Ric had successfully left the scene and navigated his way to the salon section in the mall. "Excuse me Sir, do you require our services?" The very polite beautiful lady asked Ric very cautiously. "Yes," Ric replied coldly wondering why she asked him the obvious. "This way please," Shirley as her name tag stated, led Ric to the waiting area for his turn but she was stopped soon by a neatly dressed young man. Jeremy "What are you doing?" Jeremy scolded the lady. She jumped a bit in fear because she had so much respect for Jeremy as their top tier customer. "I was just leading the gentleman to a seat to wait out his turn." Shirley explained to Jeremy but Ric stood still with a grim expression. Ric knew what Jeremy was up to and he was ready to teach him a proper lesson of he tried to act in an unruly manner which was quite inevitable considering the character of Jeremy. "What do you want this time Jeremy?" Ric asked rescuing the innocent lady from the awkward situation.

Ric had a told his friends that he ha a lot of errands to run so he was going to be a bit late for the launch. However Ric had several meetings to attend and different regulatory boards sort him because of his new project. News had spread in days about the new project of a smart estate being proposed by the new president of the Milano group of companies. Several people suspected that he was the same that had just been elected as chairman of the Hemsworth board but that information was reserved for only the top one percent of the Elites in the city. "Good afternoon Mr. Maximillano," Ric's secretary and the vice president greeted him cautiously. She knew Ric because he always accessed the building through a particular entrance and accessed his office through a separate elevator but she had never seen his face before as he always hid it underneath shades. Ric was not exactly trying to hide his identity from her since she was quite prominent and has no idea about his dual perso

The Launch started and a variety of food was displayed on several tables with the most exclusive and expensive ones being displayed on tables with the Elites seated round them. The table Camille sat in coincidentally had Aaliyah and Lisa seated there along with several of the young men and women Ric had met at the Artificial Intelligence launch. "Oh Brother you came!" Gregory Martinez said when he saw Ric. Gregory was also a second generation rich man whose family was into interior decoration, he was also familiar with Ric from that day so most on the table easily accepted Ric since they were quite acquainted with him already. The Launch went smoothly and everyone had a bite of variety appetizers, main dishes and desserts. Ric had barely picked his plate most times and same with Aaliyah, the duo often glanced at each other during the event. Meanwhile Lisa tried her best to keep her mouth shut in order not to ruin Aaliyah's mood, Lisa had noticed that Aaliyah often got upset w

Leonard's eyes widened in shock. Ric left his side, he walked over to Aaliyah's side Aaliyah was in her seat paying full attention to what was going on in the room. Seeing Ric walking close to them, Lisa who had a little smile on her face scampered away from her friend Aaliyah giving her some privacy with Ric “Do you want me to drop you home now?” Ric gently asked her again, sitting on the empty seat right beside her. “Are you finally taking your chances?” Camila teased Ric interrupting the scene. “Woah, I can’t believe someone is making his moves behind us.” Grey’s voice also came in. They had ignored Leonard leaving him to deal with his shit by himself. After all, they weren’t there when he caused it and he had completely denied that his family was keeping the secret too not until there was sudden news about it. “You should give them some privacy at least.” Lisa was so fast to pull both Camila and Grey away, leaving the two on the seat. Aaliyah had a little smile tugged a

“Ok, fine, I will beg,” Leonard said, falling to his knees, he couldn't bear to look at their faces for a couple of seconds, because he needed no one else to tell him that he had fucked up. Deep down he was feeling shitty, seeing the expression on their face will only make the way he is feeling worsen. “I am sorry. I am on my knees, begging from the depth of my heart, whoever it is that did this, should please forgive me,” he pleaded, his voice filled with conviction. He raised his head to stare at Ric, “Please,” It was him, it had to be him, ‘cause no one else left the room, he was the only one that excused himself and in a couple of seconds, his life was already in ruins. “Wait, you guys want me to place my head on the floor and beg, huh?” he asked with a desperate tone, still keeping his eyes glued on Ric, “sure, I will” he added and placed his forehead on the floor. “Please, forgive me,” he cried out. “Well, I am not the one that did it and even if I am the one, I am