A LITTLE LONG✔️ ( EDITING)

35: STRANGE CALL

CLIFF

It was probably around midnight when the non-stop ring from my phone brought me back to life.
Fuck! Who the hell was calling me at 2am.

My left hand went to my bedside drawer and stopped beside the lamp as I picked up my phone. Being sleepy, I rubbed my eyes and tried to concentrate on my phone.
Unknown mumber.
Who the hell was it then?

"Howdy", the voice, a very deep voice said at the other end immediately I accepted the call.
"Who are you?", I asked calmly trying so hard not to show my anger.
The voice laughed uproariously and I tried so hard to conceal my infuriation.

"Who the hell are you？", my voice sounded a little harsh but I didn't care.
"Well, buddy, it's been a little long", the stupid voice stressed.
Sighing, I inquired, "What's your name and do we know each other?".

There was a pause from the other end and I was getting impatient, deciding to hang up, the voice recited,"Clifford Adeoye", my chest rose before he continued, "I'm someone seeking out for revenge, I'm against your happiness and I'm going to snatch that happiness from you, so get prepared, I'm at your tail now, Fuck you!", he growled and hung up without waiting for my response.

What!
Fear crossed my face.
Threat.
Who the hell was he and then my mind traveled back to what Alexia had said few days back.
Could she be responsible?
Why is he against my happiness?
The sleep disappeared from my face as terror and rage overtook.

Priss came to my mind and I dialed her number hastily, she didn't pick at first but her voice came up in the third ring.
"What is it?", her voice nagged.
"Ini, are you okay?"
She heaved before responding,"Yeah and is that why you called?".
I nodded even though she couldn't see it, "Hmm"

"You called 2am in the morning just to ask if I was okay, God,you're unbelievable!", she bellowed and hung up without allowing me to respond.
Why was she annoyed?
I raked my fingers through my hair and huffed.
What's going on?

PRISS

Anger welled up in me as I hung up.
The reason? I don't know.
Maybe because he disturbed my peaceful sleep. Returning my phone to its rightful position, I laid on my back as my eyes surveyed the ceiling, trying to return to my peaceful sleep, it didn't come, it was proving stubborn.

Gosh!
I despised being woken from my sleep, I do find it hard to get back to sleep.
Picking up the novel that was beside me, I decided to continue from where I'd stopped till sleep came crawling back to me.

Following the late night sleep, I woke up late.
After rushing my bath, I got dressed in a knee-length white bubble skirt to match with a black lace top. Deciding to drop my hair 'cause I was running late, I picked up the gold wristwatch,the one Cliff had gifted me on valentine, it was a couple wristwatch and we wore it ever since valentine which was few days back, hurrying downstairs, Tenola was the only one there, others were probably sleeping or had gone out, I rushed the breakfast of burger and breadroll before leaving the house.

On getting to MODUSOIL, a meeting was called immediately. It was to finalize to the Pharmaceutical ads.
Walking into the conference room, my eyes met Cliff who gave me a small smile and I smiled in return.
Throughout the meeting, I noticed Cliff wasn't really himself, he looked disturbed and his face blanched, I wondered what was wrong with him and a pang of guilt struck me, I decided to apologise for yelling at him in the midnight.

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"Mofe", I called the second time, he didn't look up as his face was lowered down, he hadn't notice my entrance into his office, calling him the third time, his head jerked up and then faked a plastic smile. His new office was way better than the old one, it was magnificient and more beautiful and it was on the 30th floor.