It's been a week since the incident at the court had happened. The city seemed to be more calm than it used to be. Alex was less work loaded and for the past few days he'd had enough time with his kids.He was tired and wanted to head somewhere—anywhere. He called in John to let him know that he was leaving. "Leave the reports on my desk, I'll continue by tomorrow. Right now, I need to take a drive.""Where is the Young master going, if you don't mind me asking." "I have no idea where I am going." Alex replied with an amusing smile, finding it quite funny. John felt maybe he didn't want to disclose his location, so he let him be."How about I send a guard to accompany you. You know, the road isn't safe anymore, especially when Dominic still suspects you're the main reason for his downfall."Alex laughed. "He won't dare to harm me, because everyone will point fingers at him. He'll have to let the case be a forgotten issue so if anything should ever happen to me, no one will assume he
Alex not being the hospital type of person, urged John that they should get going. John, however, paid the bills and they headed for the parked car at the parking lot. Alex then checked on his wrist watch, it was close to dismissal time. “Let’s head for the kid's school, it's almost time when they close.” John made the next turn, leading to the school compound. By the time they reached, the school bell had been rung. “You wait in the car.” Alex said, but John convinced him to stay back While he got the kids.“Don't worry, it's no big deal.” Alex insisted, but John insisted he should stay back.“You wouldn't want everyone thinking you got into a fight or something, would you? I'll get the kids.” Without explaining further, John stepped out of the car, while Alex stayed back in the car.He rested his head against the chair, shutting his eyes to sleep, but was distracted by the sound of a car which parked just beside his. He turned to look at who it was, recognizing the car to belong t
Dominic paced back and forth in his office, his mind racing with anticipation and anxiety. He couldn't sit still, his heart pounding in his chest as he impatiently awaited news of whether his plan to terminate Alex had been successful or not. His plan never failed when it came to occasions like this, but knowing Alex to be a smart figure kept him restless. Every tick of the clock felt like an eternity as he waited for the crucial feedback that would determine his next move. With a frustrated sigh, he reached for his phone and dialed Jeremiah's number. The phone rang once, twice, before Jeremiah finally answered. "Where the hell did you drop your phone so that you couldn't pick my call?!" Dominic flamed. His impatience was getting him furious."Forgive me, sir, I wasn't with my phone at the moment." He apologized."You always have one excuse or the other to give." He scoffed. "Have you heard anything yet?" He asked, changing the topic, since that was the most important thing to him
Alex sat comfortably on his plush couch, he was engrossed with what he was watching on his phone. He would laugh at a few posts, and likewise frown at a few others. While he was scrolling through his phone, John walked up to him."Young master," He called, drawing Alex's attention to himself. He's been wanting to have this conversation, but he didn't want to seem too pushy over things so he gave it a second thought, deciding to have the earlier incident discussed. Alex paused the video he was watching, averting his gaze at John who was standing before him. "Yes?" He answered, then asked almost immediately. "Is there a problem?"John took a seat opposite Alex, leaning forward slightly. "Not really. I... I was only curious about your safety, that's all."Alex let out a faint smile on his lips as he acknowledged John's words. "I'm really grateful for your concern, John."John nodded his head. "But, I can't seem to wonder who it is that desperately wants you dead." He pointed. "I know I s
“Guard the kids while I check on the master.” John ordered about five security guards to protect the children. Two inside, while three guarded the outside.He rushed to the room Alex was shot only to meet him laying writhing on the cold floor, his face contorted with agony as blood seeped steadily from his wound, staining his clothes.John called for a first aid kit. He was troubled, hoping Alex would survive the injury. On the other hand, he was proud of the Young master's bravery. For him to have risked his life to save his children was something worth acknowledging.John knew he had to act quickly if he wanted to save Alex's life. He carefully removed the bullet from Alex's wound, and then cleaned and bandaged the area. Alex was in a lot of pain, but he tried to stay calm and focus on his breathing. John gave him some pain medication, and then instructed him to get some rest.But Alex was restless. He couldn't get himself to sleep even after John had helped him lay on his bed. He
"Did you just say the assassination failed?" Dominic squinted his brows as he looked at Jeremiah, anger written on his face."Yes, Young Master," Jeremiah answered slowly as he could see that Dominic's expression was not good and could tell that the latter was slowly losing it."Tell me, how were you able to fail?" Dominic asked, his voice cold and chilly."Young Master, please don't be offended, but Alex already had the information that we'll be sending assassins over from whoever knows and was already prepared for the attack which was why it fell through."Jeremiah tried to explain that Dominic wouldn't lose his cool."I don't care!" Dominic suddenly yelled as he flew into a rage."Tell me, how weren't you able to carry out that simple thing, you were not doing anything much, all you had to do was to send skilled assassins who could eliminate him and yet you sent subpar ones. Do you even have a reason?" "Sir...""Shut the hell up!" Dominic roared as he hit the table feeling even mor
"Mmmmmm," Alex muttered as he opened his eyes slowly while rolling on the big bed.The days of sunlight from the window entered his eyes and the next moment he sat up almost immediately and immediately picked up the watch by the side of his bed."Shit!" Alex frowned as he looked at the time.It was noon already, how the heck had he slept so late? There were a lot of things to do and yet he was sleeping as though there was nothing to do.There were still some files he had to sort out at the office and some other information too he had to arrange.Also, he was supposed to take his children to school, thankfully last night, they were all sleeping soundly and didn't wake up despite all that happened.Though he was quite sure that John would have done that for him, he was still feeling a little bit down.But what had been done was already done, since John had taken care of some of his pending issues, he was just going to go ahead and do the others.Thinking about this, Alex pushed all other
Still feeling the agonizing pain from his injury Alex dragged himself to the bathroom, he had this urge to get rid of the pain as fast as he could as it was feeling agonizing already, he opened the drawer and after a while got exactly what he had been looking for He stared at the almost empty bottle that had the inscription “Aspirin” on it, as luck would have it, there were two pills left.Alex walked out after swallowing.“Where In the hell is John? It has been over an hour already."From how rotten the injury was starting to look, it was starting to look like it was infected, the fact remained that he would do anything to get rid of the sickling feeling it was starting to give him.He took out his phone and dialed John but again it wasn't picked.“Pick up your fucking phone, damn!"He threw the phone again on the bed feeling irritated.The pain persisted and he took a seat to stop it from aggravating. The idea of not moving seemed like a very good idea as the pain starts to recede.