By the time Brenda could succeed in pulling Ryan away from Stewart, all of Stewart's face was bleeding. The only noticeable injury Ryan had was a slight cut on his neck and it was from a cut that hasn't healed properly from his encounter with Jed's men.
"Ryan!" Brenda scolded.Ryan looked at her and smiled briefly. He took a bottle of water on the table and opened it seal. He gulped down some water.Stewart fell on the floor. He couldn't believe he had lost it just because of Ryan. Every part of his body was on fire. What was he even thinking to have plunged at Ryan like that? He was yet to recover from how Ryan dealt with him at the water fountain last time.Stephanie ran her hand through her hair. This was the last thing she wanted at a time like this. Right now, the family was divided into two parties. A party thought she had helped Ryan in stealing the document and money and a party was for her. If she had known that RyanRyan managed to drag Brenda fuming with rage inside the car. He closed the door and went to the other side."They will surely be sued for this," Brenda said. She took the phone from the console. Ryan grabbed the phone from her and tossed it in the back seat."What on earth are you doing, Ryan?" "This is a matter between me and—""I am not going to sit back and watch them humiliate you. Do they think you're still married to them?" Ryan groaned and started the car. The last thing he wanted now was for the Hill family to be sued to court because of him. Sometimes, Ryan couldn't help but imagine why the Hill grandfather had made him promise to protect the family business. If not for that damn promise, he would have folded his hands and watch those people go down."Brenda, listen to what I'm about to tell—""No. Don't tell me anything. You need to show those guys where they
Ryan was going to tell her that she had no right to send him out of here because she wasn't the owner when he saw his ex mother-in-law walking toward them."What are you still waiting for? I said you should get out of here," Alice said."I am almost done." Ryan started toward the girl wrapping the flowers. "Alice, come over here," Mrs Hill said.Alice gave Ryan a hard look before going toward Mrs Hill. She whispered something in Mrs Alice's ears and all of a sudden, Mrs Hill stormed at the girl wrapping the flowers. She collected the flowers from the girl and threw them on the floor."Thief!" Alice shouted, her voice cutting through the silence in the room."Someone please hold him!" Alice shouted again. This time, a few people walked over to where she was standing with Mrs Hill and Ryan.Ryan didn't know what she was up to at first until he saw her talking to some people and pointing
When Ryan had first seen the owner of the store, he had almost, in surprise, called her name. Anna. She had also looked at him in surprise before going to address Mrs Hill. Now, it took a lot of self control for Ryan not to burst out laughing at the shock he saw in Mrs Hill's face. The type he always saw in her face whenever he told her how much food stuff was gone after the extended family left when the weekend was over."R… R-Ryan?" Mrs Hill looked from Anna to Ryan."Yes. Ryan. That is his name," Anna said."I don't care if you know him. He stole something from me," Mrs Hill busted out."The Ryan I know will never steal because why will he? What can a man who's got everything steal?Alice stormed to them from where she had been pretending to be dizzy. "Don't you dare say what you don't know. He stole a million dollars!" Alice shouted."A million dollars? Last time I c
At 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
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
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
"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
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