"What did you try doing today at the burial rites?" Jackson asked Shelly. "What do you think I wanted to do." She asked him. "Why are you always doing that?" Jackson asked her. "What is it that I am doing because I do notunderstand what you mean." Shelly said. Jackson just put his hands on his forehead Showing his frustration. "Girl! You can be very difficult sometimes." Jackson said."I seriously do not know what you mean." She said. "Shelly you know exactly what I mean." Jackson was getting so worked up already. Shelly saw this and she was sort of having a lot of fun out of it. She had never seen Jackson get angry before. Shelly stood, smiling suddenly at him. "Why are smiling at me?" He asked.Shelly did not stop. She kept the smile very broad. Jackson was getting infuriated by it. "You are already worked up?" "It is because you are the one getting me all worked up girl." Jackson said. "I know I am and I was doing it on purpose." Shelly said. Jackson arched his eyebrow wonde
Gerard could not explain why he was drawn towards Ben. He was wondering why he was so free and accommodating towards him. He was a very critical and demanding person. He was a good judge of character. If you were not someone he could relate with, it did not take him a minute to know the kind of person he was dealing with. As he thought about Ben, his mind went to the pendant that hung around his neck. He went to his drawer in his study and brought out the one he had that looked like the one that he saw with Ben."I will inspect it later when I see him. As he held the necklace his mind went to the day he gave it to Sophia.............................................................................................................................Flashback begins"I love the way you look at me." Sofia said. "How do I look at you?" Gerard asked her. "You look at me as if I am the only woman you have been with." Sofia said. "What else do you want me to say my love?" He said to her and kis
The man was a man of average height. He had a long beard like those arabs. He wore a track suit along with sneakers. He was also bald which gave him a kind of scary and menacing look. The man walked into a cafe. Jackson and Shelly followed him into the cafe. The man was sitting at a far away booth. The cafe was a large one. From the man's house to the place was about some twenty minutes walk. Why the man decided to walk and not take a bus was strange to Shelly who was tired of walking all the way down to their destination."Why did he not take a bus?" Shelly asked Jackson as they took a seat not too close nor too far from where the man sat to avoid suspicion. "I guess he likes to walk. He looks like someone who is exercising." Jackson said. Shelly was not satisfied with the answer that hw gave but she let that one go. "He is here to meet someone." Jackson said. "How do you know?" Shelly asked. "Look at the number of times he has looked at his wrist watch in the last two minutes." J
"I am here to see my cousin." Oscar said as he spoke with the receptionist who had so much make-up on her face that she looked like a Barbie doll. The receptionist looked at him puzzled. "My cousin is Mr. Murdoch. The woman who looked like someone in her mid thirties checked the system for his name. "On the first turn, you will see the third room on the left." She said and continued with what she was doing. "Thanks." Oscar said and was on his way to see his cousin.It did not take him long to locate the room where his cousin was. As he entered he saw his girlfriend, Miranda."Hi Miranda!" He said. "Hi Oscar." the pretty girl with short brown hair replied. He came close to both of them and punched his injured cousin on the shoulder. "You know I do not have big arms like you do." Murdoch said."How are you bro?" Oscar asked him. "I am good man. I am recovering well." He said. "That is good to know." Oscar said. "The good thing is that I have to be grateful for the miracle, that the st
"I just got off the phone with Oscar. He said Murdoch is doing well and he will be discharged form the hospital tomorrow afternoon." Ben was telling Casey as they were having breakfast. Rose was still in bed. She was not feeling well. Gerard was busy in his study. He was having a meeting , online with some presidents of some mining companies."That is good. I am glad he will be leaving there in good health." Casey said. They continued their meal in silence for some minutes before Ben broke the silence. I have been thinking about something and I want to hear your view on it." Bensaid. "What is it? I hope it's not about looking for a lawyer" She joked and looked up at him. "I need to look for a job. You know that I can't stay here forever." Ben said.Casey looked at him thoughtfully. "I understand that fact that you need a job but you can stay here for as long as you need to. No one is chasing you away. No one is going to give you an ultimatum as to when to leave" She said. "I know. Y
Jackson checked the surroundings of the house. It was a house that was on a private property. There were no guards and it appeared as if no one was in the building. Jackson realized the only way in was to stay guard and watch who came in and went out. He nodded his head and went back to the car but Shelly was not there. The alarm bells began to ring. It was when he saw a note on the windscreen of the car that he realized that Shelly had been kidnapped.The note read, "find your way to 14, Broad band Street." He was worried because he did not know the place but that wasn't going to be an issue. He could locate the place with the help of the internet or he might just ask anyone who might know the area. He decided to call Joe to let him in on what was happening. After that he went on the search for Shelly.................................................................................................................................Shelly was gagged and she was blindfolded. She began t
"Are you ready to go with me to the company?" Gerard asked Ben immediately he saw him that morning. "Not yet sir, Mr. Gerard. I will go and get prepared now." Ben said. "I am very keen about time. So you should be ready when I am." Gerard said. Ben quickly ran to the room to go and prepare himself for today's activity. Ben waslooking forward to the job he was hoping he would get.As he was having his bath, he was having a lot of hopes about the future. He remembered how life was in the U.K. He still had a family in U.K and he was not ready to forget them. He thought a lot about Aunt Mary and his half brother Henry. He wondered how they were doing over there in the U.K. He had been so busy fighting all that had been thrown at him. Now he was distracted with looking for a job. "I have to find time to call them." He thought.He was yet to begin the search for his father. He knew he had time to look for him. That was the reason he needed a job so that he could have a level of stability i
It was about a twenty six minutes drive from New York to Brooklyn. Ben was yet to explore the city of New York. He had not really been going out that much. Infact he has not gone out at all. Of course Casey would have been the one to take him around town to see the things that it has to offer. Back home Ben was not privileged to do all that because of what he was facing with his family, especially with his sick mom and his physically challenged sister, Betsy. As the driver drove he was taken by the sight of the city. The very tall buildings and shinning lights. He was moved and impressed by it all. He was elated that he would stay in this city and whatever it had to offer he would take them will open arms and lap it all up.New York was not just any city, it was the city to live in, in the United States of America. Other cities had their own attractions of course but New York was the creme de la creme of cities in the United States of America, the land where dreams were possible. As t