster when Sara called him back to go in another direction where the store room was located.
As one of them went to get the mop, he was going to use it on the sofa, thinking he was holding a duster when Cameron angrily dazed him a slap “bah”. All his pain and disappointment, his fear and anguish were laced in that slap.
The man staggered backwards and was furious. His eyes went dim with sparkles of stars as they turned red. Cameron’s fingerprints were visible on his chin. That part of his face changed complexion to red.
” Stupid. You don’t mop the sofa, you dust it. The simple task assigned to you, you cannot do it but loitering around the entire house. Why don’t you learn to do the right thing and stop being a fool…?” Cameron was yelling at him as his eyes were emanating fury.
Camilla was rendered momentarily speechless. Was it because of what he was going to do with the mop that this rascal said so much to him? Or was it because of his fears at the sight of Mr Campbell?
As if that was not enough, Jared got closer to the man Cameron slapped and gave him a vicious kick on his stomach. He was the one who hit him the most. That’s payback time. “If you came here to clean, why then did you hit me so bad?” He bellowed.
The fellow went down on his knees, holding his stomach. What unfortunate fate had he encountered when he woke up that morning. The idiot asked them to help him terrorise and threaten this woman and her kids.
He never knew that he didn’t have a backbone. Now he met with someone more powerful than him and his backbone became straw. He had practically turned them into cleaners who could be humiliated.
The height of it is this boy, hitting him so hard on his stomach and he couldn’t say anything. This was too much for him to bear. He would deal with this fellow who had caused him so much humiliation.
“Sorry mister, they lack the act of professionalism. I apologise on their behalf” Cameron said, clasping his hands together. He smiled but within, he felt like strangling Jared to death.
Rodrigo ignored the drama performed and ordered his assistant ” Ensure everywhere is cleaned. And in addition to that, they should pick up dirt around the pedestrian until this whole vicinity is clean..”
Cameron’s eyes were widened. He carefully turned and glanced at Sara and her children. His stare was full of hostility and blood thirst.
” Yes boss” Joel answered as Rodrigo Campbell turned, Sara bowed slightly and clasped her hands together ” thank you for coming to our rescue Me Campbell”.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.
Rodrigo smiled faintly and bowed slightly, he glanced at Camilla again before he walked out. Joel stared at Cameron and the latter gulped down a lump of saliva.
Sara sighed audibly and glanced at her daughter. She doesn’t know what luck they had that this man comes to their rescue. They would have been languishing in shame already.
Cameron sank into the sofa and glared at Camilla. It’s all her fault that his day was ruined. He definitely wouldn’t have attempted what he did if he knew she was Mr Campbell’s girlfriend.
But what does such a man from an aristocratic family do with this low class girl who hardly can afford three square meals conveniently? That annoyed him more and he hissed between gritted teeth.
“Excuse me miss, my boss would like to see you”Joel approached Camilla with a slight now. He knew what happened already and since Rodrigo had given her his body, he wasn’t going to let her alone except she agreed to become his woman.
Camilla frowned and looked at her mother. She and Sara glanced at each other and the older woman nodded in approval to her.
She agreed and walked out, Joel following behind..