CHAPTER 21 - SHOCKWAVE

Riona was lying down on her bed and going through her phone. She was all alone at home. Wright had

not returned the previous night and she was not in the least bothered by his absence. He never

informed her of his intending absence neither had he call to inform her of his reasons for not coming

back home.

In the past, Riona would have immediately contacted her dad the moment she noticed that he was

usually late from work. But this time around, she was not bothered and so she did not dial his line, not

even for once to inquire about his whereabouts or the reasons for his absence.

Her refusal to check up on him was borne out of the conflict from their last encounter when he had

been out all night and had intentionally ignored her calls and even though she tried to not admit it, it

was also triggered by his revelation of an intention to marry Maeve, Riona’s mortal enemy. So, she has

made a decision never to be bothered about his where about anymore.

She was still on her bed browsing through her phone when she began to hear some noises. She

wondered where the noises might be coming from, but after a little observation, she realized that it was

coming from downstairs.

Initially, she ignored the noise and went on with her phone as she felt that the noise must be from dad

who had not returned the previous day.

If he had not returned the previous day and had not given her a prior information of his absence neither

did he thought it wise to put a call or a text across to inform her of his reasons, then they was no need

going to go and welcome him. Riona reasoned.

“You can go for as long as you wish as I no longer give a f**k” she cursed.

Even though Riona had resolved not to be bothered by her dad’s activities downstairs, she became

concerned when the noise was beginning to get too loud and persistent. The noise was beginning to

disturb her and she could not continue to ignore it even if she tried to.

She wondered what her dad might be doing to be generating so much noise all by himself. Or maybe

he was not alone but was here with some other persons or maybe he was not the one that was making

the noise downstairs.

Even with this thought, she still ignored his presence and whatever he was up to and continued with

her phone as she was sure that there was no way any other person would gain access to their house.

The noise continued and she could swear that she was hearing some other voices, different from her

dad’s. At first, she was scared and was unwilling to go downstairs by herself.

She tried to dial her dad’s number, she wanted to alert him of the presence of intruders in their property

but then she stopped.

“I can take care of this myself” she murmured and placed her phone on the bed.

She got up from the bed. “I am alone and I better start getting used to that”

And even though she was terrified and certain that there was little or nothing that she could do against

the intruders, she stubbornly stocked to her decision. She had decided to go downstairs and see

whatever was happening for herself even if that would be her end.

She bent down by her bedside and brought out a little cartoon that was carefully hidden at the edge of

the bed. She opened it and took out the pistol that was wrapped inside.

“They don’t know what is about to hit them” she smirked.

The pistol was given to her by her mum a few weeks before her death. While handing it over to Riona,

Evolette had instructed her never to use it unless it was absolutely necessary to. As at when she had

received the pistol, Riona had felt that she would never have use for it, but right now, she was pleased

that she has it.

She opened the door and walked out. Even with her pistol, she was scared, but was also determined

not to show it less her attackers would know how weak she was and might take advantage of that to

overpower her. Her hands trembled as she held the pistol. She has only practiced with toy guns and

had never used the pistol before. In fact, she had always prayed that a day will never come when she

would need to use it. But right now, she has no choice. She is been attacked and she must defend

herself.

As Riona walked through the passage, she silently prayed that her fears were wrong and that no one

was here to attack her. She held the pistol with her right hand, and hid the hand behind so that whoever

she comes in contact with would not know that she had a gun.

She arrived downstairs, and was intrigued with the sight of Maeve dragging a bag into the house. She

looked around and noticed that there were some boxes in the sitting room. She smartly hid the pistol in

the back pocket of her jean and dragged her polo down to cover it.

She was relieved to know that it had been Maeve all along, but she was still wondered what was going

on in the house. To her, it felt like she was she in a dream and what she was seeing was not real. She

wondered what gave Maeve the guts to come into their house bearing her luggage.

Riona prayed within her that it was not what she was thinking, because Maeve would not like her

reaction if she dares to move into their house.

Maeve who had been so occupied with her bag and had not noticed Riona’s presence looked up and

saw Riona staring at her. She could see the spite in Riona’s eye, but nevertheless, she decided to

ignore it and be friendly with her.

“Hey Rio, see you are up already, hope you are feeling much better now” Maeve said.

Hearing Maeve ask after her health, Riona becamed confused and she wondered why Maeve would be

concerned on how she was feeling even when she has been very okay and nothing was ever wrong

with her. She also wondered if someone had informed her that she was ill.

At first instinct, Riona was curious and wanted to ask Maeve the reason for such question, but she Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

resisted the urge as she felt the answer to that was insignificant compared to what Maeve was doing in

her house, right in front of her. She decided that it was more important to deal with the issue of Maeve

in her house first before any other matter.

“Bitch” Riona spat.

Maeve stopped and looked at Riona. Did Riona just refer to her as a bitch just now? She thought. As

she was about to reply to Riona, Riley entered carrying her luggage with her.

“Mum, do I leave this here for now?” Riley asked.

Seeing that Riley was already with them, Maeve comported herself before Riley and thereby ignoring

Riona’s disrespect.

“What exactly is happening here?” Riona asked at the sight of Riley who had entered also dragging a

luggage.

Riona was confused. She cannot remember ever been told that Maeve would be moving into their

house. And she wondered why she would be moving in already when she is not married to her dad yet.

Riona considered her action as a show of desperation and a gold digging exercise.

Anyways, Riona concluded that this act from Maeve did not come as a surprise to her in anyway as

she does not expect any sort of dignity from a cheap and shameless bitch as she saw Maeve as.

When Riley heard Riona’s question, she looked up at her. She realized that Riona was surprised at

seeing her and her mum in their house and she wondered why Riona would decide to act all surprise

over their moving in. Where exactly was she expecting them to stay? Riley thought. Anyways, she

concluded that she was going to act like she never heard Riona’s question as she was not ready for

one of her fights.

“How are you Riona? I can see you are doing great already” Riley asked.

It was evident that Riley was only trying to be nice, but Riona was having none of that.

“Keep quiet you, I was not talking to you” she said to Riley.

She turned to Maeve and from where she was standing, she pointed her fingers at Maeve.

“And you Maeve, aren’t you going to answer to my question, or have you suddenly gone numb?” Riona

asked.

By now, Maeve was filled with anger, but she did not respond to Riona’s insults. She and her daughter

were just looking at Riona.

“I see. You know there is something called marriage right?” Riona asked.

At this point, Wright entered carrying two luggages. He saw Maeve and Riley standing in the sitting and

he was going to ask what they were doing just standing with their bags when he looked at the staircase

and saw Riona looking at him.