Evicted

The following day, S’bu arrived to tell Thandi to move out of the mansion. He wanted Jane and his biological child to be raised in that mansion. He painfully ignored Sipho who was very excited to see him, breaking Thandi’s heart.

“You can move into any of the other houses”he suggested.

Thandi had no energy to argue with S’bu and decided to give him whatever he wanted. As long as she had her son and daughter, she did not care about anything else anymore. S’bu left Thandi to pack her stuff and could not help feeling like he was crossing a line but he had already promised Jane the mansion and had to continue with the plan.

Thandi, Amahle and Sipho walked into woman sanctuary. This was a secret location that provided sanctuary to abused woman and women who needed protection from their spouses or partners. They were given a simple two bedroom house with basic amenities, new devices and anything that could be used to track them was destroyed.

“I know this is not what you are used to but it will give me a chance to plan our future”Thandi said to Amahle.

“I don’t care where we stay or where we go, as long as we are together”Amahle said hugging her.

“How did you become so wise at such a young age”Thandi asked her daughter, impressed by the way she has been handling everything that has been happening.

“My Mom is the strongest and wisest person I know and I learned from her”Amahle responded.

Thandi laughed. Amahle was very good with words. Something Thandi was sure she inherited from her Father.

In the afternoon when S’bu went back to the mansion, the maid told him that Thandi had left and asked her to give him the keys. Thandi had only taken her, Amahle and Sipho’s clothes and left everything else behind. S’bu walked around the mansion that was once filled with love and laughter and suddenly felt very lonely. He looked at the portraits of their life, how happy they all looked. He stood in front of Thandi’s photo and looked at it for a long time. “Why did you do this to us?” he asked, his heart breaking. Next he went upstairs to what use to be their bedroom. Flooded by memories of them together, he could not hold his tears back anymore. He realised when he received a call from his PA that he had been in a daze for two hours.

“Do you have the results?” he asked.

“Yes Sir” Mike said. “He is yours Sir, it’s a 99.9 percent match” he added confidently.

“Are you sure?” S’bu asked.

“It was run three times Sir”Mike said.

“Cancel all my meetings, I’m going out of town”S’bu said.

“Will you be back on time to meet with Black Widow?” Mike asked. Black Widow was an IT genius that S’bu and G had used in the past to track Mr J’s blackmailer. S’bu had arranged a meeting with him that afternoon.

“Give him all the information to start working, I will be back as soon as I can”he said.

“Yes Sir”Mike responded.

S’bu ran out of the mansion and drove as fast as he could heading towards Hope city. He ignored multiple calls from Jane. At that moment, Jane was the last person he wanted to talk to. Three hours later, he was pacing up and down the hospital corridor. The theatre door opened, Menzi and Doctor Dube came out chatting happily. S’bu knew Doctor Dube well, she was the Obstetrician and Gynaecologist that delivered Sipho. Menzi whispered something to Doctor Dube who started blushing. To S’bu the two looked very intimate.

“Menzi”S’bu called.

Menzi recognised the voice and turned around wandering why S’bu was there.

“Can we talk?” S’bu asked.

“I have nothing to say to you” Menzi said walking away from him. He felt betrayed by S’bu, someone who was once closer to him than anyone. Not only did he loose his job, he also lost his family and identity because of him.

“Sipho is mine, I have a DNA confirmation” S’bu shouted, stopping Menzi at his tracks.

“Off course, he is” Menzi said uninterested.

“Then why did you claim him as yours?” S’bu asked.

‘I never did, just like I never had an affair with your wife”Menzi snapped at him. “Jealousy has blinded you and you have destroyed everything that use to matter to you.”

“I just want the truth”S’bu said.

“Deep down you know the truth”Menzi said walking away.

S’bu drove back to JC where he found Mike and Black Widow in his office restless, worry written all over their faces.

“What is it?” he asked.

“Sir, you need to sit down” Mike suggested.

“Thandi and Menzi never had an affair” S’bu said sitting down.

“You know?” Mike asked puzzled.

“I went to see Menzi today, I have known him all my life and I can tell when he is lying. The question is why would Jane do this?” he asked sitting down.

“We have the answer to that” Black Widow said turning his laptop towards S’bu.

“Do you recognise these two?” Black Widow asked.

“That’s Jane and her brother Vusi” S’bu had met Vusi a multiple times in Jane’s apartment and has even asked him to arrange with their family a date for Jane’s lobola negotiations.

“How about these?” Black Widow asked, showing him another photo.

“That’s Pretty and Sivu” he said disgusted. Pretty was Thandi and Mandy’s friend in high school that had a huge crush on him. She had shamelessly seduced him, secretly recorded them having sex and used that video to blackmail him. She demanded a large sum of money when he refused to make her his girlfriend. When he refused to pay, she released the video leading to his first break up with Thandi. In retaliation he had released her naked photos, called her a prostitute on social media and has never heard from her since.

Sivu was a guy that hated him so much that he abducted and attempted to rape Thandi. He was arrested and sentenced two years in prison. He also had not heard of him since.

“Pretty and Sivu have been lovers since then. Ten years ago, they had plastic surgery and came back here with new identities” Black Widow said.

“They came back for revenge as Jane and Vusi” Mike said.

“Menzi was right, I was blinded by jealousy, I walked into a trap and I let my enemies destroy everything that mattered” S’bu said.

“There is something else and I think we should call the Police” Mike said looking at Black Widow.

“Sivu is an IT specialist like me, I have cracked his code. It was very easy for him to create the videos and photos that you saw of your wife and your brother. We have proof that he hacked Menzi’s account before your son’s birthday” Black Widow stopped and looked at Mike signalling him to continue.

“You tell him” Mike said looking at Black Widow, unwilling to be the one breaking the news to his boss.

“Tell me what?” S’bu asked getting agitated.

“He has your Father and G, we have their location. There’s also this” Black Widow said showing S’bu his laptop again.

“Years ago you disrupted his plans when you saved Thandi. He has not given up on the idea and has been stocking her for a long time now. It seems he has added Amahle to his wish list too” Mike explained.

S’bu looked at several photos Sivu took of Thandi and Amahle wearing different bikinis at the swimming pool in the mansion. It was clear that he has been stocking Thandi and Amahle. “He is a freak!” he said, clenching his fists. He stood up, took out his gun from the safe and loaded it. “Give me his location” he demanded. It was time to get rid of Sivu once and for all.

“Sir the place has cameras all over, he will see you coming and we don’t know how many people are with him. We should call the Police” Mike suggested, panicking.

S’bu took out his phone and sent a message to Jobe man. “Don’t worry about Police kid, we are way bigger than them. You work on disabling the cameras then find Thandi and my children” he commanded, leaving the office.

Menzi was having an indoor picnic with Joy. He had spent the whole day preparing and making sure that everything was perfect.

“So, Doctor Dube, have you thought about my request?” he asked charmingly.

“Why do you insist on calling me Doctor Dube when I don’t call you Doctor Jobe?” she asked, changing the subject.

“That’s because I find it sexy” he said with a husky voice, making Joy blush.

“You can’t run away from this forever. Anyone can see that we are crazy about each other, with our baby on the way, it just makes sense to get married now” he said.

“I love you with all my heart but I saw first hand how Thandi has been outcasted and persecuted. Honestly, I am terrified of marriage now” Joy confessed. Menzi was still thinking about Joy’s response when his phone vibrated. He looked at it and stood up abruptly.

“I have to go, S’bu has the location of Mr J and G. The family needs me” he said opening his safe and taking out his gun.

“Your family disowned you” remember? Joy reminded him.

“Families fight, we say mean things to each other, we hurt each other but we remain family” he said.

“Family accused you of something you did not do, family assaulted you, family got you fired and family disowned you” she reminded him. Joy could not believe that one message from the Jobe family would make Menzi forget everything they did to him.

“Yes they did, but they remain my family” he said.

“Menzi!” she exclaimed.

“When we get married, you will also be my family. We may fight and hurt each other but we will always be there to make up because family is forever” he said kissing her forehead and left.