The early hours of the morning weren't the same as they've always been for Niko, he couldn't get enough sleep and all he could think about was the mysterious transfer of money into his account and the voice of that random caller telling him he knows so well about him and his family “That man better not be playing games with me.” He muttered getting out of bed. “Four O'clock I need to be at the Winxel building, man I'm so nervous right now.”
He stepped out of the house seeing his Latina neighbor doing some exercise on a mat placed on her corridor. “I hate this girl but I gotta give her credit for her daily workouts. Good determination, bad girl.” He briefly watered the flower at his backyard and before he could go back into the house he saw a black SUV approaching with speed “Who the hell drives this crazy in the morning?” He wasn't about to get an answer. The car powerfully stopped infront of him after a crazy drift, the doors opened and three men rushed out all dressed in black and covering black ski masks “Get in the fucking car!” One of them shouted pointing a gun to Niko’s head “I said get in the car or I'll blow your brains up.” He pushed Niko at the back. “Who are you?” Niko asked and immediately regretted it as he was answered with a heavy blow to his stomach followed with a kick on his buttock. “Shut the fuck up and get in the damn car.” Niko couldn't ask any more questions, all he could do was panic and wonder who these guys were and what they wanted from him. For a moment, a thought crossed his mind “Oh I know who's responsible for this, It's definitely Vikkie and that stupid fat man she shamelessly sleeps with for money.” But he wasn't sure about this. There was a black cloth covered over his head now and a tape on his mouth to prevent talking “My Latina neighbour must have seen how this happened, didn't she see me getting kidnapped? Why didn't she scream or call for help? She must know something about it too.” He wasn't sure about this either, all he could do was assume a lot of things since he couldn't stop. Finally the car stopped and he was taken out, he felt the early morning sun on his skin as soon as he left the vehicle but then he suddenly felt the presence of walls around him, they were in a big empty dark room. “Take off the bag and remove his blindfold.” A voice said and it was obeyed immediately. But Niko still couldn't see a thing because there was no light in the room. “What do y'all want from me?” He struggled to ask. “This dude better stop asking stupid questions before I give him an uppercut.” A deep voice came in the dark. Tap! Someone touched the switch and the lights came on, bright fluorescent light that made Niko squint his eyes. He'd been in darkness for too long and couldn't stand that bright environment. A few minutes later, someone walked into the room, a young man just like him but richer and obviously more comfortable, the tiled floor sounded to each step he took with those neatly polished expensive shoes, hair neatly styled but the smile was demonic. There were no masks on their faces now and Niko could see them clearly. “Niko Foster, what a surprise to finally see you, my name is Zayne Foster! And I am not happy to see you at all.” Niko needed at least a minute to process the little information he just got right there, “Foster? Did you just say your name is Zayne Foster?” “Yes idiot” “We have the same last name.” “Obviously, and that last name we share is my biggest problem.” He went over to the table in front of Niko grabbing a pistol which was already placed on it. “You Niko, you are my biggest problem.” “But I don't even know you and I don't know what I did to you.” “Well, you're gonna find out soon, too bad you won't live to talk about it.” He kissed the gun “tell me, you received 10 million dollars in your damn bank account didn't you?” Zayne asked with an angry face. “Ye.. Yes.” There was no need to lie, Zayne knew exactly what he was doing. “That money is mine and you're gonna give it back to me!” “What? But I was told it's my inheritance money and I'm supposed to meet someone who sent it to me today at four o'clock.” “Shut the fuck up you piece of shit! You think you can just deliver pizzas all your life and then wake up to a jackpot of 10 million dollars one day? While I've spent my entire life serving dad and making sure everything in the companies are moving on track?” “What is he even saying?” Niko couldn't understand, what father was he talking about? What company? “Can you please explain all these to me please? I don't understand what's really going on.” He finally said. Yeah I know your stupid fish brain can't really get things fast enough. Now I'll break it down to you.” Zayne reached for a glass of wine on the table, “me and you, we both answer Foster as our last name, but that's not a coincidence.” “Please I don't want any trouble just tell me what you want with me.” Clap! Clap! Clap! Three dirty slaps right across Niko’s face and he was forced to be silent. “Shut the hell up and listen to me dummy. One stupid word from you and I'm gonna end you right now.” Zayne hated being interrupted “I said, the money that was sent to you is my money! It's rightfully mine. We have the same last name, and it's not a coincidence, I'm gonna explain everything to you cos obviously you're not smart enough to understand.” “Don't fucking insult me!” “I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear you raising your voice at me like that.” “Who are you really?” “It's a song by Mikky Ekko ha ha. I know you wont get the joke, you're too dumb.” Niko didn't care, he asked again “Zayne Foster, who are you really?” “First, you can just call me brother, cos I actually am your elder brother!”“What?” Niko couldn't believe it, “My brother?”“I'm your elder brother!”“My elder brother? You're a liar!”“Well you believe what you wanna believe fool.” Zayne hissed. “I don't have a brother.”“Well this is it, I was adopted by Mr. Foster Kinon, our father. He took me into his family as a baby and I grew up believing I was his legitimate son, enjoying his riches and building up my confidence, knowing fully well that I'll one day inherit all of his riches and good name, but in the past few years, I noticed that dad was busy investigating so hard about something. He was so obsessed with this investigation to a point I noticed it and I decided to eavesdrop all his conversations and secretly read all his files and messages, and it is at that point, I got to discover that I am not the biological son and he has been seriously searching for his child to inherit all of those companies I helped him build. Who does that? Huh? And now I've finally been able to trace you, Niko Foster, the su
“I gotta hurry up and meet this man before the kidnappers come here to get me again!” Niko rushed into the shower and was out in a flash. He looked at the table knife close to the teapot, fighting the temptation to carry it in his pockets. “Sometimes I wish I had a gun to protect myself from all these fools.”He hurriedly put on a simple outfit, rushing to the mirror to look at his face, eager to meet the mysterious stranger at the Winxel building. “I thought this was all gonna be some prank but now it's getting serious. These dudes wanna take my life over a fortune I know nothing about.” He fell to the temptation, he slid the knife in his left pocket “just in case.”His mind raced with thoughts about the stranger who'd been speaking to him on the phone, “I still can't get why or how this person knows so much about me. Well I guess I'm gonna find out soon. Just as Niko reached for the door, his doorbell rang, making him freeze immediately. “Oh shit! That must be the kidnappers! They
"I ain't lying, you'll understand when I explain" she replied, still smiling. "I am a woman.” “You care to explain this whole twist to me?” Niko took out a handkerchief to clean the sweat on his face, the twists and turns were already too much for him. “I used a male AI voice to speak to you over the phone." Aaliyah explained. “Oh shit” Niko stared at her, “ I guess the world is too advanced, it's all getting scary.” Aaliyah laughed. "But… Why did you use an Ai voice to speak to me though?" Niko finally let the question out. She crossed her arms and nodded toward the Winxel building. "Your father owns the AI voice company, and I wanted to show you just how realistic our technology can be. I used it on purpose to introduce you to one of the many innovations you're about to take over.”Take over? “They already want me to take over a company? Man… This is happening so fast.” Niko took a deep breath, then smiled nervously. Aaliyah turned to check the time on her wrist watch, and t
“CEO?” Vikkie asked mockingly, “Are you referring to Niko as a CEO?” She laughed out loud, not believing it. “Maybe he's the CEO of broke people ha ha.” Trevor joined in the mockery. Vikkie moved closer to Niko saying “Hey are you maybe the chairman of Pizza guys association?” She enjoyed doing this, making Niko shift backwards. Aaliyah could see Niko struggle to hold himself, he was obviously angry and had already set a reputation for not letting things slide easily. Aaliyah knew he would strike if the annoying talks from Vikkie kept coming, so she held him by the hand saying “Let's get the fuck outta here Niko. They're gonna regret this soon.” She turned, leading him away. “Who's gonna regret? We ain't regretting nothing, and you guys better stop wasting your time, you're not gonna get a job here.” Vikkie shouted at them as they walked away. They thought Niko and Aaliyah were there in search of a job, just like them. Vikkie and Trevor exchanged glances and laughed at each othe
Trevor rose up from his seat in panic. “Why are you standing? Where the hell do you want to go?” Vikkie asked, trying to drag him back to his seat, holding the sleeve of his white shirt “Get your ass back down Trevor.”“Don't speak to me like that! I wanna go ‘nd apologise to Niko.”“Oh hell no! You ain't doing that shit! You ain't gonna disgrace me like that!”“What the hell do you mean?”“Niko is my ex and you are my man, so you can't go begging my ex for forgiveness, where's your pride?” Vikkie’s voice got louder, it was all slowly becoming a yell and the people around could notice the tension. “Listen to me Vikkie, I am a man and I take drastic measures when necessary.”“What you wanna do is not necessary.”“I have waited for a very long time for an opportunity to work in this company and it's my only hope, I can't let it slide.”“Fine! Do whatever you want. But better not mention me in your damn apology!” Vikkie let go of him angrily, squeezing up her face as she turned away to
“Well you can leave, Trevor. I don’t give a shit!” Vikkie said before slapping him at the back as he turned to leave.“Shit!” Trevor turned back to her with a red angry face “look at me Vikkie, take a close look at my face!” He said pointing at his face, breathing more heavily than before.“What now? You think I’m scared of you? Or you think I’m gonna cry cos you wanna leave?”“I’m gonna let this slide right now. But I swear to God if you dare lay a finger on me again, I’m gonna forget the fact that you’re a woman and we’re in public, I’m gonna make sure you regret it.”“What are you gonna do huh? You’re gonna beat me? You’re gonna beat a woman huh? Go ahead then, woman beater!”“Say whatever you wanna say, I don’t give a shit!” He turned back to leave, pushing away the chairs to make way out of the crowd. But Vikkie wasn’t going to stop talking now, not yet.“Well, leave now! Leave like you didn’t just tell me you loved me last night” She said at the top of her voice and the crowd we
“Somebody call the police! There’s a sniper at the rooftop!”Everyone tried to crawl to safety as the ladies started screaming in fear “please don’t shoot again.”There was silence at the rooftop for a few seconds before the deep voice came again “All you had to do was shoot a bullet right into his head and you missed.” “Don’t fucking yell at me. I was aiming for Niko.”“Well you hit the wrong man. Now let’s get the fuck outta here.”From that conversation, everyone could tell that there were two men on that roof, and they came to assasinate no one else but Niko Foster. "Whee-oo, whee-oo" the sound of police sirens quickly sorrounded the Winxel building and the snipers were still yet to get away. “Shit man, we’re baked! What the hell are we gonna do?” One of the bad guys said, looking around nervously.“There’s a ladder at the back, let’s go quickly. We can make away from there.”They left their weapons at the scene, running quickly to the only way that could be their escape route “
A man shot right before his eyes with a bullet that was meant for him, now a car exploding right behind him, almost claiming his and Aaliyah’s life. Niko was already reluctant about moving on with his new life of wealth “I just wake up one day to an alert of millions of dollars and all of a sudden, people want me dead. Is that the price I gotta pay for being rich? Then I don’t want it” he said in a low voice as he sat at the back of the Taxi, heading back home. He couldn’t get over the words of Aaliyah when she said “It’s only the beginning Niko, it’s normal to have enemies you don’t even know, people make you an enemy just because you’re rich.” They both decided to use a Taxi back home instead of calling a luxurious car from the collection of Niko’s father. There was silence for a while before Aaliyah finally voiced out “Mr Foster, your dad’s gonna be back in the country soon, he really wants to see you. He’s gone sick looking for you all these years.”“He isn’t in the country?”“H