"Lora!" Cindy called again, holding tightly to her phone and she heard a knock on her own room door making her to quickly ended the call on Lora as she saw her mother walked in.
"Good evening mom" Cindy quickly greeted, and Mrs Bola smiled to Cindy.
"I heard your voice now and I wonder what's wrong?. Whom were you talking too?" Mrs Bola asked, as she was just returning back from their company and unable to head to the market area due to the busy road traffic.
"Is Lora mom, we were just conversing" Cindy replied with her face flushed red, and Mrs Bola raised an eye brow.
"What were you both conversing about?" Mrs Bola asked, and Cindy smiled as she stared up to her mother.
"Mom.. Is just normal ladies talks" Cindy said, as she smiled sweetly and took off her black coat, while she was left in her inner red shirt.
"Okay, Do quick and come downstairs for dinner, Am going to my room now to freshen up."
"Okay mom" Cindy replied, as she heave a sigh of relief and quickly picked up her phone call and seeing that Lora was still calling her after her mother left.
"Gush!, You almost got me into trouble Lora" Cindy muttered, as she now lowered her voice and quickly walked to her bedroom door and shut it closed properly, not knowing if her mother was still standing there by the corridor and listening to her.
"What?, come on Cindy, I still cannot believe this" Lora voice too was calmed, and Cindy said, "Believe whatever you like Lora, I've already told you what I want to said to you."
"Okay. So when can we see? This one that you're talking like a cockroach?" Lora asked, and Cindy replied, "I don't know, maybe weekend as tomorrow I need to be somewhere."
"Where?" Lora asked, knowing Cindy wasn't fully telling her the truth.
"You want to go to your secret lover place right?" Lora asked out, and Cindy gasped, "Lora!."
"Tell me Cindy, Are you serious about all these you just told me now?" Lora asked again, still in doubt
"Well yes, I told you I cannot marry the senator son. He has been calling me though, but I haven't returned his call back to him yet, and I don't intend giving him a green light that I like him either" Cindy said.
"Hm, That's alright, but I will like to see this new guy that you're talking about. I know I haven't requested of you to meet with any of those past guys that you have dated, but I really want to feed my eyes, and see for myself" Lora begged.
"Okay, but definitely not now, I will get back to you later as I have to go now and take my bath, and also head downstairs for our dinner. Talk to you later Lora, bye" Cindy quickly ended the call, as she could heard Lora's mother also scolding Lora on phone and telling Lora, "Why do you want to meet with her man?."
Cindy sighed, and she kept down her phone as she stripped off her remaining wear, taking off her black trouser, her red shirt and she was now unclad in her room, while she walked bare to her bathroom to bathe.
Cindy didn't wasted much time in her bathroom and after she was thru, she stepped out and hurriedly wore her nightgown, as the night had approached, and seeing the time in her bedroom to be 7pm.
Cindy finally went downstairs to joined her mother and cousin sister for dinner, as she knew sooner or later, Esther's mother, Mrs Evelyn would soon be in there mansion, and Mrs Evelyn was older than her mother and grandmother's sister.
Cindy shook her head and walked to the dinning room and later, her mother also came downstairs and joined her too for dinner together with Esther whom served the beans and yam round.
Mrs Bola was expecting Cindy to look sad as to the arranged marriage between Cindy and Jeremy, but rather Cindy has been blushing, and her pretty yellow cheek continued to adorned some bright redder color.
Mrs Bola knew actually that it wasn't Jeremy that was making Cindy to blushed, as she didn't understood what now transpired between Jeremy and Cindy, that would made Cindy blushing sweetly like a young lady in love, reminding her of her own intention of meeting that handsome yellow man that she crave for.
"Cindy, what's making you to smile sweetly throughout today?" Mrs Bola finally asked, meeting Cindy's gazed on her, just as Esther settled on the seat next to Cindy.
"Nothing mom" Cindy replied, and Mrs Bola smiled faintly and said, "Okay bless the meal."
Cindy happily said out a short prayer and soon they started eating their delicious beans and yam porridge.
After dinner, Cindy still happily offered to washed the plate, and Mrs Bola stepped into the kitchen and was surprised to saw Cindy washing the plate as Esther already told her, when she asked Esther, "Have you washed the dirty plate?."
"Aunt Cindy is washing it" Esther replied.
"Cindy" Mrs Bola jaw dropped, and she immediately rushed to the kitchen to find out for herself.
"Cindy" Mrs Bola called as soon as she stepped into the kitchen, and Cindy dried her palms as this time, she was a bit more faster in washing the dirty plate than the previous day.
"What are you doing here in the kitchen?" Mrs Bola asked, with a surprised look curved on pretty brown face, and Cindy replied, "Mom, Am learning how to wash, so I can be doing that when I finally to move to my husband house."
"Hm, I see, Jeremy is indeed lecturing you well" Mrs Bola said, but Cindy subtly frowned and removed the sink drainage cover to allow the water to flushed out, as she turned her back to her mother, not wanting to argue nor raise any suspicion about her not wanting Jeremy.
"But you shouldn't stress yourself much Cindy. Jeremy is a billionaire, and he can employ maid and servant to do all that for you without you needing to stress" Mrs Bola said, as she approached her only daughter and placed her right palm on Cindy right shoulder, while Cindy turned to face her mother.
"What if he doesn't want a maid mom?" Cindy asked, and Mrs Bola sighed heavily.
"There's no way he wouldn't want a maid. He cannot turn you into one either, Maids ain't slave, and only their assistant, that we need to make our home-works easier" Mrs Bola added.
"I know mom. But what if I don't need a maid myself. I don't want anyone to seduce my husband and snatch him away from me, all in the name of a maid" Cindy pouted, and Mrs Bola finally laughed out.
"Oh Cindy, You have a point there, but I think Jeremy loves you very much and wouldn't bait an eye on a maid" Mrs Bola assured.
"Okay mom, but I still want to learn this few simple things, Incase the maids start behaving somehow with me or proving too stubborn tomorrow." Cindy said.
"Okay Cindy, Am not stopping you, but you know is not just about washing the dishes alone, you still need to learn how to cook, since you want to learn all the kitchen etiquette."
"Hmm, I know mom. But not today, little by little, and I will learn all" Cindy replied, as the water had drained finished, and she covered the sink back, and turned to face her mother, dressed in a light blue night gown.
"Alright mom, am thru here, got to retire back to my room to rest" Cindy said.
"Okay, that's fine, So when will you be coming over to your father's company?. You know the company belongs to you, as being our only daughter and child, or don't you want to come to take a look by yourself?" Mrs Bola asked, and Cindy sighed as her week was already scheduled.