Red Lace

Chapter 6

ADAEGO IYAZINKOSI IBRAHIM

"Master would never allow his daughters to become mistresses, let alone be taught here! Now, who are you, girls?" He asks in a more stern voice this time around.

"I am not going to stand here and try to prove myself to you! Let us in there!" I say folding my arms in front of me.

"You're cute but no! Unless you can prove that you are Master's daughters and he said you should come here then there's no way I am letting you in there!" this man says, I raise an eyebrow at him annoyed.

"Who are you? What is your name?" Lola asks him, he lets out a lazy chuckle.

"Akintoye, why?" He asks.

"So that my father can fire you. In fact, let me call him right now!" Lola says taking out her phone, she starts dialing. My heart starts pounding, Lola wouldn't be that stupid to call dad. Dad will kill us if he found us here. "I'm calling our father!"

"Put him on speaker will you!" Akintoye says unbothered and unthreatened by our presence. Something about him screams dominance, he looks intimidating with his small eyes that look deep into your soul as if searching for your darkest secrets. He has this strange charm no man has ever had on me before, is he also an immortal because there's no way a normal human could make me feel this way.

"Fine, we're lying!" I blurt out and Lola shoots me a look as if I just confessed to betraying Jesus. It's not even that deep, Akintoye also needs to stop looking at me like that.

"About which part exactly?" Akintoye asks folding his arms so casually in front of his chest leaning back on the door behind him with this cheeky smile. My gawd, he looks like he just stepped out of a magazine photoshoot because there's no way a man can look this good so effortlessly.

"We are our father's daughter but he didn't send us here. We want to know what happens here since none of our parents will tell us what is going on!" I explain and he laughs at me, I frown but he doesn't stop laughing. His laughter is kind of sexy, it's those lazy laughs where he doesn't entirely break into a fit of laughter but it comes in intervals, nice and slow but bold. I could listen to him all day!

"What is so funny?" Lola asks not hiding her annoyance at this whole interaction.

"Your sister," Akin says bringing me back to the situation before us, why am I being laughed at? I don't tell jokes and I'm definitely not the funniest person there is, he continues "If you have any questions about this place then ask your parents. You won't find what you are hoping for here. Now come, let me drive you home and we can pretend this never happened because if your father finds out about you two coming here it won't end well for you both." Akintoye says pulling my sister and me by our upper arms and pushing us out of the front door.

"Leave us alone! We can walk on our own!" Lola argues and Akin drops his hands and gestures for us to get out. My sister is about to argue when I touch her arm, she looks at me before walking out quietly.

"At least one of you listens,"

KHAYALETHU MNGUNI

"Sthandwa sam I just got to the kids' school," I report to my wife after having parked my car.

Ever since her late husband's accident, Mihlali never relaxes when I travel or when anyone close to her travels because of her trauma. She could be at work having the busiest day but never not report when you leave a place and when you arrive at a place or else she will stress the entire day until she receives some form of safety assurance.

"Alright my love, have you seen them? Are they okay?" she asks and I chuckle, she laughs realizing what she just asked, "Right, you haven't seen them yet. I'll talk to you later?" She says and I smile.