Everyone was slammed with shock, they all had their eyebrows pulled up in surprise. If a pin had dropped on the ground, someone would have heard it fall. Nick and David were having a stare down and tension was building up very rapidly. Rosie wasn't sure of what to do. If it had been at her own company, she would have asked Nick and his father to be kicked out, but this was different. Dominic Ford might be a billionaire, but this was his son's new company. It wasn't about the money they were going to lose, it was more about the reputation this might leave. She cleared her throat and decided to take charge of the situation. " Mister David Wyatt is a hard-working junior manager here." She smiled. " He can't clean your shoes because that's not his job." Nick snorted and looked at her, he does like being in charge very badly. " If I said that he is going to clean my shoes, then he will do it." Nick laughed. " It's either that, or we are not going to be doing business with you peopl
They were already about two hours into the meeting, but Nick wasn't paying attention. He was glaring at David while everyone else was talking about pushing both companies to the next level. " ...And the profit shall also be shared equally," David said. " I believe that we are going to put in equal effort to achieve this."" Oh my God, I can't bear to listen to this anymore." Nick laughed in anger. " Why is he speaking like this? Like he owns the company or something?"" Mister Dominic has appointed him and me to speak on behalf of his son," Rosie said. " I believe that you don't have a problem with that."Nick slapped his hand against the table before he sat upright. " Look, lady, there is a hierarchy in this world." He said to her, " Why do you think that God created it that way?"Rosie only stared back. " People like me are not supposed to be mixed up with fellows like him." He pointed at David. " It's against the natural order of everything."" Mister Nick..."" Listen to me,
A party was put together by the end of the day. Rosie thought it was a good idea because it would help the staff to get to know themselves very quickly, and also to celebrate their first business deal. They moved to a small, but expensive restaurant and it was rented out to them, courtesy of the company. David didn't realize that so many people worked for him, not until he looked around the restaurant and realized that there were hundreds of people in there. They were all busy eating and laughing, that was before Rosie, the boss stood up with her glass of champagne. " Can I get your attention, please?" She requested. It wasn't very hard or get it, she was beautiful and alluring enough to get it without asking. " I want to thank all of you for trusting this company enough to work with us." She started. " I know that we have just begun, but I assure you that you will all be glad to work with us. To us!"" To us!"Everyone cheered around and the merriment continued. David looked l
"Excuse me?" David was visibly offended. " Where is this coming from?"" I don't know, maybe you will be able to tell your father." She said. " Perhaps you will have a good enough explanation for him about why you are now sleeping with your receptionist."David was confused and annoyed at the same time. " So this is what is going on!" David laughed. " He can't speak to his own son, but he keeps tabs on me!""Oh, don't be ridiculous, David." She groaned, annoyed. " He has done more for you than some fathers have done for their children, and you have been very disrespectful of that."" Since when did who I have sex with become your business?!" He snapped at her." What, you expect me to sit back and watch you destroy your life?"She crinkled her eyes. "I would prefer it if you mind your business." He said to her. " Watch yourself."She didn't even blink, this was the first time they were disagreeing so huge. It's ironic what this had become. She was someone that he respected so much,
David felt a heaviness in the back of his throat, Rosie didn't even say a word to him as she walked away. David wanted to go after her, he wanted to grab her by her hand and yell into her face, till he got all the truth out of her. " David." Stefanie touched his arm. He looked at her, with a blank stare. " Jesus, you look so white." She chuckled. " Did you see a ghost or something?"Worse than a ghost, that would be what he would use to describe it. " Hey, I got to go." He started to head to the entrance door. " Don't you need permission for that?" She yelled. " You are going to get into trouble."He only waved above his head, he didn't stop. He pushed the door open and immediately felt the breeze against his face. He crossed the road very quickly to get to the other side, Dominic Ford's main building. The security guard gave him a weird look and tried to stop him, but David angrily shoved the guy away. He got in and started to walk to the elevator. Because of his angry entra
This was the time that David saw the need to dig into the life of his supposed father. He spent the entire night scrolling through the internet, trying to find anything sketchy about his father. Rosie was right, his father was almost assassinated many times before. There was no mention of what happened to the assassins when they were caught and that raised another worry for him. Maybe he would have been tempted to call him if he still had the phone number. It wasn't like he was hungry for a father figure, but it was annoying that the most wealthy man in the city would stand up to claim to be his father, yet he didn't show up. He sat at his computer till his fingers ached and his eyelids felt like there were bags of cement on them. He was so exhausted that he fell asleep on the table there. He was woken up the next morning by a bang on his door. He jerked awake and walked to the door. It was Dre and Ethan, they were very excited. " We have been offered jobs!" Dre yelled. " Ju
David wasn't very keen about returning to the building, there he knew that his worst enemy awaited him. Nevertheless, he dragged his feet till he got there. Nick was almost nowhere to be found, but then he walked into his office and found the twat making himself comfortable. David cringed when he saw the feet on his table as the self-acclaimed prince drank his morning coffee. " Good morning, Nick." David ignored the uncomfortable tightening in his chest. " Fine morning, isn't it?" Nick glanced at him. " That's why you have chosen not to get me my coffee?"" I was busy," David said. " You remember that I do have a job, right?"" Your job is to make sure that I am satisfied." Nick glared at him. " I couldn't set my eyes on you from the instant I walked in here and I don't like that."David took a sharp breath in, an attempt to keep his temper in check. He would have so dearly loved to murder Nick right here, right now, but that might be a big mess for his father to handle. Since
For a minute, everyone was quietly looking at David in shock. The hot liquid was now cold and had given his white shirt a brown color. His hands were hanging in the air as he looked at the mess that was done to him. "Oops." Nick rubbed his hands together as if he had done a good job. " Sorry, man, didn't see you there."He said that knowing that everyone saw what happened, everyone knew that he did that with all intention. " Mister Evergreen," Devan said. " Don't worry, he is fine." Nick laughed as he waved it off. " David can wait in the car while real men talk."His eyes settled on Juliet, she wasn't pleased with his statement. " Men and women." He corrected himself. " But you guys know what I mean, right?"David glared at him, but he couldn't do anything to him. Juliet took pity on him, she sighed and walked up to him. " Come with me, Mister David." She offered. " I will help you clean up."David didn't have any other choice than to go with her. He didn't miss the smirk of
"Hey!" Stefanie took out her gun.Normally, she would have aimed it at Stefanie, but she knew that it wasn't her doing, so she aimed it at Lucinda. Tears were streaming down Stefanie's eyes, her hand was shaking, but the gun was still pointed at him. "I'm sorry." She sobbed. "I don't want to do it, David, she said she is going to post everything about my past life." "Just do it." He told her with a still face. "Go on, do it!" "Don't say that!" She cried. "Please." "I have the flash right here with me, Stefanie," Lucinda called after her. "If you don't do what I want, I will ruin your life!" "You have the black card, it has more money than anyone has seen in your lineage." Rosie hissed. Lucinda looked at her and laughed. "If it isn't his lap dog speaking." Lucinda mocked her. "How do you feel? You are right behind him all the time and you think that he is not going to fuck you up really soon?" Rosie wasn't fazed, the gun was still pointed at Lucinda, one word from David and s
Stefanie couldn't understand why Lucinda was smiling even though she had just told her that David ruined her life. She kept down the plate of food, she was now very sure of the fact that it was definitely poisoned. Lucinda noticed this, but she just laughed it off. She picked up the remote control and changed the channel immediately, she had put on a comedy show and was laughing hysterically with the audience. Stefanie was watching her as if she had gone mad. "David took your home?" She swallowed. Lucinda stopped as she looked at her. "What, you think that I am lying or something?" She frowned. "No, that's what I mean, what I am trying to say is that he never said anything about this," Stefanie said. She was trying her best to show Lucinda that she wasn't trying to be offensive. Lucinda crossed her legs as she looked at Stefanie, her eyes piercing through her soul. "You think David Wyatt is a saint, don't you?" She asked. "What?" "You think he is a saint, I mean, that's ho
After watching the CCTV footage in the cafe, Rosie and Tommy left again. Tommy drove while Rosie sat beside him, deep in thought. "So what do you think happened here?" He asked. "And where did she go?" "We saw her break the black card after she made the withdrawal, she could be anywhere at this point." Rosie sighed. Tommy glanced at her, but he kept on driving. "If the black card is only given out by David Wyatt, maybe there should be ways to find out how much she withdrew, maybe it wouldn't give us an idea of what she wanted to use the money for." "Withdrawals made with the cards can be tracked, that's why they were specially made. For untraceable transactions." She said, Tommy faced the road as he kept going, it seemed like there was so much on her mind. "Hey." He said to her, "Don't worry we will find her." "I don't know, Tommy, I have a very bad feeling about this." She confessed. He saw how worried she was, so he took her hand and gently squeezed it gently. Firstly he
The cameras showed Stefanie leaving, but no one saw her walk out. She wasn't dragged out, she went out of the building without anyone forcing her. That fueled the possibility of her actually running away, which made David even more angry. He was so disturbed that Rosie took it upon herself to dig even more into the situation. She spent the night at the office alone, reviewing the CCTV videos. A coffee to keep her eyes open and her brain alert, she kept watching the videos again and again. She noticed that Stefanie came out holding her phone very close to her chest like she didn't want anyone to take it from her. "Strange…" Rosie got closer to the screen of the computer. Stefanie was looking around too like she wanted to make sure that no one was looking at her. She finally got out of the building and into a taxi, the taxi didn't have a plate number and the driver wasn't seen. "Son of a bitch…" she muttered. She heard a knock on her door and her ears stood up like those of a
It was like a joke, she was there for one second and she was gone for the next. It looked like a joke, everyone went from wanting to kill David to looking for Stefanie, it was like she disappeared into thin air. Nothing was coming forth, not even after they looked at all the cameras and found nothing, it was a worrisome situation. After she had been missing for twenty-four hours, the police were invited. It was a sight to see, everyone stopped when the chief of the police came to see David personally. He walked into the building with his guards and they marched to David's office. David was waiting, his hands behind his back and a very worried look on his face. "Mister Wyatt? I am the chief of police, Frederick Lawson, I will be handling your case." "Hello, thank you for being here. Please let's talk in my office." David led him in and the door was shut tight. It was just David, the Chief, and Rosie, no one else was there. The chief took off his large hat and placed it on h
Even David didn't realize that his mother was going to be there, given that he didn't invite her to the "party." He knew where to look, Rosie was looking as guilty as a pickpocket caught in the act. "You call my mum!" He looked at her. "Rosie, is this you having a death wish?!" His mother rolled her eyes as she placed a defensive hand on Rosie's shoulder. "Imagine what would have gone wrong if she didn't." His mother said. "Maybe you should be thankful to her." She looked around at all those pointing guns at her son, but her face froze immediately. "Antonio." She called. Antonio dropped his gun even further as he slapped his face. "Don't tell me that Alexa is his mum!" Now this was David's turn to be confused. The Grand Master was looking at them with a smile on her face. She didn't really come here to save anyone, she didn't care that much, she only thought it would be fun to watch. "Thanks for calling me, Rosie," Alexa said. She took a step forward, she examined the situ
Finally, almost at midnight, Lilian and Antonio arrived at the office. There were no extravagant billboards, no sign to show that it was David's place, everything was turned down. Lilian texted David very quickly to make sure that he knew they were there. Antonio got out of the car, he couldn't stop looking at the huge building. "Wow, this is so beautiful." He said. "Whose place is this?" "I didn't research that, but Dominic Ford's son will be here, there is supposed to be a dinner party." She said, "Oh, I see." He said. "We somehow were able to get seats." "Nothing better than having front seats to watch that fucker die." He muttered. Lilian smiled as they walked into the building. David planned this very well, there were people there to meet them and they were led up to the first floor, then the terrace. Antonio stopped when the beautiful scene met his eyes. The beautiful lights, the beautiful decorations, the nice, huge table, he was blown away by it immediately. "Wow,
Rosie's eyes almost popped out of her socket when David told her about the new development. "Wait, please, wait a minute." She held up her hand. "Are you trying to tell me that you, willingly, invited her Uncle– who wants to kill you? – to come to see you kill yourself?!" "Exactly, that's just about it." He nodded. She puffed out her mouth and held her hands behind her neck. "David, I mean this in the most respectful way, what the fuck?!" "It's high time I get this settled," David said. "I mean, how long am I going to keep playing this game with him?" "How do you intend to kill yourself?!" She asked. "That man may be retired, but he is still very dangerous.""We are all dangerous people, aren't we?" He asked. "Maybe, just maybe, I will be able to have a civil conversation with him, but if not, I will die." "You can't die!" She rebuked him with horror in his eyes. "You are the owner of a trillion-dollar business empire, you can't die!" David looked at the pen in his hand. Black
It looked like it took just a twinkle of an eye and David was on the plane with Stefanie. He couldn't leave her alone in the town, she looked sick and he didn't trust her uncle. As they sat in the plane, they were flying through the night. They were sitting a few seats from each other and no, it was not because they got into some kind of argument. It was because she was dozing off and David laid her on the chair to give her as much space as she needed. She never really slept off, her eyes were half shut, and she was looking at David through the half-shut lids. He looked worried, the way he looked out of the window, even though it was nothing but darkness out there. She felt her heart worry for him, whatever was in his head right now that was making him worry so much. She knew how much he cared for Gary, the man was like his father – but David wasn't going to be caught saying that. She shut her eyes again and said a small prayer to God. For David's sake, let Gary be okay. She