Chapter 40Adrian wanted to go over and talk to Audrey but he was too tired to. He'd done some extensive research at the office today and all he wanted was to prepare for the business meeting he had the next day - by sleeping.He let the water in the bathtub run, taking the glass of brandy with him. His chest hair had grown a bit over time and so had his upper abdomen.He really had to hit the gym. It wasn't that bad but Adrian knew that if he neglected like he had done for the past two weeks then he'd be looking older than his father in a short while.The towel let down slowly to the ground. Adrian stepped into the bathtub, his body submerged in the foamy bath water. The brandy was a little bit over the half of the glass and Adrian set it to stand in the in the empty metal basket just above him. He sunk in a little, letting his head rest on the designated headrest of the bathtub. He mediated calmly, letting his mind reel over the events of the day. Nothing much had happened apart fr
Chapter 41“Good day Mr. Oratio. How are you doing today?”“Mr…”“Adrian Grayson”, Adrian said, beaming as he shook Mr. Oratio's hand.“Adrian Grayson… of Grayson Incorp right?“Yes sir”“Welcome, you are welcome”“Thank you sir”Mr. Oratio glanced to his guards. “Well, let's get to my office shall we?”His guards tagged along, closely behind Adrian. “How's your father, Mr. Jackson right?Adrian smiled. “Mr. Leonard sir. Mr. Jackson is my grandfather”“Oh your grandfather? Interesting. So you are his grandchild, running the company now?”“My father actually runs the company, but yes, I am head of contract management and partnerships”“Fantastic. Simply. Quite a strong and vibrant old man you have there, I must say”“I agree sir. Thank you sir”The guards at the door, held it for both of them and Adrian tried not to be ahead of Mr. Oratio even with his extremely slow walking.Damn was the office large! The space was extremely collosal. It was like a mini conference hall renovated into
Chapter 42 Nancy Dalton buttoned up her wrists, looking at the mirror to make sure that her bow was in place. She slipped into her red bottom kitten heels, red in color as well. She stretched out her sleeves for the maid to straighten out the hand, making sure the ghetto lines were in place. She snapped her fingers and in seconds, Katherine had dashed there and back with the wristwatch - a Cartier diamond cut. “Hmmm…. a jacket would go lovely with this”, she said, shouldering towards the mirror. “Get my handbag Kathy.”, She said, moving towards the door. Katherine hurriedly arranged the handbag, managing to get the door for her madam. Nancy gave her the side eye, pausing a little before proceeding to walk out of the room.“The yellow and blue tagged files on my study desk are coming along with me, as well as those documents I asked you to put away the other day. Fill my water bottle, pour me a half glass of juice when you are coming to the car and don't you dare forget my cucumber
Chapter 43“What the.. get your freaking hands off of me, Audrey”“Where is my freaking jewelry?!”, Audrey shouted again, her grip still firm on his shirt.“Woah, woah… what's going on?”, Liam said, taking off his headphones.“Are you crazy? Get your freaking hands off me!”“I'm going to ask you one more time Ethan. Where … is … my …”“Get your ..”, Ethan struggled with her and Liam had to intervene.“Give me my jewelry Ethan!”“Woah!” Liam raised his voice, his hands out and in between both of them. “You two chill out, ok? Calm the freak down. What's going on?”“Your little thieving twin brother stole my jewelry!”“She's drunk. She doesn't know what she's talking about”“Oh please Ethan, I am as clear as day so you just shut the hell up and give me what you stole or else I'm gonna tell Dad that I caught you stealing at the family house!”Ethan scoffed, shrugging . “Goodluck with that”“Oh yeah? Goodluck defending yourself with all that security camera footage”That sure froze Ethan
Chapter 44“Come in”, Elsie said. The receptionist pulled the door and came in. “Good morning ma'am… Good morning Miss Elsie”“Yes Ziva.. how may we help you?” “Umm.. sorry… I came to inquire if you have an appointment ma'am with Mr. Walters.”“You came all the way from your office downstairs to inquire, Ziva? Whatever happened to phone calls, the intercom, the system?”“Err… ma'am”“Exactly”, Elsie said. “Did you suddenly go , I don't know, idiot, for a second there?”Ziva had to take a deep breath in. “I've actually been trying to reach your office, Miss Elsie and I couldn't. And even on your personal number, you weren't picking up. Being that, Mr. Walters isn't a very patient person…”“Enough”, Nancy ordered, cutting the girl short. “All I hear, Ziva, are flimsy, pointless excuses. It's stupid enough that you have come all the way up here to inquire of something you would have simply gotten with a phone call and now you are blaming your lack of composure and competencies on the
Chapter 45“I don't understand.”, Nancy said, a shocked expression on her face. She stopped the makeup artist from dabbing on her face. “Hold on”“He said he was here for the shareholders meeting. Did you invite him?”“I … I'm not even…”, Nancy paused. “Somebody get me Elsie!”Within minutes, Nancy was walking hastily down the passage where the conference room was. She took a look at herself in the big mirror on the wall just before she got into the conference room. Elsie was behind her, eyes on the files in her hand, checking if they were complete. “Get the door, Elsie”Elsie looked up, quickly realizing that Nancy was waiting for her. She got the door and Nancy Dalton walked in, catwalking elegantly to the head of the table where her executive chair was. Adrian was seated already, focused on the presentation being done by the company's sales manager.Elsie signaled the manager to cut the presentation short so they could proceed with the meeting. The manager rounded up and the gues
Chapter 46“So what is the total quota for everything?”“A hundred and fifty billion dollars collectively. That's approximately twenty two million dollars for each of the shareholders”“Is that final?”“Yes Mr. Adrian”, Mr. Oratio said, glancing at the others who nodded in approval.“Great. Consider it done”“Done?”, Mr. Oratio asked in surprise.“Yes, I'm totally fine with the quota.”Adrian got to his feet, handing his devices to his bodyguard.“When is the next meeting so we can seal everything on paperwork?”“Umm…”“This week I presume?”, he asked directing his question to Nancy “Yes … of … of course Mr Adrian”, she stuttered. Adrian smiled within himself. Nancy never stuttered.“Great," he said, glancing at his watch. “I have to be on my way now”“Appreciate you coming Mr. Adrian”, Mr. Oratio said, his hand out for a handshake.“My pleasure”The bodyguard got the door and Adrian walked out. He took the elevator to the ground floor and when the doors slid open, Rosa was there in
Chapter 47Audrey came to Bethany field, her mind weirdly captivated by the glow of the beautiful evening sun. She was at the higher point of the slope field and she let her tote bag slide out of her arms, taking her seat on the grass. Soon enough, she had to take her eyes away from the sun. She lay down, letting her head rest on the soft grass, dandelions floating out as she did so.Tranquility. That was all she felt. Peace. She could almost hear it.The kind of tranquility that was unsettling yet soothing. Disturbing yet calming. The kind of tranquility that brought you unexplainable tears, that allowed over thinking and let all the voices flow freely in your head.That was it. That was it overwhelming her.She hadn't meant to take it on Vanessa. It was never about the boy even though she didn't exactly like him. She'd lost Grandma's pendant necklace to Ethan, flopped her test and had almost ruined a relationship today - if not already ruined.She was completely overwhelmed. Beyo
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