Chapter 252 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Sup? What is going on? What are you doing here?” Benne asked the moment he stopped the car beside Bryan, and he got into the front seat of the car.

“Are you asking that because you don’t know that Sonia broke up with me and came here to be with Celsie?” Bryan asked, barely able to conceal his annoyance and frustration.

“I’ve been trying to make sense of all that she said but it still doesn’t make any sense to me. Does it make sense that she wants us to stay away from each other until everything is resolved? I tell her that I love her, and she is talking about how she cares about my fucking career,” Bryan said angrily and Benne listened to him without saying a word.

“I’m here to help them resolve things quickly so that I can go back home with my fiancee,” Bryan stated matter of factly as he buckled his seatbelt.

“Does your agency know that you are here?” Benne asked curiously, and Bryan shook his head.

“No, they don’t. They would probably try to stop me if they knew I was coming here after Sonia walked out like that. Not that I care about what they think anyway,” Bryan said dismissively.

If the situation wasn’t serious, Benne would have probably teased him or made jokes about how much he had changed since the last time they met, but he understood Bryan. He knew how he had felt just a moment ago when Celsie asked him to stay away from her. That was something he knew that he wouldn’t be able to do, so he could understand his brother’s action.

“I understand. Have you spoken to mom yet? She has been trying to reach you,” Benne said, and Bryan shook his head.

“I’m not in the mood to talk to her or anyone else. I only turned on my phone to talk to you,” Bryan said as he combed his fingers through his hair in frustration.

This was the thing he hated most about falling in love with someone, having your whole life revolve around them. It was not even up to six hours since she left, yet he had no interest in anything. Nothing seemed to make sense to him since she left. How the fuck did she expect him to live without her until everything was resolved?

After she left him at the game lounge earlier, he had left while Jeff was busy trying to placate the producer who was angry over Sonia’s sudden decision to leave at the final stage of the production. Bryan had taken a cab home, and once he walked into his home and saw how empty the whole place was without Sonia and her stuff in his bedroom, he had known that there was no way he could stay away from her as she had asked him to. No fucking way.

He had immediately ordered a ride that took him to a private airstrip where he hired a private jet that flew him down to Serenopolis so that his agency would not be able to trace his whereabouts. He knew that the CEO of his agency wouldn’t be pleased if he found out that he had left to meet Sonia.

Seeing how lost Bryan looked, Benne patted his shoulder, “You should take it easy on yourself. Everything will be okay,” Benne assured him.

“Yeah. Sure.”

“You want to stay in a hotel or you’re coming home with me?” Benne asked as he turned on the car’s ignition and reversed the car.

“The apartment beside Celsie’s is still yours, right?” Bryan asked hopefully.

“Yeah.”

“Then let’s go there,” Bryan suggested, and Benne spared him a glance only for a moment before giving him a nod.

“What has Celsie got to do with Sonia’s brother?” Bryan asked after a while, wanting to get a clear picture of all that was happening.

Benne took in a deep breath. Although he wasn’t sure if it was in his place to tell Bryan about Celsie’s past, but seeing all that was happening at the moment and how it was also affecting Bryan’s relationship, he felt that Bryan deserved to know since he wasn’t a stranger. Having thought it through, Benne went on to tell Bryan all that he knew about Sonia’s and Celsie’s friendship.

“Damn psychopath!” Bryan muttered under his breath when Benne had finished. He didn’t want to imagine how Celsie must have felt seeing the post, “You’ve made up with Celsie, right?” Bryan asked since Benne was yet to admit to him that Celsie had forgiven him and they were now on good terms.

Benne didn’t see any reason to lie to Bryan anymore so he gave him a nod, “Yeah.”

“Good. Is there anyone you suspect might have done this?” Bryan asked thoughtfully.

“My first guess would be Anita,” Benne said, and Bryan raised a brow.

“Anita? Your ex? Why would she do something like this? Does she know about your identity already?” Bryan asked thoughtfully, and Benne gave him a one-sided shrug.

“I think so. But I don’t have any proof.”

“So why is she your first suspect then?” Bryan asked in confusion.

“Let’s just call it a hunch.”

“I see. I’m still surprised that you didn’t have them take down the post. Why?” Bryan asked since he knew that if he were in Benne’s shoes that was the first thing he would have done even before Celsie finds out about it.

“I wanted to, but Jade said that it would complicate things for Celsie, and suggested that we take it down only after finding the person responsible for the post,” Benne explained.

“I see. So what plans have been put in place to find the person?” Bryan asked impatiently.

“Harry already texted me the details,” Benne informed him, and Bryan picked up Benne’s phone which he knew he always kept in the armrest console of his car while driving.

Once he saw the name and address which was displayed on the phone’s screen he turned to Benne “Why don’t we pay this motherfucker a visit?”

“I think we should let Celsie’s family handle it, and just throw our weight behind them,” Benne said instead. Seeing how Celsie’s parents had traveled down to be with her, he figured it was best he gave them the chance to make the final decision on what should be done.

“It doesn’t stop us from visiting this bastard. I don’t know about you, but I really want to mess this bastard up,” Bryan said with a scowl.

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Since Celsie had just two sofas in her living room, and it couldn’t accommodate all of them, after having dinner they all gathered together in Celsie’s bedroom to talk about the issue that had brought them together. Sonia sat on the chair in front of the dressing table, while Celsie and her family stayed on the bed.

“So what is going on, princess? Do you have any idea who is behind this? Maybe you stepped on the wrong toe?” Celsie’s dad asked her since it was obvious that whoever had done it was specifically targeting Celsie.

Celsie’s thoughts briefly drifted to Anita, but she shook her head, “I don’t know…”

“Surely there must be someone you are suspicious of or is there not?” Her mother cut in, and once again Celsie shook her head.

There was no way she could tell her parents about Anita since she knew them well enough to know that the moment she mentions Anita’s name and explains her connection with her, they were going to ask her to end things with Benne immediately as they wouldn’t want her to get hurt because of a man.

“Are you certain, Celsie? You should talk to us,” Lucas urged her.

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