NOVEL WEB Chapter 15: Arrival
After attending a wild party with some of her rich friends, Gwen was picked up from the club by her supposedly caring sister's husband.
Since it was already too late to drive down to the Shawls' mansion and disturb the peace of the resting family, Jerry took Gwen to his matrimonial home, where they spent the night getting drunk and engaging in their immortality.
By the following morning, the couple were completely exhausted from a wild and erotic night, as they lay on the bed, nude and snuggled in each other's arms.
It was already 9:00 AM when Jerry awoke to a disturbing knocking on his bedroom door.
Yawning, he stretched out his lazy arm, before tapping on Gwen's shoulder.
"Babe, someone is at the door. I have to go get it."
"Mmmm....." Gwen replied sleepily tightening her hold around his bare chest.
"Babe..." Jerry nuzzled her slightly reddened ears, making her giggle slightly.
"It should be one of the servants," Gwen said raising her face to receive a deep kiss from her lover. "Ignore them. I want to remain in bed with you for the next three hours."
The knocking grew louder but neither of the love-drunk couple made any move to answer the door.
"Three hours." Jerry arched his brow. "You do know we have a business to run, right?"
"Which one?" Gwen scoffed.
"LiLa Savvy," Jerry said stroking her blonde extension.
"Oh, that..." She hissed rolling her eyes. "I can't wait for us to sell that piece of crap. I'm already tired of the routine business meetings and daily operations. It's simply too stressful. A super rich babe like me doesn't need to work.."
"Patience my love." Jerry kissed her on the lips trailing the kisses to her neck. "We need the right investor to buy that gold mine."
"Oh baby, it tickles..." Gwen was in the process of giggling when she heard her mother's angry voice booming from outside the bedroom door and the banging grew super loud as if the door was about to come up its hinges.
"Mum... F**k!" Gwen speedily jumped out of the bed scrambling around the room for her clothes which were littered on the floor.
They had both been so drunk the previous nights and had switched off their mobile phones, unaware of the several people trying to reach them.
"What the hell is your mom doing here?" Jerry scrambled out of the bed and quickly picked up his sweatpants lying on the couch.
"How am I supposed to know?" Gwen held her clothes, bag, and shoes to her naked chest as she hurried towards the bathroom. "Tell her I'm not here." She said before shutting the door and locking it from inside.
"Shit!" Jerry put on his pants and hurried to the door, guilt written all over his face.
"Gwen, you better come out of that room this instant if you don't want me to break down this door," Regina yelled from behind the door while banging angrily at it.
"F**k!" Jerry cursed under his breath as he slowly unlocked the door while pretending to yawn.
"Mum, good..."
"Where is my daughter?" Regina angrily cut him off. She pushed past him and entered his bedroom, her vicious glares almost giving him a heart attack.
"Your daughter?" Jerry scratched his ruffled hair pretending to be confused by her question. He discharged the gawking maid standing by the door and closed it.
Scrutinizing the messy bed, and the emptied bottle of champagne with two wine glasses on the floor, Regina turned her lethal gaze to her supposed son-in-law.
"Jerry don't play hide and seek with me." She wagged her forefinger threateningly at him. "I am at my wit's end. Where is Gwen?"
"Mom, Gwen is not here." Jerry's twitching eyes betrayed his gentle words.
Regina's inflamed eyes scanned Jerry from head to toe, sending a chill down his spine.
"But the bulge in your sweatpant says otherwise." Regina spat out, causing Jerry's face to reddened with embarrassment.
He involuntary cupped his exposed dignity, while scowling at his mother-in-law for being so shameless.
"What is this nut case doing? Regina was more infuriated than ever., Her knuckles were still hurting from knocking excessively. "What do you think you have that I haven't seen before? Those oversized dangling cannon between your thighs?"
"Regina!" Jerry's eyes flashed with rage.
"Jerry!" Regina shot back at him. "Are you aware that you and my daughter are currently the trending topic in town? Weren't you two supposed to keep this thing under control pending when we were sure that Amelia was no more? How could you two be this reckless?"
The lock to the bedroom door clicked and Gwen stepped out already dressed, her eyes widened in shock. All this while, she had her ears glued to the door listening to her mother's conversation.
"What are you talking about, mom?"
"Yes, mum, what trending news are you talking about?" Jerry moved over to his bed and sat down, placing a pillow on his crotch to keep his perverted mother-in-law's eyes away from it
"So you finally decided to come out of hiding, huh?" Regina turned to face her daughter, hands akimbo.
"Oh Mom, don't be too dramatic. We just had a couple of wine and sex. What's new?" Gwen rolled her eyes at her mother, hissing.
"What's new?" Regina's face was etched with a blend of fury and bewilderment. She had to stifle her ire to refrain from slapping her daughter. "Haven't you both seen the trending news on social media?"
"What news?" Both of them chorused.
Regina brought out her phone and opened her Twitter account, "This news." She pointed her phone to her daughter's face.
Gwen's widened eyes almost popped out of her socket as her gaze fell on her mother's phone screen.
"Babe, what's the matter?" Jerry forgot about his treasured dignity as he rushed to Gwen's side to see what was rendering her speechless.
"What the hell!" His jaw dropped, almost touching the floor. "How...who...when did this happen?"
"This is no time to ask stupid questions, Jerry. My daughter's image is on the line and you better fix it. Find out who is responsible for spying on you two before it's too late" Regina hissed turning to Gwen.
"And as for you, your father is very angry."
"Shit!" Gwen lifted her hand to hold her aching head, anger slowly sipping through her veins.
"He wants you to return home this instant and explain yourself. If you hadn't switched off your phone, you would have known that we have all been trying to reach you since 7:00 AM. Your nana and your uncles are currently on their way to the mansion. We better leave now before they get there."
Regina didn't wait for Gwen to respond as she grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her out of the room.
While the Shawls in collaboration with the Morgan family were busy trying to address the ongoing scandal, someone alerted the press that an influential celebrity was arriving at the airport in less than an hour.
Consequently, different journalist from varying media companies stormed the airport in their number with their cameras, in readiness to capture this unnamed celebrity.
At exactly, 12: 05 PM, a luxury white Private jet touched down at the Brox international airport.
"She's here." Someone shouted, pointing at the white private jet.
Instantly, all the camera lights were turned on as the journalist and their cameramen hurried to the barricaded position, their electronic devices in the air.