They both placed their forks and spoons on the table and gave me a why you look. I scratched my head hard in fear and confusion. I wasn't ready to let out the secret. I returned their looks with I have no idea one. Giving out the history was hard for my poor self. Which kind of trusted president would give out the reason behind his misuse of public funds to his angry citizens?

If wishes were horses...!

Lincolin seemed to be fighting with his angry self as he rushed towards the front door. Clane who was by now standing ran after him and blocked his way as Lincolin struggled to push him aside. He stopped when Clane told him something that none of us could hear and gave him an eye cantact.

They talked for some few minutes and took their way back to their seats.They both seemed moody by a look at their faces. I gave Lincolin a stare but he ignored and encircled his hands around his food in a weird way.

"Darling", Clane began making my eyes travel from Lincolin to him, "I would like to speak to you after this."

Darling? holy of holies!

I gave him a second look trying to digest what he just called me. This name brightened my face and brought a little bit of fear as I tried to imagine how our conversation would be with this name in it.

Let him not ask me about my sealed history.

All the members moved to the living room as Jade and I cleared the table except for Clane who stood waiting for the worried me. I stood leaning on the purple wall as Jade ran to the living room once we were done.

"From today you'll be using my room", he gave out a sigh then continued, "Jade would be the one taking over yours from now until further notice",he finished then shooed me out of his sight.

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I was woken up in the middle of the night by a familiar pungent smell that hit my nose tring with vigour. I tried to swallow hard but my throat couldn't allow air to pass through. I tossed from one side of the sofa to another as a sharp pain hit my back.

I stood and struggled to reach for the switch but strong arms grabbed me by the waist and pushed me towards the wall. I sniffed a familiar scent as the arms tighted around my waist.

The disgusting smell had now been replaced by a sweet one instead. I felt one hand leaving my waist and travel to my lips. It felt my lips with its softness as I let out a moan. This was what my body had been longing for but the person performing the act was unknown to it.The busy hand left my lips and made a journey to my bare chest. I pushed them away and rubbed my nose.

The strong arms let go off my waist and the unpleasant smell return and this time was like that of a rotten dog. I recalled the closet. The same closet that had brought me pain and fear a day back. I had to make an investigation.

I moved towards the direction of the closet as the smell threatened to blind my eyes. I held the openings and attempt to pull but the scene that had occurred before today made me move back.

Where was Clane?

I made four steps back but this time the same hands held my thighs. I struggled to push them as the strong smell seemed to disappear. A throat cleared and my name was came out of it three times.

'Shannon! Shannon! Shannon".

The hands left my thighs and quickly made a travel to my legs.They seemed to write something on it as a sudden fright ran through my body.

Let it not be him!

The drama stopped immediately the door was pushed open and Clane entered with our adopted daughter wrapped in a white towel in his arms. He pouted his lips and gave me a harsh look which I received and moved to my sofa of a bed.

"Such a slovenly woman", he said while carefully placing the baby on the bed.

I ran a hand across my bare chest and came to my realisation. I quickly grabbed a sheet beside the sofa and covered it as the nipples of my breasts shot from the transparent sheet.

How could I!

My eyes hovered shameless on Clane's comfortable chest as I longed for a hug then to the baby. She slowly opened one eye then the other with a broad smile that enticed me. This made me have a close look at her. She looked familiar. I thought I had seen this beautiful face somewhere but where? I tried to recall but all the images seem wrong.

"What's that written on your left leg?"He asked interrupting my thoughts.

I closed my eyes as the sealed drama brought itself vividly. How would I? How would I tell him that someone had just disappeared from this room? How would I give a start on how the hands had caressed me passionately, something that he referred to as a sin? How would I give a clear explanation on how and why the strange word got itself there? He slowly bent and had a close look at the unknown word. My body shook with fear as I waited for him to pronounce the word.

"Va ...va ...le.. nd... nda",he turtured the words out.

I slowly opened my eyes  and had a close look at the strange word as he stood waiting for an open explanation with his eyes red and watery. This only happened whenever he was burning with anger. Valenda! I also gave him a questioning look for the word sounded strange. The disgusting perfumed smell,the strange person, then this! This would kill me sooner or later.

"Does this word have to do with your undressing like a trollope Infront of my pretty walls?" He asked with his eyes fixed on me.

I struggled to reach for my blouse while my eyes still giving him a contact but couldn't. It was far from me. I held the sheet tightly around my chest as his naked eyes travelled from my eyes to the sheet that was slightly below my attractive neck. I tried to construct a convincing statement to deceive him in my ever blank mind but this was too much.

An interruption from our baby saved my poor mind. She was crying. A painful cry of a motherless baby. I really wanted to hold her but the wall between us was too high for me to climb.
I was safe this time,but who would reveal  the truth behind the smell and the stranger??

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