C13 Chapter Thirteen

"The day you show your face in the Milburn house is the day you stop to draw breath!" That was the first text message Mc woke up to and instead of being scared, he smiled at his phone "Oh boy, this little John boy thinks he can pull threats on me." He tossed his phone to Michael who slept in the same bed with him but his reaction was different. "This ain't funny to me Mc." He sat up and shifted closer.

"Why are you smiling Mc? This guy is crazy!"

"Nah he ain't crazy, he's just stupid. And he ain't stopping me, I'm going to meet my dad today."

"Wow man, are you serious right now? I can't believe you're finally gonna do this." Michael's joy was unhidden and it was pure, he had waited for so long to see that day come and it finally came. He wasn't the one who'll be the son to Ethan Milburn, he wasn't the one who'll be rich and he wasn't the one to be living in mansions with servants, but he was happy from the bottom of his heart that his best friend in the world was going to embrace his destiny and enjoy all of the good things in life, after going through hell in his childhood and through so much hurt in his ended marriage.

"Yeah, you actually convinced me to do this, you talked some sense into me yesterday and I'm very grateful to you bro. You're the best. Thanks man." They hugged so tightly and at a point, Mc noticed a drop of liquid from his eye, he hoped that wasn't tears, but it had to be because it was already so emotional and Michael's love for him made him realise how long he waited to be loved by his ex wife Melissa. But she never did! She wanted a fancy lifestyle of Lamborghinis and latest devices but couldn't support the man who paid all the bills despite his low income.

"I love you Michael." He was still hugging him so tight.

"I love you too bro." Michael replied.

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A message popped up on Melissa's phone and she opened immediately. She was always so curious to read messages in the recent days because she's been through a lot of disasters and they always started with a beep in her phone. But this time, it wasn't a message from Alberto asking for the $10,000. She paused to wonder why Alberto hadn't disturbed her in the last few days about the money, little did she know that the bad guy's saga ended the day he slipped on fresh paint when trying to eliminate Mc.

"Oh wow!" She said immediately she saw the message was from Anthony, it was a nude photo. She reluctantly gave him her number about a week ago and they'd been chatting since then. Anthony saved her number as "Faceless" because he was yet to see her face as she always tried to hide it. "Are you ever going to look up so I can see those beautiful eyes?" Anthony will always try to get her to look up.

"No bad boy, not yet." She replied on several occasions.

Melissa smiled after seeing the photo, she knew this good looking guy with the most perfect body was going all crazy for her but she couldn't reveal herself just yet. "His feelings for me will quench once he knows I'm Mellisa and not Cara. It'll all change once he knows I'm the one the Cops were looking for in the past." She said to herself. But she never knew that this guy she had slowly fallen for was behind the death of Jeremy, she never knew that this guy was the main reason she'd been on the run all this while.

Anderson had been sending his stunning nude photos to her and she loved it to heaven and back, she sent a few of hers but always cropped her face off them.

"Hey look at this real quick!" Mellisa forwarded the picture to her closest female friend Sonia, she was the only person Melissa had been in contact with before she finally spoke to her mom about the blackmail.

"Oh my God, that's some God sent body right there." Sonia replied immediately after seeing the picture.

"IKR"

"I only see this kind of body in movies and commercials, Mellisa, you gotta give it to this dude!"

Melissa replied with a laughing emoji then texted "It's risky, he can't know who I really am."

"You seem cool today BTW."

"Yeah I'm getting used to hiding and being blackmailed and it's slowly not being frustrating anymore. Besides, I haven't heard from the blackmailer in days now. Who knows, he's just vanished!"

"I hope he vanished. It's alright Melissa I'll leave you to chat with your lover boy now. Go on, send him a pic of those beautiful melons you have on your chest."

Vanished? Yes, Alberto had vanished but his phone was still in the hands of Michael. But he had not taken time to open the phone or check the contents of it because he was still occupied with healing from his twisted ankle and making sure he convinced Mc to meet his father.

"Oh yeah baby that's what I'm talking about." Anderson replied just after Melissa sent him a sexy picture of herself on the bed with a cropped off face again.

"Cara, you wanna go out on a date? I know I asked this before but I'm asking again. I want to know you better sweetie."

"Let's just hang out at your place."

Anderson was shocked to get such a positive reply, she always used to find ways to avoid meeting up with him but now she finally wanted to meet him in his own home? That was good news, good news engineered by the words of Sonia convincing her friend to say yes.

"Sure, tomorrow at my place?" Anderson texted quickly.

"Yes, tomorrow at your place."

*****

Michael was alone in his room after Mc left to get some groceries. It was a boring time and he tried to keep his boredom at bay by playing some games on his phone. But that didn't last very long before he got frustrated, “oh why do I just keep dieing? Dammit!” His frustration came in the form of words after his character just got killed about the 50th time while playing PUBG mobile. “Oh man I give up, game's just filled with alot of bugs anyway.” He dropped his phone on the bed and folded his arms, looked around the room and saw nothing interesting, it was a whole new lifestyle having to just sit on the couch or on the bed because his leg couldn't let him move freely.

Turning to the left, he saw Alberto’s phone on the drawer close to the bed and he stretched to get it.

“I wonder what this sumbitch got in this phone.” He swiped it open and the first thing he did was open the messages.

“Holly shit!” Michael exclaimed after seeing the recent messages between Alberto and Melissa. “The sumbitch got all the sextape from my lost camera and he's using it to blackmail Melissa? Bad one right here but I think she deserves it.” He scrolled down the messages and finally got to the most recent one sent by Melissa it read: “Hey, I got the $10,000 you requested. Don't leak my tapes, just send me your details and I'll wire the money to you ASAP.”

But there was no reply because Michael had been with that phone all the while and he never cared to check a thing in it just yet.

“Just when I was thinking about throwing this phone away then I get this? Man I never planned to do something like this but I guess I'm not letting this one go. This blackmail is going to continue but the money won't be going to Alberto no more, the money will be coming to me!” He said to himself.

He paused to read the message from Melissa again, turned to look around the room and imagined everything he could do with $10,000 then came to a conclusion.

“I'm gonna pretend like I'm Alberto, I'll just continue using Alberto’s phone to chat with her, then I'll ask her to bring the money in cash to me to a particular address I'll give to her. Perfect. I'll be $10,000 richer.