Sin of Lust

CHAPTER 30

Sin of Lust by Swapie Achilles

CHAPTER XXX

OCTOBER

“This will be our good bye to each other, nice meeting you child.” Nado said taking the reins from her hands, “see you.”

“See you too, Mr. Nado.” She smiled and hops down off the wagon, “Take care-!”

She just turns her back on him and was about to walk away when she heard the old man breaths out close to being breathless, “Loxo?”

“That’s Loxo, I know it.” He chimed to himself, so happy that once again he will be able to see his son.

“His son is here?” she internally asked herself, and then she looks to where the old man is looking and there, she found herself looking at an average man with a girl on his arms giggling like they were newlyweds.

By the way the girl looks, no one will make a mistake that she’s doesn’t came from a wealthy family. She has jewelries from her head to ankle and her dress is made up of the most expensive linen in town, designed with golden threads.

And so is Loxo, who seems to be a well-maintained man, just what a member of the defense system should be.

“So boisterous.” Blanche mumbled.

And people are cheering and clapping for them, “Way to go Loxo!” they cheered.

“After so many months! You finally did it!”

“Thank you, everyone. Thank you!” Loxo thanks them while the woman on his arms waves at them with a bottle of liquor and a wide smile on her red lips.

“This is the best day of my life.” He said and lean to kiss the woman, to which made the guests cheers even more.

Nado slowly get off of the wagon and by the looks on his face, he’s really excited. He saunters towards his son who seems to not notice him so he shouted his name.

“Loxo!” he yelled with all of his strength but his was remained unheard amidst the celebration.

He called him again and again but his son looks so busy and happy to notice him from such close distance.

“Wait, Mr. Nado, you’re going to get hurt.” Blanche immediately assisted him when she saw he’s going to get crush in the middle of cheering crowd.

“Mr. Nado.” She called him when he was hit by one of the celebrators, fortunately Blanche was fast enough to catch him.

“Are you okay?” she asked, getting him on his feet.

From the moment she touches his arms, she can feel his flesh trembling and looking closer, she can see his knees are buckling and his breathings are ragged. His eyes seem heavy as if he didn’t get sleep for a while now.

“I don’t know what’s going on.” He stated, confuse of everything that’s going on, he whispered. “My throat hurts.”

Blanche didn’t think twice and open the bottle of water then gave it to the old man, “Here, drink first Mr. Nado.”

After drinking almost all the content of the bottle, Nado spoke, “Thank you, Shaira my child. I didn’t get a glass of water since I left my house.”

“Don’t worry,” she smiled, but she can’t accept the fact that this man neglected himself for the sake of his son and yet looking at Loxo from where they’re standing, it seems like he’s a different person.

“Just get on the wagon I’ll talk to them.”  Blanche said.

“Thank you, Shaira.” He breaths out as she helps him up.

Blanche didn’t hesitate to saunter to the celebration and ask one of the crowds, “Uhm, hey what seems to be going on here?” she asked. “Is there any festivity here?”

“Oh no, nothing much, we’re just glad for our friend there, his girlfriend finally said yes after six months of courtship.” The man said.

“Six months?” she asked with a creased brow.

“Yeah, that’s six months of utter heck.” He replied, “did you know how much he spends to get that woman? There’s was once, Loxo gave her a flower but she harshly rejected it there are times where she demands the best of the best to him even though she knew he can’t afford it.”

“Seems like a very high maintenance woman to me.” Blanche said with a hand on her chin.

“Yes, she is.” The man agreed with her. “But it seems like miracle is on his side, every time she wants something, he was able to provide it,” he laughs.

“He really loves Lushes, I mean who wouldn’t, look at her she’s really beautiful.” He said pointing to the lady. “But you know, even though I’m rich and she’s beautiful I would never pick her, she’s too materialistic.”

“Wait… what?” Blanche was confused.

“I can see, she only wants him for his money, but our friend is head over heels for her so we can’t do anything about them.” He replied with an apologetic smile on his face. “Love is truly blind.”

“May I know what his job is?” she asked once more.

“Oh, nothing, that’s why some of us couldn’t believe how he manage to make the high-end woman say yes to him.” He shrugs, “but then we learned that his father is really a wealthy man, he’s sending him money that’s equal to four horses every month. That’s huge sum of money you know.”

“Horses?” she breaths out as she remembers their conversation earlier.

“Yep! As you can see, she’s really happy with her jewelries and dresses.” He said with a curt smile, shaking his head. “I just hope that when the time comes and he doesn’t have the same money he has now, his woman never leaves him.”

Their conversation was immediately cut off when Blanche saw Nado walking and squeezing himself through the crowd.

“So… thank you for the chitchat, I’ll be going now!” she waves her hand to him.

“Yeah!”

“Mr. Nado!” she exclaimed as she follows him while mumbling her apologies as she keeps on bumping to others.

But before she could get him out of the mass, he was there in front of his son and his son’s woman. To which made the whole crowd grew silent.