INCLINATION

CHAPTER 12 | Intense And Dangerous

HLANGA. 

#NotEdited

When she finally falls asleep, I get off the bed making sure I don’t wake her then cover her body. I stare at her and all different emotions hit me at the same time. Regret, relief and so much anger. At myself, Don and especially Andile. I should have known Don would try something like this but what I don’t understand is why does he keep blaming Emy  for his wife’s  death cause she clearly had no hand in it. Something must have happened on that hotel cause he has never told me the proof he found connecting Emy to his wife’s death. I don’t close the door as I leave the bedroom and I’m surprised to see Don with my aunt and brother there. I look around expecting to see my parents too but they ate not here. I’m a little relieved cause I wasn’t ready for all the questions they were going to ask me but I know that first thing in the morning, they are going to be here.

“ They went home. Mom was tired" Linda explains.
I sit down and look at Don. He’s bad and he has managed to put the bandage on his nose. “ did I break it?”
“ You know you did" he sighs. This man has been through a lot and his problems are about to get worse. Emy’s dad is not going to let this go.
“ What are you doing here Don? You shouldn’t be here"
“ I need answers M, how the hell do you know her?” I looks at my aunt and she sighs. “ Why don’t you go to bed, I’ll wake you up as soon as she awakens”
“ Did she say anything?”
“ No, she cried herself to sleep” I look at Don who looks down.
“ Ok, it looks like you need to talk. Good night" I stand up kiss her cheek then she goes to her bedroom. Shes relieved that Emy is found and not hurt physically but emotionally, God. It’s going to take her a while to move past what happened.”
I look at the clock and its 1 am. I had a long day and in tired.
“ M, please man. Talk to me".
“ Emy needs to be here as well cause you owe her answers and an apology. She’s not the person you think she is.”
“ Ok, fine. Tell me how are you related to her?”
“ Don, you know be as Hlanga Motha  but my actual surname is Makhoba. Andile is my brother. We have the same father but different mothers. I’m my father’s first born then it’s Zonke  and then Andile.” His mouth hangs open in shock.
“ Andile is your brother and you hid this from me?”
“ Yeah well I don’t go around telling people that I’m related to a fucken psychopath”
“ Emy is your sister in-law?”
“ I was his sister in-law.  Andile and I are in a process of divorcing”
Emy says walking and sits next to me. Don states at us.
“ So Linda is not your brother?”
“ Linda is my brother. His my mother’s second born. The first born of my father ubab' Motha. I have 2 other siblings  my sisters who are younger than Linda. All in all I have five siblings. My mother is happily married to my father, he’s a father to me and has never been a step father.”
“ You heard me talking about how I want revenge on Andile and you never said anything M?”
“ What did you want me to say? Don’t get revenge on the man who ruined your life cause he’s my brother?”
“ I don’t know, maybe"
“ I don’t care what you want to do with Andile. You can feed him to the lions for all I care and I wouldn’t give a damn. What I care about is you hurting Emy.”
Emy lays her head in my shoulder. I shift so I can hold her. “ Emy, you killed my wife. It was you"
“ For God’s  sake Don, I have never met your wife. I didn’t kill her”
“ Don she didn’t kill your wife.”

He huffs out  then takes out his phone. He clicks on it for a while then walks towards us and plays a video. A car pulls up first then his wife steps out and heads on the lobby. She talks to the receptionist then goes to the elevator and disappears as the doors close then we see Andile walking in after a while and talks to the receptionist then he also signs in and walks towards the elevator. The video then shows Don’s wife knocking on the door and someone opens it. She seems to be talking to someone then walks in and it closes. Five minutes later Andile stands in front of the same door. He just walks in without knocking.

Emy and I look at each other. The video then shows Andile walking out after an hour and he doesn’t look okay. He gets in the elevator and then the camera spots him as he steps out in the underground basement elevator, walks to his car and gets in after wiping his hands on his pants then he drives out. We continue to look expecting to see his wife but it’s another woman who comes out of the elevator too and she has her face hidden. She goes to the car that parked opposite where Andile parked his.
“ Wait….no" she covers her mouth.
“ What is it?” I ask her.
“ That’s Charlotte and that’s my car. Charlotte drove my car?.”
“ That’s not you? Bu she looks like you” Don argues.
“ That’s Charlotte. She’s  even wearing my clothes. How the hell did she get my…… Oh my God"
“ How did she get your things?” I ask her.
“ It must have been the day when I was going in Cape Town. She asked me if she could use my car cause hers was giving her trouble and I agreed. I didn’t know that she was going to commit a crime wearing my clothes and driving my car.”

She’s shocked and mad. Don sits down and with his hands on his head. Linda pats him on the back. I am so angry. Charlotte is just like Andile. A cold blooded killer who doesn’t care about anyone else but themselves. She knew exactly what she was doing when she took Emy’s things.
“ Charlotte obviously was already having an affair with Andile when she found out that he was having another affair with Don’s wife.”
“ Is this the proof that you’re talking about?” Emy asks him “ cause the police would have came to me and asked me questions”
“ They paid someone to get rid if the footage. The police found nothing. My wife Emy, was found in a bath tub stabbed to death with a knife on her hand. They ruled it as suicide but I knew she would never do that. Andile must have paid the coroner to lie that she killed herself cause when I took her body to another coroner, she confirmed to me that she was killed. The was also DNA. Your DNA that somehow the police didn’t find in the hotel room when I went to search”
“ What DNA cause I have never been there?”
Don looks at me first, apologizes with his eyes then he looks at Emy. He clears his throat. “ it had your blood. It was, is your DNA”
“ It? It what? What did Charlotte take that had my DNA?”
“ She took…uhm, it was your under garment. Sanitary towel"
She gasps, unfreeze and Linda curses. Emy shifts then she tries to run but I hold her.
“ She took my used sanitary towel and left it there so they will think it was me who killed her? Why does Charlotte hate me so much" she breaks down.
“ I’m sorry Emy. I’m really sorry" I hold her as she softly sobs.
“ After I got the conformation that it was indeed your blood. I burned it Emy. Charlotte played me when I confronted her. She saw that I couldn’t remember that it was her who hit me with a bottle so she blamed everything on you”
“ Charlotte killed your wife when she found out about the affair then tries to frame Emy but Andile couldn’t let that happen cause if the police found the footage, they will see that he was the last one who was seen entering the same room your wife entered. He paid people to make sure that the footage disappears and the autopsy results says otherwise. I don’t think he knew that Charlotte had planted evidence”

“ Charlotte will pay for what she did. She told me where you are and how I could find you. I sent my guys to keep watch at a distance and then when they told me that they have you. I couldn’t believe it. I wanted you to pay for killing her and leaving my children motherless.”
She wipes her face and looks up. “ I’m sorry your children lost their mother, I can’t even imagine what you and them are going through but it wasn’t me who killed her or tried to kill you. I left you there cause I knew someone will find you”
“ And he did. Hlanga found me that night. Without him, I would have died.”
She shifts, I do too and we stare at each other.
“ It was you? How?”
I take her hands to mine then cup her face. “ Linda and I were on our way tsomewhere when I saw the company car and I thought it might be Zonke then we followed the car and then it stopped on the side of the road. Linda and I jumped out and he talked to you while o checked to see if your tires were fine.”
“ You had this thing on your head that was covering your face too. I was shocked to see that it was you. You couldn’t even talk cause it was raining hard and you were also crying. I was surprised that you didn’t recognize me and when I was to tell you who I was. My brother stopped me.” Linda explains.
“ Cause I saw the bloody  sheets on the backseat of the car and I knew that something terrible had happened. I thought you had killed Andile and you had just came back from dumping his body"
She shakes her head. “ I know. I know…” I wipe her tears. “ You drove back home and I asked someone to follow you home and make sure that you’re  safe. When they told me that Andile was alive. I knew it was someone else and he had a hand on it. We got in the car and drove to where we were going but then this person fell on the road and we almost hit him. We got out and he was bleeding like crazy. We took hi  and drive with him to the hospital and they told us that had we wasted even five more minutes. He would have died. I didn’t know that the man we saved then was the man Andile and Charlotte tried to kill. They killed his wife, father and then it was going to be him too but you Emy, you saved his life by getting him out of that house.”

“ Emy I am so sorry. I wish I could take back the few hours and everything that happened. I honestly thought it was you. I wanted to kidnap you that day his family was celebrating their 20th anniversary but then I saw you crying at the bar. I felt bad and guilty for what I wanted to do so instead I gave you my handkerchief and left before you could see it was me.”
“ Why not take Andile Don but me?”
“ I wanted to hurt him like how he hurt me. Take away the ine thing he loves the most.”
My eyes with Emy lock. He would have taken her away from me. The one I love the most. I pull her to me and she holds me tight.
“ No one is ever going to take you away from me again.” I truly mean it. “ Come, let me feed you then you need to get some rest cause you’re going to need it in a couple of hours”
“ What’s going in in a couple of hours?” she pulls away and holds my gaze.
“ You need to call your parents and tell them you’re okay.”
She looks at Don. “ I’m not going to lie to my parents when they ask me who took me and how I ended up here”
“ I’m not asking you to Emy" Don quietly says. “ From what I found out, I’m practically a dead man walking.”
“ You are, you killed Jackson” she tells him.
“ My children, my mother. I still  need to give her closure for my father’s death. If I die and she hasn’t….” He chokes up. I feel bad for him. I really do. “ I wish my wife never met Andile. My life wouldn’t be this fucked up"
She peeks at me. “ You and him are friends now? Since you saved his life?”
“ We are, we also have a lot in common. Like a common enemy that we would like to take down.”
She shifts uncomfortably. “ I don’t want you to get hurt. Andile is dangerous” she whispers.

My brother Don, quietly  walk out giving us space. Andile is the one who’s scared of me. He knows what I’m capable of. I respected Emy’s wishes and kept a distance but look at how that worked out.

Emy doesn’t know what I’m capable of. She thinks Andile can hurt me and it’s my fault for making her believe that. “ Only you have the power to hurt me Emy. You know that"
“ What do I tell my father about what happened?”
“ You tell him the truth”
“ I don’t want to be responsible for Don’s death. His children have already lost their mother. I don’t want them to be without their father too.”
“ You think your father is going to kill him?”
He is going to kill him unless she asks him not too. “ I don’t know, maybe.”
“ What makes you think that?”

She blinks twice then she looks down hiding her beautiful face from me. Emy is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Everything about her is absolutely perfect. Her big expressive eyes to her beautiful nose and her full plump lips. She’s all woman and has curves in all the right places even though she has lost weight. She feels lighter in my eyes now and it’s all Andile’s doing.
“ I have heard things, more like rumours but I’m not sure. Siya's wife too said something that made me think that maybe it’s true what they day about my family.”
If she asks me, I’m not going to lie to her but I think it would be better if she asked her father. “ What have you heard”
“ That my grandfather is the one who trains people to be hit men. Andile once accused my brothers of being hit men. He said that’s how they would win cases cause it’s either they threaten witnesses to not talk or they eliminate them.”
I don’t know about that but what I know is, if there’s a hit on someone, it will be done by their hit men. The Mdakane family run the biggest and largest army in south Africa of hitmen, from men to women.
“ Your brothers took the oath to never break the law. They are lawyers Emy and you know they would never do anything to jeopardize that. If they do that, their licences could be taken away and they would never practice again.”
“ You think he was lying?”
“ I think Andile has balls of a steel. If he knows or thinks that your brothers are hitmen but he still continued to abuse you, what does that tell you?”
“ He’s not afraid of them, he thinks they wont do anything to him as long as he’s married to me. Andileisn’t afraid of anyone…except you Hlanga. Why is that?”
“ Andile preys on the weak and vulnerable. Women especially. He gets them to fall in love with him, trust him cause he shows them that he’s this perfect man but once he gets what he finally wants. Your trust, you begin to be under his control, manipulation and abuse. You’re his prey and he’s not going to let you go. Look at the things Charlotte has done for him. Look at what you have done for him"

She pulls away from me and stands up. I look at the clock and its 3 am. Well it doesn’t look like were going to sleep. She goes to the kitchen and I follow her. I have no idea where Don and Linda are, they are probably sleeping. I still need to fly to Joburg to see my father.
“ I haven’t done anything for Andile”
“ Really? Isn’t why you’re here, because of him?”
“ That doesn’t mean I did what I did to protect him.”
“ Emy, you could have told your brothers, your father. Hell, you could have told me!. Instead you kept quiet and stayed in that hell whole for years enduring his abuse.”
“ Hlanga don’t. Please don’t” she begs me.
“ Don’t what? Not tell you the truth that everyone is scared to tell you because they’ll hurt your feelings?”
She sniffs. “ I didn’t stay there because I liked it. Hlanga, you have just told me how controlling and manipulative he is. Don’t you think I have tried to leave him?”
“ You didn’t try hard enough. You knew that as soon as you told your parents what’s going on, Andile wouldn’t have been a problem for you. Why didn’t you tell them, why keep quiet?”
“ Because I knew they wouldn’t only come after Andile. They would come after your father too and the company Hlanga. What would happen to your sister Zonke?, They would come after you too. I know my family Hlangalezwe.” She hides her face and cries.

I rub my forehead then walk towards her. I pull her to my chest and hold her. I hate seeing her cry. It breaks my heart. She wraps her arms around me then stills for a moment when she feels how my proud member is behaving.
“ I don’t care about the company. Zonke knows she has a place and space in my company, she can relocate here at any time and they will be fine. My father, his wife and Andile all can go down with the company. I don’t care"
She tries to shift so she wont feel  my hard on but I hold her close. She needs to feel what she always does to me. I’m tired of hiding it. “  You don’t understand Hlanga, your name and reputation will be ruined too.”
“ Because I own 47% of the company?”
“ Not only that…” she keeps quiet.
“ Emihle, what are you not telling me?”
“ I should have told you the moment I found out but I was scared. I wasn’t….”
I gently push her so I can use my thumb to force her face to shift up anf face me.
“ Tell me what you’re hiding?”
“ I’m sorry…” she cries and right now, she’s pissing me off even though I know what she has to say scares her.
“ Stop apologizing and just tell me.” My voice comes out cold. She freezes. “ Don’t do that, freeze on me like I’m going to hit you or choke you. Talk Emihle"

She licks her lips then swallows and my body gets harder. I am mad and this hard in is not going to go away as long as I’m angry. I can try to calm myself down but it wont do anything. I unfasten my belt and pants then snake my hand inside my underwear and shift  my dick up. It presses on my stomach as I fasten my pants and belt. Her have been on what I’m doing. I pull out my shirt and cover the damn thing.
Her chest is not moving cause her breathing has changed. “ Emy?” I whisper her name.
Her face slowly shifts up and her cloudy and dreamy eyes greet mine. God, she can’t look at me like that. Not now. I swallow and her eyes go to my lips and she breathes out slowly.
I plant kisses on her teary eyelids and a moan slips out. This is why I have stayed away from her. The chemistry we have for each other is too intense and dangerous for us, especially her cause the day I finally touch her. Not even her father will take her away from me again. “ Tell me what you’re hiding from me. What do you know that I don’t know”
Our eyes lock and they hold me captive like she’s hypnotizing me.
“ I found out by mistake, one day when he left some file home. I went through it and I found out that they are using the company to clean blood money.” She quietly says.
“ Where is that money coming from?” she keeps quiet. “ Emy…”
“ From the black market that they sell body parts to.”
I still, search her eyes to find the lie she’s telling me but it’s the truth. Emy would never lie to me. She might keep things from me but lie to me is one thing she would never do.

“ Andile is using our company for his illegal business?” She nods.
How the fuck did I not know. “ how long had this been going on?”
She plays with her hands. I hold then with my one hand.
“ The book said it’s been only three years but I suspect it’s longer than that”
“ That’s good then, this will definitely make sure that Andile spends the rest if his life in jail. Did you make copies of the whole book?”
“ I did"
“ Good, I’ll talk to my father then after that we’ll give it to your father and he’ll take it to the police”
“ I can’t do that"
“ Emy, I’m going to lose my shit if you tell me that your signature is also on this documents”
“ No, not mine.”
“ Don’t tell me my father is on this too?” She keeps quiet. 

I move off her and round the kitchen island. I can’t fucken believe this. He’s into this dodgy business? What the hell is wrong with my father!.
“ How could he allow Andile to get him to do this? All the documents have his signature?”
“ No, not even one of them have their signatures”
“ I don’t understand. If either of their signatures are not there then who was signing those documents?”
“ I…it’s your signature Hlanga. Everything that is happening, ever transaction has your approval and signature. That’s why I couldn’t tell my father about it. I thought you were also involved”.
The only thing I’m hearing is  those documents have my signature. Everyone of them. I take a deep breath and I’m seeing red. I’m going to deal with my father then kill Andile.