"You have to take it easy or you'll end up in that hole." Came the voice of a man who pulled Richard away, right after he was about to fall into a nearby hole due to his drunkenness.Richard staggered, and the man held him carefully while Richard turned his head to meet the man's gaze, his blurry vision became clear at the sight of the man in front of him as he became still, his gaze not leaving the man's face."Aren't you going to let go of my arms now?" The man asked raising his brow.Embarrassed, Richard removed the man's arms from his hold, shifting his gaze away from him as he ran his fingers through his hair in embarrassment. Both men stood beside the hole, Richard refusing to say anything to the man standing in front of him as he kept sighing and refusing to meet the man's gaze.The man kept checking his watch as he waited for Richard to say something but the latter didn't move an inch. "Let's go back to the bar and talk." He said, leaving Richard all alone as he headed to the
Throughout the night, Chris didn't close his eyes to sleep. Larry's name kept haunting his thoughts as he got busy with his computer, searching for Larry Conrad on the web but there was no valid information about him making Chris sigh in frustration as he checked the web on his phone but the same result.He didn't have anyone close to him that'll help him find Larry's information. He swiveled on the swivel chair thinking of anyone who would be able to get Larry's information on a low-key but to no avail. Chris went back to checking the web and found Larry's phone number."Is this valid?" He soliloquized, saving the number on his phone as he kept searching for more and more info but it was only the phone number that was the only information the internet had of Larry Conrad. "How can't his phone number be on the web when his personal information isn't here?" He muttered kissing his teeth in annoyance.The thought of Larry and Liana together made him more furious. With Larry having the sa
Chris settled on his desk, while Yue Wang couldn't get over the interior decors of his office."Not bad." She managed to say as she sat on the couch at the other side of the office, tossing her handbag on the other side of the couch.The knock on the door disrupts the peace of the office decorum. The large doors were pushed open and his secretary came in, she glanced at Yue Wang who was sitting comfortably on the couch with the corner of her eyes as she walked up to Chris, placing a file on his desk."Sir, here are the articles you asked for." She said with a smile on her face, twirling her hair."Hand it over to my assistant," Chris said without sparing her a glance as his immersed attention was on the paperwork he was going through."Assistant?" The secretary repeated in curiosity as her eyes settled on Yue Wang who was helping herself with a cup of coffee. A nervous chuckle escaped her lips as she smiled in relief. "I'll do that, sir." She took back the file and handed it over to
After a long day at work, Yue Wang managed to finish the article and handed it over to Chris for him to check it out. The latter took the article from her and thoroughly checked through it, every single paragraph and every slight detail. "This is too verbal.""Huh?" She raised her brow, giving him a questioning look. "What I mean is that you should make the tenses simpler. I think the first written article was much easier to read than this." Chris pointed out, explaining everything she needed to make amends for in the article she had rewritten."You prefer the one written by some unknown person than mine?" Yue Wang kissed her teeth, feigning annoyance to get on his nerves.A hearty chuckle escaped Chris's lips. "That's not what I mean. Let's separate our personal lives from work, rewrite this article, and make it much easier for readers to read. Then bring the edited one over so I can send it to my secretary, it needs to reach the editor-in-chief before I can be made public." He said
At Evans Group, news reached Lawyer Raphael that Richard had declined the offer of him being the CEO's lawyer. Lawyer Raphael couldn't accept the offer either because his workload as the senior lawyer of Evans Group was too much and he enjoyed being a senior, rather than being a lawyer under the CEO. Even though it was a promotion on his part he couldn't accept it.He summoned Richard to his office and immediately the latter came, Lawyer Raphael closed his laptop and went up to meet Richard who was leaning in the door unfazed."I heard you refused to work as the CEO's lawyer." Lawyer Raphael stated, trying as much as possible to cool himself and maintain his poise."It wasn't my utter motive. I meant with the CEO and he told me to decline the offer myself." "You met with the CEO?" Lawyer Raphael asked immediately, he processed Richard's words in his head and busted into a peak of hilarious laughter. "You want to cover up with that false story?"Richard regretted in an instant why he
Richard arrived at the bar where he first met with Chris but Chris was nowhere to be found. Letting out a deep sigh, he hurried down to reserve a seat for the both of them and ordered for few drinks.He didn't realize how much time had passed and he had finished up the bottles of drinks he had ordered, luckily for him, they were non-alcoholic so he could drive without getting penalized for driving when drunk."He's not even here yet? I've been waiting for three hours now." Richard murmured, he paid the waiter and left the bar only to find Chris leaving his car as they caught sight of each other."I'm so sorry for the delay, I was caught in traffic." Chris apologized, beads of sweat already gathering on his forehead to make his excuse look real. "Shall we?" He asked as he gestured for Richard to follow him inside the bar.Richard rolled his eyes at Chris when the latter had already looked away and was heading towards the bar. He had no choice but to follow him in.When they were alread
Chris left the bar with immersed frustration and anger and even ignored the waiter who wanted to give him a VIP card for being the first to order such an expensive wine from their bar. The waiter didn't mind the fact that he was ignored he thought Chris would be back some other time and he'd eventually accept the card.Meanwhile, Chris wasn't in his right state of mind. He locked himself up in his car and didn't know if he could drive safely home. He needed time to think and was already wasted due to the hard alcohol the wine contained.Larry's name kept lingering in his head. He shook his head severally, trying to get the thought about Larry off his head. "He would be a hindrance to all my plans." He muttered under his breath, resting his head on the window, as tears threatened to fall down his eyes. He raised his sleeves and rubbed his fingers in his mother's bracelet, letting the tears from his eyes for being such a disappointment.He managed to reach his phone and called Cosmos to
The sun flickered through Chris's window. The birds chirping from his window. Chris nonchalantly removed the bedsheet from his body as he let out a sigh of exhaustion before sitting upright on his bed.A banging headache struck his head as he groaned in pain. A reminisce of the previous day flashed through his head. Larry's name haunted his thoughts. He fell back on his bed, face-palming himself. "I wish I seize to exist." He muttered under his breath.Letting out a sad smile, he took his mother's letters from the drawer. This would be the one hundredth time he had read through it and he always did so anything he was sad or felt like he had failed. With a stained cheek, Chris continued to weep over the fact that he wasn't useful after all and couldn't make his mother's wish come through and his enemies would surely win this time over him.He heard a knock on the door disrupting his moment of agony but was too lazy to stand up and open it. Chris heard the creaking sound of the door and