2024-11-09 19:40:58For some moment, nothing happened.
She expected Ryan to stand up and ask her what on earth she was doing but there was no movement.If not for the fact that Ryan was still breathing, she would have thought he was dead.She tried to roll him over. After a few seconds, she succeeded.Breathing heavily, she sat on the ground and tapped him. He didn't make any movement."Ryan?" She said into his ear but still, there was no movement from him.He must have been really drunk, she thought.She has no idea when he'd wake up and she really doesn't know his house. Did she?No. She doesn't know his house.It would be stupid to drive around the town aimlessly looking for Ryan's house.Another voice in her head reminded her that she has elite hackers and informants at the back of her hand whom she can call to get Ryan's house address in less than two minutes, but she chose to ignore the voice.Sh
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"I think I'm getting it back, Cooper.""Wow! I'm proud of you, sir!""Well..." Ryan cleared his throat."I'm sorry, sir. It slipped.""It's okay." He heard footsteps coming toward him. "Let's discuss it later." "Alright, sir." "I got bread, omelet and tea," Stephanie said just as Ryan hung up."It's on the table if you want to eat." Ryan started to follow her but then, his eyes caught his reflection in the mirror. Wait a freaking minute. Where is his shirt? At that time, Stephanie who seemed to have been studying him said, "I took it off you last night. You had a fever.""I didn't ask you," Ryan said."Well..." She shrugged.Ryan sat down and took a bite of the bread."How is it?" She asked, watching him.Ryan didn't reply to her, he just continued eating. "Are you sure you're okay now?" "Yes." "Well...I think you should cut
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Ryan just looked at her in the way that always made her feel she had done something wrong. He walked to the bed and took his shirt. He wore it with his back turned to her."Ryan..." She started to say but she fell short of words."Thanks for the meal and accommodation." Ryan counted some wards of money and stretched it to Stephanie."What the hell are you doing?""What does it look like?" "Will you..." She stopped when she choked on tears. "Will you just stop this?" Ryan dropped the money on the bed and walked toward the door."What on earth am I supposed to do if you continue behaving like this?"Ryan turned around to look at her. "How am I behaving?""Things were going just well until Anderson came in...and... I was just worried that he might see you.""What if he saw me?" "He would get angry, Ryan. He'd burst out in anger that I'm keeping you here in my hotel when I have been ign
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The tears he had not been able to cry that night when he saw his mother's dead body, he cried it. He cried until he got inside the car. He cried all the way home.He cried as he inputted his password in his apartment. He got on his bed and cried himself to sleep.In his dream, he saw his mother. She flipped through the book she had been reading to him all these years."Today, we're reading the last page of the book.""Mom, please. Don't finish the book yet. Let's start all over again, but don't finish reading the book."She looked at him and smiled. "I'm proud of you.""Yes, I know. You've always said that, but don't read the last page.""If I don't read it now, I'll never read it to you." Ryan stared at her. "You're not coming again?" She smiled and started reading. "Mr Ryan," she said after she had finished reading, "I'm really proud of you and I mean it. Get along with your fath
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Abbie blushed. "You shouldn't have told me." She blushed more. "Most of the neighbors are around and are in for a party.""Sounds interesting.""I'm going to get the list of ingredients available. I'll be back," Abbie said and left again.Landon punched Ryan's arm. "Why did you have to remind her of my imaginary ex girlfriend?" "You told her I was going to propose to someone the other day.""Trust me when I say I'm paying you back." He stood up and went inside."Did you just get angry over that nonsense?" "Yeah and I'm going to tell my mom about it. She might seem like she doesn't care but if she ever heard someone treat me like you do, you'll get a court summons." "Great, right?” Ryan chuckled.Later in the evening, almost everyone in the compound gathered around the table in the center of the compound. The lights from the apartments lit up the place."Let's play a game," a girl said.<
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Ryan leaned in on Landon. "I have to go somewhere." "Be safe," Landon whispered back.Ryan slipped away from the rest and walked toward his car. He drove to Emmy's house.He parked the car away from the road and got down, strode to the house.He knocked once on the door. It soon opened and Emmy quietly came out."The kids are sleeping and I don't want to disturb them," Emmy said."Alright. It's cool outside."She smiled and they both went to the seat under one of the trees in the compound. "I don't think I want my kids to know Anderson as their father," Emmy started to say some seconds after they sat down. "I feel like it would create problems for them in the future, especially with the way Anderson is moving around with other women.""People change, Emmy.""Yeah. I know. But, Anderson has gone far off the right road." Ryan stared up at the sky. "What do you want to do?" "
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"You could have at least given me a heads up first, Anderson!" "It was meant to be a surprise," Anderson said."You know what I wanted to tell you when I asked that we meet? I wanted to tell you I'm no longer in love with you."Anderson walked closer to her. "Love is not necessary for us to get married. Not as if I loved you all these years."The bag Stephanie was holding fell from her hand. Not knowing what the two were talking about, there were cheers from the crowd."What did you just say?" Stephanie asked, her lips trembling."You heard me right. I haven't loved you for half a second."Stephanie tried to move back from him but he grabbed her closer to himself."You can't back out now. Lot of television stations are here with reporters to cover the proposal," Anderson said.Stephanie looked around. There were a lot of cameras. She could read the names of about four different television sta
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"That will be all for now." With that, Ryan pulled Stephanie away with him. The crowd pressed on them, throwing a lot of questions at them.At last, they got inside Ryan's car and he drove away.For a lot of minutes after Ryan started driving. Stephanie was too shocked to open her mouth to say anything. Anderson didn't love her all these while? What the hell! How could she not have known? How could she have allowed him to deceive her to that extent? "I'll drop in at your hotel," Ryan said."I'll prefer going to the Villa," she said.Ryan wanted to ask her if she was okay, but... really, it's none of his business. He dropped her in front of the Villa and drove off.Stephanie walked inside. Her mother, Stewart and sister were sitting in the room, looking like they had seen a ghost. On the plasma TV was the reshow of what happened minutes ago."He's alive, mom," Cathy said.
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She quickly got on her feet. She looked around. What's a spy camera doing here? Her eyes caught another spy camera behind the plate holder.She walked out of the kitchen. Under the dining table was another one.She got up and saw another one beside the bulb.By the time she had walked around the whole house, she had seen more than seventeen spy cameras.Who the hell planted spy cameras in the house?****Landon laughed again. "Ryan?" Ryan was counting it. It was the sixty-seventh time Landon would laugh and call his name like that since he came back from the place he said that shit about not divorcing Stephanie."Ryan?" "Yes. This is me. Do I look strange?""Are you drunk?" Ryan shook his head no.Landon stood up and sat beside Ryan. He sniffed his clothes for some moment. "You don't smell like you're drunk.""I had no choice, man. That was the only way I
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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
