Cade met with Gale to tell Gale of his visit to MRs Robert’s house.“I’m surprised she agreed to speak to you. She has been hostile to every other member of the company who tried to visit her.” Gale said.“She knows that they only come to see her not because they sympathise with her, but because they want to save face. They don’t really care about her husband’s death or her grief. Besides, I didn’t question her much, I just wanted to confirm if Mr Roberts and Alex had a relationship outside work. I didn’t want to overstay my welcome and make the woman start remembering her grief.” Cade replied.“So what did she say?” “Like I suspected, Alex visited Mr Roberts a lot in his home. She said it seemed like they had some business dealings together and they had altercations sometimes but her husband always made excuses that it wasn’t really serious.”“Mr Roberts was never a fan of Alex, so why did they suddenly get so close? It seems like he was hiding something.”“I thought so too, and wha
The men got to a hidden old building somewhere deep in a place Gale did not know or recognize. In the building, the men threw Gale into a room that could pass for a cellar. It was dark and misty in the room, but it got better when one of the men switched on the light in the room. Gale could see there was a small mattress on the floor and a pillow that Gale found disgusting on it. But that was all that the room had. It only got better for Gale because somehow, the light on managed to take his mind off the mist and cold of the room. Gale made up his mind not to put as much as an inch of his body on that horrible looking mattress. He would rather stay awake all night in his tiredness. Who knows what kind of germs were on that filthy thing.After the men had shown him to the room, they seized Gale's phone, locked him in the room and left him alone in the building. It was the worst day of Gale's life so far. Not only was he starving, he was kidnapped and kept in a room where even a pauper
Cade continued his work after thinking of a plan to bring Gale's abductors to book. He had to find a way to set his plan in motion for the next day. What had he planned to do? Firstly, he tracked Gale's phone with the last call he got, and found out the location. He wondered why the abductors were so clumsy as to letting Gale call him with his own phone. They must be amateurs or they were just so confident that they wouldn’t get caught so they didn’t bother taking precautions. Secondly, he got the ransom ready. They wanted the ransom to be brought to them physically. It was stressful and caused his banker to raise his brows, but Cade commanded the withdrawal of the amount that the abductors had asked him to bring and no one could argue with him. Thirdly, Cade made up his mind to be there in the morning. It was all too easy to come up with now that he had the location of the place. He would go there without calling the men and let things progress from there. He had thought of the p
Cade waited until he saw a van driving out of the side of the building with men who were on their way to meet him at the place where he was supposed to meet him at the place they told him to drop off the money. He had the money with him hidden somewhere close by as a plan B, so if his rescue plan failed, he would use the money to try and pay them off to set him and Gale free. The van had passed through a hidden road in another direction that Cade guessed led to the highway. From the highway, no one would ever know that the road exists which was why his cab driver couldn’t drive into the forest. He waited for a few minutes to be sure that they had gone before getting up from his hidden position. He was about to storm into the house with his men when he saw another car driving towards the house from the same road so he signalled his men to wait and watch. He was surprised to see Alex get down from the car. His surprise wasn’t because Alex was involved in the kidnapping, he had already g
The incident of Gale's kidnap made Cade double him and Gale's security. He hired new bodyguards for Gale by himself, while he retained the old bodyguards he had for himself, and recruited new ones in addition to the bodyguards he had. The bruises he got from the rescue operation took a while to heal. Gale had been taken to a hospital and was admitted for about a week because he was extremely dehydrated. But he resumed working after three weeks of mandatory house arrest given to him by Cade. If it was up to Gale, the man would have resumed work immediately after being discharged from the hospital because Gale wasn’t used to being idle. Cade had to force him to remain at home and recuperate. Gale was well rested now, and had recovered from the incident. He was also more careful now, and would go nowhere without his bodyguards. One could tell that Gale had not totally recovered from the incident, mentally. But with time, he told himself he would. He didn’t want to live in fear for his e
Cade was exasperated. How did Hailey find her way to his company? Of course he knew that this was the famous Milton Conglomerate, anyone could easily locate it because of its fame. Hailey probably found out he was the CEO from the live footage of the inauguration event that was aired on the news channel and social media platforms. But what he could not come to understand was how Hailey still managed to be audacious and bold enough to come show herself to him in his office. After all she and her mother did to him? He was even more rattled by her attempt to seduce him. He knew quite all right that she was a pretty woman, and from what he had just seen some minutes ago, she had an incredibly beautiful body. But what was that? He did not need to see that, did not ever think of seeing her naked or even wanted to see her naked after she humiliated him when he was Dennis. Did she have no shame? He could guess that her mother put her to it. Yes, he decided, her mother was the perpetrator of
Hailey was back in her home, and already making a new plan on going back to Cade. She was more than humiliated by how he asked her out of his office, but stronger than that humiliation was her determination to get him to come around. It would either be by choice or by force. Whichever he chose, she was going to roll with it. When she left for her city the next day after what had transpired in Cade's office, she arrived home and told her mother all that happened. That was when she broke the news of her abortion to her mother. "Dennis asked you to leave his office?" Mrs Bellwether asked her daughter. She was surprised at this news. But it was an unreasonable surprise because she had not been expecting Cade, whom they would not stop referring to as Dennis, to act harshly to Hailey. "Yes! Could you believe I stripped naked for him, mom? I stripped naked in the sexiest way I could muster for him, and he still had the guts to kick me out of his office." They were seated facing each othe
Hailey’s mother smiled. Hailey was very confident in her new secret plan. She had already started to put it all together in her mind. "Dinner would be ready soon. The Cook was already almost done before you got back. Go up and have a bath, then come downstairs and we’ll eat together. Also, I haven't heard from your uncle since the last time. His numbers are also unavailable. Hopefully he's still alive wherever he is." Mrs Bellwether said and left Hailey to freshen up. Hailey found her mother's last words funny, and so she laughed. Why would her mother care what happened to them? They left without even saying goodbye. She only wondered where her uncle Barnes and cousin Derek had run off to. Days passed and turned into weeks. Hailey unblocked Evans' number but she rarely took his calls. Even when he tried to visit, she hardly ever allowed him into her house. She was pretending to be depressed so he would feel more compassionate and guilty and try all his best to appease her. It was o