Accept Your Fate

4 HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WANTS HIM DEAD

With tears in his eyes, he asked the woman to take him home and would live with her now.

At least someone would love him as he is now. A woman's love.

They both left the hall with so much embarrassment. Well, his younger brother has gotten what he wants.

The wedding ceremony continued as if nothing happened earlier. Frank climbed to the podium as he was given the wedding ring.

The happiness among the people filled the air as they celebrated their new groom.

As Fernando and the woman walked to a car park, they took a taxi and the woman told the taxi driver the destination they were to drop off.

Getting to a particular spot where it was empty and without people, the woman asked the taxi driver to stop.

“ Is this where you live?” Fernando asked the woman worriedly.

“ Yes, this is where I live,” she responded with a fake smile.

“ This place looks scary and empty,” Fernando muttered as he tried to drop off the car.

After paying the taxi driver, they crossed to the other side of the road.

On getting to the empty buildings which looked like abandoned places, the woman walked through an alley and Fernando followed behind her.

Although he feared the place, he had no option but to follow her to wherever she was taking him to.

“ Does anyone live with you in the house you're taking me to, or do you live alone?” he curiously asked.

The woman before him didn't respond, instead, she smiled and kept on her track.

After a few minutes of a silent walk, she finally stopped and turned around, and faced Fernando, who was profusely sweating.

“ We are here,” she announced.

“ Huh? We have reached?”

“ Yes, welcome home.”

“ Are you kidding me? How can you call this aisle a home? I didn't see any door that leads to a room. What are you up to?”

Fernando was lost, and he began to ask a series of questions, but all the woman could do was smile at him.

“ Stop smiling at me and speak up, woman!” he said with a commanding tone.

When Fernando saw that the woman wasn't saying a word, he began to suspect her as a kidnapper.

“ Did you bring me here to kill me? Or you brought me here to demand a ransom? Because you won't get a dime for that.”

“ Kidnapping is never my job and may I never witness the next day's break if I have the intention to harm you.”

She finally responded with a smirk.

“ Then why are we here?” he inquired with gritted teeth.

“ To tell you the truth.”

“ What truth is it that is more than the one you voiced out in the presence of everyone during the wedding ceremony?”! His anger began to arise.

The woman crossed her arms over her chest and took a step toward Fernando, as it was only a few inches that distanced them.

“ I will tell you nothing but the truth.”

“ Then go on and stop wandering around in the bush.”

“ Well, I'm sorry to announce to you that I was paid to lie and act. I'm not your mother, and neither do I know your mother. In fact, I know nothing about your family.” She revealed, and Fernando was crushed as his blood boiled in anger.

“ What!” he furrowed his brows at her.“ Why did you do such a thing to me? Do you think they would accept me back when I tell them that it was all a plan? Would they even hear me out?”

“ No, they won't,” she responded sharply with a sad expression.

Fernando stood speechless as he glared at the woman from head to toe. He felt like smashing her to pieces.

She took away his happiness for the love of money, and she didn't consider what might happen to him hereafter.

At first, he was happy to see a woman who cares about him, but right now, he feels hated by the whole world.

No one wants him. Not only that, some people were jealous of him for no reason or for a reason best known to them.

After a few minutes of silence, Fernando wondered who was responsible for this.

“ Who paid you to do this to me?” he inquired as he could feel his eyes heavy with tears.

“ It's not any other person than…”

As she was about to speak out, a tall, muscular man appeared and stood at the aisle entrance.

He was in a black suit and looking at him closely, he held a gun in his hand. It was best to describe him as a dangerous person.

Fernando froze with many questions running through his mind. He began to shiver in fear as the muscular man gestured toward them.

As the young man came closer, his face was beginning to reveal itself.

‘ This face looks familiar.’

Fernando thought to himself and fought the urge not to faint before the man arrived.

The young man finally arrived where they were both standings, and it happened to be his younger brother's assistant.

“ Huh? Why are you here?” Fernando asked.

“ I was sent by my boss, Frank, to kill you,” said the young man.

“ Kill me? For what reason?”

“ I have no clue why he wants you dead, but I won't kill you, as you have once helped me with my father's treatment.” The young man shared, and Fernando was stunned and touched by his words.

Sure, he was once his savior when the young man was seriously in need of money to settle his father's treatment bills.

His boss, Frank, failed to help him, but when Fernando got to know about it, he didn't hesitate to help.

Since that very day, the young man has sworn to always be loyal to him no matter what.

‘ The law of karma. Reaping what you sow.’

“ It was the same man who paid me to lie and act that I was your mother.” the woman shared.

“ You mean, Frank paid you to lie?” he asked, and the woman nodded.

He was disappointed in his younger brother. Never in his life has he ever thought Frank could ever do this to him.

He only knew that Frank was a skirt chaser and not jealous of his position as the heir of their father.

Now, it was clear that his younger brother had been an enemy all this while.

“ Sir, I would advise that you leave this city and go to a far place if you love your life. And for my boss, I would lie to him that I have delivered the job.”

Frank's assistant advised Fernando and he appreciated it.

A few minutes later, the two of them left the buildings, but Fernando was asked to wait a bit until they had gone far from that place.

The reason was that they don't know if some people were sent to spy on them and be sure that Fernando was killed.

Immediately the woman and the young man were out of sight, and Fernando got an alert message from his phone.

He curiously brought out his phone from his pocket and went through the text. He almost gave up the ghost after reading everything.

“ A debit alert? Oh my goodness. My money got wiped out, leaving me with no nothing. I'm in serious trouble.”

Fernando cried out, knowing fully that Frank was responsible for this atrocity.

All hope was lost as he was confused about what to do to get transport fare to move out of that territory.

The best option that crossed his mind was to call friends, but then he remembered that he has no close friends.

He didn't delay much time, rather than think of a better idea.

The best option that popped up in his mind was to go out to the street and beg for money. Only that can guarantee his trip to another territory.

“ I have to take away the shame and beg for help and I don't care who would see or mock me. This is between life and death. I better be laughed at, yet alive, than die without being laughed at.” Fernando thought inwardly as he left the spot he was standing.

He went to the street begging for help.

Many mocked and rained insults on him, but he didn't give them listening ears.

“ Ohh, my God, see this blubber-belly man is begging on the street.”

Many teased him with that statement, but he ignored them all. He knew what he wanted, and he was getting it from some good citizens.

Indeed, there were still some good people who were ever ready to help when necessary.

Everyone must one day seek another person's help. No one knows tomorrow.

To worsen the whole thing, Fernando came in contact with a lady he once proposed to. She rejected him when he proposed to her in public and rained insults at him.

Now that she saw him begging on the street, the insults should increase. But then she was also shocked because she knew him as a billionaire's son.

“ What on earth happened that he has turned to a bigger? Or is he running mad?” The lady whispered to her colleagues, but it was clear enough for Fernando to hear her questions.

“ I'm insane, my dear.” his inner said.