Ashton's Empire

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Just when he had thought he would be the food for those preying at night a car light was pointed towards him and Ryan stood there waiting for death to take his life because of cause he just wanted to die at that very moment but God had sent him a Good Samaritan.

“What are you do in this kind of secluded area by yourself, you are alone and its dangerous get into the car” the man said.

“How do I trust you?” Ryan asked the man as he made to leave the place where he was standing.

“If you leave this place you would get into the hands of the bad men” the man persuaded and that was when Ryan gave up and entered the car, there was no way he could deny death anymore he had already been killed a million times the moment his wife had rejected him in front of everyone.

This was one of the men sent by his grandmother to come make sure her grandson was okay, seeing that they had been watching his every move and given that his thirty first birthday was around the corner the age for him to take over the empire of his family, nothing could happen to him.

“Thank you” Ryan thanked the man who had helped him and before he left the man asked of his name and he gave his name, and the man gave him his card and a few dollars for whatever reason he didn’t know he just felt drawn to the man he had helped.

“Call me whenever you are fine from whatever it is that led you to the interior of nowhere” the man said and zoomed off.

That night was super long as he laid in bed just wishing and hoping all of this was a dream the next morning he woke up but the moment he arrived the Restaurant, he was blocked by some unknown men or maybe they were men he knew from yesterday as they beat him up and he tried to fight back but they overpowered him.

“Hey stop” Stacy was about to run and go but she was held back by the men who were on stand-by.

“Emilie do something would you?” Stacy screamed but nothing could be done.

“I can’t do anything he deserves it and I can’t break a nail for him do you know hpw expensive these are?” Emilie asked showing her new manicure to Stacy.

Emilie stood there watching as her husband was beaten to stupor. His head was raised up and then he was asked to apologize for calling Emilie his wife.

“But she is my wife” Ryan managed to say.

Smack! Smack! His head was given some more punches.

“I am not your wife don’t say such things to me” Emilie cried even more as she refused her husband and claimed she was being mistaken by him.

A lone tear came down his cheeks as she once again rejected him.

“I am so…so…Sorry for calling you my wife it was my mistake to have ever had anything to do with you” Ryan stuttered as he looked at his wife who didn’t have a care in the world and the he looked to the men who had beaten him as they finally let him go and he dropped to the ground.

“That is great work guys, now let’s go,” Teddy Gustave said to his men.

Emilie moved out of the area bouncing the curls of her hair as she entered the car with no remorse and they all drove off.

“Ryan, Ryan please stay with me,” Stacy said but nothing was working and then when he finally opened his eyes he received the more shock of his life.

“Ryan you shouldn’t show your face again here again you’ve been fired, you bring bad luck” his manager said to him and that only made Ryan shed a few tears too.

As he took his belongings going home with his heart broken frustrated and had no way to think of how his life would be in future barely able to see since he had a black eye he finally got home. Getting to the front of his house he found his grandmother standing outside, he had not seen or communicated with her in years.

“Not again please, I hope you didn’t come here to bash my mother?” He said as he knew his last words with his grandmother years back was because his mother had gotten involved with a poor man and he was about to abandon all the riches and fend for himself like any other man who wanted a decent living would do.

“Oh my God Ryan, what happened to you?’ she asked as she ran close to her battered grandson.

Taking him indoors she cleaned his wounds and bandaged them after making him some noodle soup she cleaned the area.

“What brings you here grandma?” he finally asked his grandmother.

“There’s an important development and you need to return home,” his grandmother said.

“Your Uncle the one who had been taking care of the company and Empire has died by the hands of our long arch enemy for the wealth which have been one of the main reasons why you left and we need you now since your birthday is in two days and you would have reached the rightful age of which your father had anticipated” his grandmother said.

“Wait so uncle is dead?” he asked in utter shock could this day get any better?

“You are the only heir apparent to that which is left hence you’ve got to return home son” his grandma continued.

“Your mother had been sent out of the family villa since you left because she got married to someone of a lower class and we can’t have her around the house staining our linage” his grandmother continued and hearing this only made his blood boil.

“But I was married to a woman of lower class yet you come to visit me and why on earth would you send my mother away she still is my mother and has your blood running through her veins,” he said angrily.

“Which brings me to the question where is your wife and for the part where your mother was sent out she deserves it?” she asked looking around at the mess in which the apartment was in and ignoring his question.

“She left me for a richer man who could buy her the gifts I was never able to give her with my basic salary” he explained to his grandmother pained.

“And now you see the reason why we had initially refused you from being married to a low classed woman” his grandmother retorted bitterly.

“Grand ma with all due respect I am not going anywhere with you and if I have to go anywhere with you to inherit the property it comes with a clause” Ryan said looking at his grandmother straight into the eye.

“What should that be?” she asked creasing her already wrinkled face which was full of botox injections.

“Bring my mother home with my step father and I would come to take the empire you want me to take,” Ryan said.

After what seems to be an hour of thinking she accepted, “okay fine I would look into the matter we would get your parents a home” she said.

“Now get yourself and move we have a lot of things to work on as you would become the new heir of the empire we have built” his grandmother said as she made for the driver to help her grandson to come and get into their big vehicle which was standing in front of them. 

“Your grandfather wants you to return and make sure to take the empire and everything don’t bother about clothes or whatnot everything has been prepared for you,” his grandmother said as he moved into the car saying good bye to his once-filled apartment of love.

Seeing that her grandson kept looking back she had to speak up,

“Forget that ingrate wife of yours and make sure to cut her off such women are not welcomed into our family” She said and when he heard this Ryan only had to make his heart strong, but could he? He kept feeling the need to call his wife but he had to hold his urge his new dawn had arrive an even though he had refused being in the family business for long, he couldn’t help but feel the need to prove to his wife that he was and would always be the part of the puzzle she was missing.

Ryan did not know if he would have wanted to take his wife back because she had given him a bitter pill and it was simply just too hard to forget it but then again he had to make sure he was at the level she wanted him to be he simply wanted to prove something to her which she had never known.

For the period of three years he was married to his wife, she never knew he was from a wealthy family since from high school when they started dating, he had made her to know that his studies where being paid by the state as he won some sort of scholarship and whatnot she would have grown big with him but her taste for money was what had caused her from enjoying what he was getting into at the moment.

“Welcome home son,” his grandmother said as he climbed down from the car to the big mansion before him.

Ryan was awestruck at how much the mansion had changed from the last time he was there.

“This is beautiful” he commented walking in.