It took a while for his words to register but when they did, Mandisa wanted to throw up.
"Tebogo Motsepe." She said in a shallow voice. His smile broadened as to say she was correct. Mandisa couldn't believe it. How could she not have known? How could she have thought he was the most magnificent person she had ever seen? He was the enemy, someone to loathe not drool over. Out of all the people in South Africa she could be attracted to, why him?
She cleared her throat. "What do you want?" She said coldly. Tebogo sat up.
"Didn't your sister tell you? Tsk, tsk, tsk." He said mockingly. "I guess I really have nothing to worry about."
"You are not getting Joy." Mandisa said between clenched teeth. Tebogo smiled. A minute ago his smile had looked charming and ready to send her to heaven but now that she knew who he was, she found it hateful and disgusting.
"That is where you are wrong. I always get what I want."
Mandisa was mystified. His arrogance was bigger than him and if she had thought Angela was obnoxious, she had a different thought now.
"Not this time." She told him.
"And who is going to stop me?" He asked smugly. "You?"
"No. The law." Mandisa said assertively. "You and your family have absolutely no claim towards Joy."
Tebogo threw his head back and laughed. His laughter contained no humor, only mockery. "What law did you study? My brother is Joy's father and husband to Sindi."
"Only on paper." She snapped back.
"That's all the court cares about." He wasn't bothered by her resentment and hostility. Mandisa had a feeling that Tebogo Motsepe wasn't bothered much by anything in life. All was rosy in his life that he didn't know when he had pushed the wrong buttons.
"Not in this case." Mandisa said leaning forward towards him. She didn't want other people to hear what they were talking about. "Your brother threw my sister out when Joy was a week old. He disputed being the father and wanted nothing to do with Joy or Sindi."
"At that moment he didn't think he was the father." Tebogo said with an unconcerned shrug. Mandisa looked at him disbelieving.
"Who the hell did he think the father was, the Holy Spirit?" Mandisa watched as Tebogo's eyes sparked with genuine laughter. Mandisa dared him to laugh. That was all she needed to push her over the edge, but to his benefit he pursed his lips together and allowed his eyes to communicate his amusement, Mandisa cursed him silently and damned him to hell for not giving her the push she needed to explode. He was more annoying that Angela Motaung and Mandisa wanted nothing but to wipe his face clean of his smug, irritating, alluring smile.