Peter Banks remained in his backyard, his hands clenched into fists as he breathed in and out slowly, trying not to raise his blood pressure.Rex knowing about Romania was not good for him. He was doomed; no one was supposed to know about that country. Not even the government was aware of his safe box.He scratched his head, which appeared to be itchy. He needed to think fast, but the declaration was so unexpected that he was failing to think.He kicked the bench hard, but that only resulted in a painful toe.He was supposed to have gotten rid of Rex the second the boy went after Chelsea, but he had underestimated him. He thought the boy was too small to go after him.The boy was busy investigating him while pretending to be after the stupid ex. He was supposed to have seen that, but Rex outsmarted him.He cursed as he limped back into the house.“Peter, there you are,” his wife, Patricia, walked to him. “There are some people that I want you to meet,” she said.“Not now, Patricia,” h
Rose looked up at her father, breathing heavily. She could not believe the audacity. It took her great restraint not to charge him or insult him.Her mother charged in front of the two.“Everyone, calm down!” she yelled on top of her voice.Peter stared at the phone on the floor that was in pieces, then at his daughter.She got off the bed and marched to the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.“What the heck, Peter?” Patricia yelled.Her husband brushed his hands in his hair, knowing very well he messed up.“You do not understand, that boy, Rex Grayson is planning to destroy me by using Rose,” he explained.“So you felt the need to smash her phone?” she asked. “Go out and take some fresh air, cool off, then have a normal talk with her!” she ordered.Her husband took deep breaths, his wife was right. He needed to calm down if he planned to pump some sense into his daughter.He walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.Patricia walked to the bathroom door and knocked.“
Inside the hotel, Rose gave herself one long glance in the mirror before picking up her purse and walking out of the room.The second she got outside, she heard gunshots and ducked to the floor.She could hear screaming and people yelling for everyone to get out of the car park.“Car Park?” she whispered to herself, remembering that Rex was in the Car Park.She quickly got up and began searching for her phone, and when she found it, she dialed Rex’s number.“Hello, Rex? Where are you? Are you in the Car Park?” She asked the second he answered.“Call your Father…I am trapped in my car,” Rex’s scared voice replied from the other side of the line.He made sure to sound scared“What!” Rose was confused.“Your father sent these men to kill me,” Rex explained. “Call him now and ask him to pull them back!”“Oh my god, are you sure? Why would he do that!” she asked.“Just call him!” Rex yelled.She quickly dialed her father's line.“Yes, sweetheart,” he replied.“Are you trying to kill me!” R
Rose couldn't help but laugh, “So Rex is telling the truth, you sent those men to have him killed?” she asked.“Rose, do not listen to whatever crap that man is saying to you,” her father replied. “Get out of that car, that man does not love or like you but is only using you to get back at me,” he warned.“Screw you, dad!” Rose yelled and ordered Rex to turn back the car as she pulled up the window.She could not believe her father’s audacity. The man had completely lost it. “What? Why?” Rex asked, pretending to be confused.“Just turn back the car!” she screamed.Rex quickly started the car and reversed back into the main road and they were off.Rose was the quiet one this time, she kept biting on her lip, irritated by her father’s action.“Are you okay? Should I stop the car?” he asked.“Just take me far away from that selfish man,” she replied.A small smile clipped in the corner of Rex’s lips as he stepped on the gas.His watchers alerted him of Peter’s men following them, forcin
Rex smiled; the agitated voice on the other side of the line was soothing to hear. The old man was an idiot to think he had no backup plan in the event the deal he made five years ago was ever going to be used against him.He cleared his throat and spoke, “Peter, last time I checked, I retired from the NSA so other agencies are free to contract me,” he replied.Peter Banks' breathing became audible while his hands began shaking. He was caught out of words.“If you are planning to use your position to intimidate me, then you will have the director of the CIA to deal with,” Rex warned.To his surprise, the man hung up on him.Rex looked at his phone with a smile.Usually, directors of government agencies hated each other. Each agency felt they were better than the next, so Rex planned to ride on the hate for each other.He thanked his lawyer and walked to the waiting area.Rose ran into his arms the second he walked out.“Are you alright? Are they arresting you?”“No, they have nothing
Peter Banks looked in his wife’s direction at a loss. He wanted to believe everything was just a nightmare and he was going to wake up from it.But that was not the case, Rex was like a needle lodged in his throat, poking at him.“What did she say?” his wife asked from behind. “What's going on Peter? What did you do to that boy?” she asked.“Patricia, it's nothing, that boy is an ungrateful bastard and I will deal with him,” Peter replied.“You are lying!” his wife insisted. “I have never seen you this stressed. When was the last time you ate?” she asked.“Patricia, I said everything is fine,” Peter Banks insisted and walked to his office, locking the door behind him.He needed to think fast, but first, he texted his men wanting confirmation that his daughter was indeed living with Rex.After confirming, he sat back in his chair, staring at his wall.The boy was not scared and was ready to die.On second thought, he dialled Rex’s line.“We need to talk,” he directly said when Rex answ
Morning came and Rex woke up early as if he had not left the house in the middle of the night and returned in the morning.He unlocked his phone and went through his updates from the watchers They always sent him an update in the morning.The sniper's arrest was all over social media. His initials on his bullets were matched to a lot of unsolved murders.And the icing on the cake was that Peter Banks was credited for having made the arrest.Rex read the headlines with a huge smile on his face. He could only imagine the old man’s stupid face when he woke up to such news.No hired contractors were ever going to want to work with him after selling out one of them.The old fool probably had a target on his back.He put his phone away and headed to the kitchen. He planned to celebrate by making breakfast for Rose.Rose joined him and walked into the kitchen.“What smells so good? I never took you for the cooking type,” she said.Rex smiled, “Good morning to you too? There are a lot of thi
Rex swiftly moved in for the rescue and embraced Rose in a tight hug.“Are you alright?” he asked, tucking her hair behind her ear.Peter Banks stood there, his hand still hanging in the air and shaking from the high blood pressure. He had lost it, he was never the physical type, not when it came to his precious angel.She was his life, his sunshine that always brought a smile to his face.He was always the dialogue person but Rex had brought out the evil that lay inside of him.He had been turned into a person that he always made sure his family never saw.“Take me home,” Rose requested after having recovered from the hit.“Rose, I am sorry,” her father whispered.“I do not want to see you, stay away from me!” Rose yelled.Her father quickly moved in front. He only wanted her to open her eyes. Rex had no feelings for her, he was only using her but she was too blind to see that.“Peter, go home, calm down and maybe then you will have a civil conversation with your daughter,” Rex advi
Rex sat in his office, waiting for the deliberations on his application for the Director position. The supervisors were locked for over an hour, debating while he sat in front of his laptop watching Peter run mad. It was two days in his holding cell, waiting for bail and for his lawyer who was trying to prove that Chelsea was not mentally stable and her confession was not reliable or credible in court. The man was busy tearing into Chelsea’s life and exposing her with a list of all the government officials she once slept with and all the illegal activities she was involved in. Their main goal was to tarnish Chelsea’s name so that she was deemed not credible to confess in any courtroom. Rex did not interfere, he sat back and watched from a distance as the two went on exposing their sex scandal and dirty laundry. Finally, his phone beeped. The supervisors were done. They called him and he entered the office very confident. “Congratulations Rex Grayson, you are officially the
Peter Banks was placed in handcuffs and taken to the van that drove him to the private detention center. He was calm and did not show any signs of resistance or frustration. He was more interested in the person who was going to lead the investigation, considering the dirt he had on all the directors and deputies in various agencies. That was why he was untouchable; everyone was dirty and was supposed to know not to go poking in other people’s business. He was taken into a room, and in minutes, his supervisors and deputy walked in.“I will advise everyone to think or visit their lawyers before they say anything here,” he warned in an orderly tone.The door opened, and Rex walked in.“What the fuck is he doing here!” he yelled.“Rex is now part of our team and is leading this investigation,” the deputy announced, sending Peter slamming on the chair.He looked at his supervisor.“Last we checked, you are the one who recommended him, and it took him only a day to get a confession,” the
Rex headed for the NSA building and could see cars following him. He looked in the mirrors and stepped on the gas.The confession was going to reach the tribunal whether he was alive or dead.“Sir, take your next exit, we will block the cars,” the watchers assured him.Rex made a turn, and his phone rang.He looked at the caller, and it was Peter.He answered it, wanting to hear the old fool’s voice one last time.“Where is my daughter!” Peter yelled.“Cremated in a vessel,” Rex replied.Peter paused, his breath audible.“Do not worry, they placed her in two vessels, and I intend to bring one to your prison cell, plus my drug so that you get to live longer and save your sentence,” Rex replied and hung up.“You stupid fool! I will blow up! How could you cremate my daughter without me!” he yelled, but Rex had already hung up on him.He dialed the line, but it went on ringing.Frustrated, he called the men who were following Rex.They needed to abduct Rex, dead or alive.“How far! Why am
Rex slowly pulled away from the hug, tears streaming down his cheeks.“Ever since that woman walked into your life, you made her your priority and then your son came, and finally you were on your road to recovery,” he added and looked down. “You were nearly there Rex, you were almost there.”Tears kept flowing.It was his father’s job to say the right thing at the moment. Rex was his son, and condemning him was not his part.They went on with the funeral procession, after which we headed to one of Rex’s mansions Rex’s father walked up to him with Sam in his hands.“The little man missed you," he said.Rex smiled and held the baby in my arms.His father cleared his throat.“You are coming with us, right?" he asked.Rex kept his gaze on the baby.“Rex, this is where the vengeance ends. That man killed his own daughter, and as a father, that would be the worst kind of karma,” he stated.Rex kept staring at the baby.His phone beeped; it was the watchers.He gave the phone one glance and
“Where is my daughter?” Peter kept demanding from the hospital administrator.His daughter was supposed to be at St Luke, the other officers confirmed that's where they sent the body, but only to be told the hospital had no idea where the body was.He called his deputy, who kept ignoring his calls.Everyone he was calling had no idea where she was taken, and neither did he have an idea of Chelsea’s whereabouts.He could smell Rex all over everything. Even in his daughter’s death, the stupid boy was being petty.He called Rex’s line but could not get through.Pissed, he called his men to turn the city upside down until Rex was found.“No, no, find Chelsea first! Find that stupid bitch!” he screamed.Meanwhile, Rex and Patricia stood over Rose’s body, clad in protective clothing.Patricia could not stop the tears. She had a lot of regrets. If only she had not called her daughter back or turned to alcohol or cried over the stupid divorce. Her daughter had found a life with the man she l
The paramedics took Patricia away in the ambulance while Rex fixed his eyes on Peter, whose face was as grey as water-soaked chalk dust. It was the old man’s fault; he released Chelsea. He sent her to the function to kill him. He was the only one who had the power to infiltrate her into his security team. On the other hand, Peter could feel his legs numbing up; his daughter was dead. He killed his daughter; it was his fault. That was not a fact he could try to make excuses for or try to pull himself out of. He had known his family was going to be at the event, yet he risked it all. His only concentration was his target, to kill the target. To kill Rex Grayson He was led inside, ignoring Rex’s vicious eyes. He had expected the boy to be attacking him or throwing rants, but instead, he just sat there staring at him. “We finally have footage of what transpired,” the deputy announced and called Peter and other heads of the other agencies into a private room where they got to watch
Time froze for both Rex and Chelsea as they watched Rose land on the ground with a hit.Chelsea was supposed to shoot again, and this time she was not going to miss because Rex’s attention was on his wife, crying and trying to wake her up, but she just stood there.She knew she had messed up. Peter Banks was going to have her head, and she was not going to see any future.Peter Banks was supposed to give her a new identity and a new life. He even promised her a new country of her choice and a rich man to marry.But she could see all that going down the drain. A big hit to the head came from behind her as security personnel ran to the scene and disarmed her, sending her to the ground.Rex placed his hands over the bullets, calling out for his wife as blood began coming out of her mouth.“Rose! Rose! Rose, stay with me!” he yelled, his eyes darting around for help.He could tell the bullet went straight for her heart, and things were not good as she could barely open her eyes.However,
“How the fuck did you know about the charity event?” Rose yelled. “The invitations are not out yet, but you already know about the event?”Rex quickly got on his laptop, checking for any breach in security, but he found none.“Rose, the old board that you are trying to change was appointed by me, so they informed me about the event that you plan to replace them,” Peter explained.Rose slowly calmed down; she had completely forgotten why she wanted to change the board.“You are not invited. If you had cared, you would have called the day I gave birth!” Rose yelled, hanging up.She turned to face her husband. “He went snooping around the board, spying on me instead of reaching out to me!” she yelled, irritated.“I am going to block him. I do not want to speak to him or see his face!” she added.Rex got up from where he was seated and placed the baby in the crib.He walked to her and gave her a hug.“Bae, forget about him. The charity is not going to plan itself,” he advised her and pla
Rex was tempted to scream but restrained his excitement. Counting chickens before they hatch was never his style.But for eight months, he had tried to find a crime that would land the fool with more than ten years but always came up short.The closest he ever got was the money laundering, but because he cleaned both his mother-in-law and wife’s companies, he had automatically made himself an accomplice, which Peter would use against him.But now, with the CIA director awake, the flash, and a terrorist willing to confess, Peter was as good as gone.He was tempted to run after his wife and tell her the good news but restrained himself again.He was going to tell her everything after the investigations were done.He got up and took a shower, smiling and picturing how life with Peter locked up was going to be.He was going to be free, and there was a possibility of not leaving the country and bringing his family to join him and his wife.He finished his bath and headed out to meet with t