"What do you mean by that? You also think I'm a failure, poor and miserable? Are you agreeing with everything they said? You don't believe I can pay the money?"Maria signed. "No, I believe you. I'm sorry, that came out wrong, but you're making a big deal out of this." "Caleb isn't someone you'd want to have around you, he's not someone you can trust or share your phone number with. He is a very terrible person." "I think you just have a problem with him. Maria said, shaking her head. "He paid my debt and if not for him, only God knows what Nancy and Diane would have done." "Let me be the judge of his character, if he's someone I can trust or not. He helped me and that's the least I can do so, please let's not argue, let's just forget about what just happened. We still have to go to my new place of work. Let's keep the mood light, please." Maria pleaded. Damson tried his best not to say anything again, he wasn't satisfied with how the conversation ended. Caleb is very cunning and
The man snarled as he tightened his hands around Maria's neck, he was enjoying the way she gasped and struggled to breathe. "You need to let her go." One of the men said to him. "She's the only one that can tell us where Damson is. "If you kill her we will lose and the boss already told us to make sure we come with his head." The man holding Maria's neck growled angrily. He didn't want to let go of her. The aim was to kill her for not answering his questions. Angrily, he threw her aside, making her crash into a set of mannequins. Maria held her neck, crying and gasping for breath, her body was shaking with fear. She thought she was going to die. "Where is Damson?" She thought to herself, looking around. She was worried because if these men should find him, they'll kill him on the spot. One of the men walked up to Maria, dragging her back to the middle of the room. "You need to answer our questions if you want to leave this place alive." He spoke to her gently but Maria knew it was
Damson groaned as he struggled to stand up, he was badly bruised. He tried to walk fast to the door to check for the car's plate number, but it was too late, they were already gone. He hit his fist on the wall in anger. He didn't get to catch the men who attacked him. Maria approached him carefully. She could see he was angry and didn't want to cause him more annoyance. "Are you okay?" She asked, trying to look at his face Damson gritted his teeth, ignored her and avoided eye contact. He didn't want to snap at her because he wasn't in the mood for questions. He was so mad at himself for not catching at least one of the men. He looked around for signs of Luis but he didn't see him. "You should go to a pharmacy and treat yourself. You have a cut on your lip." He said to Maria before he dragged himself out of the fashion store. "Where do you think you're going?" She asked, blocking his path. "You also need to go to the hospital, your face looks terrible." "I want to be alone for now
"Mum, who was that?" Sasha asked as looked up from her food. A part of her knew who it was already. "It was Damson. He came just like you said, I think he had something to talk to you about. He said it was important. Are you going to continue pushing him away? I've been hearing your phone ring a lot these past few weeks. I can't keep lying for you." "You can't continue to stay at home. You'd end up seeing him one way or the other. Now that everything has been solved and you don't have to marry that old man, you're free. Why are you still sad and avoiding your friends?""Let's not even talk about the way you've been dragging your feet around and staring at your phone. It's obvious you want to reach out to him. Stop fighting it." "Mum, you can't understand." Sasha said, sniffing. "I said really hurtful things to him and I'm scared of what he might say when we see, I just can't bring myself to face him. I shouldn't have said all those harsh words. I made a very big mistake." "It's fi
Damson sat in shock as he stared at his phone. A picture of Sasha tied to a chair, unconscious, stared back at him. "If you cooperate with us, she'd live" was bodly written under it. He read the message over and over again. He stood up immediately and rushed out of the hospital, quickly calling Luis to meet him at the Mansion. He was very disturbed. "Who are the people behind this? When was she kidnapped? Is this the work of Mr Baron or the men that attacked him at the fashion store?" He had so many unanswered questions. "Sasha has been kidnapped." Damson said to Luis as he walked into his father's study. "You were right, the men lurking around were up to no good." "They sent me a message and I have no idea what they're talking about. Why are they asking me to cooperate with them? Who are they? We need to find out who these people are and save Sasha." "I'm afraid that would be impossible, young master. We don't know exactly where these people are located and this obviously looks
"They have to help. If they don't Sasha would be in more danger and I can't let that happen. This can't be happening. Who do they think they are to not help?" Damson thought to himself, glaring at the men on the TV. "You have to help. It is an order from me. I am the boss and you listen to my instructions." He snarled, clenching his fist. "You can't deny me. I am your boss!" "You're not our boss!" The third in command yelled. Let me see the tattoo that shows you're one of us. The men both dragged their shirts down, a Raven with its wings spread out was drawn on their pale skin. Damson looked at Luis, who also dragged his shirt down to reveal his tattoo. Damson was surprised, he didn't know Luis was also fully involved in the Underworld. "You're not one of us, kid and at this point we doubt you'll ever be one of us. You have no right to order us around. You haven't even done the three months training and initiation to prove you can be one of us. You are nothing but an ordinary pers
"Damson?" Sasha whispered as she opened her eyes, just in time to see a figure slip out of the room. She sat up suddenly, looking around and trying to figure out where she was. Damson told Luis at the door Sasha was already awake and should explain to her as calmly as possible why she was in the hotel. Sasha looked around in fear. She was no longer tied to a chair, her wrists had red marks where the rope was. She rubbed it as she thought to herself. "Did her kidnappers bring her here? What are they trying to do to her? What has she done wrong?" "Is Mr Baron angry about the failed marriage? Is he trying to take me somewhere far away so he can force me to get married to him?" She cried out in fear. Luis knocked and entered into the room, making Sasha run to the edge of the bed. "Stay away from me. She yelled. I'm not interested in marrying him. Go back to Mr Baron and tell him I'd rather kill myself than get married to him." Luis moved closer trying to explain to her but Sasha sc
Damson looked at the men in horror as they started to convulse. "What is going on?" He moved closer to one of the men, tapping him. He didn't understand why the both of them started to shake and spit out foam from their mouths. "Young master, you need to see this. The man in the separate room is acting weird." Viktor said, rushing into the basement. "It's the three of them, they're all convulsing. Something is wrong!" "No, no, no." Damson muttered, shaking the men. "You need to answer my question. "Who sent you to kill me!? Who gave you the order!? I need to know!" It was too late, the men were long gone. Damson yelled in frustration, hitting his fist on the wall. "I was so close to getting my answers. This can't be happening!"Damson was livid and frustrated. He thought this was his chance to know who was trying to get rid of him. He looked at the lifeless bodies of the ground, shook his head and left the basement. "Tell Luis to find out what killed these men and make sure they g
They got to the wedding location and they walked towards the building. They got to the entrance only to realize that someone was telling people to return back home. Damson was wondering why and what was going on.People stood in batches, whispering to themselves as they all talked about what happened but Damson didn't understand what they were saying. He walked forward to meet the person that was sending people back and asked him what was happening. "The issue right now is that the family of the bride just realized that her husband paid fake money to us as her bride price. This is such a disgrace to us and because of that this wedding won't hold anymore!""Viktor thinks he can outsmart us and make us look like fools? That is very wrong! He thinks because we are illiterates and didn't go to school he can play on our intelligence? He is very wrong." "We're no longer giving him a chance to get married to our family! He is a very bad person and can't be trusted. All he would do is brin
Days passed by in a blur and Damson was starting to get used to living in the Wilson's house. Laura's cousin still made things difficult for him while Mrs Wilson was always oblivious to things happening around her.Laura's cousin used her as her puppet to make life unbearable for Damson but she wasn't smart enough to even realize that. She was really that oblivious. Things became very awkward between Damson and Laura after what happened to her in her professor's office. After she had told Damson to follow her to the student union building to report the professor, she went back to grab her bag from the sculpture room. She had told Damson to leave her alone and go but he didn't. She was injured and he just couldn't leave her alone. They were walking home together when all of a sudden, she sat on the floor and started to cry. Everything that happened and the pain she was feeling from her entire body was too much that she started to cry. It took Damson by surprise and after watching he
Laura looked at the professor to see his eyes widen with shock and surprise. She wasted no time and decided to run for the door but luck wasn't on her side. The professor was faster than her and pulled her to the floor with her hair."You bitch!" He snarled as he sat on top of her. "You think you can try to escape from me? Never! Not under my watch" Laura screamed in fear as she saw the look on the professor's face. He looked so feral and scary. "Somebody help me. Please help me!" She screamed out loudly. The professor hit her mouth to keep her from shouting but she fought back and continued to scream.She couldn't scream before because even if she had, nobody would be able to save her because the door was already locked automatically from inside. She had been saving her strength from when she would need it. The professor had forgotten that she had actually opened the door and anybody could walk in. He was focused mainly on the fact that he had caught her and could have her to hims
"Just as I said earlier, I never do this without consent from the other party. I always told the girls to go and think about it before I decide to have sex with them. I'm a man of principles and my girls know that." "Both parties would enjoy themselves and in the end, we get what we wanted. They get really good grades while I get my own satisfaction. It's a win-win situation." "I have had my eyes on you for some time now but you've been that little miss perfect. You also seemed to think that you'll never be at my mercy but look at you now, shaking and whimpering. Why did you have to start what you couldn't finish?" "I am so going to deal with you and ruin you beyond recognition, just like I did for the phone. You will not be able to tell anyone about it because you will be traumatized. You will end up regretting why you didn't just agree to the options that I had laid out for you." The professor said unbuttoning his shirt. Laura's eyes widened as she realized what the professor w
“You need to open the door and let me leave immediately." Laura replied, fear evident in her eyes. She didn't know how the professor was able to lock the door automatically and she didn't see it coming.The professor walked up to her and backed her up against the wall. "I was going to let you leave with your two legs out of my office but it's not looking like it anymore. I gave you a chance to make a decision without forcing you but all I got in return was a recording from you. You even went as far as threatening me and saying that you will testify against me." "You shouldn't have said those things to me when you're still in my den! You should have just walked out and not say anything and I wouldn't have known that you recorded me but you just proved that you're not so smart." "It didn't have to end this way but you asked for it. Now hand over your phone to me right now!" The professor barked and Laura shook her head. "No, I'm not giving you my phone. Let me out of your office im
"I've been looking forward to this day for a very long time and I couldn't be any more glad that it's here. I waited for the day when you'll need my help and you'll walk with yiur two legs into my office.""You see, you couldn't fall into my trap because you took my course seriously and there was never a chance to fail you but right now, you have messed up. You don't have my attendance and my assignment , so what are you going to do now?" He asked, rubbing her arms. "Please sir, stop this." Laura muttered, clenching her fist together. She was disgusted and irritated by the professor's behavior but she knew better than to lash out at him if she didn't want to be in more trouble. The professor chuckled, raising his hands up. "Okay, fine. The ball is in your court. What would your choice be? You can easily just walk out of here if you want, i won't stop you but the problem is, you will have to fail my course." "If you do as I just say, inside this room with nobody finding out, you'll
“What type of hate do you have towards me and my family that you had to play such an expensive joke." Damson listened to what Laura had to say and he was able to put two and two together. She had no idea about what her father was doing. Of course, no one knew who he was. In his school, nobody knows that he's the president of Stellarcorp but even after she found out about that, her dad was supposed to explain to her that it wasn't true and that he was just hiding his true self from others but he didn't. He also didn't think that Laura knew about the fact that he had to sign some documents concerning the marriage with him. She's just a pawn that her father is using. She wasn't genuinely interested in the marriage after finding out from his school that he was nothing but her father didn't listen to her."I know that you'll have nothing to say because you have been caught in the act. If not for the fact that my father is already obsessed with this whole thing and I really don't have an
"I don't understand you. What do you mean by the sculpture is broken?" Damson asked, confusion etched on his face. CAre you seriously trying to play dumb? This sculpture wasn't like this when I saw it this morning. It was intact! There was nothing wrong with it but all of a sudden it's broken. How do you explain that? What did you do?" Laura asked again, yelling. "Hey, you seriously need to calm down because I have no idea about what you're talking about. This sculpture was given to me this morning by your mum and all I did was just put it in my bag. I really don't know how it was broken." Damson explained. "Oh, so now you're trying to tell me that my mum was the one that broke it? Is that what you're trying to tell me?" Damson let out a sigh. "No, I'm not saying that. I didn't even check it when it was given to me. Who knows if there had been an issue with it before then but one thing I know for sure is that I didn't break it." "Your mum said it was quite important to you so wh
Mrs Wilson was about to call a maid to quickly get the sculpture to Laura's school but she stopped her and told her to send Damson instead. That he should be able to do things like this. If there weren't any maids around, he would have to go. She also reminded her not to forget that they were married. Mrs Wilson agreed to her idea and that's how she ended up telling Damson to take the sculpture to her school. Damson called Viktor and told him to come and pick him up because he still wasn't familiar with the roads that led to the school from the Wilson's house. He used his phone and waited till Viktor arrived. Then he told him to drive him to his school. He had totally forgotten about Laura's sculpture that was in his bag. He didn't remember that he had to drop it off for her. Damson got to his school and sorted out his courses. He also spent time with his roommates after because they went together from office to office to do it together. Back in Laura's school. It was time for