A month has gone by since Amanda came to stay with him.
He had kept his distance from her but she didn't budge. She kept looking for unnecessary reasons to be with him which he had had enough of her. He made someone look into her.
Amanda refuses to open up. Her excuses were either;
" It is something traumatising" or something like, " I don't want to visit the past, Aaron."
Aaron was seated in his home office, reading through her information. He furrows his brows when he finds out the things sheave been through.
" She was sold?" he whispered to himself.
How so? Her disappearance was something one couldn't place a finger on. And he just found out she was sold. Not to anyone but, his family's rivalry. Something doesn't add up. Why was she sold and by whom? He understands that her parents worked for his, but nobody knew they were engaged. Except for her parents and his.
Aaron massaged his temples. He stood up from his seat. He faced his floor-to-ceiling window, with his hands in his pockets.
He looked down from his office, the sun's rays shining through the pool, giving it a marvellous look.
He saw Amanda lying on her stomach to little to nothing but a bikini. Her file stated that she was abused and tortured but there were no scars on her body. Her skin looks flawless.
" What are you hiding, Amanda?" he whispered to himself.
Amanda raised her head sensing someone was staring at her. She raised her head from the lounge chair and waved at Aaron who was staring at her. He looked like he was in deep thought. Aaron diverted his gaze from her and covered the window with his black Venetian blinds. He has to dig deep. He can't be fooled by her and he has to get rid of her without guilt.
He phoned his cousin, he braced himself for her insults or anything she would throw at his way.
" What do you want?" Naarah asked
A smirk tugged his lips, he loves it when his cousin doesn't engage in small talk but moves straight to the point.
" What do you know about Amanda and her parents?" he asked
" That was quick. Sick of her, are we?" Naarah exclaimed.
"I'm not in the mood for chit chat, Naarah. I want information.
" Whatever. What I know is her parents died a mysterious death and she was sold to Francis Kiyosaki. Then she magically appeared. Mind you, I never liked her. She is a jinx. Bad news for sure. "
Aaron listened to his cousin, he knew that wasn't the only information Naarah knew.
"I'm visiting." he dropped the bombshell.
" Ah, I see, to get more information or for Mina."
" Both."
" Ok, I will tell her," Naarah said
"Don't! I want to inform her myself. I don't trust anything that comes from your mouth, besides, she is nearly on her ninth months old. I want to be by her side. It's our first baby."
" I see, you want to start performing your responsibility, is it? But her doctor was a perfect match for her, too bad." Naarah laughed
" Naarah! Don't you dare, princess is mine and mine only not any fucking doctor. Change him."
Aaron was on the edge of exploding, he was thinking that he had made a bad decision to make his cousin take care of his princess.
" Too late, Aaron," she said before hanging up.
Aaron was fuming inside. He threw his phone across the room.
" Fuck! " he screamed with his hands in his hair.
He had to leave soon before he lost both his woman and baby.