Reporters rushed to the black Rolce Royce as soon as it came out of the building, they ran to the car holding their microphone to meet the owner of the car and the new CEO of the textile production company.
"What the hell is wrong with these people,do they feed off gossips?" Sofia exclaimed loudly from the back of the car.
"Miss Aliya Sultan is it true that you kicked Mr Qasim out of the company?".
The reporters voice reach them as the securities try to block their advancement.
Aliya scoffed and smirked.
"I think they feed off it" she said driving her car and leaving the vicinity with Yazeed on her tail.
They hop out of the car immediately when they reach the mansion and Aliya threw her car keys to the guard close to her to pack it right and she proceeded into the house in a hurry.
A light brown skin teenage guy with big round glasses around his large brown eyes was sitting in a black sofa In the middle of the spacious large living room holding on to his laptop,his attention rivaling from one corner of the room to another looking all around him with his mouth slightly agape.
'So...like everything here is super huge money used to buy it,look at the way everything is shining screaming money' he looked around himself again in amazement before clicking sound of heels interrupted his crazy thoughts. He got up instinctively to see who's coming towards him, three ladies and a man came into view approaching his standing figure.
"How long were you here?" Aliya's voice break him out of his trance staring at the exotic ladies,he smiled sheepishly at his dirty thoughts before answering Aliya with a shy smile.
"Just ten minutes" he said taking his eyes off Aliya who was staring through him not at him.
"Take a seat why are you standing?" She said to him taking a seat across him.
"Uhwmn" he muttered sitting down.
"He was happy to see me" Sofia's teasing voice interrupted his incoherent words making him blush furiously which was coated away by his skin.
"Didn't they serve you anything?" Aliya asked the young boy across her who was shyly looking at the ground, she dialled an intercom connecting her to the kitchen.
"Bring in something here" she said cutting off the call.
After few minutes two young ladies came into the living room with drinks and snacks. Sofia jumped at the sight and started feasting on it like she was starved for week.
"Sofy can't you even at least offer it to our guest?" Aliya asked Sofia who was feasting without a care in the world.
"Ohh!" She mumbled with a sheepish smile.
"Sorry baby,I lose some senses in the presence of food" she said winking at Zyn before proceeding to seat next to him with another plate on her lap.
"Open your mouth Aahhha! Good boy" she stuffed his mouth with a large cookie. Amanda huffed and close her face with her palms trying to hide from the embarrassment Sofia is getting them Into.
Aliya cleared her throat to get Zyn's attention which he quickly turned his brown doe eyes to her and lower his head sheepishly.
"Y-you called for me?" He said stuttering but more of a question than statement.
"Yes I did".
"What am I gonna d-do for you?" He lifted his doe eyes from looking at his fidgeting hand to Aliya's amused face.
She cleared her throat composing herself back to her blank look.
"I want you to hack the House of Assembly's footage of 18th February midday" she said looking straight at him and occasionally glaring at Sofia who's disturbing the poor kid.
"Ohhh! Okay. I can do it" he said taking his laptop and shifting away from Sofia who groaned loudly.
Aliya stood up from her seat and walked to him sitting next to him to have a view of it. The rest also huddled around him to watch the footage.
Clicking sounds of pressed keyboard fill them and the numbers Inputs before after few minutes it was opened as they watch silently.
Mr Sultan Malik in a hallway where he met a short chubby man with a full blown smiling face . He looked happy to see him making the watchers come to the conclusion they are friends or very good acquaintance.
They gave each other a brotherly hug confirming their conclusion before walking to the man's office and after an hour Mr Sultan left the house of assembly.
"T-that was Senator Ezekiel Raniu" Zyn said almost like a whisper.
"Hmmm" Aliya hummed before turning her attention to Yazeed.
"I think it'll be best to ask him if he saw or observed anything unusual that day,since nothing showed suspiciously in the footage".
They all agreed to it as Yazeed will contact him to meet him the next day before Aliya paid Zyn who out rightly declined the payment but Aliya wasn't having it as she transferred it to Yazeed who will pay him after they leave.
"Isn't he so adorable" Sofia said with another snacks on hand smiling cheekily at Aliya.
"Ask me again" Aliya deadpanned
"Huh! Liya you're no fun".
"It wasn't like I was born to be your source of entertainment".
"Our dinner is here" Amanda announced interrupting their evening bicker or play, before Aliya scoffed at Sofia's delighted face immediately when she heard another set of food.
"You eat like a pig sometimes I wonder why you're not fat" Aliya said amused at Sofia's face that contorted into horror before into a smug smile.
"That's because I have a fast metabolism dummy, had you listen well in your chemistry class you had known " she said smugly as if she won a prize by Aliya's scrunched up face.
"That should be biology class dummy" Aliya deadpanned slapping away Sofia's smug smile from her barbie's face.
" it's chemistry!" Sofia argued with a serious look but it sounded like she was trying to convince herself.
"Whatever it's I don't have your time for I have to bless my divine body with warm cascading water so...bye baby pig" Aliya blew Sofia a kiss before running upstairs to get away from the expanding volcano that will surely erupt had she stayed.
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"Please take seat he will soon be here" a middle aged woman in worker's black and white uniform said to the group of three ladies and a handsome man.
They took their seats waiting for the person they came to see to attend to them and not long after they were seated a short chubby man came into the living room facing the weavy haired lady in navy blue suit.
"A-Aliyaa?" He said more of a question which he quickly confirmed it himself.
"Aliya it's you. Oh my God the last time I saw you was in America you were just a little girl running around " Aliya blank face broke and she couldn't help but smile at the chubby man's infectious smile.
"How are you little one?" He asked softly as if remembering something which he obviously did.
"Am fine and you sir?" She replied with a soft smile,she was really happy that someone other than her friends cared about her unlike her blood relatives who are happy with her misfortune.
"Com'n it's you I care to know how you're coping with this and don't call me sir just Ezekiel" he said with scrunched brows before his face lighten up.
"Or you just call me 'Uncle' cause I'm yours " he added with his infections smile making Aliya smile with a small laugh before the room engulf in relaxed silence.
"You know I threw a vase at my PA when he first told me of the news, I was like...how dare he,the man was just with me before that" he said after some minutes silence.
"Actually that's why am here"
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Mystery / Thriller"I-I can't believe it's you!" Aliyah is a daughter of a rich business man who grew up an only child raised by her only father ,after finishing her studies abroad she came back home to meet her father's dead body in his pool of blood murdered ruthles...
