ALEXANDER CHASE: A dead man’s revenge.

CHAPTER TWO.

Alexander Chase opened his eyes to the sound of his alarm ringing but he was feeling funny.First of all he studied the room and his face creased into a frown, how did he get here? This room didn’t even look like his room at all.

He was still in his reverie when his door flung open and a man walked inside the room. He was in his late fifties and he looked dignified.

“You have a meeting with the new investors sir”

“Sir?” The man on the bed cringed, how did he become sir? Was this man mistaken or what?

“Why are you calling me sir?” Alex asked and the man in front of him creased his face into a frown but quickly masked it up with a fake smile.

“I understand you are trying to be hilarious sir but it doesn’t suit you, the maids have gotten your clothes ready. I will have it delivered”

After talking, he turned on his heel and left the room.

Alexander Chase was a man who commanded respect anywhere he went, one of the country's richest and most influential men but right now he was behaving like a total idiot.

After the man walked out of the room, Alex dragged himself out of bed towards the mirror and he almost screamed in horror when he saw the face in front of him. When did he become so tall or muscular? What the hell was happening?

Without thinking much he rushed out of the room with only a towel tied around his lean waist while his upper body was bare and his well toned body was left for the eyes of the people in the house to savor.

His workers gasped when they saw him rush down the stairs without no clothes and some of them even tried to hide their blushing.

“What are you doing sir?” That same man asked as he walked up to him, he had a bizarre look on his face. Did his boss lose his mental health or what? Who would Alex come out to is his room without clothes.

“What the hell is going on here?” Alex asked in dispair, “when the fuck did I become Alex?”

Everyone was stunned, what was he even saying?

“Did you perhaps hit your head sir?” A woman asked as she walked up to him, “you are acting weird”

“You all are acting weird” the man half yelled while placing his hands on his waist.

The last thing he remembered was closing his eyes in death and now he was magically one Alex and had everything at his beck and call? What could be a more foolish story than this?”

“You should call the doctor Murphy” the lady said to the man, “why don’t I help you get ready sir?”

Her name was Esmeralda and she had been Alex’s nanny ever since he was a baby, even when he lost his parents. She was like his son and seeing him in this kind of confused state made her heart break into a million pieces.

Alex was the most confused, he felt like he was going mad. No one was saying anything and he was losing it.

“Come with me” Esmeralda held onto his hand and led him upstairs, his female workers couldn’t help but ogle at him. Alexander Chase has always been the man that everyone wanted.

“Why did you come down with your towel by the way?” She asked him after he settled on the bed. She was searching through his closet for some clothes.

“Who are you?” Alex asked her and her jaw dropped, was he being serious right now?

“I am your nanny Alex” she rolled her eyes, “now quit with the jokes and get ready”

“Nanny?” Alex allowed the name to roll out of his mouth, since when did he have a nanny?” Everything was just not adding up.

“Who is this Alex?” He asked again and this time around, Esmeralda left what she was doing and came to sit beside him.

“Is something wrong with you?” Her voice was filled with a lot of concern, “did something happen Alex? You have been behaving weird”

“I am not Alex” he finally said and a look of confusion appeared on the woman’s face, “I have been trying to make a meaning out of everything but I can’t”

Esmeralda was speechless, perhaps he was having one of his episodes again.

“You know what? Why don’t you get some rest? I will call your office and have them know you won’t be coming in today. I will give your doctor a call and he will be here shortly”

“Okay”

She patted him on the back before leaving the confused Alexander to himself.

Immediately the door closed behind her, he picked up his phone and received the shock of his life when he saw the date. How the hell was he in 2023? What happened to the last ten years of his life?

He ruffled his already disheveled hair and kept sighing, he was just confused.

An idea suddenly crept up in his head and he picked his phone again, surprisingly he knew the password and opened it.

Everything in the phone was about Alexander and even the pictures were different but he didn’t feel any connection to the man on the screens.

“What is happening to me?” Alex kept asking himself as he scrolled through the phone.

Suddenly the phone began to ring and even when he saw the caller ID, it was his doctor or so the ID said.

Sighing for the umpteenth time again, he pressed the phone against his ears.

“Hello”

“Esmeralda tells me you don’t remember anything?” A deep husky voice said from the other end.

“Apparently” Alex answered while rolling his eyes,

“everyone keeps calling me this Alex which I don’t even know”

The man from the other end sighed before he talked again, “did you bash your head or something? You don’t drink so what’s up?”

“I am also struggling to make a meaning out of all of this, I don’t know what is” he massaged the space between his brows, “i just magically woke up here”

“I have a lot of appointments today, I will come and check on you the moment I finish from the office okay?”

“Sure”

After a few more talks, Alex ended the call and laid back on the bed before closing his eyes.

He didn’t know for how long he laid on the bed but when he heard his door slam open, he opened his eyes and another weird one entered.

“Alex” the lady rushed over to him and sat beside him,

“Esmeralda just called me and I rushed over from work immediately”

“Who are you?”

“What?” She scoffed, “you don’t remember me too?”

“I don’t remember anything lady so you tell me who you are”

“It’s me” the lady said again, this time in a more subtle tone, “I am your fiancée and we are getting married”

Now he didn’t see this coming, fiancée? He was getting married?

“We are engaged?”

“Yes”

“How and why? Who the hell are you by the way?”

The lady scoffed again, “what the hell is going on with you Alex? We got engaged three months ago and you are really asking me who I am? Am I that easy to forget?”

“Why don’t we get my issue fixed first then you can rant on”

He was already irritated, he was a nerd by the way and hated company.

“What is your name by the way?”

“Clarrisa” she rolled her eyes again and stood up, “and we got engaged because my dad wanted to partner with you at all cost and in the long run I felt like you developed feelings for me. He said we should get married in return. You never liked me from the beginning but after a while, I guess you liked me but now we are back at square one” she was visibly frustrated, “oh, I hate this”

Alex just kept looking at her like she was an alien while she kept pacing up and down the room, he just didn’t feel any connection with her even if she was his “supposed” fiancée.

“You should get to work, I am not bedridden” he finally said after a while.

“Don’t worry, I will take care of you today. I already told my father and he said he will handle everything at the office”

“Hmm” Alex nodded and closed his eyes again. He needed to think, he didn’t just miss ten years of his life, he was suddenly engaged and was about to be married?

What the hell happened and why was he here? He wasn’t this Alexander but somehow he was Alexander?

Suddenly he was the most influential man in the country and he was rich? Technically his parents were rich but they were dead anyways.

Yes, dead. Reality suddenly dawned on him, he witnessed the death of his parents ten years ago and he was even hit by a car on that same day.

Nothing was making any sense at this point. He should be dead right? So why was he suddenly alive and in the body of this Alexander chase?

“Here” a voice called out to him and he was jolted out of his reverie. He opened his eyes and Clarissa was holding a cup of coffee towards him, “you should take this, it will help you relax”

Coffee? He had never liked coffee.

“I am good, i don’t like coffee by the way”

Clarissa’s face creased into a frown, “ you don’t like coffee? But it’s your favorite”

Alex sighed again, “you know what? Just leave. I will take a shower” he didn’t even bother to wait for her response and prodded into his bathroom. Maybe a bath would help sooth his nerves.

*****

The moment the water gushed out onto his body, Alex closed his eyes and allowed the water to flow over all his body. He had to think, he wanted to think.

He had a lot to process, nothing was making sense the more he thought about it.

“Why am I suddenly Alexander?” He asked himself, “when did I become this powerful man and what happened in the last ten years of his life? He was Jayden not Alexander and he was supposed to be dead ten long years ago but now he was here?

A knock on his bathroom door made him switch off the shower and strain his ears.

“I dropped your clothes on the bed and I will make something for you to eat” clarrisa’s voice filtered into his ears and he had the inkling to roll his eyes.

He didn’t even answer her and continued his shower.

Was fate trying to tell him something again? Why did he return as Alexander Chase and not Jayden? Was he missing something?

A lot was going on in his mind as the water splashed all over his body.