Chapter 5

Charles approached his mother, and hugged her, while she smiled and said, "Charles... You haven't answered my question yet? I was waiting for you to return home first so that we can have our dinner together as a family."

"Good evening, Mom," Charles greeted his mother, as he walked with her towards the dining room. He replied, "She's the one, Mom, and she's very pretty too."

First Lady Kira smiled, and kept silent as she watched Charles pull a dinner chair outside for her to sit down first. She sat elegantly on the first chair, and continued to watch her handsome son. While Charles sat on the next chair beside her right on the dining table.

"Mom, she's the one, and she's very cute. Where did you see her photo from? I really do like her," Charles said.

First Lady Kira smiled, and watched the maids step out of the kitchen. They walked up to the dining table to serve her dinner, alongside Charles' dinner too on the dining table.

They served the delicious rice and chicken as President Nolan Alejandro wasn't around, and was in a presidential meeting.

"Your father already made it known to some of his cabinet members that he was looking for a bride for you. And to know whom among his members had any pretty daughters that you would like and choose from," First Lady Kira smiled and replied to Charles.

"Hmm, thanks, Mom. I really do like Nancy, but..." Charles' words trailed off, as he remembered how Nancy had run away from him.

His mother asked him, "But what, Charles?"

First Lady Kira frowned as she watched her only son acting nervously. She waited for the maids to finish serving the dinners first, and leave, before she asked, "Charles.. Do you want us to cancel the wedding? As the wedding is in two days' time? And you cannot embarrass your father and me in public, and in front of our prominent guests."

"I know, Mom, but the truth is that Nancy ran away from me when I went to welcome her home for her return to the city and in her family house too." Charles shook his head in embarrassment, as he covered his face with both his palms, on remembering how Nancy had run away from him. But with the way her hips had swayed seductively to his views.

Charles smiled, and didn't know that his mother was glaring at him, as she wasn't finding his revelation funny at all.

She snapped, "What? Charles, how dare you allow Nancy to run away from you? We need to cancel the wedding right now. Didn't her parents inform her that she was going to marry you, and the wedding is the day after tomorrow?"

"No, Mother... You cannot call off the wedding," Charles refuted, and his mother's jaw dropped as she stared at her only son sadly, who has fallen in love with a silly lady.

"Don't tell me that you still want to go ahead and marry that lady who doesn't love you, Charles. I cannot allow that to happen." First Lady Kira added.

"I know, Mother, but you and Father have always wanted me to marry, and now, I cannot change my choice again. As I can understand Nancy's fears... She's getting married to the President's son, so she has to be scared," Charles said, smiling sadly. But his mother shook her head and replied, "No, Charles. She's supposed to be happy with you, for chosen her to become your wife. As any other lady out there would've been excited to become your wife. How dare Nancy run away from you, and you took it lightly with her family? Where's my phone? As I need to get her arrested and deal with her this minute, before throwing her behind bars."

"No, Mother!" Charles snapped, startling his mother, and he said, "You cannot do that. If I don't marry Nancy, then know that I won't marry any other lady too."

"What?" First Lady Kira gasped, her jaw dropped, as she turned speechless, staring at her only son in shock.

She shook her head, and said, "No, Charles. This is not happening... I will find another bride for you to marry, okay? And that's not a problem, as there are many other pretty ladies out there, and also more 'yellow' than Nancy."

Charles replied, "No, Mother. I want Nancy Marlon. I really do want Nancy.. I want to feel her love, her warmth, and I believe that with time, she will love me too."

"Just give Nancy some time, and know that I'm truly in love now," Charles smiled, and surprisingly, his mother the more, whose jaw dropped. She gulped as Charles said, "Let's have our dinners, Mom, before it gets cold."

"Okay, son." First Lady Kira subtly blamed herself in her heart for choosing Nancy's photo first. As she has seen many young women's photos, since every family wanted their daughter to be married to her only son. Even though they ridiculed and wrote nonsense about her family online. It didn't deter them from sending millions of photos to her personal assistant.

First Lady Kira had personally selected Nancy's photo first, the moment her eyes fell on the pretty lady's photos, with the other two young women's photos. As she knew that Charles wouldn't have the time to be going through all the photos to choose a bride... Now she was subtly blaming herself, and wishing in her heart that she had never picked Nancy's photo. As the silly young lady dares and rejected her only son, the most handsome and well-to-do young man in their city. 'If it wasn't that Charles loves women, and he's rumored to be a player, then what would have given the young lady the right to have rejected my only son, and even run away from him?' First Lady Kira sighed heavily, as she thought in her mind, and Charles asked her, "Mom, is everything alright?"

"Yes, Charles," First Lady Kira replied, and thought to inform her personal assistant to place a monitor team on Nancy. As Nancy wouldn't just run away from Charles like that, not underneath her watch.

'I need to do a personal background check on Nancy, to know if she has a secret lover somewhere, as to the reason she rejected Charles.' First Lady Kira thought it in her mind, and sighed. But Charles didn't ask her what was wrong, as they continued eating their dinners silently in the dining hall.

After the dinner session ended, Charles stood up first from the dining chair and set to retire back upstairs to his bedroom. He said, "Good night, Mom."

"Yeah, good night, Charles," First Lady Kira replied, as Charles leaned closer to her and pecked her on her right cheek that was beside him. Before he walked away towards the living room stairs, and climbed on it to go back upstairs to his bedroom.

Charles decided to use the stairs to exercise his mind, and he kept on thinking about Nancy, and why she had run away from him?

Charles stepped into his sitting room first, and walked up to his bedroom. As he stepped into his bedroom, he picked up Nancy's photo that he had kept on the headboard.

Charles kissed Nancy's photo on her pink lips directly that he admires the most, and he said, "So pink and lovely. I cannot wait to have you as my wife, and to be kissing you every time on these beautiful pink lips of yours."

Charles smiled, and kissed Nancy's photo once again, feeling his whole body desiring her.

"But why did she run away from me? Am I ugly now?"

Charles frowned, and walked up to his bedroom mirror to examine his face, as he has short black hair on his head, and his front hair and short beard were neatly shaped, as he's a tall, dark-sknned man.

Charles murmured, "Maybe Nancy doesn't like guys with beards. But she's so beautiful, and I cannot reject her now.. Maybe she has a boyfriend? I'm sure that she must have one."

Charles frowned, as he thought about Nancy having a boyfriend, and her boyfriend being the main reason she had run away from him.

He cursed out, "Nonsense!... Is her boyfriend finer than me? I cannot reject her now, and Mother shouldn't dare to hurt her too. What am I even ranting about?"

Charles walked up to his bed, and picked up his telephone. He placed a call across to Stevo Brights, who was his head security man and very trusted in managing his security affairs for him.

Charles needed Stevo to monitor whatever activities that Nancy was into - her phone calls, her text messages, and to know if she has a boyfriend, that she's probably calling.

"Hello, Stevo," Charles spoke coldly.

"Hello, boss, good evening." Stevo was in the security house inside the Villa. And Charles said, "I want you to hire someone trained in hacking, to monitor and give me 24-hour reports of my chosen bride. I will forward her details to you now. Ensure you should find out what she does, who she calls, and speaks with daily. Is that understood?"

"Yes, boss."

"Anything else that you need me to do for you?" Stevo asked.

"No, that's all," Charles replied, and the phone call ended.

Charles stared back at Nancy's photo that he was still holding in his right hand, and he said, "I cannot wait to have you as my bride, and in just two days' time. You will be mine."