“Ha, John, are you here to run errands for Olivia? Poor you, why would Olivia be so wicked as to send you here from the sunview? This is not right.” Edina said and sauntered towards him. She kept her hands on his shoulder. At first glance, it seems like they have a good relationship from afar.
“Is it because you lost your job and you are now poor that made Olivia treat you like a slave?” Edina screamed the last sentence so that others could hear and they heard and looked in their direction.John, being familiar with Edina, knew that she had malicious intentions and would pretend to care, but her true intention was to upset him.John swallowed the lump in his throat and removed Edina’s hand from his shoulder. He knew she was out to mock and disgrace him. So he replied.“No aunts, I came here on my own. I just want to get a plate of food for myself. You know how spicy and delicious the food here is and I like spicy food”Edina was angry, how smart of John, to answer her snappily like that, but she would not allow it to slide.“John, stop protecting that arrogant wife of yours. How can you afford a plate of food in this restaurant?” Edina smirked.“Even if you sell your gigantic body, you can’t afford a plate of food in spicy in,” Edina said.John wished to escape from Edina, but the woman continued.“I heard that Deim Moore is visiting Olivia today. Is he the one who sent you here? This is not right, and I told Jeanette that everyone must not be successful like my rich son-in-law,” Edina taunted, she always bragged about her rich son-in-law, and she was one reason Jeanette treated John harshly.“Jeanette wouldn’t listen. She wants to push her daughter to Deim, that successful banker. Did you get to see his latest SUV? The car was...” Edina continued.John thought that he had heard enough, and he quickly cut Edina off.“I will see you around, Auntie,” he said and hurried inside the restaurant.He had not even stood on the cue and twenty minutes had already passed because he was listening to Edina who had already bought her food.So before Edina could protest, John was already out of her sight. He went upstairs. The cue downstairs was huge. He hoped there would be fewer people upstairs.Unfortunately, in his quest to be fast and get home on time, he bumps into a lady. The girl’s food poured all over the floor.John became numb. The only money in his hand could barely buy two plates of food, and Olivia warned him against spending her money. John did not know what to do“Are you blind? Can’t you see? Do you know how many minutes I was standing there just to get the food and all you do is bump into me and slash the food?” The girl, who was about to cry, yelled.“I am so sorry,” John muttered. He looked confused and depressed.“Sorry? Did I hear you say sorry? Just go there and get my food,” the girl shrieked, her finger pointing toward the cue.“Please forgive me. I don’t have any money and I can’t afford any of the food here. I am only here because someone sent me,” John pleaded.The woman knew that John was not willing to pay for her ruined meal. She quickly grabbed his waist, stuffed her hand deep inside his pocket, and brought out the $500 in his pocket.However, John quickly held her hands and took the money away.How would he explain what had happened to Olivia? The punishment would be more severe than the previous ones. So he clasped the money.The lady also refused to let him go, and this attracted some people around. One man asked the Lady what happened, and she explained with tears.“You either get her another food or you give her the money to get one for herself. Make your choice, John, between the two,” a young man said.“Yes, you can’t let her go hungry because of your carelessness,” another person added.“But I don’t have any money,” John replied in a pitiable tone.“If you have no money, you should have been more careful,” someone yelled from behind.“He is a liar. He has some money with him,” the young girl shouted.“The money is not mine,” John yelled back. He was on the verge of crying, but no one listened to him.“Give her the money”“Bring out the money!!”Everyone in the hall started screaming. They blamed John and supported the girl.The commotion attracted the attention of the security men and the two hefty men came inside to find out what was going on.“What is going on here?” One guard asked.John was already wetting his pants. He was huge, but never a match for any of the men standing before him.“What is going on here?” The security man asked again. This time his tone was more deadly than before.“This man ruined my food and refused to replace it.”the girl whimpered.“Is that true?” The scary-looking man asked John.When John refused to talk, the men hoisted him on his shoulder and carried him outside the restaurant without bothering to hear his side of the story anymore.Once outside, the security man lifted John above the ground, which left his two legs hanging in the air. John struggled to get down, but the security man gripped him.“Why did you refuse to replace her food?” the man’s thick voice roared like a thunderstorm into John’s ear.Fear gripped him and sweat broke out on his forehead. John’s neck was held in a tight grasp and he was suffocating.The tears in his eyes did not allow him to speak any comprehensive words. The man noticed the way his hands were trembling and roared.“How dare you want to cheat this innocent girl? Do you want to die?”John rocked his head.“Please sir, have mercy on me. Don’t kill me,” he cried out.The security man threw him on the floor, and John landed his butt on the ground. The tears in his eyes were now flooding down his cheeks.His butt hurts, and his neck was seriously injured. Before he could recover from the pain, a resounding sound landed on his cheeks.Slap!Before he could recover from the slap, another one landed on the other side of his cheeks.John held his burning cheeks as another set of tears trickled down from his eyes. Just then, the manager of the restaurant came out. Judging from his decent dressing, John thought that the man would be more understanding. He tried to crawl toward him, but his butt was smacked back on the floor by the guard.However, when he beheld the familiar face, John’s countenance changed.The man turned out to be Desmond, John’s former classmate, when he was still in high school. Desmond and his friends were one reason John dropped out of school before Olivia’s grandfather picked up and put him in a new school. Seeing Desmond now, John felt ashamed and more miserable. And wished that the ground would be opened and swallow him up.Desmond never stopped bullying him back then in school. They bullied him until he became traumatized when he was a kid, just because he was poor. And now, in his cranky condition,
John was still knocking at the door when the rain started pouring down. The sound of the downpour was so loud that it consumed the noise his weak hand produced at the door. After a while, he stopped knocking. He went to the corner of the house and sat down on the cold marble floor, waiting for Olivia to open the door for him. However, despite the heavy storm, Olivia refused to open the door, and John was left to sleep outside in the rain.Three days later, John opened his eyes and saw Edward, one of his friends. John became hostile. Edward was among those who came with Murphy the last time he was admitted to the hospital.“What are you doing here? Have you come again to mock me?” John sneered.“You know I will never mock you, John. You are a good man and I admire you,” Edward replied.“Lair, you and your friends came to mock me and now you come again. Where are your friends? I hope you are not here with them?”“How are you feeling now? I can see you are getting better,” Edward said, i
The taxi stopped at the penthouse, John came down and suddenly became uneasy. It was a gigantic building with an intimidating decor. Wilde’s Villa was great, but Sam’s penthouse was the greatest, according to John. The hotel was one of the top-ranking in Sunview. John looked at his rumpled, grungy clothes and felt nervous. He didn’t know when he stuck his dirty finger in his nose.“You can’t do that in front of Uncle Sam, you know” Edward had chastened him, so he quickly removed his finger and went to the elevator.Once the elevator stopped, John found himself at the front door of the penthouse. He sauntered the remaining distance to the door and pressed the bell. Within a few seconds, the door opened, and a young woman stood before him. John’s heart stopped working for a moment. Standing at the door was Olivia, his wife. Wearing nothing except the towel that she wrapped around her body. Just when he opened his mouth to ask her a few questions, Sam came to the door and encircled his
“You are not paying for anything. We must make you look presentable before our boss.” One girl said.“You don’t have to worry about anything. We will take good care of you,” another girl said.“Feel relaxed Mr, and allow us to give you a wonderful treat,” the third girl added.John was now relaxed, as if this was a dream. Let him enjoy it while it lasted, so he entered the bathtub, and the ladies started bathing him.A few minutes later, John was brought to Grado. He lowered his head. He truly enjoyed the bath. The girls were experts in taking care of men. He forgot where he was until he heard Grado’s voice. “Follow me,” Grado said and moved out of the hallway. John did as was instructed. Grado stopped at the second floor, opened a door, and entered.“The boss will see you in a few minutes,” Grado said and pushed John inside before he slammed the door. Having been left alone, John looked around his surroundings. It was a study; it was almost the same thing as the Albert Study, whic
“Yes, John. You can do anything you want with this amulet on your neck”“How do we activate the amulet?”John can’t wait to get the amulet activated so that he will punish all his enemies. He thought of those who have offended him in the past and his heart boiled down to revenge. So many people treated him like less than a human and called him worthless. But among all these people that filled his mind, it was Olivia he wanted to deal with the most. He couldn’t wait to deal with his cheating wife, Olivia.“I will only activate this amulet when I am sure you are my biological son. First, we need to see the woman who saved your life. Your grandmother. Didn’t you say that she was seriously sick? ““Yes, she is”“You will take me there. I need to see her”That was how John took Thomas to Anita’s house. He took Anita to the hospital to receive proper treatment. At the same hospital, a DNA test was carried out, and in less than two weeks, the result will be out. Thomas gave him a huge amount
As soon as Nicolas entered the car and drove off, Olivia came down from her room. She saw the men through her window, but unfortunately, they left before she could come outside.“Who were those men that just left here?” She asked John as her eyes sparkled with excitement.“They were looking for Anderson’s first son. He is their master, and they lost their way”“What! I heard that the lost son of Anderson has been found and no one knows who he is yet. Come quickly, follow those men, and find out where Anderson’s first son is staying. I might consider taking you back if you help me find him”She can’t let this opportunity slip away from her. Perhaps it’s Anderson’s son who will help her revive their family business. John got angry and planned to teach Olivia a bitter lesson. If not for the precious artifact his grandmother Anita gave to him as a wedding gift, he wouldn’t have come back to Wilde’s family after what Olivia had done. But since Olivia needed him to find Anderson’s first so
Olivia woke up the next morning to find herself in the hospital bed. She felt terrible pain all over her body; the sores under her thighs were unbearable. She looked around and saw her father seething. Before she could open her mouth and ask him how she ended up in the hospital, Albert shoved a newspaper onto her lap.“Can you explain this nonsense to me?” He asked, pointing to the article in the paper.Olivia took the newspaper and saw her nude pictures all over it. Even the pictures of her having sex with some man whose face was not shown were boldly revealed. She trembled. The incident of the previous night gradually resurfaced in her memory. It was around midnight when Nicolas finally came into his private suite. After spending less than forty seconds with Olivia, John left just a few minutes later. John had watched Olivia sleeping in her drunken state. He was disappointed that Olivia could degrade herself to this extent. She even spent some hours waiting for a man whom she barel
Meanwhile, John was busy watering Jeanette’s garden when Albert came in with Andrew. He dropped the hose on the floor immediately after they stepped into the garden. “father-in-law, is anything the matter? Why did you look so angry?” John asked innocently, looking at Albert’s frowning face.“As if you did not know what you and your stupid friends do to Olivia,” Andrew said, moving closer to John. Before now, John would have shivered if Andrew had come close to him, but that was not the case today. He only watches Andrew in fury, recalling the countless times he has beaten him up.“Brother-in-law, what are you saying? Is there anything wrong with Olivia?”“John, why did you decide to humiliate Olivia in such a despicable manner even though she was your wife?” Albert let out in contempt.“I beg your pardon, Father law, what are you talking about? How did I disgrace Olivia?”“Are you not the one that set her up, despite all we have done for you? You still have the mind to do this to Oli