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The satisfied staff gives each other high fives as they have taken care of the crazy rich kid. Gray, Jones, and Alice chuckle as they see William get thrown. Jones helps Alice with her chair, like a true gentleman. She thanks him and they all sit down to order and eat. “I must say, Gray, I was very surprised to hear that you are back in the city.I was very confused when the news said that you were missing and presumed dead. I was relieved to hear from you.” Jones says. “How is your wife, how is your family? I am sure that your wife is so happy to see you,” Gray smiles at him. “Wendy just divorced me. She said that she found a new boyfriend.” Jones' smile goes away immediately. Does Wendy know that she has just divorced the richest man in the city? Jones is one of the few people that knows about Gray being the mars, and also being the richest man in the city. He has kept this secret of his friend very tightly to himself. He knows that Gray single handedly stopped the war, but t
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The small end of the quarter party comes up in two days. It's more of a small business party, just between over a hundred people, and Jones makes it small and intimate because of how Gray loves his privacy. Gray and Alice gets to the venue and they are surprised to meet so many people outside, with so many cars parked outside. Since most of the people in attendance are members of the golden club, there are very many expensive cars outside. Jeeps, Lexus, Rolls Royce, Bugatti, Mercedes, name them all. It's like a car showroom here. It's so expensive that Alice's poor car looks like a dump truck. She sighs as she steps out of her old jeep. She has to slam the door very hardly to get it to shut properly, this attracts the attention around them. Gray notices this and smiles at his shy assistant. “Are you okay, Alice?” He asks. “Yes, sir,” she smiles. “Just… I'm just anxious because I am meeting so many rich people.” “You will be fine, you look great.” He compliments her. They are
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Hearing that Gray said he will take Alice and her family into the top tier of the golden club, that makes Tori and her friends laugh even more. “Your fellow garbage man thinks that he is powerful enough to put you into the club? You think it's a club for the poorest?” Tori mocks. But Alice is not listening to Tori. Did Gray just say that he is going to put her family into the top tier? He is doing more than she even dared to ask. She can't even hear the hateful word of Tori anymore. “Sir, do you mean it?” She clasps her hand over her mouth. “if my family gets into the top tier, our lives are going to change overnights. My poor parents will become billionaires in a few days!” Gray nods with a chuckle. “Alice, I know, that's why I want them there. You have been very faithful and loyal to me, it's not too much for you.” Alice doesn't know when she bursts into tears and hugs her boss. “Oh, I'm so happy! God will bless you so much, sir! I will serve you for the rest of my days!” Sh
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Inside is not as chaotic as outside. The party has started already and gentle music is being played by a small group of violinists in a corner. Smartly dressed waiters are walking around, making sure that all the guests have drinks in their hands and are having a good time. Alice and Gray are handed drinks too and they start to move around. There are less than a hundred people in this meeting. Alice almost feels intimidated by how rich everyone around her is, but the new status of her family gives her the boost she needs. Jones takes the stage and he gently raises the glass to the air, catching the attention of everyone. “Good day, everyone. Thank you for coming to my company's quarterly party.” He says. “This quarter, we have registered more profits than any other time of the year, and that's thanks to you,my partners are associates…” Everyone claps. It's obvious that they all respect Jones. Even though he is young enough to be a son to many of them. “And also today, I am thr
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After the meeting, Alice is so happy that she is playing music in the car as she drives Gray back to his estate. This is the happiest day of her life. She loves how much Gray has changed her life! Shs is driving the car with a big smile on her face. “My mother wants to invite you for dinner at our place. It's in a small town in the middle of nowhere, I told her that you won't be able to come, but she was just so happy and she had to offer,” she chuckles. “I am so happy for your family.” Gray looks out of the window. “And we owe it all to you, sir.” Alice tells him. “My family now have warehouses all over the country and even abroad. You have changed our lives forever.” If there is someone whose life deserves to go turned around for good, it's Alice…As she drives down the road, she wants to make the final turn to the house, but Gray stops her. “Can we turn to the left side of the road? I need to purchase something quickly,” he instructs her. She crooks one of her eyebrow in a
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Another employee walks into the place. He has short blonde hair and he is wearing a white packet shirt and black pants. A dressing code for the junior workers. He looks smart in his work clothes, but he looks so tired that his eyes look that they are sinking into his face. He is just nineteen years of age. Freshly out of highschool and he is just trying to make a living to support his sickly mother. So, that's why he hasn't quit in this shitty place if work. That's why he swallows all the bullying that his seniors serve him on a daily basis. He puts on the best smile on his tired face and starts to walk to Alice and Gray. “Good morning, ma'am, sir, he greets. “Welcome to Grand motors. Can I know what kind of car you are seeking to buy, so that I can know what to show you.” Alice is standing behind Gray, her hands folded over each other.She thinks that Gray is here just to purchase a car for himself , but she is very wrong. “Young man, do you have a Rolls Royce La Rose Noire?”
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Alice frowns when she hears the man said that they can't afford to buy the car. The other woman said that they are wasting her time and she left! Gray doesn't say anything, he is not disturbed with the embarrassing way this people are treating him. The boy, the young teenager salesman, he picks up the key and walks up to them. “Sorry for my boss, he is just tired. Come, I will show you the car!” He takes them upstairs to where the car is displayed on the another floor. The car is kept separate from the rest. It's a beautiful red car and sparkles in the white lights. Alice draws breath, because she seems to be finding it difficult to breathe in front of such a beautiful car. Tommy is smiling too. This is one of his most favorite cars in the world.“Isn't she beautiful?” He chuckles. “She is a masterpiece of design and engineering. It will interest you to know that this case is so expensive and precious, only a few has been made.” Gray turns around, observing the car too. Alice
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Alice laughs as more tears drops from her eyes. This is a day that she is not going to forget in a haste. Gray now turns to the salesman and asks for the price. The smile on Tommy's face goes away. It has come to the hard part, maybe they won't want the car after hearing the hefty price. “Sir, this is a very expensive car, like I have said many times. It's forty.” He says. “Forty thousand?” Alice asks. “Million, miss. It's worth forty million dollars.” He corrects her. Alice's heart sinks to the ground immediately. What was she even thinking? This car is way above her. There is no reason for Gray to splash so much money on a car for her. She is after all, nothing but his worker. She drops her head as she sighs. “It's okay, sir, you don't have to buy this car for me. It's too expensive. I can buy a smaller one.” Alice shrugs. “I am thankful for the fact that you even offered to buy it for me.” But Gray snorts as he takes out a card from his pocket. “Nonsense. The car is your
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This is an entire irony for Gray, that the president is promising to make him the most powerful man in the world. He thinks that it's so ridiculous, that he laughs out loud. The president laughs. “You think that I can't do that, Mister Lance?” “More like why would you want to do that? Being the most powerful man in the world, I would assume that you wanted to keep that position for yourself.” The president throws his head back and laughs. “I am already powerful, Westland is the most powerful nation in the world, and I want you to get to taste my level of power. Being rich and so powerful, do you know how unstoppable you will be?” Gray looks at him with a small smile on his face. “How do I know that I can trust you, mister president? It was just weeks ago that you had a grudge against me because of the award given to me by the world union.” “Ahhh,” the president laughs and waves it off. “That was like a century ago, we are gentlemen and I am sure that we can put our differences
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Alice hasn't gotten over the surprise of suddenly seeing him in the meeting room, when he raises a glass and hands it to the president. The president smiles, raises the glass in the air, before drinking out of it. “Such a calm place you have got here.” “Right? Not many people are allowed to make it this far, to this floor. It has all the privacy one can wish for.” “Yes, the entire privacy needed to stay away from that terrorist called the Mars.” The president mutters. Alice suddenly feels her hands stiffens against her side. She looks slowly at Gray, he is taking it better than her. “That's very terrible, I heard what happened.” “Crazy, that's the only word for it.” The president nods. “Half of the people think that I'm being incompetent and scared, but the bastard that won't even dare show his face is the incompetent one!” Gray nods in agreement. He picks up a glass of his own and takes a seat. The president joins him. “That's why I have come here, because I think that you ca
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Alice is running around in her high heels. This is a nightmare, this is a freaking bad dream! The president is coming to see the anonymous trillionaire uninvited, and he has refused to be turned away! She has less than thirty minutes to get everyone ready, not just to receive the president of the country of Westland, but also an impromptu visit from the anonymous trillionaire. Calls, preparing refreshments, it's almost too much for her that when she takes a turn to the left, she bumps into someone and almost loses her balance. Thank God the person is quick enough to catch her. It's William, thank God he came back as soon as he delivered the message to Gray. “Are you okay?” William asks her. “I'm not, he is mad at me.” She pushes her hair away from her face. “I don't think he has ever been this angry with me.” She holds her hand over her face, and he feels pity for her. “Do you need me to do anything?” He asks. “I can help, you know. I'm not just good at shooting guns.” She s
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Stacy suddenly loses what is left of her appetite as she sees the gory images on the television. She doesn't know when she drops her plate of breakfast and starts to rush to the bathroom to throw up. She is bent over the toilet bowl, and pouring the contents of her stomach out. She feels like she is going to die, but then she feels some gentle fingers going through her hair, and rubbing her back while she throws up. She opens her weak eyes to see that it's Gray. She is so weak, but she manages to press her face into his shirt after wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. She is so tired. He strokes her hair as he flushed the toilet. “I told you to stop watching the news, Stacy.” He mutters. “I told you that there is nothing good on the news nowadays.” “I just… I didn't know that the Mars would kill the Generals like that in the airport. It's a horrible sight.” She shakes her head. “I know that they are evil people, but I can't help but feel sorry for them.” Gray sighs and h
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All the Generals of Westland are dead, throwing the president into a fit of rage and sorrow. He calls for a press briefing and for ten minutes straight, the whole nation watches as the president cries his heart out on live national TV. How can he not cry like a kid that dropped their ice cream in a park? He just lost the leaders of his army! He blows his nose into his handkerchief and shakes his head when one of his assistants offers him to quit and do this on a later date. “No, the world needs to know what the Mars has been doing! It's safe to say that the masked man has turned into a terrorist!” He yells into the microphone. “Do you all hear me? Your hero has turned into a terrorist! He killed the Generals of the army like they were nothing, and what does that tell you people? That this country is under attack!” The journalists look at each other, before leaning forward even more. “Mister president, can you speak about the news that the Generals were found with questionable
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William almost drops a few tears when Gray told him that. He gets to kill those good for nothing sons of bitches?! “Yes, sir! Are you kidding me?! I will be the happiest person to be the one to kill all those wicked men!” William rejoices. He is so happy that he doesn't even know when he hugs his boss! Gray doesn't take offence to this, he knows that William is just being happy! William wipes the tears from his face. “William, look at me, this is the most serious thing that you have ever done in your life, are you sure that you can do it?” Gray asks. “Yes, sir, I can do it! I will use everything that I have to make sure that this is done well!” William says. But Gray is still very serious, he places a hand on William's shoulder. “You are going to put on my uniform, you are going to wear my mask, and you are going to kill all of them. Is this too much pressure for you? Tell me, and I will get someone else to handle it…” Williams lips parts. Will he get to wear the Mars' uniform?
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William doesn't know what Gray wants from him, when he drives him to the park one evening. He has been waiting for the almighty Mars to send him on a mission, but he has spent weeks in the house, sometimes helping Miss Yashin around at the office too, but he hasn't done much. He has decided to keep himself very busy by going to the gym for hours, and helping Stacy around the house. He has been very restless, because he wants to kill and repay all the evil that was done to his family, but the Mars has been very calculative and slow with his plan. He didn't ask for any progress, out of respect and fear of the Mars. He was starting to feel impatient, but he calmed himself as much as he could….Then the strange day comes when the Mars asks him to pack a bag, and he drives them to the park. They get out and take a walk, around the running kids and relaxing adults. William notices the way that Gray's eyes are expressionless, and that makes the anxiety inside of him grow even more. H
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Gray smirks, even when it seems like his secret has come to light, and he should be panicking. “You think I am the Mars?!” He cocks his head. “Of course not.” Mateo says. “That's not exactly what I am saying, you see…” Mateo pauses his sentence to pull a chair and sit in front of Gray. “You are not the Mars, but you work for him, you are his… puppet and he makes you do his dirty work. That's the only way that he keeps being mysterious and keeps slipping through my fingers, because you are his doppelganger. You put on his mask, and do some of his dirty work for him…” Mateo holds his breath, he feels very happy with how he has dismantled this situation. “Wow.” Gray claps his hands slowly, shaking his head with a fake impression. “Are you mocking me right now?” Mateo squints. “I mean, that's a very creative mind you have there, for you to think that I, the man you haven't thought much of, is the one who has destabilized the country.”Mateo feels a hot rush to his face, maybe he d
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Of course the president hates that Mateo has not been able to keep his side of the promise, he doesn't even hesitate to give Mateo a piece of his mind. He is at the office, and he is scared that his assistant would hear, so he gets into the bathroom and shuts the door. “Mister president, if you can just give me a minute or two to explain myself.” Mateo runs his hand over his forehead. “Please, I don't wish to waste any of my time with you! How dare you, Mister Mateo?! You want to make me the laughing stock of the country?!” He blasts. “Sir, please give me a minute –” “The Mars is still out there, acting with a mysterious air around himself, and I have to explain to the people why he is still free– defying me!” “Mister president, please!” Mateo begs. Can this man just stop screaming for a while and let him get some few words out! He hits his hand against the wall and his face contorts with suppressed anger. “Sir, I didn't say that I wasn't going to kill the Mars for you, I only
