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" General." Duke acknowledges him with a nod. " This is unexpected. "" Indeed, it is." He grunts. " To what do I owe this visit?" Duke asks. " It has been a while since I last saw you, to be honest."" You are being invited to the office for questioning." General John says. " You are to come immediately."" What for?" Duke shrugs. " I thought you guys didn't want anything to do with me anymore?"" Quit the questions and come with us, son. " General John groans. " For once, stop being such a pain."" Why does this look like an arrest to me?" Bloom chimps in. " Why bring this number of soldiers just to invite him in?" " Watch who you speak to, son? " General John warns him. " You have forgotten that you can be dealt with massively."" Leave him out of this, I am the one you came for," Duke warns. He pushes Bloom behind him. " Come with us, General." He says. ", The longer you linger, the harder it gets for all of us."" I'm sorry, General John, but that won't be possible," Duke t
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Eden has shades on as she walks down the road, her hands deep in her coat pockets. Guards are all around her and the curious look on the faces of people who stop by to look at her. She ignores all of them, making sure her head is high in the air as she goes.She walks into the bank, all the workers are standing up, to acknowledge her. She stops as hurrying footsteps approaches her and her entourage. An elderly man appears and hurriedly walks towards her. " Hello, Miss Eden." He bows. " I am Thomas Jean, I am the president of this Bank."" Nice to meet you, Mister Thomas." She smiles as she takes his handshake. ", What's with all the courtesy, it's not necessary."" Forgive me, but it's only necessary to give this to you." He insists. "Your brother visited the bank a few months ago and was utterly disrespected by my nephew who didn't know who he was, we are just trying to avoid such again."" Oh, I see." She smiles." Didn't know that you knew my brother."" Only the dead wouldn't
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Eden lets out an awful sound as she clutches her stomach and presses her hand over her mouth. This is not what she expected to see here, she would have gladly seen a ghost or anything, but not a helpless child. The child, being aware of her presence, can't move or sit up, she just lay there whimpering for her dear life. Eden doesn't think twice, she descends the stairs and picks up the child in her arms. How can a human being feel so light? She opens her huge, but weak, eyes and she tries to move her lips. " Oh my God, are you okay?" Eden asks her. " What happened to you?"The child is covered in bruises and dirt, Eden doesn't know what has happened to her, but it's not looking good at all. The child slowly closes her eyes and Eden's heart stops immediately. " Wait, don't die, please," Eden begs. " Help! Help!"Ansel needs to see this. How did this child get into his basement? This child can't be anything more than ten years old, but she looks so small from lack of food and h
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She gets home with a heaviness in her heart, no matter how much she tries, she can't stop thinking about the girl in the basement. Darla comes into her room, she is too deep in thought to notice. Darla has to knock on the door for Eden to come back to reality. " I'm sorry to disturb you, young Madam." She apologizes. " No, it's fine, Darla, what do you need?" She heaves as she looks at her. " You haven't told me what you would like for dinner," Darla says. " Dinner, it's almost midnight." " You haven't had a good meal today." Darla reminds her. Eden can't even remember that she hasn't eaten well today. With the events that happened, she has even lost her appetite. " I don't want you to go to bed hungry, your mum never liked that," Darla tells her. Eden pulls at her own hair, trying to find a way to get all the anger out of her before she screams at her housekeeper, but it doesn't work. " You know what, Darla?" She stands up. " I just met this poor girl, who probably hasn't
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Eden holds on to Tonya and they run through the door. It The way Tonya follows her in confusion, she definitely doesn't remember coming up into the house, she was probably unconscious. She is sobbing, but she is running with Eden. She keeps her close by her side. She is holding her gun firmly in her hand, in case anyone tries to stop her. Suddenly the housekeeper appears in front of her and the woman whimpers as she throws her hands in the air. Eden is cluelessly pointing the gun at her, she knows that the woman might not try to stop her, but she doesn't trust anyone. The woman herself is confused, Eden can see it. " Stay right where you are." She warns. " Please, don't kill me." The woman begs, her hands are shaking. Eden still keeps the gun pointed at her, she looks harmless though, but a bitter fact comes to mind. Ansel is not going to spare her, it doesn't matter if she tries to stop her or not. " I won't say anything, please let me live. " The woman begs with tears in
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The time has come, and Bloom is going to tell them about everything that he has found about Tonya. Duke is behind the sofa that Eden and Melody are sitting on, they are all waiting to hear what information he has brought back. " Her name is Tonya Aguilera. " he starts. " She is nine years old and is from the remote village on Padre island. " He says. " Her parents are poor plantation workers and a UNICEF worker found something peculiar about her." " Peculiar? What is that supposed to mean?" Eden rubs her neck. " Tonya has a blood different from that of everyone, her blood contains special antigens that if buttressed upon, they can be used to fight incurable diseases." Bloom continues. " Some rich pharmaceutical companies were fighting to " buy" her from her family for a huge amount of money, but they refused." " Buy her?" Melody looks around in horror. She surely doesn't even know half of what's going on in the businesses of rich people. " Her parents refused and even threatene
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What?!Eden is in shock right now, her jaw falls to the ground. " Shit, shit, shit." She runs all the way down to the stairs and grabs Melody by her shoulders. " I thought you said you would be due in a few days?"" It just happened!" Melody grabs her with her iron fingers. Eden is clueless, she doesn't know what to do. " Okay, are you hurt anywhere?" Eden looks at her. Except for the small pool of water at her feet, she looks fine. "I don't think so." Melody is breathing through her mouth. " Oh, my God."Eden holds her hand over her forehead, this is not what she was expecting when she came to Sunville. " Ahhhh! Jesus!" Melody shrieks and grabs Eden's hand and squeezes the hell out of it. " It's ripping me apart!"" Oh shit, we have to go to the hospital!" Eden decides. " I have to find a way to take you to the hospital, I'm calling Duke." She sits Melody down slowly and grabs her phone, she starts to dial his number, but it's not going. What a day! What a time for Duke's line
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Duke freezes. His hand goes to her face, she is crying so much that it's breaking his heart. He cups the side of her face and she cries hysterically. " I can't do it, I'm sorry I can't!" She sobs loudly. The doctor's attention is drawn to them and so is that of the nurses around. They gather around them. "Ma'am, is there a problem?" The doctor asks. " Duke, I'm sorry!" She keeps on crying. " I'm trying to feel it, but I can't!""Ma'am–"" Get out," Duke says under his breath. "Just tell us the problem, we can help." Duke turns to the and they take a fearful step back. Duke's eyes are bloodshot, his teeth clenched together. " Get out! All of you, get the hell out! Leave!" He hits the wall and it shakes. The terrified doctor and nurses don't argue, they leave immediately. Melody has tears flowing down her face like a river, she is totally heartbroken. Duke goes to her side and she holds onto his shirt, clutching as much of the material as she can get. " Duke, I don't hate hi
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Tonya is finally going to go home. After a few months of hiding away in an orphanage, she is finally going back home to her family. Duke being too busy with the new government, won't be able to take her home. Eden is given this task and she is the best option given that Tonya is closest to her. So with a huge number of military escorts, they are on their way to Padre island. Eden is sitting beside Tonya in the private plane. Tonya is asleep beside her and she has her head on Eden's lap. Eden gently strokes her head as she keeps her eyes on the white clouds. She has recovered over the week, but she never attended Ansel's burial. The plane has a limited number of passengers, but it's full. She and Tonya are the only civilians here and Eden feels safe. None of the soldiers here are corrupt, all the corrupt ones have been sacked and it was like a cleansing for the whole army. The pilot soon announces that the plane is getting ready to land, and they have come to their destinat
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Mister Jimmy looks scared, but he manages to keep himself composed. Eden still has the gun pressed on his head. " That's a very complicated question, do you want to sit down?" He offers. "No." She grunts. " Get talking."He glances over to his son's wife who is totally horrified. "I'm going to call the police!" She screams as if Eden is supposed to scare off the police. " Yeah, you do that." Eden scoffs. " Your father-in-law is supposed to be in jail anyway." " Miss Eden, if you can just tell me what this is about." He begs. " We don't have to settle it this way." " You heard my question, start to answer!" She fires at him, she is losing her patience little by little. "Okay, okay, okay." He gulps down the air. He looks at his son's wife and gives her a nod. She reluctantly goes up the stairs and they are left alone. She lowers the gun and he breathes out in relief. " I'm not dropping this for too long if you don't start talking." He nods and adjusts his seat. " Miss Eden
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Now that he has sent the gun in her hand he knows that she isn't joking. His hands are raised in surrender as he backs away into his seat, the one he was sitting on. Eden has managed to cut the tape around her hands and now she is the one with the gun. " You know that the other guy is just outside, right?" He reminds her. " I could whistle right now and you are done for."" Go ahead, do it." She dares, poking the gun against his forehead. " If I don't blow your fucking brains out." He laughs, he behaves so much like Ansel that it kind of creeps her out. Eden has her eyes on him and her ears opened to listen whenever someone walks in. Felix's eyes are boring through her, he is like reading through what is going through her mind. " I get it now." He sounds defeated. " You are a lot smarter than we thought."Eden tilts her head, it's now her turn to smile at him. " It took you a while to get it right, didn't you?" She mocks. " I see what's going on here." He nods. " Your brother
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Eden is on the ground, her eyes are shut and she has no consciousness of what has happened to her. The one who has hit her looks up as Ansel stares at him. " I'm sorry, boss." He apologizes. " She was going to cause trouble for us."The other one appears from the front door, he looks at his partner. " It's a good thing you got her when you did, Nate." He nods at him. He who she just entered now is Felix. He has worked for Ansel for a long time and even with his father before. He is close to Ansel and unlike the rest, he has a way to get Ansel to listen to him. " Felix, you got him up to it?" Ansel turns to him, not very happy. " I told you I was going to handle it."" I'm sorry, but you could have taken care of her if you wanted a long time ago." Felix looks down at her. " The fact that she is still alive is enough to tell that you needed a push."He looks at Nate, who looks as if Ansel is going to kill him for what he has done. " Tie her up with duct tape." He instructs. " The
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**BREAKING NEWS**** The whole country is in a state of confusion as much evidence has been released against the president and some members of the government and top military. He has been forced to resign and the vice president has just been sworn in.**** Many arrests have been made to link some top businessmen that have been in dubious dealings with the president. **Eden is watching the news from her bed. She takes the remote and turns the volume even higher, she wants to hear all she can. Duke wasn't kidding when she told him that there will be a cleansing. It has been just a few days later and it has come to pass just as he had promised her. She sits in her bed, biting her nails as she tries to concentrate on the images on the screen and what they are saying. ** The new president, as an act of transparency, has released the names of those arrested.**Eden holds her breath as the names appear on the screen. The military officers first, there are a whole lot of them, including
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Eden can't believe that this is about to happen. It feels like she has just heard that the rapture is about to come. " When was this decided?" She asks Logan. " I don't know. " He answers truthfully. " Duke just told me what I have told you and that's all I know."Her heart is going crazy. Yes, she wants for the evil among Mafia to end, but she doesn't want Ansel to go down with them. " I have to tell Ansel." She says to herself. " I can't let him fall with the rest."She is already walking away when Logan catches her hand and stops her. "I'm sorry, I can't let you do that." He apologizes. " So you expect me to stand still and watch Ansel get destroyed?" She is agitated. " Let go of me!" She is pulling attention towards them and he has no choice but to pull her to a secret part of the building. She shrugs him off violently. "Listen to me, you have to listen to me." He implores her. " We both should be grateful that Duke saved us from getting caught in the net. Telling Ansel
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He was going to be here tonight, she knew and had prepared for that. He has been ignoring her all these weeks, but she hasn't done anything to get his attention. She didn't come here with the intent to get to speak to him, no she came for the meeting and she was going to leave afterward. Now he has entered the room with a lady she has never seen, and she is trying her best to keep cool with it. It would have been better if that was just it, but that lady was having her hands all over him and she started to find it hard to breathe. She didn't take herself to be a very hard kind of person, who gets jealous easily, but here it is. She struggles not to let her jealousy show as he walks to the table. He has a blank look on his face and acts as if Eden is not in her seat. The lady on the other hand seems to be so drilled that she can't stop smiling, it's like this is the best thing that has ever happened to her, this was the sole reason for her existence and coming into this world.
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After a long drive, Duke returns home. It's kind of a relief because he is living alone, without those soldiers around to scare him anymore and it comes in quite handy now that he has his own tiny family. He steps out of the car with the crunchies and walks to the house. " Hello, I'm home." He announces loudly. Melody appears from the kitchen with a spatula in her hand and an exhausted look on her face. " Oh God, your back." She wipes sweat from her eyebrow. " Didn't know you would be back so quickly."" I had luck on my side, I found it." He lifts it up for her to see and her face lights up in delight. They walk towards each other and he gives it to her as she places a kiss on the side of his cheek. That was a tease, she kisses him on his lips and he giggles, he is delighted. " I would go out and scavenge for other crunchies if you would kiss me again." She laughs, he is funny when he wants to be. "Oh, I won't do that to my husband." She shakes her head. " But here is anot
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Eden hasn't been confused like this in a long time. Ansel hasn't called her since he asked her to leave his house and also she has been too scared to try to call him too. That doesn't mean that hasn't been thinking about what happened in his house, the confrontation, and how she blurted out that she loves him. She might have imagined it, but it's possible that he got kind of scared about what she said because then he refused to speak to her again. Ansel might be madly crazy, but she didn't lie. It might have been just sex and fooling around for him, but she fell for him a long time ago. That's why has ignored every sign that proved to be a red flag in him. She is still hoping that he is going to give up his bad side. She doesn't want to think of him ending up like the bad guys in movies, she hates it. This had led her to some kind of depression and that's why she is still in her room when it's almost midday. She hasn't gone out of her room and she has canceled all meetings tha
