Ronaldo's wife to be.

Chapter 10

Ronaldo turned and, Charlotte was standing in Infront of him, smiling and inspecting him up and down.

" What's wrong with you, why discuss our issues with your servant and you call yourself a leader?" Charlotte snickered.

Ronaldo realized his mouth was still open, and he closed it," Woman take your unappreciative soul out of my face, I do not want to see you," He hissed, Rocky disappeared and sat at a distance.

" After that tremble, even your eyes can speak, you need me right ?" Charlotte teased when she was met with such an awkward tone.

" Especially after that tremble and quit placing your tiny fingers in my body," Ronaldo shouted, he was not ready to be intimidated by Charlotte, a moment ago he was hating on her and liked the phenomenon that was his extraordinary agony was over and here he was, just a mere touch and his whole body is on fire.

" I think it's a bad moment, it's lunchtime aren't you eating," Charlotte asked, she was been chased out of his presence but her ego won't allow it, she wants to flee on her own accord, Why is he so mad at me? how many faces do human beings have, this is a smiling devil but today the devil is burning, and last night he was a committed lover, with sweet caring words, soft caresses and hot coupling.

Charlotte purposefully took his hand, and rubbed slightly on his knuckles with her lips and then he pulled him closer and said " You are handsome when angry?".

" Not the most coherent or polite greetings, he has received this morning," There was a kind of phoniness when she used those words like she was enjoying what her presence was doing to him.

That is exactly what Charlotte liked to feel over a man she needed a man she could control, a man who was weaker than her no wonder she felt threatened every time Ronaldo spoke with authority why is it that she wants to prove her superiority to Ronaldo?

" You know very well who I am, " Ronaldo fixated his foxy eyes on her, trapping her in his gaze, when he knew he had her he said," Can you sit down and order we all know lunch is never served at Mandani's, so you are out here to intimidate me?".

" Is it working ?".

" What's Working?".

" The intimidation?".

" Ah, am a lion and roar when necessary, you know that already?" Ronaldo spoke Formally hiding his quivers like a porcupine trying to hide its visible quills.

" Where is this Empire of yours in case I want to visit," Ronaldo asked sitting opposite her

" It lies north of here, a few kilometres in the interior, we deal with conventional stuff, we have a school, we teach skills from a young age, so we produce a lot of cotton, and use it to yield cotton products," Charlotte said excitedly.

" Products mean what ?" Ronaldo asked.

" Dressmaking, clay pots and pans, drawings, art and design, beadwork, carvings, Mosaic such things, we inherited that from our forefathers," Charlotte clarified.

" Is it not our Grandmothers?" Ronaldo hissed, he was aware of a certain force between them, this force today it's making him vulnerable to this woman but he will stand strong like the man he is.

" I guess it is!".

" Ours is only farming, we supply the city and hotels with enough food through the year,?" Ronaldo said vaguely.

" How productive is that ?"

" Am an engineer, ask that Jealous Jack, I studied structural engineering in school, and I have turned my Empire into a machine world, we plant using machines,h harvest park press, everything," Ronaldo said, his body calming down after taking him into a marathon of nerves tightening.

"So what's the work of the people present in the Empire," Charlotte asked, She felt intimidated again, she never went to school, she learnt in the Empire, the basic skills her mother taught her and the couching her dead grandmother gives her every time she asks for help.

"Now I understand why my grandmother is so desperate to make sure that I marry this guy, I live in a world where technology is the main thing but the kind of things that are done in my Empire are hand skills, I am comfortable with that, we produce and sell and get enough money to take care of everyone inside the empire but I feel inferior I have never been into school, a real school that is, I do not know how to write well but I can speak good English, I can order people around and I can rule so I wonder if it matters or not, "Charlotte thought furrowing her eyes and her face turning into folds, she was in deep thought.

Ronaldo tried to talk to her but she was in her world whatever she had gotten lost in Wonderland it was deep and serious for even after snapping his fingers in front of her face, she was still not bulging she sat there distant, with a big scowl on her forehead saying nothing.

Ronaldo thought of shaking her, to bring he back to the moment, or from Whatever she had engaged her mind with, but he hesitated and decided against it, he didn't want to touch her, His body was normal now and maybe after touching her it will get back to that burning feeling and he can't take it yet,

It was already sunny and very hot, the sun was up in the sky, after the rains and that chilly cold last night, were it not for the AC and the fans inside the hall they could be sweating due to the heat, why add more heat in the body by touching the live wire she was full of electricity and the electrons she sent to Ronaldo's body were damaging.

" I will just sit here and wait for you to come back from wherever you are, what did I say that got you into that state?" Ronaldo asked loudly pulling on his imaginary moustache, he touched his cheeks and pulled on them like he was pinching them.

" what are you doing to yourself? can't you see you already turned red, look around you people have started coming out of their rooms, it is time to act professionals remember we are leaders," Charlotte said shrugging her shoulders and smiling

" So you just got out of dreamland and you dare to tell me to act like a leader? did you see yourself statuette there like a ghost even though your eyes are not blinking," Ronaldo replied this time patting his cheeks.

" So can I pass by your Empire after this, I want to learn a few things," Ronaldo took the conversation to its previous flow.

" No, you can't ?".

" Why, as I told you before we can benefit each other in many ways," Ronaldo insisted.

" I do not think my grandmother would want to change how the Empire works," Charlotte replied.

" Is she not dead ?".

" My grandmother might be dead and buried but she rules from her grave," Charlotte tried with a cold emotion.

" And how is that possible? ," Ronaldo asked deliberately, he needed to know, He was aware of her necromancy but how did it come to be?

" Because both my parents are dead and she does not trust my uncle's, so before I took over, she came to my dreams and told me of her intentions and from then, on that's how it is," Charlotte said.

" That's weird, how does that make you feel as a ruler?" Ronaldo asked with a clipped tone.

" Strong and powerful, she is my strength, She is better in advice than my older servant," Charlotte sneered,

" She can't be like your servant or have an obvious, I would like to know about mine, she died here you know ?" Ronaldo said sadly.

" Why you n ver knew her ?"

" No I just came to the Empire five years ago, I lived in the neighbouring land, " Ronaldo let out.

" Your father died a long time ago, who was running your Empire ?" Charlotte gasps in surprise.

" Mandani course, he has been a family lawyer, before I was born," Ronaldo explained

She held his gaze steadily and Ronaldo saw the gleam of victory and smugness in her greenish eyes, She thought with this information she could scare him away, But he had not told it all yet, she had nothing on him, He grinned in the very essence of a predatory and his expression could tell it all, all that narcissism as defined by his chin.

" How about you for how long have you been in the Empire and when did your parents die?" Ronaldo had asked, swirling his burgundy-looking liquid in his glass, He wanted to give the whiskey one swallow but he kept turning it around in his glass.

" All my life," and she flicked a glance at his glass.

" And ?".

" Why not swallow the whiskey, you giving me jitters by twirling your glass again and again !" Charlotte roared with an iconic cold and authoritative aura.

" So we are done meddling with each other's personal life huh," Ronaldo asked, gulping his drink.

" That's enough for today, w can sit here and be quiet, it's better to han going back to that Mandani's table," Charlotte threw a questioning look towards the Mandani table, Jack said with Jenny but all his attention and stare were directed to these two leaders.

" How was your that imbecile back in school and what did he study for God's sake," Charlotte exclaimed.

" First he is a man and deserves a little respect, He might be your suitor too, so learn to deal with it," Ronaldo's heart ached when he said those words.

"Maybe my foreman in one of the projects, down and Nimbus, Granny can do better than that," Charlotte chirmed in brutally.

" I come in peace," He gave out his son a sunshine smile.

The smile he gave him was ageless, and the cadence of her voice changed to this softness," It's horrific, thinking of the Idris Empire and Jack together, I would die before my time," Charlotte teased or was it sarcasm?

" I thought you said you would follow whatever grannie says, and you must obey, she is your guide and your mentor, if there is a phrase about Marriage and you are tied to him,won't you obey ?" Ronaldo glared at her coldly. am kind of thinking maybe she has been bestowed to him, that's why he is confident of saying nobody else.

" Even if it says I marry you, I won't, matters of the heart remain my choice," She snarled anger feeling her face.

" No no no, don't be angry I like that face in its usual colour please," Ronaldo shouted as his cheeks turned pale.

" I have had a few suitor's in my life, thrown on my side by my uncle George, so he could get me married off and continue ruling the Empire, With my Grandmother's help nothing worked, even Jack himself," Charlotte flinched slightly.

" How did your people behave when they learned the legend helps you out ?" Ronaldo asked.

" All those offers dissolved like a must in a strong breeze, no man would get closer to m, I showed them I was made of steel and brass and am not brittle, I can't break !" Her words were harsh.

" How did you do it ?".Ronaldo asked not bothered by the scare, she chose him over all those suitors to take her virginity so she must have seen something in him that she never saw in all of them

" I told them that grandma will turn them into spirits f they dare touch or talk to me ?" She laughed softly.

" They believed that ?" Ronaldo stared coldly with malice.

" Don't you believe it ?".

" Hahaha, No I don't, it doesn't even make sense!" Ronaldo exhaled sharply.

" I hate that arrogance in you, damn, you are soo ruthless, can't you agree and make me triumph," Charlotte asked in desperation.

" In your weakness, you build your strengths, Miss Idris but I can't lie to make you win," Ronaldo pointed out blankly.

" That's why I can't agree to my Grandmother's will, I need a person who believes in me, Not some annoying jerk," Charlotte thought as she stared blankly in Infront of her

" you are a bad person?".

" Why because am truthful and not offended by your theories," Ronaldo trailed off nervously and she tensed.

" Offended how? I need you to even congratulate me and tell me how special I am, how many women leaders have you heard of?" Charlotte asked

" How can I do something that you don't want, every word I say to you is like a threat, I have seen you change from pale to tomato red and for what, kind words are thrown your way ?" Ronaldo scoffed and plastered a smile.

" It's time to ask for a double shot of whiskey, you have started overthinking again," Charlotte said folding her hands in Infront of her chest.

" You think so," He asked.

" I hate men who can only be calmed down by alcohol," Charlotte said, sighed and then rolled her eyes, Ronaldo stared at her and said nothing, then at the same time, they stood up and walked in different directions.