Laced

CHAPTER FIVE

Nambitha Zungu

As soon as I got home, the first thing I did was stalk Mvelo on social media. It’s nothing new to me, I’ve been on his page before, and I’ve drooled over his pictures a few times, but the main purpose today is to actually look at the little details.
His wife and children are all over his social media. He’s an amazing present dad, judging from what I witnessed today, and his social media. He’s also not afraid to publicly show his affection for his wife, which is so cute. But this facade he is putting up, I don’t believe in it anymore. He sleeps around, I can’t possibly be the first woman he’s asked for sexual favours. He seems like he’s done it multiple times, and he’s really not ashamed of it.
But he is a man at the end of the day, and men can never be fully satisfied. And I don’t really blame him, his wife has the flattest ass ever.
“Why are you looking at Christine’s pictures?” my heart almost stops beating.
I shut my phone off and turn to look at him.
“You are even zooming in, do you have an obsession with her?” he comes to sit next to me.
I still can’t feel my heart beating, Muzi can’t casually creep up on me like that and expect me to be okay.
“You fucking scared me!” I shove him.
“You are being sus, why are you looking at pictures of Christine?” I take a deep breath.
He’s actually not laughing, he looks pressed that I was looking at pictures of his crush.
“Do you still like her? Why are you so pressed about me looking at her pictures?” I shift in my seat to get a better view of him.
“Come on that is ridiculous.” he’s brushing me off.
He’s doing that thing with his nose, that’s how I catch him out.
“You sly bastard you still like Christine! And I’m here working on trying to get Mvelo help us.” he scrunches his nose.
“I didn’t ask you to get Mvelo to help us. I had my reasons why I stayed away.” he admits.
He can’t even look at me.
“Well, I met up with Mvelo today, he thinks we are a happily married and in love couple. He agreed to help me on the condition that I sleep with him to avenge you.” I break the news to him.
“He what!?” his face turns red instantly.
I don’t know if his reaction is fueled by the fact that he still has a crush on Christine, or the mere fact that his brother wants to cheat on his precious wife.
“Wait hold up, Nambitha what are you playing at here?” I can’t tell if he’s angry or he’s shocked.
“I’m not playing at anything, I want to save the company and our riches. And the only way we can do that is through Mvelo. Now because he thinks we are in love, he wants to avenge himself by sleeping with me to hurt you the same way you hurt him, in exchange for his expertise” he clicks his tongue.
Okay he’s mad.
“That bastard, he doesn’t deserve Chrissy.” he says through gritted teeth, turning as red as a tomato.
“Oh and you do? No Muzi none of you deserve her, you are a bunch of scumbags.” I tell him the honest truth.
Like what in the name of fornication is this anyway.
“So I’m guessing you declined the offer to sleep with him.” of course not!
But I’m not going to tell him that, never days! Especially now that he’s told me that he still has a crush on Christine and he seems mad about this whole thing.
“I said I would think about it, and I obviously wanted to run it through you first.” I actually wasn’t going to do it.
But it might work in my advantage in the long run. Kill two birds with one stone, gain more than riches.
“Play along, lure him in. Make him think he will get a chance to sleep with you and while you are playing the long game, he will be giving in to helping us. That way, you won’t have to sleep with him and we still get our company back.” that is actually an amazing idea.
But what if I do want a piece of that handsomeness?
“That way, no one gets hurt.” he continues.
I can’t help but stare at him. This little crush he has on Christine, it goes beyond a little crush. I think maybe Muzi is in love with her. He has never cared for anyone the way he does for this chick, even I, his so called wife.
I don’t know how I feel about that.
“You are one smart woman.” he smiles deviously and gives me a big kiss on the cheek.
Yeah right!