Alice watched Michael drive away as she tried to take in deep breaths.How had her life taken a sudden turn from riches to being thrown out of places? What had she done to deserve this? Was it bad to want good things for oneself?She only wanted to not suffer, was it so hard to ask for?She turned around getting into the restaurant with a sad face. Looking around she could see so many people walking around as they went on with their different things.“Welcome,” a security guard nodded to her as she moved away from the door.The restaurant was a small one, smaller than the ones she was used to being in.Heading for an empty table, she settled into it with her hands scouring through her bag for a mirror.She got it out to look into it and see how messy her makeup was.“Look what you’ve done, Michael,” she breathed, taking out a napkin to clean away the tear tracks and the mascara stain.When she had applied new makeup as well as made sure she was presentable, she dropped her things into
Richardson walked around the office with so many thoughts in his head. He was planning on the next important move to take concerning the company. The embezzlement he had seen was still a bother to him and he wondered why his grandfather was not taking it as seriously as he was taking it.He understood that the old man wanted to keep him safe from getting hounded by his family members but it was still thievery.He could not keep pretending like he didn’t know about the money’s whereabouts. He already knew who was taking the money, all he needed to do was expose them.He knew that the money was being taken by a particular family in the large extended family but Damien had asked him to be mute about it and behave like he had not seen anything.He had tabled the matter countless times to Damien and he was sure Damien was tired of hearing the same thing over and over again.He knew he had to talk to someone or he would explode. He could not hold a secret this big for so long.Of course he
Richardson walked to the stable admiring the horses there. He had tried riding a couple of times but had failed at it. Horses were not his thing, cars on the other hand were his thing.“Sir,” someone said at the door as he turned to see the stable cleaner with a broom in his hand.“Hey,” he smiled at the young teenager. He could remember when his grandfather had picked the boy up from the streets to train him but it turned out the boy didn’t want to go to school but wanted to work for money. Damien had accepted the boy’s request, giving him a job as one of the stable cleaners while he rewarded him with shelter and a wonderful pay.“I’m here to clean up the place,” the boy said with his eyes finding it hard to look at him. He was shy, the heir could tell from the way he stole glances at him from time to time.“Sure,” he smiled, exiting the stable just in time to see Tom jogging to the stable. “You didn’t need to run, I was going to wait until you were done.”“I figured… that it was… u
Two days after the conversation he had had with Tom in the fields, Richardson walked about the fields again, this time with company while enjoying the evening scenery before him.Mary, in the distance, ran about the fields with gusto while he watched on with an amusing smile on his face. He was getting used to her presence in the estate. She had warmed her way into his heart and his grandfather's heart, turning them both around.He had not shown her his mother who was still in a coma yet. He wanted that part of him to remain a secret.She had of course asked him about the woman but he had brushed the question off numerous times as he did not want to talk about it.“Sir Richardson!” someone yelled his name, getting him to turn and see Tom running towards him.“Whoa!” Richardson yelled, holding Tom from falling over. “What is it that is making you run blindly into the fields without restraint?”“You have a letter from the mafia don,” he said, raising a letter to his face.The heir star
“Alright! Let’s go!” yelled the first don, banging the roof of the Cadillac while his partner laughed at his actions.Richardson heard some people shout before hearing the driver’s door open up and slam shut.Within seconds, the car roared to life as they started on their way to their fun night.“I don’t know your names,” he said, trying to be as confident as possible. He was going to show the men that he was not afraid of them.“James,” the first don smiled at him with a salute.“John,” the second one said with a hand dazzle like he had just performed a magic trick.Richardson started to wonder how these two jokers were mafia dons. He knew he could not judge based on their appearances but on their actions. They must have done something dangerous to have gotten to the top.“So you’re James,” he pointed to the first don who nodded. “And you’re John,” he pointed to the second don.“You got that right. See? You’re not so slow after all,” laughed John.While they talked and laughed about
He held his breath in fear as the sounds around him became muffled.He watched James’s head pump out blood, pooling around him as his open eyes lost the light in them. There was no way he was surviving that.The man who had shot James dead bent down to look at Richardson with his mask which had a different color from the others. He must be the leader.“And you must be Richardson,” the man’s deep voice said with a rumble. “Forgive my manners. I should have introduced myself first before killing the pig.”Richardson could not talk but shiver where he knelt. He had watched his first cold murder and it rattled him down to his bones. How had it gone from the car ride to a murder scene?Was he going to die? Was this how his life was going to end?So many thoughts rushed through his mind as he tried to control his breathing which seemed to fail him.The man went on to speak while waving his gun around but he could not hear anything.He was shaking all round. This was going to be his last and
The next day after the shopping incident with Alice and Michael, Jennie called her mother to hang out again.“You miss me already, don’t you?” the woman laughed, hearing her daughter grumble about how stressful her work was. “I’ll be at the hospital in five minutes.”“Alright mum,” she sighed, dropping the call to head to her ward for a lunch break.She dressed in a red gown, taking up her bag as she headed for the entrance of the hospital in time to see her mother walking up the stairs.“There’s no need,” she called to the old woman. “I’m already here.”“You look stunning,” the woman smiled, hugging and kissing her daughter. “I love your new perfume. It smells expensive.”“Richardson got it for me,” the young woman smiled, opening the front glass door for her mother to walk through as she did the same.“You should be with that man.”“Mother, not now. I just want to spend a wonderful time with you. I’ve missed having that mother-daughter relationship with you,” she arranged her gown w
“You know, if you don’t want him for yourself I’ll take him for me,” laughed the woman as Jennie joined in after her.“I’m pretty sure you both will make a wonderful couple,” Jennie could not help but cringe at the image which popped up in her head. It was weird to think about.They focused on their food as they both ate in silence while the restaurant bubbled with activities.“Whatever happened to those people who got thrown out of the store yesterday,” remembered Jennie’s mother, breaking the silence as Jennie shrugged indifferently.Alice and Michael were the least of her problems. They were not worthy of being remembered. To her they were a waste of brain space and that was that.Jennie as usual had her mind filled with so many things. She was thinking about how she was going to tell Richardson about her ploy to stay with him.He was definitely going to bring up excuses and that was why the only solution she could think up was the one of getting pregnant for him.Her mother was ri
“Pack your things and leave,” Richardson said after returning home to see Jennie lounging around by the pool.“Excuse me?” she scoffed when he had said those words.“You heard me. Pack up and get out of my house.”“May I remind you that I am pregnant.”“You forgot to mention that the baby is not mine.” He said those words as she gasped to her feet. He got out his phone playing the video out loud as she watched it in shock.“That video is a fake!”“It looks pretty real to me. Now I have called my bank manager and every single thing I have sent you since this whole thing started has been refunded back to my account and you are back to where you started.”“But that would be that I would be owing the bank. My account would be in minus a hundred thousand dollars.”“Then I suggest you had better start working for your money as you are not my problem anymore.”He nodded to the security guards he had come with as they entered the house with one of them dragging her into the house.“They will
When the women had gone out of the restaurant, Alice listened to the conversation over and over again and was happy that she had gotten what she needed to use against Jennie.She could not believe that she was going to ruin the woman’s life and she was prepared to do it without remorse. If Jennie was going to have Richardson, then she would ruin what they had with this evidence.She had already known where Richardson would be the next day and she was prepared to meet him there.With a triumphant smile, she stood from her seat, no longer hungry as she went home for the day.***The next day, she garbed on her most wonderful attire as she started for the park where she would see Richardson getting his favorite snack.She arrived early to make sure she did not miss him and when she found his car parking there, she rushed to him with her phone to show him the evidence which she so greatly prided herself for.“Hey,” she smiled to him as he got out of the car but his face was swollen like h
She looked out to watch the heir step out of his car and look around in confusion at how the gate was open and how there was no one around the estate.She wanted to warn him but she could tell that her father would also hear her. She had to stop him from getting into the house.She hissed out of her window trying to get his attention but all he did was look around aimlessly trying to figure out where the noise was coming from.When he was done doing that, he ran into the house getting the lady to smack her forehead in anger.“He’s really going to get himsef killed.”Opening her door slowly to make sure she did not alert the man in the house, she started for the stairs as she watched the heir run into the living room.She tiptoed silently to not make any noise in the house and when she reached the bottom of the stairs, a thud was heard with the two men still having conversations.She hid behind the door of the living room to have a peek into the room as she found Richardson hiding behi
“Do you like your new position? I bet it’s really nice to sit on that very comfy seat and give orders from above. The question is, what would happen if someone decided to take away that power from you? Would you let us…”“What do you want?!” yelled the heir tired of the games. He had grown exhausted and he just wanted to see his grandfather. He wondered if everyone in the house was safe. Jennie, Mary, Damien, Tom and his mother. He did not want anything to happen to any of them. He wanted them all to be safe. He refused to believe that anything had happened to Damien.He stood to his feet to face the man once again. He was not going to be afraid of the man but he was going to face him and kick him out of the house.He knew being at the top would make him an automatic target but why would everyone see him as an enemy. He had done nothing wrong.He knew this was the goal of his family members and that was it. There was no one else mad enough to do this.They had hired this low budget h
Richardson arrived at the company with a sour mood as he was tired of the drama which was unfolding at the estate. The drama between Mary and Jennie was getting out of hand.Why would Mary try to be sexual with him? It was not like he liked her that way.“Sir Richardson,” someone greeted him as he looked to see Jace smiling at him with some files in his hand.“Hey, Jace,” the heir said, coming back to earth. “How are you this morning?”“Oh I’m doing alright. I’m here with the files you asked me to compile for you. They do need your approval and they would soon be used later on by the other team so I compiled it as fast as I could.”“That is great,” Richardson got into his office to see a letter on his desk with his name written on it. “Please, drop the files by the cabinet and I’ll give it a quick look.”“Alright sir,” Jace said, dropping the files before exiting the office with the door closing behind him.When the boy was gone. Richardson picked up the letter to read and found it to
Tom grunted as trying to explain his plans to the man before him could expose his entire plans and he did not want that to happen. He also did not want to end this without a climax which would get him a sure victory.As a master of subtlety he was going to try to win Damien over to his side. That was sure to grant him a win and he was prepared for it.“Listen, Damien,” he said again, shocking the man. “What I am trying to tell you is that I can turn this empire into a greater one. All your enemies I can wipe them out with a thought. No one would look down on us ever again. “We can rule and we can make sure that everyone who hears our name trembles in fear.”“Us? Rule? What are you talking about Thomas? Where are you going with this?” Damien asked in shock. “I already have a grandson who will take over for me when I am gone. I will teach him the ropes around everything. “I have watched him grow over the course of a few months he has stayed with me and I have watched him speak kindly
Tom looked out of his window one morning as Richardson entered his car to drive off for work. His face smeared into a grin as he watched the heir drive off.He had been after the heir since he had known after his existence. He could not believe at first that the heir existed and during the heir’s DNA test he had wished the heir was not real but it had come up positive that he was Damien’s grandson.This had infuriated him but he had decided that he would use this to his advantage instead.Before Richardson entered into his life, for years he had been planning steadily to get the company from the Wilson’s. He had made Damien trust him as the man was without an heir and he was the only person he trusted.He had built that trust until it was broken by Richardson stumbling into his life. And now he was back to zero as he could not get anything with the heir being there. There had to be a way to take back the company without Richardson being a thorn in his flesh so he had been trying to
Michael stared at her for sometime before bursting into laughter shocking Alice for she had not seen that reaction coming. She had expected that he would accept her pleas as usual and they would hug, kiss and make up and get back to the apartment to have mind blowing sex. But instead he had laughed in her face which was like a slap to her. Why was he acting so strangely?“What? You thought you would just crawl back to me after insulting me like I was a child a few days ago?” he asked. “Please, get real. I am not a child.”“Baby, let’s not do this here,” she said, being self conscious of how the public was looking at them.“Oh shut up,” he hissed. “Now they are your biggest concern. Do you know how many times I have begged for your love and attention and all I’ve gotten were scraps? Do you know how many times I wanted to be seen by you? “I loved you for a long time, Alice. Sometimes I would get you food to starve, that was how much I loved you. I got cursed by my parents, I got laid
For days she tried contacting different investigators to help her with her case as they kept sending her files which she kept on compiling.She was ready to destroy Jennie with everything she could find and she went through the files to see if there was anything she could use against the woman.She could see some incriminating evidence against the woman and when she tried to save the files into the desktop to read later a hot coffee poured over her desktop ruining her computer and destroying everything.“What is wrong with you?!” Alice yelled to her feet as she turned to the person who had done it to find Lola staring at her. The manager came out of his office to see what had happened and he found Lola carrying around a trolley of coffee going around to deliver to the workers.“I really do apologize. It was a mistake,” Lola apologized after finding out that her manager was staring at her.“You fool! This is all your fault! You just ruined my whole plan!” Alice was furious as everythi