"You're supposed to be happy you know?" Gerald muttered as he helped Queenie load her things on a truck. Queenie stood meters away from him and stared at him like a ghost. Then she asked, "I don't even know what is happening."Gerald chuckled and walked towards her. "The thing is, your crops were good and those things you made as complimentary gifts suited their tastes. They loved it. But in order not to appear too demanding, they bought your things at the price I have them and extended a contract for you to help them make the complimentary you gave them." "Oh." Queenie muttered and said nothing else. After she found herself on the ground, she suddenly heard the traders from the city congratulating her. Although she was confused, she waited for them to be gone before she inquired what the matter was from Gerald. The man had tried to explain a thousand and one times what was going on but each time, her mind would zone out and she'd find herself reminiscing on the voices she heard
Pierce said nothing for a while and the man on the other end scoffed. "Is this your way of keeping me busy while you search for Queenie?" Salto wasn't planning on hiding what he knew. Pierce on the other hand wasn't surprised, but he was indeed anxious. Since Salto had realized it was only a matter of time before the news got to Natasha. "Let me make something clear to you." Salto said seriously. "Even if we stay on this call the entire time, your men will never be able to get their hands on her. The Conglomerate doesn't have a branch here sadly and you guys are are little far from them. You're left with no choice than to await the real body of the woman you buried last year." Pierce balled his hands into a fist but said nothing. Aster, who was on his lap, blinked cutely at him and he could feel his anger leaving him. He touched his daughter's face with a smile before speaking into his phone's speaker. "Since you already know why I'm falling, I don't think there's any reason for
When the call connected, Salto asked smugly, "Guess who has your wife?" Instead of calling Natasha, he decided to call Pierce and taunt him with the fact Queenie was now in his hands. In as much as he didn't want to admit, he had always felt like Pierce was his superior. While he had to strive to make certain things come through, Pierce's subordinates were the one who did it whenever they wished to have a good standing with Pierce. And the fact that Pierce was a good business. Something he, Salto, didn't know. "Then I must implore you to take good care of her and restrain from informing Natasha until I arrive to pick her up." The man's lazy voice floated from the other end. Salto took the phone off his ears and glanced at the number again. When he confirmed it belonged to Pierce, he had a confused look. Why wasn't Pierce anxious?He chose to tell himself that the man was only masking his worry. "You know, you don't have to act like you don't care when you actually care. However
Country AThe work was much easier than they thought. While Queenie kept to herself, Gerald, Maron and Vivian already acquainted themselves with a few people. "Your sister?" A man asked Vivian. Vivian followed his eyes. When she saw he was referring to Queenie, he shook his head almost immediately. "She isn't." The man nodded absentmindedly. Finally, he braced himself and walked to her. "Hello." Queenie looked up briskly and lowered her eyes once again. She looked up again moments later and smiled a little. "Are you talking to me?" The man nodded immediately. "Yes, I'm Joshua Garet." Queenie nodded and lowered her head. "I'm Queenie." The man smiled, "Can I help you?" Queenie was currently canning tomato paste. So when the man asked to help, she nodded. As they worked, the man brought up different topics. Yet, Queenie was uninterested. Finally, he brought up the topic about branded bags but still couldn't catch her attention. He was getting frustrated when Gerald walked
As soon as she left, his phone rang and he took it out to answer. When he saw the caller, he hesitated before answering it. "I've been trying to reach you. Where are you?" He asked. Natasha chuckled from the other end. "I've been busy taking care of my father and brothers. How is Country A?" Salto was slightly surprised. After their discussion in Hiltonia, they hadn't really been at peace with each other. She had even refrained from calling him. "Everywhere's is fine." Then he thought it was nice to add, "I got new employees. Extremely good at their jobs." "Oh, that's good." She replied not suspecting a thing. After all, he had no reason to lie to her. "I might be stopping in Country A soon. Then I will leave from there." The man widened his eyes but tried not to sound too shocked. "Where are you going?" "I wish to stay undercover for a while." Natasha retorted. The man had nothing else to say, so he just nodded. "Let's talk better when you come to Country A." "Sure." …I
The nannies came at that moment and grabbed the three children. Pierce narrowed his eyes at Sullivan. Then he turned to Jessica. "What is he doing here?" "He has an important message to pass." The latter replied. "We'd only look ungrateful if we drove him away without any 'thank you'." Sullivan said nothing as he had his eyes somewhere else. "I'm curious to know what news he has." Lucas snorted, walking closer to Roxanne. For all he knew, someone who came for revenge wouldn't suddenly change his objective and save his nemesis from dying. "He already informed us there's a chance Natasha might be going crazy." Roxanne said with a laugh. The three men immediately looked towards Sullivan. They said nothing but their eyes were filled with disbeliefs and threats. "I saw it with my own eyes. Besides, do you think betrayal will really make Natasha go to the extent of focusing so much attention on me?" Sullivan scoffed. "She doesn't want the news of it to get to Solta's ears because h
Neo was frightened at her words and he immediately sought to change her mind. "It hasn't gotten to this, Natasha." "You should've thought of that when you spoke so freely." The woman snorted and walked out of her room. She had brought more than ten bodyguards to the cruise ship and stationed them at different places in the ship. On her command she'd have a lot of dignitaries begging for their lives. The thought made her smile happily. As she walked towards the elevator, she didn't forget to pull the emergency alarm. Almost immediately, everyone ran out in their night wares and to the front of the ship. Even Theophilus Devon wasn't left out. But when he looked up and saw his only son strapped up to a pole and could plunge into the water at any point in time. He looked towards the dock and when he recognized Natasha, he knew the night was going to be a long, terrible one. "Natasha, there's no need to resort to violence. We can talk and settle whatever the problem may be amicably
Country AThe factory was in a frenzy when Salto got a call from the hospital. Jim, who had hypnotized into thinking there were some people who intended to hurt Salto, called Lawrence at once. Lawrence had no idea what happened in Hiltonia or the tough position they were in. So he was quite surprised to hear Natasha was in the hospital. "I will be there to make sure no one hurts him, Jim." He promised before he hung up. He dialed Pierce's number next. The call was answered on its first ring. "I just got informed that Natasha is in the hospital." The man said into the phone in confusion. "Last night was a hectic one for us." Pierce laughed out softly first. "Natasha held the entire cruise ship hostage. She was about to release one of them into the water when she slumped." Lawrence had mixed feelings at his words. But he nonetheless had a casual discussion with Pierce before hanging up. He walked into the bathroom and walked out minutes later dripping wet. His phone chose to rin
Pierce walked out of the bathroom with a towel tied loosely around his waist. Queenie who had been sulking on the bed raised her eyes to say something but it got stuck in her throat seeing his chiseled muscles.It also occurred to her this was the most intimate she had ever been with Pierce. Her body heated up at the thought of that and she groaned in displeasure. She was supposed to be angry but she was horny instead. Pierce had no idea what was going on with her but he did notice her frown deepened every passing second. "Queenie, are you alright?" He asked slowly and she snapped out of her thoughts. However, she ignored him. The man chuckled to himself and walked to the clothes he had taken off before going to have his bath. He took out something and handed it over to her. "Just like I thought, you were the one with the diary." She mumbled as she took it. "Yes. I came across it once in her office and decided to take it. Unfortunately, when I read the part regarding the formula,
Velon managed to get them through the corridor undetected. Queenie practically limped the whole time but quietly. However, just before they got to the elevator, they saw a green light and froze. There was someone inside. There was no time for them to decide as the elevator dinged open and Henry walked out of it. His face scrunched over when he realized what was going on and he immediately raised an alarm. "Who are you and who gave you the go ahead order to move them?" His sharp voice echoed throughout the empty corridor. Velon and Queenie felt movements towards them and sighed silently. Just like that, their perfect escape had been ruined by a lousy mouth relative. Despite her weak state, she tried to move when Velon held her back. "If you do that they'll get you again. Just get into the elevator." Upon hearing him, Henry scoffed and stood guard in front of the elevator door. Taking Queenie down would've been an impossible task but at this point, he knew she was beyond weak and
"But I still don't understand what the talk has to do with your plan with the formula for more drugs." Queenie scoffed, turning her face back to Mishael. "True. I've deviated from my storyline." The man replied, flashing an apologetic smile. "My father spent all his life's savings on Transformers because he knew he'd get more out of the product. The Transformers' drugs boost the human body. Increases things like speed, retention ability and some special abilities one might acquire as a side effect." "So you're trying to tell me you plan on doing the same thing which caused my mother to burn down the laboratory in the first place?" Queenie asked just to be sure and the man nodded. "It's called, continuing the family's legacy." Mishael enunciated and walked back to where he dropped his bottle of bourbon. "What if they don't find it?" Queenie asked as he filled his cup again. He only gave a dark chuckle. "I don't mind doing the same thing my father did." "Bring children and use the
Texas Velon returned home after being released by Queenie. He first had his son released but as he looked down at the boy, his heart skipped when he realized there was no resemblance between. "Daddy, those people took mommy away." Matt said, tears brewing in his eyes. He hadn't forgotten the sight he saw that day. "We'll go to mommy now. Don't cry." Velon consoled snapping out of his world.He grabbed the boy and took him into his arms. Just to affirm that Queenie was just messing with him, he stopped by a hospital and had them run a paternity test. "The result will be out in an hour, sir." The doctor told him. Then his eyes settled on Matt. "You have a handsome boy." "Thank you." Velon replied and led Matt out of the hospital. "The results can also be sent to your email in case you don't make it here on time. It's always more convenient." The doctor added with a smile. Finding no harm in it, Velon gave the doctor his email address before leaving. He found the police station w
Lucas and Audrey turned to see Deborah standing behind them with a smile. The most baffling thing was that they had no idea when she arrived. "How long have you been here?" Lucas asked, turning to her fully. Deborah flicked her wristwatch and stared at the time for a few seconds before raising her head again, "Three minutes. Just enough to kill you both and dump your bodies in the middle of the sea."If she was trying to scare them, she didn't succeed as they just stared at her blankly. "What are you doing here?" Deborah asked again, furrowing his brows in displeasure. "I worked for your parents. Of course I had to attend your father's funeral." Deborah replied with a snicker. "They gave you away. Frankly speaking, you don't look like you care about him." Lucas continued saying while Audrey watched silently. "You're right." Deborah chuckled, "I came to be sure Queenie won't run with the medicine she purified. It's unfortunate that Mishael now has his hands on her." "Mishael? Li
Mishael turned off his phone and turned his attention back to Queenie. David stood by the side with tears in his eyes. Just a few minutes ago, Mishael had suddenly instructed him to strung up Queenie and hit her. He had obeyed since he was hypnotized. "You know you don't have to make him watch as you hit me." Queenie who had regained her breath said. Mishael picked up his glass and walked close to her. "Then where's the fun?" Queenie sighed and lowered her head. "You do know they might not find the diary, don't you?" "Yes, I do." "That's good to know. What do you intend to do when they don't find it?" She asked and the man grinned crazily. "I intend to cut off your body parts for every hour it takes them to find it. It'll be a really unfortunate sight if they don't hand me that diary." Mishael replied, taking a slip from his cup. "I can help you find it. My mother stayed away from home almost all the time. So I made it a habit to follow her thinking she was cheating on my dad.
Knight's Mansion Natasha watched the funeral from a reasonable distance. She turned and headed back to her room when a hand reached out and dragged her into a corner. "It's me." Lucian shushed Natasha who was about to become violent making her freeze momentarily. She looked up to see her three elder brothers looking down at her with stoic looks. This was the closest she had been with them ever since they grew up. "I didn't come to cause Queenie any harm." She told them after a minute passed with none of them saying anything. However, her words were far from what Lucas needed to hear. He opened his mouth to say something. Fortunately, Lucian beat him to it. "When did you become so close to Queenie?"Natasha looked up at them silently. It was clear from the look in her eyes she wanted nothing other than to run away from them. But that only made the protective brothers curious. "I'm sorry but I'm not supposed to be discussing that with you." She told them after their gazes became
Queenie's pupils dilated as soon as she heard that name. "Now, give me the envelope." David said afterward and Queenie reluctantly gave it to him. There was no debating it. If she resisted, David would kill himself and Mishael would send someone else after her. If she still refused to hand it over, the same thing would keep repeating. David glanced at the envelope quickly before putting it into his suit pocket. Then he glanced up at her and said, "Mishael says thank you." He got up and lowered his gun. "Mishael, that bastard!" She groaned, trying her best to rein the anger within her. How Mishael had manipulated David to be so stupid was what baffled her. "Give me the gun." She told him but the boy shook his head with a confused look. "I don't want to give it to you." "Then point it at me before I get my hands on you." David had an even more confusing look on his face when he heard her. He glanced at his gun again and tried to point it at her but realized he couldn't. "Queen
"When did you find out?" Lucas asked. "Yesterday during my talk with Deborah." Queenie replied, "When did you two get your information as well?" "Oh, from Mary Leicester. She was one of the founding members of the experiment." Roxanne retorted. Lucas also nodded in agreement. "In as much as I want to continue this discussion, I have a father and a husband to mourn. After this funeral, I'll get to the bottom of all this." Queenie sighed and got up. Lucas and Roxanne also took that as their cue to leave and left as soon as Queenie made her way into her closet. "You think she's really affected by Pierce's demise?" Roxanne asked sadly as they walked in the corridor. "I don't know." Lucas said, at a loss at what to say. Queenie had always been one who hated revealing her emotions to people. He could imagine how hard it was for her. Not only had she lost the only father figure she had, she also lost her husband on the day of her father's funeral. Anyone would be racked up with pain.