©️ Opeyemi Akintunde
“What do you mean I can not have her?” the man was shouting at Paul in his Executive suite.
He had been asking for Joy for three days and Loveth had told him she was unavailable as she had fallen ill. Loveth told him he could pick from any of them.
“You gave me a choice and I made my choice” he had told Loveth.
“We didn’t envisage her falling ill Sir.”
“Well, tell her to get well soon, it shouldn’t take her two days to recover. I will be waiting for her” The Guest had stormed out of the reception the morning after he had lodged. He had told Loveth he wanted Joy for the night after his day’s work, but Loveth had replied that Joy wasn’t coming to work because of an illness.
Two days had passed, and Loveth didn’t envisage the guest looking through his window and seeing Joy cleaning the pool area. Paul had walked in at that very moment and the guest had accused him and the others for trying to play a smart one on him.
“I thought she was sick”
“Erm.. Yes… She just resumed work this morning”
“That’s a lie, I have been seeing that person cleaning that place for the past three days but I never really looked closely”
“Boss, we are sorry we lied. We don’t want trouble for you. The truth is you can’t have her”
“What do you mean I cannot have her?” the guest shouted at Paul in his bedroom. “That was the basis for getting a room here. Listen if that girl does not come to my room this instant, I will check out of this hotel and I will get my money back in full.” The guest said.
Paul knew he meant every word he spoke.
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“There is big problem ooo!” Paul said on getting to the reception.
“What?” Ayo asked
“The Guest wants to check out?”
That got the attention of the girls. Paul recounted all that happened.
“This girl is truly a witch” Jessica said out loud…
They heard approaching footsteps, they knew it had to be Israel, the manager. Everyone moved back to their posts.
“Loveth!” Israel shouted as he approached the reception. He noticed the others were returning to their duty posts…
“No, all of you, come back here”
“The guest called my office…” Israel was saying…
Loveth eyed Paul. He was the one in charge of removing the manager’s phone number from the rooms. The hotel pasted the number of the manager on the fridge in case any guest wanted to speak to the manager directly.
“He was saying something about entertainment package… Paul don’t tell me you are doing your package here with just one guest”
“Manager, I can explain”
“You had better, because your sack letter is waiting on my system, I just need to print it out” Israel threatened
“We are all involved ooo Manager, You will need to print out a lot of copies…” Paul said pointing at Loveth, Ayo, Irene and Jessica…
“I am not involved ooo” Ayo denied
“Are you not our Valuer? Were you not the one who told us his worth?”
“Paul, will you start talking or I go print out the letter…?”
Paul poured out everything right from Denrele’s episode till the present day…
They were all expecting the Manager to begin to scream, but all he asked was…
“Is he ready to Pay the N500,000 for the entertainment package?”
Everyone exchanged looks.
“He didn’t argue it, His shoes look like he can afford it, besides I saw his folder this morning, I think he is the one overseeing the short bridge that is been constructed at Solar Junction” Ayo the Valuer said as a matter of fact.
“Where is Joy? Get her for me” Israel said.
To be continued…
