Henry hoped in all honesty that it was Homer even if it sounded nothing like him. Instead it was a small yapping dog in a compound, playing with a boy child and jumping around with a hose of water. Henry watched them for a moment. A smile unconsciously came to his lips.“You wish he was yours, don’t you?” Henry was startled at the new sound. He turned towards it.It was an older man with a walking stick. Henry had never seen someone alive yet so close to death. Sure, there were plenty of those in the hospitals and sick centers, but this was different. This man seemed like he had so much life in him, yet his body could not assist with his brunt of this life force in him. Henry stuck his both hands in his pockets and looked him straight in the face.“Hi.”“Hello there,” the man tapped his walking stick. “You wish it was your dog, didn’t you?” He was referring back to the yapping dog that Henry had been staring at.“No, no I don’t. I have my own dog.” A dog that used to keep him sa
Hands stuck into his pocket, Henry gripped the material so hard that he almost grazed his skin. The old man started to move, to leave him behind. Henry had no idea why this was brought to him and why he was experiencing it, but as he watched the man go, he knew that it was not the end.As if on cue, the man glanced back one last time, “And it will happen to you.”Henry watched him leave. He knew he couldn’t just stand there and just watch him leave. His words hung like a premonition in the air, and Henry was just not comfortable with it. They had to be something else he had to deliver, not just these words. He had been trying to hold down his calm but Henry could not do that anymore. He rushed after the man and stopped in front of him, blocking his way only because he knew the man would have to go through him to pass. Besides, his bones were probably too tired to maneuver anywhere else. The old man looked up at him with a crooked smile.“Ah, it’s the young lad from before!” He said. “
Henry gulped down his cup of coffee. He couldn’t remember how long he’d been there drinking the hideous thing, but he knew he would have to stop abusing the intake. Besides, the coffee powder was almost finished.He sighed as he left the kitchen and went to his bedroom to pick up his tablet. There were several important mails which he went through and gave his consent. Then something caught his attention in his mail box.“What the heck?” He muttered.He opened the email. There was one single word. Netherlands. There was no sender address, only a receiver address, which was it. The name brought a chill to him; this was the same word the old but not old man had said. Netherlands; the academy where he can find his power and system back. How had it ended up at his mail box? Who sent it? Why was it so creepy?“I should track this,” Henry said to himself.He went to his call logs and dialed Louis number. Louis picked on the first ring; his voice was breathless and rushed.“Mr. Henry, I was
Henry dropped the phone call and turned to his tablet. There was no point going through this again, he already knew what was at play here. There was one and only option here, seeing as no one else knew about him and his system. That option was that his system had sent him that mail itself. That or the academy was the one doing it; which gave him illusion that there was more at play than he thought. What if this was a ploy to lure him to Netherlands? Where was this academy, if it wasn’t in Netherlands?Henry started to pace. He had the strong urge to reach for his coffee but that won’t do; he needs to think logically. What was going on? What was he missing? Why did he get that email and how?“Are they summoning me to come there and reclaim the system? Is that what this is?” he quizzed himself.“It’s probably the system,” he replied himself. “Maybe its stuck. Maybe it wants me to come get? Is that even possible?”He quit down the strong urge again to reach for coffee. Water would be bet
Henry grabbed the man before he fell to his feet. He let him lean heavily on his body then took them both to the pavement so the man could sit on it. The man sat heavily on the pavement, still holding on to Henry for support. Henry glanced about to see if anyone had seen them; it would be catastrophic if someone had seen them. Already it looked as though Henry had triggered his reaction and still didn’t try to call the ambulance. He would have done that, since he wasn’t expecting the man’s triggering reaction, yet he couldn’t allow him to go so soon. He needed to find that information as fast as he could. There was not much time.“Listen to me,” Henry implored to the man. “Care you hear me? Can you see my face and the fingers I put out?” Henry held three fingers to his face.The man nodded slowly and coughed so he could speak. “Two.”Henry clamped down on his rising impatience and worry, “What do you mean ‘two’? There are three fingers up.”He nodded like he could understand but Henry
Henry stared in shock. He immediately went in to grab the man but then he melted downwards. Literally! Henry had never seen such horrific death before. It was like something out of a movie; dying na stour body slipping automatically into a soft thick puddle. The man’s eyeballs were still on top of the puddle. Henry went to the side to retch. He didn’t know anything would disgust him until that very moment. That was just a horrible, horrible way to die. He had imagined the man dying faster than usual, but not melting right before him! And in an unfamiliar environment at that?He quickly looked about to make sure no one has caught what happened; though he supposed that moments like these were far from the usual human eye. Henry wondered if this was how the system worked, if this was how he would die too.He went back to the body-puddle and saw that it had settled. Sooner or later it’ll dry up like water, and people would pass by without the knowledge that someone had died here and turn
The lights were blinding. Henry instinctively closed his eyes back. He waited for a moment, then slowly opened it in every inch, allowing his eyes to get used to his environment. His memory took him back to when he had travelled realms just to get the pieces of his souls that were scattered about. The system had been brutal with him, but at least he needed it had helped him more. Henry did not believe that he would die easily with the system gone, the way the old man had. In fact, he knew the old man must have had other things about him, other reasons as to why he aged that fast.Henry would never know, since the man in question wasn’t there to answer his queries about his life. He even doubted that he lived a stable, emulative lifestyle. He probably just did things he wasn’t supposed to; because it felt odd that he had died that quickly. Did he break a law? Refuse countless tasks? Henry wouldn’t know, but now that he was here, he was certain that the absence of the system would never
Henry turned away. It would be a mess to have a conversation with that kind of guy who looked like one that was sort of the shit hole that he had fabricated. It may even be the trance that he was talking about, but Henry was not about to be affiliated with that kind of man. He needed to know what was going on from someone who spoke wisely, had nice set of teeth, looked determined with minimal tattoos. He had nothing against people who had tattoos, but Henry would not just speak to someone who looked mad. He needed as much information as he could get so he would start going home after receiving his system. Louis was back there all alone and would not possibly handle the company in the situation that was in. Henry brushed away the thought; if he thinks too much about the company, he would be bound to stay there for more days than he thought he should.He stepped in front of someone, and the person immediately wrapped their hand on his arm and drew him back. It was a lady. She spoke flue
Evelyn noticed her sister isn't at home yet. She tried calling her number but it's isn't going.She tried the same for Henry's numbers but it wasn't going also. She decided to call Louis and it was the same thing."Fuck shott."She cursed"Why are they not picking where could they be?" She asked herself pacing around the room. She couldn't think straight. She didn't know what to do.She called their number, but it wasn't going.Evelyn slept that night and told herself she was going to go to their house first thing in the morning.*The Next Day.*Evelyn woke up feeling sad, she didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was just sad. She felt something was going wrong somewhere.She stood up and left the house without even bathing. She first went to the company hoping to find her sister there, but she did not.She heard the shareholders will be holding a meeting there, she couldn't find her sister. She then decided to go to Dexter's office. She couldn't find him also.She couldn't eve
"Sean are you ready to take your revenge?" Erica questioned him."Yes, I am so ready to take my revenge, where is the gun? Knife anything? I am fucking prepared every fuckin time." Sean replied Erica.Erica went to meet Sean and ask him if he is ready to take his revenge. Sean wanted to kill him by every means."I need Mike, the only person who can lure Henry is Mike." Sean told her."Consider it done." She assured him.Dexter was prepared for the operation, he wanted to take them down as fast as he can. He got a call from Erica that he should kidnap Sean first."Come and meet me at the warehouse immediately you are done." He said to her.Dexter was already with his guys in a dark and secluded warehouse, a group of people huddled around a table, planning their next move.This was not a typical meeting, but one with a sinister purpose. They were planning a kidnapping, and every detail had to be just right.Dexter showed them the target picture so they will not end up going for the wron
*Later That Day.*Erica was at Dexter's company, she went there immediately she was done with stuffs at her company. She also went there since he refused to answer her calls."We need to act fast, we don't know what the guy is planning. I loosed the video, and there isn't anything we can use against him anymore." Erica told Dexter he thoughts drinking the juice that was placed on the table."We will kill him if he has any other intentions, we are not going to let him bring us down." Dexter said to her."Since you said that guy is available, I guess he is will be the one to take the revenge. That way we will be free for the rest of our lives." Dexter said to Erica."Do you not feel we should kidnap him, that easy it would more easy for him to get killed." She said to him."Yes, I agree with you." Dexter told her."Don't you have some met out there that could help us with it. We can't do it on our own." She told him."That's true, I will find some useful guys that can assist us in kidna
*The Next Day.*Henry woke up the next morning feeling so refreshed, he slept peacefully like a baby in the night. He couldn't get to see Evelyn the other day because he was tired already.He decided he was going to see her today. He put on his dress. Seeing his ex is just terrible for him. He remembered how broke he was when he caught her.He remembered how he loosed all hope after she confessed everything to him. After she told him he doesn't love her."Why do I have to dress up?" He asked himself when he noticed how nicely he was dressing."Whatever." He muttered under his breath. Henry already told Evelyn about the meeting. He walked out of the bedroom, and saw Louis waiting for him."Don't tell me you are this well dresses because of her." Louis winked at him."Me? This is just a casual well, and I am well dressed because I want to dress nicely." He said to Louis"Woah, are you going to meet up with a girl? Is he going on a blind date?" Mike was surprised by his outfit immediatel
Henry ended the call immediately after listening to what the nurse told him."What happened?" Louis inquired ok seeing how devastated he was."Someone released Sean from the hospital claiming they are related, how does that makes sense?" Henry was beginning to get so angry."It was Erica." Louis told Henry."You knew it was her and you couldn't stop her? How did you find out that it was her?" Henry queried him"I planted a tracker in her car, I saw that she went to a place and that is not the office, neither Dexter's company. She must have been the one." Louis explained to him."I knew she is up to something, we must find a way to find out what she is up to. She might want to use him or something." Mike added."She didn't know I am out the prison yet right?" Henry wanted to confirm his thoughts."Yes, she didn't know you are out of the prison yet, we need to wait for a while. That was she will be unguarded." Louis answered.They got to their house in no time and did the necessary thin
Erica laid on the bed, she realized how tired she was. She didn't know when she slept off.Evelyn tiptoed into her room, her sister was sleeping so deep that she didn't even notice when someone entered the room.Evelyn searched for the other phone her sister barely use. She finally found it in her wardrobe. She tried unlocking it but she couldn't.She then went to where he sister was using, and decided to use her finger print to open it. It opened once.The first thing she did was to set a screen timeout. She left the bedroom, and went ahead to meet Louis where he was waiting for her.She walked up to where he parked his car and entered it."How was it? Did you not get it? I thought you said you were going to text me." Louis asked her."I got the phone." She answered and have him the phone she got from her sister.Louis first went to her iMessage, hoping he could find something there but he couldn't. He then whet to her storage.Luckily for him, he saw the videos there. He didn't know
Erica was happy with the scene that was going on. She was happy seeing how speechless Henry became."Wait, why me? I am not interested. Why should I become the ceo, laugh out loud." Erica acted surprised.She knew what she was doing, she didn't want to look. Suspicious to Louis."We have noticed that you are good for this job, and we would love to pick you." They informed her."Woah, looks as if I got no choice." She stoped up."If you know you would not want her to he the CEO, please can you raise your hands up." Someone announced but none of the shareholders could raise up their hands."Today, we declare ma'am Erica as the CEO of this company." The person who was in charge of the voting said."You are fired from this company, together with Mike. We find out you two might be a threat to the new CEO as you are not happy with her becoming the CEO." The shareholder passed across the information."What does Mike have to do with this? You can fire me instead and leave the poor guy alone."
"What do you want to see me for?" Erica asked Louis immediately she got to his office."I wanted to ask you few questions, is it possible for you to go to the house we just came back from. Can you get the security footage of everything that happened during our stay there?I think there is a spy there that got it release everything we did, and sent to our rival company." Louis asked Erica for a favor.He knew what he was doing. Even though he will have to loose an evidence that is as strong as that. His main aim was to confirm if Erica was the spy, and if she has someone she is working for."Sure, I will do that." Erica assured him with a smirk on her face."You are telling your greatest enemy to do the job for you." She said to herself."Consider it done." She assured him"Thank you very much." Louis appreciated."What about Henry? I haven't seen him! Hope he is okay?" She asked him."Sure, he will not be showing his face for the meantime. He will surely get back to you once he is bac
"The police are here for what?" Henry asked with his eyes wide opened."They insisted on staying at the entrance, and they are on their way here." The girl told him and she will not stop panicking.The police entered his office without knocking, with his secretary at their back."Mr. Henry you are under arrest. We will refrain you from talking, any word can be used against you in the court of law. You are allowed to also have an attorney." One of the police said to him."Find me a lawyer." Henry said to louis and followed the police men without asking them any questions.Henry followed them willingly without asking them any questions.Louis was still shocked with what happened. He knew what happened, he knew the reason he was arrested.Louis never imagined if there is a way they can get him saved. He decided to call Henry's best lawyer.He didn't want to go and Henry immediately to avoid any suspicions. A lot of people haven't figured out that he got arrested yet."I need you here imm