18 A Good Night Kiss (2)

Jones escorts the cops until they reach their vehicle. Ferdinand sneers at his kind gesture as if bile coming up his throat seeing his polite manners. "Your Master won't last long with his lavishes."

Jones still smiles at him, "time will definitely show."

"And that time will come soon." Saying that Ferdinand leaves with his goons. All along the path his brain stirred with the incident where Ezra got aggressive over just his new maid. Something's definitely cooking between them and he has to report to his tipper about it.

He immediately dials a number as soon as reaching his home. Sitting on his couch he heard the rings of calling. Waiting for Madame to pick up the call.

And she does.

"What is it?" Her feminine voice whispers.

Ferdinand's curiosity grows hearing the sudden change of tone from the person who's tipping him against Ezra. "Why are you whispering Madame?"

"That's none of your concern." She spats at his useless banters, "tell me the reason for your call."

He clears his throat before replying, "yes of course," scratching his chin he recalls the event "I found a source who can prove Ezra is guilty for everything. So I went there to confirm but as usual he denies the accusations."

"I don't care if he denies it or not. I only care if you are arresting him anytime soon or shall I give this job to someone more potential than you?"

Ferdinand's teeth clenched in anger, "Madame it takes a full proof plan to frame someone for something he hasn't done. Already the DNA results are showing it's not a match of his semen. Plus, I even stopped my colleagues from interrogating the workers and taking their semen samples. I'm doing everything to cover up someone's else's crime and frame Ezra Knight."

"But you are not doing good enough! I want him to rot in jail now and forever." She mutters a silent curse before speaking with him again in her harsh tone, "If you think it's impossible for him to get trapped in this case, try to build a harder case than this against him. Do you understand?"

"Yes Madam, I do understand." He replies but then he wonders if he should tell about the new maid and how Ezra's behavior towards her was. "By the way, he has hired a new maid. I assume you have met her already too?"

"Oh yeah, what about her?"

"She seemed afraid and unusual to me also, Ezra shows to be protective of her for god knows what reason."

"Is that so?" She inquires as this new maid coming in Ezra's life piqued her interest.

"Yes, I plan to have a one -on -one meeting with her too if possible. She can lead us to what we want, don't you think?" Ferdinand suggests.

Madame clicks her tongue in disagreement, "Ezra will probably warn her to not utter any word with you. Perhaps, you should follow her closely, if possible stalk her every routine and especially when she's with him."

Ferdinand now understands where this Madame's plan is going and he likes every bit of it. "Will do."

Ezra went to check up on Stella, the way she reacted seeing him in his aggression didn't settle well with him. The last thing he wants now is for her to be scared of him or be closed away from him.

Just as he thought she wasn't available in the kitchen anymore and neither the drawing room or dinning room which were on the ground floor of his penthouse. So the only option left for him was to visit Stella again in her allotted bedroom. Sighing he makes his way towards the destination when suddenly his phone flashes with Jones's contact number on his screen. Frowning in confusion he accepts the call and speaks, "yes Jones? Did you forget anything important to say?"

"I won't say much about what I want to say Sir, rather I would like to show you something."

Ezra's eyebrow arches in question, "what do you mean?"

"I'll send you footage of Stella, Sir. After seeing it you may decide how to proceed with her." Saying that Jones cuts the call leaving him in confusion.

Instantly a video message pops up on his screen sent by Jones. Upon clicking on it he saw the footage of Stella.

He frowns seeing her eavesdropping on their conversation and getting scared? Why was she getting scared? Was she afraid of something? Or someone? Why did she go back to collect her face mask?

Jones must think she's hiding from cops and maybe that's why he sent the video to him thinking she can be not showing us what she really is.

But to him, he saw something different. He saw a scared and wounded girl shaking with fear. Then again he would rather not go with his instincts and ask her directly about it.

Knocking on her door he waits for her to open up. When she does his breath knocks up his throat. There she was, standing wearing her night attire. A simple loose pajama with a baggy top and messy hair bun on her head. She looked like an innocent seductress.

"Mr. Knight." She acknowledges him as if knew he would arrive.

"May I come in?" He asks to which she nods and steps aside to let him in.

Stella walks over to the window and stands crossing her arms against each other while looking down at her feet. It irks Ezra in a bad way that she's not meeting his gaze right now. "You wanted to talk?"

"No." He says sternly to her.

Her eyes widened hearing such a change of tone. It's always been neutral or understanding from him but he has never shown anger towards her.

"I don't understand what you mean?" She mutters again looking down.

Now he's getting impatient seeing her not meeting his gaze makes him restless. He likes how her eyes look at him but now Stella wasn't giving him that pleasure to indulge.

"Rather I'm here to ask you a few questions and you will answer me truthfully." Stepping closer to her he raises his voice, "answer only with truth."

"Ok." She looks up at him seeing how he walked closer to her but was intimidated by how his approach is.

Right then he brings up his phone from his pockets and plays the video of the footage on her which Jones caught. He observed closely her expression when she saw the footage.

"Mr. Knight… this isn't what it seems."

"Uh huh… I haven't asked my question yet Ms. Robinson."

"But…" She pleads with his eyes but still he refuses to listen.

"Shhh…. Now listen to my question and only then answer. I don't want you to speak anymore apart from this."

Ezra says with his platonic tone leaving no scope for her to justify. But did he really think she would listen to him?

"After all we have been through today, I half expected you to give me a good night kiss from you but here you are, breaking my hopes Mr. Knight." She says with her signature smile after a long time, which he admires truly.

And yet again Stella manages to break through from the feeble personality to the bold woman he met in the office. "I hope it's not too late for that."

"I would rather expect one when you are assured that I'm no threat to you." She says obediently and he kept on admiring her modesty.

"Fair enough, Ms. Robinson. Let's start with the question I asked before… Who's Ricardo? And what did he do to you?"