Chapter 81Finally, the D-Day for Liam's final exams arrived and he was up as early as he could to make a final preparation and that was a final review of his notes. Done with it, he proceeded to gather the materials he would be needing for his exams and after one final check, he slipped into the bathroom to take his bath. Now in the bus station waiting for the bus, he was scrolling through his phone with his earpiece plugged in when Jake arrived, breathing heavily like he was being chased. “Why running? Is there a problem?” Liam asked, searching his face with a raised brow. “I overslept.” He gasped, trying to steady his heavy breathing while Liam stared at him with his hands wrapped on his chest. “I asked you to quit pulling an all-nighter. Even if you want to attempt it, it's best if you do that in school, there are bathrooms everywhere where you can clean up before the exams commence.” He chided, looking him over with his brow scrunched up in anger.Jake was an average student
Chapter 82Wondering what the issue was, Liam swirled around and with his shoulders slumped began to head towards Professor Jayden's office. On arrival, it took a while before he connected his fists against the door and even when he did, there was no immediate response. Wondering what the issue was, he swirled around and with his bag slung loosely over his shoulder, he wanted to take his leave only to swirl around the second time and then push the door open. Seated behind the table was Professor Jayden with his glasses perching on his nostril. He had this worried look on his face making Liam to be worried too. Gulping, Liam made his way into the office and with his hands resting by his side, he approached him. “Sir, you asked Tiffany to fetch me.” He said with his gaze on him. Not bothering to raise his head up, Professor Jayden said, “Uhm… I did. You're in serious trouble right now and I hope you would be able to wriggle yourself out easily but I doubt if that would be the case
Chapter 83For more than three minutes, the trio remained in the office waiting for the final verdict which was taking an eternity to be passed out. Deep down, Liam was muttering supplications to his maker. If he gets expelled from the school either discreetly or not, news was definitely going to go out and then his reputation would be spoiled. “Please do this for me. I will work on finding out if it really happened or not.” Turning towards Liam once more, he grabbed his shoulder more tightly, “But I bet this is all a conspiracy, right?”To this, Liam couldn't provide an answer, he was dazed as he stared into space with his hands resting on his thigh.“Fine, you asked for a second chance, I will give that to him but it shouldn't exceed a week.” Professor Davis finally said and Liam, who had his head bent to the ground all along, snapped it upwards..He didn't know how to react to the news and so he was wearing a blank expression. “Thank you, this is definitely going to be the last
Chapter 84After speaking with Liam, Rose fell on her bed and with her eyes shut tightly, she took in a deep breath, trying to calm her raging nerves down. She understood that Liam had a lot of workload at hand but at the same time she felt there was more to it. The way he had spoken showed that something more than his exams were bothering him and she wanted answers to it. Staring at the screen of her phone, she wanted to dial his contact again only to push back the phone under her pillow, cranking her head to the side. “If only I was with him, I would have comforted him.” She muttered, wrapping her hands across her chest. Just then the door creaked open and nurse Lila poked her head in with a bright smile etched on her lips. “You will be having your therapy session a bit earlier tomorrow.” She said, walking further into the room with a paper bag. “You bought the candies?” Rose asked with an excited look on her face. “I'm sorry I couldn't but someone else who had heard your wis
Chapter 85During her therapy session, Rose couldn't help but think about her meeting with Naya earlier. She was glad that she wasn't like Lily who was self centered, rather, she genuinely cared. “At last, Liam found himself a supportive girlfriend.” She muttered, her lips parting into a bright smile. Smacking her lips she returned her attention to nurse Lila who was now scowling with her hands resting on her waist. “Are we going to spend the whole day here?” she asked, trying to act sternly only to burst into laughter the next minute because of the expression on Rose's face. After leaving the ward, Naya made her way towards the elevator with her phone against her ear. Just like she said the previous night, she was already working on how to give Lily her bitter pill to swallow. “Hey Dave, any update? Were you able to ascertain if she was the culprit or not?” “Lily Davidson, I guess.” The person on the other end snorted. “That wasn't the answer I expected though.” She rolled he
Chapter 86Dave wrapped his hands across his chest and after staring at her for a while, he tossed his head to the side and then exhaled. “What do you think you want to do?” His voice was firm while he used his eyes to pierce through her, hunting for the right answer. “I have a plan… I think having her contact is going to help… hold.” She said suddenly as she began to suck her teeth. For the next free minutes that followed, she kept darting her eyes around before she finally settled it on Dave who was unperturbed. He still had more jobs to handle and so he had shifted his attention to them. “Do you have proof? Any proof that would show she exchanged the app and…” “Sold it to the dark web.” “Perfect! Do you?” “I don't.” He replied and at once all her enthusiasm flew into the air as she sank into her seat with her eyes tightly shut. “Finding a proof in this case is hard and it has to be concrete otherwise, you will end up making a fool out of yourself.” “So what do you suggest
Chapter 87Returning his gaze to the examiners in front of the hall, Liam dug his hand into his hair and then began to tug on it. Blinking his eyes rapidly, he tried to concentrate on the paper in front of him as he gripped his pen tightly but everything in front of him was blur.“We are sorry to interrupt your exams, we got a report that the paper was leaked before the exams and so we have to come investigate.” The team leader said and then nodded. At once, his subordinates who had followed him filed into the hall and then began to search the students. They were so meticulous in their search, making sure to take note of every single thing so they wouldn't miss out. While all these were going on, Liam felt uncomfortable since he had forgotten to search himself properly before the exam. He had been doing this since Lily told him she was going to have a pound of her flesh. A few minutes into the search which only two students were involved in, someone walked into the hall and at on
Chapter 88At the end of the two hour examination, students refused to leave the hall, they were all talking about the incident that happened a while ago. Everyone had a word to say and didn't want to listen to the other making the hall to be noisy but still, they were all making the same points. Liam remained seated for a while, he wanted to find out what exactly happened from his mates and immediately he grabbed the hint, he rose to leave. “Hey, Liam.” Jake hailed, walking up to him with a little smile on the edge of his lips. Liam had told him the exact statement Lily had said to him a few days ago and so he was happy that it backfired to her so he couldn't keep his excitement back to himself. “She got what she deserves don't you think so?” He asked, nudging Liam who just nodded as several thoughts swirled through his head at the same time. First, it was the look on Lily's face and now she was at the mercy of the panel who will decide her guilt. “Ugh!” He sighed, tossing his
Six months later… The county had returned to normalcy after a thorough reform was put in place. To honor those that had made it happen, a mass meeting was organized where all members of the country were invited to be a witness to. Tyler Greene, the newly appointed President, was present in the mass meeting, being an icon in the revamped version of the country. His face was brightly marked with excitement, as he left the smile on his face and was distributing it to the citizens, who were seeing him. They had come in their masses as they wanted to witness the occasion first hand."First, I'll formally announce the reason for his honorable, reasonable and democratic meeting." Tyler started, his voice cool at first, accompanied with the sound of his laughter. "We all know about the change in the course of events in this country and those who made it happen.." Tyler spoke with clear gladness and couldn't hide it. Tyler's vice was beside him, holding a thick colored banner in his han
Daniel's voice was loud, as he kept making gestures with his hands. He was seated with his friends, conversing with them about the current news that spread around the country. Suddenly, someone rushed into their midst and exclaimed, "I heard another news…" "What's that, boy?" Daniel said, his voice breaking confidently, as if he would not be shaken by Liam's dealings. "Tell me, what's the news?" "The deal you made…" the boy started, but as soon as Daniel realized it was about a deal, he took the boy to a side to continue their talk in whispers. "The deal you strongly made and stamped with Karl had been released and broadly spread!" "What deal?" Daniel questioned him out of shock, and was rubbing his face until he stopped, as asked the boy again, "I don't get you. What deal?" "The chip infusion." The boy replied, his voice lighter as soon as he sensed anger in Daniel's voice."What!" Daniel reacted, as he nearly collapsed. "You know what? Just run away!" "To where?" The boy ask
Alaric had gone back to the operating room, and was still in bed. Fortunately, the surgeon realized he was all right. Alaric was totally healed, but he happened to have lost his memory. His constant surrender to Karl was all robotic. He was later brought from the operation room to a ward, on instruction that he needed to rest. "Hello?" A surgeon asked him. "What do you feel now?" "Feel what?" Alaric returned, his voice clear but light. "What do you mean?" "Oh, I know you're just coming back to normalcy…" the surgeon said, turning to his colleagues. "Do you think he is totally okay?" "Yeah," another surgeon responded, walking up to Alaric to check on him. "I think we should seek the attention of the senior surgeon, so he can see him." "Is that necessary?" The first surgeon questioned in return, holding her lips as she smiled. "Well, you can. At least, he is all right." Soon, the senior surgeon was around. He turned to the first surgeon and whispered to her ears, "I hope no chi
Kaylan didn't perform less than she was asked to do. She had spread the news of Rodriguez's illegal dealings vastly. Liam had ordered the release of the article which contained almost everything about Rodriguez and Karl. Rodriguez had felt comfortable with Karl's soothing words, continuing his illegal business with Karl became easy for him that he had no remorse, and even hid his fears about any form of leakage. "How far have you gone with the task I gave you?" Liam asked Kaylan, his voice deep but clear, an expression of his excitement. "In what state could the biotech company be, right now?" He mused. "I've forwarded the news to my team." Kaylan replied, returning a clearer tone in her own voice. "It will reach the masses easily that way…""I'll prove to Karl that I can thwart his schemes and nullify all his tricks." Liam chuckled, his voice making him sound like a villain and threatening Karl's attitude as though he was present. "Exactly, Liam." Kaylan responded in agreement.
To spice up their plans, Liam had mailed a flashdrive to Rodriguez. The flash drive contained all the information they had gathered about him and Karl. Rodriguez made up his mind not to return the flash drive as he had a conclusion that something important was attached to it and so he was curious to find out the content. With that he made his way back to his office and as the Chief Justice he sat behind his imposing mahogany desk in the room.His eyes were fixed on the small, sleek flash drive that had been tossed on the table. The audacity of Liam to think of doing this hit him but he smiled while the question popped in his mind.Who did he think he was, trying to blackmail him?What was on his mind?Curiosity getting the better of him, Rodriguez inserted the drive into his computer and waited as the files began to load. Suddenly, the screen flickered to life, revealing an array of documents and recordings. Rodriguez's eyes widened on seeing the images which had himself includ
Madam Aurelia began walking in circles inside the living room as thoughts of what they were going to do next consumed her thoughts. She was still recovering from what she had seen in the file that Dave had brought, and the evidence was sickening. There was no doubt as to whether Karl and Rodriguez were crooks, and should they manage to expose them, it would definitely influence the outcome in their favor.Liam walked into the room, “Did you manage to find anything good among the papers?” He inquired, looking eager and hopeful.“Yes.” Madam Aurelia replied, gripping the folder firmly. “There are records of money movement as well as transactions which are quite illicit. If we conduct this campaign in the proper manner and present the right audiences with this evidence, the extent of Karl and Rodriguez’s dealings… It would be interesting corruption news that will come to light.”“Then we have no time to waste.” Liam affirmed in his stern tone. “Whatever this information gives us, they
Liam stepped out of Tyler Greene’s office with a heavy heart, blaming himself for keeping his expectations high. He had wanted a better answer than that. However, Tyler’s indecision was a cause for concern. Time was running fast and voices of opposition against Karl were still weak. During the drive home, Liam found himself troubled. Would Tyler really lend his support for the cause? Or was he simply yet another hindrance in their efforts? He needed to collect his mind and think of a way out but he was too worried to even think properly. Instead of heading to him, Liam headed to the hotel to meet with Madam Aurelia who sat in the living room in the living room on his arrival. Her face was solemn, though she appeared to be happy with his arrival. “How did the meeting with Tyler go?” she asked, concern evident in her tones.“It didn’t go as well as I hoped.” Liam admitted, ruffling his hair. “He is not willing to take any actions against Karl, and I am afraid he has no nerves f
Liam stood still only to start pacing about because he was restless. He began to plan what step to take after Alaric's revelation. He was desperate to put an end to Daniel and Karl but he didn’t know how to go about it. He felt like an ill-fated knight who had lost everything; the very thought of Harrison now felt as if it was a heavy stone placed over him.Madam Aurelia was seated on the table sorting some papers. “We need to strategize on how best we are going to eliminate Karl.” Her tone was firm although not loud. “It is not enough to just wait and see what he intends to do next.” She added, casting him a glance. “Of course I understand,” Liam answered and twirls his hair with his fingers. “But what can we do? There is too much influence and too many people surrounding him.”At this point, Giovanni dashed into the living room, his eyes darkened as he looked around, “Liam!” he shouted – gasping for air. “Daniel and Karl are up to something. We must hurry before it is too late.”
Alaric felt dejected in that small dingy room as he was at a stand still. He found himself strapped to a chair with metal rings cutting deep into his wrists. On the other side of the room, Xavier was strutting around confident with a sneer on his face. “Look at you now, Alaric ” Xavier said as he put his hands on his hips and laughed. “Formerly you had stature, nowadays you are just a flat back guy. What do you think about it?”Alaric turned his gaze toward him, internal rage reflected on his face. “You think this is a joke? You’re a mere puppet in Karl’s shadow. You will realize that one day.”Xavier let out another laugh. “Karl is top management. You would have done better staying with him. Instead, you went soft and turned the other way, and now look what this has led you to.”“Break all the connections with Karl.” Alaric spoke in a strained tone. “He’ll drain you dry. You will end up exactly like me.”Xavier shook his head but his grin had gone away. “You do not get it. This is