As Max Xanderson stared at Captain Barnes, Melissa immediately opened her eyes and coughed out loud.
"Melissa!..."
"Are you okay?"
Max Xanderson immediately asked as he ran over to Melissa who was now trying to stand up.
"I'm okay…so this isn't a dream?"
Melissa Stevens asked as Max Xanderson helped her get up from the ground.
"Melissa, I'm really…"
Taa!!!
Max Xanderson was interrupted by a slap to his cheeks.
Max Xanderson immediately shook his head and stared at Melissa Stevens.
He knew he deserved an even hotter slap as he was the primary reason for all the suffering that Melissa Stevens was undergoing.
"How dare you slap the Gen…"
Max Xanderson immediately raised his hand stopping Captain Barnes who was now looking for any available chance to get back into the good books of Max Xanderson.
"Why did you leave us?!"
"Why didn't you come back as you promised?!"
"Do you know the level of torture and disdain I have and my family have faced from my grandfather Lord Dylan Stevens?"
"We have been humiliated…thrown out of the Stevens Fort, all because of you."
"If I had left you to drown in that river my life would have still been perfect!"
Melissa Stevens lamented as tears wells down her eyes profusely.
Max Xanderson almost broke into tears as he immediately rushed in and hugged Melissa tightly.
He placed Melissa's head on his chest making her listen as his heart raced vehemently.
"Max, you shouldn't have left me and Chloe."
Melissa Stevens said, her voice was barely above whispers as everyone in the room stared at them in bewilderment.
"You and Chloe?"
"Who is Chloe?"
Max Xanderson asked, his voice was laced with a mixture of anxiety and curiosity.
"Shit!"
"Where is Alice Stevens and where is she keeping my daughter?!"
Melissa Stevens immediately yelled as she raced towards Arnold Lucas and gave him a knee to his head.
"Daughter?... When did we have a daughter?"
Max Xanderson's eyebrows furrowed in bewilderment as he stared at Melissa.
"It was some months after your sudden disappearance…I found out that I was pregnant and I had Chloe Maxwell."
"So where is she now?"
Max Xanderson immediately asked, his eyebrows furrowed in a mixture of confusion and trepidation.
"My cousin Alice is torturing her somewhere I really can't tell, Arnold Lucas has a video of it."
Melissa said as he pointed at Arnold Lucas.
Before Max Xanderson could reach Arnold Lucas, he immediately pointed at the table.
"The video is on that drive…please don't hurt me…please."
Martin Lucas and Lord George Lucas immediately joined in the pleading.
"Please don't hurt him again…please."
Moments later, Max Xanderson is staring at the video of Alice torturing his 3-year-old daughter.
"Please, whatever you do, please save our daughter…please."
Melissa Stevens pleaded with tears in her eyes.
Max Xanderson immediately filled with rage, pulled out a titanium claw weapon and dashed at Lord George and pinned him to the wall.
"Do you have any last words for your sons?!"
Max Xanderson yelled as he held the double-blade-like weapon against Lord George's throat.
"Please don't kill me…this wasn't our doing."
"What are you yapping about?!"
Max Xanderson asked angrily as he pushed the blade closer to his throat, blood was already flowing down the blade slowly and dripping to the floor.
"The Stevens…"
"They were the ones who planned it all."
"It was the Stevens family who came up with the idea. They want to attend the Grand General's exclusive wedding, so they caught Melissa's daughter to force her to meet my son..."
"Please spare me…and my sons…please."
Max Xanderson immediately left Lord George Lucas and he tumbled to the ground holding his neck.
The blade cut wasn't deep enough but it had made an unforgettable mark on Lord George's neckline.
"Just pray that nothing happens to my daughter…because if something happens to Chloe…you all will see the other side of the black furnace."
Max Xanderson's voice was laced with venom and his eyes glowed with vexation.
Having said that he dashed out of the room and ran towards his military-grade Range Rover and rolled off to go find Alice Stevens and his daughter.
"Max!!!"
The faint voice of Melissa Stevens was all Max could hear from behind him as he sped off.
"Just pray I don't meet you today because if I do, you will be dead meat."Max Xanderson spoke to himself as he sped past two lover birds kissing by the roadside, almost knocking them over."Watch it, jerk!"The couple screamed out loud.Meanwhile, at an old abandoned supermarket, the light is flickering revealing a young lady standing before a camera mounted to a tripod stand.Behind her was a 3-year-old girl, Chloe Maxwell strapped to a chair.Tears welled down Chloe's eyes as she stared at Alice Stevens who had gone to fix something on her camera."So who would love to see how a 3-year-old girl reacts when being hosed with a fire extinguisher?"Alice Stevens immediately asked her live streamers.Her voice was laced with exhilaration as her number of live streamers immediately jumped to over 2,000,000.She had done some humiliating stuff to Chloe Maxwell lately, like letting a giant spider crawl up her face while the little girl screamed.The comments on her livestream skyrocketed a
Alice Stevens paced around trying to gather her stuff to disappear from the scene as her gaze had fallen on a military-grade Range Rover.Max Xanderson stepped out of the car and immediately removed his dark shades.His gaze fell on his daughter Chloe who was still partly awake tied to a chair."Dad…is…that you?"Chloe Maxwell asked, her voice was barely above whispers as tears wells down her cheeks.Her body was covered in whitish powder from the fire extinguisher, her hair was all dishevelled.Max Xanderson immediately ran towards her and held her closely."It's me, Chloe…I'm back…what happened to you?"He asked as he examined the wounded body of his daughter.As Max Xanderson asked the question, his gaze immediately fell on Alice Stevens who was now at the door turning the door knob to escape."You!"Max Xanderson's voice was laced with authority and venom as he raced towards Alice Stevens who still struggled to open the door.Before Alice Stevens could turn, Max Xanderson reached
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 unders
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