Connecting the dots

Susan continued to wonder why she found herself deep in the intricacies of an enigmatic love. She felt as if she betrayed her objectives and the intention of finding the appropriate answer to Angela.She wanted to be more precise if not in total accuracy with her strategy. She wondered if Collins could provide her with the most wanted information. She thought with bitterness, the eventuality that Collins could become adamant and perhaps rebuke her.

Collins was on the other hand, more satisfied, more fulfilled, more successful than ever, to have Susan in his hands. He did not want to imagine that she would deny anything that inclined towards their love. To him, this was true love . He wanted to savour it's sweetness, to enjoy it's confines and to grow into other stable grounds like marriage. He thought of how he was going propose to her. That feeling awakened every spirit in him. He did wondered how he would fumble to select the right words to her during that occasion. He recalled how he spent the first night that he chanced to sleep with her as a ransom to keep whatever she discovered in his monetary story. That day she looked trouble with a touch of hesitation on her face. From that day, everything has climaxed so rapidly. She no longer hesitate to what he proposes and everything with her seems to be flowing naturally. The recent date during a weekend is still much fresh than ever. The scenery they had chosen seemed to blend with the romance between them.

George had earlier on noticed this crescendo of love in between his colleagues ( or employees for now). He had sat with Collins one day to brief him of what he might otherwise have been blinded. " I have a concern Collins about you. George had began

" A concern? About what? work?" Collins had quizzed.

" What's growing on with you and Susan? I sense something bad would explode sooner or later."

" Man I loved this woman! Yes ! And should I say it's luck?"

"Collins! Collins! Collins! You call that luck ? Don't you know what trouble you've put yourself in?"

"No I don't know ! Is Susan a bad girl? I'm getting terrified!"

" Don't you have even the slighted mind to unravel this bro? Is it not you who told me that she peeked into your drawer and discovered a bundle of notes? That was the beginning. You might put us into a dangerous situation Collins!" George was outraged.

" But brother I'm going to be more and more cautious! She won't find it. It's just love between us . Nothing more George!"

" Collins I see you being a bait somewhere. I don't know but I have a presentiment to it."

"How now?" Collins wondered. He felt a half truth in what George was telling him and half a cover of envy and jealousy in his words. George flared his nose in a tone of fury. His face suggested how he was desperately straining to put his anger in check .

" Why couldn't you find yourself a woman or a girl outside the premises of the Big Blue? Take my case for example, If Angela wanted to know more about our conspiracies with Hussain, she would have to sweat since she is not near. "

"Brother , I can see that envy creeping in you.This is just love! Love knows no boundaries or companies okay?" Collins muttered in agitation.

"And that same love does not know how a man ought to keep secrets. You would soon remember me Collins. I did my part. "

"George! We have been friends for years and colleagues also. We still are the same. But no this..." He shook his head in disagreement. George looked at him and swallowed bitterly. " And mind you Angela is and will be the love of my life.She is enough to me and don't dare to say something like 'envy' to me. I cannot compare her to Susan okay?" He warned as walked away into his office and left Collins wondering foolishly.

Alice did not spare Susan either. She sternly warned her of her love with Collins. Alice was always doubtful of Collins errands especially on weekends . She always sensed that Collins had a hidden agenda and was never amongst a person one would trust. She warned Susan of the danger to make love with a college and attributed it to the cause why many employees lost their jobs.

All this from both George and Alice did not deter the two love birds from executing what love prompted them to do. In fact ,they arranged for a weekend outing during that same week that they were warned by their colleagues. Collins suggested that they spend the day in the attractive Ngong hills that were not more than a forty minutes drive from Collins home.

Collins wrist watch ticked 10:30 am when the couple' s taxi pulled at the gates of this recreational site. Susan was at her cloud nine as she strained her voluptuous body to climb the low narrow path up the hills . The windmills punctuated the beauty of this scenic. Sparsely planted cypress and pine trees owned the overall beauty of this place upon a very green low-cut star grass.

The anabatic winds coupled with the windmills made a refreshing breeze that breathed affection to the life of this couple. Collins had decided to go with his maroon cotton t-shirt that proved to be way much smaller for his muscular frame. A black trouser and black shoes made him look like a prominent disk jockey in one of the famous occasions . Susan was in her white blouse that was made with a very light fabric that the winds that blew over them made her present a more foxy figure. Her silk blue skirt and blue low heels made her compliment her lover in every aspect of it. They were about to make their own heaven on earth. Collins looked at her face and for an instant , ruminated on what George had quarrelled with him just some days ago. The words were slowly eating him and threatening his manhood. He dismissed the thoughts away and decided to focus on happiness.

"Can you climb up this hill running up to the top?" Collins challenged Susan. " This is a mountain to me Collins . You must be joking. Climb this?"

" Yes! This . It a challenge and you must run."

"You're killing me Collins. You want me dead! " She joked amidst uproarious laughter.

" Look! I have a gift for you only I you try."

" A gift? "

"Yes a gift . It's for you!"

" But don't laugh at me. I don't know how to run!" She looked at her shoes cynically as if she doubted the ability of her legs. She tried to hold the hemline of her skirt with her left hand and sprinted towards the hill. She ran no faster than a five year old child with her massive feminine organs proving her that she wasn't an athlete type. Collins remained behind in stitches of unbearable laughter until his eyes teared. He could not hold himself until some meter away when the hell broke loose and the stocky woman fell with a thud on the ground.Collins ran to her help and found out that she did not hurt unfortunately.

He soothed her and apologized for his ridiculous challenge. "I told you you want me dead Collins. " She slightly scolded him with a frown on her face. "But I said I'm sorry and I am really!" He soothed her and continued more calmly and seriously. " Susan I don't like the way you address me. I mean by now you and I are in love , isn't it?"

" Yes we're! But I also don't like you to be calling me Susan or madam!" she rejoined equally emotional to home.

"Then darling, sweetheart?"

"Yes! That hits my nerves my dear love. I love that!"

" Then it's time that we plan for our future sweetheart?" He asked with his obvious tone of love.

" That is the main pillar of our love. I would be in for that!" She replied with a flirting wink.

" I plan that we buy some piece of land and build our very own life. That is after I have married you."

"Wooow! You mean marrying me?"

"Yes! I mean it." he nodded gravely.

"But I have a concern my darling!"

"What's that? " He asked worryingly.

"Do you really love me Collins? Ooh forgive me it's my love."

"Yes and you know it"

"Would you do anything for me?Just for the sake of our love?"

"Yes I would my sweetheart! Why shouldn't I? "

"That last time I found myself in a mess with you , I saw something unusual. You had a bundle of notes. I saw your payslip and the figures didn't much. Did you win a lottery?" She quizzed carefully not to provoke his anger.

"You just told me that you want us to buy land and build a house and of course, a home," She observed with wisdom and continued. "Do you mean to used that money ?" He meant to hide it. He meant to resist it. He meant to make it a secret. But this tender and warm hand around his shoulder and that twanging voice of seduction he was meant to break the shell. He love Susan and couldn't do more but to give in to her tunes.

"This is a life secret my love. Note that I called you my love and not Susan . This means you're bound to know this!" He posed for a moment and breathed in heavily. She had by now tilted her head so that she leaned on his clavicle. Her massive chest just heaved towards his.

" Never tell this to anyone. Never even to Alice.You would put me into trouble." he cautioned and continued " We are gangsters and Hussain pay us for it!" She jerked away from him abruptly and grimaced faintly. She hadn't prepared herself to hear that. "You mean you're robbers. And what do you mean by 'we' . I mean I don't understand Collins!" Collins felt it. He saw the terror on her face and remembered George. Women were not the best grounds to grow secrets. He thought vainly of the blunder he had just made.

" Calm down baby! I love you that's why I told you this! " Collins tried to bring her down and to encourage her.

It took a couple of minutes for Susan to fully digest the revelation. She was at the phase of connecting the dots. Adding this and that. It was not hard for her to relate the 'we' in the statement.She rightly knew the 'We' contained George and probably Bruce. She recomposed herself and picked his arm affectionately with both her hand. " I will love you! No matter who you are but I would love it if you quit it!" He looked at her with a mixture of feelings. Wondering what to tell her , he pulled her more closer and wrapped her in his embrace. " Let's keep this between us babe! Never tell anyone okay? Just for my sake."

"Never will I my love!" she whispered still her head buried in his muscular chest.