"Julia, you have to take table twenty-six. Raven needs to use the restroom." Gina, the head of the waiters in the fast food said. "That's not a problem." She replied with a slight smile but deep down she was frowning. Sitting at table twenty-six was a former friend when she was still swimming in opulence. After marrying Raymond, all her rich friends deserted her, making fun of her whenever they had the chance to do so. "Can I have your order, miss?" She asked politely only for Erica to take off her glasses and burst into laughter. She continued for a while ignoring the attention she was getting from the customers who were staring at her. "You're alright?" A familiar voice asked, causing Julia to snap her head backward. To her surprise, it was Antonio who was staring back at her with a shock-filled face. "What are you doing here?" They asked themselves in unison. "Antonio, do you know her?" Erica asked, raising her brow at both of them. "Yeah." He nodded, smiling, he to
"You don't look good," Adam said, grabbing Raymond's shoulder with a hand. "I'm okay. Just worried, that's all." He replied with a little chuckle then took a sip of his drink to make them believe he was alright. When his friends wouldn't stop staring at him, he filled their glasses, "Cheers." He said, raising his glass above his head. Reluctantly, they clicked their glasses against his. "Like I was saying, let's do this for a month, after that, our plan comes into play." He smirked. His friends were not in support of his decision so he got no response from their end. "Come on, let's help her one more time, huh." "Ray, let's not do this," Niko muttered. "Why? I guess you haven't seen her lately. Working hard is taking a huge toll on her. She's getting wrinkles…" "She has her parents. If anything happens to you now, she will return to their arms. Stop being fooled." Adam snapped. "Stop acting insensitive. She cares, that's why she is going through all those pains for me
The silence in the car was ominous as Niko and Adam tried to come up with another option to save Raymond. Taking him to another hospital wasn't a bad idea totally, the issue was, explaining his condition to the resident doctor. Suddenly, Adam's phone buzzed in his hand. He was fumbling with the device for a while before he could get a grip on it. "It's Anderson." He whispered, swiping right to receive the call. "Let's hear him out." Niko whispered back, his gaze fixed on him. "I just canceled my flight. Can you text your location so I can send the ambulance to come pick him up?" Anderson asked and Adam nodded, forgetting he was speaking to him on the phone. "Hello, are you there?" Anderson asked when he didn't get a response from him. "Yeah. I will do that right away." He replied then hung up. Immediately he took the phone off his ear, he hurriedly texted their current location to Anderson who upon receiving the text, dispatched an ambulance to the scene. After working
Trouble erupted on Winston's floor when the papers he asked Ethan, his personal assistant to shred went missing. At first, they thought it was the janitor who emptied the trash can but on checking the incinerator, the papers were nowhere to be found. "Ethan, this has to be a big joke," Winston yelled, grabbing the bottle of water on his table, he uncorked it only to empty the contents on Ethan's body. "Sir, please forgive me, this will not happen again." He apologized with his head bowed. Still pissed, Winston began to hit his head with the bottle with all his might. He kept on assaulting him, not minding his screams of distress. Satisfied, he threw the bottle aside, "Make sure you get me the culprit before mid-day. I shouldn't remind you." He snapped. "Yes sir," Ethan replied as blood trickled from the cut on his head. For the next few hours before noon, he was racking his brain, thinking of how to go about the situation. Exactly mid-day, Winston invited him into his offi
Niko who had just returned from the cafeteria with dinner for him and Adam was stunned to see Winston in the ward. He was not expecting him until the following day. "Who are you?" Winston asked, turning his gaze in his direction. "Are you by any chance Mr. Winston, Raymond's father?" Niko asked, although he already knew who he was. He just wanted to play dumb. "Yeah. Who are you?" Winston asked with an impatient tone. "I was the one who picked up Raymond's phone when your call came through earlier." He rapped. "Oh, I see. How long has he been hospitalized?" He asked with a friendly tone this time around. "Today is the third day but hopefully, he will be up before a week runs by." "I just hope so." He replied, nodding slowly. He was trying to hide his disappointment that he was going to postpone his mission until another time. "So, who are you to him?" He asked, taking Adam and Niko by surprise. Adam tried to answer but he couldn't find his voice to do that. "We are h
"A minute please." Julia yelled, wiping her hands dry with a napkin. Ever since Niko informed her that Raymond was on his way home, she had been in the kitchen making different dishes. Raymond, tired of waiting, was about to press the doorbell for the second time when the door flung open and Julia jumped on him in excitement. He had to hold the frame of the door else both of them would have been on the floor. "I've missed you so much." She mused on his shoulder. Sniffing, Raymond set her down then hurried to the kitchen where he was certain the aroma was emitting from. He was surprised to see the table littered with different ingredients. "Hey, what are you up to?" He asked, popping a slice of cabbage into his mouth. "Nothing. How was your mini vacation? I hope you had a swell time with your friends." She smirked, pushing a plate of salad towards him. "Uhm… Expecting anyone?" He dodged her question as he texted Niko so that he would fill him in with everything that he had told J
"You don't look good. Is everything alright?" Niko asked Raymond who was sitting in his office. This was the following day. "Better start talking now. I don't want Anderson to start making a fuss." Adam chirped in as he turned on the fan. Raymond refused to speak to them. Since the previous night, he had been trying to discover how Julia got to know about his plan against Winston. If she knew about Winston, that means, she knew about her family too but didn't want to voice it out. The thought of this made fear grip him as goose pimples appeared on his skin. "Are you still thinking about your father's attempt? Come on, we already have an upper hand against him now, if we present it…" Niko was still speaking when he interrupted. Balling his hands into a fist, he said, "That's not it." "Then what?" His friends asked in unisom with their gazes fixed on him. "She found out." He blurted, sending his fist into the papers on the table. "She? Who's she?" Adam asked, exchanging glances w
After paying for her fare, Julia rushed inside the house hoping to see Raymond in the living room playing video games as usual. When she didn't see him, she checked the kitchen, his room and other places she felt he could be, but he was nowhere to be found. "Calm down girly, you can handle this." She repeated, trying to calm herself down as she took in deep breath. She was still in this state when her phone began to buzz in her purse. Rejecting the call was the top most thing on her mind but when the caller wouldn't give up, she had no choice but to pick up. It was Erica on the line. "No wonder you married him. I was wondering why a whole Julia Brooks,a girl swimming in opulence would stoop so low and marry a peasant. Come on, deceiving your friends wasn't fair." Erica mused at the other end. Irritated with her words, she hung the call only for Stella's call to come through. Frustrated, she swiped to receive the call. "What do you want?" She scowled, trying to restrict herself