After a series of tests and days later, Heinrich was diagnosed with neurotoxicity. It was a condition brought on by the exposure to neurotoxins that had in turn affected his nervous system. “I am sorry, Chairman Monroe but this could eventually lead to loss of his speaking ability. He might also be unable to function well and his basic motor skills might fail him as well.” “What?” Jason had exclaimed when the doctor explained to him after making confirmations over and over again through the consultation of the test results. “How soon can these happen and is that the extent of this condition?” Jason asked. “It could be months or years. The condition had tampered with his nervous system a lot hence the reason he slumped. It all depends on the amount of the causal chemical that he was exposed to. For his age, it could be fatal, especially since his body just recovered from the Ginkgo sprouts poisoning orchestrated by the former Mrs Kavinsky.” “Yeah, I remember that. Any idea how he c
The project between Khan Maal and Paragon Heights was coming to an end. There was to be a final meeting between the two companies and the UN representatives on the same day that Jason had asked to meet with Jessie.Since he had only gotten the younger Kavinsky to meet him because he had implied to know what he was hiding, Jason decided not to miss out on the opportunity of uncovering the mystery of Heinrich's poisoning once and for all before the mother-son duo could hatch up another plan.So, he sent Millicent to the meeting while he went to meet with Jessie.He waved at Jessie as the latter entered the coffee shop he was waiting at. Jessie had on a pair of grey, biker shorts, a green polo shirt, green sports shoes and a very pissy mood as he strode over to Jason's table. He dropped his keys on the table and sat with a mutter of "You all need to stop these impromptu calls. I have exams coming up for fuck's sake""Oops, sorry about that. I am sure you've got this" Jason said. Jessie
Jessie confessed to everything. He even informed Jason about the one million dollars his mother asked of him recently. With the treat of calling Heinrich and the police about His involvement if he did not pay up.Jason couldn't believe that a mother would be as callous as Aria was. He had always thought she was doing everything just to make sure that Jessie inherit everything that Heinrich had worked for all of his life. At the moment, he wasn't so sure. He knew what he had to do though. Aria was about to get her money. Yes, she would get it alright. So, he told Jessie to call his mum and tell her that she would get her money the next day.Jessie caught on to what he was about to do. He gave Jason a penetrating gaze and said "You promised that nothing would happen to me""Well, since you don't mind anything happening to your dear mom, yes, I can arrange making sure that your name is left out of some vital details. You know what? I don't envy your mother-son relationship. Each of you o
Jason didn’t want to cut the Deadly Duo’s holiday trip short, so he didn’t bother informing them about Aria’s case and the fact that he would be meeting up with her in Tahiti. He made arrangements with his men and they were already waiting for him in Tahiti with the necessary cash and enough reinforcement. Since Aria had only intended to tell Jessie her current location only when he landed in Tahiti, he couldn’t tell them to surround the location yet. They were on standby waiting for him to give them a signal. Jason almost felt sorry for Jessie during the duration of the flight. The young man was so restless and jittery that Jason had calmed him down with alcohol. He slept for the last leg of the seven-hour flight. Jason supposed it was good for him. For one thing, he stopped grating on Jason’s nerves with his constant pacing and nervous, restless movements. Jason wondered how it must felt if someone asked him to betray his family. Yes, he could find it in him to have a tiny, bit of
Gaston came through. Aria was picked kicking and screaming as she was trying to board a fisherman’s boat to God-knows-where. Gaston’s men were forced to douse her with laudanum so as not to attract too much attention at the Marina. Jason couldn’t care less if the foul-mouthed woman was unconscious till the police locked her up back in the prison but he was grateful that they gave her just the right amount that made her wake up minutes after he got to the house where they kept her. He sent his gratitude to Gaston and sent his men on their way before he settled down in the chair placed in front of the one where they tied Aria. Jason had ignored the police contact’s number twice already and he knew that he couldn’t keep doing that. They had a deal. Gaston’s men told him she would be awake in minutes but he wouldn’t put it past the sneaky woman to pretend like she was still asleep just to delay the inevitable. So he had them drenched her with buckets of water. Two successive pours and
“Save your breath for the police, Aria." Jason said blandly "I don’t care. I only have one reason why I am talking to your rotten self right now. I know that loyalty is a thing you have no idea of, unlike your stupid son who refuses to incriminate you.” “Jessie? You are working with Jessie? That worm! I knew…” “You know nothing, idiot. I am not working with that punk. I am only saying that you will not ruin his future and the future he could have with Heinrich with your big mouth and vengeful nature. You will not say anything about his involvement in your escape to the police. You escaped alone. I don’t care how you spin it. I am sure you will take out of your many repertoires of lies” Aria’s look became cunning as she tilted her head aside “You know about that but you don’t want to incriminate him. Why? The last time I remember, you hate him for his involvement in your pathetic wife’s death. Argh!” she shrieked as Jason gave her a thunderous slap. She shrank back against the hard
Jason went straight to the hospital the moment he got to Montreau. Fatigued from the seven-hour flight and the stress he had been through, he learned that Millicent had gone back to the hospital again that morning, so he went straight there to meet her. Jason,” Millicent called with relief the moment she spotted him striding towards her in the hospital corridor. She hugged him tightly as they met. “Oh my god, I am so happy that you are here. I was dressed for the meeting with the Montgomery Atlantics and I intend to check on Victoria later but then I got a call that she was coding out. I had to rush here. The doctors are with her” she said anxiously. “Calm down, babe,” Jason said as he disengaged from the hug, his gaze went to the door that he supposed they had Victoria in. “He gave Millicent an appreciative look. “You look beautiful, by the way,” she was dressed in white suit pants, white blazers and royal-blue, silk shirt and matching blue shoes. “And you look exhausted. I am sor
“What do you mean by they are gone?” Millicent asked Anastasia angrily. The executive assistant of the chairman wrung her hands in agitation as she tried to explain herself. “I am so sorry, Milli... ma. I was suddenly feeling unwell this morning, just minutes before the commencement of the meeting. I thought you were running late, so I was about to call you when I saw Liam arrive, and he told me you would join us soon. I …am sorry, ma, but I had to use the restroom just after that. I couldn’t keep it so as not to embarrass myself during the meeting” “That still did not explain why our long-standing clients left within the first few minutes of the meeting!” Millicent snapped. “I learnt that Liam already took them to the meeting room when I got back from…I rushed to the meeting room but I saw them storming out of the room with Liam chasing after them” “Chasing after them? What the hell?” Millicent asked in astonishment. “He was asking them to wait for a few minutes more” Millicent
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The latest of the scandals related to the Monroes was the handover event that turned out to be more than everybody expected. But instead of the event turning out to be the most humiliating for Jason as his enemies expected, it turned out to be the greatest positive publicity that he had ever gotten. Nationally and internationally, people were talking about the man who smartly outwon his evil relatives and helped the FBI and two national police to solve cases that had been open for ages. Sales in Paragon Heights and all their subsidiaries skyrocketed and their shares grew so fast that Paragon Heights' worth went from five trillion dollars to forty-eight trillion dollars in no time, with more potential. Paragon Heights became the Holy Grail of business in California and all over the world. They became the first conglomerate on permanent contract slots for the UN and many international organisations. Jason’s fame as a capable, family-minded, CEO grew with his sophisticated wife, Millice
Sonia opened her eyes and looked at him “A silly whim that I regret a lot now. I was to select a new face. Then I suddenly showed the doctor Millicent face on the phone that I wanted that. At that moment, it was to get back at her for having what I would never have - Jason, I mean. But eventually, I realise that in a silly way of mine, I was probably hoping that some of her goodness will rub off on me. Stupid, isn’t it?” she asked him with a smile, then look away again when his expression didn’t change. “Sorry,” she muttered. “You said she is happy?” he asked suddenly. She looked back at him with a questioning look on her face “With Jason. You are sure that her happiness was not just a show? She wasn’t just acting?” Sonia scoffed “Acting? She would be an idiot not to jump excitedly anytime she remembers that he belongs to her” She saw the look on his face and quickly said “Oh, I am sorry. I mean. She is very happy. She loves him. Any idiot could see that. Even when I was trying to c
Just as Millicent was settling down in her newly decorated office befitting a chairwoman; a woman who looked just like Millicent, until closely scrutinised, laughed out loud in a penthouse in Montreau. Bastion Alverro, current Capomandamento of the Alverro family gave her an askance look before asking “What is so funny in what I just said?” The woman continued laughing while trying so hard to curb her mirth “I…I am so sorry. I just couldn’t help it. Who would have thought that a powerful man like you would be a child at heart? I mean, who else would chase after someone this hard and for this long because of a silly dream?” she laughed again. Bastion looked at her again and said slowly “Something is different. Your face, that laugh. It is different” he said thoughtfully. “Oh, thank God. Finally, somebody with half a brain. I mean, I am sorry I am not trying to tell you that you have only half a brain. I am just…I was trying to tell those morons, who grabbed me that I am not that st
The drama of the morning only seemed to increase as Jasmine burst into their room, just as Millicent finished dressing. She had been distracted by Jason and dressing up had eventually taken more than an hour. Sending up a prayer to the heavens that she was fully clad, she turned towards the girl and smiled “Hey, beautiful. What’s up? What is with the rush?” “Grandpa is here,” Jasmine said excitedly. “He brought a woman with him” “Brought a…Heinrich is here?” Millicent asked in surprise. “Yes, he is. He wants to see Daddy and Isabel was acting weird” Jasmine said thoughtfully. “Oh yes, weird is the least of it,” Millicent thought anxiously. Then to Jasmine, she said “Go and tell Heinrich that we will be there soon” Jasmine skipped out of the room, her school tie swinging like a pendulum on her neck. Millicent turned to face Jason as he came out of the bathroom. He looked toward the door and asked “Was that Jas?” “Oh, it certainly was. And…well, you have a visitor” Millicent sai
“You were tossing and turning all night” Jason said to Millicent as she opened her eyes the following morning. He had been watching her for a while. “Uh? Oh, is that so?” Millicent said as she raised her head to accept Jason’s kiss “Hmm, this is surely the best way to wake up” she said as she held him tightly to herself and deepened the kiss. They were both breathing hard when they separated. Jason flopped back on his back, with his hand gently playing with Millicent’s hardened nipples. “Now, that is the best way to wake up,” he said with a chuckle. “No complaints from here,” Millicent said with a smile, then she stood up. Jason turned towards her direction and asked “Now, will you tell me what is wrong? You only toss and turn like that when you have something weighing on your mind. Is this about what I told you? About Silas?” Millicent’s eyes widened as she said “What? No, no. That is not... I mean, yes, what happened to your brother is… well, totally surprising. But I know you
“What?! Since when?” Mia’s shock-laced question resounded throughout her office floor. She looked aside to see some of the employees passing and they paused to look at her. She quickly waved at them with a smile that all was fine and hurriedly went to her door to close it. She turned back, put her phone on speaker and dropped it on her table before she said “Silas Benjamin Rouarke, what the hell are you talking about?” “Wow, that judgy tone of yours is really helpful right now, sister” Silas’s voice resounded in her spacious, elegantly furnished office. Mia raked her hand through her hair, then turned back to say “Oh, helpful? You want help? You had better hope that the host of heavens come down to help you when mom hears about this…this madness of yours!” she snapped at him. “You know what? I really do not have time for this. I must have been mistaken when I thought that I will get a little support at least from you before I talk to Jason and Mom. Guess not. Thanks for nothing” “
“That was not how I expected that brunch to go” Jason said as they got back home that day. “Yeah, you and I both” Millicent said as she went straight to the fridge to take bottled water. “You want some?” she asked Jason but he merely shook his head before he flopped onto the bed. “Poor Simon. He was beside himself with worry and guilt that he should have noticed that she was not herself” Millicent shook her head as she went to sit by him. “I am not sure he could have known when a strong-willed woman like Andrea was determined to hide something like that from him. You should have seen the look on her face before she left that restroom though. She was terrified yet showed a brave face” Jason laid his hand on Millicent’s belly as he said “I am sure they will figure out the best way to go about this and we will be there to help them with whatever they need as well” Then he sighed before saying “Does it make me a terrible person that I am glad that we do not have to worry about such a
The Monroes had a celebratory brunch with Heinrich, the deadly duo, and Anastasia the following day. Heinrich invited them to his home to celebrate his clean bill of health and the promotions. The doctor informed him the day before that the toxins in his system had been finally gotten rid of. Also, the neurotoxicity potency had been curbed to a minimal level. Though he still had to take medication for the rest of his life, new research funded by Jason was already underway on how to completely cure neurotoxicity. So they were all optimistic that he would be totally fine and free of medications soon. They all arrived for the brunch in high spirits. Everyone was still happy about the turn of events in the company. The deadly duo and Anastasia marvelled at the magnificence of Heinrich’s home. Then they all settled down to the magnificence spread provided by Heinrich’s cook and his assistants. Mouthwatering biscuits and gravy complimented the no yeast, French toast bagels so well, yet the