Edison stared at Ryan for a long time. Just like Ryan had predicted, his face didn't look shocked or surprised. That quality must have been what made it possible for Edison to remain as the fake head of the company.
Beside Ryan, Brice was tapping his feet slowly and quietly on the marble floor. He wiped his hands on his pants but it was only a matter of seconds before they became wet again. It seemed as if his heart was going to explode as the seconds went by and Ryan and Edison stared at each other."You know, Mr Ryan, there is an extent to which you can insult people," Edison said, his voice cold and chilly but it had no effect on Ryan."Does that sound like an insult? I told you I want to meet the real boss," Ryan said, maintaining the quiet voice that seemed to be a whisper."You're trying to say I'm not capable? That's why you want to dissolve the partnership?""No… I don't think you're not capable. I knowFor a moment, Ryan noticed the anger on Edison's face turn to fear. He looked really vulnerable despite being in a suit worth two million dollars."Max? Who the hell is Max that you think you can threaten me with?" "Max from the organization of women's rights. He's just a call away." Ryan reached into his pocket to pick out his phone. "Okay. You'll meet the real boss." Edison said. With the fear in his eyes, he seemed to have aged twice. "If he agrees to meet you, he will contact you before the end of today."Ryan took another envelope and placed it on the table. "You'd better make him want to meet me if you don't want those women on the news tomorrow morning.""I will tell him. I promise. Please don't take any hasty steps."Ryan shrugged. "That depends on you. I'm only giving you five hours. It should be more than enough.""Okay, Sir."Quickly, before Edi
Anderson knew he wasn't the one but since no one was taking credit for it, he might as well do that. "Who else could it be? You only informed Stewart and babe and she told me about it. Who else could it have been?" Anderson asked, instead of answering the question directly.Mrs Hill blushed. "What a son. You're more than ten thousand sons, Anderson.""Anderson, you know what? From now on, you're my role model," Stewart said.Stephanie couldn't believe Anderson would do something as big as that without telling her. She thought she already knew all of him that was there to know but, hell, Anderson has shown her another side of him that she couldn't have imagined. She leaned over and whispered to his ear, "I promise to buy you dinner tonight." She kissed him.****Ryan drove to the address someone had sent him. Obviously, it was from the real boss of the Lt company. T
"Good news is, if you remain stubborn, not only you are going down. Right in front of you, your family members, your loved ones would die before I finally put an end to your life." Jed dropped the bottle of vodka and looked Ryan in the eyes."Be careful, Ryan. I'm not as patient as I look.""I will be off. I think we're done discussing," Ryan said."Can you handle it?" Jed asked as Ryan was about to stand up. "Can you handle the pain I am about to make you go through? One that is more painful than death itself?""Bring it on, Jed." Ryan smiled. Jed nodded. He also smiled. Jed waved at Ryan as he left the bar, but Ryan didn't wave back. As Ryan drove in his GMC, he let out his hand through the window. The night was cool. He didn't allow himself to think about all Jed's threats but he couldn't help the wandering of his mind. How many of his loved ones are here in Atlanta? Brenda… Who e
Ryan looked around. Was the waiter really talking to him? Before he could ask the waiter what was wrong, he heard the door to the restaurant slam shut. As Ryan went back to his GMC, he almost glanced at his reflection in the door just to be sure he had not grown horns. This is the third restaurant that he would be sent away from tonight without reasons. He couldn't understand what was happening. He decided to drive to another restaurant just to see if he would receive the same treatment from them. He found another restaurant and went inside. This time, no one gave him weird looks or told him to get out. He found an empty table and sat down. A minute passed. No waiter came around to ask him for what he wanted. Two minutes later, no one looked at his side. Three minutes, still nothing. He raised his hand to call the attention of one of the waiters. One of them saw him but he soon looked away. Ryan noticed that
Ryan stared blankly at Clark. He knew Clark was pretty close to Mrs Hill. Maybe she had mentioned the amnesia to him but… how could Clark accuse him of faking his amnesia?"In our days, young men were capable and respectful. They don't dare eye what doesn't belong to them," Mr Clark added.Ryan smiled and nodded slowly. "I guess you don't have any problem with me since I already divorced her. You can speak to her mother yourself so that —""Shut your mouth, stupid boy and listen to me. Go to the Villa right now and tell her every good thing about me. Tell how much power I have and how I will treat her like the princess she is. Also, tell her that you regret getting married to her and also apologize to her for the inconvenience you've caused for the two of us and…" Clark raised his voice slightly, "tell her you're an excuse for a man."Ryan chuckled. "You mean I should go to Stephanie and tell her I'm an excuse for a man?"<
What was even more funny was the emoji of Clark that was going all over social media pages. The shocked look on his face when the governor pronounced him out of office. A lot of memes posts were made with 'the shock on his face' on social media. Ryan had a good laugh at it. Now that Ryan remembered that Clark had been the reason why he and Stephanie had their first fight after marriage, he laughed more at the memes.That night, Ryan remembered, Stephanie had told him that because of him, Clark was having a fight with her mother. Ryan remembered asking Stephanie if she would have gotten married to Clark if her grandfather had not asked them to get married. Well, for asking that question, Ryan had spent a week sleeping by the door to their room on the cold floor with Stephanie occasionally throwing him new clothes in the morning before locking the door. And because Stephanie's grandfather was still alive then, he had not dared sleep in the sitting room for
"Damn. What the hell," the guy behind the wheel said. He glanced at Ryan."Who sent you?" Ryan asked, already pointing his gun at the limping guy's boss.The limping guy's boss raised his two hands as evidence of surrender."I have no idea, Sir." "Do you want to have an experience of what your friend is going through right now?" Ryan nodded at the limping guy who was now groaning, his eyes closed."I am telling the truth, Sir. I don't know who sent us. We just received an order from someone in the Hill conglomerate," the guy said."Hill?" Ryan asked. Why would anyone from the hill family want him dead? "I swear. It was from there. Please don't kill us."Ryan studied the two guys. He was sure the person who wanted him dead wasn't from the Hill family. There could be a lot of shady things going on in those companies that the Hill family handled but he was sure killing wasn
Mrs Hill answered the call from Stewart, expecting him to be shouting in joy but instead, she was met with a cold silence that pronounced failure of their mission even before Stewart said it."Mom, I don't know how he managed to escape," Stewart said at the other end of the line.Mrs Hill let out an exasperated breath. "We'll discuss later." For now, only she and Stewart were on the mission to kill Ryan. Stephanie is too kind-hearted to want to do something like that so she has not better been carried along."Who was that?" Stephanie asked when her mother ended the call."Some somebody," Mrs Hill said in a tired voice. She was starting to get frustrated about the whole thing. "Is Stewart now 'some somebody'?" Mrs Hill shot Stephanie a hard look. "This is happening all because of you, girl.""What?""Oh. You don't know? You've forgotten that if you had not married Ryan al