?THE
MASKED
MAFIA?
(His Shy Spy…)
By; Sommy Pearl F.
CHAPTER 48&49
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“Rhoda?” Cindy looked around.
“Yes. Why isn’t she here?” Malcolm asked.
“Talking about Rhoda. We haven’t seen her since today. I don’t even know why she is not here yet” Cindy replied.
“Anyways, I’m sure she’ll be here soon. You and your girlfriend is trending mas-sively so she’ll be here, certainly. Let’s get straight to the point,,, what happened??” She asked.
“Swears. I don’t know either. It was just unaware. I was caught offguard. I had to do something to save Ariana” Malcolm replied, already taking out a cigarette.
“And the only thing that you could do to save her was too act immaturely and insensibly?? Ariana? your girlfriend?? Don’t you think that’s too much!” Cindy scolded.
“And I mentioned it earlier! It was so unaware that my mouth spewed such mistake Do you think I ain’t regretting it right now? The mistake has been made. There’s nothing I can do!” He shouted.
Cindy sighed, and scattered her hair.
“Let’s just kill her. I can’t keep on doing this”
“Listen. She’s getting her memory into bits. Give her more time so that she can remember. Then,,, she’ll be a goner. Let not waste what we started” Malcolm explained and puffed out smoke from his mouth.
Cindy bit her li-ps.
“Tomorrow,, I’ll scan her Br@in. Let’s see her far she’s getting”
He only nodded. written by sommy pearl f.
“I hope you’ll fix it soon” She uttered.
“But boss,,, what happened to your arm? This isn’t a small accident like you mentioned live” Kev said.
“Huh…I fell down from the bed and hit my arm ha-rd on the floor”
Ken scoffed and stood up. He walked to him, and inspected his arm, holding it a bit high.
“What are you doing??” Malcolm gr-unted.
“This looks quite big for a small accident, to me. If you wanna lie, don’t do that in front of me. I’m speaking from my attorney’s perspective” He whispered.
Malcolm only scoffed.
****
“Who’s that?” Ariana muttered, and walked closer to the door.
She looked throu-ghthe monitoring system and wide-ned her eyes in surprise.
“What’s she doing here? I thought the show already got to an end” Ariana thought and opened it.
She was on her pajamas now.
“Miss Woo Hee? What are you doing here?” Ariana asked, gently.
Woo Hee smiled, and exp-osed her hand which was holding a duck toy.
“Thats mine…” Ariana smiled, and collected it.
“You left that at the shoot and I thought you might nee-d it” Woo Hee smiled.
Ariana nodded and muttered a thank you.
“I’m sure Malcolm really loves you…” She whispered.
“Huh??” Ariana whispered, and quickly looked up at her.
“By the way, he steals stares at you and the way he smiles at you, from behind….I’m really sure his feelings for you is genuine”
Ariana chuckled, nervously.
“Goodnight, Ariana” Woo Hee waved.
“Same here…” Ariana waved, back.
****
“I’m leaving first” Cindy stood up, and started walking past the door.
Suddenly, she started moving, backwards and the others noticed.
Rhoda was moving towards her, with a bottle of beer in her hand.
“Okay guys. Somebody is Fu-cking dead drunk here and the only person who can coax her is Malcolm” Cindy said.
Malcolm dropped his 3rd cigarette on the ash tray and walked towards her.
“Rhoda. Hey…” He whispered, holding her both shoulders, firmly.
Rhoda was staggering, seriously.
“Why her?” She muttered.
“Who?” He asked.
“Ariana…”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you like her?”
“What sort of ques- He paused, and looked around. All eyes were on him.
“Why are you talking like this? Why would you ask that. I can see you are drunk” He said, taking away the bottle.
“Please, don’t like her. Like me instead” She shook her head.
“I’m doing all this for you. for our love so…don’t do this. If you have any tint of feelings for her…Its over” She whispered and slumped.
Malcolm was fast in catching her.
“What’s she saying?” Cindy scoffed and walked away.
“I’ll take her home” Malcolm muttered and gave her a piggy back.
Oliver quickly texted Gina.
*Let’s meet at 9. More Bar*
He sighed and pocketed his phone. Just then, Ken and Kev stood up.
“Ken? Go without me. I’ll catch up with you” Kev said.
Ken nodded and walked out.
Kev ran out and saw Cindy walking away slowly. He quickly ran to her and grabbed her arm.
“Cindy?” He whispered, immediately she turned to him.
“Can we talk, please? I’ve something to tell you”
Oliver sneaked in fast, and held her other arm.
“She’s with me… She promised me a all nighter training” He lied.
“Let’s go of her, first. I just wanna talk with her. Thats all. You guys can sort whatever it is, later” Kev said.
“Nope. doesn’t work that way. We still have lots of things to do and talking will while away time”
Cindy sighed and looked at Kev.
“Kev,,,, let go of me”
Kev looked down sadly and did so.
Cindy took her eyes to Oliver who was already smiling.
“You too!! Let go of me!!!” She barked.
Oliver flinched and took his hand off and with that, she left their sights.
****
Malcolm slowly kept Rhoda on the bed, and covered her neatly with the duvet. written by sommy pearl f.
He stro-ked her hair and proceeded to leave when she suddenly grabbed his arm.
He turned to her. She was whispering, with her closed eyes.
“She’s still drunk” He thought and bent down.
“Rhoda? Is there anything you want before I leave?” He asked.
Before he could realize what was going on, Rhoda threw her arms around his shoulders and made her way to his li-ps.
Malcolm quickly broke from her hold and stood up.
“You’re still drunk. Rest well” He muttered and left.
Immediately, he did, Rhoda opened her eyes and sat upright on the bed.
She stro-ked her hair and bit her li-ps ha-rd.
“Malcolm…Please,,, just fall in love with me” She whispered, with hot tears soaked in her eyes.
****
Malcolm was in his car, driving carefully on the busy free road.
He closed his eyes and opened them immediately.
“Why the h*ll did I dodge her li-ps. I ki-ssed her then and liked it so why- He paused, and the right memories came flooding in.
He abruptly pulled the Br@kes and stared blankly.
“The person I ki-ssed was Ariana?? No wonder her…li-ps looked familiar”
****
Ariana smiled, while looking at the hu-ge stuffy duck.
“I know why he wanted to have you” She smiled the more.
“Cause you’re cute,,, just like him” She pinched the long beak.
“How about I just hand you to him. Both of you fit better. I’ll leave it in his room. You must take it, Mister…no matter what” She chuckled, and stood up.
She entered his room and kept it. neatly on his bed. She smiled at it and advanced to the door.
But she paused when her eyes came in contact with the briefcase.
“That… He came in with that,,, the day he got hurt. What could be in there?” She muttered, and slowly walked to it.
She opened it carefully and saw a transparent file, which she could visibly in it,, see a flash drive and a very small key. written by sommy pearl f. on fb
“What are you doing here?” Malcolm’s cold voice came, from behind.
Ariana je-rked and quickly turned to face him.
“Mister. You are here?” She ran to him, wearing a big smile.
He took steps away from her.
“Stop coming close to me!” He warned, and her eyes blinked, confusedly.
“Don’t act like we are close cause I called you my girlfriend. Don’t act like we are close cause we live together. Don’t act like we are close cause we aren’t!!! We aren’t close!! Leave my room!” He thun-dered.
Ariana shivered.
“Mister. Why are you-
“Don’t call me mister! Its boss!! What’s this!” He asked, going closer to the duck.
He scoffed, opened his window and threw it out.
“Don’t act like we are close, Ariana. respect our boundaries” He warned.
Ariana swallowed as she felt tears run down her eyes. She sniffed and ran out.
She entered her room, locked the door, and bawled her eyes out on the bed.
Malcolm inhaled de-eply and looked at the briefcase.
“I can’t…What ever the feelings is…the feelings I’m having for her can’t…work. It can’t!! Impossible!!” He hollered, and hit the wall angrily with his fist.
MORE BAR, 9:09PM**
“You clearly said 9pm. You’re 9 minutes late” Gina said, with folded arms.
Oliver walked closer to her. He didn’t sit though.
“Have your seat” She looked up at him.
“Let’s drink too. We have a lot to discuss so let’s not drink to stupor” She advised.
“I didn’t ask you to come over to discuss or drink” He muttered.
A smile ran across her li-ps.
“So,,, you came to ask me for a date?”
“Gina…I came to say it’s over between us. Let’s stop this. we shouldn’t be acting childish….” He said, straightforwardly.
“What do you mean?” She muttered.
“I’m saying…I don’t like you…I’m sorry”
“You like someone else?” She stood up, slowly.
“Yes. How do you know that?”
“How could you be so Br@zen about it?! You should be denying it, freak!!!” She hit her hands on his che-st, with tears flowing down her eyes.
He sighed and took her hand away.
“Bye,,, and I hope we never see each other again. Forgive me for my trespas-ses” He bowed and left.
“Its not over!! Who said its over!” She screamed at him.
“Its not over till I say so!!” She increa-sed her volume.
He didn’t pay attention to her and just left.
“That witch!! I’ll destroy her” She gnashed her teeth and clenched her fist, in rage.
She quickly took her phone and called her dad.
“Dad.. ” She sobbed.
“Yes, my little baby. What happened? Talk to me” He replied.
“I nee-d a favor from you”
“Say it and it’ll done,,,”
She smiled.
“I nee-d you to fire someone for me”
MIDNIGHT***
Malcolm opened his laptop, and fixed the flash drive into the USB slot.
He clic-ked the file that appeared on his screen, which directed him to a video.
He played it, quickly.
****
Ma Clara walked in, majestically and sat down, opposite Ariana who was also seated.
She was wearing black jacket over black trousers. She wore a crop top inside.
Her mascara and eye liner was really thick and serious-looking.
Her li-pstick on her li-p was de-ep red, and her fingers were long to the core.
“So,,, I heard you came to borrow a loan but you wouldn’t sign the papers till you meet the owner of this loan company. Well, I’m Ma Clara,,, the owner of-
“Come n’ Go,,, loan company” Ariana whispered, with a dangerous sm-irk on her face.
Ma Clara nodded.
“So, I guess you’ll sign the papers now??”
Ariana scoffed lowly and looked around. She gestured to Ma Clara to come closer.
She did so.
“I heard you own something special here….”
Ma Clara looked at her.
“Something special like what?”
“Never mind. Ma Clara,, do you wanna know something I hate the most?” Ariana asked, slowly signing the papers.
Ma Clara just stared at her.
“I hate betrayers and I can go at extra length to make sure I kill that person even if I once loved the person” She looked up, at her.
“Why are you telling me this?” Ma Clara asked.
Ariana li-ps brou-ght out a sly smile, as she slowly got in her feet.
“Nothing, actually. I hope you don’t witness a betrayer amongst your gang cause its painful to bear. I’m only speaking out of experience”
She advanced to the door and came to a sudden halt.
“Ah,,, I almost forgot…” She turned to her.
“I’ll be back to claim that special thing. It was ha-rd trying to find here. Come n’ Go” She whispered, winked and finally left.
TBC