“No!” Perry refused resolutely. “This isn’t a small business. We’ve monopolised it in Dominican! If I recommend some clients to you, won’t I be giving my family a competitor for no reason?”Derek shook his head. “I naturally won’t run this business in Dominican and become your competitor.”After giving it some thought, Perry still didn’t believe Derek. “Your roots are all in Dominican. Why should I believe that you would leave this place and go elsewhere to run this business.”Derek shrugged. “It’s up to you to believe me or not. Mr. Perry, please get your facts right. I’m doing you a favour by asking you to recommend clients to me. To put it bluntly, the Bathhouse is in my hands now, and so are those beautiful women. Even if I take over the business directly now, what can you do for me?”Derek's words made Perry’s face turn gloomy again.But this was really what the current situation was like. Since that bastard manager had presumptuously sold the Bathhouse, Derek was the dominant p
W-what’s going on?The ten-odd bodyguards who barged in glared at Derek like he was a great enemy.On the ground, Perry gritted his teeth resentfully as he struggled to raise his head to look at the bodyguards and ordered, “Kill… kill him!”The punch Derek threw at his abdomen left Perry in so much pain that he was on the verge of throwing up all the food he had eaten for the past few days. The slightest movement made him feel intense pain in his stomach.For the past few decades of his life, Perry had never been beaten up like this or suffered such a huge loss before!If Derek could still leave Perry ’s turf under the siege of so many bodyguards, Perry would be thoroughly embarrassed!The ten-odd bodyguards and Perry ’s personal bodyguard acknowledged and immediately surrounded Derek.Derek smiled coldly and raised his leg to kick the bald bodyguard who rushed in front of him, sending him flying!“Ah!” The bald bodyguard let out a miserable cry as his body was propelled upward be
"Hey, lazy asshole, get out of bed right now!" Brenda squealed and hit Derek with a piece of cloth slung across her neck.Derek struggled to lift his face, his eyes were still dreamy and his vision blurry but he could tell how enraged his wife was.In a short while, a second dagger was shot at him. "Your mates are out there working hard to fend for their family, while you lay aimlessly, drooling.""Drool!" Unfortunately, for him, he had some drool reflecting from the corner of his mouth.Derek had spent the whole of the previous day job hunting, stuck to his side was his CV and his dusty, untidied, and worn-out shoe, with a shabby set of clothes, to which he had trekked the whole of Dominican.Going from company to company, from the big giants to the SMEs yet all his searches were futile.Everything seemed as though it was a planned rejection.Having faced several rejections from relatable companies, he switched to little restaurants, small stores, and delivery work, yet he never got
Derek's hands trembled greatly, it was Morphie, Brenda's elder brother calling.Just a feet away from his mother in law on to fall in the hands of the son.All along, Derek was sure Morphie's call would only add more salt to his injury, but which seemed better, to pick and get insulted or avoid and receive a bigger bundle of visitation?To avoid the second option from happening, which only God knew what dimension it could take, Derek picked the call.Immediately, he was greeted by hot venomous words. "Bloody asshole! What took you so long in picking up my calls? Scared that I might chop that annoying face of yours off huh?" Derek left with no choice, leaned on his chin and allowed the ocean of words to fall directly on his laps. "You've got no shame I must say," Morphie chuckled loudly mockingly and continued. "Even a lazy asshole like you is prepared to be a father huh! You've got no job yet you've got some shameless thing between that thigh of yours to put my sister in the family
Being poor was never a deterrent to recognising expensive things for Derek, the old man was dressed very luxuriously with a three piece suite that had layers of expensive jewellery glittering around It, and each one sparkled under the illuminated room.His hair was black but overshadowed by traces of white intertwined between. However, it was neatly styled.Derek looked at the man in confusion, he wondered what a big shot like him was doing with such burly assaultive men.Every single step he took screamed nothing but opulence, Derek found himself sweating profusely still on his seat.Since the whole day had revolved around Reid's being merciless with him, he thought the old man was also an avenger.When the old man kept moving forward, Derek fell to his knees immediately and begged for mercy. "Mr. I know I'm an offender, please don't kill me for the sake of my wife and unborn child. I could leave far away and never return, just tell Mrs. Reid I'm sorry, and tell my wife I love her."
"I'll answer all your questions, do not worry.""You were so little when it all happened, one more reason you can't remember anything in your past." Gage said."Your father and mother were wealthy people, in fact, they weren't just wealthy but also famous, they were known all over the world.""Everything was going well until one unfortunate day, your family was betrayed by one of your father's followers." Gage implied with a frown.His eyes held so much pain and sadness in them, the memories of the past were so vivid it felt like yesterday when it all happened."Betrayed! By who?" Derek asked.Gage stared deeply into Derek's eyes, he knew his next words would come as a shock to him. Nevertheless, it was a truth he deserved to know."By your wife's parents, Mr and Mrs Reid.""What!" Derek yelled in shock. "Y… you've got to be mistaken, these people raised me like their own child.""No Derek, your father and mother got involved in an accident which claimed their lives and the Reid's sa
"Mum, leave Derek alone, i am sticking to him and never will get married to Wendell." His doubts about Brenda were suddenly erased, but he wondered why she put up the acts when she was still in love with him.The arguments continued, and out of frustration, she mentioned her last word. "Mum, whether or not I'm not removing my baby, Derek is the father and he's obliged to know about it."That was the last she said, Derek assumed she cut the call, he opened up and walked in. "Hey Brenda," he said softly, but she merely shot him a dead stare and walked past him.Nevertheless, he followed tailing behind. "Brenda, I've got us good news."She increased her pace towards the bedroom. "Darling, can you hold In a while, and we talk?""Derek, go get a job! Go get one!" She yelled out continuously till she reached the bedroom. She laid on the bed in annoyance and turned her face towards the wall. "Perhaps this isn't perfect timing," he said to himself. Derek went for a shower and laid on the sa
It was a thing of amazement to realize who the stand-in chairman was. Instead of that great exuding aura of meeting a man as he thought, he met a young, beautiful and elegant looking lady.Sonia Stark was a young woman of great splendor, she was known throughout the whole Dominican as a renowned business lady, principled and capable in all she did.No one ever crosses her path without an invitation, she earned all of that respect for herself at a very young age, coupled with all these attributes, she earned herself a promotion as the stand in chairman, second in command that is the vice chairman.Being a pauper was never an attribute to make your sight fade off, as such Derek could tell when he saw a beauty. Sonia was charming, one of those you could call a little goddess.She's one of the great factors that has brought about the stability of the Emerald group till date.On her part, she was equally shocked to see a decent young man come in, all along she had expected to meet at least