Max Xanderson turned immediately and heaved a sigh of relief as his daughter was still on the bed and hadn't seen what had happened.
"I'm coming sweetheart."
Max Xanderson immediately said as he rolled Alice Stevens up in a carton and dumped her into one of the stores in the supermarket.
Rushing towards Chloe, he immediately gets to the chair where she was tied up and starts to loosen the rope off his daughter.
The untying took about 1 minute as Alice Stevens had really done a great job with tying up little Chloe.
Hugging his daughter tight, Max Xanderson immediately wept slowly and dabbed his tears away.
The situation was intense and palpable.
"Dad, why did you leave us?"
"Is it because mom wasn't good enough for you?"
"Or is it me?…wasn't I good enough for you?"
Chloe Maxwell asked as she stared into Max's face which was now laced with a mixture of confusion and disappointment.
"Darling is not that…"
Max Xanderson tried hard to explain, but no one, not even his daughter could understand why he did what he had to do.
"Dad, since you left, Grandpa and Grandma have been humiliating Mom and me every day."
"The last time they almost threw us out of the house…they said you are the reason why they are suffering."
Max Xanderson only patted her on her back slowly in a bid to pacify her anger.
"It will all be alright…Daddy is home and I'm going to fix everything."
Max Xanderson pleaded with his daughter, his voice was barely above whispers and laced with reassurance.
"Daddy, why would you leave us in the first place?"
"I have been bullied and called a fatherless child in school…Daddy why?!"
Chloe Maxwell with teary eyes kept on asking Max Xanderson for a perfect explanation for why he left but Max Xanderson could not come up with any perfect excuse.
"It will be alright Chloe…I will make everyone who has humiliated you and mom pay dearly in due time."
Max Xanderson's voice was laced with determination and reassurance as he hugged Chloe Maxwell even more.
"I promise Chloe…even if it's the last thing I do."
"They will all pay dearly."
His eyes glinted in venom and anger as he stared into the wall in front of him.
He could feel the warm tears of his daughter running down his back wetting his shirt.
Max Xanderson had long wanted to visit his family but he couldn't, most of the missions he embarked on were highly classified military missions, plus he would be risking his family's life if he had contacted them.
"Are you sure that they will all pay Dad?"
Chloe Maxwell asked as she dabbed her eyes dry.
"I promise Chloe…I promise."
Just then, the door was kicked open forcibly as Jack Oniels led his fellow teammates and they stormed the whole supermarket immediately.
"Dad, what's going on?"
Chloe Maxwell asked as she stared around in bewilderment and anxiety.
"Relax Chloe, they are friends and not foes."
Max Xanderson's voice was barely above whispers but laced with reassurance as he hugged Chloe.
"Mom!!!"
Chloe immediately yelled as she spotted Melissa Stevens who was just entering the building with some military personnel.
"Chloe!!!"
Melissa screamed as she immediately ran and hugged her daughter and both of them wept soberfully.
The reunion made Max Xanderson almost wet with tears.
"Sire here you go."
Jack Oniels immediately handed Max Xanderson a hand towel.
Dabbing his eyes dry, Max Xanderson immediately took Jack Oniels outside and whispered something into his ears which made Jack Oniels shudder in trepidation.
Beads of sweat immediately build down his cheeks.
"But sire…that wouldn't be such a great idea."
Jack Oniels protested calmly.
"Jack…just do as I have said."
Max Xanderson immediately walked back into the supermarket and instructed Tyler Oniels, Jack's brother, to dispose of Alice Stevens' body before Chloe or Melissa Stevens would see it.
"Chloe…where is your aunty, Alice?"
Melissa Stevens asked as she stared around in bewilderment.
"She left…she ran away before I could get to her."
Max Xanderson immediately cut in.
Max Xanderson, Chloe and her daughter got back to Melissa's home."What is this supposed to be?"Max Xanderson immediately asked as he alighted from the vehicle, his face was laced with confusion and bewilderment as he stared at the house."What is it?... Don't tell me you are ashamed of our home too."Melissa Stevens asked as she pressed the doorbell of the discoloured iron door."What happened…I thought I had told…"Max Xanderson immediately realized that he was about to blurt out who he really was, he paused and stared at Melissa and the shabby place she now called home."You thought what Max?""Ever since you disappeared into thin air, did you ever care about how we had been surviving?"Melissa Stevens immediately asked, her voice was laced with a mixture of anger and frustration as she stared at Max who had a rather shocking face as he saw the slum Melissa's family was now living in."If you think our house isn't good enough for you, you could as well not come in."Melissa Steven
Mrs Sophia's voice was laced with a mixture of confusion and trepidation as she stared into the sky above her."That reminds me Melissa, where is the invitation card you were supposed to retrieve from Arnold Lucas?"Her hands stretched out in expectancy."Mom, there was a little bit of a problem with the arrangement.""What are you yapping about!""You had one job, Melissa, retrieve the invitation, deliver it to your grandmother and we can have our normal influential life back at the Stevens fort."Mrs Sophia immediately lashed out at her daughter, her eyes glimpsing in fury."Mom, it was a setup, Lady Megan and Lord Dylan Stevens wanted Arnold Lucas to sleep with me before he could give me the invite.""When I refused he threatened to forcefully do it, he and Alice connived and held Chloe hostage.""It was Max's timely intervention that saved me from the hands of that scumbag."Melissa Stevens went ahead to explain as her mom, Sophia Stevens stared at the whole thing in shock.Her fa
"Captain Barnes.""General Cobra Claw, I'm really sorry for what happened earlier."Captain Barnes' voice was laced with a mixture of anxiety and trepidation as he trembled in his room.He hadn't been quite himself since he was deranked by the grand general himself.He had already slept off, it was the ringing of his phone that jolted him back to life."Captain, I have one last job for you, screw it up and I will haunt you and make your family a dead meat."Max Xanderson's voice was laced with authority as he relayed the message to Captain Barnes."General, I wouldn't fail you, I will be there in a jiffy with the VIP invitation.""Thank you for…."His voice was immediately cut off as Max Xanderson ended the call and plopped into the pavement waiting for Captain Barnes.He had given him just 12 mins to get his sorry ass to his location immediately.Moments later, Max Xanderson is racing to Stevens Fort with the VIP invitation in his hand."Mrs Sophia!""Melissa!... Wait up!"Max Xander
"Melissa you had only one job, which was to get the invitation and get yourself and your family back to their place.""But instead you had your gold digger of a husband return from self-exile and beat up the all-influential Lord George and his son Arnold Lucas.""Why is that?""Tell me cousin…why should we ever allow you, your mom and your so-called daughter back into the Stevens family.""You have brought nothing but shame and reproach to us.""You should be on your knees begging with the Invitation in your hand but there you are without the invitation.""You should be ashamed of walking into this villa without that invitation."Eunice Stevens continued with her disdainful words making Melissa and her daughter almost go down in tears."For your information, Lady Megan said that if you don't provide the invitation to the grand general's wedding, you all should consider yourselves kicked out of the Stevens family…forever "Her last word sent more shivers down the spine of Melissa Steve
How dare you?!""Melissa, you came all the way from the slum you call home and brought me, your grandmother, a fake invitation!""So this is your own little way of getting back at me for taking over Walters Enterprise!""Well, thanks to my smart grandchild, your plans to humiliate me and my family at the grand general's wedding have failed!"Lady Megan Stevens was infuriated, her eyes glinting in anger as she immediately took the invitation card and threw it on and then stumped down it with her feet."You really are an ingrate and I will show you how I treat ingrates like you!""As for you Max Carlson, it wasn't enough for you to ruin our family's joy and plan to join the elite families at the top, you came here and accused me of stealing Walters Enterprise from Melissa and her mom.""Well today is the day you will learn respect and suffering will be your teacher."Lady Megan's voice was laced with anger and venom as she signalled Bryan and Logan Stevens, two of Melissa's cousins to a
The door was opened immediately only to reveal Captain Barnes, the feared captain in the whole of Westerville.Eunice and his grandmother stared at each other in bewilderment.Bryan and Logan had already been taken to the Stevens medical facility not far from the voyeur.Everyone stared at Captain Barnes as he walked towards to meet them, the hallway leading to the voyeur was long."What do you think brings Captain Barnes to our Villa?"Eunice Stevens' voice was barely above whispers as almost everyone fidgeted as the Captain got closer to them with his team members."I really don't know, I thought the guard said we were visited by Lord George Lucas?""I was thinking he has finally come to collect Max's balls for that of his son, Arnold Lucas.""How is it they say it again? A ball for a ball.""The moment this is over, I will fire that dweeb for misinformation."Lady Megan Stevens voice was barely above whispers as she only managed to not fidget as the others.Staring at Max, he was s
The voice of Lady Megan Stevens was laced bewilderment and curiosity as she walked in to stop Lord George Lucas from kneeling."Lord George, are you drunk or something?""What do you mean you came to apologize to Melissa?!""You should be more concerned about your ball-less son!""You should be taking revenge on her and her stupid husband, Max!"Her voice was laced with venom and hatred as she spoke.Lord George Lucas stared at her and shook his head in disappointment.'Clearly, she doesn't know who her son-in-law is yet.'"Lady Megan, you are yet to drink from the wrath of the great one, I get why you wouldn't understand why I'm doing this."Lord George Lucas whispered into the ears of Lady Megan, his heart thumping loudly as his gaze fixated on Max Xanderson."Melissa I'm kneeling here today and publicly asking that you forgive my family, especially my son Arnold for everything he has done to you."As Lord George Lucas pleaded, Martins Lucas, his second son ran in and joined his dad
"Guards!!!... pack up all these items and set them in the family's mini museum.""As for you Melissa, take your ranting mother and the rest of your family members out of my Villa now!"Her voice was vehement as she stamped her walking stick on the floor sending trepidation across everyone in the room.As Max, Melissa, Chloe and her mom were about to leave the door, Eunice immediately snatched the keys of the Bugatti Mistral from Melissa."You can't have that either, it belongs to us now…bye bye."Her voice was laced with disdain, Max Xanderson wished he would slap the hell out of the spoiled brat."C'mon let's just go. "Max Xanderson said as he pulled a stunted Melissa out of the villa, she immediately dabbed her eyes as they left.Moments later, Lady Megan Stevens is addressing her people in the Stevens villa."Listen up everyone, I don't want any of you to be deceived by what Lord George Lucas pulled out here.""He is clearly afraid of us, the Stevens, and not that wretched Meliss