“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
“Hello,” the doctor knocked on the door of the girls room before getting into it. Richardson followed suit, seeing a girl sitting on the bed with a bandage tied around her head.She had a beautiful smile on her face immediately she saw the doctor. “Hello,” her melodic voice spoke out. “You finally decided to give me a visit.”“Oh you know me,” the doctor laughed, making a basketball dunk with an invisible ball. “I like to be a player.”She laughed at his joke, easing into the bed as her gaze fell upon Richardson.“Oh,” the doctor smiled. “You have a guest. I’ll leave you two to it while I get on your charts.”With that, the doctor exited the room leaving Richardson alone with the girl.They both stared at each other for some minutes with the only sound in the room being the sound of the television show and the beeping of the machine.“Hey,” he started off sitting on a couch close to her bed while she watched him with wary eyes. “My name is Richardson.”She didn’t say anything but sil
“You promise?” she asked with a wide smile on her face.“I promise,” he smiled back. “Pinky swear?” she raised her pinky finger.“What is this? Sixth grade?” “What is that?” she had a confused look on her face.“Wait, you don’t know what sixth grade is? That’s weird, I thought since you knew what jello was then you would know what sixth grade was going to be.”“I guess the memory loss is selective.”She had hope, he heaved a sigh of relief. They just had to dig deeper into her memory and get out what made her, her.Walking to her, he held out his own pinky finger to add to hers, breaking it off at the last minute.“Are you happy now?” “Of course I am,” she laughed waving to him as he exited her room, standing outside her door with a grin over his face. He had had a great time with the girl. He was definitely showing up again to see how she was doing.While strolling through the hospital hallway, he came across Jennie who was with a group of nurses and fellow janitors.He guessed th
She turned to her friends waving them goodbye as she entwined her hands with Richardson, following his lead while they walked off into the park.As they did so, her friends who were a bit jealous of her gossiped about her a little.“Do you think she’s really dating him or she’s making it look like she’s dating him? Cos I’m not buying it,” the nurse who had been skeptical about their relationship from the beginning said.“I doubt that they’re together,” another nurse added. “He didn’t look happy but maybe it is not her fault, maybe he had his mind on something.”“I don’t care, I doubt she’s still capable of being his girlfriend. It’s like ice and fire. He’s ice and she’s fire. She is not staying long with him.”They gossiped some more about the couple before deciding to get back to their work.***The walk the couple had around the park was pleasant as Richardson started to feel better. He was enjoying it so much with Jennie. He started to like her company even more.He liked how
Richardson drove home for the day while thinking of how his week had gone. It had been two weeks since his last date with Jennie and he had been swamped with work. Sure from time to time they would hang out but he had to leave all the time whenever he got a call from Damien or Tom.He drove into a lane as the traffic slowed to a halt. Taking out his phone, he found the time to be 5:38 p.m.“Great,” he sighed. He watched people pass by his car, glaring at it with wide eyes. He could tell they loved his car and it made him smile.They could not see who the driver was as the car was tinted with a dark glass and he appreciated the inanimate object. It was for the best. This way his identity was kept safe.A particular girl struck his sight making him remember the poor girl whom he had caused to lost her memory at the hospital.He had been going there to visit her and everytime he would go there, he would get her a packet of jello. She changed her taste and started taking other candies s
“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