Chapter Forty Three

He chuckled and asserted, "I know that I am horrible, but can we be friends?"

She froze and stared at him to see whether he was bluffing, his facial expression was blank, and she could not decipher whether he was bluffing or not.

Amelia well knew who Prince Chad was; the Prince of KU, and a billionaire--and he was very handsome, so it was quite unbelievable that he would ask her to be his friend. She thought of what she and Chad were, they were nothing close to being friends but sometimes he was so nice to her and friendly but even at that she never thought of him as a friend.

Chad said after she did not reply to him for some minutes, "Are you surprised that I asked you to be my friend?"

"No I am not," she lied and strengthened herself, she wanted to appear as calm as possible she did not want to be thrown off balance. She cleared her throat and put on a stern facial expression. "Why do you want to be friends with me?"

Chad chuckled and looked around. Amelia could not understand why he was laughing.

"Why do I want you to be my friend?" He took a sip from the glass of wine served on the table by the hostess. "This is the reason that I want to become your friend."

"I don't understand."

"I asked you to become my friend but you didn't just accept the offer, you want to think it through and find out why someone like me would want to become friends with you," he paused. "Unlike some girls and people, you just don't accept offers instantly you think it through, and you make sure that the offer would benefit you...you're a smart person Amelia, and I like you very much for that."

Even though Chad was speaking the truth--Amelia liked the fact that Chad speaks the truth most of the time, yet she could not fully trust him.

"You don't seem so trustworthy to be anyone's friend."

"Am I trustworthy? This world is filled with betrayals even the person you didn't expect to betray you is the one that will," he leaned forward. "That's this life for you."

"So you're saying that you are not trustworthy?"

"I didn't say that," he pinched his nose. "What do you think controls the world, Amelia?"

"Money?" She said and Chad laughed out loud.

Everyone's eyes were on them, this was the second time they were seeing Chad and Amelia together, and now they were in the restaurant talking and laughing, they were wondering what was going on between them. It was so unusual to see Chad with a girl like this.

"No, Amelia, it's lies that control the world," he told her and she could not fully understand him.

This was a tough decision for Amelia if she became friends with Chad she would benefit a lot but yet she could sense danger coming, a part of her smelled something fishy in all this.

She took in a deep breath, "Yes, we can be friends, but..." She paused. "There will be terms and conditions."

Chad laughed out loud and slammed his hands on the table repeatedly.

"Why are you laughing like that?" She asked him with disgust on her face and he stopped laughing, his face became stony and his eyes became emotionless.

"I am the one that gives the terms and conditions not you, Amelia, " his voice was deep and a little bit scary but Amelia was not afraid she was used to this already, and she was not intimated by him again.

"We will be nothing but friends, and it shouldn't go beyond that, if not I will end everything I have with you." She threatened she sensed that he wanted it to go beyond just being friends, but then she thought, Chad was not that type of guy, even though he could be so flattering and flirtatious he was as arrogant as ever.

"Are you threatening me, Amelia?" He took a sip from his wine glass. "This is new and interesting."

"I am not afraid of you, Chad," Amelia tried to be confident but when Chad stared into her eyes with his sea blue eyes she lost all her composure.

He gave her a deathly glare and slowly dropped the wine glass on the table.

"You should be, Amelia," he breathed."I tell you Amelia by this time next week you will be my fiance.".

Amelia started coughing and laughing sarcastically.

"I can't believe you would say such a thing, Chad, I thought you were so arrogant to say something like this, are you a prophet?" She laughed and Chad looked at her with a nonchalant facial expression only if she knew what he was. "There are some things that can never happen in this world, and one of them is me and you having anything romantic."

He took another sip from the wine glass and stared at her for some minutes before saying, "If by this time next week, you are not my girlfriend, I will give you half of my wealth but if you are you will have to stick to your words."

Amelia saw everything that Chad said as childish and foolish, they were not even friends and now he was prophesying that she would be his girlfriend next week, he was just like other men she had met. She glared at him, even though a part of her wanted something to go on between them she saw the whole thing as ridiculous.

But to think of it, he was going to give her half of his wealth, that means if by this time next week, she was not his girlfriend she was going to be a billionaire and she was sure that not even in a million years would she have anything to with him.

"Agreed," she grinned. "Get ready to lose half of your wealth, Chadwick."

......

Jennifer stared at Megan with disbelief and Anita was still very angry at her.

"Why did you do this, Megan?" Jennifer asked, she wanted to know why Megan would do such a thing. "Why did you kill Kate."

"Don't mention that bitch's name in front of me again unless your death will be sooner than expected." She warned and Jennifer gulped. "But anyway I am going to tell you, everything, I am going to enlighten all of you..."

"To think that you were this way all this while makes me throw up in my mouth." Anita spat out and Megan danced around to the tune of music that was in her imagination.

"That's so nice, but I am worse than this, baby girl," she giggled and continued to dance. "You are right, I was the one who killed Kate, I was the one that planned everything out."

Jennifer gasped and she became more scared, Megan just admitted that she was responsible for Kate's death, Jennifer vividly remembered that Megan and Kate were very close friends, and all this while she was deceiving Kate.

"Who do you think made the house mistress want to fire Kate at first? Who do you think made Anita tell Calvin about Kate? Who do you think made Calvin have sex with Kate?" She spread her hands in the air. "It was I, I was the one, I did everything!"

Anita's eyes shone she was shocked that Megan also used her to bring an end to Kate, she felt so bad and foolish for being so gullible, that she allowed jealousy and resentment to control her.

"Why did you do all this? I thought you were our friend? Why, Megan?" Jennifer said with beads of tears rolling down her cheeks. "I thought Kate was your closest friend?"

"Why I did do all this? Kate couldn't just stay in her lane, she was encroaching on my lane, how dare she become friends with Chad! How dare she spend time with him? How dare she come close to him? Who does she think she is? Doesn't she know that I was the one who made the rules in the palace? Doesn't she know I am the owl of the 'Great Sector?' She was just a lowly maid that I wanted to use from the beginning, she was so disgusting and annoying and every day I was looking and thinking of a way to get rid of her! She made a very big mistake the first day she spoke with Chad, how dare she speak with my Chad! And that caused her death!" She said screaming and breathing heavily. Her lips curved into the darkest smile on earth, and she used her hand to cover her eye. "Now all of you ought to die for pitying her, you ought to die because all of you are so gullible and naive, you can't be enlightened because you are darkness and light can't shine through you, your type remains inexperienced forever and your existence is not needed in the world."

"So this is your stupid reason for taking someone's life?" Anita shook her head slowly, "you are such a disgrace to humanity, Megan."

"A lowly thing like you dare insult me?" Megan laughed wickedly. "How spiteful! What's your last word before you die?"

Anita and Jennifer smirked. Anita brought out her phone from a corner in the living room and there was this evil grin on her face, more evil than Chad's.

"How does it feel to be on Instagram Live for the first time?" Anita asked smiling wickedly and Megan's eyes shone wide like large saucers. Everything Megan said was being streamed live on Instagram, she had revealed a lot, and now all that she did was known to the whole world.

"With over one hundred thousand persons watching you," Jennifer added and Megan placed her hands on her head.

"No, no, no, no, this can't be!" She screamed scratching her hair roughly.

Anita, Jennifer and James planned this out before she came, they suspected that she was coming to take their lives, and they also suspected that if they asked her some questions she would answer them since she was going to kill them. So they used Jennifer's phone went live on Instagram, told the people watching everything that happened and placed the phone in a corner in the living room that captured almost everywhere in the living room.

"Yes, we are naive and inexperienced but we were always a step ahead of you," Jennifer winked at her. "Now the whole world is aware of all the atrocities you've committed," Jennifer showed her the phone. "And they are not happy with what you did."

Megan gritted her teeth and she pulled her hair with her hands.

"Kill them! Kill them! Kill them!" Megan shouted and red lights came out of nowhere followed by gunshots.

Anita felt blood splatter on her, her vision became blurry and she was on the floor. She licked her lips and she could taste the metallic taste of blood. She rolled on the floor and she could not believe what she saw, everything happened so quickly.