At this point, David couldn't hide the shock on his face. Stefanie had an Uncle named Antonio. And this uncle kind of hated him before even meeting him? Lilian could see the look of doom on his face and that made her laugh even more. "Yeah, that's what I thought." She taunted him. "You and Stefanie, it's never going to happen." David felt a lump in his throat, suffocating the hell out of him, but it was just those vile words from Lilian. David loved Stefanie and wanted to be with her. It was her kind nature that made him fall in love with her in the first place. "Stefanie and I are still going to get married," David told her fearlessly. "She won't get married without Antonio's blessing, she is too much of a scared chicken to do that." "So you are going to run off and tell your Uncle that David Wyatt wants to marry his niece?" "No, sweetheart, what's the fun in that?" She smiled. "I will leave that for him to figure out by himself, but when he finally does so, he is going to k
So David and Stefanie got married. It was a small ceremony with Rosie as the only witness. Gary officiated the ceremony after getting a quick license. David and Stefanie finally kissed, sealing up the union. Rosie stepped out to the balcony as soon as they were done with that. She took out a cigarette and lit it, puffing the smoke into the air. Stefanie happened to walk in and she was caught in the act. Stefanie stared at the cigarette before looking at Rosie. "Um, I thought you quit?" Stefanie asked. "What do you want?" Rosie huffed. Stefanie was holding a glass of champagne and she handed it to Rosie. Rosie gulped everything down at once. "Are you sure you are okay?" Stefanie squinted. "Do you need me to call David?" "Ha, ha, very funny." She rolled her eyes. "This is some kind of joke to you, right?" "I have no idea what you are talking about." "Yeah, I'm the crazy one. One minute you are asking me to help you escape from him and the next you are marrying him?" Rosie
Stefanie returned with a gloomy look on her face, David didn't know what it was. She didn't say anything and he didn't have the time to ask because footsteps were heard coming down the stairs. David looked up to behold Antonio, but he was blown away instead. This wasn't what he was expecting, this wasn't the kind of person he thought was Stefanie's uncle. Uncle Antonio was covered in tattoos, full sleeves, and neck – only his face was spared. He looked like a very dangerous man even though he was over sixty years old. Because this wasn't how David thought he was going to be, he was intimidated. Maybe he wouldn't have been intimidated if they found each other in his office, it would have been different. David didn't realize that Stefanie had run into her uncle's arms and he was asking after him. Stefanie had to go back to him, take his hand, and laugh. "David is just so stunned to finally meet you." Stefanie laughed nervously. "Aren't you, David?" David took a step forward a
The room was dead silent, if a pin fell it would sound like the eruption of a volcano. Stefanie was looking at her finger in shock, and David was looking at her too. The craziest part was that he was mad at her, very mad, but he couldn't be mad at her here. Lilian was smiling with a devilish grin, she was waiting to see how she got into the situation. "Oh, Stefanie didn't tell you guys?" David laughed. "Huh?" Lilian asked. "My ex-boss, she was very delighted that I was getting married." David started. "I didn't have a good enough ring, so took it upon herself to get me a good ring, a very expensive one." "Oh, yeah!" Stefanie joined the lie. "His ex-boss!" "That's good." Antonio nodded. "It's good to know that you were a very hard worker." "David is also finding a job here." Matilda appeared again, she set a wine bottle on the table before she left. Lilian was angry, she huffed as she dug into her food. "So, which kind of jobs do you do?" Antonio asked him. "I am quite h
After they were done with the half-chaotic dinner, Stefanie went to look for her sister in her room. She left David alone, promising that she was going to come back in a few minutes. She got up the stairs, ignoring the urge to go to her former room, she went to the next room– her sister's.The room didn't change from what she remembered years ago, the last time that she was here. She was wondering where Lilian went when the bathroom door opened and she came out with a towel. Stefanie was glaring, but that was somehow amusing to her sister. "Have you come to fight me?" She snickered. "You should have had the decency to knock at least." "You are very crazy, you know that. We could see what you were doing, you were trying your best to make Antonio hate David." Stefanie accused her. "You want Antonio to kill David." "You are speaking as if it's a bad thing, his father killed our parents." Lilian reminded her. "It's such a shame that I have to be the one to avenge their death.""No
Stefanie couldn't understand why David was very angry when he came back into the room. "What's the matter?" She asked. "We are leaving," David said to her. "Now." She was very confused, but she didn't want to argue with him. Whatever the reason for his vexation was, they were going to deal with it afterward. "Okay, let's say goodbye to my uncle." She was already going. "Then we can go." "You go do that, I will be waiting for you in the car." He walked out of the house.She was dumbfounded, why was he behaving like this? She didn't go after him, she went to say goodbye to her uncle. David got to the car, he tried to open the door again, but it was jammed. He shut his eyes, rubbing his forehead gently. He took out his phone and called Rosie, she picked up almost immediately. "So how did it go?" She asked immediately. "Why did you get me such a shitty car?" He ignored her question. "You asked for a car that would hide your identity, I did that." "I know you think this is hum
"What?" David asked. He hardly showed emotions, but he didn't try to hide how confused he looked here. "My father had something to do with Stefanie's mother?" He asked. "I am very sure of it, sir." She nodded. David stopped to think. His father told him everything that he needed to know, but this?Why did his father choose to hide such information from him? What was the reason? "How come you never came to tell me this?" She asked. "I just found out, sir." She answered. David exhaled, how was he supposed to deal with this? Turned out that the situation was more entwined than he thought. Rosie caught this lost expression of his, she was patiently waiting for him to say something. Some time went back and nothing had left David's mouth. "Is there anything you want me to do about it, boss?" She asked. "No." He replied. "I think I will handle this myself." "Okay, boss." "You are my eyes and ears, Rosie, you and Gary, watch over my business while I am away." He instructed. "I w
Stefanie was holding her breath as she looked at the manager. The blood-stained his perfect suit, that was when he lost it. "What the fuck?!" He shrieked. "Did you just punch me?!" David didn't look apologetic, not even for a bit. Stefanie wanted him to apologize, but David wasn't sorry. "We are sorry." Stefanie quickly said. "Forgive my husband, he has a temper." "Don't apologize on my behalf, Stefanie, I am sure that I will punch him again if he says something else about you," David assured him. "You stupid pauper!" The manager cursed. "I was trying to help you and you have the right to hit me on my face?! You are going to regret this!" Stefanie was begging David with her eyes, she wished that he could just say sorry to this man. She didn't want this to escalate, she didn't want to have to call her Uncle because he would probably find out the truth about David if the police got involved. "You two losers are going to wish that you never came here in the first place!" He threa
"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