When A Woman Wants

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 11

DEBBY

She hated the man a lot, she should sack him soon enough. Who does he even think he is? If not for what she needed him for, he didn’t worth saying “hi” to her. Thinking of it, how could her husband even get someone like him to be his special adviser or P.A or whatever he was, now that he was married to her, he only needed to trust her.

She hissed and stood up from her seat. What would it have cost him to just give her details of the child that was coming to join? The way John had responded was really mean.

“You don’t need to know anything, all you need to know is that the heir of Fran Nicholas is coming home to his father’s house”

She hissed more loudly

. He had said that intentionally. She was not going to be a threat to her step child. Step child. She grimaced. She was going to become a mother!

Dear God! This was fate, she had just renounced her mother and now she was going to be a mother to another’s child

She was going to be as nice as possible. Probably get the child a present. A toy. Where he was even coming from, no one knew except John and that limping bastard wouldn’t tell her anything unless she had sex with him!

They had a deal that the affair would stop if he didn’t get her to meet Frank. He was more than ready to help and he eventually got her to move in to the mansion.

It was a dream come true for her and too easy, within three months, she had moved in

. Frank had said to her. “John said I need someone to be taking care of me and you are very beautiful, can you do that?”

Just like that, she had moved in the next day. She wasn’t bothered, since she had all she needed, fame, as she soon started getting the press in the house. Yes, Frank was a very private person but she wasn’t, she soon started getting featured on “What’s Hot?” TV programs and her pictures were at the front of some magazines. Everyone wanted to meet the Queen of the mansion. She was finally living the life she wanted and she was always travelling around the country and outside for events Frannicky wouldn’t attend. She knew if the President’s wife was more famous than she was right now, she would soon catch up in few weeks.

She kept receiving several abusive messages on her social media pages from Vera and some people she called “haters” but they didn’t bother her. She got to know that Vera was not in the country anymore so there was little she could do to hurt her. The ring had come in some weeks later and that was how she became Debby Nicholas.

She stretched a hand to reach the telephone by her bed side. Putting the receiver to her ear, she dialed some numbers.

“Yea, Perri, you and Ella can come now”

She replaced the receiver and glanced at the wall clock, it was almost four, the press could start coming in any moment and she needed to get ready both for them and their guest.

John had told her not to invite the press, but he can never tell her what she ought to do and what she ought not to do. The man has certainly forgotten his place. She had called the press people shortly after John left to bring their guest. The boy was going to be in the spotlight now and she needed to be part of it. She wouldn’t get side lined.

A knock sounded on the door –

“Yea, come in.”

The two ladies came in; she had hired them permanently to do her shopping, make up, hair and other things. In a nutshell, they filled in the gap where Debby was lacking.

Debby, where was that girl. She had been avoiding her ever since they moved into this house-

“Did you two see Debby”

They both shook their heads.

“I think she has a class today” Pella stated.

“Okay” Debby replied. “Come fix me up, it’s almost time and the press would soon be here.

ROSA

“You should have initiated something on the twist before coming to the class”

Rosa’s eyes bumped together in a scowl at Luke. “I know but I thought giving her something differently would shift her attention from that?”

Luke shook his head in a total disagreement. “Yes, you thickened the plot and she would have loved it if you had included it after putting the little love twist. That was why she wasn’t pleased. Now you have to do it again”

“I know Luke. I will chip in the love twist she so much desires. What is her problem with love anyways?”

Luke chuckled. “You should ask her.”

Rosa smiled. They were at the cafeteria, discussing the class they just had.

“So tell me about yourself.” Luke said, leaning forward while reaching for her hand which was lying on the table between them. “Your family, where you stay, your best food. I want to know everything”

She blushed as his hand touched hers. His hands were icy cold against her warm skin. He had held the cold bottle of coke in his hands for quite long.

“Well…” She started. “I am an only child. Parents been gone for a while, kicked from one foster home to the other and now I am working and sending myself to school.”

“Wow! Sorry about your folks. How long had it been and, what do you do now?”

Just as she was about to answer, she heard someone said. “OH! See that gold digger at Frank Nicky’s house”

Rosa turned round and noticed the lady who spoke was looking at the TV. She did the same.

Debby was talking to a group of press people in the hall-room and she was looking really beautiful in the long Coco channel flowing gown she was wearing. The jewelries on her knuckles and her wrists, flashed at the camera each time she moved.

She felt a light squeeze on her finger-she had completely forgotten Luke was there.

“I’m sorry Luke; I was really distracted by the TV …”

“So, here comes the lost but found prince of the mansion. We hope he is not as camera shy as his father”

Rosa forgot what she was saying and directed her gaze back to the TV. The camera had shifted from Debby and she noticed some men coming out of the ca. she recognized John and he were really pissed. He came directly at the camera, which seemed to back away, there was a bit of a struggle and noise from the press people. The view shifted to a car as a man came out in a blue black suit whose back view was only facing the camera.

‘Cover Francis Guards” Rosa heard John shouted and guards in black suits and black sunglasses came around to form a circle around this man… who was also holding a hand to the side of his face.

The camera shifted again, more struggle as everyone tried to see the man…

Rosa was confused. Weren’t they expecting a child? Who was this man?

This time, the camera shifted back to Debby. She was as rigid as a statue, unblinking, white as a chalk. Her eyes and her mouth were frozen wide open in an expression of stunned surprise

As the press man announced. “Debby, I thought you said the prince of the Frannicky’s mansion is a child, you didn’t say anything about a fully grown man”

Debby stood as gormless as a guppy. Her mouth opened and shut and no sound was heard. She shook her head in disbelief.

“Excuse me”. She whimpered to the camera and she was seen walking away from it.

The pressman came into view again. “There, you have it; I know we are all surprised to see a full grown man instead of a child as we were told. This just got even interesting.

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. Soon, we would be having him on our program hopefully; most of us will conclude that he is really the son of his father as we just noticed him also camera-shy.

There was a collage of two pictures on the screen where the young man was backing the camera with a hand over his face, beside it was a similar picture of Franticly, backing the camera and placing a hand over his face.

Debby looked like she had just seen a ghost. A ghost. Of some years ago. Who could have come back to haunt her. Rosa knew most of Debby’s enemies, there was none that could have drained the blood from her face just like that. Publicly. Except. Someone who was never her enemy…and who she had never expected to see again or so soon at that place at that particular time.

Who could that be..?

Who could he be?

Debby’s brain desperately scrambled to make the sense of it all.

The pressman came into view again, “That, dear viewers were the pictures of Francis Nicholas junior and Frank Nicholas. See you again same time tomorrow on “What’s Hot”

FRANCIS!!

Rosa whimpered.

“Are you okay Rosa?”

Rosa stared at Luke, who looked deeply worried. “I’m sorry Luke, I have to go”

She took her bag and fled.