"Kelvin, you are usually not like this. I would not have believed it if anyone told me you can ever think I am lying to you," Harlan said at the other end.
"You just haven't taken notice of it, but this is how I am.""I will send you Jason's number," Harlan said at the other end and hung up.After the call ended, Kelvin tossed the cigar in the ashtray and turned on the CD player. He swallowed one of the drugs Den had told him would kill his guilt.He stood up and danced to the tune of the music. After killing Harlan, he would feel better about himself.He saw his phone on and smiled. He grabbed it and checked the number Harlan had sent. He turned down the volume of the CD player and dialed the number Harlan had sent to him.The line came on after some moment."Hello. This is Kelvin, Harlan's friend.""Don't thank me for allowing you to join in the party, I am not really in"Sir, should I come with you?" Jack asked as he parked the car."Jack, why are you being like this? I already told you that nothing can happen tonight. Of the six other people in the party, there are only two people that we don't get along well with. Cecilia is not someone who can do anything to me, I mean, she doesn't hate me to the extent of killing me. And Jason, if he tries to do anything, the rest of them will stop him."Jack looked at Harlan for a long time through the mirror."You shouldn't trust everyone."Harlan chuckled, "I won't trust everyone, but you can't tell me not to trust Kelvin.""I am going to wait here for you. What time will the party be over?""I don't know. It might be throughout the night.""Call me if anything seems wrong," Jack said.Harlan gave Jack an unruffled smile. He wondered why Jack had been making a fuss about the party since yesterday.
Cecilia wasn't the only one that was shocked. Everyone got their own share of the shock too."I am sorry for holding back the confession until now. Cecilia, you mean the world to me," Jason added.Cecilia's heart beat faster against her chest. Is she dreaming? She had better snap back to reality if this is all an imagination. But it was real. Jason was holding her close to himself and he is telling her that she means that whole world to him. "I love you too!" She shouted."Yo. I think my heart is going to explode with the rate at which people around me are confessing love to each other," Roger was the first to break the spell of silence which the confession seemed to have created."I am suddenly feeling heat. Is it summer already?" Adrian asked, fanning his face with his hands.Kelvin cleared his throat several times. It seemed as if he was watching a romantic movie with beautiful twists and plots.<
Elizabeth closed her eyes. Damn it!Kelvin walked closer to Elizabeth. He was going to check what was bringing the light from her when the light went off. He shrugged. If she wasn't drunk, she would have raised her head with what he said.Jason came in, he was breathing heavily."What took you so long?""That girl is insane. She almost killed me while I tried to get her in the car.""Jason, we don't have a lot of time. Ten minutes are gone already.""I will get Elizabeth inside the car.""By the way, check her phone when you get her in the car. She seems to have had a call."Elizabeth was almost stiff.Jason hissed, "we don't have the time for that."Elizabeth let out a breath in relief. She quickly tucked the phone in back pocket. Jason got to her and carried her up from the chair.She thought about springing a surprise on them a
Jack spotted Jason's car and brought his car to a halt a few meters away from it. He hurried out of the car and went to Jason's car.He walked around the car and realized it was empty. Quickly, he fixed a spy camera in the car. He hurried toward the house that the location of Jason's phone was indicating.He was about to bust into the car when his phone rang. Blindly, he reached into his pocket and answered the call."Hey, where are you?" A voice said at the other end."You should be able to figure that out. I am heading into the house already. When I call you, tell your men to come in," Jack said quietly.He heard the door to the house open and quickly hid behind a water tank."I thought I heard a voice," he heard a familiar voice belonging to Harlan's friend."You are just nervous. Let's get away before Adrian wakes up," another voice belonging to Jason said.Jack waited
"What? What do you mean Harlan is dead?" Elizabeth asked, shocked."Whatever it means to you. I'm sorry, Miss," Jack said and hung up.Elizabeth couldn't help herself, her jaw dropped to the floor and her eyes widened as she stared at the phone."We are home —" her driver started to say but was interrupted by Elizabeth's scream."I'm not going home!" The driver gripped the steering wheel and forced the car to a stop to prevent knocking into the wall of the Healy compound."Drive me to heaven. I want to go meet Harlan in heaven. Drive me there, now!"****Jack and Jason drove back to the hotel. They hurried to meet Roger and Adrian inside. Adrian muttered some nonsense words when they got inside."What's the next thing?" Jason asked in a whisper."We have to pretend as if we have been asleep all these while," Kelvin said and got beside Adrian on the floor.Jason sat on the chair and lay his head on the table. For some moment, there was silence before Kelvin broke it."I feel restless,
Jack ran towards the doctor as he saw him come towards the reception. "How is Harlan?" "He has too much alcohol in his system," the doctor told Jack politely. "Is he going to be fine?" "Well, his Blood Alcohol Content is high and at the moment, he is comatose." "What does that mean? He is going to die? You can't save him? Just exactly what is that supposed to mean." "Mr Jack, I understand that you feel pressured, but you should hear me out first." "What exactly am I supposed to hear you out on? You haven't gotten to a point. I asked you if Young Master is going to be fine and you're telling me he's got too much alcohol in his system." "We will try our best to save him. At the moment, he is still unconscious," the doctor said, still walking. Jack tried to keep up with his pace. "Can I see him?" Jack asked, getting irritated with the whole thing. Doctors have never been his friend and they won't start being it now. "Yes, but from a distance," the doctor said and led
Jack stopped walking."I want to go with you everywhere you go," she added.Jack turned to look at her, "what?""I want to know who killed Harlan and make the person die in the worst ways he did kill Harlan."Maybe knowing who really killed Harlan would make her feel less bad. But really, she hoped that it wouldn't be Kelvin and Jason. She hoped they had just done some other things that day, nothing to do with Harlan. She felt a stab in her heart as she imagined Kelvin having a hand in Harlan's death. She silently prayed it wouldn't be so.****Harlan opened his eyes. He closed them quickly as he almost got blinded with the light. He had stayed long in the darkness that he found the light blinding. Some minutes later, he opened one of his eyes and allowed himself to adjust to the light. Some moments later, he was able to open his second eyes too. He felt a splitting headache as he tried to fathom where he was. He looked at his hand and saw that it was plastered. He looked up and saw
The next time Harlan opened his eyes, he felt used to the light at once. The heaviness in his head was almost gone too. He yawned and took in the arrangement of the room. Large, comfortable bed, a seat beside the bed, curtains on both windows. It looked just like a prison… thinking about that made him remember what Jack said about Kelvin. He sat up in bed and was about to get on his feet when he realized that the drip was still there. He tried to yank it off, but he wasn't able. He pressed the button beside the bed and the door soon opened. A nurse, all smiles, came in. "Need any help?" She asked. Harlan pointed to the drip, "what's it for?" "To make you hydrated and —" "Take it off," Harlan said. Enough of the thing sticking to his hand. "Sir?" The nurse asked, making no attempt to mask her disbelief. "You heard me; take the thing off me." "But, Sir, you need—" "Get me something to cut it off if you aren't going to do it," Harlan said, deliberately looking intensely at her, t