This was one of the days he prayed hard not to witness. The difficult times he wished never came to limelight, he wished Maya was by his side to pull through this mess. He wasn't even able to see her before he was dragged away like a thief, from an event in which he was invited to. That means it was a set up, a trap in which he should have known but was too dumb to see the signs. How on earth could he thinks that he was getting an ally when everything the universe put in front of him was an enemy. Where's my phone?” Derek asked no one in particular.Peter knew he was the most disposable of the three and had to be oversensitive into stay a little longer. “Inside the car, should I bring it?”“Stop asking me foolish questions and bring it, why will I ask of it if I never wanted it.” Derek shot back in anger.Peter hurriedly got the phone out, he understood what his boss felt, it wasn't easy to go from grace to grass in a twinkle of an eye. “He
Derek had a throbbing headache from the day’s ordeal and fell into his sofa to rest. He took some pills to feel better before falling into a deep sleep.“Is he gone?” Derek asked drowsily.“Yes he is. I made sure of that.” Raul.said.“Go home and take the day off tomorrow.” Derek said, wincing from the pain he felt.“No boss! We can't leave you like this. What if you need something?” Raul.asked concernedly.“I am fine and I can take care of myself.” “Not in this state. Not like this.”“Boss he's right, you need all the help you can get.” Mario said.“But Mario, your salary for this month is not guaranteed. I need less people that's why I drove the young man away, less mouths to feed. I know he had his flaws but he's an excellent worker and loyal man. I need to know that I need to be left alone.” “Salary or not, I will work for you boss.” Mario said, with his fist kept by his chest.“You?
How on earth did an anticipated night become one that she prayed to forget in no time. Time and time again, she had fallen for poor men. Maybe she was wrong, a poor-turned rich man and a rich-turned poor man, either ways they never were what they posed to be. She had gone personally to congratulate him but she made her look like a stranger. Now early in the morning, she wakes up, not ready to eat breakfast because she full of the gloom and bitterness from last night's dinner.“Hello Madame Maya, it's time for breakfast.”She yawned and stretched her hands and legs then turned to the other side, “I've heard you, I'll be down in a minute.”“Okay ma'am.” The maidservant said and left.“Good morning dad, good morning mom.” Maya greeted.“Good morning my daughter, hope you slept well?” Mr. Windsor asked, he was one to always care no matter the situation.“I'm good.” She said then turned to look at her mother who ignored her totally.
“I'm not even worthy to sit on your table again. I can't take breakfast again beside my bride-to-be again. Two days ago I was on that seat and you called me son-in-law.”“A lot can happen in two days. The realization of the fact that you are not a billionaire again came in the span of two days.” Maya said unapologetically.“So it's about the money, huh? What more do you want? I've given you money, I've bought you diamonds, clothes, shoes. Yet you act like you've never seen these things.”“Young man watch the way you speak about my daughter-”“Young man? My name was usually Derek the youngest richest billionaire but now it's young man. No one knew I wasn't old.” He laughed ironically, he felt pain.“You didn't seem surprised when Davin said he bought your company. Means you had known this for a long time.” Isabella asked.“Yes I had known and for this reason I refused to say it. I thought I could fix it. You have corroborated
Jan appeared with the drink shortly after to give her courage to say what she wanted to say.“It's here, are you okay?”She took aa sip, “yes I am. Won't you take some?”“I will, only if you told me what is going on? What do you so much need from me?”“Okay if you insist I say it now, then I'll say it.” She began to be emotional, her eyes became teary and she started whimpering, “he wants to take everything from us.”“Who?” Jan asked with every degree of seriousness in her.“He wants to take away the legacy we've built for so long. He wants us to go down, and for what? Nothing. Is that not crazy?”She looked confused and didn't know what to answer but she nodded. “I don't seem to get you, if only you could explain more.”She didn't want to let the request suddenly for lack of attention thereby destroying what she was building, her acceptance to whatever she wanted asking.“But you're the only one that can help me. With your help, he will not succeed with his wicked plans.”“But who's
As soon as she left, she picked her phone and called her husband, she was eager to hear from him. He looked at him and he permitted him to pick the call with a nod with head. He cleared his throat and pretended to be very happy, he didn't want her to suspect anything. He picked the call.“Hello dear, how are you?”“I'm fine and you?” He answered in a deep voice.“It's past the time of your arrival and you didn't call me. Or don't you want me picking you up at the airport again?”“I was about to call, I cancelled last minute.”“Why?” Mrs. Jan asked rather in an angry tone.“I have an emergency meeting with a client of mine.” He lied.“This meeting couldn't wait? You've been away for months.”“He contacted me last minute and said it's about a huge proposal. I couldn't resist it but I'll be back tomorrow.”“You better be. We had a visitor today. Guess who?”“My sister, Gladys?”
“Your father authorized us to follow you wherever you go.” The first military man said.“I said I'll be fine. I just want to see a friend in the next avenue, no one knows I'm going there.”“For all we know, your adversary might be watching and we can't flout your father's orders.” The second military man insisted.“And I insist that I must go alone!” Maya said almost in tears. “We can't let you do that.” The first military man said, without looking at her.They stood erect behind her and when she took a step they followed her. She took another and the same thing happened.“What about my privacy? Is this invasion of privacy?” Maya asked shouting at the top of her voice.They kept straight faces and looked forward, not minding how she felt.“Sweetheart, it's for the best. Derek made it clear that you'll see him. We don't want that to happen.” Margret said with empathy.“I don't care, it's the next street
“Where does he get this money from?” Mr. Asher bewildered at what he saw.“I don't….know.” He said panicking, his voice trembling.“He definitely has someone behind him supplying his all this money. Maybe a particular government behind this.”“For what reason, to start a war?” Mr. Windsor asked.“Not a war, something even more. Something that surpasses our thinking or imagination.”“We need to see Green, maybe that's why we couldn't reach him over the phone.” Mr. Windsor said.“I'm thinking the same thing too.”“I'm on my way at the moment. Let's meet there, yeah?”“Definitely, I'm just about to get my keys. Let's know what's wrong with him.” Mr. Asher said.“Okay, we'll meet there.” Mr. Windsors said and ended the call.***“It seems like your boss is something we don't know yet. There's something we don't know about him just yet.”“What about him? You said not to speak