"I had to ask because I was a bit confused," Ryan said. "And let this be the last time you'd refer to me as 'stupid'."
Richard laughed. He looked around. He saw a cop and signaled to the cop. The man walked over to them."Do you know me?" Richard asked the cop, looking the man up and down."Yes… Mr Richard… that's your name," the cop said.Richard nodded. He tucked a hand in his pocket and used the other hand to adjust some imaginary hair on his forehead."Do you know this boy?" Richard asked the cop, referring to Ryan.The cop looked at Ryan for some seconds before shaking his head. Conversations like this don't go well. The last time the cop had listened to Richard speaking with another cop, the cop had been fired the next day for no real reason."I don't know him, Mr Richard.""Well, I will introduce him to you. This boy hit my car and now, he's claiming that I was theSlowly, Ryan raised his head and allowed himself to look in front of him. He let out a sigh of relief. The girl was perfectly okay. At least, he could say that since she was still standing in the middle of the road. He got out of the car and walked over to her. She seemed to be around five years old. She was clutching a teddy to her chest when Ryan got to her. "Hello," Ryan said. She looked at him with teary eyes. "Billy. Will you help Billy?" "Who is Billy?" Ryan asked. She looked in a direction and started crying. Ryan had almost forgotten they were in the middle of The road until he heard cars honking at him. He noticed people give him disapproving stares through the windows of cars that drove past them. "We can help Billy later but first let's get off the road." Ryan told her. He wasn't sure she understood what he said but she didn't fli
Ryan didn't drive inside the hotel. He watched Anderson drive inside the hotel. As he parked his car, Ryan suddenly felt like a stalker. No matter how he thought about it, this doesn't sound right. Stephanie is an ex wife. Her boyfriend, the man she loves, just drove her into the hotel. What one earth was he thinking to have come here?But… Anderson impregnated another girl… Still, that didn't seem like an excuse for him to come here. Now that he's here, what would he do? Go inside and watch Anderson and Stephanie make out?For some inexplicable reason, Ryan felt a bile rising in his throat. Disgusted at himself, Ryan turned on the ignition. He shouldn't be here. He shouldn't be doing this. Thanks to his impulse act, he missed out on almost everything Landon explained to him about the Lt Group.The last thing he should be doing now is to allow a woman, the same woman who broke his heart, to disrupt his life agai
To Ryan's greatest surprise, the man got up from the floor, dabbed at his nose with the back of his hand. He glanced at it, noticing the blood that was now on his hand.He looked at Ryan, an unmistakable anger had replaced the fright on the man's face."I should have known Anderson cannot be trusted," the man blared."He made me come here after setting you here. Go tell that idiot that I'm done having anything to do with him." The man hissed and went to where his clothes were.Ryan was... speechless? That was an understatement. He couldn't even bring himself to hit the man anymore."If he knows he doesn't want me to fuck his girlfriend, he should have made me aware instead of making me come here and play a fool of me." The man hissed again. He zipped his trousers."How come I wasn't even aware of it? It's been more than two months since he's been giving me excuses as to why he can't make the thing wo
The only reason he's here is to make Anderson feel some pain in his damn body, Ryan reminded himself this as he walked into the Hill's Villa.Right from the moment Ryan had left Stephanie in the hotel yesterday, he had not been able to get a grip on his anger. He had let a lot of punches at the punching bag, played baseball, ran around a field as many times as he could imagine, but still, this had not been able to soothe his anger.How could Anderson do that to a woman?Hell, it doesn't matter if Stephanie is Anderson's girlfriend or fiancee or whatever it is they called themselves, nothing gives Anderson any right to drug Stephanie without her consent and set her up with a man. If he had not shown up in that hotel yesterday, that man would have definitely raped Stephanie. The thought alone made another set of seething rage to arise in Ryan's body.The thing he hates most, he convinces himself, is for a man not t
A gasp escaped Stephanie's lips. She covered her mouth with her hand."What did you just say, Anderson?" It was Stephanie's mother who broke the silence first."I'm sorry, mother…" Anderson muttered, looking down and biting his lip as if he regretted saying what he said. He had actually been meaning to get Ryan in trouble all these while. There is no fucking time better than this."No, Anderson, talk to me. What did you say just now?" Stephanie's mother asked again, her lips trembling in what Anderson had known to be rage."Well...actually…" Anderson continued looking down. He raised his head slightly before looking down again, trying as much as possible not to meet anyone's glance.Stephanie's mother stood up from where she had been sitting all along, she walked over Anderson. "Son, talk to me." Her voice was extremely quiet. Extremely angry."Mother, I just mistakenly said that. I shouldn't have sa
"Eh! We are in trouble," someone broke the silence long after Ryan had left."Real big trouble." "I knew the boy meant trouble when grandfather brought him that day."Someone started crying. "I insulted him once. What would he do to me? If he could steal the partnership document, there is no telling what he can do," another person said."See the way he even spoke and left. He obviously has no respect for anyone.""He's not even denying that he raped Stephanie.""God! What do we do wrong in this family?" "Wait a minute," Stewart said and the murmuring stopped. "Big brother, you said Ryan raped and drugged Stephanie twice?" "Um, yes. The second time was yesterday. I don't how he met her but he drugged her and took her to a hotel room where he raped her again. Actually, Babe called me and explained everything to me. I figured out that… Well, I wasn't going to mention all t
Stephanie slammed the door after she had finally succeeded in convincing Alice that she was okay and that she wasn't planning to commit suicide and wasn't watching any of those videos about a hundred ways to die."What the hell are you doing, Anderson?" "Don't you need to rest?" He asked."Are you kidding me? Rest? I asked you a question."Anderson Sat on the bed and leaned backward, using his hands to support his weight. He stretched out his long legs in front of him."Babe, what exactly are you asking me?""Why did you lie? You and I know Ryan has never drugged me.""But he has raped you before," Anderson said, a serious expression on his face."He didn't rape me."Anderson scoffed. "He didn't rape you? Have you forgotten what you told me on my second day here?" Stephanie remembered it. She remembered how she had told Anderson
As soon as Ryan got home, he ordered pizza and sat down to set up the plasma television. He has really never enjoyed the one week vacation. There is no better time to enjoy it than now. Who knows what might happen when he gets back to work next week?He took the remote from the stand and turned on the plasma TV. It brought a few prompts which he followed. The television was still loading the channels when his phone rang. From the screen of the phone, Ryan realized it was Landon calling."Man, how are you doing?" "I have a small problem.""Small enough to kill?" Ryan asked, trying to joke."Yeah. You could say that.""Hey, are you kidding?" "Well, the rent for the house where I'm living is due and the landlord already threw my stuff out. As I'm talking to you now, my properties are outside."Ryan relaxed. "That's crazy but I don't think something like that can kill you