The billionaire's double twins

Chapter 8

"I wonder where they are." Shelby looked at the empty poolside.

"Probably at terrace 4." he reserved it.

"Oh, he's such a romantic."

Will looked away, the restaurant was almost full.

She smiled as she update Candice on the location.

"Sure you do not need to be home?" Will asked when he saw her texting.

She smiled, "unlike you, I'm committed only to Shelby Baker."

He smiled, "let's go."

"Is that Candice?" she paused.

"Yeah."

"What is she doing here? she said she was going home when I saw her earlier today."

"Probably here to drag her sister away if she has any sense."

"I don't think so, I think Kyle is here for her, he just went after her." she turned to Will, "are they going out?"

"No, they must be here to break them apart."

"I doubt that." she smiled, "Candice may be here to break it up, but I think Kyle is here to stop her."

"The i***t, he's also a romantic idiot."

"Let's go." Shelby smiled.

"Nah, I think that more than enough people..."

"Your friends are in trouble, aren't you going to help?"

"You aren't saying that out of the good in your heart, more like the drama, you are such a sadist, you probably want just want to feed on their heartbreak."

"Come on, indulge me, a little drama never hurts besides... we came down for them, I can think of no better things to give me joy."

"Will chuckled, "fine, let's go."

*****

"What a terrible couple you two make." Candice said the moment she entered the terrace.

"Candice!" Janice immediately disentangle from Ryan arm, the moment she feared has arrived, she knew for a fact that Candice would never permitted a relationship between Ryan and her if she knew his full identity, that was one of the reason she was confident of the night going wrong, although it had begun well, she has even almost fooled herself of his love, she had let down her guard and slowly he had crept into her heart, she looked back at him, and here she was enjoying the beautiful rainfall in his arms. "Why are you here? What are you doing here? Are the kids okay?"

"Here to rescue you from the biggest mistake of your life." she picked Janice purse from the table, "let's go."

"Calm down." she moved closer to her, "it's not what you think."

"Yes it is."

"I don't know what you think is going on but..." Ryan shook his head and smiled at her, "it's probably isn't what you think."

She looked at him then turned to her sister, "let's go."

"No, it's really isn't."

"Really then explain this, a nice secluded location, a candlelight dinner, a wine bottle, a beautiful girl in anice dress and the frog in the prince costume, what does that tells you?"

"No, it's not like that."

"May I ask, why you are all of a sudden mad? Ryan asked, he couldn't understand her reaction, she was the one who had finally helped him in getting Janice to finally free to the date, she had even taken the kids out to prevent any excuse from her sister.

No, you may not." she turned to her sister, "Come on, let's go."

"Candice would you please listen, I..."

"Agreed to date him, I can't believe you agreed to such."

"No, I..."

"I don't care, let's go."

"Candice I think you need to calm down and give her a chance to explain." Kyle added.

"I don't remember requesting for you opinion, did I?" she turned to her sister, "we should leave."

Janice heaved in resign, nothing she say right now would help, "yeah we should."

"What?" Ryan held her hand, "I don't understand."

"You don't need to." Candice removed his hold on Janice, "you are toxic in her life, and dating you can only lead to tragedy."

"Candice." her sister exclaimed, "that's a terrible thing to say."

"No it's not." she turned to her sister, "and if it is..." She shrugged, "he's a terrible person and you do not think otherwise."

Janice cast her gaze down.

"Do you?" she raised her chin, "now that you've seen his world, do you now wish you were with him, that you never broke up?"

"No I...." she looked away, "let's just go."

"No." Candice took a step backwards as Will and Shelby joined them, "do you think he loves you?"

"Candice?" Janice extended her hands to her "let's just go."

"No!, I wanna know what you're thinking, do you think he loves you?, that there's a part of him that still yearn for you?, if there's a part of him that yearns for you then it's his prick and that because you are a beautiful woman and half of the male population out there feels the same way."

"No Janice." Ryan tried to move closer to Janice but her sister stood between them.

"Then what, you still love her, you are here to make up for the lost time, what where you doing for the past six years?"

"Candice please let's go." Janice pulled her sister from behind.

"No." she shrugged her away, "I want to know what is going on, everyone here thinks I'm the bad person, I'm here to intrude on your romantic moment, I'm the one running your life, so if you think what I'm doing here is wrong, then tell me, I'll leave."

Janice shooked her head.

"So I aren't wrong then please wipe those tears." she looked over at Ryan, "if they are people who do not deserve a single drop of your tear, it would be the prides, they are not even worth a second of your time, not to say you register them in your thoughts."

Janice nodded.

"Good, let's go."

"Wait." Ryan held her hand, "at least explained to me, I don't get it."

Candice removed his hand from Janice arm, "I'll do that." she stood in between them again.

"Candice, I think you should..." Kyle began.

"No one asked you to think, Kyle, infact, no one requested for your presence, you may leave or take a note from your smart friend and be a spectator." she turned to Ryan, "do you love her?"

"I..."

"I'll answer that for you, no." she c****d her head sideways, "do you want to bed her, yes, do you want to make a statement to her, probably yes, I spent my whole drive here thinking about why you chose to chase her, I thought probably the body, yes but then the chase was too much just for the body, it's been almost 5month since then, so I thought it's must be something else." she paused in front of him, "wanna know what my theory is?"

Ryan looked way.

"Nevermind I'll tell you, you see... you prides, you like seeing people squirming in front of you, you know twitching, like a cockroach, a worm, you like them broken, like they have no purpose, no will to live but I can imagine you shock when you saw her, before you... was a brave and daring woman, not some twitch worm you expected, and that made you realise you failed, so you are back to complete what you failed to do six years ago."

"What?" Ryan squeezed his face and looked at his friends, he coul barely understand her what she was saying.

"What do you think?" she turned her sister "Am I wrong?"

Janice pulled her, "let's just go."

"No, I wanna know, am I in the wrong?"

"No." Janice heaved and looked at her, "No, you aren't wrong, his intention is as you have stated, so can we leave?"

"So he intended to ca..."

"Yes Canice, he intended to make me fall for him again, then when I'm in love, he will remove the chair from under me, like he did, he wants me to regret my decision six years ago, to finally break in front of him and beg him to take me back, he wanted me to see all that I lost, that's what he want."

Candice heaved, "so did you see it?"

Janice moved to the door, "yes, I did see it."

"Do...do you regret it?" Candice asked.

Janice looked at her sister, "we should go."

"No, just.. just tell me, I... I want, I want to know." She looked at Ryan, "he needs to know too."

Janice heaved, "Well, I don't, his life style is great and frankly I'll love to have it for myself but this is a game without winner, but if we are to calculate the losses then I'm the winner here, for he lost more." she walked pass Shelby as she made her way out.

Candice grinned then smirked at Ryan, "now that you know what her true opinion is, and how highly you are regarded, in my family I think it would be wise of you to stay away."

"I do not believe all that, you force... "

"Tsk tsk tsk, how pathetic, you think she would have said that if she didn't think so?, what you think do not matter, what matter is the fact and you are a disaster, with you comes the shadow of death, hell without Shelby my whole family would all be dead and I'm glad o inform you Mr pride that I'm done with mass burial in my family." she walked off leaving the rest baffled.

*****

"Shouldn't you be at work by now?" Janice asked as she entered the kitchen, where Candice was already preparing breakfast.

"I quitted."

"No you didn't."

"I'll later today."

"You can't, I..."

"I can and I will."

"Then you shouldn't, we have finally paid of our dept and began savings for the future, we can't go into dept now and if you quit there's a penalty to pay."

"I'll just pay it."

"It will crippled us."

"We will get up."

"Come on, look at me." Janice shove herself between the cooker and Candice.

"You will burn your butt."

"Not If you look at me."

Candice chuckle, switched off the gas, "we've got less than twenty before the squad comes down."

"Then let's make full use of it, we may have less than that, Eden is being mischievous again."

"Great." she sat on the dinning, "No matter what you say, I'm not working for a pride."

"Good thing the airline is owned by Kyle, he isn't a pride."

"He's friends with one."

"Basically, everyone is friends with a pride at the very least, we live in prideville, so of course there's a pride everywhere we turn."

Candice looked away.

"Do you remember what you told me when I found out you were being bullied by your friends in school?"

"What has that got to do with this?"

"You said, the reason you could endure all their taunt is because you have a stronger reason and that's what won't let you quit, you refuse to stop and that's why you are here today."

"I can get a job with another airline."

"I studied the contract, you can't, for the next two years at least."

"Then let's them sue me."

"Candice, does that reason not exist anymore?"

Of course it does, this..."

"Then why can't you endure seeing Kyle a few time, I'm sure you will hardly get to see him, you couldn't recognize him the first time you met and you've been working there for almost a year, so how terrible can it be, the chance of you seeing Ryan is much lesser, he's a road guy, he doesn't really appreciate the air, so why should you give a pride a chance to ruin your future?"

"But..."

"No but." Janice patted her thigh, "eat your breakfast then go, I'll handle the kids."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course, I'm fine."

"But you still cried..."

"More from embarrassment more that anything, you are me spill my gut in front of everyone."

"But you were in his arm."

"He's a very good looking guy."

Candice gagged.

Janice chuckled, "If not that you were impatient, I could have explained to you, he was stalking me and I got tired, so I agree on condition that nothing goes wrong on the date."

"Oh, it's a nice thing I arrived then."

She laughed, "it would have had the same result even without you, there's nothing like a perfect date, especially if a party is looking for excuses."

"O..."

"Mum! Eden stole my blanket." Jayden screamed as the kids made their way down.

"Yeah, that's my cue to leave." Candice went to the children and kiss them before making her exist.

*****

Will walked into the living room to meet Ryan by the bar, he turned to ignored him then rolled his eyes and returned to him, it's been three months since the incidents and Ryan is back to the bottle, the first couple of months had been strictly business, which he liked but now that's the bottle is involved, he doubted he will like the result, he took his seat next to him, "what are you thinking about?"

Ryan looked at him, "sadly you do not approve so leave, like you intend to."

"As much as I would love to leave you alone to wallow in self pity." he shook his head, "that puppy look is getting to me, so I'll listen before my bank balance force me to."

"Fact, I do not understand what happens another fact, I still want her."

"After all she said."

"Yeah." he raised his head, "now that I actually think about it..." he looked at Kyle who was just coming to join them, "what does Candice mean by the shadow of death, and what mass burial?"

"And what Janice said?" Kyle poured himself a drink.

He shrugged, "We were having a nice time, it's was just like old times so frankly I think she said all that because of her spiteful sister."

"Not that, your supposed loss." he sat opposite Ryan.

"I .. I thought about it and the only way I could have loss.. is... If..."

"You are the father of the kids." Kyle volunteered.

"Yeah." Ryan nodded

"That's bullshit." Will stood.

"It's not." Kyle looked at him, "listen, they both claim to be their mothers..." He paused as he waited for Will to take his seat, "but it's illogical that Candice give birth to the children, I checked her resume, she never took a leave of school, if she had the children it would have been when she was in high school and she graduated at the right time but with Janice, if she had the kids, it would have been the last year in college, although she also graduated right, she switched her major from performing arts to structure art."

"Is that possible?"

"She minored in architecture and interior design and apparently she's good, so it was easy, she passes the test and went for it but it cost her a year but she also graduated at the right time."

"So..." Will asked.

"Which is more believable, a 21 year old, pregnant girl switch from performing arts to structure art and got an extra year or a 16 year old sat for her final exam in highschool while pregnant."

"But all these are theories." Will insisted.

"Good thing we have someone close with the eyes witness." Kyle looked at Will.

"Eyewitness... You mean Shelby."

"Yeah, Candice did said she saved their life."

"She won't tell." Will insisted.

"We aren't telling you to outrightly ask her." Ryan said.

"No I can't."

"Are you losing our touch?" Kyle teased.

"No... I can't just..."

"Fine, that leaves a last option." Kyle heaved.

"Which is?" Ryan turned to him.

"You asked Janice yourself."

"How do I do that?, she's never talking to me again, not to mention her lioness of a sister."

"True but we can get round that."

"Then what do they mean by mass burial?" Will asked

The rest turned to him

"What?, That sounds scary." He shrugged.

"Well, beat me too, I don't know who died, do you?" Ryan asked

"No and what does she mean by you are a pride."

Will scoffed, "the pride are asshole family, it's only you guys that aren't ware of that." he stood.

"Where to?" Kyle asked "a date maybe?"

"As if, I'm going to formulate a plan on how to get Janice alone without her tigress of a sister and for the little cubs to be well care for."

Ryan nodded "also I want you to find something for me."

"What is it?" Will asked.

"My brother sold some of prides shares recently but someone else bought it before I could."

"Who will want to buy your run down shares?"

"Yeah, my thoughts exactly."

"Maybe someone without experience, they probably bought it based on name only."

"I thought so two years ago but he shook is head, this is consistent anytime my mum or brother sells their share or any prides share gets sold, for the past two years, someone always gets it before I could, sometimes even before I learn of it."

Will and Kyle shared a look, "you think some me is targeting your family?"

"If it's the same person, then they will have about 40% now."

"Really?"

"Yeah, making them the highest shareholder."

"Wow."

"Well, I'll look into its all." he grinned "I'm just glad Janice have not totally taken control of your brain." he patted his shoulder, "you still have your head in the game bro."

Kyle chuckled.