Chapter 64Nathan darted his gaze down to the man kneeling before him. He sighed and ran his left hand through his hair.“Get up Bart!”The man was indecisive. Should he remain on his knees and continue to plead for mercy or should he stand up as Nathan requested he wondered. “Get up and return to your office,” Nathan stated. Bart stood up and turned away. He couldn’t even look Nathan in the face. Nathan watched him turn around and head back to his office. He then pulled out his phone and placed a call to Larry. “Come and meet me inside the bank at the reception downstairs.”Nathan made his way down the staircase. He marched to the security officers at the doorpost.Daylan, the security officer who had seen Bart kneeling before Nathan walked up to him. “Get two staff from the deposit counter to the customer care unit immediately. Things are getting messy in there. Tell them it’s the manager’s orders.” Nathan instructed. Daylan nodded in understanding and swung into action. W
“Are you sure you don’t want me to come with you?”“Don’t worry about a thing Nathan. You’ve done your part. It’s my turn to put Bart in his place.” Mike replied. He continued. “You’ve done enough work for today. You need rest.”Nathan sighed and surrendered with a nod. “Fine Uncle Mike. I’ll be waiting for an update.”“Of course, I’ll keep you posted.”Nathan and Larry left the bank. ****Nathan staggered into the living room and crashed on the twin couch with a slight groan. Henry and Charles were shoving popcorn into their mouths from the bowl before them. Henry turned to Charles. “Did he wrestle a cow or something?”Nathan chuckled and sat up. Charles presented Nathan with a bottle of water. “You look stressed. Where the hell have you been?”Nathan snatched the water bottle and gulped down the content. He wiped his mouth with the edge of his palms and fell back on the couch. “Why do some of the privileged ones in our society treat other people like trash?” Nathan spat. Henr
Chapter 66Nathan’s eyes were fixated on the corner. A physically built man, dressed in black plain trousers and a grey hoodie was trying to force himself on a petite. Nathan watched him grab her wrists while she kept resisting. He pinned her to the wall while she kept trying to fight back, her face screaming discomfort. “Let go of me!” She screamed but the resounding music kept relegating her voice to the background. The man went ahead to plant kisses on her neck and the poor girl looked like she was about to throw up. Her countenance and his approach proved that he was forcing her to make out. The disgusting and annoying sight forced Nathan to turn away with a clenched jaw. “Are you okay?” Charles demanded after reading the pissed expression on Nathans’s face. Henry was without worry. He was sharing a bottle of red wine at the bar stand with the girls who seemed to be enjoying his company. Nathan faked a smile and wanted to blurt out to Charles that he was good but he caught
Chapter 67The group of three clenched their fists and changed toward Nathan. Nathan placed his left leg behind while his right leg was positioned in front. He clenched his jaw and tightened his fist, ready for combat. Charles stood beside Nathan. “I felt that you needed an extra hand,” Charles told Nathan with a half smile. Nathan approved with a nod. Avery slipped into a corner and was soon panicking. Scarface’s group was the first to launch an attack. They continued charging toward Nathan and Charles when in a blink, Nathan kicked one of the wooden stools with a force that caused it to leave the floor.The stool flew and landed on one of the guys, the one on the left. Scarface groaned and charged toward Nathan and Charles with tightened fists. The other guy who was hit by a stool remained on the floor, nursing his left hand that just got smashed. Scarface went for Nathan while his colleague aimed a punch at Charles. Nathan dodge all the punches scar face was throwing at
Chapter 68Greg sent more bangs on the door and remained rooted to his spot for about thirty seconds. Again, there was no response. His frustration grew with each passing second. “Shit!” he cussed and curled his lips in irritation after noticing that there was a lock sealing the door. He was so mad that he didn’t pay any attention to the door. All he wanted at that moment was for Nathan to open the door and face him. Before leaving for Nathans’s apartment that night, Greg concluded that Nathan was going to be at home so he decided to turn up at his place unannounced. It wasn’t the first time he had turned up without notice anyway. Greg kicked the door with his left leg in irritation and turned away. He had just wasted about five minutes at the door waiting for Nathan to show up, only to discover that the door was locked and Nathan was not at home. He was hoping to meet with Nathan. They had a lot of things to talk about. With a frustrated sigh, Greg strode to the spot he had p
Chapter 69“I’m good!” Avery mumbled and pressed her purse to herself, refusing Nathans’s offer. Nathan sighed and shook his head. There was no way she was good, alone at that corner. She was just bent on being solo. “Maybe we can sit over there.” Nathan pointed to the last booth on their right. Maybe she needed privacy he thought. “Okay!”He took the lead while Avery followed. They traced their way to the booth and sat next to each other. Henry and Charles were at the bar stand. “So what will you have?” Nathan demanded. Avey sighed and slapped her purse to the table. “I need something substantial.” She then broke into a dry laugh and Nathan was stunned. He had barely seen Avery smile and talk more or laugh like that. “Are you suggesting whisky perhaps?”“Well, that can suffice, or maybe not a drink as strong as you are suggesting.” She replied and crossed her legs. “After that fight, I sure need something powerful.” Nathan chuckled. “You sure do.”Nathan signaled to one o
Chapter 70“So you’re saying that you won’t drive yourself home? Then how are you going to get home?” Nathan demanded with his arms folded across his chest. Avery sighed and gave her forehead a delicate scrape. “The thing is, I sneaked out of the house to come here. My parents still think I’m in my room.”Nathan hummed. “I see!”“So there was no way I could come here with my car. I took a cab and I’ll be hailing one to take me home once I get to the junction.” She replied. “You don’t have to worry about taking a cab,” Nathan said. Avery raised a brow. “I can drive you home.” He told her. Her eyes widened in surprise. Nathan gave a warm smile. “It’s late Avery and quite unsafe for you to trek to the junction by yourself. I can give you a ride.” He said. Avery was rendered speechless. Nathan pointed to the parking space. “Come with me. I’ll take you home. There’s a car down there.”Without uttering any word, Avery began taking steps after Nathan. They got to the parking space.
Chapter 71Nathan groaned and turned to his left. He could feel a hand slowly making its way from his legs up to his chest. Even though he wasn’t fully awake, he could tell that someone was trying to revive him from his slumber.“Wake up Nathan!”“No,” he muttered under his breath and hugged his pillow tightly. He began to receive several taps on his chest. “Wake up.”Nathan opened his eyes slowly and arched a brow. Someone was sitting by the edge of the couch. He couldn’t see the person through the haze that was covering his eyes but he knew someone was seated there.“Good morning!”Nathan quickly sat up and after wiping his eyes with the edge of his palms repeatedly, he could now see clearly.“Mike!”Mike smiled and adjusted his tie.“When did you arrive?” Nathan asked with his gaze fixated on the wall clock by his right.It was barely 7 am and Mike was already in the training room, neatly dressed in one of his exotic tuxedos.“I arrived a few minutes ago so I decided to come strai