“What?” Mr. Barnes asked Damon as he saw the stunned look on his face. “You're shocked, right? I understand.” He said to him.Damon tried to walk closer to the man but was held back by Borito. He shook off the man's hand on his shoulder and looked straight at the traitor sitting before him with a wicked smile on his face. “So, you've been involved with the mafias all this while? Everyone thinks of you as the most patriotic nationalist in our country but you're just a pretentious wolf in sheep's clothing.”Mr. Barnes smiled at him, “You see, boy. The world works differently from how you know it. And people like us are the ones who make it work.” He answered Damon.“What exactly are people like you? Traitors and pretenders?” Damon asked him in fury and disappointment at the man's backstabbing action.Mr. Barnes laughed out loud at Damon's naivety before responding to him, “I need you alive and well otherwise, I would have ordered them to beat you up brutally.” “And what exactly do you

Damon braced himself for what Mr. Barnes was about to reveal to him, with how he introduced the revelation Damon knew it had to do with the secrets his grandfather was keeping from him. Especially after learning of Mr. Barnes’ role in everything that has been going on.Mr. Barnes rose from his seat and walked around it gently then he turned to Borito with an instruction. “Get us drinks, it's going to be interesting.” Borito bowed to the man's instruction and fetched some bottles of highly expensive drinks. He placed the drinks on the table for the men and poured them each a glass.The men all sipped their drinks as they listened to Mr. Barnes. “This is a story long before you and even I was born.” He said to Damon and the hearing of others, “It is the story of who is the rightful King of the Kingdom and how you are your grandfather are nothing but thieves.”In his mind, Damon thought to himself, ‘This is deeper than I ever thought.’ Mr. Barnes’ accusation of Damon and his grandfather

King Bernard didn't expect Hannah to come around the palace probably because of some arrangements they made together but here she was, defiling whatever arrangement they had and doing so comfortably. Hannah ignored his question and fixed her sights on the young man with him, Richard.“Hannah,” he called to her again, “I said, what are you doing here?” He asked her but the lady maintained her gaze on the young prince whom she wasn't so excited about.“Why is she looking at me like that? What do I have to do with her?” The Prince asked his father. The lady's look was weird to him and he couldn't understand why she fixed her gaze at him rather than answer his father's question.The King walked up to her where she sat and stared down on her with anger, “I'll ask you for the last time, why are you here?” His words came out quietly but strong and serious.Hannah scoffed at the King, raising her head to look at him but remained seated. “I am here to challenge your fatherhood.” She said to hi

Mr. Barnes paused his storytelling and allowed the men take in the information from the story. Damon was aware of some part of the story but some other parts were past his knowledge. The story however was intriguing and interesting. He needed to know more.It was about his grandfather, King Richard Langston, and his great-grandfather, late King Bernard Langston. Featuring a time when King Richard was to be made the Crowned Prince of the Kingdom. However, the part of Hannah and her son was untold by Mr. Barnes, leaving everyone in suspense and anticipation.How did the history lesson relate to or affect their current situation? They wondered to themselves, what has it got to do with any of them? They questioned. But Mr. Barnes’ storytelling skills were great as he waited for them to yearn for more.“To what end is this history?” Damon asked him, satisfying the yearning of everyone else. “How does it affect us right now?” Mr. Barnes smiled at him, walked behind his seat and stood there

Damon and Brandley looked at each other, this situation had blown out of their hands. Everything they thought about the meeting had gone way past them and now they were lost in Mr. Barnes' maze, who shockingly is now known as Justin Langston. To heighten their frustration, the man had a more sinister plan to kill Damon and frame it on Brandley which will tear down everything for the Kingdom. They needed to come up with something, they needed to find a way out of this situation and escape.As they gave thoughts to what plans to make, Mr. Barnes laid the final part of the plan on them. “Once the two strikes are done, guess what happens next.” Everyone listened to what he was about to drop again, “My father, the rightful heir to the Throne surfaces together with all our strategic allies within the government and otherwise, we assume the Throne and take over everything that belonged to the Langston family. This is our decades-long plan of takeover.” The final part of the plot had just dr