When they got into the room, two of their father's maids were there with him, as well as a few of their guards; they had been assigned to look after him in the daughters' absence.“How is he?” Joanne asked, hastily moving to his side and taking his palm in hers. She always loved to show off how much she loved her father to make it seem as though she loved him more than everyone else.Before any of the people present could speak, Leila shrilled,“His hands are cold!” She shrieked, throwing a horrid gaze at Leila and Adam as well as at the others,“Yeah… the doctors noticed that as well. They just pumped him up with a few drugs and a machine. I guess he is going to be better.”One of the guards supplied with his head and eyes lowered to the ground, almost shuffling on both feet,Leila turned to Adam, and with tears gathering in her eyes, she pleaded.“Whatever you say you can do, please do it to get my father back. I feel like he is slipping away from us.”Adam took pity on her, and he
As the door banged open, every head turned in the direction of the door, and Joan who had been ranting faltered on her seat, almost cowering as her eyes widened, she gulped as she took in the people who had surrounded the door, She faced her sister with guarded eyes and found Leila white as a sheet, like herself Leila was already shivering on her toes. With hate rising in her chest, she cast a glare at Adam and fumed within her, her fist clenched tightly by her side,'This is all this fool's fault!’ she mumbled to herself as she stared at him with daggers in her eyes.Adam smirked as he noticed the men who had surrounded the hospital room, these ones were petty, to say the least, they couldn't let their defeat go, the same men he had an altercation with were right in front of him, their stance that of revenge and blood-seeking,He couldn't help but shake his head at their stupidity. This time they were more in number like they had gone to gather more strength and men, and they stea
The tension in the room was heightened as everyone could feel shivers down their spines, all except for Adam whose face was devoid of any emotion; stoic as always,The girls were trembling and shivering while mumbling to themselves, Leila had already begun to cry, her shriek filling the somewhat silent room,“I just want my papa to be fine, I-I don't mind coming with you,” she sobbed loudly as she sniffed.Adam tilted his head just to look at her and his heart broke at the sight of her, immediately he began to think of what his next plan would be, to save them from these men's clutches.Joan, who was still under her father’s bed, screamed out for reinforcements and asked for more men to be delivered. She quickly reached for her phone in her side pocket and dialled Sergeant Dickson,“Send in your best men!” She roared at him at him without any preamble, “I can’t afford to die now,” she sniffled as she spoke this time, with a softer tone, everyone could sense the fear in her shaky voi
In the southeastern province, Louisa rushed quickly into her mother’s apartment, looking for her so she could break her latest discovery to her, her steps were giddy as he ran in search of Cecil,“Mother, Mother, Mother,” she called out severally until her mother came out from the backyard and answered her,“Why are you in my house yelling at this time of the day?” Her mother asked with a stern look on her face.“You won’t believe what I just discovered, Mother” She mumbled as she threw her bag on the couch trying to brew suspense. Her mother had always known Louisa to be dramatic so she didn’t move an inch as she was waiting to hear the new discovery,“What is it this time Louisa?” Cecil asked with an almost uninterested face, ever since Williams had lost his position and her lover had disappeared, Cecil had become more grouchy than ever.She moved from her standing position and sat on the arm of the couch adjacent to her mother and said with almost a whisper, “I have reasons to
The sight sent chills down the Jameson sisters' spines, and they each gulped and tensed as they walked, they were so scared that they could barely move their feet as they clung to each other as if they were trying to enjoy their last moments with each other before they died. One of the men led them to a right turn and headed down another hallway as they were guarded by the men and then got to another cell room where they saw another woman who was stripped naked and was being flogged mercilessly, her body was filled with bloody bruises and marks,“These men are dangerous,” Leila whispered, she gulped while trying to sweep her shaky hands across her wey forehead, fresh tears began to drop at the thought of what these men could do to them. They continued to walk down the hallway until they got to an empty cell room and the girls were pushed inside. As they were about to drag Adam away, he dragged the bar of the cell room and refused to move. “I’ll stay in here with the girls,” he said
“So this brat can ask for help? Who knew” Adam thought to himself as he gave his signature smirk, while staring at the bumpy-headed man, he shook his head before heaving a sigh and spoke up, “Leave her alone!” He said to the man with a frown and the man dropped Joan’s arm roughly, that she instantly fell so hard to the ground causing her to hit her head on the tile. The man’s gaze moved slowly from Joan to Adam and he grunted like a hungry lion whose bait just escaped, snarling and snarking,“And who the hell are you? He demanded with flaring nostrils, baring his browning teeth, “First you attack my men and stand in their way, preventing them from carrying out my assignments. Now you are in my basement, giving me orders?” He yelled, and swept out his hands, as his veins nearly popped out of his skin, they were straining against his shirt.Adam simply smirked, and it further got on the man’s nerves.“Are you deaf?! Who the hell are you?” He asked again but this time at the top of hi
Back in the Southeastern province, Louisa and her mother Cecil were busy trying to plan how to get back into Adam’s life, Cecil had invited William over to her small but lavish apartment where they would make a plan on how to get back into Adam’s life just to take his money,The business was already going bad for William, and so she thought that these were already desperate times for him,The investor who had called him one time had anonymously bought all the shares in his company and left him with nothing. Cecil saw that as an opportunity for him to do her bidding, he would do anything to be able to get it back. “Do you think William would be in on this?” Louisa asked her mother as they awaited William’s arrival. “Oh that’s a piece of cake, it’s either he agrees or I make him agree.”“How would you do that mother?” Louisa asked, her voice tinged with confusion.Cecil grinned in a Cheshire manner, her eyes gleaming,“It's very easy, I’ll blackmail him.” She said her voice barely abo
Back in the basement, Adam came back to the cell room and joined the girls Leila quickly sat up at his arrival and asked if he was okay, “I'm fine,”Was all he said, in a swift move he sat down beside her, resting his head against the wall.Joan was fast asleep and her arm was swollen from the incident with the bumpy-headed man. There was a long silence in the room as all Adam did was stare at the ceiling. Adam decided to break the silence and so he finally asked,“What do these people really want from you and your family?” Leila sighed and sat up properly before clearing her throat but didn’t know the right words to use, it was hard to string words together.“Uhmm…hmmmm…Emmm,” she started,“My father told us that it is as a result of a mistake he made growing up as a young man. And he is bent on getting revenge by killing me and my sister. He has been trying since we were little girls and Papa always protected us till he fell ill. Our lives have been endangered since then and now