RISING FROM THE ASHES

A THIEF

As Davis left the Banks Group, he rode a scooter directly to Victoria City.

Victoria City was one of the top estates in Havana. It housed both the wealthy and influential.

It didn't take long for him to get there. As he parked his scooter, he headed to the sales office. Although he was not there to buy a house, he wanted them to direct him to the house Solomon bought.

Just as he entered the sales office, he saw an aged man and a young woman acting cloyingly and being clingy as they played lovey dovey.

He didn't care about them as he walked towards the staffs. However, the staffs didn't pay him any attention considering how he was dressed.

Davis frowned, he didn't say much and simply said with a louder voice, "Please, can you show me a house here?"

Everybody immediately looked at him with disdain.

The young woman looked at Davis in disdain, "Can't you see my husband and I are here doing something? How dare you disturb us?"

Davis looked at her and sneered, "This is a public space, if you want to act all lovey dovey, you can go do that in your house. And I'm here to see a house which is the right thing to do here."

The sales lady mocked Davis, "Do you know who Mr. Chu is?" She was referring to the aged man.

She continued, "Mr. Chu is one of our top customers here, the likes of you cannot compare with even a fraction of him. You are here to see a house and check it out and I assume after checking out the house, you will find an excuse not to buy and slip away. However, Mr. Chu is here to buy a house for his wife."

Davis laughed," And what makes you feel I'm just here to check a house?"

"Isn't it? Look how you are dressed, I bet you can't even afford to buy good clothes, let alone a house." The sales lady reiterated.

Davis sneered, "Ah, number one, this girl who introduced herself as the man's wife is nothing but a gold digger, I know his wife, I've seen them together before."

Hearing this, both the aged man and the young woman had a change of expression. A slight panic which they hid quickly.

Davis was just testing them and was not sure about what he said, neither did he know the man's wife but from their expressions just now, he had already found out that what he deduced was correct.

Continuing, "Secondly, I'm not here to check for a house or buy, I already have one."

Before the sales lady could reply, the aged man already responded, "Do you dare to bet?"

Davis raised his eyebrows, "Bet about what?"

"You claim to have a house. If the house you have is not up to five million dollars, whatever you see here today remains here today. Moreover, I'll cripple you. What do you think?" The aged man answered.

Davis laughed so hard before stopping, "Such an unfair bet, why don't we raise the stakes? I agree to yours but if I'm able to show you a house at five million or more, number one, the sales lady here will quit her job, number two, you will dump this gold digger by your side, number three, I'll cripple your third leg. It sounds fair now. Either this or nothing."

Even though Davis had not seen the house, he knew whatever Solomon would but would not be cheap.

The aged man gritted his teeth, he looked at the Sales lady and the young woman by his side before nodding in agreement. After all, he didn't expect someone as poor as Davis to really come through.

Smiling, Davis took out a key card from his pocket and placed it in front of the sales lady before saying, "I'm sure you recognize this."

The sales girl looked at the key card, at first she didn't understand but after seeing the letter "A" on it, her expression changed to one of fear.

There was only one house that it's keyboard had the symbol "A" and that was the most expensive and most luxurious house in the whole of Victoria City. However, she knew that house was bought by Solomon Banks so seeing the key in Davis hands, she immediately realized something.

Then she turned to Davis and asked, "Where did you steal this key?"

Everybody present turned to face Davis.

Davis frowned, "Steal? The house is mine so why would I steal my own key card."

"What's going on?" The aged man asked.

The sales lady immediately began to explain, "This key card is one to the most expensive and most luxurious house in our estate. But I knew that this house was sold personally by our boss to Mr. Banks."

Hearing the first part of the words, the aged man's heart had begun to beat but hearing the later part of her words, she calmed down.

Then he turned to Davis and said, "Young man, you young people should learn to be humble and do the right thing. Just because you want to win a bet, you stole. Do you know the consequences of stealing from Mr. Banks? Even without me making any move, you are in big trouble."

The sales lady dialed her Boss' number and explained what happened, after which she proceeded to call the police.

Davis didn't fret, he simply sent a text message to Solomon and sat down without bothering to explain.

In the next three minutes, a middle aged man rushed into the sales office.

The man was none other than the Boss of Victoria City. The aged man and the sales lady greeted him but they ignored them and walked towards Davis and asked.

"Are you Mr. Gardner?"

At that moment, the sales lady, the aged man and the young man all looked at Davis with a mocking expression.

Davis nodded in response to the middle aged man's question.

The middle aged man bowed almost immediately, "I'm sorry for letting my employee offend you. Please forgive me sir."