“Thank you” I said to her and then walked to the place where she said the elevator would be.
I saw it and then entered, it went up and stopped at the last floor which was where the room was.
When it stopped I came out and then began searching for the room.
I walked through hallways until I saw the room, I went closer to it and proceeded to knock when the door suddenly opened from inside.
Two men dressed in an all black outfit came out and glared at me.
“Who are you?” One of them snapped.
“I am Carter’s wife, I need to see him” I replied, trying to act fearless and confident.
They both exchanged glances and burst out laughing.
“Please Miss just leave here, Carter might strangle you if he heard what you just said” one of them said.
“That can’t happen because I am his wife and….”
“What’s going on?” Rodrigo asked to come out.
His eyes found me and they widened, “what are you doing here?” He asked.
“I heard Carter was in an accident,” I replied.
Rodrigo sighed heavily and then opened the door widely and told me to come in.
I followed him into the room only to stop in my tracks at the scene beholding in front of me.
Carter was seated at the hospital bed, in front of him was a man on a chair, more than ten men were just sitting around watching.
His white shirt was covered in sweats and blood, his face was battered beyond recognition.
“Aren’t you going to talk?” Carter asked, flashing a knife at him.
The man didn’t reply and without warning he pushed the knife to his stomach and brought it out.
I gasped and covered my mouth, he turned towards my direction and smirked.
“You are here, wife?”
His men were surprised by what he said that they began exchanging glances at each other.
He came closer to me and pushed me against his body, “I miss you so much, wifey” he said.
“Get away from me you monster !” I yelled.
“I know you miss me too, now let’s talk” he broke the hug and led me to the bed.
“Leave and take this rat with you” he ordered his men who took the battered man out of the room.
He sat me down on the bed and sat down too, “now tell me what happened?” He began.
“Nothing, we went to visit someone and then we ate at a restaurant and came back home” I replied.
“Just that?, are you sure or are you not observant?”
“That’s all that happened” I replied.
“I heard you were in an accident but you are looking fine” I remarked looking all over his body.
“Yeah but it was just a minor thing, is that why you rushed over here?, were you worried about me?” He smirked.
“Not at all I was just putting on the act of a lovely wife who heard that her precious husband was in an accident” I replied.
“That’s good, keep up with and the Kingpin will never suspect a thing”
“Let’s go home” he started walking towards the door and I followed him.
We reached the lobby and he told the nurse there to cancel his name from the system.
“Okay Sir” the nurse replied and started doing that but she couldn’t help glancing at me.
“Now you believe in my husband, right?” I asked.
“Um, I am so sorry about that man, please…”
“Shut up and do what you were asked !” I snapped, interrupting her.
“Yes ma” she replied and continued what she was doing.
“It is done, Sir,” she said to Carter after two minutes.
“Good, this is my wife.
Let it soak into your head” he warned.
“Yes Sir, please I am so sorry ma.
Please forgive me, I won’t do it ever again” she apologized.
“Of course you won’t because the second time, you will pay with your life” I smirked at her.
“Drive now,” Carter ordered.
The car started and drove away from the hospital heading home.
We reached home and Carter got out of the car walking straight to the front door with a brisk pace.
“Why is he in such a hurry?” I thought then got out too and followed him.
Carter’s stepmother and her son were in the living room when I entered and Carter was standing close to her glaring.
“Oh your wife is here, why don’t you take her back to your mansion.
Your father will call you when he wants to talk to you” she said.
Carter was staring at her with a murderous intent and I feared he was going to strangle her when he raised his hands.
But then he took a deep breath and came to me, “lets go” he said.
I followed him and we went back to the front door to open it.
The door was opened outside and the Kingpin came in with the man we met earlier in the morning.
“We meet again Miss,” Nate said.
“Yeah we did”
“Follow me Carter, we have a lot to discuss” Carter’s father said and walked into the house followed by Nate.
“Wait here,” Carter said to me and followed his father.
“Good” I muttered and turned towards the duo sitting in the living room.
I then went to one of the couches and sat down trying to watch the show playing on the television.
“He picked you up from the slum right?”
I was taken aback by the question but I didn’t show that, so I turned to the questioner.
“No he didn’t” I replied.
“I am sure he did because I could smell your stench coming out from your slum-stricken body,” Carter’s stepmother continued.
I knew she was just pretending all these while I was waiting for her to show her true colour.