Chapter 4

When Mr. Willard arrived at that airport with Manuel, the management of the airport had temporarily given an order for a pause of every activity at the airport.

When Sallie saw the chaos a few moments ago and the abrupt shutdown of the airport, she found the toilet and hid there with her daughter, she reasoned that the chaos might be because of her daughter.

Sallie wondered why people were so surprised to see Loretta, was it because she looked very beautiful only or there may be other reasons involved?

She couldn't think it through but still promised to protect her daughter, she remained there for another three hours.

Manuel had helped Mr Willard search for the woman with the daughter who looked like his boss, but it was futile, after searching fruitlessly, he approached his boss shamefully," I can't find the child,"

Willard stared at him angrily, "How can you not find her? didn't you say her facial expression is exactly like mine?"

"Yes, boss," Manuel answered, he hated himself for not finding the little girl.

Willard was very much interested in the little girl who looked exactly like him cause the son that Dallie bore for him did not in any way resemble him. He asked the doctor about it and the doctor explained to him that it was very possible, perharps, Dally's son looked like someone in Willard's family.

Also, that night, Willard remembered that the woman he had sex with had a mark on her neck, which might either be a scar or a tattoo but Dally didn't have one. It had been five years and he just couldn't bring himself to love Dally.

Could it be that the woman he had sex with was not Dallie? he felt disappointed that Manuel couldn't find the little girl who looked like him.

"Can you describe how she looked like to an artiste so I can begin to search for her?" Willard asked.

"Sure boss," he lowered his head, feeling ashamed.

Manuel drove Willard back to his villa.

When Sallie thought that the chaos would have subsided, he gave the little girl a handkerchief," Loretta, while we walk out, I need you to keep cleaning your face with a handkerchief,"

"Why?" Loretta who had been keeping quiet and observing what was going on finally spoke.

"It seems some people are trying to hurt us," Sallie answered her.

"Why?" Loretta asked briefly, she was an introvert and was not the type who talked much, she only observed keenly.

"Just do as I've said, sweetheart, we'll talk about it when we get to where we are heading," she said and smiled at her daughter.

Loretta wasn't smiling at all, she understood that her mother was only faking the smile, she discerned that she was nervous, instead of pretending to clean her face as Sally had advised, she covered her face with the handkerchief instead.

Sally didn't notice until they were out of the airport, Sally took a cab to the hotel and lodged in a room with her daughter.

"You don't have to cover your face with the handkerchief, though " Sally chuckled.

"Are we here to find Dad?" Loretta's question shocked Sally, she wasn't expecting such a question from her she had never made mention of anything about her father.

"Dad!" Sally exclaimed and remembered the day a strange man slept with her, even if she had met the man, she would never have recognized the man.

"No, I'm here to retrieve what belongs to me from my stepmother and my step-sister," Sally answered, Loretta nodded only and began to undress.

Sally watched as her daughter entered the bathroom to shower.

'She needs a father,' Sally thought sadly.

*****

When it was the following day, Sally went alone to her stepmother's house but the house was as quiet as a graveyard, she stood before the house and wondered where she could find either her stepmother or her step-sister.

A security man approached her and asked," Madam, are you looking for someone?"

"Sure, I need to see the owner of this house," Sally said.

"They have sold this house, they are living at Westcliff now," the security man was one of those who guarded the estate.

Sally remembered what Effie had told her that her mother's house was in Westcliff, was her stepmother now living in her mother's house? These people think she is not going to come back.

"Thank you," she said to the man and as soon as she got out of the environment, she chattered a cab to Westcliff, Effie had already given her the precise address of her mother's house. It wasn't much of a task to find her mother's house, it was magnanimous and even bigger than her father's house, the one that had now been sold by her stepmother.

'My mother must be wealthy,' Sally thought and moved close to the house. However, the door that leads to the rooms has been locked.

Where are these people?

She was angry, she just wanted to meet either her step-mother or step-sister and inform them that she was now ready to take what rightfully belonged to her mother, she knew it would not be easy to get back but it was the only asset she could rely on to sponsor Loretta to a very good school.

While waiting, her phone beeped as a result of the notification she received, she checked and saw a name that caught her attention, 'Dally Wilson,"

Wasn't that her sister? She clicked through the notification to read the full article, she was stunned to see that her step-sister had become a celebrity.

The news was about her and about the event that was being held that day, she also saw her picture with a very handsome man who looked like her daughter.

She was confused and wondered who the man was, and how her sister got married to a celebrity.

She found the address the event was being held and took a cab there, when she arrived there, she saw many expensive cars parked and many security officers standing and guarding the environment.

She examined herself, the clothes she was wearing weren't expensive and she was not even with a car, these people would never allow her in.

She tried her luck but before she could even get to the entrance, a security personnel approached her and asked for her ticket.

"I do not have one," she answered.

"Get out, please. This place is not a random event centre where people can come to beg for food or hook up with rich men," the security man scolded her.