"And so what? As if it was entirely his fault. Infact, you were the reason behind it," Amy said.
"Miss Cleo!" Michael called and walked towards her.
"Please don't come close to me. Tell your godmother to leave here with these people," Amy said.
Nell had an angry look on her face," you must be feeling yourself now because the most powerful man in NorthHill identified himself publicly with you and even called you his woman. Speaks so much of whom you really are, a slut! You have seduced the most powerful man in NorthHill with your craftiness, wow! Wow!" Nell clapped.
Amy became very enraged at Nell. How could she refer to her as such name?
"Mother, please don't call miss. Cleo a slut. She's not. She's going to be your daughter in law soon so please be understanding towards her. Ba must be mistaken when he announced her as his womam," Michael said.
Amy smirked at Michael's foolish words," If Ba made a mistake in identifying himself with me and announcing me as his woman did he also make a mistake in punching you in the face?" Thought you claim to be his friend and a reason why he rose to power?" Amy scoffed.
Michael felt ashamed but he was now finding it difficult to breathe, Nell looked at Michael blankly. When they were coming over here, Nell had asked him why Ba will punch him in the face when he claimed to be friends with him but he lied that he and Ba were having some minor issues at the moment.
Broderick remained quiet still. He had so many words to say but he refused to utter amy. He would rebuke them tremendously as Ba.
"Throw him out," Nell commanded the five burly men but Amy quickly stood before Broderick," don't you dare to."
One of the burly men held Amy in the wrist and threw her away from Broderick roughly, Broderick's eyes sparkled in rage. He ran towards Amy and asked," are you okay?"
"I'm not hurt, "Amy replied and was about to stary crying, it wasn't because of how the burly men threw her away, it was because she felt like she was incapable of defending Broderick from these burly men.
Nell had a smirk on her face seeing how Amy got thrown away," bitch!" She mumbled.
Broderick placed a call across to Irvin and commanded him," send my strongest men to my main house."
"Yes, boss," Irvin said and hung the call up.
Broderick stood with rage in his eyes.
"What can an angry toothless dog do?" Nell asked as he saw Broderick looking at them angrily.
"Bark!" Michael responded to Nell's sarcastic question and they both laughed.
"What 'strongest men' of yours are you calling?"Nell asked mockingly. "I really want to see them. I will ensure they are beaten blue black," Nell said and gestured for the burly men in the room to pause in throwing Broderick out.
"Godmother, you treated me with love and kindness when I was young that was why I have loved and trusted you all my life, why did you suddenly turn into a villian? godmother, you can't stand my rage."
Nell laughed, "If I didn't treat you with kindness and love then, you will inform your father, somebody I can not afford to offend."
"I see..." Broderick said. "You eventually revealed your true color after all these years."
Once Broderick finished speaking, a tall man walked inside the room angrily and once he saw Broderick, he asked," boss, who are those people you want me to deal with?"
"Start with these," Broderick pointed to the five burly men.
Once the tall man turned to the five burly men, fear could be seen on the five burly men faces. They recognized the tall man to be a mafia boss, someone their entire generation can not afford to offend. They have even been hired by him before many years ago.
The five burly men fell to their knees and one of them immediately said," please pardon us, boss."
When Nell heard one of the men she brought said this, she was stunned and confused. She looked at Michael as if asking him to explain what was going on here for her. But even Michael was so confused.
"Mr. Broderick, can you take miss inside?" The tall mafia boss asked. He was so angry that he can't wait to devour the burly men kneeling down before him but he didn't want Amy to see the violent scenes.
"Alright," Broderick said simply and walked away with Amy.
Once Amy and Broderick got back inside the room, Amy asked in confusion," Mr. Broderick, what's going on there?"
Broderick shrugged and sat," I may not be the most powerful man in NorthHill anymore but I've still got connections," Broderick said simply.
"Let me visit the kids," Amy said and Broderick gestured that she could leave. Amy then walked to the girl's room then told Queen to tell the boys to come over, in a jiffy, the six kids were all scattered across the room.
Amy began to play with them and it lasted for hours, there was this inexplicable joy she always have whenever she's with her kids.
*
Amy drove towards the borders of NorthHill, there were few old small houses in this area. Amy parked before the house that was inside the address that he sent to her.
She stepped down from her car and walked inside the house, the door of the house was made with wood that had become weak. One kick to the door and the door will break open.
She knocked nonetheless and the door opened a few seconds later, "Hi!"
"Please come in, miss Cleo," he welcomed her and then gestured for her to sit on a couch. There were only two couches in the room and a small table between them, nothing else was there apart from that. No television, no bulb, nothing.
She didn't know whether to be scared but then she thought that her brother wouldn't hurt her.
Irvin left her and came back with two cup of wines, he handed over one to her.
"Thanks," Amy sipped a little of the wine then dropped it on the small table before her.
Irvin then sat on the second couch and drank from the cup of wine with him after which he placed the cup on the table and relaxed back to the chair.
"So, miss Cleo, you said you have something personal to discuss with me," Irvin was unsually calm. It was because he beleived that Amy was the only person who is most likely to have information about his sister.
"I have a question first of all, since you are the mayor's son, why didn't the mayor recognize you? I don't think your stepmother will recognize you if they see you?" Amy asked. She had heard of how the mayor and his family were the first to meet with Ba at his mansion and seeing that Irvin was the closest to Ba, she beleived they would see. Yet, Irvin didn't even let the mayor's family secure a contract and even angrily three Martha who was regarded as the mayor's daughter away angrily
"Well, to work in the underground..." His voice trailed off and then he sighed and said," due to the nature of my job, I have to sacrifice all of myself, including my face." He said.
"So this isn't your real face, huh?" Amy asked.
"It is, I just did some few changes to my nose , mouth and jaw with surgery. I think they didn't recognize me because it's being a long time... that's over twenty years ago, you can imagine," Irvin said.
"Moreso, they would never expect that I would be the secretary to the most powerful man in NorthHill. But actually, if they have observed well, they will notice it's me," Irvin said and brought out his phone, he opened a folder and handed over his phone to Amy.
Amy received it and saw his childhood pictures, he compared his childhood face to his present face and it looked almost the same, just that his jaw was now longer and his nose longer too but he looked like an adult version of his childhood.
"Just a slight change," Amy handed over his phone back to him and he nodded after receiving it.
"I also want to ask if you know why Ba is referring to me as his woman? I'm asking this because I know you are close to him," Amy requested.
"Yeah, I'm Ba's secretary but that doesn't mean I know everything about him. I really don't know the answer to this question, sorry," Irvin responded. He sincerely didn't know. When he also heard the news that Ba declared Amy as his woman, he couldn't seem to get his brain to understand it.
Amy hummed and asked," You are Ba's secretary and you are living in this poor place? I can't seem to understand?"
"This is not my house but here is safer to meet with you. You really can't understand and I really can't tell you more about myself," he said.
Amy was guessing that Irvin had so many things he was hiding. So he had to bring her over to this wretched house that was at the border of the city before he can speak to her? She really wants to know everything about him. What happened after he ran away from the Owen's mansion? Where did he run to? What has he been doing before then? But he won't be able to answer all these questions unless he knows that she was his sister.
Amy was so lost in thought that she didn't know that Irvin had called her once, it was when he called her for the second time that she rose her head up and set her gaze on him.
"Are you alright?" Irvin asked.
"I want to tell you something but I don't know if I can trust you," Amy said, looking deeply at his face.
"You can trust me, just tell me," Irvin asked curiosly. He thought that it may be about his sister.
"I'm Amy!"
Irvin," ..."
Amy sighed and lowered her head.
Irvin sat upright and said, "John said Amy is dead."
"John?"
"Yeah, my best friend. He was the one I told to find Amy whereabout. I even went to Amy's graveyard three days ago to cry my eyes out and honour her with flowers."
"Are you aware that Amy is Broderick's mistress?" Amy asked.
"No," Irvin lied. He actually didn't know before since he always turn deaf ears to whateer is happening over here, he was most focused on underground business. But John told him about his sister and one of the things he said was that Amy was Broderick's mistress and that news had it that it was Theresa, Broderick's wife at the moment that killed her.
Ever since John gave him that news, he had beckoned on John to find Theresa so he can take revenge on what she did to his sister.
'He doesn't even know much about Broderick,' Amy thought.
"I'm the mayor's daughter, your sister and Broderick's mistress. I'm just pretending to the world I'm dead." Amy exained how she excaped Theresa's evil plot to kill her and how she had made Broderick and her family beleive she was dead by providing a dead body that had her face.
"Oh my!" Irvin stood in shock.
"Please keep my real identity a secrete. If the world finds out that I'm not dead, they will blame me for being a cunny woman and Theresa can simply come out to say that I set her up," Amy said. She couldn't tell Irvin her main reason for hidng her identity which was, waiting and confirming that Broderick had fallen in love with her.
Irvin went to her and pulled her up slowly with his arms," Amy!" He mumbled affectionately with tears streaming down his face, "so you are not dead?" He hugged her dearly and continued sobbing.
Tears finds it's way down Amy's cheeks too and she began to cry, she had thought that she had no family, she had no idea that she had a brother somewhere.
Irvin's phone rang and he disenaged from the hug and seeing that the message was related to one of the works he was doing in the underground world, he said," I need to leave now."
"Irvin, I need to know a lot about you," Amy said, not wanting him to leave.
"I'll tell you everything about myself, I also want to know so much about you and have fun with you...but I must attend to this urgent work," Irvin said, still holding into her hand.
"You have my number, you can always call me, okay?" Irvin asked, kissed her head and quickly walked towards the exit.
"Irvin," Amy called, not wanting him to leave. She had just reunited with him and he was already leaving.
"Little sister, I promise to meet up with you soon," Irvin then walked out.
He got inside his car and started the ignition of the car quickly, as he pressed on the accelerator, he noticed something was odd so he looked at the front mirror and saw 'him' seated nobly on the backseat.
"Boss!" He screamed, his heart almost jumping out from his throat.