Letting go of her grandfather, Maliya said, “Thank you so much grandfather. I am so happy to have finally done something that you are proud of. I Know that the position you have just given me in the company is a big one and it comes with responsibilities but I promise you Grandfather I will never disappoint you. From now on I will do all I can for the good of the Coker family company ”. Holding Andrew's hand, Maliya said, “My family has accepted you; now, nobody can separate you and I”. Some days passed, and Zed Jefferson had returned from the capital where he had been investigating his father, Rick Jefferson's murderer. “It was bad uncle, it really was”, Harry said to his uncle Zed Jefferson when he was asked him about the bankruptcy of the family. “Fred Green promised to bankrupt our family in thirty minutes and he did. I don't know how one man could single handedly do that but I know one thing, he did it all because of Maliya Coker. She called him and told him something and he
The Jefferson family auction was the week after Pete informed Andrew about it. Invites were sent to elite families and celebrities. Although the Jefferson family had become bankrupt, it was still a respectable and influential family. When Major General Zed Jefferson called for the auction, people responded. His family was prominent and he too had a reputation in Klinland. At the Jefferson family villa, before the auction, the Jeffersons held a family meeting. “This auction is not a regular auction. Yes, we will be selling things but it's not sales alone. Every one of us must be careful. The last event we organised, someone walked into this villa past our security and into our family mansion and killed our father. You all were there and you remember what happened so please let's be very careful this time. I have gathered elite members of my troop to secure the villa and to be on the lookout for the Norton orphan”, Zed Jefferson said. “How about the Coker family Uncle Zed? Since ou
“Mrs Maliya please what do you mean by all lies. The broken portrait is right in front of you. How do you explain that. Let me guess you want to say you have nothing to do with it. You want me to believe that the painting magically fell down and broke when it got to your table. This painting was worth two billion dollars. I hope you have that ready right now because you will not be allowed to leave this place until you make the payment”, Zed Jefferson said. “But I had nothing to do with its breaking I literally just got here. What are talking about? This makes no sense” Maliya said, panic in her voice “You will have to come with us so we don't disrupt the auction. This painting will be paid for, broken or not Mrs Maliya”, Zed Jefferson said to Maliya and then facing the men who came in with him he said, “officers escort her”.Maliya put her phone back in her hand bag and followed the men out of the auction room. They went to the basement of the auction house. All the time, the auct
Turning to one of the soldiers, Zed Jefferson said, “Release him”.After Stanley was released, he walked over to where Maliya sat and slapped her twice on her right cheeks which immediately turned red. “But Grandfather it really wasn't me. I had nothing to do with it. The men carrying the portrait walked past my table but I don't know anything about how it fell or why. It truly was not me Grandfather. You have believe me”. Maliya said.Taaaa!Stanley slapped Maliya's cheek again. “Are you trying to say that Major General Zed Jefferson was lying? Why would he be lying against you? You've already done enough damage already so shut your lying mouth up”, Stanley said before leaving the villa.Tears welled up in Maliya's eyes, but she blinked and tried to hold it in and then all of a sudden, she started to feel dizzy. The room had grown dark and the air seemed to be standing still around her. She fainted.*****Stanley left with one of the soldiers escorting him out of the Jefferson famil
Please let go of my hair. I'll come with you. Please Sir, General please tell him to let go of my hair”, Maliya cried. One of Zed’s subordinates was dragging Malia's hair while escorting her to the auction room “Shut up! you stupid woman”, Zed Jefferson said and slapped Maliya. She cried out loudly, tears flowed from her eyes and mixed with the blood dripping the cut on her face.It was a really hard slap and Zed Jefferson slapped her right next to one of the cuts on her face. It made the blood rush even faster. By the time they had climbed the stairway to the fourth floor of the building where the auction room was, Maliya had lost a lot of blood. Her sky-blue dress had blood red designs created by the blood flowing from the cuts on her face. As they entered the auction room, the whole room went dead quiet. All the guests present were horrified. “This was the lady who was taken from here when the auction started for breaking Lisa's Smile portrait…”, one of the celebrities whispered
The auction room had grown cold since Zed Jefferson and his subordinates returned with Maliya looking disheveled. Everyone had suspected that the portrait incident was only an excuse for something else but no one expected Major General Zed Jefferson and his subordinates to dehumanize her in this manner, not talk of bringing her out to the auction room and letting everyone know what had been done to her. Rushing back upstage, to where Maliya lay, Zed pulled Maliya up by her hair. He wanted to hold her hostage. “I can use her to buy my way out of here if this doesn't go the way I want it”, Zed thought.Gbaaaa! Andrew hit the auction room door with one of his legs and the door fell making a loud crashing noise. Everyone turned their attention to the doorway. “I’m right here Zed Jefferson or should I say Major General Zed Jefferson”, Andrew said standing at the entrance of the auction room. His voice was calm and angry at the same time. Then he walked in.The room grew colder with ever
Pete was quick. He had served and trained under Andrew for years and one of the things he had learnt was urgency. He moved as soon as Andrew gave the command. Without wasting any time, he made his way to the back door where angry soldiers from the western troop under major General Zed Jefferson's command charged towards him. He paused halfway into the hallway. In his hand he held two short shiny silver knives with extremely sharp edges. And as the soldiers approached him he zoomed towards the first man slashing his throat with one of his knives. He stabbed the second man that approached him deep in one of his eyes. The third man followed before Pete could remove his knife from his eyes so he drove his second knife through the third man’s ear and pulled both knives out at the same time.As the next man approached, Pete jumped and as he kicked the side of his head, the spikes on his boots scraped the skin of the soldier's face. And from then on it was a bloody frenzy, slashing of thro
The auction finally ended after Marc Jefferson ordered everyone out of the Jefferson villa. But in all honesty, the auction ended when Zed Jefferson and his subordinates escorted Maliya out of the auction room after falsely accusing her of breaking the obviously fake portrait. Everyone cleared out of the auction room and the Jefferson family villa as a whole almost immediately. They looked happy to be out of all Jefferson villa. They would have all left a long time ago if they could but the event had taken a rather forceful turn after Maliya was accused of breaking the portrait.Major General Zed Jefferson and his western military troop hijacked the events and people had to buy fake and substandard artifacts. They even forced people to buy the remnant of the broken Lisa's Smile portrait. Before leaving, Zed gave the order barring people from leaving the auction and with all his soldiers, no one dared disobey him. Even in his death, they remained frightened by what would happen if th