DELOS GENERAL HOSPITAL
An elegant lady could be seen walking as fast as her legs to get her inside the hospital and her heels clicking, making a faint thud as she walked.
As she passed by the nurses and doctors, they all bowed their heads and didn't raise it until she was out of their sight.
About three to four bodyguards were behind her with her personal assistant who was trying to keep to her pace. The lady was putting on a tight red gown which stopped just a few inches below her knees. She has the most perfect porcelain skin and her black hair which was flowing behind her was soft and smooth as silk. Her sapphire blue eyes radiated her pale skin, making her look like a walking doll.
She stopped walking when she got to the front of a ward, and she opened the door and walked into the ward and met a doctor attending to the old man who was unconscious with oxygen on.
“ How is my grandfather?” That was the first word that left the lady's mouth, and when the doctor saw her, he bowed his head.
“ Your grandfather is stable and would wake up anytime from now,” the doctor said with respect.
“ I asked him to always move around with bodyguards and his car, but he wouldn't listen, now look at his condition” her voice was laced with worry as she stared at her unconscious grandfather.
“ Cancel all my appointments today, I would stay with grandpa until he wakes up” The lady said to her PA, who nodded and began to make some calls.
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A few hours later, the lady was sleeping beside her grandfather's hospital bed when she felt him moved, and she opened her eyes immediately.
“ Grandpa, thank goodness you're alive. I thought something bad might have happened to you” the lady said with tears in her eyes and her grandfather smiled as he raised his hand to wipe her tears.
“ Cry no more, my little princess. I am hale and hearty, I am a strong man, remember?” Her grandpa said, and she chuckled and sniffed before sitting beside him.
“ What happened, grandpa? How did the accident happen? I always tell you to move around with your car and bodyguards, but you won't listen, what if something bad had happened to you? What would have become of me?” The lady cried and her grandfather smiled.
“ I was walking on the street of Delos when a car hit me and ran away. I was bleeding profusely and felt my life slipping out of me. Some passerby saw my condition ad refused to help me.”
“ So, who brought you to the hospital?” The lady asked, and the old man smiled as he recalled what happened the previous night.
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“ Oh, poor man. He is really bleeding”!
“ I wish I could help him, but what if he dies while on the way to the hospital, I would be arrested for killing him.”
Some passerby said as the walked past the bleeding old man. The old man felt his life slipping out of him as his eyes turned blurry, and he couldn't see very well because of how much blood he already lost.
Just when he was about to pass out, a young man ran towards him and began to shake him.
“ Hey grandpa? Wake up! Don't close your eyes! I will get you to the hospital right now” the young man shouted and squatted down, carried the old man on his back before running to the nearest hospital.
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“ So he gave you a piggyback to the hospital?” The lady asked and the old man nodded.
“ Wow, so nice of him, I hope to see him, and thank him for rescuing your life” the lady said and the old man smiled.
“ I have sent my butler to go find him all around Delos, I would like to meet him and thank him myself.” The old man said, and the lady nodded.
“ So, Rachel, have you seen a man you want to marry?” The old man suddenly asked after a long silence between them.
“ No grandfather, do you have anyone in mind?” The lady asked and he nodded with a smile.
“ I do have someone in mind.” he smiled and Rachel nodded.
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On the street of Delos, Walton kept walking without having any destination in mind. He had no money left on him to book a hotel room to rest, before thinking of where to go.
Being an orphan with no parents or relatives, Walton relied on the Rex family to feed and cloth him, but now that he already left, he had nowhere to go.
Walton was still thinking of what to do when his phone beeped. He took it from his pocket to check the message, only to see a bank alert.
His brows furrowed as he saw the amount glaring hard at him from the screen of the phone.
“ Who sent this?” He muttered as he clicked on the message to see the full details.
' You have been credited with ten million dollars from Xxx bank, please come to the bank to upgrade your account to VIP' the message read and Walton scoffed.
“ Who are these fools trying to scam?” He said, and put his phone back in his pocket. Just as he was about to resume his walk, his phone rang, and he picked it up.
“ Hello Mr. Walton Rex, please come to the bank and upgrade your account to the VIP section to receive the amount which has just been credited to your account” the voice from the other end of the phone said.
“ Are you trying to fool me? I am not the type to get scammed easily” Walton flared up. He was already exhausted from his wife's betrayal and having to walk around the street of Delos without having a particular destination, so he decided to pour all his aggression on the person who called him.
“ No, Mr. Walton. Your account has been credited with ten million US dollars, and we are inviting you to be part of our VIP customers” the voice said politely.
“ I won't take it easy on your bank if I found out that I am being fooled” Walton said and hanged up. He turned around, heading towards the bank to confirm if the alert he saw was actually real or fake.
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He got to the bank within thirty minutes and headed towards the counter in the reception.
“ Hello sir, how may I help you?” The receptionist asked in a polite manner with a smile on her face. She looked professional, and Walton couldn't help but smile.
“ Hello. I am here to withdraw money” Walton replied.
“ How much do you want to withdraw, sir?” Asked the receptionist, and Walton thought for a while before replying.
“ I want to withdraw one million dollars” he said, and the receptionist couldn't help but laugh.
“ And why are you laughing?” Asked Walton, who couldn't find what was making the receptionist laugh.
“ I am sorry sir, but you can't withdraw one million dollars because I don't think you have such an amount of money in your account” the receptionist said. Walton found her words offensive, but he waved it off because he thought that she might be true.
He actually doesn't have such an amount in his bank account, so he was fooled to think that his account was credited with ten million dollars.
“ Okay, if I can't withdraw one million dollars, can I at least check my account balance?” Walton asked, and the receptionist furrowed her brows.
“ Sir, do you think I am playing here? You came to withdraw one million dollars when you don't have such amount and now, you want me to show you your account balance, were you expecting a huge amount of money to enter your account?” The receptionist asked. With the way she replied, it was starting to draw attention towards them, making Walton feel embarrassed.
“ Just check my account balance and stop beating around the bush. Is this really how you treat your customers?” Walton asked, but the receptionist scoffed and faced the computer in front of her.
After asking for Walton's necessary details, she finally checked his account balance grudgingly and was shocked to see the amount in it.
“ Can you stop staring at the computer screen and tell me how much I have in my account, " Walton said, bringing the receptionist out of her trance.
Feeling embarrassed with herself, she changed the topic by asking Walton where he got such an amount of money from.
“ Hey, Mr. Walton, where did you get such an amount of money? Because since you became one of our customers, you've never had well over five thousand dollars in your account, so how possible is it that you've got ten million dollars?” The receptionist asked, and Walton fell silent.
He had no explanation on how he got such an amount of money from, and no matter how much he explained to the receptionist, she wouldn't believe a single word of his.
“ And how is that your business? You're just a mere receptionist, so what right do you have to ask me such a question?” Walton answered her questions with another question, making the receptionist lose her tongue.
“ What matters is that, I want to withdraw one million dollars and that's final” Walton said.
“ Did you steal such amount of money from the Rex family?” The receptionist suddenly asked and murmurs circulated immediately from the passerby who stopped to watch what was going on.
“ Why would you say such a thing to me? Who are you to ask such questions?” Walton fired and the receptionist snared.
“ Everyone knows that you're the poor son-in-law of the Rex family, and you feed on them, so having such a huge amount of money in your account is questionable.” The receptionist said, and Walton fell silent.
The fact that a mere receptionist knew that he was a lowly son-in-law from the Rex family made him silent and unable to speak.
“ Securities! Securities! Get this man out of this bank right now, he is a thief” the receptionist ordered and two hefty men came forward and held Walton by the arm and started dragging him away while the receptionist smiled.
Just as they were about to throw him out, a voice boomed around the reception, making all heads, including that of Walton, turn to see whose voice was that.
“ What right do you have to drag Grandpa Lawson's guest from the bank and also call him a thief” the voice boomed around the reception and all heads turned to the voice.
There, stood an elegant lady, dressed in a red gown which stopped just above her knees. Her skin, very flawless and her dress was screaming luxury.
“ Leave him this minute or forget about your job” the lady said as he walked closer towards the scene.
“ And for you,” she turned to the receptionist who was already shivering in fear. “ You're fired!”
Walton stood there as if he was electrocuted. The receptionist was just fired because of him, and he just couldn't help but feel grateful and at the same time confused.The elegant lady wasn't someone he knew from anywhere because she looked like someone from a luxurious family, so why then did she help him?Walton kept staring at the lady until she walked to the place where he sat down. She squatted in front of him and stretched her right hand forward for him to hold and stand up.At first, Walton was hesitant, but nevertheless, he placed his hand on hers, and she helped him up.She turned around looking for someone and when her eyes landed on the person, she left Walton to go meet him.“ I am sorry, Miss Rachel. I will find someone competent for the job” the man who seemed like the manager apologized.“ I would rather not see her anywhere close to this bank, or I will shut it down” Rachel said and turned around, walking away.Walton had no option other than to follow her out of the
“ Yes, you did, and I and my grandfather would forever be grateful to you.” Rachel replied, and Walton's lips coiled into a smile.“ At least I didn't have a full bad day. Now I am also wealthy and could live the life I have always wanted.” He said and Rachel chuckled.“ Let's go” she said and Walton followed behind her.It took just twenty minutes to get to the hospital where Rachel's grandfather was admitted and soon enough, they were in front of his ward.Walton couldn't go in because he was nervous. Lawson Bates had always been his role model since he was a teenager, and he always wished to be more wealthy than Lawson Bates, but what life had in store for him was different from what he had dreamed of.“ Don't tell me you're nervous” Rachel asked amusingly and Walton inhaled sharply.“ Who wouldn't? I would be meeting the world's richest man today, and you want me to be composed without getting nervous? He is my role model since I was a teenager, so meeting him today, is a blessing
Lillian's words came to him from behind with a loud hiss. “The Patricia of the Rex family will be having his birthday tomorrow. And he wanted to see you do well to get that broken ass of yours off.” The initial frown on her face deepened.After the sudden pause, Walton nodded his head without turning around towards her.He nodded his head and sped off from the room. His next point of call was the bank, he needed to get some cash for his upkeep as soon as possible.He could already see the bank, which was not far from the vicinity, and he gradually made his way towards it. Nosing through the edging crowd that was littered in the place, he soon got to the receptionist's table, expecting the receptionist to recognize him from their previous encounter.But when her head was finally raised towards him. It turned out that he was mistaken. This was not the same receptionist who had attended to him ; they had been switched.The nose of the receptionist twitched with so much anger immediatel
The anger flared up as he got off from the property of the Rex family's villa, so much that he could hardly breathe properly.His mind was already settled now, and there was absolutely nobody who was going to change his decision now.He had decided that he was going to accept Grandpa Lawson's proposal and marry Rachael.Soon, he got to the road and boarded a cab that was heading to the Batesville group of companies.Staring at the street that laid before him, he didn't realize when they got to the Villa.Paying off the driver, he walked gradually over to the gates, his feet barely touching the ground, but when he got there, the security crossed him.“What are you doing here?” One of the security guards, who seemed to be their leader from the badge that he was wearing walked up towards him.“I'm here to see Rachel,” Walton replied, thinking that it was a normal procedure that everyone had to go through.But it turned out that he was mistaken.The eyes of the security officer made a qui
Then Walton,a generally kind hearted person bent on taking revenge,flashed a mischievous smile at lilian and she instantly got it. She knew something would be wrong but she still counted on her Family's riches-oh her Family?She looked at her mum but she avoided eye contact with her, her Father was doing the same. They all couldn't eat at the party,just a few crumbs and that was all. A sensation of guilt ran through them all. They all decided it was time to leave. Indeed it was but they were stopped by a courier boy. He explained he had a parcel for them that the Groom wished to give them. Lilian snatched it but Her Father instructed her not to open it until they arrived home. Barely getting home,Lilian tore the parcel open,and brought out what looked like some important document but it wasn't. She discovered the same word was written all over and over again. Silas went through the papers and confirmed it and so did Rhea. Lilian dumped the parcel on the floor asking the ma
Tap, tap, tap! Three successive silent but audible knocks landed on Mr. Rex's gate just a few minutes past 8 in the morning. Usually, the postman would have dropped the mails in the mailbox neatly carved outside, so Silas couldn't understand why he decided to knock this time around.Who else would it be? Peasants wouldn't come knocking at their door at any time of the day, let alone early in the morning. The second set of knocks disrupted his thoughts, and he finally stood up and yawned on his way to the gate.Yuck! he blurted out. It was the cops, and most importantly, Walton. He couldn't even take a second glance at him; he felt sick instantly. By this time, the cops demanded that he lead the way, and he obliged. None of the rest of the family were awake yet.The leading sergeant asked for Mr. Rex, and Silas replied that he was still in bed. Mr. Rex woke up with a start, feeling dizzy, but Silas kept pressing that his immediate attention was needed in the living room, without darin
REX MANSION“ Hey you piece of trash, come here this minute” a loud voice could be heard from the sitting room and almost immediately a man ran as fast as his legs could get him to the sitting room.“ You called for me mother” the man bowed his head and the woman who called him snorted in annoyance.“ Do I look like your mother, you bastard! Don't you know your mother if you see her?” She shouted, but the man said nothing.“ Silas, the son of the Marcus family would be visiting today, make sure you prepare the meals quickly before his arrival. I want everything to be ready before he comes, if not, you would be dead” the woman said and dismissed the man with a finger.She is Mrs. Rex, the mother of Walton's wife, Lillian. She has been treating Walton like a slave in the Rex mansion, whereas, he is the husband of her daughter, Lillian.“ Get me a glass of juice” Mrs. Rex ordered with her legs crossed as she sat on the sofa reading a newspaper.“ On it mother” Walton replied, and Mrs. R