Chapter 111I stood outside the courthouse. Taking as many deep breaths as I can. But that seemed not to do much work. It did help in its own way. But not as much as I needed it to.I looked up to God. Asking him for guidance and help with what I will say and do in there. To see me through and help me with dealing with that old lady.I didn’t want to lose myself in the middle of whole these things that are happening to me at once.“You got this,” I told myself as I passed up and down.Because I didn’t want any of my family members involved, I told them to stay at home. While some more than others.Frazer and Joseph went to the company to take care of things while I deal with grandma. Carl and his wife refused to stay at home for any longer. Because they needed something to punch. Hence, the couple went to the strip club where we found Carl’s girlfriend.So, that only leaves my wife, Carl’s mother, and Roland at home. While also, Hope. After last night, he didn’t go back home because o
I looked from Mateo to the judge, and the woman just gestured for me to answer the question.“I don’t know what he is getting at and how much they gave him for him to be accusing me of something I didn’t do. Why would I burn my in-laws’ house? I know my wife is not talking to them because of what they did, but she wouldn’t be happy about that, my righteous judge,” I looked at her with a smile.There was a pause as Mateo looked at me with a smile. That kind that makes you freak the hell out. I never knew Mateo was a villain in the first place. So, me expecting anything as bad from him was something I was starting to see happening.The man turned bad overnight. Apparently, he was the one that hired Revoc junior and took care of him as a child. Natured him into the bad, unreasonable person he was.He planned everything so perfectly that I never thought of him to be a bad person. Made sure I believed that Revoc was responsible for everything.Now that I think about it, the man was the one
I really wanted to make amends with my in-laws. But I wasn’t planning on making the same mistake again. We learn from our mistakes.But again, this involves forgiving and forgetting. Something I just told my wife to do. But those people have made my life a leaving nightmare my all life. They never approved of my marriage to their daughter in the first place. So, why would they love me when I have money?At some point, I really thank my parents for everything they did. For allowing the world to see me as this poor guy. I got to know who were my friends and who will stay by my side regardless of what I was going through.My in-laws are one of the people that showed me their true colors. And despite that, I decided to let bygones be bygones, but what did they go and do?Took my company and nearly killed my all family. Well, they managed to kill their pregnant daughter and my friend Nathan. That is something that will be with me my all life.I might forgive them, but forgetting might be a
“You are saying someone wearing all black left this?” Roland asked as he read the paper the woman left.I just received the best news of my life and this is what is happening? How do you even be happy when you know trouble will come running to you? And that too when trouble is for the one you want to keep away from everything and everyone chasing you?I looked at my wife, and the poor thing was terrified beyond anything. She knew what she was doing marrying me. That I can acknowledge. But none of us knew the time she would be pregnant they would be a lunatic out to get our baby. I mean how the hell did she even know Maria was pregnant?I looked at my surroundings. But none of them looked like they could betray my trust. They have proved to me they are loyal friends. People I can trust with my life.Then if not them, who was distributing information to that woman?I looked at Esther again, the woman only knew Dream. Where they met, I don’t know and how much Dream knows about her I have
I sat on my bed as I tried to contemplate what was happening in my life now. I don’t have any powers to defend my family when the woman comes to do whatever she wanted with my baby. Or when the people that were hunting us come for me and my brother.Yes, Void was currently training me, but I also know that will be of little effect judging by the fact that people that wanted me dead were powerful.“You know worrying will take you nowhere right?” Maria walked over and sat next to me — rubbing her hand on my back in a soothing way. “Give all your worries to the one above. And what is even the point of you worrying about this? If you can do something about it, then do it. If you can’t do anything about it, then let go,” she spoke. “I need my husband here. It needs its dad here,” she spoke and put my hand on her stomach.I looked at her and smiled. All that she has said was correct. But I was not just worried about her and the baby. I was scared to fail them. To fail to protect my family.
I knocked on Roland’s bedroom door. He allowed me in and I found him at the window looking into the sky. For all I know Roland has never paused as a religious person to me, but we aren’t to judge.“Yes, Justine. Do you need anything?” He asked as he turned.“Not really. Just to talk with you. I realized we haven’t been talking for the past few days. As in, getting to know what is happening with the other’s life,” I elaborated.A smile stretched on his face, then he gestured for me to take my sit and he sat opposite me.“So, what do you want to know?” He asked.I didn’t even know where to start, because there have been a lot of things that have happened in the last few days and they all seem to involve him somehow.But first thing is first. My friend Carl.“Why didn’t you tell me about Carl? Have you known all this while he was your son? And did you know why the dread four were keeping him imprisoned?”He sighed and looked down then up at me again. “There are certain things that happen
For a while they both sat there quietly, neither of them trying to attempt to open up. And I had all the time to wait for one of them to loosen up.Finally, Vykalia opened up. “So, me and Victor Roland never knew your parents. We knew them when they rescued us from the Dark Nights,” she spoke looking at Roland. “Those people wanted to kill us, but your parents saved us.” She carried on.“That is how we started working for your parents. But at the time I was never a butler and she was never a scavenger. We just helped them with the people that threatened this city. Something neither of us wanted. And due to that your parents had a lot of enemies.” Roland added.“Who are the Dark Nights?” I asked.They looked at each other for a good five minutes and then Roland began, telling us all about an organization called the Dark Nights. They are well known and they are specialized in the arts of child trafficking and drugs.After Roland and Vykalia saw them and wanted to report them, they kidna
“What do you mean she is not here to apologize?” Maria asked as I took her in the room while grandmother and everyone else waited in the living room.“When she walked up to me she told me she knows where Mateo is,” I told her.“The Matoe that worked with Revoc? Wait, is that man not locked in prison?” She asked. “I thought when they locked her they locked him up as well. And how the hell did she even manage to escape? Justine we need to call the police,” she said as she paced up and down.Then it hit me, if she knows where Mateo is, then he escaped prison or he did something that made them allow him out. Even her. How the hell did she escape prison and come here?She knows I will call the police but she came either way. What game was she playing now?“Let’s not call them yet. Something is not okay here, sweetheart, they are playing another game and I think everything that has been happening is linked to it. The woman that left the latter congratulating us on the baby might be connecte