“What?” Mr. Barnes asked Damon as he saw the stunned look on his face. “You're shocked, right? I understand.” He said to him.Damon tried to walk closer to the man but was held back by Borito. He shook off the man's hand on his shoulder and looked straight at the traitor sitting before him with a wicked smile on his face. “So, you've been involved with the mafias all this while? Everyone thinks of you as the most patriotic nationalist in our country but you're just a pretentious wolf in sheep's clothing.”Mr. Barnes smiled at him, “You see, boy. The world works differently from how you know it. And people like us are the ones who make it work.” He answered Damon.“What exactly are people like you? Traitors and pretenders?” Damon asked him in fury and disappointment at the man's backstabbing action.Mr. Barnes laughed out loud at Damon's naivety before responding to him, “I need you alive and well otherwise, I would have ordered them to beat you up brutally.” “And what exactly do you
Damon had several plans in mind to use against the mafias including revealing some dirty information about them to make them turn against each other, using the Russian mobs and Tokyo mafias against them, and offering to buy their empires to legitimise it. But neither of those plans could work now with Mr. Barnes as the mafia boss. Damon stilled himself, rethinking what he should do. Don Gustavo mentioned something about their own offer and if Damon was interested in hearing about it. “Tell me about your offer then,” he said to them.The men laughed at him, “He can't even make his plan work anymore. I see we scattered everything for you, this is the real world.” Mr. Barnes said to mock him for now being confused. “Give him the offer, gentlemen.” He instructed the mafia lords to go ahead with their offer to Damon.Don Castro cleared his throat and leaned forward, “You see, the Italian mafias were a joke before now, nobody took us seriously not even the authorities. We were so weak and
Damon braced himself for what Mr. Barnes was about to reveal to him, with how he introduced the revelation Damon knew it had to do with the secrets his grandfather was keeping from him. Especially after learning of Mr. Barnes’ role in everything that has been going on.Mr. Barnes rose from his seat and walked around it gently then he turned to Borito with an instruction. “Get us drinks, it's going to be interesting.” Borito bowed to the man's instruction and fetched some bottles of highly expensive drinks. He placed the drinks on the table for the men and poured them each a glass.The men all sipped their drinks as they listened to Mr. Barnes. “This is a story long before you and even I was born.” He said to Damon and the hearing of others, “It is the story of who is the rightful King of the Kingdom and how you are your grandfather are nothing but thieves.”In his mind, Damon thought to himself, ‘This is deeper than I ever thought.’ Mr. Barnes’ accusation of Damon and his grandfather
The young prince listened attentively as his father educated him on the ways of a wise and gracious king. “Nobody here is your friend,” he dropped the first ironic thought on the prince and it startled the young man who couldn’t understand why his father said that.“Of course there are, I have Juliet over there who I love, Mark too is there, Brie Larson also…” his father waited patiently for him to list out all his friends as he did one after the other. By the time he was down, he had mentioned about half the guests.“Good. Again, nobody here is your friend and…” the King said and paused to allow the young man to grasp what he had just said to him, “Nobody here is your enemy.” He landed and waited for the prince to take it all in.“So, what are they?” The young prince asked, his heart was now raised in curiosity to find out what his father meant. The king remained silent for a while before speaking, “They are all what their interest and agenda makes them to be. If you or the Kingdom
King Bernard didn't expect Hannah to come around the palace probably because of some arrangements they made together but here she was, defiling whatever arrangement they had and doing so comfortably. Hannah ignored his question and fixed her sights on the young man with him, Richard.“Hannah,” he called to her again, “I said, what are you doing here?” He asked her but the lady maintained her gaze on the young prince whom she wasn't so excited about.“Why is she looking at me like that? What do I have to do with her?” The Prince asked his father. The lady's look was weird to him and he couldn't understand why she fixed her gaze at him rather than answer his father's question.The King walked up to her where she sat and stared down on her with anger, “I'll ask you for the last time, why are you here?” His words came out quietly but strong and serious.Hannah scoffed at the King, raising her head to look at him but remained seated. “I am here to challenge your fatherhood.” She said to hi
“What?!” Richard exclaimed hearing the woman's words, “You have a what?!” He paced around after overcoming his frozen state and continued to bang his head around what Hannah had just said. The King and Orton weren't so surprised, they already knew about it and had tried to cover it up but now, they were stunned to know that all their efforts failed. Hannah kept the child and now she's out with the revelation.“Hannah, I told you to get rid of the child, why didn't you?” King Bernard asked her.“Why would I? He is my child even if you don't want him.” She answered him back.“Then, why bother me with it now?” The King asked again.“Because he is demanding for his father and I can't keep lying to him.”The room went quiet for a brief moment, everyone tried to grasp the revelation but Richard was already filled with questions. “So, you have a child outside?” He turned to his father with his question. “It's not enough that you cheated on mother, you have a child along with it. Even with t
Mr. Barnes paused his storytelling and allowed the men take in the information from the story. Damon was aware of some part of the story but some other parts were past his knowledge. The story however was intriguing and interesting. He needed to know more.It was about his grandfather, King Richard Langston, and his great-grandfather, late King Bernard Langston. Featuring a time when King Richard was to be made the Crowned Prince of the Kingdom. However, the part of Hannah and her son was untold by Mr. Barnes, leaving everyone in suspense and anticipation.How did the history lesson relate to or affect their current situation? They wondered to themselves, what has it got to do with any of them? They questioned. But Mr. Barnes’ storytelling skills were great as he waited for them to yearn for more.“To what end is this history?” Damon asked him, satisfying the yearning of everyone else. “How does it affect us right now?” Mr. Barnes smiled at him, walked behind his seat and stood there
“What did you just say?” Damon asked Mr. Barnes in shock about what the man had just said to him. The other men in the room were as shocked as he was, they just heard the most twisted information about Mr. Barnes.Brandley sighed with his head bowed and nodded a little, it seemed he wasn't that surprised as the others especially Damon. “So, you are a Langston?” He asked Mr. Barnes. The man smiled at him wickedly, a deep surge of satisfactory energy coursed through his body as he had finally revealed his true identity to them and now there was no going back.“Is my grandfather aware of this?” Damon asked him. He suspected this was the story his grandfather had been keeping from him, and he wanted to know if he was aware of who Mr. Barnes truly was.“Richard knows his stepbrother is still alive but may not know of my true identity.” He answered him gently.“And where is your father now? John Langston?” Brandley asked. He had his suspicions of who the man was, especially remembering tha