“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
The fake Madison tried to twist her way out of Jake's grip,"there's no use for all this it's futile, you are coming with me" he said to her."This is abduction, I can call the police on you" she threatened him, using her eyes to search around for any cop that might be on stand by.He gave a wicked smile "I'm sure you wouldn't want to cause a scene here miss?-She ignores him and calms down "fine I'll go with you". They both walked back to his car together and entered.Max was shocked to see Jake's ex wife in the car. "It's not Madison, just her lookalike" Jake said on seeing the shock on Max's face. This settled him a bit."So what's with her, you plan to use her against them" max asked as he started the car."I don't know if she can be useful at the moment, she was working for them before and anything she does might not come as a surprise" he then proceeded to tell Max about how he was deceived and thought she was Madison, including Jackson's first kidnap.He then turned to face her
As he stepped out his phone buzzed, he refused to open it as it felt liy his world just came crumbling on him.The phone buzzed again and he still ignored it. Then it started ringing, he brought it out of his pocket and picked up."Where are you at?" The voice shouted into his ears it was Max's. "Cassandra has been shot and she's in the hospital right now, I have been trying to reach you""What?" I asked this can be happening, can the day get any worse. "Send me the location" he ended the call and zoomed if to the hospital where Cassandra was admitted.Max was already there and together they went to her room. Immediately she saw them she started shouting. "Get out, I don't want to have anything to do with you"."What are you saying Cassandra?", Jake asked her, "It is I your twin brother". "I was comfortable being a cashier at the bank, then you waltz into my life and now I have people after me" she sobbed.Jake tried holding her close to himself but she rebuffed his advances towards
Her words came as a shock to him "you have got to be kidding me Charlotte, reopen what case?"."First you came to me and told me what you are telling me now, after two weeks you came to me to close it, I didn't question your rationale behind it "."And now you are here with this request, what exactly are you after?""Does your grandfather know about this recent development?" He asks her."He doesn't need to know, this is between the two of us, and don't forget that my grandfather isn't the only one that can make and break you".The smile that plastered his face was not attractive, he edged closer to her, his thick cigar still hanging from his mouth. "You do know that I will be questioned , playing with this case the way you are requesting will soon attract the top dogs"."And when the top dogs are involved, my hands would be tied , I won't be able to help you then".She rolled her eyes, I that what he is so worried about? She wondered. Playing along with his smile and removing her han