“So, Mr. Lincoln, we have as many buildings as you want, but their prices are no longer the same as last week. They have kind of increased.” The manager informed, holding the catalogue.“Alright then. Please show me your catalogue.” Charles requested politely.The manager passed the catalogue to James and James gave it to Charles. Charles went through the catalogue, and was quite pleased with the different buildings he saw there.“Well, if their prices are now hiked, I believe they are all worth it.” Charles spoke, nodding his head in satisfaction.Then his eyes caught a perfect building which he felt he could use for his tech company. Then he checked the price, and it was a whooping sum of 5 billion dollars.Charles thought about how he could get that amount. It was possible if he removed the money from all his accounts. He had made several investments recently, and most of his money, gone.“Alright, I’ll take this one. My manager here, will bring it in cash once I withdraw it from t
Angẹla watched Charles expression change from a blank one to one of shock. His eyes went as wide as apples and he grabbed his phone with his second hand as though he couldn't see properly. Then he blinked serverally and his eyes went everywhere in disbelief. Angela smiled. Seeing Charles clearly experiencing a bad situation was thrilling. So he also could make that expression on his proud face. He stood from his seat and left immediately and Angela's eyes followed after him. What did he see to throw him so off-balance? Then she realized she was wasting time and she actually had the opportunity she needed. She looked around, wondering if the maid was still somewhere in sight and when she saw the maid wasn't, her hands flew to her bag, prying it open and searching frantically for the poison."You should have kept it somewhere unique." She muttered to herself as her head whipped all around frantically. Then she found the tranparent poison bag and discovered her hands were trembling re
Angela was on edge as she watched Charles tip the glass of wine over. Just one more tilt, one more tilt. Suddenly everything seemed too slow. Why was he so slow just to drink one glass of wine?Then his phone rang and he dropped the glass of wine immediately.Angela swore under her breath, squeezing her skirt tightly in frustration. He had been so close, even the tiniest gulp was bound to do something. Charles held up his phone in hopes of it being James calling, but it was not. Instead, it was Vera calling. Charles sighed, and picked up the call. "Vera." He called as he moved to sit and in doing that, he accidentally pushed the glass of wine off the little table and it fell to the ground, shattering and sending wine splattering on the sofa. Angela shrieked as she watched the glass of wine seep onto the carpet close to where it shattered.There went her poison. Charles stared at her, wondering why she was overreacting over a glass of wine."Couldn't you have been more careful!?" S
“This could have only been done by a hacker.” Vera suggested, looking like she was thinking critically on who could have done this.Then Charles’ phone beeped, and he brought it out to check who had sent him a text which read:“If you want your money back, then come over to this address.”“Oh, my goodness. The hacker involved in this, just sent a text of the address.” Charles informed Vera and James.“Holy shit! Should we involve the cops, secretly?” James asked, wondering if that was okay.“No. We have to be extremely careful with this. He might be a man of one chance. If we fuck it up, I might never be able to retrieve that money. And you know, we have less than 3 days to acquire that building.” Charles reminded.“Oh, yes. That’s true. I guess the hacker wants something else, then, and not your money.” James replied, and folded his arms.“It seems so. I’ll be on my way there, and I’ll go alone.” Charles said to them, and dashed out of James’ house, immediately.Charles drove off to
“You want him? How do I give a whole human being to you?” Charles chuckled, and stared at the masked man like he was weird.“You know what I mean by “I want him.” I know it was going to be a bit difficult to get you to do what I wanted, because you are a powerful man, known almost all around. So, I had to think of something I could use to pin you down.”“What do you mean?”“There was a time I bumped into you. Well, I placed a bug on your phone. It blended with your phone’s color, and it’s quite smooth, so I ensure to eavesdrop on every of your plans, and the one which was a check for me was your building acquisition. That’s the only thing I can use to threaten you.”“If you don’t give me what I want, I can sell out your business idea.” The masked man threatened, and laughed out, because he loved the way his plan was working out.“What! How dare you!” Charles raised his voice in anger.“Trying to raise your voice at me, won’t work here. Your subordinates won’t even try to find you, bec
About four hours had passed, and Charles had seen or heard no sign of any people coming closer to the basement.“Why did you have to give me a task in this current situation?” Charles spoke out bitterly.Those men had tied Charles up so tight that even if he lost a little weight now, he still won’t be able to wiggle out of the ropes. “Hello? Anyone here?” Charles called out to anyone who could hear him, but all he got was an echo.He was beginning to get frustrated, and was about to fall himself to the floor, probably progress could come out of that, but the door creaked open, and he heard footsteps.“Thank goodness.” He muttered under his breath, with relief.“Our boss just gave the orders to release you from where he is. Remember, if you act wrongly, you’ll blow up.” One of them said to him, and they all laughed out, mockingly.Charles was glad that they weren’t wearing masks like their boss, so it was going to be easy to track them, and give back to them, the treatment they deserv
The next day, Charles got a call from George.“I assume you were the one who sent me 5 million dollars. Was that a mistake?” George questioned, over the phone call.“No, it’s not. I need you to do something for me, George.”“Alright, I’m all ears.”“Come over to my house, and then we’ll speak about it.”After hanging up, I got ready for whatever today had in store for me. But I hoped that I would be able to get back my money before the time given to me to fetch the money for the building, expires.Soon, George got to my house, and I slowly walked down the stairs, and gallantly to the sitting room where I took my seat, and stared at George.“I guess what you need me for, must be serious for you to have sent me a sum of 5 million naira, and asked me to come to your house for a discussion.” George said, looking overly curious.Although, Charles had never thought that George would be looking this humble to him after dealing with him, but he was glad that he was willing to do anything he w
George woke up, and met himself in a well-lit room which was receiving a good amount of sunlight. There weren’t decorations on the walls, and the room looked dry, and old.It was more like they had put him in a room-like-basement. After scanning everywhere with his eyes, then he noticed that he was tied up, and left hanging in mid-air.“Hello? Is anyone there? Please let me down. I’ll give you anything you want, just let me go.” George pleaded, earnestly.Then he noticed the masked man and his men, coming out of a corner.“Wow. He is awake. Get me a chair to enjoy the wonderful view.” The masked man requested, with excitement.As one of his goons dropped a chair, politely for him, he sat down, and let out a satisfied sigh.“Alright, bring in the specie.” He instructed, and crossed his legs, staring at George who was looking lost.“Please I…I know I… may have wronged you or something. But… but I can settle it with a huge amount of money. How much do you need?” George stuttered, and flu