THE CHALLENGEStill meeting Samantha’s eyes, Mrs. Elizabeth raised her hands and began to slow clap.“Good” she said mockingly “Very good, it appears that you are challenging both my company and my husband today.“I don't care what that woman says, even if she apologizes she is not getting out of this that easily, not when she's that pretty she has to pay,” she thought.“Mrs. Ragnar, I’m not challenging you,” samantha said evenly “but this seat was ours to begin with, you sat here and took it without permission basically you stole it from us and should we be the one apologizing for it this is totally unjust and I certainly will not accept it I think you should apologize instead” samantha was firm on her word,Seeing Samantha not budging the woman grew more furious.A fresh wave of whispering started amidst the restaurant people “This woman had just accused Mrs. Ragnar of being a thief” someone said.Catherine stared at her friend dumbstruck “Where is she getting this courage, how can
FEAR“I'm sorry,” he said “but you can trust me on this, everything will turn out fine” “How am I supposed to trust you?” Samantha responded with tears in her eyes.“My friend Jeffery is very powerful, and then I've heard about Lincoln, he's a good person, he’ll be reasonable”.“Why is he even saying these things?” Samantha thought. Instead of cheering her up, Brian’s words only made her feel worse. “I don't care about how powerful Jeffery is, he can't possibly go against the two of them, and no matter how good Lincoln is we still have to deal with his wife “Trust me,” he said again “getting his wife to cooperate is a piece of cake just leave this to me”Samantha wiped her tears “I don't trust him” she thought “But what's done is done and we can't back out now” She took a deep breath and turned to Mrs. Ragnar “Okay, I accept your challenge” she said.“Oh how sweet,” Mrs. Ragnar said, her voice dripping with sarcasm “Seeing how deep your relationship is, I think I'm going to cry” she
LOSTAs soon as Lincoln stepped forward, he was interrupted by his phone ring “Who is this?” he snapped as he answered it, annoyed at the interruption.“It's stone, don't worry about the guy at the restaurant and just come here”.“Who is trying to bargain with me now?” Lincoln grumbled as he hung up and before he could slide his phone back into his pocket, his phone rang again “Who is it?” he asked again.“Don't worry about that, you can't afford to offend those at the restaurant, leave them and come over here right now”.Lincoln needed no introduction to know who it was “You know better than stone and still trying to order me around” Lincoln complained as he hung up the second time.And when his phone rang the third time, he had to resist the urge to throw it across the room “What!” he screamed.“This is Alex, I work for Duke. If you want to avenge losing your arm you should come and meet me at Lucky’s palm” Alex hung up before Lincoln could respond’Lincoln’s finger trembled at the
THE CRASH Samantha knew her aunt won't leave her mother alone until she succeeded in mocking her after a long thought samantha still couldn't bring herself to comply with all her mother had said the more she thought about it the more problems she could saw coming her way.“Common” Brenda pleaded “Technically I didn't lie I just wanted to show her how nicely we would do after how horrible she was to us at the New Year’s Eve party”“I guess I will just stay late after work, “Samantha thought while signing “Fine I will do it,” she said.Brenda smiled at her not registering Samantha’s worn-out expression. “Why don't I just pick her up?” brian suggested.“You!?” Don't be ridiculous, if anything it's better you don't show your face at all while she's here” Brenda protested loudly.“Besides you already had a job to do tomorrow, you don't wanna bail on your friends” samantha added. “Jeff doesn't have anything arranged for tomorrow so I can take his car to pick up Aunt Mailey and her husband”
THE CRASHEdward and mailey were standing stiffly to the car, their faces pale.“Hello I'm Brian Maxwell,” he said as he approached the police officer. “ You got lucky, nothing was damaged besides some grass so you don't have to worry about paying for the destruction of the property. It's up to you to file a report for your insurance” the officer informed him.Brian signed as he couldn't file a complaint for a car without revealing to his family since the car was actually his.“ I'm not going to file a report, thank you though,” he replied.“All right,” the officer nodded. “ Just be careful about who you lend your car to in the future” the officer got back in his car and drove away.“ How much is the cost for repair?” Mailey asked.“Are you offering to pay for the damages you caused?” brian asked.She scoffed “ absolutely not since it's your car, whatever happens to it is your responsibility” she said.“So you're just going to pretend like you wouldn't have thrown me out of the car If
EXPOSEDWhen Jeffery noticed how angry brian was becoming, he took a deep breath and shook his head to calm down “ it's just that your situation seems totally unbelievable urrehh let's just get down to business” brian was still frowning but seemed receptive to change the subject.“After everything we did the other day, I'm still trying to figure out why Duke hasn't made any move,” Jeffery said.“ Things won't be quiet for long, just be patient,” Brian replied. There was no way Duke would take such a huge loss in cash and talent without retaliating, Duke was probably planning to make sure his next move made an impact.Brian didn't doubt that duke was keeping an eye and their every move all these while.Stone knocked at the door before stepping into the office “ I just got a word from Alex, he said duke set up an i underground fighting ring and besides the cash price the winner also gst a chance to have a meal with him” Jeffery sat up straight “ are you sure that this news came for a r
The courage Brian snorted “If you're hitting a woman, then you might be a bigger piece of trash than I am. He yanked on Billy's arm, forcing him to take several steps back and release Sheila. Sheila was staring at Brian with surprise. She had a generally low opinion of him thinking he mooched off his wife. But she had never seen him confront anyone. “Why is he standing up for me?” She wondered. Billy was steaming with anger at being called out by Brian.“Take a good look, everybody. It's the loser, also known as Samantha’s husband. Billy yelled out at the crowd. He hoped embarrassing Brian would get him to let go. Several people started filming on their phones. Everyone looked between the trio and confused, and those just joining the crowd didn't know whom to blame for the conflict. Billy faced Brian again, satisfied that he had had enough of the people's attention. Unfortunately for Billy, Brian received constant disrespect at home. The opinions of a random wife-beater or a crowd
The Face-off“Are you sure you're telling me the whole truth? She asked.”Because if you are, what does Catherine mean by sending this to me?” She picked up her phone and showed him a message that Catherine had sent her.“Your husband really looked so cool when he was fighting. Turns out he's not that useless after all”, it said.” He defended you beautifully, Thank him for me”.She put down her cell phone and looked at him. “how did you defend me? Tell me honestly what happened” she demanded.“Because when I called Catherine to ask what she was talking about, she wouldn't give me a straight answer either”.Brian looked at her while he decided what to say. He knew that he couldn't tell her the truth. “Catherine is your best friend”, he said smoothly. “Of course, I'm going to defend both you and her. If you don't like it, I'll avoid her from now on”. Catherine opened her mouth to reply, but no words came out. If she said nothing, it implied that she condoned his fighting. But if she to