“Sir,” Richardson heard someone shake him as he woke up from his slumber to see Tom standing over him.“Hey,” he sighed, stretching himself up. He looked around the room to recognize the room to not be his. The beeping reminded him that he was still in his mothers room.He had fallen asleep by her bedside the night before.“You slept here all night sir,” Tom noted, opening the windows to let in the sunlight.“Oh no, close it. Mother does not like…” he began to explain in a defensive way as Tom raised a finger.“She’s in a coma sir,” the butler noted. “Would you not want her to wake? That is the reason we are trying everything possible with the doctors, to make her wake up.”“Oh yeah,” he concurred getting to his full height. He paced to the chair, took up his suitcase and started for his room as Tom ran after him.“Sir, I have something important to tell you.”“Yeah, I won’t be showing up at work today,” he waved the old man off. “I still haven’t slept well. And can you tell my secret
“Here we are sir,” Tom opened the door of his car as he got out of it, looking around the company garage.The memories started to flood back to him. He could remember running into the company every day for work and he would still show up late. Everyday he had to take care of his mother in the hospital before heading for work. This always got him in trouble as he would appear late to work.“Shall we go in?” suggested the butler, leading him into the company.Richardson looked back to see so many men in suits following him into the company. They all had dark shades on as they were more than twenty men. They included the board members and their security guards.“Right this way sir,” Tom opened the glass door for him to walk through.Getting into the company, he could see that it had not changed much. He could see the familiar workers there doing their normal jobs.He found his former desk being taken up by someone else. Not up to one month and he had already been replaced. It seem
When Alice had seen Richardson in the office with different Empire employees, she could not help but marvel at his transformation. He had to be really important to wear casual clothes while the board wore official suits.She was starting to realize how powerful the man was becoming. If he could show up to another company as a stand-in for the owner of Empire, he was not an ordinary worker.She knew the company which he had shown up to was under Empire. Who was Richardson, she thought to herself.She had been present during the meeting and watching him sack the manager of the company had come as a shock to her. She had not seen it coming and this made her shiver. What if he had turned to her and sacked her as well? He had every right to do so considering that he had done so to him and he could return the favor by sacking her and her boyfriend Michael.Most of her friends who had mocked her for dating Richardson flocked around her eagerly as they started to ask her how he had made
Michael was furious when he came out of his office to see Alice being humiliated by Richardson and his board members. He had not expected that his girlfriend would stoop so low to act the way she had acted.He started to think back on what had happened the minute Richardson had gotten into the company.He had finished working on a project. Getting out of the office, he found Richardson walking into the company with the board members of the Empire company. At first he was taken aback by his ex friend but after a couple of minutes shock turned to anger.Why was he here?Everything changed when he saw the way the men around him treated him with awe and respect. Richardson, unlike the other people there, wore casual clothes for the meeting. It would have been a sign of disrespect but after seeing the way he was treated he knew Richardson was way bigger than he had actually thought.During the meeting, Richardson had barely paid any attention to him, making him feel dumb and extremel
“I know all your tricks, Alice. You can't fool me.”“Believe whatever you will Michael. I was there to say hi to someone that used to be your bestfriend and my boyfriend,” she sighed, turning to give him a raised brow. “I just wanted to say hi and nothing more.”Michael knew that she was not to be trusted. He knew how materialistic Alice could be. After all, that was how he had gotten her.All any man needed to do was flash a wad of cash in front of her and she would sniff it and swim to it like a shark sniffing out blood in the ocean.“I don’t care about any of that,” he muttered. “I only hope you’re not planning to get back with him because that will never happen.”She stared at him for a second before bursting out in an awkward laughter. She laughed for a minute before holding her chest like it hurt her.“Don’t be silly,” she chuckled, cleaning a tear from her eyes. “That would never happen. It’s never even crossed my mind.”Michael narrowed his eyes when she spoke. He did not know
The woman eyed the wad of cash in his hand with a doubtful look. She did not know whether she was to take it or thank him and walk away. It could be a trap and she was scared of the new man before her.He was different, he could be in a shady business for all she knew.“Kiara, take the money, I work and get paid for it so you have no need to worry,” he reassured her with a gentle smile reading her mind.“I’ll…” she shied away standing to her feet as he stood up with her forcing the money into her hands. “Take it,” he laughed. “This is also a thank you for helping me in the past.”She took the money, staring at the wad of cash with tears falling from her eyes.“I should have treated you better,” she sniffed. “Here I am broken at how I treated you in the past.”“It’s okay,” Richardson waved it off, deciding that moving into the future without grudges would make things easier for him.“Can I hug you?” she asked, spreading her arms ready to do it.“Sure,” he accepted, going in for th
While Michael stared at the ceiling thinking about how the universe had turned on him, a waiter came up to him in a loud manner. She was furious as she banged his table, getting everyone in the restaurant to look in her direction.“If you’re too broke to buy anything, how about you leave!” she yelled in anger. “You’ve been sitting here, talking to yourself while staring at the ceiling for a long time. You’re taking up space unnecessarily.”Michael could only hide his face as she spoke. He could tell that he was the center of attraction but not for the positive one.He had never had this kind of embarrassing moment before. He could not believe it was happening to him.If he had enough money in his pocket he could have yelled back at the lady, tossing some money into the air before walking out, but he didn’t. He had to calm himself and refrain from acting in a rash manner to avoid being thrown out of the restaurant.The event from the other night at the party still scarred him. He did
As Richardson drove through the streets heading home, he found his phone lighting up on the dashboard. Taking it up, he found the caller to be the doctor who was supposed to be caring for the girl he had hit, Dr Romeo.His heart flipped as he feared the worst. Had something happened to the girl? Was she not responding to treatments? Was she suffering from some sort of brain growth or something? He could not help himself from overthinking as he started to drift off from reality, almost hitting a pedestrian.“Hey! Watch where you’re going!” the man screamed while flipping him off.“Sorry!” he yelled back, seeing that the traffic lights were red for cars but green for pedestrians.He breathed in and out, trying to calm himself down before deciding to answer the call.“Hello,” he muttered over the phone as the doctor’s voice came on strongly.“Mr Richardson?” the doctor called, making sure he was talking to the right person.“Yes, it is he,” Richardson answered, putting the car in dri
“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