Chapter 15 Back at the Hales’s Villa, the same night. Everyone was at the sitting room, discussing about the party’s outcome, with Grandfather Lennox present and listening to them narrate their situation to him. “So all of them wanted Lorraine in exchange for a deal with them right?” Lennox asked, in conclusion to all they’ve been saying. “Yes,” Vance nodded his head positively, answering for them all. Lennox went quiet, his index lifting up to his chin as he drown himself in his thought, trying to think of a way to solve all this. There’s no way Lorraine could possible get married to four families, so he has to think of another way to get them with him.Oscar and Royce exchanged glances, before Oscar decided to speak up, “We developed an idea,” he said, having Lennox’s attention with his gaze snapped at him. “We know pretty well that Lorraine isn’t ready to divorce Avon, that no matter how we try to convince her she’s never going to listen or leave him. However, she can dance t
Chapter 16 Charlotte Allen Hales, she was just twenty years old then when she met Jason Hales, the actual deceased first born of the Hales family. They fell in love so quickly it wasn’t long they got together, it was two years after their marriage when they both welcomed Lorraine, and three more years later she discovered her husband was suffering from blood cancer, it has gotten to the last stage and he couldn’t be saved and so he lost his life battling it. Since then her value to the family was shortened and ignored, she was once treated like a queen, like an egg, but ever since Jason died and Lorraine was officially hated by all, she was treated differently. She tried to gain back their love, playing to all their tunes, hating her own daughter and treating her the same way the whole family treated her, joining the family business and doing everything in her small power to make it grow, but still she wasn’t noticed like before, she was still shunned. But when her daughter return
Chapter 17Avon was speechless, his face doused in shock, wondering how an earthly human being could go through all this and still be alive. Avon couldn’t reply her question, after listening to her life story rather than an explanation, he was too shocked to speak. That was too traumatic. He knew that.“I need to go.” She said after much silence, gently getting up from the bed and sliding her feet into the laying slippers. “No!” Avon stood up also, standing in front of her. “I will take you in, I will protect you from him and make sure he get what he deserves for what he did to you. You’ll stay with me from now on, I will help you if only you want my help. I won’t force you, but I will let you know that dying isn’t the option now that you met me.” Avon said to her, sounding as much as assuring he could sound. “Can you tell me your name?” Avon requested. “I’m Kory, Kory Anders.” She answered, in a mild tone while sitting back down. “I promise you Kory, you’ll have a good life now
Chapter 18 Everyone gazed at Charlotte with their faces curtained with shock, this was unlike Charlotte, Infact this wasn’t Charlotte at all. They’ve never seen her this sassy or arch in nature.“What got into you this morning?” Lennox questioned, disbelief edging out on his voice, and his eyes clouded with amusement. “She looks different.” Oscar said also, looking at Charlotte with the same eyes. “She is different and nothing got into me, except the real me finally surfacing.” Charlotte replied them in a nonchalant manner, her gaze focused on her meal rather than them. “Oh and grandpa!” She called suddenly, looking up at Lennox. Lennox answered, looking at her with the face that says “Go on with what you have to say”, “The three of them are planning to kill Avon behind your back, they believe doing that will make you praise them.” She said, smiling at the end of her statement, and returning her gaze back to her meal. Not caring to see the reactions of those she had just spilled
Chapter 19 At The Noble House. Avon’s Villa, in his office. Avon was in his office with his attention buried in the computer he was operating, there were major informations about his mission sent to him. His eyes squinted, reading through the files sent to him via computer mail. The Wilsons family were the one who ordered for his family to be taken out, and now the deeper facts and reason behind it were getting clear and registered in his brain. William Barksdale was the general CEO and original founder of the most successful conglomerate company in EastHill, his co-founders included Frank Wilsons, Thomas Stones, Valerie Jones, Sarah Wades, and Raymond Parkers. Those were his co-founders and all having a high position in the company. However, William was the most successful out of all, apart from his share on a successful company, he had groomed two more successful companies in EastHill. All that done and archived made everyone envious of him. Especially Frank who was William’s
Chapter 20 At the Hales’s mansion. At the backyard. There on the bench was the three surviving healthy males of the Hales family, seated and having a private discussion that needed no fourth ear on it. “He fired those that were suppose to carry the plan out.” Vance, out of them said in a lamenting tone, his face dropping in exhaustion as he gaped droopily at the rest.“Yes but we must not give up, we won’t be killing that Avon now because he not only refuse to stay away from our daughter, but because his existence ridiculed us today in front of grandpa, and that Charlotte had the gut to disrespect us because of him. They all would lose him for that.” Oscar toned out in a cold voice, gazing at the sunny sky with emotionless eyes as he speak.“Then what are we going to do then? A new plan that nobody knows about and would be easier in executing?” Royce asked, facing Oscar who had spoke with deep hound diddling over his thought. A sinister smirk shot up his face as he teared his gaz
Chapter 21Back at the Noble House. During breakfast at the dining table. “I’m still curious on where you went yesterday during the party, or why the party was held here in your mansion.” Lorraine said, in between chewing a spoonful portion of the meal in front of her. Avon gazed up at her, flashing her a timid smile that wasn’t witnessed by Lorraine, then returning his gaze back to his meal. “Did you know who the Dragon General is? Or are you perhaps one of his relatives? Is there any blood relation between you two. And the said Dragon General never even showed his face throughout the party, did you also know anything about that?” Lorraine babbled excessively. “Darling!” Avon addressed.“You should eat, I have some things to tell you when we’re done.” He said to her, the serenity in his voice like that of the soothing wave of the ocean. . Lorraine glared playfully at him with a pouted lips, before returning her attention back to her meal. She took three more portions before drop
Chapter 22At the Hales’s Villa. Still inside Lennox’s office. Royce was still at the corner, awed by Vance’s perfidy act and more shocked on what he found out. He stood there, unable to come out for confrontation and rather eavesdropping more on their conversation.“What are you saying?” Lennox asked Vance, who had just betray his brother for a reason best known to him. “I’m saying. Oscar and Royce are going behind your back and would still carry out the plan of poisoning Avon’s plate where his dinner would be dished on. I overheard them, that they would still go against your order for us to stay down.” Vance said, demystifying his statement to a more understandable statement for him. Lennox became speechless, looking away from Vance. “See yourself out.” He told him, not sparing him any more glance. Vance turned on his dismissal, walking away from him and out of the office. “Wait!” Lennox called out to him, at the verge of him getting out. He stopped at the heard of that, rest