2024-09-04 19:44:33At the mention of the name 'Anderson', Ryan's feet immediately stopped working. He looked at the two people. Even from the back view, Ryan could tell the guy was really Anderson.
"It's not a baby yet. It's just a week," the other person, a guy retorted.Now that Ryan listened well, he realized that the guy was really Anderson. But the woman with whom he was discussing wasn't Stephanie. Ryan was damn sure of that. Does that mean… Ryan's eyes widened. Anderson impregnated another woman?"How could you be so cruel?" From the woman's voice, Ryan could tell the woman was already crying."Call it whatever you want, but this is for the good of us.""Good of us? Do you know how many babies I have aborted for you?" The woman asked."Us. You didn't abort it for me alone, you did it for the two of us," Anderson corrected sharply."I get it now… I want to be selfish this time around. I'm going to k
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There were a lot of questions Ryan wanted to ask Anderson. Questions like; are you scared of Stephanie finding out about this side of you? Why did you do it when you know you won't want to own up to it. Lots of questions but Ryan didn't ask. Instead, he nodded his head. "I won't tell anyone."Anderson grinned. He patted Ryan's arm. "Good luck on your proposal. Just that people no longer propose with a flower. Even monks know that." He grinned at Ryan again before walking off.Slowly, Ryan went inside the hospital. If there was anyone on his mind that took the Babel group partnership document, it was Anderson. If it was Anderson who took the document, it makes sense what he used the money for. Obviously, to pay his debt. The only thing that made Ryan not consider Anderson as the real culprit was because of the safe. If not that he (Ryan) was close to the Hill's grandfather, he wouldn't even have known about it. He was double
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Ryan looked in the direction of the voice. "Doctor Beck?" "You guessed correctly." The man whose hair already turned grey walked over to Ryan and reached out his hand for a handshake. Even though he looked old, his gait was strong. Strong enough to proclaim he's an important person even without having to introduce himself.Ryan reached out his hand and shook the man."Are you working here, Sir?" Ryan asked."You could say that. I mean, there has been no time I came here to sleep." Ryan could not help laughing at the man's sense of humour."It may please you to know that I own this hospital," Beck said."Wow. This is…" Ryan looked around the reception, "...great.""Great but not great enough to make my workers good characters. What could be more annoying than that?" The receptionist, on her feet now, wiped a bead of sweat from her head. She l
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"Sorry for my rude manners. I guess it's the Baby," the woman said after some moment of laughing. She finally stopped laughing when she noticed the look on Ryan's face."It's just that when Brice was talking about you, I thought you would be this big man with some brown teeth and scary looking red eyes." She laughed again at her dramatization.Ryan didn't find it funny but he laughed too. Was it the pregnancy that was making her like this? He couldn't help but wonder if Stephanie would have behaved like this too if she had been pregnant for him. The thought alone made Ryan laugh harder, this time, for real.Brice's wife stretched her hand and took a book from the table beside her bed. "I've never seen my husband so scared, pissed off and irritated at the same time. But it happens any time he talks about you." She flipped through the book. "When he said you'd be coming, I was preparing myself for some scary looki
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Brice's wife sighed. "You're really not going to sell it to my husband's boss?" "Shit. How many times do I have to tell you?""Please. Please. Pleaseeeeeee"The person at the other end of the line groaned. "Now, I understand why Brice is locking you in the hospital."Brice's wife laughed. "You're not serious.""See you tomorrow, boo. By then, I hope Brice will have regained enough energy to deal with you so you can be discharged." "Alright. See you tomorrow." After she hung up, she sighed and looked at Ryan. "You heard her, right?"Ryan smiled and nodded, ignoring the series of questions going on in his mind."You could visit her store, I promise you'll find lots of captivating artwork there." Ryan was going to say it wasn't necessary, but she was already digging into her pulse for something. She soon stretched him a card."You
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"Look in front of you and you will see a greater surprise," the voice at the other said. Obviously, with the weird way the voice was sounding, whosoever was talking was using a voice changer.Again, slowly, Ryan looked in front of him. He saw three SUVs driving in front of him.It all seemed familiar. More than familiar. The SUVs. The voice changer. The same thing had happened before Piper was kidnapped. If there was anything Ryan was sure about at this moment, it was the fact that the person who is calling him right now is someone close to him. Close enough for Ryan to recognize whosoever the person was just with the voice. That would be the only reason why the person is using a voice changer."That surprise in your back seat will go off in the next ten minutes and seventeen seconds," the weird voice said."What do you want?" "Your life. I want to end it." There was a weird sound at the other end
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The door to the three SUVs opened and about ten men in black outfits came out. Each of them had a gun and they were pointing it at him. For a moment, Ryan smiled. Even scenes like this are not common in movies. The protagonist doesn't normally have as many men like this pointing guns at him. All the same, Ryan slipped his gun in his pocket and raised his two hands as the men drew nearer."We have secured him, Sir," one of them said.Now that they were close, Ryan could see that each of them had a covert earpiece around their ears."We are closing on him, Sir," the person said again.We're they soldiers or something? They really looked like they were coming to arrest a hitman. One of them came around and opened the door to his GMC. "Come down," the guy said.Ryan got down, still raising his two hands. He wasn't ready to make any swift move and end up in hell."Come with u
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"Okay. Take your time." With that, Ryan hung up, pressed on the accelerator and sped home. He has to get rid of the blood and bruises on his body before Brenda returns home.As soon as got home, he went straight to the bathroom and took a thorough bath. It was not until started to bandage the gunshot wound that he realized how much it hurts. After a series of groaning and wincing in pain, Ryan finally succeeded in dressing up the wound. He took his phone and dialed a number. The person answered at the first ring."Some SUVs attacked me some minutes ago. Find out who they are. There should be surveillance cameras in the area. The cars have no license plates." Ryan told the person at the other end the address of the place where the event took place."Alright, Sir.""And my car is outside Brenda's house. I left the key there, get it washed and bring it back before tomorrow morning.""Alright, Sir."
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Just like Ryan gave up trying to eat, he gave up trying to sleep after tossing on the bed several times. He sat up and checked the small table by his bed for his cigarettes. He found none. He fiddled with his pockets and finally found a packet in one of his trousers. Just holding the packet sent a thrill down Ryan's body. Would he ever get tired of smoking? He lit one of the cigarettes and took a long drag. By the time he let out the smoke through his mouth, he was already rewarded with a sense of relaxation. His phone rang. It was the person he called earlier."Sir, I checked the surveillance cameras around…"Ryan wanted to ask him what he found but he didn't. He waited for the person at the other end to spill out what he found."The three SUVs didn't drive past a kilometer before a bomb went off and killed everyone in the cars. By the time I got to the place, the bodies of everyone in the cars w
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“I was coming to check on you, sir,” the butler said. “Are you the one waiting for me inside?” The butler nodded. “Yes, sir.” For some seconds, it didn't make sense for Ryan. The butler…did the butler cause him to lose his memory? The butler took out a gun from his pocket and handed it over to Ryan. “There are forty bullets in there, I'll be waiting in the party. I saw a guy who caught my attention.” He winked at Ryan before walking away. Ryan sighed in relief. It really wouldn't have been funny if it was the butler who caused his amnesia. Slowly, Ryan walked in. In the center of the empty room were two men on their knees. He couldn't recognize one of them but he knew fully well who the second man was. His mother's only brother. The same man who had been by his side and comforted him when his mother died. Ryan adjusted the gun and pointed at the other man's head. He shot him dead with two bullets. He held the gun against his mother's brother's temple.
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Ryan stood rooted in the spot and tried to process the information. The girl he saved when he was eight was Stephanie? His father knew but still made a fool of him by making him carry out stupid assignment by using the Hill family to threaten him? He stared at his father. “You know what, dad? You're unbelievable.” He started toward the door. “Ryan…you are not the only one affected by your mother's death! You get it?” “Like hell, you were affected. Like hell, you missed her way more than I did. But what…?” Ryan laughed. “You made no attempt to find out who murdered her. What a way to miss someone.” “We have different ways of handling losses. This is just my way.” Ryan turned to look at his father. “You handled it in a very pathetic way.” “Thank you, but what would I have done? Left all the work and cried all day? Would that bring her back?” “Dad, stop, will you? Nothing will ever bring her back, yeah, but you are just making excuses. You allowed the fact that you thou
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Ryan ran his hand through his hair. “I'm sorry I lied to you.” “No problem, man. Things might have been awkward if you told me straight up that you were Lopez's heir,” Landon said. “By the way, what clothes do you wanna wear? I could choose for you if you are confused.” “I'll really love that.” Landon checked the clothes one after the other. He took out five pieces of clothing and dropped them on the bed. “You can try those,” he said. “Was it the butler who invited you here?” Ryan asked. “No. Your father called me a week ago and made me promise to come with our neighbors.” “Are our neighbors here too?” Ryan asked in surprise. “Yeah and don't worry, your father sponsored their transport fare.” Ryan rolled his eyes. “Of course he's supposed to do that since he invited them.” “We arrived last night.” “I'm really disappointed in you guys. Abbie too? She kept it a secret from me…” Ryan grumbled as he tried one of the clothes. Landon chuckled. “Um…Lewis came with Brenda too.
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Ryan stared at the worker for a few seconds. Has she lost her mind? “What did you say?” Ryan asked some seconds later. “Master had collapsed, sir.” “Where is he right now?” “At the hospital, sir.” “Which hospital?” Ryan grabbed a car key from the top of the drawer. “I don't have an…” Ryan didn't hear the rest of her words as he ran outside. A driver was waiting for him. He got in and the car sped on. “Does this happen often?” Ryan asked the driver. “No, sir. This is the first time something like this has ever happened, sir.” Ryan tried to control his knee jerk but it was impossible. Why should his father collapse on his birthday? The thought of losing the only family he had left brought numbness to his whole body. The car came to a halt in front of a big building. Ryan opened the car door and ran toward the gate. He ran inside. He stopped and looked around. This place looks nothing like a hospital. He was about to go back to meet the driver when he saw people coming out
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A really bad headache was what Ryan woke up to the next morning. What a way to start a birthday, he thought. He took the phone beeping on the bed. He checked the time. Seven a.m. He had a thousand messages from strange numbers. Yeah. He's back to this kind of life where he cannot have a private number. All the messages were congratulatory messages from people he had no idea who they were. Just as he clicked on one, ten more messages appeared. Ryan tossed the phone on the bed and got up. Just how people always figure out his number will remain a mystery to him. He went to the bathroom and grabbed his toothbrush. An idea came up in his head. “Ryan, we are no longer a kid…” he scolded himself but still, he dropped the toothbrush and walked to the end of his room where the digital scale was. He stood on it. He hasn't gained any weight. He went to the stadiometer his height hasn't increased too. He started laughing. What the hell is he doing? He is really not trying
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Ryan glanced at his father. He wanted to remind him that he was supposed to hand over the Right Life to him when he is twenty five but the man doesn't seem like he was ready to listen to anything else. Ryan looked at the men still on their knees. “I promise to do my best as your leader and not let you down.” There was the sound of gunshots, then total silence. For some seconds in which everyone processed the change of leadership, there was silence. At once, all the men got on their feet and together, they bowed at Ryan. “I should have known you guys were planning something dangerous when you told me a surprise was waiting for me,” Ryan said later that evening as he went with butler to the lounge. “That isn't a surprise. Your birthday is tomorrow.” “If that isn't a surprise, what the hell are you guys planning to do with me again?” Ryan asked. “You'll love it, sir. I'm sure of that.” The lounge was already set with tables filled with drinks. After they sat down, the butler
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“Is this an interview?” Ryan asked without looking at the man.“No…”“Stop asking me questions then.”Since the spread of the rumor about Anderson having something to do with the drop in the stock market, people have been coming out and talking about one bad thing or the other that Anderson did to them. The FBI had checked his house and he has been declared as wanted but since Ryan discarded the stupid guy's body, no one has been able to find him.Ryan tried to sleep throughout the rest of the ride to keep off the annoying whispers about him flying around the plane. Some people have an annoying habit of never minding their business.As soon as the plane landed, Ryan hurried out. Even with that, some people still managed to follow him. The guards that the butler had come with at the gate were the ones who rescued him in the end.The butler opened the door to a white Lamborghini for Ryan before sitting beside hi
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Ryan dropped his cross bag on the sofa and walked to the fridge. He opened it. He was still deciding on what to drink when Landon came into the sitting room.“You're ready?” Landon asked.“Yeah.” He finally settled for a bottle of water.“You're not inviting Stephanie?” “I already told you there is no party for me. I'm just going to see what my old man planned to surprise me with this time around.” Landon nodded rather vigorously. What's up with that smirk on Landon's face?“How's Abbie?” Landon waved his hand. “I hate her with all my heart. Don't mention her name around me anymore.”Ryan opened the seal of the water, he tried not to laugh as he drank the water.“Why is she getting all worked up over nothing?” Landon asked, anger on his face.“Why did you make the prank? How'd you feel if you heard her making a call to another guy and telling him she loves him?” “This is different,
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Stephanie frowned. “What are you talking about?” Cathy gave a white paper to Stephanie. Stephanie collected it and opened it carefully. In it was the neatly written handwriting of her father. ‘Dear, Stephanie. I am assuming you are twenty two now. How do you look? Beautiful? I'm sure of that. I have always been proud of you and I'll always be. Your skills and your curiosity to know more is something that makes you my favorite— I'm hoping Stewart has overcome his jealousy issue and won't throw a tantrum because of this. ‘Stephanie, you are to take this letter to Carlos Lopez. He and I agreed that you and Ryan Lopez, his son, would get married once you both turn twenty two. I would have told you this earlier but I don't want you to feel pressured. If by any chance you already found someone you love before coming across this letter, discard this idea. But if not, you could try dating Ryan Lopez. If you find out he's someone y
