2023-03-29 15:37:23The phone dropped from his hand as he heard the voice again. Micheal did not have the potential to be harmful to another human being, but here he was slicing the skin of young girls.
Declan was cut to the heart. This was the height of it all. He had been too trusting enough to think that there was any more good left in the man after the stunt he had pulled the last time.
Declan looked at the files before him and wanted to put the puzzle together. The pieces of evidence were true and enough, but they only contained what they wanted him to see.
Every one of their hidden agendas was not in the file. They had been wise enough to trick his brain into excitement.
They were all lies laid before him and he
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Anderson was in a pool of blood on Declan's front porch. Declan quickly collected himself and dragged him into the apartment, shutting the door behind him.He let his instincts direct him on what to do next.He tried to stop the bleeding. He lay the small man on the floor and put a kitchen towel over the gunshot wound. It was the closest thing to a neat covering he could find.His phone rang immediately. It was a private number but he answered it anyway with his hand smeared with so much blood. It nauseated him but he put himself together."I see you got my package already", the voice began over the phone. Declan could not place who it was.
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"Found what you are looking for?" The voice asked over the phone. Declan had received the phone call as soon as they found out that Anderson was missing."Where have you taken him to?" Declan asked, shaking with fury."You don't have to know about that", the voice continued."How on earth did you take him away?" Declan asked again, a bit unsure of how to keep the unknown caller rambling while he tried to get out the tiniest bit of information he wanted.The voice did not sound like that of Raymond's attorney. This had to be an accomplice in their circle."Well", he began. "While you and your lover sat discussing just outside the ward, I just had to pull off a few strings
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Daniel quickly entered his car and sped off. The road was dark and his windscreen was blurry from the mist, but he did his possible best to get to the highway.He looked into the car mirror and watched out for any approaching vehicle or one that chased after him. He did not want to be caught unawares.His heart was still pounding when he got on the highway. He managed to wipe his windscreen a little so he could at least see the road ahead of him.The night was chilly but beads of perspiration trekked down the sides of his head.The events of earlier had taken him unawares and got him terrified. He had sensed that something was amiss as he stopped by the harbor.
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Declan advanced into the house quietly while looking at his back at intervals. He could not afford to be caught off guard.The person was in his kitchen and he was cautious. There were a lot of things that could be used to harm him in the kitchen. He only held a bat.He reached the kitchen and a woman was there, with her back turned to him. She had a headset on. He looked closely. Only one person had such straight shoulders and a unique hourglass figure. Samantha!He ran across the Island and embraced her from behind. It startled her but he cared less.He closed in and basked in the newfound comfort that seemed to be on her shoulders."You know I can stay this way all day", he said, his speech slurry. She laughed and he realized that he had missed the sound of her laughter.He finally let her go so she could get back to what she was doing. He scanned her. She wore a skimpy night dress that showed a lot of skin but still concealed her assets. Her skin shone in the bright light, and he
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Patricia shook Damian. The fright in her eyes made her seem like she was insane. She looked at Daniel. He was bleeding from the side of his head. She wanted to reach out for him, but she also wanted to make sure that her eleven-month-old was doing fine. She checked his head but there were no signs of bruises or swelling. She lifted him to her face to feel his breath. It was shallow, but she was glad that there was something there. All she needed to do was to get him to a hospital as soon as possible.She shook Declan again. He finally opened his eyes and she breathed of relief. He held his head in pain almost immediately."How is he?" He asked her hurriedly, trying to reach out for him. Patricia would not let him touch the boy, so he refrained. "We need to get help immediately", she said instead. He got down from the car and looked around. They were in a deserted road and it made him panic, but he still wanted to look for a way to help out his family. If Damian died, Patricia would
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Declan tapped his foot impatiently in the courtroom. He could not wait for the proceedings to be over, so he could go see Hannah and his unborn child. He had texted his father endlessly who had been reassuring him that everything was fine. He did not think so. He still panicked. Soon, he felt Samantha's hand on his thigh. It was her little way of calming him. She noticed he was tense and it worried her too. He looked down at her hand. He liked that she wore his ring with pride. He had never felt so relaxed from a single gesture. Tears of joy brimmed in his eyes. She made him so happy.He looked up at Anderson in a bid to blink back the tears that threatened to fall. Anderson was still limping. They had nursed him back to health, but they had fractured his leg badly. Everyone thought that he would not be able to make it on the day of the court proceedings. To everyone's surprise, they wheeled him into the courtroom. When it was his turn to question the witness Raymond's attorney h
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"And a girl?!" Declan asked in disbelief. He was sure that he had heard the doctor right. "Yes", doctor Pat said with a huge smile."I did not know that there were two babies", Declan said, almost screaming for joy.He was elated. He hugged Samantha and spun her around while she giggled. He kissed her on the lips lightly afterward. If she wanted to surprise him, then she had done a really good job with it."Can I see them now?" He asked, too excited to put his words together."Just give us a few minutes", doctor Pat replied, turning to leave.Declan waited impatiently. He was anticipating seeing Hannah and the kids and it was almost like a dream.While he waited, he saw his father and some members of the domestic staff enter the hospital. Samantha must have told them the good news. They had balloons all over the place that read it is a boy and a girl. It made him smile.A nurse soon appeared and ushered them into the ward. Hannah was still fast asleep, and the nurse had reassured hi
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Daniel opened his eyes and breathed relief when he saw that he was not shot. Patricia had missed the shot and he wondered how dumb she was. He was just in front of her, and at a very close range. If she wanted to kill him so badly, then she had missed a great opportunity to do so.The gunshot had woken their son up, and they heard his cries.Patricia stood there trembling. He charged at her and took the gun from her hand in one swift movement, hoping that the gunshot had not alerted anyone around. The house was secluded in a thicket and they had no neighbors for about a mile and a half. As she attempted to move and go pick the baby up, he slapped her so hard across the cheek. She landed on the sofa and hit her head on the edge of a side table. Drops of blood soon appeared."Were you trying to kill me, you bitch?" He barked. She yelped in pain but he was not willing to render her any help. She looked around her for anything at all to defend herself. There was a sculpture that sat
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It had been over two months since the doctor told them that their babies had high chances of survival as they showed massive improvements with their treatment. Samantha had stopped going to the office totally, and Declan had requested that an office space to be set up in the executive ward for him. Lucy was getting so much better and she was able to breastfeed the children as Samantha had required of her. It was as though they were living in the hospital with their children. Declan's heart swelled with joy with every inch that was added to their height, and every iota of flesh they put on. He would spend most of his time looking down on his boys, wondering if it was the same way his father looked at him and Daniel when they were babies. As he thought about Daniel, the events of the court's final verdict the previous week all came rushing back to him. He had always dreamed of the day Daniel would be sentenced to prison, and he would rejoice and rub it in his face. But on
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Samantha was the first to notice his dazed expression once he was done with the phone call. He entered the private chamber of his office and stayed there.When she saw that he was not going to come out anytime soon, she went in there to search for him. "A celebrant can't leave his party, you know," she began in an attempt to lighten up his sour mood. He looked up at her and would not say a word. "What is going on?" She finally asked him. He dreaded saying anything to her. The news that he had just heard was capable of breaking her, and he did not want that for her. "You don't need to worry about it. I will fix it," he replied. "I did not ask you if you could fix it," she said. "I asked what was the matter," she was insistent. "Abigail just called me and she informed me that Lucy was rushed to the hospital," he finally spilled. "What are you talking about?" She asked, very bewildered. "Lucy was rushed to the hospital," he repeated. "And what are you doing about it?" She asked
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The news about the court case had spread like wildfire, but Declan was not disturbed because he was on top of the case, gaining some level of victory over Daniel. The best part of it all was that he now had the judge on his side without having to try so much. It was in the course of these coincidences that he learned of the good legacy that his father had left behind because of his good deed. The judge had told him how he knew his father. When he kicked off his career as a barrister, he encountered different types of attacks from his rivals on the court. It was very unsafe for him and he was always running. One particular night, some armed men attacked him and beat him up so much that one could hardly recognize him except if they looked closely. He went about, knocking on doors and asking people for help, but no one would attend to him, especially because it was very late at night. They thought he was a thief or killer in disguise.Ferdinand was the only one who opened up to him.
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Declan's eyes did not leave Georgina as she walked up to the witness box. He wondered what it was that she wanted to be a witness to. He saw the way she quivered as she stood there and he suspected that she had been coerced into doing what she did. He listened closely to her as she spoke, saying her vow on the holy book, even though everything that would come out of her mouth was all going to be lies. She did what he least expected. She said to the hearing of everyone in the court that she was raped by Declan the first time she came to be a surrogate for them.Declan was too stunned to say a word at all and just kept his eyes on her. She was crying bitterly. Looking intently at her, he was forced to wonder if these were just fake tears to back up her lie, or if it was a sign that she regretted betraying him. Daniel could have been the one coercing her to do this, but he did not say anything. His eyes still followed her as she walked down the witness box. She glanced at where Dan
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If Declan could have collected all the pieces of evidence and witnesses he wanted in just a week or a month, it would not have been sufficient. But it took him three months, with Samantha solidly behind him. Micheal was not left out of the entire planning process for Daniel's court case. All they wanted to do was get him out of the way as soon as possible. To take down someone like Daniel, who hardly left any stone unturned or left loose ends, they needed to be well prepared, and Declan insisted that they were going to prepare well. The surrogacy plan kicked off in the second month. Lucy was giving off so many dangerous side effects at first that they kept wondering if her body could hold a child. She knew what she had gone through to produce a child that her body did not agree to. The one time that she thought she was close, was when the incident with Daniel happened. But Lucy's body adjusted afterward to the treatment. She began to respond positively and soon, she fell pregna
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Declan paced about in the bedroom endlessly and Samantha was beginning to get dizzy from following him with her eyes. "You are going to bore holes in this floor if you don't stop pacing so much," she said to him. "That boy is making me go crazy," Declan said as he rubbed his forehead in exhaustion. Samantha wondered if it was Daniel he was calling a boy, but she resolved that there was no better way to refer to someone so petty than a boy. "What did he do this time?" She asked him gently, not wanting to piss him off further."He fired the entire members of the accounting department before I could come to the office," Declan complained. Samantha was left to wonder if Daniel was going insane or not. She had never seen someone that acted so much on impulse in an instant. He was so quick to act that one would think that he was not thinking at all. "I thought he was no longer CEO.""I nullified what he did immediately after I got the notice.""Then what are you worried about?""Don't
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Samantha had never been pleased to hear the news before. Declan's agreement to still go ahead with having a child despite the Georgina drama was like music to her ears. She had not bothered to pester him about it anymore, as she did not want him to say he was right after all about Georgina. Instead, she had been more intentional about living her best life. She thought of the children back at the country home. They were enough to suffice for what she could not have. "Do you want to do an adoption or should we still search for a surrogate?" She asked him, deciding to lay all the cards on the table so they could deliberate together. She was not going to be selfish this time. Having a child was going to be a big step for them. It was not the financial aspect that bothered them. Declan's companies and businesses were worth an amount that could feed an entire city comfortably."We are both hoping to carry our child in our hands someday, so I guess surrogacy would not be a bad idea," he
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"I will have to leave very early today," Micheal informed Declan ahead of time. He did not want to be faced with the challenge of having so much work that he could barely manage any spare time. "You have a date with your girlfriend, I guess," Declan said as he looked up at Micheal."Let's not say it's a date," Micheal began, blushing lightly. "It's just a little thing that I do with her every month," he explained. "What is that?" Declan asked, not feeling bad about prying. It was the same thing Micheal did as well. He could swear that Michael knew so many things about him that Samantha had yet to find out. He was very observant and he loved that about her. "We go to the prison for a visit before we head to the orphanage," Micheal said. "Shonda said she wants to own an NGO in Africa in the future, so this is a good start for us."Declan was highly impressed by this agenda. His father ran several orphanages and charitable homes before he died. It was conferred on him in the will. He
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Daniel had been very cranky the entire week. First, all the money that he stole from the company's account had magically returned to it, and it still surprised him that they found out about the offshore account. He also received news that Declan hosted a birthday party over the weekend. He had not been invited nor did he have any knowledge about it. He knew what he could do with the knowledge of such a gathering. He was angry because, after months of being CEO, he had still not successfully convinced the board why he should take over the house. The will stated that it was primarily Declan's inheritance, and there was nothing that he could do about it. Declan, on the other hand, had suddenly banned him from entering the house. The security around it was toughened up so that no matter how much he tried to meander his way in, he would not succeed. This morning, Declan called for a board meeting that he said was going to be used to pass some information. He wished he could stop De
