Immediately, the college students widened their eyes. Officer Garrick turned to them and they became nervous. “You can’t listen to that asshole! He’s lying to get back at us for telling you the truth. I didn’t harass anybody. It’s all lies!” Troy said hurriedly as he saw Officer Garrick reach for his handcuffs. “I’m not taking his word for it but the word of the many people inside the restaurant that corroborate the staff’s claim of harassment,” Officer Garrick said then took out his handcuff. He pointed at his left chest pocket and said “I’ve already captured your faces with my body cam so don’t even think about running.” All the college students who had thought about running away immediately became weak and gave up the idea. “Just calmly surrender and we’ll go to the station where we can have a test to see if you’re telling the truth or not,” Officer Garrick said as he turned Troy around and cuffed him. Just then, the bell above the restaurant’s door chimed and when they al
Alexander went back to the house and had a long and relaxing nap.After a couple of hours of deep sleep, a message popped up in his mind.[Notice!][A sum of fifteen thousand dollars has been withdrawn from Mr. Alexander Curry’s five hundred thousand dollars reserve]Alexander, who was enjoying his nap so much, didn’t notice the message.Because the alarm he had set wasn’t going to go off for another hour, marking the mid-point of the time he was given to accomplish the mission, Alexander still had an hour of sleep left in him and was going to wake up when he was fully rested.Like the last he had set an alarm that he ironically had to wake up before it went off, the system could bombard him with a barrage of pop-ups and the sound of each pop-up would wake him. However, that wasn’t what the system was going to do this time. The system had evolved enough to do something more unique and effective.{Wake up, Mr. Alexander. It’s time to begin your mission} the system said but Alexander
A couple of minutes later, Alexander parked in front of a nice-looking house then he rolled down his driver's door window and looked at the house on the opposite side of the street.“So this is where the blackmailer lives? I expected something a little more expensive considering how much they’ve taken” He said.{That is correct, Mr. Alexander} the system answered.Alexander sighed exasperatedly and said “I know that. I wasn’t asking a question and it was more of a rhetorical statement”{I know. I just wanted to trigger your emotion by acting like how I would before undergoing my current evolution} Alexander grimaced.“Haha, very funny.”{Thank you} the system replied and then sent a display with a smiling emoticon.Alexander rolled his eyes and swiped the display away to terminate it.“I swear, the rate at which you’re evolving is alarming even for me. It’s like giving birth to a child and seeing them become a teenager, soon to be an adult, a couple of minutes after taking their firs
“Are you telling me that my husband has that much money and I didn’t know about it?!”Alexander shrugged and replied “Sometimes the people we know aren’t who we think they are. It won’t be a difficult task for someone who engages in something like blackmail to hide it from their partner” “I guess that’s true,” Janise said with a disappointed tone.“Yeah,” Alexander replied with a skeptical tone. Just then, Janise’s body jerked.“Wait a minute. How do I know that all these things you just said are true? I don’t know you from anywhere so why should I believe you over the person I chose to spend the rest of my life with? For all I know, you could be a liar” She said.“But you already confirmed that he worked at the Gourmet Giant restaurant in the past, just like my associate. Isn’t that enough proof that I’m talking from a place of truth?” Alexander said.“Yes, but you could have found that information somewhere. People your age have proven themselves to be able to do incredible things
Janise panicked.“I don’t know!” she said to her husband and then she looked at Alexander.“What the hell are you talking about?” She asked angrily. Alexander looked at the husband and asked “When I told you that I asked your wife if you worked at the Gourmet Giant Restaurant and I said her answer was yes, you looked surprised. The truth is you didn’t work there, did you? Let me even take it a step further. You’d never heard of the Gourmet Giant until I mentioned it to you a few sentences ago”“That’s right. I never worked there and I’m only just finding out about such a place or that it closed down from you. I work construction and I always have since I was a teenager” the husband said.Alexander looked at Janise and said “You heard that so which one of you is the liar? That was a rhetorical question because as I said, I can tell when someone is lying to me and I know the answer is you” Janise looked at her husband and he was looking at her with a confused expression.“Honey, did y
Chef Ronaldo’s eyes widened for a split second then he frowned.“You know what would happen if you do this, chef. Everything you’ve worked all these years for will go down the drain which is exactly what she wants” Alexander said and Chef Ronaldo looked at Janise.“She? So I was right” he said and then looked at Alexander “I don’t have any choice. Like you said, she brought me to this—“ The husband interrupted.“Who the hell are you?!” He asked.Both Alexander and Chef Ronaldo looked at him.“You want to know who I am, huh? Okay then” Chef Ronaldo said then walked closer to the husband.“My name is Ronaldo Drayman and I’ve been the victim of this woman’s blackmailing scheme for the past couple of months now,” Chef Ronaldo said.The husband looked at Alexander then he looked at the chef and frowned.“Sorry, but your friend tried the same trick but it didn’t work and neither will yours. My wife isn’t a blackmailer so you two liars can leave my property before I—“ the husband did but wa
“How many times do I have to tell you that I’m not any blackmailer or this Genevieve person you’re mistaking me for?!” Janise said adamantly. Alexander, who was getting tired of her constant denial, frowned. “You might be able to change your face with surgeries but one thing you can never change is your voice. How many times do you think I’ve heard that voice tell me what to do in the kitchen? How many times do you think I was reprimanded by that voice of yours for making the tiniest mistake until I became the great chef I am today?” Chef Ronaldo said and Janise frowned.“Again, I don’t know what you’re talking—!“ she said but Alexander cut her off.“Yeah. Yeah. You’re going to tell us for the one-hundredth time that we have you mistaken for someone else and we’re still not going to believe you, but let me ask you this one simple question” Alexander said and everybody became curious about what he was going to ask.“Was the fact that Chef Ronaldo would be able to identify and remembe
Janise was shocked to hear what her husband just said.“Babe?” She looked at him.With an emotionless face, the husband looked back at her and said “I’ve loved you since the moment I laid my eyes on you and to make sure we one day ended up together I put in so much effort to be the one you want. Did you think I wouldn’t notice when you started acting differently?”“What?” Janise’s eyes blinked rapidly.“For the past couple of months, I’ve had a feeling that you were going through something, so while I waited for you to open up to me about it, I just stayed back and observed. Never in a million years would I imagine that you changed because you became someone who would do something so terrible to someone else” the husband said to her then he looked at Chef Ronaldo.“While I was keeping an eye on her, I noticed that there was something strange with our family’s safe. For some reason, she who had never once used it, started going to it on a regular, so though I’m not a hundred percent su