"So tell me then?" The boss asked. "Which is it going to be because right now I can promise you that you are certainly getting on the last of my nerves." Immediately, the manager fell on his knees. He needed the job more than anything else. He needed it so badly. He had a family of two and he was the only one that had any sort of work and brought in any income to the house. He could not afford his two daughters staying out of school because of a silly mistake that he made. He had to ensure that the man forgave him at all cost. "Sir, please. You can't take this job away from me. It's my life. I can't do without it. I need this job so badly. Please." "Young man, you are not to be apolozing to me. You are supposed to be apolozing to the girl that you did this nonsense to. Now go on before I change my mind and decide to fire you either way." "Sir please," the man continued begging. He knew that even if he apolozied the was no way he would get someone like Ivy to apologize. So whatever
"Sir, please I am begging you." "And how many times have I told you to stop fucking begging me?! The person you should be begging is standing right in front of you. You will do everything that she wants. So if you know what is best for you, I will advise you start apologizing rather than waiting for me to do what I want to." Sluggishly, he turned to look at her, wondering how he could reduce himself to actually apologize to someone like her. How did she get someone like Levi Strauss to actually do her bidding? That was what he wanted to know more than anything but he also knew that the worse thing he could do was to upset her. That would only make matters worse for him and he needed her to forgive him. Maybe if she did, she could talk to his boss to forget about firing him. "Ma, I am terribly sorry for what I did and said to you. I promise you that it will never happen again." "What makes you think that what you just said is going to get her to forgive you? If I remember correctly
Brittany stood still for what felt like minutes, staring directly at this young man. She was slowly getting upset. She could not have this man lose his job simply because of her. That guilt will never leave her in a long time."Are you actually going to say no to me? Do you know that I hold the power to shut this restaurant down for good?" "I know that you do.""So then what makes you think that you can actually say no to me? What is giving you such audacity to say no to my wish?""I am looking after my business miss. If it collapse because of this idiot, I don't think I will take it so easy on him. So instead of waiting till something terrible happens and I have to kill him, why don't I just remove him at once?" "Make him work as a cleaner. Trust me when I tell you this, he will not hurt your company in any way if he is working as a cleaner. He will not even be able to make any important decision. So how then will he be able to destroy your company?" The boss took a few minutes to
Levi did not notice when his assistant stood before him wearing his big burgundy glasses that reminded him of that of his grand mom. She stood like a man, with the composure and confidence that he had only ever seen in men. He loved it so much that he was finally seeing it in a woman. The woman, after having stood for about a minute without getting any acknowledgement, cleared her throat. Immediately, Levi's head flew up. He had been so engrossed with his work that he did not even notice the presence of another human being. "Oh, Alicia what are you doing here?" He asked when he saw her standing close to his table. The woman couldn't see properly, even with her big round glasses she was still partly blind. For that reason, she needed to stand very clear to the person she talked to in order to see the person and know that the person is following her. "Well, good afternoon sir. I wanted to inform you that the is a certain Miss Brittany outside waiting for you. I tried your intercom bu
Levi looked perplexed. She could not actually be feeling that way, could she? She could not believe that he did not care about her? "What?" His voice came out as a whisper as he stood up to go meet her. "You can't actually believe that, can you? You don't actually think that I am not crazy and madly in love with you, right?" "Why else would you not tell me about it? Why else would you like to me about Ivy if you were not planning to elope with her at some point?" "Elope with her?! I can't even elope with her. What the hell will happen to my uncle's company if I did that?" "I don't know. Maybe your plan is to train Steven till he is very good and then you can leave so that your uncle won't be too stranded.""Okay, that is crazy talk. Listen to me now. I am not going anywhere okay. I am not planning to elope with anyone. I am not planning to leave with that girl, come on now. I thought I was doing the right thing by not telling you." "How? How could that have been the right thing?
"Okay, what exactly do you think you are doing?" Brittany yelled back at her. "I am doing everything possible to ensure that you pay for this. Do you know how important these documents were and now because of you, they are ruined!" The woman complained bitterly. "Ma, with all due respect, these papers are not ruined. It is so obvious that they are still in a very good condition. So what is all these about?" She asked. But the woman did not answer her because immediately, the security men that she had called for arrived. "Ma, we heard your distress call. Is everything okay?" One of them spoke and Brittany assumed that he was the leader. "Well, everything would have been okay but this woman just had to barge into my and she ruined my papers. These papers are very important and the CEO personally asked for them. I need her to be evacuated from this premises this instant!" "What?! Okay, Mr. Security man, please take the document from her hand and tell her to show you where the docum
"You are awfully confident for a woman who is about to be embarrassed in the presence of one of the most powerful person in this world." "Well, I will hate to be embrassed like that but I have a feeling that your boss is a very sensible man and he will definitely chose the right choice. Now, shall we?" Brittany said with a smile on her face. "Okay. Let's. But let it be known that I tried to warn you against this stupid act." Brittany kept mute as she walked towards Levi's office and she prayed that Steven would not come out to see her. If that happened, then all her plans to get what she wanted would be ruined. Slowly, the woman moved into the room as the door got open. And the look on Levi's face was one she was not expecting to see. He looked around the room skeptically, trying to understand why almost every security man in the company was suddenly in his office. He could not fathom what was happening but he saw Brittany standing in the midst of them and something immediately t
"Sir, what did you just say? Did you just say that she is your girlfriend?" The woman asked surprised. "Yes I did. Do you have a problem with that? Because if you do, the are always ways to remedy that." "No sir," the woman caught on fast to what Levi meant. "I don't have any problem with that at all sir. As a matter of fact, I am even amazed. I just did not expect it, that's all." "Yeah, well, that's the truth. Now if you all don't mind, I will love for you to wait outside while I talk to my woman in private." Levi commanded them and watched sternly as they all left. As soon as they left, Levi turned to look at Brittany who had a soft gaze on her face, one that showed that she had been smiling. "Tell me, what exactly is going on here?" Levi asked. "I have no idea what you are talking about." Immediately, Levi arched his eyebrow. "Really, Bri? You don't know what is happening here?" "I don't. Listen, I went to dump things and then wash my hands and out of no where, the woman j
"So are you ready for it?" Gilead said as he approached Levi. "Yes uncle. I believe I am." "You must know how proud I am of you. You do know that right?" "Yes I do." Levi did not care of he was just father or his uncle. Since he came back into his life he has always treated him like his own son. He cared for him, gave him a bodyguard when people threatened his life. He did everything for him and never wanted to stop. He was more than happy that the man was just in his life and he did not care if he lied about being his uncle. "We should start going if we don't want to be late.""Yes. You are absolutely correct." Levi said. "Thank you for everything you have done for me, thank you." He said and walked away, heading straight to Brittany's room. "Did you ask him?" She asked when he got there but Levi could not answer. He was too mesmerized by the beauty standing in front of him. Everyday he saw new beautiful features in her and always asked himself how he ever got so lucky. "You lo
"Do you think that will work?" Levi asked. "It has to work because if that bastard does anything to my mother, I promise you it will be the last thing because I will use my own hands to kill him." "Okay, you just need to calm down now. I'm sure he will be able to..." Levi did not finish his statement when Brittany got another call. "Who is that?" Levi asked. "I don't know. Let me answer?" She said and picked the call. "Hello," Davina's voice was heard from the other side. "Davina." "I'm glad you already know who I am. Meaning that I don't need to do any sort of introduction, right?"."I'm guessing Henry gave you my number, isn't that right?" "Now now miss, it's not good to address your own father by his first name. That is disrespectful." "When that same father kidnaps my mother and wants to use her for randsom, I will do whatever the hell I want to." "Oh that is hardly kidnapping. What we are about to do will benefit you as well, you know." "How will lying to Levi to steal
"What? Today?" She asked. "Why?" "Well the company is having a party today and my uncle wants to use that opportunity and transfer the company and everything it holds to me. So you see, if we don't do this before that time, unfortunately, we may not be able to get what we want from this plan." "Wow, babe that's wonderful news. Congratulations!" Brittany said and ran to hug him. "Thank you but you did hear the other things I said right. We need to get this correct if not, it will not be funny." "Yes I hear you. I understand everything that you are saying. But I still think the time is too short. Don't you think she will notice and if she does and eventually finds out what we are trying to do, you know that every plan we have will be ruined like that. I honestly don't think we should do this." "We have no other option. It's either we do this now or we forget about it totally. Look, babe I believe in you. I know you can convince her. You just need to try and give it your all." "I h
Levi got home late because they had to stop by and get dinner. By the time he arrived, his uncle was already fast asleep. The young man walked into his home and slept peacefully with his woman till the next morning. As the sun rose, so did Levi but when he turned, he realized that Brittany was no where to be found. He turned around on his bed and saw a note beside him."Hi, baby. If you wake up before I am done, just know that I am in the kitchen cooking." He smiled when he finished reading the message and he proceeded to move to his kitchen. He was not able to make it because his uncle was waiting for him in the palour.."Is everything alright uncle?" He asked from the way the man stared at him. "You walked out on me yesterday. And you are yet to apologize." "I am so sorry sir. It's just that Brittany was in danger and I had to go save her." "I know. Jake told me everything. Listen to me. It does not matter how upset you are. You should never hold a woman the way you did yesterd
"What?!" Officer Joseph shouted. "Sir you can't fire me." He said"But I just did. Young man, you made an illegal arrest and you did not even go there with your partner because you know that he would have called you out on your bullshit. No, you decided to go with a rookie who would not agrue with anything you did. Not only did you not just defame the law, you made a fool of it and I will not tolerate any sort of nonsense in my force." "But sir. I was just...""If you say you were doing your job one more time, I promise you I will have you locked up." "Sir, if I may," Levi said as he pulled himself upward from his chair. "What could that be sir?" "Sir, I would love it if officer Joseph here could tell us exactly what it is that he did to ensure that he had strong evidence to back up his claims." "What?" Officer Joseph said in shock. "Well, you keep saying that you were only doing your job so now I want to know, what exactly did you use as evidence to arrest my woman with? Becau
"Okay, I don't really care about all these nonsense. I just want Brittany to be released. Can you guys please just do that before you think of what to do to this riff raff?" Levi said angrily. "Oh certainly sir." Jayden said but before he could move, he stopped when his name was called. "Officer Jayden, the commissioner is around and he is requesting to see you." "Okay, thank you." "Oh I see that the commissioner is around. Release Brittany and we will all go see him together." Levi said. "The commissioner?" Officer Joseph said, shaking. He was slowly realizing what he had gotten himself into. "Yes, the commissioner. Oh are you shaking right now. Please don't shake. After all, I can't do anything to hurt you neither can I even fire you. So don't worry, you are definitely in safe hands." Levi said mockingly and walked away to meet Brittany as she walked out of the cell that Jayden was opening. Jayden opened the cell immediately and Brittany ran out. She hugged him tightly, scare
Levi got to the station before the commissioner did and immediately he got there he walked hastily into the station. He did not say a word to anyone because he knew the station well enough. It was the same place Davina had stayed when he got her arrested.The man walked straight, ignoring all calls from other police men till he was eventually stopped by one. "Sir, you can't go back there. That is where we keep the criminal," the young man said while holding him. "Sir, first of all, you will need to tell me who you want to see and then I will be the one to either allow you to meet this person or not." Levi stood without talking, waiting for him to be done with whatever he was saying. "So sir, what I am saying is that you will have to come with me and give me information as to why you are here," the man explained again, thinking that Levi did not understand him the first time. "Oh don't worry Dave, I know exactly who he is here to see," beside him, Levi heard the voice that he was
"Levi Strauss!" The voice of his uncle brought him back to reality as he looked and saw that the man was boiling with anger. "Uncle," he said. "Have you gone out of your mind?" The man screamed. "When did you start holidng women by their necks and trying to kill them?" He said angrily. Levi looked at him. He did not know if Davina was lying when she said that he was his father. And he did not care to know..all he knew was that he was angry, boiling with anger and having him around was not going to solve his problem or make Brittany to be released from jail. Angrily he left the scene and ran upstairs. "Levi! Come back here!" He ordered but the young man was far gone. His uncle stood there in shock. He did not understand what was happening but he knew that he had never seen Levi is a disrespectful child and for him to walk out on him when he was talking was something he never thought the man would do. "What the hell has gotten into that boy? Is it me that he just ran away from?" H
"Please take her away!" The leader said. "Take your hands off her I say!" Levi said angrily and almost bounced on the man. The cocking of a gun by the leader brought him to an halt. He turned around to see the man holding a gun in her hand. "Step away from my partner or I promise you that I will shoot." "You actually have the audacity to point a gun at me?" Levi asked, his eyes turning red. "Levi!" Brittany shouted. "Levi, look at me!" She said, her hands behind her back, drawing Levi's attention to her. "Take care of my mom while I am gone and get me out of this as soon as you can." She said while being dragged out. "I won't let you spend up to an hour in there." He shouted as he watched her being lowered into the back of the police van and driven away. As the car zoomed off, Levi turned to Ivy. "You have the audacity to bring police officers into my home to arrest my woman." He said silently, taking slow steps towards her. "I had to do what I did for us!" Ivy said, not sca