Chapter 17Adrian's gaze traveled to the mirror and then to the digital clock on the white table, it was just 1:16 AM. He ran his hands through his air and came down from the bed.It's been a while since he had nightmares, the last time had nightmares was the night before his tenth birthday. It was really a traumatic experience because it felt so real. It made Adrian detest and dread the dark and anything associated with the dark, Adrian immediately put on the electric lamp close to him before leaving the bed.He took a look at the bed before walking into the bathroom to get his face washed. He scooped water to his face from the running tap thrice while breathing hard.He could hear the sound of someone crying and at the same time sniffing, "Isn't their rooms made up of soundproof?" He walked out of the bathroom, trying his best to trace where the sound was coming from.He traced it to the wall, placing his ears at the wall, the sound became clearer, who could this be he thought, Adr
Chapter 18Martinez stopped screaming and Adrian pulled his hand away from Martinez's mouth, "Why are you shouting?" Martinez slowly tilted his head toward his boss, "I thought you were dead, my loving master."This took Adrian aback, "Dead, why did you say so?" Martinez walked to the bed pointing at the electric lamp, "You have never left this on, not even in your existence of living, secondly you hardly stay asleep when your alarms ring. Your alarm rang for three good times master and you didn't even react."Adrian shook his head while running his hands through his hair, he exhaled, "His life must have been a great one, I can't put up with the life he had, there's no way," Adrian said within."It's alright Martinez, there was no need to make a fuss about it, all you could have done was to wake me.""Huh?" Martinez had a shocked look on his face, *I won't do that, don't you know if my fingerprint is found on your body, your family won't delay in locking me behind bars, for crying
Chapter 19Martinez walked into his room and sat on his bed thinking about the recent strange behavior of his boss. A lot of things about him have been off recently, he just couldn't place what was happening to his boss.Martinez stood up pacing to and fro in his room with his hand on his waist, "Am I just hallucinating or what?" He spoke to his reflection in the mirror.He had this worried look on his face, "People do change right, maybe he currently undergoing his phase of change or is the pressure around him responsible for what's currently going on?"His phone beeped, it was a reminder of his boss's daily dose of vitamins, he quickly rushed out of his room and ascended the stairs when bumped into someone. It was when he raised his head he found out he collided with his boss."I am sorry master," he went on his knees. Adrian placed his hands on his arm asking him to get up, "It's fine, you just need to be watchful, besides why were you in so much haste?"He brought out the silver
Chapter 20“Stop here”, Adrian ordered, in a way that was even more surprising to him. He heard the convoy behind him stop abruptly too, their tyres screeching against the ground. He had opened his mouth to apologize but decided otherwise. He didn't want to seem soft“Is … there a … problem sir?”, his chauffeur asked him in a still and mild voice.“No. I want to take this entrance today”, Adrian answered. Even if he was gradually getting used to the general lifestyle of the Graysons, he certainly didn't like the whole fuss on security and he certainly wanted to avoid it today. When he had asked Shilla to give him a tour of the company, she'd shown him this second entrance that had been specifically made for the Graysons and sometimes by customization, other important guests of theirs. He had been pleased to discover it mostly because he wouldn't have to have five, six bodyguards tailing his every move till the office. That part of the building, he'd also discovered, was digitally fort
Chapter 21Adrian stared at Rosa and Mason, his face as blank as a fresh sheet. Shock overwhelmed him and his mouth opened, surprise stealing every word he thought to utter.“Rosa..?”Mason looked at his wife a bit taken aback. Rosa didn't hide her own surprise as well.“Oh you two have met already?”, Mr. Jackson said, glancing from Rosa to Adrian.“Um…have … have we?”, Rosa said, turning to look at Mason for support. “I don't really recall if we've …”“Maybe in the supermarket or something?”, Mr. Jackson asked. “Or did you already pitch your idea to his department?”Adrian just stared dead into her eyes, a thousand emotions flooding through him. Mason reached for his wife's thigh and touched it strongly, trying to signal her. Rosa turned to him sharply.“Babe…”, he said in a low voice, gritting his teeth together so they wouldn't hear him. “What are you doing? Just … play along…”“Umm… of course. I … I … umm… have been here to … to .. umm… I've been here a couple of times. Maybe th
Chapter 22Rosa was quiet all through the drive.“Babe”She turned her face to the window not wanting to respond to him.“Babe”, Mason said to Rosa again. Still no response. The driver eased the car into the compound and parked in front of the house so they could both get down. Rosa didn't even wait for the guard to help her with the car. She flung the door open and steeped out, stomping all the way into the house.Nancy was in the living room and Rosa stomped past her without even as much as a greeting. “Dearie…”, Nancy tried to call out to her but she was already upstairs, taking the turn to the right.Mason soon came after.“Good day ma'am”, Mason greeted, first shocked but then instantly annoyed that the woman was around.Nancy didn't acknowledge his greeting. “Whatis the matter with your wife? Did you two have a fight or did you do something to upset her?”“I … I'll talk to her Mum”, he said, getting past he quickly, headed for his room upstairs.Nancy scoffed. “You had better”
Chapter 23 Meanwhile, for the rest of the day, Adrian was in a bad mood. In annoyance, he'd ordered his personal assistant to cancel the only appointment that could have kept him busy for the rest of the day, considering that he'd previously cancelled the orders. Tired and upset, he instructed his assistant to make arrangements for him to get home. In less than five minutes, she'd come back to tell him that the car was ready.“Sir”, Shilla said softly, tucking a strand of her black hair behind her right ear. “The car is ready to take you”“Great”, he said, putting down the magazine he was reading. He tidied a couple of documents on his desk and put them into his briefcase roughly. Shilla attempted to take it from him but he stopped her.“Leave it I'll….”, Adrian had to take a breath before he continued, this time in a lower voice. “I'll take care of that. Thank you Shilla”“Oh…ok sir”He locked the briefcase and took it off the table. Shilla took a step back as he passed, headed fo
Chapter 24Adrian smelt of ointments and oil balms by the time the masseuse was through.“Thank you urrr…”“Lilian Felters.”, she said, handing him her card. He took it from her. “And don't mention, it's my job”“Nice”, he said, nodding as he flipped the card over. Adrian stretched his now relieved muscles. Not too much though cause he had on only a tight white boxers and a massage towel on.“We also provide, umm… , other personal services just in case you are interested”, she said, adjusting the thin sleeve of her dress.Adrian didn't quite get it at first. “Other personal services?”“Umm.. yeah. You know what I mean. Likee..”Just then, a soft knock came on the door. It was Martinez.“Umm… Master. Sorry to interrupt sir. Just wanted to let you know that dinner is ready and served”“No problem Martinez. In a minute please”“Of course Master. Whenever you are ready”, Martinez said as he walked away.“Great. All that massage made me really hungry”, Adrian said in an amusing tone. Lil
Chapter 250(Two days later)Elder Jackson decided to send a letter to every member of the family, informing them of the long-awaited family dinner. The message reads;This is to cordially invite every one of you to the long-awaited family dinner. It comes up this night by eight, you are all to be there on time, none of you is expected to come late. Audrey, no excuse."They all burst into laughter when they got the message because Elder Jackson mentioned Audrey's name. Audrey laughed so hard when she read the message, but at the same time, she also had a bad feeling about tonight's dinner.Immediately she sent a text message to Adrian, which reads;"I don't feel good about tonight's meeting, I feel something bad might happen, but we also need to be careful, everyone needs to be watchful. We shouldn't get carried away by the activities."Immediately Adrian got the text, he replied to her, by thanking her first, and asking that she send the message to the group. She did so immediately a
Chapter 249Adrian walked towards her, and she took off her headset, "What brings you to my house, are you here to disgrace me once more?"Adrian chuckled, with his hands in his pocket, "What do you mean by am I here to disgrace you once more? Aren't you the one who went all out to disgrace yourself? You know I don't like you, you want me to get married to you, how do you expect it to work?""That doesn't answer my question of you being here, why are you here young man?" She asked, walking towards him, as she put on a harsh look. "Well, I am here to inform you not to try anything stupid again, don't you dare send anyone to me.I repeat don't you dare do that, listen Hailey, I might look and act cool, but if you push me to the wall, you are definitely going to regret it, do you understand?"She chuckled, clapping her hands, "I see, you have the guts to step into my home, and threaten me? Well I don't blame you, I blame the guys who weren't able to do their job.If they had done their j
Chapter 248Hailey Wilson was seated in a bar, and Craig was seated beside her, she slid an envelope towards him, "Listen up, that plan is simple, there you are going to find every detail that you need, and your money is right there in the envelope.All that's needed is for you to do the right thing, and I believe you know what I am speaking of?"Craig shook his head, "How do you expect me to know about it, I don't read minds," he muttered."Ohh I forgot about that, but there's no problem with that, this is what I want from you, and please listen attentively," she paused and moved closer to him, while he did the same."I need you to kill the target, that's it, I am not saying bet him up to death, I am not saying you should do that. I need him dead, real dead, that's all I am asking from you, can you do this for me?" She asked.Craig raised his head, and looked at her, "I am sorry I can't, I have stopped the business of killing people. The best I can do right now is to threaten people
Chapter 247Liam exhaled, as he placed his hands on the table, "I want to know how you were able to join Adrian. I mean we all know you weren't on good terms with him, what changed?"She smiled, "Thank goodness you said, I wasn't on good terms with him, that was in the past. But right now, I think I just decided to re-evaluate my decision, and do what's right, that's it.""Re-evaluate your decision, and do what's right?" Liam muttered.She nodded her head, "You know, I was always jealous of Adrian, you know what I mean right? The dude had everything I wanted, he was closer to Elder Jackson than we all. I don't need to tell you what that means automatically right?"Liam nodded his head, "I understand what that means, he that's closer to Elder Jackson has more chance of being chosen as the heir. But if I am not mistaken, there were times you attempted to take his life right?"She nodded her head, still gazing into his eyes as they spoke, "Yeah, there were times when such an incident hap
Chapter 246Hailey, and her father were still bitter from what happened yesterday, in that bitter state of his. He walked to his garage, got into one of his cars, and drove off to Grayson's office. He was going there to give them a piece of his mind.Not only that, his mind was made up, he was going to terminate every contract he has with the Grayson cooperation. He just couldn't believe what Adrian did to him, after walking out on him, the respect people had for him, dropped automatically.It made him wonder what type of influence Adrian has been able to wield over the years. It's just so surprising to him that he has been able to build himself deep, rooted into the hearts of many people, including his staff.Just because of what happened, about five percent of his staff resigned. It was freaking hard for him to believe, but it was reality. He drove to the garage, and came down from the car in rage. Everyone who saw him, definitely knew he was angry, and they had to give way for him.
Chapter 245"I am in, how can I not be part of a team that works, you saved my life. The best I can do is to repay you guys for everything you have done for me," Liam replied."Really, that means you are officially joining our team right, big bro?" Audrey asked and he nodded his head."That's great, but what we have to do right now is to make sure that you are safe, and you also play the role of Aaron. To me that's the best way to guarantee your freedom, if you ask me," Adrian muttered."I don't doubt that's the best way, but all finger's crossed, he's going to be fine, and we are going to do our best to make sure that he's fine," Aaron replied.They all hugged each other, before returning to their different room.(Present)"I think we have waited for so long, the best we can do right now is to look for ways and means to bring him down. Don't you think, we have given him much space to rest," Liam asked, folding his arms on his chest as he sat up.Aaron nodded his head, "That's the sam
Chapter 244Adrian and Shilla both walked to their office, Mr. Brooks who was dressed in a three piece black suit, turned towards them, when he heard the clicking of their shoes on the floor."Good morning Adrian, hope you had a great night's rest?" He asked as they got close to him."Yes I did Mr. Brooks, good morning," he said, stretching his hands for a hand shake. They both shook hands, and he moved to the door of his office. Adrian placed his thumb on the censor of the door, and it opened up.They got in, Shilla moved over to her desk, while they moved to his office, "Please have your seat," Adrian said as he moved over to his seat.Mr. Brooks sat down, "I am sorry I showed up and announced, I was here four weeks ago, but Elder Jackson revealed to me that you were kidnapped. It didn't quite sit well with me, but there was only little I could do.""It's okay, if I may ask why are you here Mr. Brooks?" Adrian asked as he set up his table."Why am I here? I am here to see you, and I
Chapter 243Elder Jackson cleared his throat, "Are you trying to say, you aren't going to get married?"Adrian raised his head as tilted his head towards Elder Jackson, "Honestly, marriage isn't top of the list, for now, I doubt if I am going to get married."Elder Jackson let down his cutleries, "Adrian, can you hear yourself, what do you mean by you aren't sure you aren't going to get married. Don't you know how important the institute of marriage is?"Adrian exhaled, he knew it was going to be a long discussion about the subject of marriage, and Elder Jackson won't allow him to be. "Yes Elder, I know how important it is, but I don't think it's for someone like me.""You don't believe it's for someone like you because you are some Greek god, or what?" Madeline chipped in not hiding the hatred she has for him.Adrian looked at her for a few seconds, before tilting his head back to Elder Jackson, "It's a decision I have made many years ago, and I can't just back out of it. I just don'
Chapter 242Adrian nodded his head, he opened the laptop and shut it off, before they walked out of the building to library. They both walked to where his car was parked, and they drove back home, just In time before Ethan could return home.Immediately they got home, Liam didn't say a word to anyone, he went straight to his room, and locked the door. He walked into the bathroom, took off his clothes and got into the bathtub crying his eyes out.Now he has to be extra careful around the one he so much trusts, and he has to trust the one he so much hates, life they say is not only filled with ups and downs, it's also filled with plot twists.*****Ethan asks them to bring out the dead body of Liam, they quickly hurried to Liam's car, and brought out the body of the guy they had killed. From afar he was smiling, he thought it was Liam, but when they brought him closer.But when they brought him closer, that was when he realized that it wasn't Liam, but another person, who had close rese