Her Christmas desire - Season 2 - Episode 4

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Her Christmas desire - Season 2 - Episode 4

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‘I warned you Sam. From what I have researched about the Princess, she is more ruthless that her brother. We have lost at both ends now. What are we going to do? We can’t let them walk over our heads like that.’ Elvis fumed.

He was quite sure King Yemi had taken his sister captive. And his sister, Tayo had taken all of the vermillion. They had to retaliate.
‘We can’t do anything. Attacking the rock fields would expose our cover and we have been hiding since we were falsely accused for the explosion at Ughelli. We have to be careful.’ Sam tried to calm his friend.

But Elvis could see what was going on in Sam’s mind clearly.

‘You no longer want to be a part of us, do you?’ Elvis asked. He quickly rushed towards the door before Sam could make him change his mind. The battle line had just been drawn; he would fight King Yemi and Princess Tayo on his own.

‘Elvis wait, you cannot do anything stupid!’ Sam sighed and rushed after his friend.

Elvis was right; he could no longer work with the boys because he was a new man. He had a secret to protect and no one could ever know that he was the mask.

Her golden eyes glowed in awe as she scrolled over to another page. She had just discovered one of Sam’s accomplices along the years, and she found him very intriguing.
She wore a red dress and leaned her back against the swivel chair in her bedroom, while her laptop was on the desk before her. She had spent many nights and days, looking for more information on the handsome man she had discovered while looking for some dirt on the Mask.

‘Who’s there?’ The Princess quickly shut down the laptop and rose to her feet. No one could know that’s he secretly admired one of Sam’s men, who went by the name; Elvis Benjamin.

She straightened the rumple on her dress and quickly moved away from the desk.

‘It’s me, open the door at once!’ Yemi barked from outside.

At once, her heart began to beat as she realized that her brother, the king had come to see her. He rarely stepped into her room, except to discuss something very important in the absence of his servants.

From the tone of his voice, her brother wasn’t pleased with her latest actions. She knew for sure he had seen it like every other person who had watched the morning news.
‘I have to stay calm in the midst of trouble,’ Tayo closed her eyes and opened them swiftly. Yemi’s outrage wasn’t the best thing to witness on a sunny day. She moved over to a drawer by her bedside and grabbed a bowl from it.

The bowl contained one of her favorite fruits, grapes. Their reddish color attracted her even more and she knew she needed it while waiting on her brother’s anger.

‘You can come in!’ Tayo popped one of the reddish delights into her mouth and squashed it with her tongue.

The door flew open with a powerful force, crashing into the marble walls with a bang.
‘What were you thinking?’ Yemi’s eyes darkened. His voice was gruff and loud. She hadn’t seen the King being so angry for a long time.

The glassy bowl escaped her shaky hands and crashed into pieces. For the first time in her life, she was actually scared of her elder brother.

‘Did you hear me? Don’t just stand there and play dumb! What were you thinking?’
King Yemi had been present when the Mask had paid a visit to the palace at the time he had taken Eno Benjamin to be his wife. It didn’t take long for Sam to show up and claim her as his’. He would have waged war against the criminal, but he had come up with a favorable trade.

‘Vermillion is a scarce mineral. The Mask, gave us an opportunity to enrich ourselves and you foolishly got the Federal Government involved. Did you think he gave us access to his homeland freely?’ Yemi scoffed, his sister had always considered herself wise yet in her wisdom she had committed folly.
Tayo pulled in a breath and tried to calm herself.

‘But…but he paid for the vermillion when you allowed him to take Eno. Taking that woman that you loved from you was price enough. The rock fields were no longer his’ for the taking, it belonged to us and we could do whatever we wanted.’ She came up with a defense.

Her response further infuriated the king, ‘Are you listening to yourself? Nothing goes for anything! Sam and his men still had an interest in the vermillion. He was only giving us a short time so we could take as much as we want…’

‘But we did take as much as we wanted. What was left for us? I had to tell the Federal Government before someone blew the whistle on us. What makes you think Sam wasn’t trying to set us up? Why did he relinquish the rock fields with the vermillion so easily?’ The way the princess saw it, the man called Sam was very tricky.

He wanted to call the Federal Government on the Royal house, but she had been smarter.
‘You are even more foolish than I thought. Sam Ojonugwa would never have called the Government on us. He is the one with so many things to lose, things that are provable.’

First, he is the mask and we have seen his true face. Why didn’t you tell me about your plans? You just went on to the TV without any thoughts, now the Mask and his men would come for us.’ Yemi sighed.

He was tired of his sister doing the things the way she wanted.

Her heart was beating fast as she thought of the anger Sam and his boys would unleash upon them.

The Princess quickly understood that she had made a mistake by involving the Federal Government.

‘But the Mask never showed too much interest in the vermillion.’ She tried to defend her actions once more.

‘Only a fool would look away from an opportunity to make wealth. Already, the Russian Armory institution has contacted me for supplies. The Mask and his boys would need their own share. You will give it to them.’ Yemi waved a finger over her face.
Tayo avoided her brother’s flaming eyes the whole time. She couldn’t bring herself to look at him.

‘You will take a good percentage from all that you collected from the rock fields and hand it over to the Mask and his boys. I don’t want any trouble with that criminal. I am the most important monarch in this country and I wouldn’t have anyone stain my name.’
Tayo understood why her brother had taken this decision. But she had a little problem with it.

‘What if they want everything?’ Tayo was ready to fight the Mask and his boys should they threaten to take everything that she labored to mine from her.

King Yemi ran his eyes angrily over her. He didn’t have time for her questions, she had angered him enough.

He spun on his heel and hurried out of her room before she said another word.
‘D--n!’ The Princess sank into her bed and covered her face. Obviously, the King had lost faith in her. She had to redeem his trust before it was too late.