"That's not all boss. Don Black and Bane seem to be more on his side than they are on yours. My source informed me that they do business more with Greg Chase than with you. My source also made me understand that they are just doing business with you merely to keep the peace. The business you handle for them is gravely on the minimal, and every other of their businesses has been transferred to Greg..." Barter was explaining equivocally when Mr. Ban raised his hand to urge him to keep quiet. "I've had enough. You can end it now. I will take it from here. Stand by for my order!" Mr. Ban said with a quiet tone and dismissed Barter.Barter smiled.He knew his boss well enough, to know that when he got in this mood that was supposedly quiet, he was in fact the angriest, and would plot the dirtiest come back against his supposed enemies. "Sure boss!" Barter said and left. Mr. Ban stared into space, as all sorts of thoughts flashed through his mind. For Don Black and Bane to make this sud
Barter, desperate to secure his status in the city, started to rack his brain concerning the recent development. ''The only way to get your boss very upset about this, is to put it to him that Laura's disappearance has something to do with Greg stepping up the ladder!'' Barter's friend, Leroy, advised him. Barter frowned. ''Wait. Why have I never thought of this?'' He asked, rhetorically. Leroy smiled. ''I was wondering the same myself. What have you been thinking then, if this has never crossed your mind,'' Leroy asked. Barter shrugged and shook his head. ''It's Mr. Ban that made me forget about my thinking cap. He told me to forget about the issue, and that he has it under his control.Two months have passed, and he is still having it under his control via mere speaking. That new son-of-a-bitch has been making crazy sales. Sales that ought to belong to Mr. Ban, are now flourishing under another name. A damn rookie for that matter. And Mr. Ban says he has it under his control.
The lady at the front desk was a rude person, and Laura perceived it from afar. As a matter of fact, she could remember the lady from the first and only other time she was at the Bueno's hotel. And the lady could pretty much remember her as well. "Don't I know you?" The lady asked Laura, looking at her suspiciously.Laura didn't trust anybody, so she denied having ever met that woman before. When she revealed herself, the lady would go and tell Barter that his former girlfriend was living in the hotel. It would be such a catch. Besides, Laura was already skeptical, feeling that she had already told the lady enough for her to remember who she was. "Room 405 or 407," the lady repeated as she squinted at her computer, checking for any available rooms in that number. "Both of them are free. But they are the cheapest rooms in the hotel, full of bed bugs and all. Why do you want those nasty rooms?" the lady asked Laura as she fished for the room keys. "Just one of the rooms would d
Laura was stupefied. As for Greg Chase, business had never been so good to him. He was expanding daily.Each day, he covered new grounds and territories, as the new kid on the block with a lot of talent and reasonable costs became a popular name in the industry that Greg was doing business. The farther Greg's reach spread across the city and beyond, the more angry Mr. Ban and Barter became. Especially Barter.He wanted to kill Greg by all means.Once, Barter spotted Greg in the city, but he could not get close to Greg because of the number of armed guards that Greg moved with.''Just take a look at this worthless human. How did he get here? This same Greg?'' Barter wondered. He remembered how Greg looked when he first came out of jail. Haggard was a nice word to describe Greg with as at then.He looked malnourished, hungry, angry, and finished.Greg, when he first came out of jail, didn't look like somebody that would ever touch the sort of money that he was currently swimming i
Laura was at the beautification and fashion pew of the mall. She was stocking up on her disguising products and had not the slightest awareness that she had been spotted, and was about to be apprehended. The trio, Mr. Ban, Barter, and the gangsta that spotted Laura, split up and started to search the building. Mr. Ban took the elevator to the topmost floor penthouse and searched for Laura there. But then, his eyes caught a familiar figure at the mall, standing tall and confident, but the person was backing him Mr. Ban frowned slightly. He secretly walked towards this figure with his eyes flashing like a hell cat, but before he got close enough, his phone started to ring. Mr. Ban stopped in his tracks and looked at his phone. "Boss, I have just spotted her. What should I do boss, catch her?" Barter asked his boss, whispering while at it. "What? Are you crazy, Barter? Of course, catch her. Catch her before she disappears. Where did you see her?" Mr. Ban asked urgently, and turne
''Sorry boss!'' Barter said with soberness. Laura meandered her way through the crowd that was downstairs. She was lucky that she had been spotted in that crowded place if not there would have been no way that she would have been able to escape the trio that was after her. She tossed and turned and dodged until she got to the car. She slid in urgently, threw her shopping in the back seat, turned on the engine, and sped off, nearly knocking people over. ''Watch it! Who is this mad woman?'' A passer-by that Laura nearly knocked over yelled at her angrily, butLaura could not be bothered at all. All that was on her mind was how she was going to get out of that vicinity before things got out of hand. She sped out onto the freeway with her eyes in the rearview mirror most of the time. She had to make sure that no one was following her. Laura even took a couple of wrong routes deliberately. In case someone was trailing her and she was not aware of it, then she would throw the perso
This had to be a very fated day in the lives of Mr. Ban and his family and everyone around him.Margaret Ban, Charles Ban, and Lucy Ban were in the living room having an intense conversation. Charles had somehow met with Greg after that day of their first meeting, because he was new in the city, and had just started his company. Charles was trying to earn some money before Mr. Ban would find out that he had returned to the city and caught off his allowance out of anger. As a result, Lucy suggested that Charles worked in Greg's company for the time being, since there was no way he could work in the Ban family company without Damien his elder brother finding out. Charles and Greg had become friends, and in fact, when Lucy heard the story behind how Charles ran away from the city, she made sure she begged Greg with a passion, for him to help her uncle. ''How the tables have turned,'' Greg told Lucy when she first met him with the plea.Just a couple of months ago, Greg was the one i
"Lu..." Mr. Ban called with a gentle voice as he knocked on her door gently. Lucy froze. She sat on her bed, staring at the door of her room, likely wishing that she could see through the door and into her Uncle, Ban's mind so that she would know what he was thinking. ' 'Lucy, come on now, open up and say hello to your uncle," Mr. Ban said. Lucy was fretting, but of course, she couldn't leave Mr. Ban out there begging to be let in, so she got up and started to walk towards the door. She heaved a deep sigh before she opened it. Her eyes and Mr. Ban's eyes locked in together at once, and for a split second, the energy between them was tense and awkward. "Hey, Uncle Damien," Lucy said with a gentle voice. Mr. Ban flashed a wry smile at her and entered the room with gentle steps. "How is my favorite person in the world doing?' Mr. Ban asked. As he entered Lucy's room, he turned around to look at her properly. "How do you feel now? Are your wounds gone?" Mr. Ban asked. Lucy nod