"Please excuse me for a moment."Ari said to the girls and then walked to the other side of the deck. "Please come."He called at Damien. Damien stared at the ladies for a while. Some of them were winking at him. He walked to meet Ari. "I know you have every right to see me as a joke."Ari started. "But you can go ahead and prove it for yourself. I mean, the news about going to the island with me."Damien's gaze was cold and unamused. Ari sighed. "Didn't you receive a call from a private number? If I were the one who was the brain behind all of this, why would I have called you with a private number?"Ari was doing all he could to get on the good side of Damien. Damien was not ignorant of that fact. "Did I argue with you otherwise?"Damien finally spoke. "Huh? Really?"Ari was a little surprised. He chuckled. "For a moment, you made me worried. I mean, you have such a weird expression on your face. Anyone could have misconstrued the motive behind it."Damien took a step closer
Three of the ladies ran to Damien and grabbed him by the arms and legs; one fell on her knees, grappling at both his legs. "Please save him.""Don't let him drown."Damien shook himself free from their hold. He turned around and leapt off the yacht. "What do they think I am? A murderer?"He went deep down into the water, dived for a while, and collected the lad in his arms. With few strokes and sways, he was back at the surface of the water. He pushed Ari over his head onto the yacht and climbed after. "Boss?""Boss?""Is he alright?"The girls had swarmed the unconscious body of Ari. Damien walked into their midst and raised one of his legs high into the air. He brought it down fiercely towards the stomach of Ari,"Do you want to kill him? What are you doing?"One of the ladies yelled. "Kill him? Don't be ridiculous. I'm just trying to bring back to life."The lady was very stunned by what Damien had said. She rushed to Damien and pushed him out of the way, but he was too stron
"Take a walk down this road. You would see a cut in the corner. He is somewhere there."An old lady said to Ayisha. "Thank you very much for your time."Ayisha walked away after appreciating the woman. She walked down the road and saw a cut as she had been directed. She had hardly taken the cut when she saw a man seated on the floor, his back to a big garbage can. He was there seated in the open, his head dropped. He looked to be sleeping. "Oh shit."She cussed, standing there as she gazed at the man. She fanned her face with the back of her hand. "AM I really going to do this?"A sound came from the man. When the man lifted his head, there was sticky saliva dripping from his lips. Hanging down and reluctant to drop. "No. No. I can't do this."Ayish was very irritated by what she had seen. She turned and started to walk away. But then she halted. She recalled the promise that she had made to the rest of the group. "Why did I volunteer to do this? If I had an idea that he had tu
"Is that so?"Damien said over the speaker. "Yes, Young Master.""How much did she offer to pay?""20 million, Young Master."Damien was quiet for a while. He could hear some noise coming from the room where Ari had been laid. He was seated in the living room of the yacht. "Was that all she offered?"He didn't allow himself to be carried away but the distractions. "Uhmm... not really... I mean...""You are not trying to hold anything back from me, are you?""Do I have a death wish? Why would I ever want to do something like rhat?!"Damien pulled his phone away from his ear for a while. While the person over the speaker was trying to convince him, the man had unintentionally become so loud that the noise pierced his ear. "Then?""She offered her body. We had sex, Young Master.""Oh, is that so?""Yes.""Keep me posted then. I'm sure you know that she would not sit idle as soon as she finds out that you have led her to a dead end.""I'm forever ready, Young Master. I have your prot
The yacht came to a stop at the shore of the island. Damien was the first jumped off the yacht. "Mr Kevin, you should wait for me. I am responsible for your whereabouts, please. If the organisers realise that you are nowhere to be found, they would be quite displeased with me."Damien heard Ari call at him, but that wasn't his brother at the moment. There were a lot of things going through his mind as he stood and gazed. The island was no longer what it used to be. He clutched his hand to his chest as he his legs trembled. He was going to fall on his knees, but he did all he could to hold his body up. There were no trees in sight. Not even coconut trees. Not even one. "How could they do this?"He muttered, watching in great shock. Long ago, before he crashlanded on the island with the nine BMX girls, they had landed on an inhabited island. An island clothed in greenery and beautiful sight. But now, all that was left of the island were uncompleted constructions and workers doing
There were about seven men armed with guns surrounding a building. Damien was standing aloof, a couple of distances away from the building. The building was the only completed building he had seen since he had been searching through the island. Though the building was not painted or decorated, it was sturdy and spacious. There were a couple of trees surrounding that area. It was a good thing for Damien if he needed to hide himself. "What are they guiding? The statues of red gold?"That was the only thing he could think of. It it wasn't something valuable in the building, there would be no reason for men to be surrounding the building, let alone armed men. "I can't idle around. I should be quick about it before Ari finds me again. That fool will never give up."He observed the men closely. "They are not even moving. Why would they stand still like rocks? At least move your necks or something, you fool's."He cussed from behind the tree he was hiding. As though one of the men heard
"Oh my God! Gold! Fucking gold!"Ari exclaimed. He was swept off his feet by the sight of it. He looked from one corner of the room to another, gold everywhere!He hurried to a corner and made to lift one of the ornaments."No touching, please Master Ari."Darren warned. "I'm sorry, but the best I could do for you is this. Just look around."Ari didn't look like someone who had taken an offence in what Darren had said. "This is crazy. I could never have believed that there was gold left on this earth. Thought all the golds have been discovered."Ari turned to face Darren,"This gold is strangely looking. Red in colour instead of the normal one we see everywhere."Darren smiled. "Well, the one which you call the normal ones is actually the common one. Most of them have lost their values because they have been compromised."Darren paused for a while. "You would be very surprised to find out the process that many of these privileged political figures go through to make something that
Damien followed the lady into a room. It was well furnished and spacious. There was a bed in the corner and a set of couches in another. "You can sit here while I go prepare."She said so coldly. Then she walked away. "You might as well pour yourself a glass of drink."She added before she shut the door. Damien sat there as he stared at the door for a while. "What the hell is wrong with her? Does she have feelings for Ari or what?"He realised that that wasn't his problem. He lifted his gaze and saw a bar of drinks."Man, what sort of a room is this? Has everything you could ever think of."He muttered and got up. He walked to the small bar and picked a bottle of white wine. He turned the bottle to this side and that side to read the inscriptions. "Let's hope it's tasty."He took a sip from it. He shut his eyes to savour the taste. He sniffled. "Damn, why does it taste so good?"He gulped the whole content of the glass and poured another turn. While pouring the next turn, that wa