When You're Bound To Love

Chapter 90

SPHO**

I dropped the phone on the floor. Lakhe: "baby?" I stepped back. Lakhe: "Spho, don't you dare run from me, what did he say." I turned to walk to the bedroom quickly. Lakhe: "I'll be right back Chris okay? Keep watching the score for me." Chris: "Okay." Lakhe took the phone from the floor and rushed to the bedroom. He closed the door behind him and kneeled on the floor between my legs. Lakhe: "Baby." Me: "Christian." was all I could mumble. Lakhe: "He's okay, he's watching soccer. What did your brother say?" Me: "Rey, is Christian's father." Lakhe: "Who's Rey?" Me: "Siyanda's best friend that was killed. He is Christian's biological father. And Rey was my mother's younger brother." Lakhe: "How the hell....." Me: "The question is how the hell did he end up with us. Its so creepy." I whispered. Lakhe: "The child did nothing wrong Spho. Perhaps the mother was bringing him to Miriam?" Me: "Now both his parents are dead, and his aunt. This is not a coincidence." Lakhe: "I know its not. Maybe its not such a good idea finding all this out. Seemingly Komander knew this family. And very well too." Me: "Sibu said this before after his abduction. He said Komander knows everything. Do you think he knows we have Christian?" Lakhe: "I doubt he would want to hurt a child. Spho, you do realize your father knows something about this, right?" Me: "I know." Lakhe: "And baby, I need you to stay away from it. It seems as though everyone who comes into contact with Komander dies mysteriously. I don't want to lose you or anyone in our family." Me: "I promise. I won't do anything." Lakhe: "Are we still thinking about adopting Chris as ours rather than just a cousin? Legally, he's supposed to be with us since he doesn't have family. You're his cousin. What I want to know is, do you want him to be our son?" Me: "Yes. But we have to be honest with him Lakhe." Lakhe: "When he's older we'll tell him the truth, for now I want us to focus on him having an amazing normal childhood with two loving parents and baby siblings." Me: "I understand baby. Do you think we need to tell the family?" Lakhe: "They don't need to know, Sibu is fine but that's it. Can't put anymore lives in danger." I nodded. Me: "So tomorrow where should I go to apply for adoption." Lakhe: "We'll call the social worker." he stood up and sat next to me. Lakhe: "I made lasagna. Chris helped. He was the one imitating the YouTube video." I laughed. Me: "Really?" Lakhe: "Yeah. So if you're hungry, we can dish up for you. I need to go check up endlin, resolve this Sibu moving out issue. Then I'll be back." Me: "Okay baby." he kissed my lips. Lakhe: "I love you." Me: "I love you too." Chris: "Its a goal!!!!!!" he barged into the room. Chris: "Come see!! Its a goal." he pulled Lakhe out to the lounge. They cheered together. I pulled myself together and went to the kitchen to dish up dinner. Me: "Food, guys." I brought them their plates and we ate in the lounge while they watched soccer. After our dinner, I washed the three dishes and the pan he used to make the food. Lakhe: "Honey I'll be back just now. Chris is watching the score for me." Me: "I'm not watching soccer." Lakhe: "There's only 10 minutes left of it baby." he kissed my cheek. Lakhe: "I'll be quick." Me: "Okay baby." he left the house.

narrated**

Lakhe arrived at the warehouse at the same time as Sandile. Lakhe: "If you're just arriving and Sibu is AWOL. Who's watching the witness?" Sands: "Sergio. I had business to take care of." they walked in together. Lakhe: "What did you say to Sibu? Why can't you just keep quiet at times?" Sands: "You want me to tell you or keep quiet?" Lakhe: "Tell me!" Sands: "Well, I kinda overstepped the boundary by asking who he was talking to on phone further verifying it. He feels it was unnecessary and that we've been treating him differently ever since his demon possession. Like we're scared that he is harmful." Lakhe sighed. Lakhe: "I'll talk to him." they got to the basement where Sergio was binge watching his series. Sergio: "Mr G." Lakhe: "Yes. How's everything going?" Sergio: "Just well. She's been asleep for a while." Lakhe: "You drugged her?" Sergio: "I had to. Her begging was annoying." Lakhe took out the pistol from behind his back and attached the silencer. Sands: "What are you doing?" Lakhe: "What we should've done in the beginning. There's no point in keeping her alive. She knows what we look like and why we want her here. If she gets loose again, our lives are over." He pointed the gun at her forehead. Sands: "But Lakhe we could just pay her off and fly her out to some foreign country." Lakhe: "And then she comes back here after some time? Not only are the police looking for her, so is Komander. He wants to know the person who killed two of his soldiers." Sands: "She is harmless-" Lakhe pulled the trigger, a bullet whizzed through her skull, and a second one to make sure followed. Blood oozed out of the two abnormal holes in her head. Lakhe: "Get rid of that body then go home." he walked out. Serge: "Shit. I knew your brother was hard-core, but shiiiit." Sands: "We have some work to do I guess." he sighed. Serge: "Perhaps if we check our usual contact for the 12th sin." Sands: "She didn't do anything wrong. She doesn't deserve to be shoved in a 12 foot grave." Serge: "You do know if the police find her body, its gonn be a wild frenzy. The media, the city." Sands: "Her family needs to bury her. We'll be careful. Seal your boot with plastic to protect it from the blood, when we transport her. Bring it down the underground parking." Serge: "Sure thing." he walked out to his car. Sandile looked at the lifeless body before him. Sands: "I'm so sorry." ......