Standing at the entrance of a partially closed door while busy listening to the voices inside, when his eyes darted over his shoulder, on Bob Lee and friends they landed. Neither did Marlon hear nor sense their approach.
"Oh, sorry we startled you!" Bob Lee said to him.
A plastic smile on his face, holding a bunch of fresh red flower roses in hand that he brought to gift Nadia, "I... am, I'm sorry this is not the right room am supposed to be," in a shameful voice, Marlon immediately gave excuse.
Then he turned to disappear in the opposite direction.
But, due to the guilty trip readings written on his face, one of Bob Lee's friends was eager to question his gesture. He put his emphasis on the red flower roses.
"Hey dude, that bouquet in hand!" Out loud, giving Bob Lee and other guys a thought to consider, he blurted.
Suddenly Marlon's shoulders tensed, but he quickly relaxed.
Bob Lee discontentedly looked at the flowers in this stranger's hand which was exactly the type his wife Nadia Browne adored so much to smell. Immediately, a quick memory of how his wife starts her day every day at home when she wakes up clicks.
In their wide fresh bed Nadia Browne opens her eyes to bright sun rays from the window. She throws covers off her body to welcome a new day. The first routine she does when she puts her feet on the floor is to stand up and walk in that direction towards the window where there are fresh flower roses in a vase, and inhales their scent so deep with her eyes closed, feeling it too deep inside, and a bright smile displays on her face as she opens her eyes again.
"Wait, those flowers!" With a keen eye on the rose flower bouquet, "are you sure they don't belong to my wife inside the room?" Bob Lee questioned Marlon Inquisitively.
However, he had never seen Marlon before and to him, this was just a stranger holding rose flower bouquet he was looking at.
From one man to another, at tension, Marlon moved his eyes. He realised they were five faces of healthy bodied good looking young men, well dressed in casual suits, seriously looking at him.
Knowing very well deep within that he was an adulterer, which was a grave digging habit just in case he got caught, Marlon raised his hand overhead in gesture of being harmless and innocent.
"Hey men, listen..." Scared and stuck, Marlon found himself on the verge of wanting to give an explanation.
"No, you listen!" Talking tough instinctively, Bob Lee stepped forward, closing the gap. "Why do I feel like you're her to visit a patient inside this room, you know her?"
Trapped, Marlon became speechless. Amid starting to question his suspicious presence, all over a suddenly the next door opened and here walked out a doctor.
Unexpectedly to the doctor, when she saw good looking guys standing right where she was going to pass, she immediately smeared an attractive smile and asked, "am I missing some sort of party guys?"
With a hospitable smile at them, the doctor asked as she found her way past the guys.
"Damn, you're gorgeous doc!" Stubbornly blurted, one of Bob Lee's friends.
Immediately, Marlon saw an opportunity that he couldn't miss to use. "Excuse me doc," he came after the doctor saying, "um... am looking for..." pretending to say something, hence escaping the fix of men in casual suits who were hungry for his energy.
"Hey dude, come back! We still got an unfinished business..." Bob Lee yelled at him to come back.
But accordingly, on Marlon's mind was a well stipulated story about how he sneaked under Bob Lee's garden and harvested some honey which was only supposed to be harvested by Bob Lee.
In other words, Marlon had sex with his ex girlfriend who was now officially a married woman to Bob Lee. And his aim this time round he wanted to win her back as a lady who has ever loved him truly.
Marlon, with only one chance remaining that Bob Lee had no idea about this unforgivable crime, all he did was to dart his head over his shoulder and continued to walk away, along with the doctor shoulder to shoulder, finding his way out of these guys sight.
"Trust me, you see that dude right there, he's not straight," Said one of Bob Lee's friends as they all kept their eyes following him.
"You right, I smelt a rat in his conduct."
As they all had their eyes on the Marlon, on a serious note, one friend of Bob Lee tapped his and back said, "I still thinking of having some private phyisic with that doctor."
He drifted their mind to a new topic and this is when their serious faces vanished, replaced by laughter and smile accordingly.
Since they were buoyant in hospital premises in a joyful visit, rejoicing the return from coma of their friend's wife Nadia Browne, it got so easy for them to shift their mind to a different direction, hence forgetting all about Marlon, a stranger they've never met before.
"The last thing I knew, you're married with two kids!" Bob Lee said to his friend who had his eyes on the doctor.
"Last thing I knew, Ishtar never gave you a divorce but with your money, here you're in another marriage with Nadia Browne!" He stretched a reply with widely open eyes in his face.
"I think we've taken too long out here, lets get back to business," said Bob Lee, laughing the reply off.
"Why laugh now...?! Is it a laughing matter...? No, tell me...! Come on, what's that laughter for....?" All the other buddies laughed at him, while he felt small over Bob Lee's response which showed less concern.
"Let's get out of here..." Bob Lee laughed more as he led the way, entering inside the patient room where his wife Nadia Browne was.
Inside, Sonia and Nadia Browne had already sensed the presence of motion at the room entrance and immediately they cut their talk short. When Bob Lee and his buddies got in, both Sonia and Nadia Browne's faces were smeared with plastic smiles behaving as if they were alright, which wasn't the case.
Unfortunately, what Sonia and her friend Nadia Browne didn't know was that every bit of their private conversation had fallen into Marlon's ears, which was a big trouble to come.
Outside in the parking lot, Marlon, as soon as he entered and sat on the driver's seat of his Range Rover, before he ignited the engine to drive away his cheeks got overwhelmed with a gorgeous smile which spoke nothing except the joy he felt at heart.
"Nadia, me and you are soon becoming good parents to our child in your womb."