SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA

chapter 11

"Lauretta, did he hurt you...? Talk to me... did Williams hurt you..?"

"No sir...he only tried t....”

"Williams… I warned you.... didn't I? I warned you twice over this girl... I have caught you looking at her severally... and I called you and warned you to stay off, take your passion outside my house... I told you not to go close, she is under my roof, and supposed to feel safe in this house... Have you gone nuts... what are you doing in her room uninvited... if your bladder is hot why not go to some brothel out there and ease it off, by the way I thought you have a girlfriend... your girlfriend Melisa will be so disappointed if she knows the kind of man you are... See Williams, I have sacrificed much for you as a brother and also tolerated so much shit just because we are blood and our late parents left you in my care but there's a limit I can take from a grown ass man like you... if you ever go against my rules again in this house I will willingly kick you out... or even lock you up and forget you ever existed... you should know what I'm capable of... Do not dare me Williams...”

Well for once I was not expecting this kind of reaction from my Boss

Mr. Micho turned his attention to me

  “Lauretta, any day he tries anything funny around you, don't hesitate to let me know... I'm glad that you shouted... don't be scared no one will hurt you here... I promise you that... just keep being a good girl... you are safe under my roof... William will not trouble you again..."

He dragged his baby brother out of my room and they all left.

‘Stay safe and avoid trouble"became my watchword.

After the incident Williams started avoiding me. Melisa, who felt I was a threat to her relationship, was acting up in the beginning which never stopped me from being nice to her.

She later put off her attitude and started being friendlier with me.
Melisa was a beautiful young girl and loved Williams, any time she spends a weekend in the house she will always want to help out, she was the only girl he brings to the house, and I know his elder brother will not tolerate him bringing in numerous girls to his house.

My boss was very discipline, but no woman visits him, and I haven't met his family yet, I once ask Sam the Butler, who has been with him far before me, about my boss’ family, if he has a wife or wives and children and Sam told me when he newly started working for him...

"Mr. Micho use to have a lady who comes around often and on, the lady came from a poor home but he polished her up, got a car for her, sent her to Texas for her master degree program, but on getting out she had a white boyfriend and didn't want to come back again. So Mr. Micho later moved on.

After almost two years, he had another lady whom he loved and cared for, he had good intentions for her but the lady got pregnant for another man and planned to rub the pregnancy on my boss, who actually believed that the child was his and was happy. He started planning for happy family but the truth was suddenly revealed when the child's real father surfaced and took his child, after DNA test revealed Mr. Micho wasn't the biological father. He was broken after that incident and has been on his own ever since, he used to be very harsh after those incident especially to his workers but after sometime he became nice again, he hate it when he is taken for granted. This is the little I know about him”.

I let out a sigh of relief, at least now I know he once had a real life.

“I don't know if he has family outside here, maybe a wife or a child, I just don't know and I haven't seen any, you are the first female he has employed in years and also be kind to. He avoided female workers in the house maybe because of what happened in the past, he felt like women are not to be trusted, but he has erased that mentality and that was why he allowed you live and work with him. I have been working for him for so many years now, he trust me and I try not to disappoint him, he is not just nice to you because you are a female, no... not all... he is nice to all his workers, but he hates it when his orders are disobeyed, but I see he is extra nice to you, don't blow it up Lauretta, just keep being a good girl and Mr. Micho will extend his kindness to your family also, just like he did to mine..."