“Charlotte, to what do I owe the pleasure of you visiting me now?” the chief of police asked with a nervous chuckle escaping his lips, he relaxed back on the chair he was seated on, pulling on the strands of beards. "I only hope it is not what I am thinking though.“Oh, it’s nothing much, just a slight favor that I have to ask you,” she said, walking towards him inside the VIP room inside the club where she had agreed to meet him. She had chosen that location only because there was no way anyone would think that the reason for her entering that place was to see the chief of police, after all, it is a place meant for the rich people in the city.“A… a slight favor, it is very rare for you to ask of it, is it perhaps your father that had sent you to me today?” he asked nervously.“No,” she watched him breathe a sigh of relief and relax properly on the chair he was seated on, he looked more relaxed than he did, a couple of seconds before she gave him her answer. “Ok, then what brought
There is always a party being hosted by a particular family, the Vladimirs, annually and sometimes twice in a year, where they invite the wealthy ones of the town. The media never fail to attend such parties, they always get gossips to talk about for a while or whatever it is that would grab their attention and Jake, the new chairman of the McPherson consortium coming to the party with a billionaire famous daughter, Charlotte Hargreaves is one of them. She wrapped her hands around his arms with a smile on her face, while they both walked on the red carpet leading to the building where the party is being hosted. The flashing light of the camera almost blinded them, all the journalist, rushed over their side immediately they caught sight of them. “Mr. McPherson how do you feel after the previous senior McPherson named you the new chairman just hours after finding his lost grandson?”“Do you feel pressured by this role?” “What is your relationship with Miss. Charlotte Hargreaves?” “
They all turned back to look at him and exchanged pleasantries with him, “I am sorry, but I have quite a few things to show Chairman Jake, once I am done, I am pretty sure that he will find his way back to you or you would somehow meet up with him again when he is alone” Max said with a wide smile on his face. “Sure,” Alice’s mother nodded her head, dragging Alice along with her. Jake turned to face Max, “you were a lifesaver, right there,” he said to him, stretching a flute of champagne to him. “Well, I figured that you needed some saving or they would both drain the energy out of you before you even get the chance to meet up with other people” he replied, taking a sip from the flute of champagne he was holding. “So, any news from the detective?” Jake asked the expression he was putting on a few minutes ago morphed into a blank one. “Yes, the chief of police has permitted her to continue with the case, all evidence has been submitted and she reported that he would soon be carrie
“Go on, what is it?” Jake asked, turning to face him, “But before you go on with your request, I hope you know that I don’t have any relationship with your daughter” he added.Mr. George clenched his jaw, gripping the flute of champagne he was holding for a while, before clearing his throat and proceeding to tell him his request, but he hesitated, seeing the look in his face, he swallowed back the request, he wasn’t sure he was going to get the positive answer that he is hoping for. He noticed in that instant that Jake is not someone that would do anything just to please another person, there is always something he wants to achieve in the long-run, bringing his request to him would mean he might lose it all in the end. Jake’s expression softened, seeing the hesitation in the old man’s eyes, “Say whatever it is that you want to say, the look on my face is all a façade by the way” he said, his lips stretching into a wide, bright smile. “Do you think you can fool me with that fake smil
A few days after the party had ended, just like Jake had suspected, Fred and his grandmother or whoever was behind him made their move, they ended quite a lot of the detective family members. Jake attended the burial, everything he was putting on from his head to toe was black, just like everyone attending the burial ceremony, he watched her cry hard without a simple look of remorse in his eyes.“That is bad of you to do, at least feign it or something, you don’t know whether any journalist is here to capture that moment, and who knows what story they would put out there?” Max said beside him. “Oh, you are looking at me,” Jake said, snapping out of his thoughts, tilting his head to look at him. He made a sad expression on his face, “Was it a must to attend this funeral?” Jake asked. “We just have to,” Max replied. After they were done, they were about to walk away but Sarah caught sight of them and ran up to catch up to them. “Thank you for coming,” she said, making them halt and
“I guess this will be the first board meeting that I will be involved in since my taking over as the chairman of this Consortium” Jake said with a voice that exuded authority, he wanted to leave a first impression on all the board members that he is not one to be messed with easily and they shouldn’t try what the rest of the chairmen of other companies are trying to do, which he use him as a stepping stone in achieving their goals. “Yes,” they all answered in unison. “So, we will skip all the intro, since I already have an idea about who you all are and would learn more about each of you as we proceed. First of all, let’s treat the most important issue of this meeting” he said, turning to Sam, the youngest among the board of directors members, with a nod of his head, he gave him the signal to continue with what he had in mind to present to everyone. “There is a project that I was assigned to take on before the previous senior McPherson stepped down from the post he was occupying as
“Under arrest?” Jake asked, jumping off his feet, “For murder of people I have never met in my life before? Are you sure you are not spilling nonsense, detective?” “Your fingerprints were found at the murder scene, are you going to deny that?” she asked furiously, clearly disappointed in him. She always had the thought that maybe he was different from the rest of them since she met him at night and he told her to cooperate with him in putting a bad guy behind the jail, only to find out that he is just as heartless as the rest of them or so she has been led to believe. “Fingerprints? I don’t even know where the murder scene is” he said, flaring up. “Then are you going to deny agreeing to have committed the murder yourself a few minutes ago?” Aiden asked, pressing a recorded sound and what played next was the voice of Jake agreeing to have committed the crime with a loud maniacal laughter. “What about that?” the detective asked, clenching her jaw, “I will advise you to just comply w
"Sarah pull yourself together and answer my question,what is your relationship with Aiden and what woman walked up to you filling your head with plenty of garbage"This was becoming tiring to him, he only followed her out of respect, if he wanted to play stubborn the whole office would be in an uproar by now.She turns from the driver's seat and looked at him, hate filled her eyes. If looks could kill he would be dead in the backseat of her police vehicle."You seat there and ask me such questions when you and I know that you orchestrated the murder of my family". She was in so much pain her words were coming out in gasps.Jake was soaked up in confusion, until now he has never met Aiden McPherson. Could this be senior Mrs McPherson's plan all along?. He wondered to himselfTo make him fall bait to her tricks, how many more McPherson's will he still have to encounter before knowing what he is really into.The words coming out of Sarah's mouth had no meaning to him anymore, all he coul