2024-10-25 15:20:07The security men are confused. Has their boss suddenly developed muscle pull and is that why he is on the ground?
Surely, he is not bowing down to a man in a threadbare suit and an uneven beard? A blind man!! Look at the car the fellow and his friend are driving. A jeep that was released years ago, not even the latest version. ( The car is not even from a luxurious company) The only cars that have driven into the estate as the most expensive ones that will be seen around the city. They are imported and even have customized plate numbers! But this is clearly not what they think it is. Because their boss, the manager, is trembling as he bows again and again. Suddenly, the security men see that they are in trouble. “Oh, Mister Lance, you have gone without contacting us for four years now and you didn't tell me that you will be coming into the estate!” The manager says. “I would have prepared your house and cleaned up the place! I would have gathered the resident to come and welcome you…” “Mister manager, there is no need for that. You know that I am not a man that likes those kinds of things. I like my quiet return.” Gray smile. “I am so happy to be back. Please, shake my hand.” The manager stands up to his feet, as he reaches out to shake Gray's hand. He notice that Gray can't see, what happened to his eyes? He casts an angry look at the security, he is praying in his heart that they have not done something stupid to the most important member of their estate! “Guards, why haven't you allowed Mister Lance through the gates? He has just returned from a long trip and he is very tired.” The security looks at each other with fear, their hearts are almost jumping out of their chests. “Sir, we just wanted to make sure that this man is not an imposter trying to get into the estate to rob the place,” the leader stammers. “That's not what you said a few minutes ago,” Alice snorts. “Didn't you call us thieves and even threatened to get the army involved in harassing us?” The security men wishes that the ground will open up and swallow them. They said sexually insulting things to this woman and considered the blind man to be a nobody and now they find out that he is a rich man?! They are doomed. “We are sorry, sir, we didn't know–” The manager snatches Gray's golden card, he is going to deal with them later. For now, he has to give Mister Gray Lance a befitting apology. “I'm sorry, sir.” The manager bows yet again. “I will make you for their disrespect, sir. I will personally discipline them and also, I will send a bottle of the Italian imported champagne everyday for as long as you stay with us.” But Gray is not even concerned with the manager, he is more concentrated on the security men with such a strong glare that the men feels like they are having holes being bored through them. “No, let them try it.” Gray smiles. The manager stops and glances from Gray to the security men. “Pardon, sir?” “They said that the card was stolen and that I am a con artist. Let them run the card through the system and let's see what happens…” The manager bites down his lower lip and hands back the card to the head security. He is so close to tears, he wants to beg the manager not to do this, but he knows he doesn't have a choice. He takes the card and slowly swipes it. It gives a positive beep and the name, GRAY LANCE, appears with a green tick mark next to it. Not only is Mister Gray living in the estate, he owns the biggest house in the estate. A mansion that cost five hundred million, and was unoccupied for years because no one could afford it. Until Gray Lance bought it. Not only did they mess up, they messed up really bad. The manager breathes out angrily from his flaring nostrils. “Get your stuff and leave the estate now. You have been fired for treating Mister Gray Lance so terribly.”
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“Please, sir, please don't allow our stupidity to cost us our means of livelihood.” They beg in tears. But the manager is not going to have it. What are his boss going to say when he finds out that these security insulted the man that single handedly took the royal gates estate out of debt? “Do not beg me, pack your filthy things and leave! More reasonable people will be here to take your place in ten minutes!” The manager huffs. The men sees that they don't have any hope with their boss, so they turn to Gray, the man that they have offended. “Sir, please, have mercy on us. Please, miss, we didn't mean to insult both of you, that was very foolish of us.” They weep. “We will personally come to your house everyday to help you with chores and errands, since you are blind!” Alice throws her head back and laugh, she loves the way karma's quick to bite them in their asses again. “Isn't the car the oldest that has ever been driven to this estate? Didn't you say that we were thieves?”
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Alice holds her hands over her face, she is shaking with a burst of happiness for her boss! She cried when she thought he was dead and she cried even harder when she thought that he was now with a disability. Imagine such a strong man becoming blind, becoming dependent on people, but alas! It was all for show! He walks over to the kitchen and brings some champagne and glasses. Something to calm her down. She is so shaken by the news that there are tears in her eyes. She drinks some of the wine and places her hand underneath her nose. “I know, it's a lot.” Gray chuckles. “But you never told me anything sir.” Alice shakes her head. “I would have helped you.” “Alice, I didn't tell you anything because that could get you into trouble. They tried to kill me, you would have died if you knew about my plan.” Alice sighs as she drinks some more. He is telling the truth though, she might be so skilled in combat and is also a trained soldier, but the truth is that the military and the go
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11. After the divorce, Wendy is so happy that she is the winner. Now she can go on and marry her rich boyfriend and she will forget about her poor ex husband. Gray, on the other hand, goes back to his mansion, and there is Alice, working tiredlessly on the computer, keeping tabs on all the government officials. After he has poured himself a glass of wine and raise a glass to himself, for saving himself from the shackles of an ungrateful wife. Soon after that, he comes to Alice in the living room and says, “Come on, Alice. I know that you want us to start to get revenge, but there are other things that we need to do right now.” She immediately closes the laptop and stands up to her feet. Bowing to her boss. “At your service, general. Where are we heading to?” Gray takes out his phone and stares at the screen with a smile on his face. “The Blanchard family, Wendy's family, has invited me over for tea.” He says. “I don't know about you, but I am very curious to meet my former in-la
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The girl bows repeatedly and promises not to do this again. She runs out of the living room, she is probably going to go and cry in the kitchen. Mrs Blanchard smiles brightly, like she hasn't just insulted Gray and his friend here. “Sorry, Gray, for the interruption, as we were saying….” Dan walks into the house. Dan is Wendy's elder brother. He is a married woman with two kids, but he is the laziest bump that has ever existed. He doesn't work, instead, he goes around telling people how rich his family WAS. He cheats on his wife and drinks around the city. He is also a certified Mama's boy. As soon as he walks in, he notices his ex brother-in-law and he smirks as he walks closer. “Is this Gray? In the flesh after so many years? To be honest, I think that you are dead.” He goes up to his mother, gives him a kiss and sits next to her.“Dan Blanchard,” Gray nods. “I thought that you would change, but you haven't…” Gray notices the expensive shoes and watch that Dan is putting on.
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The Blanchard family is thrown into confusion when they hear this. It's true that it was Gray that rented the house for them when they were thrown into a financial crisis. He even paid rent years in advance for them, but now he is asking them to pack out and claim that he owns the place? Dan stands up and looks at his mother, as if to confirm if she heard the madness that has just come out of this man's mouth. “Have you gone mad, you stupid fool?!” Dan barks. “Because you paid a little rent for us, you think that you can order us to leave this house?!” “You can do no such thing, Gray, I bet you!” Mrs Blanchard dares him. “Besides, even if you paid the rent, so what? The rent you paid is going to expire this year and my daughter's boyfriend has said he will even pay ten more years for us!” Gray laughs because the Blanchard family has got to be one of the most stupid in the world. “You think that I am talking about rent?” He looks at them and hiss. “This is legally my house! I won
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Mrs Blanchard and Brittany Blanchard goes silent at the disgraceful sight of Dan on the ground, rolling around in pain. He has just been thrown down by this tiny woman in heels! They quickly pick their jaws off the ground and gather around Dan. He is holding his waist in pain and grimacing. “Mummy! My back!” He screams and reaches out for his mother. “She messed with my back, this little bitch messed with my spinal cord!” Mrs Blanchard immediately starts to cry, “Oh, God, what can I do? Gray has brought a witch into my house and she used her black magic to throw my son to the ground! Now his back is hurting!” Dan keeps rolling around, it's a sight that disgusts Alice so much! It makes her sick to her stomach! The young soldiers program has twenty year old girls and they recover from a fall like this in second! Why is this man crying in his mother's arms?! “Oh, come on! It wasn't even that hard of a fall!” She scoffs. “How dare you say that after you have hurt me so badly?!” Da
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Alice presses her horn angrily, but the man won't move. He whistles and points at Alice's chest. “Come on, miss. I will make it worth your while!” He grins. “your number at least, you won't regret it! I have the power to change your life!” “Argh! Why won't you just go away?! I am late for an appointment and I am not interested.” The smile on the man's face is immediately turned to a frown. He can't believe that a woman said no to him very sternly. He hasn't ever been told no in his life! How can this woman reject such a handsome man as he is! He walks up to her window and leans against the car. “Do you even know who you are rejecting?” He asks with a sorry squint and a smile. “I don't know, the fucking king of England?” Alice shrugs with sarcasm. The man laughs as he moves his tongue around in his mouth. “Well, since you seem to have lost your memory, I will tell you who I am. My name is William Fleeton, I am the heir to the Fleeton billionaire company!” He expects Alice to g
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William grips the phone a little too tight, he can hear his father struggling to breath at the other end of the phone. The empire that Mister Fleeton spent forty decades to build has fallen because of the foolishness of his son! William snorts at his father's words. He doesn't want to believe that he and his family are now very poor. “Dad, stop panicking, it's not that serious.” he waves off. “How can you say we are not poor? We are billionaires, even God can't make us poor overnight!” “William, you stupid boy! You don't know what you have done!” His father cries. “I have to sell all the cars quickly, before our misfortune spreads and no one will buy them. Otherwise we might not be able to afford breakfast tomorrow!” It's all a dream to William, a very bad dream that he wants to wake up from, but people start to glance at their phones as they walk past him. “It's him, the father is worth only five million now!” “Wasn't he in the club yesterday? Covering the strippers with money?
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Worry is not what's on Gray's mind right now. Instead he gently walks out of the room and to his office. He needs to get his laptop. He takes out his phone and gives a call to Alice Yashin. He knows that it's very late at night, but he needs something from her. Like he expected, she picks up immediately. “Hello, sir. Is everything okay? Is Stacy and the baby fine?” “Yeah, they are both sleeping. I just need you to send some files to me.” He says to her. She is quiet from uncertainty at the other end. “But, sir, you are a new father and you are not supposed to be working. Just tell me what to do, and I will handle it.” She says. She is being very generous, but he won't allow that. They have worked so hard for months to see that his mission is fulfilled, and now he is going to handle this one by himself. “Don't worry about it, Alice, I just need you to do one single thing for me. Send all the files we have on the Hyena to me immediately.” “The Hyena, sir? But the man is dead.”
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On the fifth of July, a day that will forever be remembered as the day that Gray Lance took over the country, but also as the day that his first child was born. “... The commander in chief of our country has just welcomed a baby girl, Amanda Marie Lance. Congratulations to the people of Westland…” Gray is sitting on the couch, as his eyes watch the almost mute television, where the report of the birth of his daughter has just been broadcasted…She is in his hands, so small and delicate, and she is the most perfect thing in the entire world. He hasn't taken his eyes off her, he is even too scared to breathe too loud. Stacy is totally exhausted, even though the birth was fortunately very short for her. She is lying in the bed, having a deep sleep.Gray is going to forever worship the ground that his wife walks on from this day forward. The pain he saw her go through in the labor room told him that women are not mere people, but super beings with great strength.” His daughter makes
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William is explaining everything to her, but she doesn't understand what is going on yet.Why should she be the one to deliver the speech, when she was just helping the anonymous trillionaire's wife? She opens her mouth with a small gap, but no words can come out. Everyone is kindly smiling at her, the way people would look at their savior…She sighs and presses her hand against her forehead. “But, I can't deliver the speech? I'm not the Mars' wife, that's not even possible.” William smiles at her. “Oh, Stacy. You have no idea how possible anything can be.” That's when it strikes her with a heavy beating of her chest. No,no,no. “Gray is the Mars?” She whispers, almost to herself. William looks so proud, he nods slowly. “But…” she stops. Gray is the Mars!! Gray is the anonymous trillionaire! She has been married to the richest man in the world the whole time, and she didn't even know that. This is big news to her, and in front of so many people. She would need like a month to
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Stacy is very surprised to see her Aunt, but she is even more surprised to see her Auntie kneeling in front of her and begging for mercy. “Please, I was blinded by the devil!” She cries. “I didn't know that you were going to turn out so great. Remember that I gave you a roof over your head and fed you for years. Please have pity on your old and wrinkled auntie. The truth is that Wendy and Mateo told their family that Gray and Stacy are not ordinary people, but the richest and most powerful couple in the country. Mr and Mrs de Nicola believe it very easily because they got their house back. They were happy and satisfied, even though they didn't get everything they had before, and they made sure to stop by the Gray corporation headquarters to thank him. Mrs Blanchard did not believe it at all. “Are you trying to tell me that the disgraceful son-in-law of the family is so rich? Please, spare me that nonsense!” Wendy continued to try to get her mother to change her mind, but her moth
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President Brody is dead and now, the Mars is going to take over as the president of the country by virtue of being the most competent General. No one is even opposed to this, and everyone is very happy. General Micheal retires happily, after everything, he is sure that he will now live a happy and peaceful life. Everyone is preparing for July fifth, for it's going to be the day that the Mars, who everyone now knows is General Gray Lance, will be sworn in. Hundreds of representatives of good countries come to form firm allies with the new leader of Westland, and everyone is so happy because July fifth is just a day away….There is only one person who doesn't know what exactly is going on, and that's Stacy. She read on the news that the wicked president has finally been killed by the Mars, and she is very happy because the country will know peace now. There is just one thing that she doesn't know, and that is that her husband was the one who killed the president. She didn't watch
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No one, except Brody, knows that this man is the anonymous trillionaire, but as soon as they see the fear in Brody's eyes, they immediately know. Brody fired up to three shots and none of them hit this man. He drops his gun in fright and starts to back into the wall. “You are not human!” He shivers. “You are not human, you fucking bastard!” He tries to find something to shield himself because from the look in Gray's eyes, he knows that he is about to be killed. He throws a chair in Gray's direction, but when he sees that doesn't work, he grabs the almost frightened newscaster lady and uses her as a human shield. She shrieks and he immediately slaps his hand over her mouth. “Shut up! If you come any closer to me, I am going to shoot her, you hear me!” Everyone is shaken, they don't want to lose another of their colleagues. They expect that the Mars would throw away his gun and negotiate with the crazy man, but that's not what happens. Gray casually checks his gun to see if it's
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Once Brody had said the single line that he had rehearsed, he expected for the professionals to take over. Yes, even though he has just barged into the place, shot a bunch of people, and traumatized the hell out of them, he expects for them to still be very professional and come up with the best questions. He sighs with anger when he sees that the newscasters are just holding on to each other like scared chickens, and trying their hardest not to make eye contact with him. “Now, listen to me, you two fools,” he picks up the gun again. “I didn't go through all that trouble for you two to be fucking dumb, so you better get your shit together, or I am going to blow your fucking brains all over the place.” The lady shuts her eyes as more tears pours out. She is sobbing, she has to press her hands over her mouth to keep the sound out. The man has to summon courage, else they are going to be dead, so he whispers to his colleague and pushes her to the side. He takes out his handkerchief
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Brody feels like he has been caught up in a crossroad, the only man that would have been able to help him turns out to be the enemy himself. He watched the official announcement, now the whole world knows the truth about what has happened. He doesn't have anywhere else to go, he doesn't have anything to use to save himself. He still has a few tens of supporters, they are afraid to come out and say so because they fear Mars and also the judgement from their friends and families. Some of them have cut off contact with him, and this breaks his heart even more. He can't flee the country too, because he knows that he is going to be caught at the airport, or as soon as he approaches any border.Brody knows that surrendering won't work, not after the many things that he and his family did. So, what will he do now? He decides to go on live TV and say his mind. Brody is surely a master manipulator and he knows that if he plays his cards right, he will gather the gullible lots among the W
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The anonymous trillionaire is Mars?! The journalists have a field day with this one, and it's the only thing that they are talking about! Surely, the Mars/anonymous trillionaire is a very smart man, because he has managed to keep his identity for so long, even though he has two different sides. No wonder he has been so devoted to their country! If he can turn his company into a trillion dollar one, then they can trust him with the country and they are sure that he is going to do a very good job with it. Stacy is one of the people that are blown away by this news. She sits down in front of the television in her room, as she watches a newscaster compare an image of the Mars and the anonymous trillionaire. “...now if you look at both pictures very closely, you will see that they are both equal in height. Don't miss the broad shoulders, or the mighty biceps that seem to be spilling out of his shirt….” Stacy scoffs. “Is this now a thirst trap? This is a very serious matter!” Wend
