Her Poisonous Tongue

Chapter Two - Keep Your Enemies Closer

'This was too easy..are you sure she doesn't know you?'

I groaned and almost shut the laptop in front of me. Was he kidding me? Why does he have such little faith in me?

"fine then.. Why don't you come and do it yourself since you don't trust or believe in me.."

He sighed, 'hey hey I'm not saying that.. I just.. I want you to be careful okay. We can't risk being caught.'

"if this is what you'll do everyday when I give you feedback then I suggest you come do it yourself Lucifer.."

I watched as my older brother closed his eyes and took a deep breath, 'I am sorry okay. We have been training for this your whole life, I'm just scared you are so far away from me.. I miss you.'

I smiled, my brother was hardly affectionate or sentimental with anyone but his wife, so when he was being that to me, I took advantage of it, "wooow is the old Lucifer feeling for a second? So he has a heart after all?"

'Okay I am going to hang up now. I see you have everything in order. You do know where we are starting right?'

I laughed at him changing the subject pretty quickly, "yes... Strike anytime I see a chance.."

'good. I have to go to a meeting. Check on you later..'

"don't call me.."

'..you'll call me.. I know whatever bye..' he said laughing before actually hanging up the video call. I smiled and closed my laptop.

Lucifer was my older and only brother. Unlike me, he actually grew up here with our parents and moved when they passed away. He saw everything that happened. He arrived in Johannesburg when I was 11, he was so hard to talk to and I overheard the therapist saying he was traumatised by seeing our parents die.

It got me mad that he saw that with his own eyes, he was 16 years old and didn't deserve to see such, but he did and that made him carry so much anger since then. I respected how he channeled that anger towards school and also raising me.

I thought he was over everything but turned out he has been planning revenge since it happened, and I honestly couldn't say no to that. I couldn't say no to avenging our parents' death. I was 101% in before he could even finish his sentence. Which was why I was here. They didn't know me, but they knew him, so I had to be the one in the field dealing with them.

I sighed and got up thinking about Zoe, I needed to see her today. I haven't seen her for like 4 days since she helped me.

She gave me her contact details and told me to give her a call and I haven't. Well, I was planning on making a weak ass excuse that I was cleaning my place and just trying to get used to the place. I mean it was a lie since my brother made sure that I was taken care off very well. He hired people to fix a house that he bought six months ago and furnitured it with everything I wanted. The only thing I had to do was to get the King girl's attention... And I did. Now I had to keep it.

After putting on my jacket I slowly walked out of my house and looked outside. I could never get used to waking up to such beautiful nature.

There were less cars and more trees, I was breathing fresh air. My mind felt rejuvenated without waking up to the busy streets and traffics of Johannesburg CBD.

I took out my phone and texted my friend who also happens to be my brother's wife. That's the only girl who can handle my brother's messed up mind and also be a friend and a mother to me.. She was the same age as my brother but she was acting like a mother to me.

ME: I have been here for a week already. I love it but I miss you... And your husband is being.... Well your husband. I love you.. Loads❤️

I then put my phone in the pocket and started walking out. Zoe's place was not far from mine,. It was the farms that were a bit far at the back, next to her old home where she grew up with my brother.

I wondered if her parents still stayed there? I wondered if she thinks about my brother. I mean they are the same age.

A car honked and I jumped even though I was not on the road. I sighed and felt stupid after doing that. Zoe drove my way until she reached me. She had this smile on her face, "hey you.. Stranger.."

I smiled, "I am not a stranger..."

She laughed, "I even forgot who you said you were. What's your name again?"

I bit my lower lip and just looked at her. Today she let her hair fall to the sides and she was wearing a jacket thank God. This weather was getting colder and colder.

"Zoe... My name is Zoe King.."

She furrowed her brows at me, "umh... How did you know my surname..?"

Fuck! Me and my big mouth. Well, I couldnt tell her that my brother sent me here to ruin her and her family, so I came up with another excuse which I thought was pretty good, "umh well I kinda did research about you.. You know.. I wanted to know the person I'll be following around since you'll show me around town and also a few ropes on farming..."

She nodded her head slowly, "hop in... Unless you are going somewhere.."

I shook my head and got inside her car, "I was just stretching my legs and hoping to see you."

She smiled, "right.. One would swear you ran away and never wanted to see me again..you kids are like that when it comes to job oriented things. You don't want to work but you want money.."

I looked outside my window before looking at the back and then outside again. She looked at me confused, "what are you looking for?"

"kids..." I said and she laughed, "okay.. I get it.."

"do you? How old do you think I am.. Zoe...?"

She swallowed and asked something else instead, "do you want to go to town or just the farm at the back..?"

"do you need anything in town?"

She shrugged, "do you?"

"wine...?"

She nodded her head, "then we will go to town first.."

I smiled at her, "really? We will go to town to get me.. This 'kid' alcohol?"

She cleared her throat, "you're not a kid... According to you.. If it was up to me, I'd give you milk.."

I laughed, "Woow and I'm not being offended by this."

She smiled and kept driving.

It didn't take long before we arrived in town. Zoe helped me look for a few bottles of alcohol and she bought a few seeds. I watched as she did that and talked very nicely to the ladies that sold those. She turned to me," this is Letti... She just moved here, I'm sure she'll be seeing you guys often."

I waved my hand at them shyly, "ladies.."

"my child..." they both said and then looked at Zoe, "is she working for you?"

Zoe shook her head, "no she's not, but I am mentoring her. She has her own farm, so she will definitely steal my clients once she's leant all the ropes.."

I laughed, "I'll share. I won't steal, I'll just share with you.."

Zoe laughed, "right she will share.. Thank you ladies I'll see you again."

They waved her off and we left.

As we made it back to the farm I watched her carefully, trying to read the kind of person she was. I still didn't know much about her, but she was nice and friendly, I gathered that from how she communicated with people she met. She was welcoming.. Which was not what I expected, I didn't know if she'd fall for my trap or if she was just being genuinely nice.

"what are you looking at?"

"how old are you?" I asked just to pass time and she laughed, "older than you. Definitely older than you."

We reached the farm and both got out. I looked around me and smiled, our yards weren't far from each other, so yeah, we were definitely going to share clients.

"so what do you have mostly so that I know what to plant.. Sorry but I'll also do flowers." I said the last sentence looking at her flower garden, "f**k. Zoe that is beautiful.."

She laughed, "thank you.. And yeah bring it on."

We walked around and she talked. I didn't listen to most of the things that she said because my mind was roaming around. Being here felt different. Knowing this is the exact ground where my parents lost their lives. It made me feel some typa way.

I looked around and tried to look for everything that my brother described. I could see the house from here, their house.

"umh... Letti to earth.." I heard Zoe call for me and snapped out of my thoughts.

"yeah... What?"

"so I take it you weren't listening to anything I said.."

I felt really bad but had a come back as always, "I was just mesmerised by all this.. It took me to a different place.. You know. Past relationship.."

"was he a romantic?" she asked and I waited a little bit for her to give me the she option too. I mean it was 2021 so people must know now that not every woman dates men and men only.

She kept quiet and waited for me to respond to her. God! This was going to be harder than I thought.

I cleared my throat, "something like that..."

She smiled and brushed my shoulder, "well.. Isn't that amazing.. Don't worry you'll get over the break up."

My phone started ringing and I took it out, "sorry..." I said to Zoe and then answered my phone, "if it isn't mommy.."

She laughed, 'you know, I secretly love it when you call me that..'

I laughed too, "well I am going to stop.. You're just 5 years older than me.."

I heard her scoff, 'what are you doing? Is it a good time to talk?'

I looked around, "just cruising around the biggest flower garden with Zoe.. And you there?"

'wait.. Already? That was fast..'

I shook my head as if she could see me, "oh noo.. Not like that.. That is going to be hard. Harder than anything I have ever done.."

She laughed, 'wait.. I thought you were like the big guns of the lesbians.. That you would turn every lady gay..'

I scoffed, "I surrender..."

I heard moving around on the end of the phone, "hold on, I want a paper and a pen and the time and date so I can document this down.. It's worth documentation.."

I laughed, "for f***s sake Aveline stop being an idiot."

Zoe cleared her throat and she gasped when I looked at her. Fuck.. She thought I was talking to my mom.

'is she at least as hot as she was on the pictures we saw.. I mean she will make the job easy if she's hot..'

I coughed before smiling at Zoe just to act normal, "umh... Shut up.. And hang up.. Bye now.."

'I love you okay.. Call me later when you are not smiling at her..'

I laughed before hanging up. When I looked at the woman who was standing next to me, she had an ached brow, "was that your mom?"

I laughed, "friend.. My brother's wife actually .. And she likes acting like my mom sometimes."

She sighed in relief, "for a second I was scared..."

"don't be.. So, do you wanna head back to my place and have a glass of wine."

She looked at me a bit hesitant and I shrugged, "I promise to listen to everything you'll say. This garden is a bit distracting now."

She looked around the garden and nodded her head, "okay fine.. My garden is beautiful and distracting.."

I laughed, "Woow.. Really? That's all you took from what I said..?"

She smiled and started walking away towards the car. I followed her, "Zoe..."

She laughed, "oh yeah... I'm 28.. So I am definitely older than you.."

"a fine ass 28 year old.." I said without even thinking and she turned and looked at me. I cleared my throat, "umh... Wine.."

She smiled, "yeah.. Wine.." the she got inside her car.