"For your information, I'm not Eric, I'm Mr Carlos and that's what you are gonna address me as. The only person who is permitted to call me Eric is my woman here. Take note!" Scarlett's mouth is shut, her lips tremble and she surely wants to say something but all words escape her memory. None wants to come out from her lips. "But…. but… Hmmm." She closes her mouth with a heavy sigh. "So you are now married?" "About to." "What's really going on between you and this lady, do you know I can sue you in court for negligence? Your son is nowhere to be found and you don't even care?" "You speak what you don't know, for your information, your son is living with me." He laughs out loud. Scarlett can't believe what she is hearing. So Mako was with you all these while, still you decided to call for the arrest of my mom and I. She reasons, her heart fuming like a raging fire. In a blink of an eye, she jumps on Eric like a vampire attempting to tear apart his prey. He would most certa
***Three weeks later*** Eric is in his office when his secretary knocks on the door. "Come in," He answers from inside. A tall, young man walks in dressed in a white long-sleeve shirt and a pair of black trousers. His hair is styled in a perfect office style. "Good afternoon sir." It's 12:45 PM. He walks over to his boss desk and stands, waiting for the next word from him. Eric is typing into his desktop and it seems to be a serious thing he is working on. "Good afternoon, how may I help you?" He replies at last, looking up for the first time. "Sir, I'm here to deliver a message I got to you. It has reached me from Mr Carlos that your debut as the new CEO of Hollywoods would be taking place in weeks. Three, probably." "Isn't it too short, Mark?" Eric asks. He isn't too prepared for this being that he loves the private life he is living though he is wealthy and would want to continue with this. "I can't guess, that's the news I got from Mr Carlos, the former CEO of Hollywood.
"Hello, come in." He puts up a serious face. "I don't want her to know I'm excited to have her here." He mutters, taking care to make sure it isn't loud enough for Raine to hear. She opens the door and walks in. "Please close the door behind you." Eric instructs, standing up to spread his hands and capture her in a passionate hug as she is done and then walks towards him. "You're here!" He pulls off from the embrace and hugs her again, taking her by the hand, he leads her to the couch opposite him and makes sure she sits before he actually sits. "Why did you call me?" "Well, relax. It's something important." "My mother's case?" She is so excited that she is fast enough to say it out before she even realizes. Eric smiles. "No, we would talk about that some other time but before the end of the week, I'll add another money to the one I gave for her payment." Raine falls on her knees, Eric gasps. "Please rise!" She ignores him, crawling to him with tears in her eyes. "I don
"For your debut, we need to have your relatives in attendance. We haven't met them for a long time now, it's been many years now." Carlos suggests to Eric. "You know you have a lot of relatives, so which ones are we going to invite?" He asks, knowing fully well that they had enemies even in their family when he was younger. He believes that those people wouldn't change and he can't invite such people to his debut. "You will invite your mother, the woman that took care of you, you can't forsake her even if she left your father." Eric thinks for a while, placing his index finger on his lips, he remembers all those times he spent with her and how those days were sweet. He spent the first three years of his life mainly with her until he was dropped with his grandfather whom he lived with till he grew older. Carlos proved a good father with him and took care of him, he was however surprised when he threw him out. Now back to thinking about his mother, after she left him, he didn't h
"Go on, I'm listening." Eric is happy he has found someone with a good knowledge of what he's talking about. Just then the light of a helicopter flashes in the sky, both of them are attracted to it and they look up. As they are looking up, both have forgotten themselves and for those who were sent to attack them, it's the best time for them. They strike. A gunshot sounds, all seems to happen in a minute. Before either of them could realize, Mike drops, the first bullet passes through his back and penetrates to his front, flying out. Eric is the next after Mike, eight bullets are released into his body and he falls to the ground from the position he was sitting. He doesn't die but the pains are unbearable. Meanwhile, to his assassins, they assume he is dead. "Come, let's go. He is dead." One of the five men say and to his hearing, he sounds so faint. To him, he is passing out but the miracle occurs that even after many hours, he is still alive. He isn't found because no one knew h
Eric arrives at the hospital to thank the cops and despatch them to go into the second phase of investigation which is bothered on who wanted to assassinate him, the persons behind the assassination. Scarlett and Susan are the major persons in his mind. He can't take any action until he has confirmed this. Why he is still having some doubts about this is because Scarlett was known to be chasing Eric now he is wealthy, same with her mother. If this is true as his grandson told him, how would she want to eliminate him? This places him in a state of confusion but he is rest assured because he knows the cop would do their duties. As an extra encouragement to them apart from the salary they are paid, and under the permission of their superiors, he sends fifty thousand dollars each to the accounts of the cops that went to Mainland Lake fir and you search. "It's time to call Raine, she can come here with Mako." He says to himself. He called her, she had been waiting eagerly for his call
The next day, Scarlett and her mom are eating breakfast when a knock is heard on the entrance door of their apartment, it sounds so authoritative that it scares the life out of them. Before they wouldn't be really scared because they had money but now they are left with barely nothing to survive, just a little sound scared them. Susan sends Scarlett to go see who are on the door. She walks silently for fear of being heard, tiptoeing at certain points, careful not to collide with any object that will produce sound. She wants it to seem like no one is at home in case it's a danger she wouldn't open the door. As she reaches the tinted windows from outside, a loud sigh escapes her throat. She didn't intend the cops hearing but one of them did. "Who just sighed, will you open this door or we will knock it down!" A feminine voice sounds. She thought they were all males, her mom descends to come see what's going on. When she realizes they are cops, tension rises up in her chest. She b
Jack Robert's enthusiasm in getting more information from Frank shows in the way he takes additional notes himself despite the fact that his secretary is going on with his job perfectly. He can't afford to miss a single detail. He clears his throat, then looks up to Frank. "How many guys did you take with you to attack Eric?" "I took about four and we used a helicopter to navigate while another car was down. The essence of the helicopter was to distract them, we flew midway and when they looked up, we used this chance to attack." When the helicopter had passed with his lights flashing, Eric had been so focused that he lost track of his consciousness and the same occurred with Mike. Jack shakes his head with so much disbelief. He didn't believe that one of Hollywood's favorite actors would do this. After gathering all the details of the attack and sending it to the headquarters for permission to forward the trial, he got Frank reprimanded at the correctional facility, the prison