Jeremiah, although not this extremely intelligent Doctor Michael person, was still smart enough to know that the same promise that William had given him had also been made to every single person brainstorming in front of him right now.He knew that based on how active and passionate they were about what they were doing.Even he would act the same way they were when receiving a favor from the richest man in Beethoven, who also was amongst the top ten richest people in the world, was on the line.“Isn’t this kind of overkill?” Jeremiah asked, and William grimaced.“Overkill? How so, doctor?”Jeremiah cleared his throat and said “I mean, more than one thousand people are fighting for the same thing and only one out of all of them is going to be the winner. That’s quite a lot if you ask me.”William looked at the crowd and said “If this is what Doctor Michael considers overkill, then I wonder what he would think about the actual scope of the think tank project.”Jeremiah jolted in shock.
Jeremiah left the two men and walked towards the crowd, getting close enough to hear the incoherent rambling that the majority of them were doing.Jeremiah grimaced, thinking that their words were incoherent to him because he didn’t understand the medical lingo. However, after analyzing it a bit more, he realized that they were purposely not saying their words properly because they didn’t want another person to steal their idea.“Hmm, the competition is very serious for it to be at this level” Jeremiah commented, then saw one practitioner who seemed approachable.“Good day”, Jeremiah greeted the man, a doctor, and to his surprise, the response he got was a mean sneer.“What do you want?!” The man asked.“Nothing. I was just trying to be friendly—““You want to steal what I’m working on don’t you?!”“What?!” Jeremiah asked, feeling embarrassed.“Friendly my ass. Look here, I’m not in this project to make friends or be friendly with anybody. I’m only here to win the task and nothing mor
“Sir, I don’t wish to sound disrespectful or like I’m challenging your oversight because in no way, shape, or form, am I trying to do that, but I just would like to know what exactly you see in Doctor Michael that made you go through all those processes to get him here? What’s different about him from the hundreds of thousands of doctors, scientists, chemists, and the multitude of other practitioners engaged in the think tank project?” Steven asked. William looked at his rather curious bodyguard and smirked. “Like you said, Steven, I went through all those challenging processes to get Doctor Michael here because he is what is known as a miracle doctor and I mean that in the actual sense of the—“ William said, but then stopped when he noticed something. He heard some rowdy noise and complaints coming from the crowd of practitioners. “Hey, watch where you’re going!” “Fool, why the hell are you in such a hurry?” “You better not have made me forget the thesis I was coming up with or
Finally, Jeremiah and Steven got to the last door they had to go through to leave the building and Steven unlocked it.Throughout the entire journey of making their exit, Steven had discreetly done his best to stall them from getting to that entrance door.From walking slower than he normally does to taking more time to unlock each door they went through and then doing the same when he locked it behind them.He was able to buy a minute and a half, and he did all of that because he wanted to give Jeremiah a little more time to rethink what he was doing.In truth, Steven didn’t care that Jeremiah’s decision was going to make him miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime. The same opportunity that half a million people were fighting tooth and nail for at that moment.Rather, his motivation stemmed from the fact that he knew just how much William, his boss, wanted Jeremiah to stay.‘I guess he’s not changing his mind. There’s no helping it then’, Steven thought, and then he opened the doo
It was a cold Friday evening in Beethoven city and while other families sat around the dinner table, eating very delicious meals and enjoying each other’s company, the same could not be said about the Prescott family.Instead of the dining room, they were all in the living room, having an important meeting and everyone’s focus was on the matriarch of the family, Lady Elizabeth Prescott. Though she was sixty-four years old, her beauty was still ever present, transcending from a youthful allure to the regal elegance that came with age.Lady Elizabeth sat gracefully in her opulent white and gold leather chair, with impressive designs that made it look almost like a throne, and in her presence were children and grandchildren,“Grandmother, these are the records of profits we’ve made this year and if you take a look at these other documents, you’ll see our expected profit margins for the next five years.” Said Austin Prescott, Lady Elizabeth’s first grandson, as he gave her two files.The
“Jeremiah, what’s wrong?!” Michele Steel, Jeremiah’s mother, asked as she got to her son’s side.She gasped, her expression turning grim after noticing the blood stains on the back of his neck and shirt collar.“What happened to you, son? How did you get injured so badly?” Michele asked, then accidentally kicked the remote on the ground.She wondered what the tip of her foot had just hit, only for her to look down and see the bloody remote. “Jeremiah, is this what injured you? How?” Michelle asked as she went down and picked the remote.She was smart enough to know that a remote like that could only injure Jeremiah the way it did if it was thrown at him, so by sneaking glances at the rest of the family, she wondered who had done it.Immediately, Lady Elizabeth said with an emotionless voice “I did it. I threw the remote at your useless son, so now that you know, what are you going to do about it?”The moment she heard the confession, Michelle froze. Her entire being became fearful. H
They couldn’t believe what they had just heard. Did Gwen seriously just say that she had killed someone while driving? “Where did it happen?!” Lady Elizabeth asked hurriedly. “Not too far from here. About seven minutes from the gate”, Gwen replied, pointing in the direction of the street that the body would be on.“And did you check to see if the person was actually dead or not? Sometimes you can hit something and it’ll still be alive.”Gwen’s eyes widened.“Oh my god. I made a mistake and didn’t check, grandma. What if he is alive and is in so much pain and agony because of what I did? I can’t believe I messed up so badly” Gwen cried even more, realizing the massive error she had made.Lady Elizabeth quickly consoled her.“It’s not your fault, my darling. Something like this has never happened to you before, so it’s expected that you will make a mistake. Everything will be fine, so clean your tears” Lady Elizabeth helped wipe Gwen’s tears from her eyes.“Okay, Grandma, I’ll be stro
“What?!” Jeremiah exclaimed, utterly shocked by the statement. Everyone looked at Jeremiah and they didn’t say anything. They were okay with using him for the task.“Come here, boy!” Lady Elizabeth instructed, and Jeremiah’s eyes blinked rapidly. He was being forced to involve himself in the situation, and he didn’t know what to do about it. He hesitated to move and then noticed that his mother was also holding him. She didn’t want her son to join the cover-up for murder. Lady Elizabeth looked at Michelle who was trying to prevent Jeremiah from moving and she frowned.“Hey witch, what did I tell you about interfering in my affairs?!” Michelle gulped.“You told me not to, Lady Elizabeth” she replied.“Then what do you think you’re doing—?!” The sirens got louder.“I don’t have time for you at the moment, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that your actions will go unpunished. Now, you have one second to let go of that bastard, and he has less than three seconds to come here o