Don Black entered Mr. Ban's office, ambiguously. ''Lu, I'll come to see your mother later, okay? We can talk then. I have a meeting now,'' Mr. Ban said to Lucy and winked at her to leave. Don Black looked at Lucy with interest as she turned around angrily to leave her uncle's office. Already, as soon as Don Black entered the office, she was about to leave, so Mr. Ban didn't need to prompt her. ''Who is the pretty miss?'' Don Black asked with a mischievous glint in his eyes after Lucy left.''My niece,'' Mr. Ban replied, glaring at Don Black knowingly. Don Black raised his hands, indicating that he was done talking about Lucy and that he would never attempt to go close to her for whatever reason.''What was so important for you to have called me to your office sounding as urgent as you were?'' Don Black asked Mr. Ban as he took a comfortable seat in front of him.''Cigar?'' Mr. Ban asked and showed a packet of cigarettes to Don Black. Don Black declined. ''I just quit mine outsid
Greg went to work the following day at a warehouse, where his job was to stack and unstack heavily loaded cartons. "Why are you late today, Greg? It's very unlike you," his manager said to him as he watched Greg sign in for work. Greg shrugged. "I overslept," he said abruptly. "Of course, you did," Greg's colleague said, appearing from a corner of the warehouse with a carton of heavy load which he dumped on the floor with a loud thud. Greg turned to look at his colleague, wondering what he was talking about. "I saw you yesterday at the Vanity Place," Greg's colleague said with a sheepish smile. Greg's eyes shone.He never imagined for once that anybody he knew would see him at the club. And of all people, his lowly colleague at work. "How were you able to get in?" Greg asked his colleague with a smirk on his face. "Yeah, look at you bragging. I got in with my mentor, but I saw how you got in though. I saw that you were with the club owner's niece. What a connection. How come
''Lu is hanging out with hoodlums nowadays,'' Mr. Ban told Margaret Ban, his younger sister, and Lucy's mother. ''He's not a hoodlum, Uncle Damien,'' Lucy replied defensively. Currently, she hated Mr. ban. He was her favorite uncle, but the thought of what he was doing to Greg by refusing to help him get a job, and asking him never to visit his club again made Lucy livid.''What do you have in common with him for crying out loud, Lu? Someone that just left jail. Can you hear yourself?'' Mr. Ban asked Lucy.''Margaret, look at what your daughter is doing. Look at how she chooses to disgrace the family name,'' he added, looking at his sister with serious eyes. Margaret Ban glanced at Lucy and signaled for her to leave. She knew her brother. Everyone knew that Mr. Ban was a bully. He had bullied too many people in the past for everyone to know when he was lying about another victim of his, so Margaret didn't listen to him over Lucy's words.Lucy stormed out of the living room. They w
"The Young man that told you he knows me at Ban's club, can you remember what he looks like?" Don Black asked his bodyguard when he got back to his place of business. The bodyguard appeared to be thinking about his answer. "Normal guy, boss. To be honest. It was not until later I heard he had been in jail for three years and just returned,'' the bodyguard said. Don Black's eyebrows twitched. "Where did you get that information from?" He asked with a mellow tone. "Rumors spread easily on the streets boss. Everyone was talking about the incident and they were shocked that he was able to calm me down, so they started to talk. Tongues started to wag, and some people even said that he was the mysterious man from Mr. Ban's wedding. The one that beat up over a hundred gangstas and left without blemish," Don Black's bodyguard said. Don Black was amazed by what he was hearing. Every single piece of information he got about this mysterious man at the club, pointed towards the fact
Greg stared at his phone as it rang for the umpteenth time.Lucy had stopped at his house to tell him the news about her mother being available to help him secure a job, but he was not at home, and his door was not locked. When Don Black's bodyguard kicked open the door, he wrecked the lock, so they only could not lock it shut when they were leaving, and by the time Lucy got there, the autumn wind had blown the door open. "Where are you? And why is your house open all the way as if there is a party going on inside?" Lucy texted Greg when he didn't answer her calls. Lucy's question was enough to get Greg to talk to her. Within a short minute, Greg was calling her back. Lucy raised an eyebrow as she looked at her phone ringing and displaying Greg's name. So he was right there with his phone and deliberately not answering her. She was not surprised anyway, because Greg had been ignoring her for nearly two days. He knew she wanted to talk to him about her uncle, Mr. Ban, and Greg cou
It didn't take long for Greg to get home. As soon as he entered the street where his house was on, he saw Lucy's Porsche parked in front of his house, and she was inside the car. Greg came down from the taxi he hired and knocked on Lucy's car window. She jolted awake as she had dozed off for a bit while she waited for Greg. ''Hello, stranger,'' Lucy said as she rolled down the window of her car and looked at Greg for a moment before she got out of the car to join him inside his house. ''Well, hello there,'' Greg replied with a light tone as he walked into his house. He was very concerned with what had happened in his absence. ''What did you find?'' He asked Lucy as they made their way inside. ''Find about what?'' Lucy asked, looking at Greg's back in confusion. ''Did the intruders do away with any valuables?'' He asked her as he entered the house. ''Oh, that. No, I don't know because I didn't enter the house. I decided to wait for you to come back,'' Lucy replied and eventu
''Damien, I can't take this anymore. I can't,'' Laura yelled and walked to the wardrobe aggressively, ripping her clothes off the hangar. Mr. Ban watched her with a stern look on his face. Laura sniffed and pulled her clothes down one by one. Then she dragged out her suitcase and started to stuff the clothes in without folding them even. Mr. Ban did nothing but watch her as she frantically went about her business. When Mr. Ban left Margaret's house from warning her that Lucy was hanging out with a supposed hoodlum, he was so furious to see how attached Lucy had become to Greg. The same Greg again? How come both of them were always entangled with the same women? First, it was Damien snatching Laura from Greg in a very rude way, now, Greg had wrapped Lucy, Damien Ban's favorite niece around his finger. Mr. Ban got home that day and attacked Laura at once. The fury he had inside him while driving back home from his sister's house was beyond control, and he already had in mind to ya
Mr. Ban couldn't get enough of Laura that day, and went for several rounds on her, while Barter held her down and looked at her with pity. The more pitiful he looked at her, the more helpless she felt. Barter deliberately looked at her that way so that it could trigger Mr. Ban to dominate her more. By the end of the last round, Laura was as limp as a vegetable, and shivering with petrification. "Uhh," Mr. Ban groaned when he deposited the final batch of himself inside her and decided that he was not going to go for another round. His limp body rested on top of Laura's naked body, and he stayed on top of her, trying to recover his energy. Laura squirmed under him. While she was under Mr. Ban, waiting for him to get up from her body, she saw Barter's face. He looked at Laura with a straight face, and his eyes were burning with want and desire. After watching Mr. Ban pound Laura in the most merciless way, Barter could not think of any other thing than tasting Laura too. After a
Greg Chase didn't know if he should laugh or cry. He stared at The Man until he was sure that The Man was serious about what he said, then he heaved a tired sigh. ''You cannot afford to do this to me. I mean...you sparingly ruined my life,'' Greg Chase complained, his eyes on The Man the entire time. ''You are the watcher, Mr. Chase. You shame me. The watcher ought to be more powerful than you are, but you are too full of yourself, so you cannot reach your full potential,'' The Man told Greg Chase. ''How powerful can I get?'' Greg Chase asked. ''Did you hear about the natural disaster that happened in the city Aklans weeks ago?'' The Man asked Greg Chase. Greg Chase nodded.''Yes, that was caused by a watcher like you. He was upset about something, and his intense anger caused a stir and an earthquake occurred. Though the government officials claim it to be solely a natural occurrence, it is a lie, and they know it...'' The Man told Greg Chase. Greg Chase was not sure he heard
Greg Chase almost dropped dead when he heard everything. ''If you have anything to tell me, or there is an emergency, I bet you now know how to summon me. It took you two years to learn how to summon me, Greg Chase. Now, you know what pride can do to you. It can ruin you,'' The Man said as he gradually disappeared into space. Greg Chase stared in arrant shock.All this...it had to be a joke.''Boss...at least...you aware that you returned my colleagues back to our company, right?'' Scissors asked Greg Chase after The Man left. Greg Chase looked at Scissors casually and nodded. ''I have told you not to call me boss anymore,'' Greg Chase said.Scissors smiled. ''The boss is really back to himself. Boss, you have not told me that in the past two years, and I have only called you boss throughout,'' Scissors said, smiling. Greg Chase wished it could stop.Someone needed to come and tell him that all this was a dream.Ge desperately needed to hear that he had been pranked heavily. So
''Master!'' Greg Chase muttered. Then he blinked. The next time that Greg Chase opened his eyes, he was in his living room on earth.He was leisurely watching TV and Scissors walked by casually. Greg Chase looked at Scissors, expecting him to freak out and ask how and where he had been but Scissors acted like every other day. As if nothing happened. Or?Had he been in a trance?''Scissors, what day is it today?''Wednesday,'' Scissors said. ''Where have you been in the last twenty-four hours?'' Greg Chase asked, looking at Scissors, squinting in confusion. It was as if his brain had been formatted. Scissors turned to look at him funny.''Keeping tabs on me now, huh, boss!'' he said, taking orange juice from the fridge and heading back inside the house, to his room. Greg Chase's eyes sparkled in confusion. ''I'm not keeping tabs on you. Fuck you,'' he said under his breath.''I heard you!'' Scissors yelled from afar. Greg Chase nodded with satisfaction. The first thing that
''Boss?'' Scissors called, wondering why Greg Chase was looking at him like that. ''What is growing on your head?'' Greg Chase asked Scissors. Scissors frowned.Was it because he had indicated that something was funny about Greg Chase, that Greg Chase decided to switch up on him?''Boss, are you kidding?'' Scissors asked, flashing a weak smile.Greg Chase shook his head. ''There's a radio on your head,'' Greg Chase suddenly said.''Radio!'' Scissors muttered and raised his hand to touch his head but he did not feel anything, and to Greg's shock, Greg saw Scissors' hand pass through the radio. ''Ah, boss...you are playing the pranks on me. But there is an antenna on your head anyway,'' Scissors said to Greg Chase. Without wasting time, Greg Chase raised his hand to touch his head, and he was not surprised when he could not feel anything, yet he saw Scissors gasp in shock. ''Your hand passed through it,'' Scissors said. ''Same thing that happened to you. There's a radio on your h
''You...I must give it to you as the watcher with the biggest ego ever...'' The Man said to Greg Chase.Greg Chase frowned. ''Are there more watchers? I thought I was the only one,'' he said to The Man as he walked towards Scissors and started to pull him up again, but just like before, an unknown force repelled Greg Chase. The Man laughed his usual mocking laugh, one that made Greg Chase upset by all means. ''Can you please release my friend? What the hell?'' he asked The Man, anger flashing evidently in his eyes.''I am not holding your friend to anything, he will get up when he wants to,'' The Man replied.''And, about your question as to if there are other watchers, of course, there are billions of watchers around the world,'' The Man said to Greg Chase. ''I thought I was the only one. Are they also up to anything as big as mine? Do they try to take down their enemies or they are solely connected to the source of wherever this watcher thing comes from?'' Greg Chase asked. ''T
Greg Chase was beside himself, wondering why Laura had suddenly cut off from him.Yes, she might have been spotted in his house, but from the way he felt, he knew that word had not gotten to Mr. Ban about the fact that she was in his house, so why was she suddenly unavailable? Why was she no longer interested in their plan to overthrow Mr. Ban completely this time?He had his hopes on her, especially now that Don Black had looked in another direction, having found another ''young blood'' to show the ropes of the business and get acquainted with. No matter how many times Greg Chase called Laura Ban, it either did not go through, or she abruptly hung the call up on him.''Urgh, what the fuck is going on?'' Greg Chase asked himself. He felt as if everyone he knew and looked forward to helping him achieve one thing or the other, was turning their back on him. But, under what basis? What did he do, or what did they suddenly realize for them to have such a decision made overnight?''Boss
''What is it?'' Shadow asked, looking very interested in Barter's thoughts. Barter had been looking at him with so much intensity, he had to know what was on Barter's mind while he was looking at him. Barter looked at Shadow closely.If he told Barter what he knew, everything could take another turn for the worst, but he also wanted Laura Ban to face the repercussion of the trouble that she had doled out on others. Shadow stared at Barter, waiting for an answer. ''I was just wondering when you will ever settle down with one woman. You should be married by now, you know...'' Barter suddenly said. Shadow was surprised. ''Are you kidding me right now?'' he asked Barter.Barter shook his head. ''Nope! After you lost your ex-wife, I could understand you staying away from relationships and not wanting to commit to anyone anymore, but it's been nearly ten years since that happened. Don't you think you need someone by you to make you feel better? You know what I mean. Even gangstas nee
Barter was getting frustrated, and desperate. After spending more than two decades with Mr. Ban, he was easily going to throw him, Barter to a corner just because of a loose whore he called his wife? He stared at the door of the room as if he wished that his eyes would bore a hole through. ''Preposterous,'' he muttered as he suddenly turned to leave. In the living room, when Barter stormed in angrily, he saw Shadow. Barter looked at Shadow as if he was seeing a ghost. ''Dude, where the hell have you been for nearly two weeks?'' Barter asked, shocked. Shadow rolled his eyes. ''Did you really expect me to hang around so that I will get discovered by Chase and the rest of them that I am on Ban's side?'' Shadow asked. Barter suddenly realized. There was no way Greg Chase and his cohorts would not have found out about Shadow playing both sides, the tension and pressure were too much, especially after the war. ''You are right, you would have been spotted,'' Barter said.
''We just had a few drinks and nothing more,'' Laura Ban said. By this time, they had arrived at the home of Mr. Ban.Mr. Ban hurried out of the car as if, if he stayed there for one more second, something will happen to him. ''Boss!'' Barter greeted him as soon as he sighted him. He had been waiting rather impatiently for Mr. Ban to return and give him a rundown of what happened at Laura Ban's house. Barter would have been the one to follow Mr. Ban to Laura Ban's family house, but his hideous face did not allow him. ''How did it go, boss?'' Barter asked. Mr. Ban glanced at Barter and rolled his eyes. Barter knew at once that Mr. Ban must have been ridiculed and insulted. The look on the man's face was so intensely upset. Barter spotted Laura Ban behind, hurrying up to meet Mr. Ban, and he obviously hissed, loudly enough so that Laura Ban would hear him. But of course, at the moment, Laura was bothered about something else, so she paid Barter no mind. She hurried towards Mr