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Stop!
Ragnar Marshall was quiet for another few seconds, the warm water warmed up his body and then he stood and walked out of the bathtub, he dried himself and said to her, “since you couldn’t figure out whom the father of your children is, I have listened to Otta’s suggestion and agreed to perform a DNA test on the kids.”
Her heart skipped on hearing that, although she was in a warm water, her heart suddenly freezed. “Sir… Is the DNA test being done already?”
“Yes. Ottar had already collected a sample of my hair and that of your kids. He should get back to me by tomorrow morning,” he said.
Seeing the fearful expression on her face, he asked, “do you have problem with that?”
“No sir. I just…” She wanted to say she didn’t like how her children’s hair sample was cut without her knowledge but he already walked out of the bathroom.
She knew she must do something as soon as she can. She quickly stepped out of the bathtub and then faced the mirror, she let out a sigh and tried to calm herself. Ragnar Marshall must not notice the anxiety that had suddenly developed in her.
Then she walked out of the bathroom in a towel and said, “I must go to my room now, sir.”
“Sure,” Ragnar Marshall was at that time busy with his IPAD, she quickly walked out of his room. As soon as she was in her room, she placed a call across to Beocca who immediately answered it, “hey Brigitta.”
“Hi uncle, I just found out now that Ottar has collected the hair sample of my children and that of my kids. Apparently, he’s going to perform a DNA test.”
Took a while before Beocca spoke, “why are you bothered?” He quickly added, “is Ragnar Marshall the kid’s father? How is that possible?”
“Uncle, you need to stop Ottar. I don’t want Ragnar Marshall to know, he would definitely take the kids away from me.”
“I don’t think Ragnar Marshall would want to do anything that will hurt you. As you can see, he had already protected you a number of times, he even risked his life to go to Maridonna just because of you. I feel like his knowledge about the kids would even intensify the relationship between you two and perhaps, give him a hope to live again. Also, I’m sure that once he knows the kids are his, he would protect them with their lives.” Beocca advised.This content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.
“No. No. I don’t want him to know. Not yet, not now and I have my reasons, uncle. Trust me,” she said. “Please you have to help me.”
Beocca’s sigh could be heard from the other end of the phone. “Let me speak to Ottar, I’ll call you back.”
“Okay uncle.” She said and then the call came to an end. She didn’t receive Beocca’s call until she fell asleep.
While doing all her morning routine the following day, her heart was heavy, she was troubled, she didn’t know why Beocca didn’t call her back to give her update but she planned not to call Beocca, afterall, she will see Beocca at work.
After a while, she got to work and went straight to Beocca’s office. After he had given her permission to walk in, he gestured for her to sit.
“Uncle…”
“Mr. Beocca…” He corrected. “You mustn’t forget what I instructed you about. Nobody must know of our relationship otherwise, I won’t be able to protect you anymore.”
She nodded, “Mr. Beocca, any update about Ottar? Were you able to speak to him yesterday?”
“No. I only spoke to someone close to him. Speaking to Ottar will not be a wise thing to do. I have confirmed that Ottar had already done the DNA test result but he hadn’t opened the result. He planned on giving the sealed test result to Ragnar Marshall.” Beocca said and pulled out a safe under his desk, there, he took out a file and handed it over to her.
Seeing that it was a DNA test result, she furrowed her brow in shock, “sir, this is the result?”
“Yes, it is. I replaced with a fake one.” Beocca said.
Brigitta’s heart calmed, “thank you so much, uncle.”
She exhaled again and said, “I must go now.”
“Alright,” Beocca said and watched as Brigitta walked out of his office.
Brigitta then walked quickly to her office, she had barely entered when she heard knock land on her door, “who is it?”
“Grisah.”
“Oh Grisah… Come in.” She said as she went to sit, she then kept the file under her desk.
Grisah walked up to her table and at her gesture, she sat, “Mr. Brigitta, are you okay?”
“Sure.” Brigitta was still calming her anxious self so it will be easy for anyone to know she was a bit tensed.
“Okay, I will like you to pick the time and location of our first date,” Grisah said. Afterall, she had promised to go on three dates with him.
She thought about it and said, “how about today? Perhaps during break period, we can go to this restaurant near us.” Brigitta didn’t really see it as a big deal.
“Okay, that’s fine. It’s too early, I should leave you to resume work,” then Grisah stood and walked out.
When it was break period, Brigitta and Grisah walked inside the restaurant together and then sat on one of the seats. They were both seated opposite eachother, they were beside the transparent glassy wall.
Soon, a menu was brought to them and they both chose and ordered the food they want.
“So Grisah, I guess this date really means a lot to you?” Brigitta said with a smile.
“Of course. Who wouldn’t want to go on a date with you, miss. Brigitta.” Grisah smiled back.
Soon, their table was served.
Brigitta was about to take the first spoonful when someone suddenly approached them and spoke, “stop!”
Brigitta was almost swallowing the spoonful of food so she paused, she was surprised to see Guthred here but what she didn’t understand was why he would intend to spoil her date.
She wanted to take the food to her mouth nonetheless but he slapped the spoon away from her hand, making the spoonful of food fall to the floor.