ACCUSATION“ Is he the best you could find?” The remarks were met with silence. The security guard nudged Lincoln forward and into the room. a burly man lying on a couch smoking a cigarette. Let's see Lincoln Ragnar, he said between puffs. “Welcome,” he said. But Lincoln said nothing.He stared at Duke with burning eyes full of vengeance. “I'm talking to you”, said Duke loudly. “Are you deaf?” The guards standing behind Lincoln shook his arm. “Answer the man”, he said curtly. Lincoln clenched his fists and then loosened them. “Long time no see Duke”. He replied.Brian and Stone had left the mall after the competition. “Let's go to the Industry’, he said“Aren't we going to wait for Lincoln?” Asked Stone, surprised that he seemed to have given up so easily. “You thought Lincoln would have needed our help?” Lincoln can look after himself, said Brian. And anyway, We won't be able to help. Later that day, an unfamiliar black car drove up to the front entrance of SAKA tosh tech company.
ERRAND BOY“He will only make a mess of it”, said Samantha soulfully. “If Catherine had other ideas I don't know, She will think of it”, she shouted.The phrase you could get everything for us and no one would be any wiser about our predicament in her eyes, Brian had gone from villain to savior in less than a minute.But she’s more convinced that he will get it all wrong, “He's never shown any interest in any makeup in the three years I've known him.Why would he start now?” Said Samantha.“Do you want to switch brands as Catherine? Brian asked.“Brian has given you the perfect opportunity to get what we need without getting publicly humiliated. I thought you liked your products because they didn't react with your skin. You told me that you were allergic to almost every other brand”. Catherine added.Brian knew that she would rather die than be seen in public without wearing makeup. Samantha realized it was the only way to get the cosmetics she needed.She also quite liked the idea of
HUMILIATION“I need to show him where he can find these products”. She knew that most men were overwhelmed by cosmetic stores and needed all the help they could get.She took the list off him and pointed to the first set of shelves he needed to visit. “Where are you taking him?” Asked the first woman. “Are you talking to him because you're trying to get out of doing your job?” “No”. Said the nervous woman but the first one cut her off. “If you have anything now to do with this man, I'll take all your commissions for the month from you”. she shouted she appeared to enjoy throwing her weight around “Praise your figure that she must be the store manager, Mrs. Sinclair,” Said the timid assistant.“Surely it's my job to help customers” she added “Surely it's good for businesses to help them find the products they want to spend money on but i don't think he's asked for anything unreasonable” She looked as if she was about to start crying.Brian was starting to lose his temper he was a cu
REAL POWERIt was Brian's turn to start laughing “You wanna kick me out?” Did everyone hear that? Mrs. Sinclair wants to evict me”.“That's right”, she replied “and my manager will back me up too, I've never let her down in the past and I don't intend to now”. She walked closer to Brian, Their noses were almost touching. “I could kick out a dozen customers like you and she still wouldn't fire me”. Are you sure the manager will listen to you?” Asked Brian.The surrounding people looked at one another, convinced that Brian was too arrogant and stubborn for his own good. He was in one of the most exclusive stores in San Clemente, and Eddie was refusing to do as he was asked, Some of them were even wondering if he knew who owned the store, convinced that he must have never heard of Elizabeth Ragnar and her powerful husband Lincoln. Getting on the wrong side of either of those two people could only end badly for him. By that time, several security guards had arrived. “Throws his man ou
THE UNEXPECTED“Watch it”, Brian muttered warningly. “Bite me”, Rory snapped back “Just look at how dumpy he looks, this is a high-end store and he's making the other customers uncomfortable and kick him out already”. Elizabeth took two steps up to Rory and slapped him across the face. The surrounding crowd gasped. The CEO had not only slapped an employee, but she slapped a customer as well. Rory stared at her with wide eyes. “But my father is one of her business partners”, he thought. “How could she do this? Doesn't she respect my family name?”“ Both of you need to apologize to this man immediately”, Elizabeth spoke angrily. “I don't know how much more I can say”, she thought.“Brian prefers to stay low-key, and that's his right. If I give away too much, he's going to be angry with me as well. She took another quick glance at Brian and saw that his expression had eased, and she breathed a sigh of relief. “Why Rory? he's not worth an apology, He's just some deadbeat we tried to
RIVAL“Something is really wrong”, Brian thought. “She was the one that gave me her bank card, how could I have messed this up? I don't understand”, he said.“Why are you so upset about the lipstick?” brian asked, “You don’t get it at all, do you?” Do you see this?”.She held the tube out in front of his face. “This is one of this season's limited edition colors. “This little tube is worth $250”. She continued to dig through the box.”In this nail Polish, also a limited edition and worth over $100. And this foundation”. She continued searching through the box, doing the math in her head.“Brian! This whole block contains over $5000 in cosmetics, I can't afford all these”, she thought angrily. “And that's more than the limit on the card I gave you” she said “Let me explain”, he said. “What is that to explain?”“ One box of cosmetics $5000 down the drain? I can't trust you to do anything right”!Samantha shouted. “I didn't even pay attention to the price when I swiped my card”, he tho
THE BAIT The following day, Brian got up to leave early It received a report that there was a new development regarding Duke..Brenda hustled out She didn't want him to be there when Nick showed up. Nick pulled up to their house and a brand new luxury sports car at eight o'clock.Brenda met him in the driveway and greeted him effusively. “It's so good to see you”, she gushed, It's been so long”.“Wow, I think you're taller and even more handsome than you used to be” Gary had followed her out. He grabbed Nick's hand and gave it a firm shake. “It's good to see you too ”, Nick replied. It was a little rush getting into town, so I hope you don't mind that I don't have time to pick up a real gift”. He handed an envelope to Gary. This card has $10,000 in it I hope that's OK Ohh, “we can't accept this”, Brenda said, flustered, but she took the envelope anyway. After all, she thought, to refuse a gift is to refuse hospitality and we wouldn't wanna hurt his feelings Gary was also in support “
THE AMBUSH“Frankie and Malcolm can handle themselves.But maybe I should pay a visit to the club” Brian said.At the nightclub, All of the guests had been cleared out to allow a private discussion between Frankie and Duke. Lincoln stood beside Duke, His heart was beating fast.”We are in Frankie's territory now, he thought. “ I know he had planned an ambush and we could be attacked at any time”.“Frankie, you said All these years I've treated you well i left you alone after the Three gang was disbanded i didn't need to do that, you know.And now I hear rumors that you're working against me.” Duke confronted him.“Hey, Duke, You've wronged me, Frankie said, feigning hurt I've done nothing but run my nightclub I just wanna stay outta trouble from now on”.“And that's the problem”, Duke replied. “Because I think you're in big trouble indeed.I know that you and stone's boss have reached an agreement And that you're planning to ambush me.” Frankie trembled internally, but he kept his expr