The news hit him hard like an avalanche of rocks, crumbling down on his world as a large gasp escaped from his mouth, taken aback.
"It's not true right?" He stared right into her eyes, searching for even the slightest trace of doubt in her eyes.
But.. It was nowhere.
All the love that seemed to be carved in those sockets seemed to have flown off almost immediately.
"Just take a good look at yourself. Everyone sees you as a piece of junk, how long did you think that I was going to cope with that?" She hissed once again.
But it was difficult for him to believe that she was going to leave him just like that.
Not when she told him that she was going to stick to him no matter what.Not when she was the last person who kept his world running right after he lost his foster mother.
"Just tell me that you are really angry and you are taking it out on him." He added but a burst of laughter escaped from her mouth.
She shoved her hands intentionally towards him to reveal the diamond ring that glittered with the sun.
"So without introduction. I guess that I already knew who you were. Kelvin scoffed with so much disgust in his voice.
"After all these years, I thought you were just kidding about this your wretched legend but taking a good look at him right now. I can see that you are bad with description." He did not care to hide that their relationship status had been hanging out there for quite a while now.
"Years? Georgia you have been cheating on me?" His eyes brightened.
"Cheating?" She replied with a fake sense of shock.
"I would never do that." She threw her face into an odd glimpse.
"The truth is. You have never been dating. After you moved into town, I discovered that you were my birthday mate and we also share the same name. I wanted to learn more about you but discovered that you are nothing but some piece of junk."
"And then, my parents were worried that I was never going to get a boyfriend and even three threats my way. You were the only one that I could use as a cover up until someone better came my way."
Random thoughts ran through his head at the thought that all this while, he had been living a lie and nothing other than that.
His hands clenched with so much anger at the thoughts that all this while, he had only been a tool and nothing other than that.
"You're going to regret this."
"How is that even possible?" Her friend added.
"Maybe I can help pull you out of your wretchedness." Kevin smiled pushing his way toward him.
George stared at him with so much hate and disgust leaving an unusual but satisfying smile on his face.
"Everyone in this room is my witness. I am willing to pay as much as you want. Even one hundred thousand dollars. Just lick the dust off my shoes." He noted.
He expected to see some sort of trouble in the eyes of Georgia after spitting out such a large amount of money from his mouth.
But he guessed that he was wrong as he was not even the slightest bit moved by that.
Even if I have to rot in my wretchedness, I am never going to do that." A swarm of saliva stormed off from his face.
"You fool, How dare you?" Georgia yelled at him but for the first time in a long time, he certainly didn't care about this now.
Accused of stealing.
The anger was visible on his face and the only thing that he wanted now was to give him a hard kick on the stomach but with everyone around, he knew that he certainly could not do that.
"You will regret this Georgia." He said once again walking out of the place.
Meanwhile, Kelvin stormed out from the place racing with so much anger to get a face wash while Georgia followed him closely from behind.
"I am so sorry Kelvin. I thought that the punk was just going to leave. I never knew that he was so disgraceful." Her voice was filled with stern hatred.
"I can't allow him to go scot-free after doing that to me, I will have to make him pay for it." He replied with a sudden braise and a dark smile hovering on his face.
His stomach rumbled as he walked sea from the place.
He has spent all the money that he had including his savings on the ring and necklace.
"But now, they are all gone." His voice broke as he continued to walk aimlessly in the street.
His heart was beating hard against his chest as though it was going to burst through.
But none of those losses could be compared to losing the one that he loved dearly.
His phone made a beeping sound indicating that he had an incoming call but he didn't have the will to pick it up as he let it go by.
But as the beeping sound continued to vibrate in his ears, he had to pick it up without looking at the caller ID.
Because he had a cracked screen and that was most likely impossible.
"But what's the reason that he is calling me?" He thought in his head confused.
"Hey, punk. Just stopped by and noticed that you aren't around. I want my rent transferred right this moment or you are going to get your things outside the house." He noted with a long hiss that vibrated into his eardrums.
"But." He was about to say but the dumping sound clouded the air.
"As though this is not enough already." A loud sigh escaped from his mouth.
And as though his misfortune could read out his thoughts, something really strange occurred.
A car sped off towards him and a group of men in dark hoods came down from the car with batons in their hands.
Their looks were controversial but the most thing that occurred to him was the fact that his life was in grievous danger.
Maybe the last thing that he was going to lose.
"So this is the piece of thrash." One of them wiggled his way towards him with a thick frown across his lips.
A baton flew in his direction causing a sharp pen in his back.
"Get him, boys." He heard the one closer to him who seemed to be their leader saying.
A large lump went down his spine until they heard a sound behind them.
"Stop right there." A manly voice that sounded like silk came through from behind.
The leader's lips twisted into a frown as he turned around slowly while George nursed his wounds.
"Guess someone wants to join the beating up party." He smashed the words out of his mouth as he turned around.
But all of a sudden, a chilling pause emerged from his steps as his eyes met with the man who was standing before him.
"Good day, sir." His words broke out in multiple stutters as the bully lost his charisma all of a sudden.
The rest of the gang turned around and even though he was not looking upward, Judge could feel the tense air.
His eyes made their way towards what they were all staring at. But he could hardly make a face from the whole scene because they were blocking his view.
But whoever that was, the aura was familiar for sure.
"I can't believe that Kelvin would go this low ?" He frowned with so much disgust with an heir of familiarity in his voice which George found confusing.
"I don't want to see any of you here if you don't want any broken bones." He ventured.
His words were coupled with the distress pattern of fleeing feet as soon as the whole place was clear enough to see who was before him.
A young man dressed in a gold classic suit rode a Porsche and had the perfect smile.
For any other person, they would be caught in a flash but for George, it only broke back old memories that had haunted him for such a long time and he only started doing with.
It was Henry Hopkins, his cousin.
"Thanks for the heroic act but what do you want?" There was a sense of pain in his voice as more memories set in.
The pain sword even more as he could not any longer recall those awful moments.
Being the grandson and the heir of the most prominent group in the city, the Hopkins group, he had lived in such love.
But that was until his father grew tired of being the heir and thought that it was time for him to take over.
His father died earlier though and right from the point of his death, the familiar maltreated him and his mother, always referring to him as the bastard son because they never wanted his father and his street mother to get married.
Sighs. She was even accused of bewitching his father.
Immediately after graduating from business school, George saw high up in investing in the oil stock market but he was wise enough to use just his life savings worth ten million dollars.
But that was the greatest mistake that he made.
His uncle, Gerald, saw it as a sign that he was not capable of leadership, for going into a vain mission when everything didn't work out as planned.
And his grandfather gave him and as though that was not enough, he was accused of also investing part of the group's money worth a billion dollars.
He knew that it was all a plot, they never wanted him to be president. But there was no proof to back up his claims as he was driven and this also led to the death of his mother, leaving him an orphan.
He could feel the pain forcing its way through his eyes but he pushed it back. It wasn't worth it.
Henry has been the only one helping until he completely disconnected due to his father.
But now he is back? Maybe to become friends with him once again? It was way too confusing and sudden too.
Then the next words came.
"Congratulations on your new post as the president." George was the first to begin, breaking him off from his practice.
"George I Know that you are still angry but I am here to plead for your forgiveness."
"You should not be asking for my forgiveness. You did what you had to do. If there is anyone that should be asking for that... It should be?" There was a sudden pause.
"Not just from me, but for everyone in the whole family." He added much to his surprise and With a confused look altogether hovering on his face as Kelvin fell to his face.
"Why would everyone be asking for my forgiveness?" He was beyond confused.
"Is this a prank?" He muttered.Growing up, he had always known him to be a prankster. But that was pretty long ago.But now.Was he trying out a prank just to bring back the old memories for a faster renewal?"A prank?" His eyes farrowed towards him but the look on his face was not giving him away even for a single moment."This is not a prank George and I am dead serious. The family needs you now." He emphasized.But he was confused, staring at__ him still trying hard to figure out why the family would want him at that momen__t."I am just such a worthless piece of shit and the family can always 09060912508 without." Those were the exact words that his grandfather had spoken to him."Why does he suddenly want that worthless piece of shit back now?" He frowned.Henry hesitated for a while for reasons that he could not pin down at the moment.Random thoughts ran through his mind as he waited for him to say something, already getting tired of the excessive silence that enveloped the wh
"Do you expect me to keep on waiting for you?" The frown that was hanging on his face was just way too vivid as she fell to the floor with her pride crushing down right before her."I am only here to ask for my account balance but she decided to take me through the glorious process of naming me a beggar." The banker was dumb enough not to pick out sarcasm in his voice."Ella? Is that what you are paid for? To go about bad-mouthing people?" He frowned."But take a good look at it." She paused all of a sudden."Do you even realize that it is the investor that has the highest deposit in the bank and your attitude almost chased him away?""What happened to give him the details to see if he was a beggar or not?" The frown that was hanging on his face deepened even moreBut she could hardly be convinced by the previous statement that he just made. Cold sweat broke out from the corner of his face almost immediately and she broke into shivers."It's him?" She could hardly make out words to ex
"Sorry guys. I had to get the booking list." A lady in a business suit stormed in a few minutes later, whipping the sweat off her face with her handkerchief.Her eyes sped off towards George almost immediately and sped off towards the well-dressed couples, random thoughts ran through her head almost immediately but she could hardly make anything out of it since she didn't want to make a mistake.Meanwhile, Michael could already read the thoughts in her head and she gave her the response that she was looking for even before she asked."He is certainly not with us. Just some sort of beggar that we picked up from random begging." He added.Her eyes sped off towards George's fall while skimming from his head to his toes."We are expecting some dignities here today and I will advise you to leave immediately before you give this store a bad reputation.""I can always refer you to somewhere they give free meals." She returned our hands to the computer that she had been working on."Oh. That
A tense air filled the whole hall as anyone could not get a grasp as to what was going on."Sir, I think that you are making a huge mistake here. This is the punk that claims to have money just to cause a...""Punk?" A thunderous slap landed on her face even before she could finish the statement.""Do you realize that is who I am waiting for?" She yelled at him.Even though it seemed as though her face was up in flames, the revelation of what she just heard struck her even more.She stared at George for a while with a dark smile hanging on his face.The confidence, the classic words. She would have read meanings to them earlier. Now she knew that she was in a whole lot of trouble.But she could not believe him for just his words and there was no way that he was anybody important. She could not let him fool her boss."I think you are making a really huge mistake ma'am. He is a pure punk.""At least I can testify to that." Sophia mattered."Are you trying to say that I don't know what I
Memories flooded once again but he was able to control himself this time as he made his way to the table. But even before he could get to draw the chair out, Olive helped him with it. "You came alone. Aren't you afraid that I might want to do something to you? Even if it might, I would be facing the law?" "The only thing that I know about you is that you have a good heart. I have always wanted to meet you all this while." "Wished that you had noticed this good heart earlier." He noted but without a frown. A smile hovered on the lips of his grandfather. If there was anything that he wanted for that night, it was the fact that he did not want the discussion to storm off in that direction. "I think we should eat first." He finally averted the discussion. "Okay." The meal was brought and George had to try as much as he could for his stomach not to disgrace him with the rumbling sound. And hopefully, it didn't. No matter how hungry he was, he had never thrown away his manners. S
His mouth was water pouring, and his eyes stuck to his reality. He couldn't believe it as he thought it was just a dream. Hopefully, he prayed it shouldn't be a dream but a mind fantasy seeing him.Damn, what the hell is he doing here? Must he appear in every scene of my life?He walked straight into the building and pretended not to see him, but was inevitably stopped by Kevin."Hey you, what on earth are you doing here?""Oh! You. Do you work here?"What sort of question is that? Punk like you shouldn't be seen anywhere around here. Or I guess you are either here to re-apply for a job or you are here to repeat history""Yes actually, I am here to apply for any job I can find my hand doing. Thank God you are aware"He tried taking a step forward when he was still stopped by Kevin."You still have the gods to lift your legs? Please stand there while the receptionist comes for you" He said while looking at him with contempt and an intention of laughing.A few seconds later, the recepti
"Hold on. If you don't have respect for yourself, at least try to have it for the manager of this company"George quickly grasped through his words and stood humbled.Henry moves closer to Armstrong and silently explained"This is the new personal cleaner that tidies the desk and interior of the manager. He was just employed yesterday and is currently on an emergency journey with permission from his boss."Oh, I can see. I suspected such although, I thought he was an old staff member in the company.I have never seen him before anyway. Hope it's fine with the ratched ass?""Yeah, it's cool with him. He just needs to acquaint himself with the environment here, and the nature of the job expected of him to execute"Henry defended by blowing up the big lie. The arrogant Armstrong lastly informed him of an important discussion between them."Never mind anyway. I need to work on some documents and award some contracts. I may not have the time to come to your office today but bear in mind th
He picked up the phone to his surprise she took it upon herself to call him first."Hello pretty. Wow, yeah, you called" He speaks while trying to organize himself and the kind of words he would use on her."Yeah, greetings young master. I believe you got home in peace?""Yes dear I did""Alright. Hmm. Hmm. I just wanna…""Oh, emm(cough). I am fine and what about you? How is it going with you?"I'm cool. I just wanna have cool words with you, like yeah, talking" She said as her words were staggered.He was also staggered as he did not know what to say. Suddenly, he started to feel an aura of tidings coming to him as they talked but by this time, he wasn't sure whether to go deeper on her or to just maintain casual words and friendship with her."Alright then, em. When would you be free during the week? " He asked."Uh, hope there are no issues? She asked in a gurly manner."Nope. Just a date, so we can, you know, get to know each other""Okay. I will get back to you with a text before