Mummy I got you a new husband

SOPHIE’S POV

I just kept watching the phone ring as I did not know what to say to him. “What am I supposed to say to him.” I wondered as I stared at my phone ring. I decided it was best not to pick it and headed to check on a few things upstairs. Thoughts of how best to handle the situation flooded my mind as I headed upstairs to the room.

I soon got to the room with the phone ringing none stop. I wanted to turn it off but decided against it as I didn’t want to miss any of Karl’s calls in case anything came up.” What was I supposed to do now?” I asked deep in thoughts.

” But it wasn’t a lie.” I mumbled as I thought about everything. He sounded as though I had sold him a story that wasn’t true while that wasn’t the case. it just didn’t pan out as he had expected and even though I had a hand in it, we both benefited mutually from the arrangement.

I was sure he got alot of bonuses and became popular as a result as he was all over town as the famous reporter who had discovered Karl’s divorce. He even told me he was promoted as a result of the story and wouldn’t stop thanking me as at the time which was few days ago. Now that wasn’t the case anymore and it wanted to turn it back on me.

” Eddy is just a greedy fool.” I muttered, when he was enjoying the benefits he didn’t think it was a lie. I sighed and decided it was best to ignore him.

“When he is tired, he would stop calling.” I said again as I glare at nothing in particular, trying not to worry about Eddy’s calls.

All I did was for my daughter and I did what I had to do. I said to myself when I thought about my hand in all of this. I told him to leak the news about Karl divorce.

When I found out his wife left him, I was shocked to my bones. Karl wanted me to know everything there was to know about playing the role Clarie, his ex wife and I guess that was why he stated this reasons for the marriage.

When Karl was proving adamant after I had chased him earlier, I decided to use it to my own advantage by selling the story to make some extra money.

After selling the story to Eddy, I came up as Karl rescue at the office. Karl couldn’t say no to signing the contract after what I did.

Eddy’s payment for the story had helped with all the glamour I pulled at Karl office even though it wasn’t enough. I reassuring myself again hat what had happened wasn’t one big of a deal, since we both benefitted. I decided i was not letting his issues bother me any further.

I was just about to block his number so he would stop calling me when a message came in from Eddy. I wanted to delete it but decided to check what it was about first.

” Karl is suing my company for defamation and I just lost my job. I am headed to Karl Rutherford and I will expose you telling him all the rumors was you and that my company was misled, maybe then he would drop the case.” As I read his message, my hands shivered in fright and I could barely hold my legs. Karl couldn’t hear that I told everyone about the divorce. That would ruin everything.

“This cannot be happening” I mumbled as I paced about. I was restless and didn’t know how and what to do about the message I just received from Eddy.” No Eddy, you can’t do this!!” I took a deep breath, trying to steady my trembling hands. I dialled his number and Eddy didn’t pick up, I tried repeatedly but the phone just kept ringing.

” You fool!!! Pick up the damn phone.” I yelled at my phone and dropped it out of frustration as Eddy wasn’t picking up.

The weight of Eddy’s threat hung heavy in the air, and I knew I had to act quickly. With each passing moment, the walls felt like they were closing in on me. i decided to act fast before Eddy ruined everything I worked so hard for. Gathering my courage, I dialed Karl’s number and waited anxiously for him to pick up.

“Hello?” Karl’s voice came through the other end of the line, filled with a mix of surprise and annoyance.

“Karl, emh Sir ” I began, my voice shaking slightly. “I need to talk to you. It’s important.” I added and there was a brief pause before he responded cautiously, “Alright, Sophie. What is it?”

Taking a deep breath, I thought of something that would make him head home immediately at least that would give me enough time to figure out what to do.

” Someone just broke into the house.” I mouthed as I faked tears crying uncontrollably on the phone. ” How is that even possible?” He asked not wanting to believe me. ” So you think I will lie about such a thing? I replied being defensive, I am not sure but someone definitely tried to open the safe in the room.” I added, I had seen the safe when I was cleaning this morning and I knew telling him that will make his rush home so that Eddy would not meet him in the office.

” Did you call 911?” He asked me agigated someone must have gotten to his safe. ” I didn’t call I just called you first so you would know what to do.” I added.

” Alright, let me call the police. What about the security at the house.” He asked and I told him I didn’t know where they were.”

” So you are all alone at the house? This is strange. Are you sure someone broke in?” He asked me again.

” Come see for yourself then, I guess they are all in on it. Since you think I am lying.” I said and “Who is in on what.” He asked ” just come home and see for yourself, I need to be careful, I am sure they have left. I had to sneak to call you.” I responded and ended the call. As I dropped the call, I wondered if he believed me and decided this plan of mine wasn’t going to work.

I called Eddy back and he eventually picked. I was happy and hoped I would be able to get through to him so we could talk first before he ran his mouth spilling everything to Karl.

” Hello Eddy, am sorry for my response but it wasnt a lie.” I said to him. He was so angry with me and didn’t want to listen. ” Then what was it? He asked me and as I tried to explain he cut me short again.

” I just lost my career thanks to you, you have to fix this by coming with me so we could apologise to Mr Karl.” He mouthed and I guess I didn’t have a choice but to agree to his demands.

” I will. Where do we meet so we can go together?”I asked him and he said we should meet at his house first. I obliged and hurried to pick my purse and head to Eddy house.

” What if Karl returned, what would happen then if he didn’t find me at home?” I muttered as I got downstairs after grabbing my purse.

” Should I call him again.” I thought unsure about what to do about the situation. An idea came to mind and I guess it was just perfect. I hurried along.

” I need to do this and now too.” I mumbled hurrying out of the house.