Alaric got to the front of the door to the venue where the meeting was held. His father had already walked inside and was talking with some of his friends, and he sighed, mustering a bit of confidence, knowing that he was going to compose himself, and was appearing in front of influential people. "Young Master, don't worry. Everything is going to work out fine, and you will see that it will be smooth. No need to fear, especially when your dad is inside there. I'm sure it would be a good experience, and you will benefit from it," Steve said. Alaric nodded, and adjusted his tie, before walking in. They were waiting for him. It was a little house, where they hosted to meet, and he was amazed at how portable but richly decorated and beautiful the interior of the house looked. "This is amazing," he said beneath his breath, as he walked in. Steve was beside him and whispered to him. "Yes, young master. This house is beautiful, and it is a very special place because your father and the
They talked for a few more minutes, and some of the businessmen asked about Alaric's plans and even his thoughts on his position. "Mr. Wright, I have seen that Alaric is really a great man. He is doing everything in his power to make everything a success. Alaric, how about your position as CEO? What did you think of it when you were informed that you would be the new CEO of the biggest conglomerate in the world?" Another man, Mr. Shawn, asked. Alaric thought about the question, and how to answer it, before answering. "Well, it was very big news to me. I wasn't even expecting it, and even if I had ever dreamt about it, I never believed I would be the CEO of such a great Empire. It was a dream come true, and I am happy that I found myself doing a great job. I didn't have any experience with it, but I managed to pull it through, and here I am," he said. "Great," Mr. Shawn commended. "That's incredible. Well, what is equally shocking is when you were announced to be the new CEO of t
"Dad, I will be leaving for the office now. As I said earlier, I have an important meeting to attend, and I have to go now. From the reports I got, the person I am to meet with is already at the office waiting for me," Alaric said, as they stepped out of the venue. His father nodded, and smiled at him, patting him on his shoulder. "Yes, son. You should go. I would love to come with you, if you don't mind. It's been a very long time since I saw the office and the way things are, and it would be very good if I had a tour around the company building," Mr. Wright said."I don't think there's any need for that, Dad. You should just stay at home, and have a good rest. I understand that it must have been a very tiring journey, so you must rest well, and relieve yourself from the pain," he said."Yes, son. Now that I have looked deeply into this, I think I have realized it too. It would be better to stay at home. Anyway, I just got back, so I still have enough time before I go to see the of
Alaric looked down on Mr. Jefferson begging him. This was what he wanted, and he was finally getting it. He wanted to make his enemies suffer, and it was finally happening, bit by bit. "Please, save my life. This is the last place I can go, and I have no other place to help myself. No one will accept me, and this Empire is the only thing that can help me. I need to talk with you," he said, begging Alaric. Alaric nodded, and moved away slightly, allowing Mr. Jefferson's hand to slip and fall to the ground. "Well, I need to know more about you, Mr. Jefferson. You can't just come here and tell me to help you. I don't even know what you're talking about, so how do you expect me to respond to that? Take a seat and then we can talk business," he commanded. Mr. Jefferson didn't want to sit down. He wanted to beg Alaric because he knew that he had nothing to offer to the Wright empire since he had nothing to himself. "Please, sir. Help me. I know that you're now the CEO of this company,
" "Are you trying to play with me right now? You are telling me that you need $1 million?" Alaric asked Mr. Jefferson, shocked by the amount he called. "Yez, Mr. Weight. This is the amount of money I need to be able to get on my feet. I need that much amount. If you can lend me the sum of $1 million, then I will make sure to continue my great contributions to the Wright Empire once again," he said. Alaric was shocked, and couldn't process what Mr. Jefferson was talking about. He was talking about his contribution to the Wright empire, and he didn't quite understand what it meant. He looked at Steve, whose expression told him that he didn't understand too. "What do you mean by that, sir? I don't understand anything you're saying. What contributions are you talking about? Is it this Empire that belongs to me now?" He asked Mr. Jefferson. "Come on now, sir. Even if you don't know anything about it, I'm sure your father does. This is the reason why I wanted to work with your father an
""How are you planning to pay back my money?" He asked, with wide and serious eyes. "I… uhm… I will pay you back. I promise." "Promise? What is there to promise? There is no way I can help you. Now go back to your family, and rot with them. Ask whoever made you this way to return you to your original state. Get out of my office and leave this company," he ordered. Immediately he heard those words, Mr. Jefferson looked at Alaric with pitiful eyes, alarming himself to the fact that Alaric was going to send him out of the company and not fulfill his request. He jammed his hands together and begged Alaric like he was begging for his life. "Please, Young Master, don't do this to me. Don't decline my request, I beg of you. Please. Don't do this. I have no other place to go, and I don't want to suffer a miserable fate, sir. I beg of you. Please help my life. Please don't do this to me, I beg of you. Help my life, so that I don't die of poverty," he begged. Alaric was becoming angrie
Mr. Jefferson raised his head. "What do you mean, Young Master? I was a very…""Cunning criminal who stole money from the Wright Empire's engineering subsidiary Dustin Firms and pretended to use the money for a project, huh? Is that it?" He asked, looking at Mr. Jefferson with furious eyes. Mr. Jefferson was stunned, and couldn't believe it. "What? D… Dustin Firms?" He asked, in a shaky tone. His eyes were shaking terribly, and his hands were fidgeting under the table. He couldn't believe that everything that happened in the past was leaked, and many things were playing in his head."What do you mean? I don't understand what you're saying, sir," he said, trying to pretend. Alaric looked at Steve who nodded at him. They knew that Mr. Jefferson would deny it, and not to make it seem like a regret, Alaric had his motives for exposing the truth now, instead of waiting for some other time. Steve was surprised by how Alaric blurted it out. It was supposed to be a secret, or even if not
"Norton, Arnold, your wife, and everyone. You all will end up in the streets. Mark my words, Jeff. I have said it. Watch out for danger any time soon. I promise it will come and get you. Now get your ass and run out of this company building like you are being hunted down," Alaric commanded. Mr. Jefferson raised his head. "Me? Just like that? Thank you!" He said. He repeated the words constantly, and he ran out of the office, breathing hard and fast like a freed slave. Steve was surprised and stared at Alaric in shock. He couldn't believe that Alaric just let Mr. Jefferson go that easily. Alaric heaved a sigh and turned around to notice the look on Steve's face. It was a mix of disappointment and confusion, and he was really thinking about which one it was. "What's with that face, Steve?" He asked Steve. Steve was reluctant to talk but cleared his throat. "Y… Young Master, I am just surprised at what you just did. You…" "Let Mr. Jefferson go?" He asked, completing Steve's ques
Evelyn was working in the office when suddenly her phone rang. She picked it up to see who was calling, and it was Mr. Steve. “Good day, Mr. Steve. Can I know why you are calling me? I am currently doing something at the office,” she said. “You need to come here right now, Miss Evelyn. Someone wants to see you, and she requests that you be here soon,” he said. “What? Who wants to see me?” She asked. “Someone in the household wants to meet with you.” “I don't really know if I have the chance to come because I have a lot of things to do right now, Mr. Steve. Can this meeting be scheduled later?” She asked. “It is not a business meeting, Miss Evelyn. In case you didn't hear me, I said that someone from the household wants to see you.” “The household? What do you mean by that, Mr. Steve?” She asked. “The mansion of the Wright family,” Mr. Steve said. “Really? A member of the mansion wants to see me?” She asked. “Yes. Come quickly, it's urgent. I'm sure you know where the Wright M
"And your last wish?” Norton bowed his head, trying to hold back the tears in his eyes. “My last wish…”“Yes. Tell me.”“Please, forgive me. This is my last wish.” Alaric was surprised.“What?”“Yes, young master. That is my last wish. If you can grant me these three wishes, then I don't care if I die. I will live without regrets. I just want to make sure that my mother is okay, but if I have the forgiveness of the woman I love, and that of yours, then I am satisfied,” he said. Lucas was just staring at what was going on without saying a word.“So you want me to go and give your mother money?”“No, young master. Support her in any way you can is all I ask. Please,” he said.“Consider your last wish granted. I forgive you, Norton. I have already forgiven you a long time ago. I just wanted you to learn your lessons and end it all by putting you in prison,” he said.“Thank you for this, Alaric. I will forever be grateful.” Alaric turned around to leave, and Lucas said, “Forgive me t
"These blockheads attacked me and the first thing they seized was my property. I didn't know they were eager for my money.”“Money that you earned dubiously?” “What do you mean to say by that? I worked at the company of your long-term rival, remember? My salary can feed your family for months,” Lucas said.“I can't believe that you still have the guts to boast even when you are in the police station, behind bars. What the hell is wrong with you? None of that is going to save you now, Lucas, so quit dreaming?”“I am not going to be here for as long as, loser. That, I can assure you. I will do everything in my power to get out of here. Look, son, have you thought about escaping?” He asked.“Even to the end, you are still having devilish thoughts. What makes you think that you can even escape from here?”“I was just kidding, bloke. Just know that I won't be staying here for as long as you.”“Well, only if you are proven to have committed the lesser crime.”“There's nothing to prove, bro
“Mom, Dad, look. We are finally getting back investors who left us before. They want to give us a second chance and invest in the company again. This is such great news and it's overwhelming,” Norton said, rushing down the stairs to meet his father and his mother who were in the living room. Mr. Jefferson turned around. “Really? Have our investors come back?”“Yes, Dad. Look at this, Mr. Peter said that he wants to give us a second chance and that we should not fail him this time. They want to invest in the company so that we can use the amount to produce and make a profit,” Norton explained.“That is very good news, son. You are doing a very good job when it comes to handling the company. This calls for a big celebration,” Mr. Jefferson said.“Dad, relax. We have to make sure that we get everything back before we celebrate. If we have all we need, then we can wine and dine and there will be no one to stop us. This is the first step, there will be more steps ahead,” he said.“Look a
3 DAYS LATER.Alaric was in his office going through some files that had been presented to him earlier when Steve suddenly rushed into the office.“Young master, the police are here,” he said, as he made way for them to enter the office. “Good morning Mr Alaric Wright. I am Inspector David Williams, the police officer who is in charge of the case in your company. I have two other police officers with me today, and an investigator,” he said, pointing at each one of them.“Good day, sir. I am Investigator Adam Phil,” he said, extending his hands. Alaric shook hands with the police officers.“It's good to see you all today. Our legal department reported a case and I'm happy that it's being looked upon,” he said.“Don't worry Mr Alaric. We will do our best to dig to the bottom of this,” he said.“Okay, so, how do we start?” “First of all, we have to collect the necessary information and evidence you have against the culprit. Then, you have to come to the police station to submit your s
The car pulled up at a cafe, and Evelyn wondered to herself why they had been at a cafe earlier and just arrived at another one“Is today all about drinking coffee?” She asked.“Funny joke, but no. It just happens to be my favorite venue for a meeting,” he said, as he stepped out. He went inside the cafe, and sat down, taking a table. One of the workers immediately walked up to him.“What can I get for you, sir? And your wife, ma'am?” He asked, looking at Alaric and Evelyn.“What?” Evelyn said in shock. “Wife? I'm not his wife.”“Don't mind her. She's going to be my future wife, but you know how shy women are. She's in the one I'm actually taking on a treat today. Wait a little while, the main character is coming,” he said. Evelyn, pissed by what Alaric was doing, began to mutter to herself.“Main character huh? Which means I am an ordinary character in this story. Well done, sir, for degrading me.” Alaric, seeing that she was beginning to get angry, smiled. “You know that you will
“Mr Donaldson told me himself that he was ready to take whatever penalty of his actions there was. He told me that if I wanted to kill him, his hands were wide open waiting for me. If the police would come, he would be at his house.”“So what do you want to do to him?”“He's the only one safe, father. He decided to turn from his evil ways and expose the truth. He didn't have anything personally against, and since you said none of them ever had an attack against the Wright empire, then, he is okay.”“And Mr. Tate?” He asked.“He might be the hardest to penetrate, but I will definitely find something against him,” Alaric said, his head immediately thinking of Kimberly. “Did he do anything to you?” Mr. Wright asked. Alaric was hesitant to answer the question, but he shook his head. “Nothing to the company, but to me, yes, father,” he said.“Then, what do you plan on doing to these people as a method of revenge?” Mr. Wright asked.“I want to put an end to all of them. There were so many
Mr. Wright was a little bit surprised. Something like that had never happened before and he was worried that something was wrong.“Hope everything is alright, son?”“There's nothing wrong, Dad. It’s just that I need your help for answers because I have questions that are disturbing my peace,” he said. Mr. Wright raised a brow. “Really? Then tell me, son,” he said. “Come have a seat,” he offered, pointing at the seat across his. Alaric sat down and looked at his father.“First, Dad, before we begin, I want you to promise me something,” he said.“What is that, son?”“I want you to promise me that you will tell me the truth no matter what,” he said. The question made Mr. Wright feel worried that something was wrong. “Son, are you sure everything is alright?” Mr. Wright asked again to be sure.“I am perfectly fine, father. As long as you decide to tell me the truth of the whole story, then every answer I need will be clear to me,” he said.“I promise to tell you the truth, then, son,”
Evelyn, surprised by how he was able to guess every single thing that was happening to her, tried to hide her shocked expression. “H… how?”“Don't worry, Evelyn. I told you that I would make sure you realize your love for me, and this is just the first step towards it. Look how you were able to calm me down without even doing much. That is the effect of your presence in my life,” he said. Tapping on the button that winded down the windows, he snapped his finger at the guard outside. He entered the car and ignited the engine.“Take me to the mansion. I want to see my father,” he commanded, and the guard nodded. Meanwhile, Evelyn, who hadn't said a word, rested a finger on her lips as she reminisced the feeling of Alaric's kiss that sent jolts of electricity throughout her body. The car drove to the mansion as Alaric had commanded. Evelyn was a little bit worried that he didn't decide to drop her off at the office, and she wondered why he was taking her with him.“Young master,” sh