2023-10-16 18:30:44"What are you doing here?" Chris asked with anger feeling his mind, he was filled with this anger because his mother had left him and his father three years ago before his father went into debt.
"Chris" he called trying to hug his grandson."Don't you dare touch me" Chris shifted, he believed he was the reason his father had gone into debt, at least that was what his father had made him believe.One morning his mother had just opted and left because his father couldn't provide for her materialistic needs anymore.And she had returned to her father's house.From the corner of his eye, Chris could see a woman come out of the room for confessionals and it was iIt Mother.The woman who had left him and his father and now they both were at his father's gravestone."You left us, so what are you doing here?" he asked his mother with no emotions."You need to understand Chris, I did that because of you" Emilia tried to explain to her son who looked so pale and pained."Understand what? That you left my dad when he needed youths most and now you are back to pay some stupid last rights to him?" he screamed causing his mother to flinch from the words coming from him."Chris I am at fault I caused your mother to leave your father because of my ego, and because he was not fit to be a son-in-law but now I know better" his grandfather explained."Wow, and you come back now to pay him homage?" Chris asked mockingly."Who has hurt you son? His mother asked calmly trying to find a stable ground where she could talk to him calmly and make him understand."Women like you, women who pry on the weakness of their men to soothe their ego, I hate all women and you are inclusive," he said as he made a turn for the exit before he was stopped by her words."Your grandfather would have killed your father if I didn't leave, I had to save you and him," Emilia said as she broke down in tears even more.Turning abruptly he asked, _ "What do you mean?". He asked looking from his mother to his grandfather."As we speak I am gravely ill and I need my grandson to take over the empire I have built" James chimed."I know of only one empire, and that is my father's empire and I will build it from its scraps," he said determined. He wasn't going to be fooled by these people in front of him.Chris had considered himself an orphan since all he knew was his father."Please Chris just do this for us, for yourself You need to end the suffering you've been through my child please " his mother begged."And why should I?" he asked still not understanding what was going on..."Your grandfather hated your father because he was from an average background and thought he could never take care of me, he made lots of threats on your father hence the reason why I left son, I always watched from afar but never too close because my father is ruthless" Emilia explained hoping her son just might understand her stance."And what makes you think he would accept the son of the lowlife he almost killed some years back?" Chris asked as he was yet again sceptical of his mother's stories."I am here ain't I?" James asked as he looked at his Grandson. He was feeling frustrated already.A few hours ago, he had been hurt beyond doubt hence he wouldn't fall for another woman's words even if they were from his mother."Your grandfather is on his sick bed son, he realized his mistake he would have apologized to your father but it was too late as your father passed on a few days back, he needs his grandson, he wishes to see you and bind before his last breath" Emilia begged."I don't believe you and I don't want to have anything to do with the man who caused the death of my father," Chris said and left his mother and grandfather standing there in confusion, hurt, and remorseful as she thought too.His father had been buried even before he was told because they considered Gum an unworthy man not fit for the proper funeral as he was poor.It hurt Chris so much.Maybe she should have accepted to go close to him those times she saw friends bully him at school, Maybe she should have stepped in when her now late husband was battling the troubles of his company and handled it perfectly, just conceivably.On his way out he bumped into someone and held onto her waist so she wouldn't hit the ground."Would you watch where you are going?" the female voice asked.Chris was about to apologize but he knew he could recognize that voice anywhere and anytime, that cologne, that waist the body size was something he could never blow off.It was Liana.For a minute Chris wanted to keep holding onto her waist just for the sake of it, just so he could think she was still his all the memories of when she would come to meet him at the library with her homework and a deadline and no emotion was enough to to let him go off her waist.And not just that, her remarks were enough to make him pull back."Oh, look who we have here" she began with an evil smirk as she took out some hand sanitiser as though she wanted to clean off his existence from her body."You came to beg your father to take the debts off your wretched shoulders?" she asked cleaning his shoulders off the invisible dirt that sat there."I don't have time for you Liana," Chris said trying to move past her but she stood in front of him.His heart was still in ruins and seeing her only hurt him the more as he couldn't phantom how much she could hate him after all their school years of the lovey-dovey she showed him."Hey, Babe you were taking so long_" Richard didn't finish his sentence as he came face to face with Chris yet again."Oh you came to take me to the car?" she asked emphasizing the car part as she looked at Chris deep into his eyes."And Chris do you have a ride home? Oh pardon me, low lives don't deserve the good things in verve hence you just might run behind our car" she said mocking his inability to afford a car."Here is my card Give me a call so I can see if I can get you a cleaner job or a driver job at my father's company, or rather my new company as I am the head of Evans group," Richard said whilst Liana handed him the card from Richard's pocket as they were in a tight embrace before finally kissing and then walking off to the direction they intended to go to.They looked all loved up and he could see that Liana was happy, the way she looked at Richard, he had never received such looks from her.It was either, homework, an exam, or some library study, and never a date night, not even a kiss to the lip she always gave one excuse or another about not wanting to kiss him.And foolish of him he fell for that almost all the time as he thought she loved him and he was respecting bee boundaries and he never wanted to make her mad.Chris remembered the time he asked Liana out to the dance as his date but she turned him down saying she wouldn't be at prom because she had a doctor's appointment at that time only for him to see pictures of her and Richard dancing whilst he was at home hoping she was better as she didn't take any of his calls.And when he asked she claimed she had felt better Richard asked and she couldn't say no.He stood there looking at the spot they had just stood and began to walk forward when he heard Liana call out to him."Oh Chris, you are invited to my wedding the day after tomorrow, and yeah make sure not to get me any flowers because it just might affect the little of nothing you have," she said as she and Richard began laughing so hard.He stood there just asking himself what he had done to deserve so much hatred from the woman he had come to love so much with everything he had ever owned.
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The wedding was grand.Chris went for the wedding and that was one of the worst mistakes he could have ever done to himself yet again.It was a grand wedding and was all over the news.He was humiliated and at some point asked to serve drinks as he looked so tattered and unkempt."Who brought this incompetent servant to my sins wedding?" Richards's mother scolded him as he Chris was seated."I am a guest ma'am!" he tried to explain."A guest? Who invited you? You stink and you look so unkempt you can't even be considered a servant" Mrs Evans was repulsed by the sight of Chris."Wait_hold up" he heard Liana's voice and thought she was coming to liberate him from the insults he just received."Well, what are you waiting for? Search him, he could have stolen from someone here" Liana said with a smirk on her like as she looked at Vhurs who was now confused."I didn't steal anything!" he was scared as two men who were huge pinned him down the guests took out their phones to make some video
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Shocked by this response the patriarch had only one thing to do."Arturo get me out of here," James asked to be wheeled out of the room as he avoided having high blood pressure and subsequently dying before they finally made amends."Chris, what do you mean by No?" Emilia came close to her son's bed to ask as she was in confusion too.Any other person would jump at that offer, hell She would jump on the offer but as the men would have it they always wanted male heirs and never a female to run the empire reason why her father chose her son over her.She was not jealous of her son, never she could ever be, It was for the benefit of them all if he inherited his grandfather's wealth and became the fourth in streak.That way he would be called Chris Lewellyn IV but he seemed stubborn."I want to do this by myself, I don't want to be like my classmates whose parents handed them everything on a platter, I don't want to have to betray others because I think I have the power, and also I want t
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I can't believe this!"His company? What does he mean by his company? Answer me, Richard!" Liana screamed at her husband who had packed his things and now they were back at home."You don't get to scream or tell at me when you were trying to frolic with this same scumbag" Richard shot back. "How could you Liana? After everything I've done for you, if Mark didn't see you trying to frolic with him and intervened when he did, you should have been behind bars now for false accusation" he shot his eyes red from anger.For a moment Liana was quiet but being shameless she regained her composure. When his parents had called him to say they had to do what they did to save themselves from bankruptcy, Richard had thought it was a joke but looking at how things were at the moment, there was no joke and welp his beloved wife had thought it wise to seduce the new owner."It ain't what you think Richy, I just was trying to see if he had the hots for me to tell him to keep it in check if he got to
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"So trying to kill her at that time didn't happen so what do you want to do now? She has nothing anymore" Mr White spoke as his wife was bent on wanting to hurt Liana more. "You shouldn't try talking about your whore that way, don't forget that you have somehow hurt me and you just might be next" "But I've apologised Evelyn, how else would you want me to deal with you, if you kill me right now what would be the change of what you've done? You practically removed me from the company and almost all my friends now know I don't own anything but you" White said to his wife. "Don't you think that's the best punishment for you right now, do you want me to tell the world of the charade and lowlife family you came from? " Evelyn said as she walked closer to her husband but as she was about to say something to her husband Chris cleared his throat. "What if the police do find this case what would you do? Because they're still looking for the person who wanted to hurt her remember? And
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"Then you should have refused me goddamn" she screamed through the bathroom door. "I thought we just made up Liana, come on, what we had yesterday was enough to salvage our falling relationship come on," he said clamping his face in his hands. "I don't want to be stumped with you and poverty-working under Chris one lost my properties to him can you take them back? If you do then for sure I'll make sure aw work on our marriage" she said through the door. Standing behind that door all she felt was excitement and a little pleased Richard still wanted her but she had to make sure she was not interested in any of these things and she wanted them to break up before anything. "Liana, from all you've seen Chris is smart and with the way he works I or you can't delve into him so what the hell are you doing?" he asked. "But you work for one of the companies, right? He gave you all the rights of that company besides as you work there you could make that building yours sheesh, do I hav
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"Hey mum," Chris said as he walked into the room where his grandfather was lying facing the screen. "Hey son, how has your day been? " she asked as she hugged her son and then turned to her father. "It's been okay, just watched the news you bought a new company," she said as she looked at him at the side-eye. "Mum I just wish to be able to own lots of businesses before my legacy runs out look at Grandpa smiling," he said as his grandfather looked at him with a small smile. "I know son, why did you decide to choose Liana's company, it could get a lot of things wrong and you know this," she said as her dad held her hand. "I know mum I just want the problem to en-suite, there's always a plan mum," he said "Has Granddaddy taken his medicine? " he asked with the potential to change the topic at hand. "Yes, he has " Emily replied and a different conversation started talking of different things and how the businesses he had been handling had gotten so overwhelmingly well that at
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He sat on the bar chair having some thoughts to himself as he was going to have to pay off the debt he had taken and also the stress he was going through with his parents his dad was yet to give him some space into the family. Hearing the vocal stated his wife had been arrested and he was somewhat the one who had picked up the call since she jas been giving numbers. "Okay I will be down there" he answered in a shaken voice. Maybe this was going to make him get closer to her. The little money he had with j could help bail her off. After getting to the cell he had just left the phone with his lawyer asking if it was right. His Lawyer was somewhat able to convince him it was okay, I mean that is after talking to his boss Chris. After letting her out of the cell she didn't look excited to see him as he expected his heart hurt but anyway maybe their relationship was like that. "You better don't hurt her as you leave," the officer said as his case for wanting to hurt his wife was a
