“Boss, we were not able to find the one who shot at you.” Zain nervously said to Rhys. They were currently inside Rhys car, he sat far away from Rhys, scared of getting to close to him.Rhys rubbed his forehead, he was beginning to have a headache, a lot of things have been happening since his return to his family and it was hard to keep up with it. He hasn’t been able to find concrete evidence against his uncle, the one who shot him has not been found and there was no clue of the person who had hired assassins to get rid of him.Everything was more and more complicated as days went by. After the incident with assassins, his bodyguards had increased so much, even though they were not in plain sight, Rhys could still sense their presence around him.“It’s alright Zain, take a walk with me.” Rhys stepped out of the car with a frown on his face and began walking to nowhere in particular. Zain hurriedly got of the car before following Rhys, he quietly walked behind him. There were some
A man who had seeing the interaction between Rhys and Lucas wore a smile on his face as he entered the same restaurant that Rhys had entered. He wasn’t surprised when he doesn’t find a trace of Rhys on the first floor. He walked towards the stairs which led to the second floor. “Sir, can I help you?” The guard stationed at the foot of the stairs was not ride to him after seeing his appearance.The man took out a card, the card collected it, took a glance at it and returned it with a more respectful expression on his face. “Young Master, forgive me for my impudence earlier. I did not recognize you.” The other man still retained the smile on his face, he had taken no offence to the guard’s behavior earlier knowing that it was part of the guard’s duty. “It is fine.”The guard stepped aside, allowing the man to go to the second floor. When the man spotted Rhys and Zain on a table, he walked towards that table, the smile on his face doesn’t falter one bit. “Hello friend, you don’t mind
Few hours went by, Rhys was sitting in his car which was packed close to the building where the auction would be held. He had Lorenzo has spoken about he few irrelevant things at the restaurant before he had left. After leaving, he asked his driver to drive round the city, mainly for sightseeing, sent Zain home before he arrived at the building.He was waiting for the two people that would accompany him, Johnathan’s and Elena. Johnathan soon arrived in his sleek sports car. He got out of his car and enters Rhys car. “Hey man, what was so important that you had to make me leave the important missions I was on.”“Well I got extra invitation to an action and I thought it would be boring if I attend all alone.” Rhys was focused on his phone where he was selling some of the shares he had bought in the past to pool more resources for the auction.“What auction?” Johnathan seemed confused.Rhys simply showed him the invitation cards. Johnathan’s jaw dropped. “How- How did you get this?!” He
The arrival of three heirs of the aristocratic families was sure to cause an uproar, as they stepped out of Rhys car, security guards instantly surrounded them to prevent anyone else from getting too close to them. Lorenzo was true to his words. If anything was to happened to any of them on their territory, the consequences would be disastrous. Lorenzo soon arrived with some people accompanying him, his signature smile on his face.“I’m glad you agreed to show up young master Rhys.” The security guards made a path for just Lorenzo. There was an indifferent look on Rhys face, while Elena stood very close to Rhys, her identity was a little different now that she was his fiancée, an amicable smile on her face. Johnathan stood on the other side of Elena, posing for the paparazzi that had suddenly appeared from nowhere. He would rather be dead than be caught uncool.“You gave me an invitation, it would be wrong to turn it down.” “It is a pleasure to finally meet you, Miss Topaz and Master
Even though she did not say anything, from the look in her eyes, Rhys could also tell that Elena wanted one of the villas but unlike Jonathan, she did not clamor for it. The auctioneer continued. “But this villas would be gifted to the person in VIP room number one.”The auctioneer words made many people angry, they didn’t like this sort of behavior as it went against the whole concept of an auction. But no one opened their mouths to voice their opinions and dissatisfaction first. Why? Because they needed to know who the person sitting in room number one was before saying anything. There were quite a lot of experienced people who had seen enough in life to not make a mistake of challenge someone without knowing their true identity.But one person who didn’t think hard did not place a filter in his mouth and said. “Auctioneer this behavior of yours is inappropriate, are you sure you are not going to give the McAuliffe family some face.” Even if the auction went on, Callan knew that th
The next day, the lunch date with Nathaniel really started off well but midway, it went south. Elena enjoyed catching up with Nathaniel but soon realized that he had changed a lot, so much that she almost couldn’t recognize him anymore. When he first picked her up and drove her to the restaurant, he was attentive, nice and sweet but midway, he started getting distracted. He would glance at his phone for minutes as if he were expecting some sort of a call or a message. When she would ask him what was the issue and whether there was some place he’d rather be; he would force out a smile at her, trying to reassure her that everything was alright. To Elena, it just didn’t feel right anymore but with a smile on her face, she tried to let it go and bring life to the conversation on the table. He gave half-hearted response whenever she asked him a question, sometimes he gave vague answers which was quite annoying. There were a lot of things going on in Nathan’s mind at that moment, he had p
At that moment, she began to wish that it was Rhys that was sitting before her, sure, he had never taken her on a date and mostly tested her as a friend when they were together. She wondered how Rhys was like if he truly loved her. Elena was lost in her thought and didn’t hear most of the words that Nathaniel was saying. “I hope you can forgive me for today, Elena. Some of my work related stuffs were nearly stolen moments ago and I got worried about it.”Elena snapped out of her thoughts at the right time to hear the last statement he was making. She tried not to cringe at the mention of her name coming from his mouth, yesterday it was alright but at that moment it was off. “It’s fine.” “Are you sure? I can understand if you want to leave, we can catch up some other time.”Hell noElena was already tired of hearing him speak, she heard her notification sound and casually glanced at her phone. Her calm expression suddenly switched to shock before distress. She dialed a number and rai
Her emotions were all over the place, her heart was beating faster than normal. Elena had to place a hand over her chest, took deep breaths as she tried to relax. When could still recall the strange look in Nathan’s eyes, it was like the one a predator gave it’s prey. It was scary.The hair on the back of her neck stood at that moment he glared at her, her sixth senses warned her of impending danger and as soon as Johnathan’s call came in, she took advantage of it and used it as an opening to get away. The sound of her phone ringing snapped Elena back to reality, the phone was right besides her but she was still scared to take it, worried that it might be him.Her stalker.Elena was well aware that she had a stalker. He would call her and not say a word, only the sound of him breathing in the background would be audible. The sound of the phone ringing once again reminded Elena of where she was. Her driver glanced at the rearview mirror before asking with concern laced in his voice. “