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2024-10-29 19:42:56Elizabeth stood up and yawned. She stretched her limbs. She sat lazily on the bed and took her phone that had been there on silence mode all the while.
She had decided that she was going to surprise Harlan with what she came up with on the topic for the research and because of that, she had not gone to school today.Since the rest of the group members didn't seem to be ready to come up with anything with the topic and Elizabeth wasn't ready to get promoted to the final year in college on the basis that her father was the founder of the college, she had done the major things about the research. Having spent more than ten hours doing her research on the topic, the rest was nothing much for the rest of the group members to tackle.As she turned on the phone, she saw about fifty eight missed calls and two hundred messages. On normal days, she got nothing less than fifty messages from people in the college, especially guys who wanted to go on a
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Jason's father and Jason's uncle entered the room where Jason has been admitted to the hospital.Jason opened his eyes slowly at the sound of the door. He saw his father and uncle. He sat up in bed quickly, ignoring the pain that shot across his body. It's been twenty four hours now in the hospital, but the pain was still unbearable for him. He had been lucky not to break a bone during the fight."Dad? Uncle?""You are such a disgrace!" His father spat."For how long are you going to keep us in this mess? If you are tired of living you can kill yourself!" His uncle said.Jason looked down, "I am sorry.""You are sorry? That is all you will say after all you have done to the Alberts prestige?" His uncle asked in anger."I am really sorry," Jason muttered."Do you know how many people are seeing the videos of what nonsense you did in school yesterday? As if that is not enoug
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Mr Healy stared at Harlan, eyes widened. "What... Did you just say?" He stuttered."I should have introduced myself sooner, but now isn't bad, Sir.""Do you think I am a fool, you punk?" Mr Healy gnashed his teeth and clenched his fist.Harlan took a deep breath, "I know you were not going to believe me. It makes me amazed at how Elizabeth is different from everyone else.""Don't tell me you tricked my daughter into believing you are Harlan Smith!" Harlan shrugged, "you can recognize Mr Smith's voice, can't you?"Mr Healy stared hard at Harlan.He took out his phone from his pocket and dialed Mr Smith's number. There was no answer.He tried the second time."Look, get out of my office. I am tired of seeing you. Seeing you disgust me," Mr Healy said."Just a second.""I said, get out!" Mr Healy yelled.
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"What's the problem?""I told him that I didn't know Harlan Smith." "Don't worry. I will go explain things to him.""You don't understand, Harlan, he is going to think I am hiding things from him," Elizabeth said worriedly."I will tell him that I asked you not to tell anyone about me.""That's how it is with us. We don't believe each other.""You don't believe your father? Why?""He doesn't deserve it. He is a liar. I mean, a bloody liar."Harlan frowned, "Elizabeth?""He has been lying since I was a kid so tell me why I have to believe whatever he says.""Wait a minute. We are talking about your father here, Elizabeth.""He lied to me that Mom died because there was nothing that could have been done. I miss Mom," Elizabeth said quietly, wiping a bit of tears from her face.Harlan looked around, slightly embarrassed
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Harlan stopped walking and stared at his phone, reading the message over and over again. His mother loved him? why was Madame A sending him that message out of the blue?'What?''She won't allow me to rest until I send you the message.''Do you mean she is there with you?''She was here with me a while ago. She is gone now.''What do you mean "gone"?''She came to visit me and I told her I had a means of reaching you.''You could have allowed her to speak with me herself if she really wanted to.''No way.'Harlan closed his eyes and opened them slowly."Is everything okay?" Elizabeth asked.Harlan spun around to look at her. He gave her an unruffled smile."Yes."He walked her to the car and bid her goodbye before walking to his car."It is exactly one month since you asked m
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Harlan dropped the envelope containing all the cards on the table. On the same table was his car key, his ATM card and a note which read: goodbye. Thank you.He remembered the exciting feeling that he felt on the day Mr Smith gave him those cards. He shook his head quickly to get rid of the thought. This isn't time to be emotional. He just cannot forgive his parents for what they did. He had always hoped that his father would never have peace, just look what happened. All these while, he had been Harlan Smith without knowing it.He opened the door and went outside. He only took four clothes and a extra pants. He would start from scratch and go back to living the life he used to live before Mr Smith came into his life.The light in the compound made it a very beautiful sight to behold. The first time he had come here, he had almost thought he was imagining things. Funny how those days had passed really quickly."Sir, where are you going early in the morning?" Jack asked as Harlan was
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Harlan almost choked on his food. He grabbed a cup of water and drank from it. She made a tsk tsk sound. "You are just like your father. Your face is flushed.""I am eating mo… Mrs Smith!" He almost called her 'Mom'."Does that mean you are studying law?" She asked."Yes. I am in my final year.""Wow! I can't wait to wear your graduation cap."Harlan found himself laughing in between eating. Throughout the rest of the day, he and Mrs Smith were discussing. She told him about her perfume company about how much she loved what she was doing. Harlan found out that she was a very easy going person. He had missed having her in his life all these years and he found himself wondering how great life would have been if she had been part of his childhood days.Later in the evening, Mr Smith came back home and the first thing he did was to turn on the television. The case had been a really fast one. Harlan would bet that everything was possible only by Mr Smith's influence. All the people that
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Harlan's phone beeped. It was his personal assistant from the 'where talent glows' calling. He answered it."Hello?""Is there any problem?" Harlan asked."Not really. Mr Richard Albert has been meaning to see you all these while. He asked for your number but I didn't want to give him until I asked for your permission first.""Tell him to meet me at the Jay Team lounge," Harlan said and hung up."Drive to Jay Team," Harlan told Jack."I checked into the company where you made your friend the manager, things have gone really wrong there. Lot of workers have quit," Jack said as he turned the car in another direction."So?""He has done worse things than you are aware of," Jack said."Whatever he has done to me is none of your business," Harlan said.Harlan searched for his personal assistant's number of the company where he made Kelvin the manager and sent him a message to call in the evening.Harlan had informed his personal assistant at the Jay Team hotel to make sure no one other tha
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Another movie had begun on the television and they both watched it as they ate the pizza Elizabeth had ordered. She kept stealing glances at Harlan. She had a lot of questions to ask him but she didn't know which one to ask first. "Stop staring at me," Harlan said without taking his eyes off the television."Huh?" She blushed and looked away.She looked back at the television and reached out to take a slice of pizza. At that same time was when Harlan was going to take one too. Because he was looking at the television too, he grabbed Elizabeth's hand. He glanced at her and for some unexplainable reasons, her face flushed."Hmm, I need to get something inside," she stood up and almost ran to her room. She locked the door behind her and held her fast beating chest. "Darn!"Harlan is in the sitting room… Why the heck is she over-thinking it? She shook her head and turned on the light in her room. She glanced at her face in the mirror. It was flushed. "No. This can't be happening!" She
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Chapter 149: Little effort, big result
Elizabeth didn't know how long she had been staring at Harlan's picture on the poster that had been placed in different places all over the campus. In the poster, the pictures of the six of them that had won the competition were there. When Harlan and Roger wouldn't show up, herself, Jason, Cecilia and Adrian had taken the picture. Roger had sent his picture and she had given Harlan's picture from the ones posted on the group chat when the gossip about their dates first started. Some skillful graphic designer had managed to put the pictures of the six of them together. In the picture, Harlan was the only person that stood out to Elizabeth.She looked around to be sure no one had been looking at her. There was no one. She sighed.Her phone beeped. It was a message from Harlan... No, a message from Jack because he is the one with Harlan's phone now. She checked it and saw a picture of some guy in a suit and tattoo on his neck. Under the picture, it read : would you recognize me if you s
