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Ethan brought the wine and carefully placed it on the table. He put the glass down and served the wine in the glasses for each one of them. “You should try this wine; I got it recently," Ethan said, smiling and looking at Peter, who took up the glass, shook it, and sipped from it. “It's good; I must commend," Peter said, smiling at Ethan.“I told you you would love it. It's a good brand, and I hear it's good for my age.”“I can see that, Dad," Kayla said. “I think I should join Mom in the kitchen. She excused herself and joined her mother in the kitchen. Mrs. Ethan was busy grilling the chicken in the oven. Some veggies were laid in a clean bowl, waiting to be chopped. Kayla immediately picked up the knife and began to chop the onion.“You still tear from chopping onions?” Her mother asked. It has always been Kayla's weakness in the kitchen. They prepared the food, and Kaa helped her mom carry the tray of food to the dining area.“Lunch is served," Brenda called out to her husband a
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Kayla is happy that her parents accepted her, even after all the fear she had in her heart about her mom. She knows in her heart that no reasonable parent would reject a daughter who is engaged to a wealthy man like Peter. He had all the money he needed to take care of a family he was very responsible for. When they got home, Kayla packed up her things and went downstairs to meet Peter, who was waiting for her in the living room.“Do you have to go? You could bring all you have to her and live with me." He suggested.“What sir? She wrinkled her nose at him and frowned jokingly. "Well, I am already pregnant; I don't want to add to it.”.“We aren't adding anything, Kayla, and you know it." Peter countered her opinion.“Well, we do not have to keep up with the fornication that led us here. Please take me home.”.“I have asked that we get married legally already, and my lawyers will be here first thing tomorrow to do all the paperwork. That's easy. Kayla please”.“Everything isn't about
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The sun had slowly risen in the city. It was mid-morning when Peter got out of his meeting. Detective Reynolds was sitting in the reception waiting for the boss. Peter and Tyler came out from the hall smiling and thanking the delegates from the external audit office. “Thank you for showing up with your team”. Peter said with a smile as he spoke with the lady and her teammates.“Thank you, Mr. Peter. The company has done a bit more than I thought in the last months. This is a great news and a great thing. You have done a great job in holding the company to this level in such a little time”. The auditor said with a smile she shook Peter's hand firmly and went her way with her colleagues. “Detective Reynolds is waiting for you, sir”. Tyler informed him. Peter scratched his head and sighed. I think I am a bit exhausted from all the meetings. Being a CEO is not for the feeble-minded I must tell you”. Peter complained.“But you have been doing awesome, unlike my other bosses who treat pe
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Victor was standing right under the tree in front of Detective Reynolds's apartment. He had tracked him down to his house in Swagvile. He had his face cap on just to hide his identity a little bit, but the scorching sun wasn’t doing any good on his bare skin as he stood there and watched the yard for a while. The neighborhood in which Reynolds lived isn’t as sophisticated as Victor had thought it would be. Birds were chirping from the orange trees around the yard, and on one side stood a fully grown oak tree, spreading its roots and branches effortlessly. Victor surveyed the yard and scanned to see if anyone was watching him, even though he had been standing in the same spot for the past thirty minutes. The yard seemed much quieter than most areas of town. On the front porch of the building were two vases of giant Aloe Vera standing on both sides, with a long wooden bench standing in the center. He raved his eyes in the garage and found two cars, but one of them seemed abandoned. Vic
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Reynolds stood on the front porch, wondering what audacity had made Victor show up at his house unannounced to try to bribe him. He laughed and shook his head at the temerity he had built over the years to think that a renowned and well-respected detective like Reynolds would set the tone for such foolishness.“I am way bigger than that change you came with." He murmured and went back into the house. He checked the gun again, knowing fully well that there was no bullet inside the gun. Reynolds smiled. At least he has a day or two to enjoy the house they made available for all the moments. He got into his apartment, dressed up fully, before leaving the house on his way out and placing a call to Reuben, his colleague. He looked at his car from a distance, and a white substance rested in between the windscreen and the glass. Reynolds rubbed his chin quickly as he walked forward to take a look before getting into his car. “The idiot left a note," I murmured to myself and pulled out the
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The next morning, Reynolds got up from his bed and grabbed his towel immediately. He checked the raw time and murmured some words to himself. He sluggishly walked into the bathroom and got a quick shower, and the moment he got back from the bathroom, he was dressed in shabby-looking pants and a black shirt. He checked himself out in the mirror and smiled with satisfaction. ‘This is just the perfect look I have been waiting for." He said this to himself and strapped a baseball cap over his head. He didn't need to go with his car, so he kept the keys in the drawer and locked it. He has vowed to get to the bottom of the whole investigation all by himself because he knows Reuben might as well do the opposite. He grabbed a little bag containing his phone and a few valuables and stepped out of the building. He took a long walk out to the estate's main gate before flagging down a taxi to take him to the central city. It's just a little distance from the warehouse where the goods were stock
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Reynolds rested, and after a while, he went straight to the Warehouse. He had thought of going there the next day, but then he thought about having something at hand to walk with for the night. He stood by the roadside in his funny disguise and waved at a taxi he thought would take him there.“Parham’s Avenue”. He said this when the driver stopped in front of him.“That would be thirty bucks." The driver said that, and Reynolds quickly gave the man the money without hesitating. He had not used any public means of transportation for a very long time, but he had to do it so that he could come up with something tangible to deliver to Mr. Peter when he next met him. He had worked on worse cases of intent and deep murder, yet none of those tough cases had made him disguise the way he is doing for Peter’s case. Aside from the fact that he had boasted so much to Peter, he knows his onions around this detective job, and that is why, for years, he has not failed to bring tough perpetrators of
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Reynolds sat there, waiting for the man to finish with the others so he could meet him in person. He had to act like the main person they thought him to be, even though he didn’t know who it was, and from the way the boss was acting, it reveals that he too doesn’t know the person he was bringing into the company.In less than an hour, the boss came again with a pair of safety boots and overalls. “Here is your uninformed. You might need it to protect your body when working, and make sure you don’t spoil anything before you leave here from work. I will deduct your pay." He warned again. Reynolds looked at him, his long fake-aged beards dangling as he moved his mouth.“Did you say something to me?’ he asked.“No, Mr. Luther," Reynolds answered that he got the man’s name from the name tag on his breast pocket. Within the last couple of minutes spent with this man, Reynolds can attest that the man was just a grumpy old man who likes to give others and expects them done in less than an hou
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Reynolds has his eyes on the records. He has checked all the files he printed out, but there was simply no name that matched Red's name. He wondered while sitting in his office alone. He has done all he could to make sure he wasn’t making any silly mistakes with the names.He paused, looked at the files for a while, and smiled. He knows that he will find what he is looking for. Just as he was about to scroll again, the door to the office creaked open. Cora was shocked to see him sitting behind his desk with his eyes wide open and focused on the door.“Hey Detective Reynolds! What are you doing here at this time? It’s the weekend, and you should be home." She said this to him as she walked into the room.“Well, I know it’s the weekend, but I have got so much work today before next week. Remember, the case with the Colemans is a very crucial one, and that is why I put you in my eyes to see the places I can’t see. “I see!” Cora exclaimed as she took her seat on the desk.“What’s your fi
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Victor said this on his couch in his living room, wiping off the blood from his nose. The hospital seems to know him for always getting into fights, so he was not going to waste his time answering any questions or even driving down. The blood from his nose has increased incredibly, so he picked up his phone and called his personal doctor to come over. In less than thirty minutes, the doctor had pulled up outside the house.“You sounded really urgent over the phone." Dr. Kylian said as he hurried into the house.“I'm bleeding, doctor. I want to call if it isn't urgent." Victor answered. “I see,” the doctor replied, placing his first-aid box on the table.“You got into a fight again. Typical of you”. He teased and laughed.“The bastard always has a way of showing up here to fight me, and I am not going to let him beat me up all the time.”.‘Don't you think it's time you let him have his peace? You have done more harm than good around that man." Dr. Kylian said.‘Stay out of my family
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“Talk to me, Victor." She pressured him to speak, and then he finally spoke by asking her the question that had been bothering his heart for almost two hours.“Do you love Victor?” “What? How dare you ask me if I love that goat? Peter, I am wearing your engagement ring, and I am carrying your child. How. Can you degrade me to that lebel? Is that how you see me? Is this what you think of me? Kayla was broken by his question. She looked at him and let tears well up in her eyes.“I saw the pictures of the two of you standing at a close range like lovers,” Peter lied.“A picture? Show it to me and tell me about the idiot who took the picture. This is a setup, and you want to believe it after all we have been through together?”. She asked in disappointment.“So are you going to tell me what happened today after the ice cream shop?”.“Ice cream shop? Wait a minute. Are you stalking me?”“Someone saw you, Kayla, so this is what you do behind my back?”. Really.Okay, Peter, now you are going
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Peter sat in his office thinking about what he would do, and just then his alarm reminder for the meeting ahead came beeping. He turned his eyes to the phone and saw the notification. He grabbed his phone and got up. Just as he was about to leave the office for the conference room, Tyler came in to carry the laptop. Peter was already disheartened by the pictures and interpretations. He didn’t say much. He didn’t know what to do, but he was sure he would do something to protect his woman from Victor..He went to the meeting, and when everything was finalized, he got up from the chair, shook the men, and went back to his office."Boss, is everything alright?” Tyler asked as he had noticed his boss’s change of demeanor before the meeting commenced.“Sir, you look bothered. Is there a problem? Is everything fine at home, boss?” Tyler asked as she raced behind his boss, who had increased his walking pace. Tyler could sense that Peter was angry, and so he tried his best to sort out whateve
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Victor walked away in shame while Kayla and Nurse Betty drove off. The Camry waited for a while after Victor’s car moved before driving off. “Hello Rey. We got your man trying to bully a lady but I think someone fought him off already”. Cora spoke the moment Reynolds came on the phone.“Oh! Great. You got some pictures?”“Sure. What I am doing as a detective if not providing pictorial evidence?“Great job Cora, you can drop the photos on my desk. I shall check them as soon I get to the office.“Alright boss’. Cora answered and drove off with her teammate.In about two hours Reynolds reported straight to Peter’s office. The heavy knock on the door made Peter raise his eyes from the computer he had been focused on for the past three hours.“Detective Rey, it’s so good to see you again, it’s been like a week already is it?’ Peter spoke with happiness in his tone.“Mr. Coleman is good to see you again” Detective Reynolds spoke. The two men shook hands and then the Detective sat down.“Wh
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Kayla has been living her sweet life in her apartment by herself. And since Peter isn’t in total support of it, he tells nurse Betty to go live with her to monitor her resting and eating habits so it doesn’t affect the baby as the doctor had said. Kayla knows that if she agrees to Peter's options, she will be a wife in less than twenty-four hours, and that’s exactly what she doesn’t want. After all, she could still have her baby and live a peaceful life without Peter in it, but that’s not what she wants for her baby; she just wants a father and a friend whom he or she could play with.She enjoyed her childhood with her parents, especially her father, Ethan, who gave her almost everything she ever wanted in life. Kayla knows that if her father had more to offer her, he would go out of his way to get it. She lay on the bed and checked her time. Since her boss had decided to give her a day off work, she wasn’t going to misuse the opportunity. Today was also her antenatal day, and the ma
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“I will be leaving in a few days,” Reynolds said to Pablo, who was busy picking pebbles and throwing them into the water.“In a few days? That’s quick?” Pablo responded sharply. He had only been in Reynolds Company for a few days, and he was beginning to blend in with his vibes so much.“And when do you plan to return?” Pablo asked like a woman whose husband was going on a war trip.“I do not know. But I am sure I will visit this part of town sometime soon.” There was a little silence between them for a while before Reynolds spoke again. “I wonder why he brought the factory this far; his father knows better. What could he possibly do after inheriting this space from his father?" They both chuckled at Reynolds' thought.“I hope you find what you seek, detective.”“You are the only one who knows about my mission here, and I know that we have had a good deal. Keep to your side of the bargain, and I shall keep to every word I said to you the previous night and now. He checked the smartwa
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Reynolds got to his shabby apartment and spent the night. Now that Pablo had seen his real face, it was going to be a little bit difficult to be free around him with that mask on, but he had to do it after all. He took off the mask and lay on his bed while his heart raced through his home, wondering if his items were safe in the house.”I guess I have to call Richards to go help me check what’s going on with the house, or if someone has boggled it. He has his most valuable things there. He took a deep breath, rummaged his phone on the side of the bed, and called Richard's number. Richard answered the call with a cracked voice.“You must have been sleeping. I am so sorry for waking you up.”“No, it's fine,” the voice said at the end of the call.“Well, I want you to help check on my home to see if everything is still intact. I bet you still have my spare keys with you." He asked“Yes sir. I still do." Richard answered as best he could. After he finished with the call, he put the phone
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After a quick shower, Reynolds rushed off to the playground, where the others had been waiting for him to come and play the game. The moment he showed up, the crowd began to cheer for the victory of the previous day."Oh, my good friend is here, and today I shall teach him the ways of the old when it comes to chess.”“Be mindful of what you wish for, my dear friend," Reynolds spoke, his fake white beards dangling from side to side. They played the game for very long hours as no one of them was willing to quit for the other, and then at the last minute, Reynolds won again.This time, Pablo had put his one hundred dollars into a bet. Reynolds laughed hard and patted him on the shoulder. Pablo shook his hand off with all his strength and then fell back into heavy laughter."Man, you are a monster. Now I can believe that you are a lord when it comes to the game of chess. I will hand over the crown to you for as long as you are here." He told Reynolds, who was busy taking his drink. Reynol
