Mr. Henry was a funny looking man. Yes, one could see that he had money and his entire body showed it very well but the was just something about him that was funny looking. Maybe it was his big protruding stomach, or maybe it was the fact that he had a bald head and a full moustache or maybe, just maybe it was the several rings that he wore on his fingers that gave him the look of a gangster. But whatever it was, it did not help to hide the fact that he had money, lots of it and was not hiding it. His office was filled with pictures of almost naked women. One could hardly believe that such a place was a place of work. It looked like one had walked into the entrance of a brothel. If he was trying to keep a low profile, I don't think that he was doing a very good job at it then because everything about him actually looked like he was a mafia king. Smacking his staff on this ground, he looked at me sternly and cleared his throat. I knew he had asked a question but I couldn't tell wh
"You do know who this man is right?" Mr. Henry asked and Tony nodded his head as he was pointing at The Mafia King. "Well if you must know, he is also entitled to his own rights in this country and few years ago, he took it upon himself to partner with Jared here. The partnership was for something simple, he wanted the young man to give him some construction materials for him to be able to finish up his project." "And then what happened?" I asked, eager to get to the bottom of the story. "Boy, if you want me to help you do anything then you are gonna have to shut up and never interrupt me again, do I make myself clear?!" He bellowed at me and I immediately nodded my head. "I'm gonna need words now boy." "Yes, I understand," I said with a strong voice. Even if I was terrified, I knew that I could not show my fear in a place like this. "Very good. Now, for the bigger part of things, the young man and the mafia king partnership was going well. Tell one day, Jared found out the real
I won't be able to survive in their world. I just knew that I won't be able to. I wasn't smart enough to not drink what was placed in front of me and if Tony had not come with me, I would have down every last bit of that drink. And I didn't even know the rules that had to be followed. I would have been lost in a world like this if not for Tony. But here I was now, not knowing that I would have been killed or drugged. But I was thankful that Tony was by my side. Still, I could not help but wonder who exactly Billy was. Who was this man that made Tony's face to be free of blood? Who was this that put so much fear in him? What did the person do and how influential was this guy exactly? As I thought of all of these, I could not help but look at Tony's face again. He still did not look like he was happy about having to meet this man but he knew he would have no other choice because Henry was not giving him any. "You know you can save me from a lot of stress if you would just tell me ri
I looked at Tony and he wasn't blinking, neither was there any humour in his eyes. I could not understand what was going on in his head but I knew that he was not going to say a word without me giving him permission to and after the warning he gave me, I was not sure I wanted to hear it. I knew very well that Tony had a very nasty past and he did terrible things. But I didn't know what those terrible things were exactly. I didn't know every details about those terrible things and all I did was make assumptions about it. But somehow, I knew that if I did not say the word and find out, whatever it was could come back to haunt me. But what did he do exactly that could make me to hate him the way he said. I don't think the was. And so I looked at him with a brave face, ready to accept whatever it was that he told me. "I am not going to get upset with you,okay? I know that you have a bad past and I understand that whatever it was that you did, you did it just so that you can be able to
I didn't want to believe it but the young man in front of me did not look like he was joking. I could tell that he was not even smiling in a sheepish way for me to say that maybe he was pulling my legs. "Wait, let me understand this. You actually accepted to have that family killed?" I asked him, not wanting to accept what he was telling me. "Yes I did. I actually accepted it because I had no other choice." "What the fuck are you talking about? There is always a choice. We always have a choice, you can't tell me that you didn't have one!" I shouted at him because I couk not wrap my head around it. If he had actually killed an entire family, what other terrible thing has he done during his past? How did this man get to be my best friend in the first place?! So many questions went through my mind as I tried to understand what was going on and the more I tried to understand it, it worst it was to picture it. "Okay look if you would just allow me to finish talking maybe then you wou
I could not understand what he was trying to say. Was Tony in anyway suspecting me of having some thing to do with this young man coming back into town and looking for ways to get rid of him like this? I didn't even know who the guy was and somehow he had the audacity to believe that I was actually a part of this madness all these while. How could I actually be a part of something like this? To me, it just didn't make any sense why he would actually blame me for this?But I didn't want to just jump into conclusion like that. I needed him to say the words by himself. I needed him to tell me what he was actually thinking about. "Okay, now look. I don't want to rush into conclusion so I am just going to ask you now. Are you in anyway accusing me of working with Billy to get you back into town and find ways to get rid of you?" "It's a scenario that is very very possible, even you have to agree with me." "No, I don't have to agree with you because it is actually trash and you know it.
"Maybe it means that you are scared and you don't actually know what to do with a criminal. You really should not be trusted with important personnels then. Especially those that are criminals. They will eat you up and spit you out," he said with a smile on his face. "You have actually got to be kidding me," I said laughing loud. I could tell that the atmosphere in the car had gotten more friendly and he was going to open up to me again. It was a good sign. I was not ready to have this man to start doubting me, neither was I ready to have such a Powerful and well connected person to hate on me. I knew very well that even if someone like him went to jail, it would take absolutely nothing much for him to get back and when he does get back, it would be hell for people like me and I would be over and done for. But it made no sense that something like this could actually happen to us. Our friendship, to me, was stronger than ever and I was going to make sure that it stayed that way. "Ok
I couldn't say a word, Tony was already skeptical about it in the past and I knew that if I said something now, I may just tick him off the more. The only thing I could do was to keep mute and allow the scenes unfold itself. But the more we walked inside, the more it looked to me like I knew the walls of this building like the back of my hand. I knew that I had been in a lot of places and met lots of people but what I did not know was who I went to those places with. As we kept walking, I was struggling to figure out who I actually came with to that place. I knew I had been there before but I could not just place my finger on the person I was there with. My prayer began that I would never know who Billy was because if I knew who he was, the was nothing I would actually tell Tony. He would never believe that I did not partner with the man to try and kill him. "This is so weird," Tony said as he looked around suspiciously. His eyes did not stay in one place and I could not understand
I rushed over to the location she sent to me as fast as I could. Only for me to get there and see her standing by the road, waiting for me. As soon as she saw me highlighting from my car, she moved towards a restaurant and I followed her. But she didn't sit, instead she moved to the backroom and I wondered why they would just allow her to go in there. Doesn't one need some sort of punishment to get in there? I decided that I was not in the place to ask. After all, I had come there for something much more important. Finally, I was going to put an end to the madness that was happening because of those pictures. "Good afternoon ma, how may I help you today?" Stacy was stopped at the entrance to the backroom by a petite looking girl wearing a uniform. "I am here with this handsome man," she said and brought out a card and showed it to the woman. The woman nodded her head immediately and opened the door for her. "Would you be needing anything as you stay ma?" She asked. "No, I won't
I rushed over to the location she sent to me as fast as I could. Only for me to get there and see her standing by the road, waiting for me. As soon as she saw me highlighting from my car, she moved towards a restaurant and I followed her. But she didn't sit, instead she moved to the backroom and I wondered why they would just allow her to go in there. Doesn't one need some sort of punishment to get in there? I decided that I was not in the place to ask. After all, I had come there for something much more important. Finally, I was going to put an end to the madness that was happening because of those pictures. "Good afternoon ma, how may I help you today?" Stacy was stopped at the entrance to the backroom by a petite looking girl wearing a uniform. "I am here with this handsome man," she said and brought out a card and showed it to the woman. The woman nodded her head immediately and opened the door for her. "Would you be needing anything as you stay ma?" She asked. "No, I won't
"Liv, trust me when I tell you this, we will not get anyway if you keep lying to me like this. Just tell me what you know and we can work together to get you out of whatever mess you are in," I said calmly. I needed her to see me in the light of a big brother and I was desperate to get her to trust me. It was very obvious to me that she won't though and no matter what I tried, it won't get her to change her mind. But I hoped that it will. "You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Listen to me when I tell you this okay, I don't know or have any kind of information. I should even be the one asking you all these questions since you are the one who actually brought me out of my house to come here on such a short notice. Now can you please just tell me what you know so that I can go." "Liv." "Daniel, for fuck's sake, you said that I am in trouble! Now tell me what kind of trouble it is because I am really fighting hard now to believe that you did not just lie to me just t
"Daniel?" Tony called out but I was no longer interested in anything he had to say. I needed to get to Olivia. I had to tell her everything I knew. The sooner I did it, the better it would be for me"I will have to go now. I'll talk to you later, okay?" I said as I walked out Immediately I was outside, I placed a call across to her. Thankfully, she picked on the first ring"I don't care where you are right now but I need you to come meet me. I can't explain everything over the phone but I need to see you right now," I said and I could tell that I was scaring her"What's going on?" She asked but I was not about to answer her over the phone"Look, I really can't say much now and I can't talk over the phone but I need you to come meet me right now Liv.""You are seriously scaring me Daniel. What's going on?""I need to be sure that you are safe. Meet me at where we agreed. I will be there in like an hour time," I said. "You will be there right?" I heard hesitation in her voice before
Tony waited patiently till Reuben had left before he walked up to me and said, "You know you should have told him everything you know, right?" He said. "I did tell him everything I know man." I answered him as I walked to get a cup of water to drink. "Oh come on. You know you can lie to everyone else but you really can't lie to me, I know when you are not saying the truth. I have been your friend for an awfully long amount of time." "You sound like you are not so pleased about that. Could it be because I lied to your accomplice?" I asked as I poured the water into a glass and drank it whole. "What do you mean by that?" "I am not a fool Tony. I..." "Are you by any chance implying that I am working with Reuben to get rid of Olivia?" He was getting enraged and it was quiet visible but still, I wasn't going to allow his emotions to turn me away from the real questions I needed to ask him "How does this even make sense to you as you are saying it? Do you really think that I will s
"What do you mean by that? Of course I would want to know so that I can know what our next step will be." Reuben was quick to answer but he was skillful enough to not give a very conclusive answer. "Well how exactly do you mean? Who exactly is this we that you speak of?" He asked. "Look I don't know what you think you are trying to do now but you will need to stop it and actually start trusting me," he continued. "I never said that I don't trust you. I just said that I don't understand why you so badly needed the information. If I didn't trust you, I won't still be standing here and talking to you. You know this very well and so does your friend here." Tony didn't say a word after that. He could not understand what I was doing but he was not going to open his mouth and say something that would cause any kind of trouble with him and his friend. It made me wonder if he truly trusted the man like he said he does or if I should even trust the man the way I did. "Tony are you just go
"How am I supposed to know that?" I asked, being offended that they would actually say a thing like that to me. Was I supposed to know what was on her back? But then again I did have access to her back when we were always fooling around and I could remember perfectly well, the night that we actually did something together, she did have a mole on her back. I could remember it so vividly because I honestly thought that it was very weird that she would have a red mark that big and it didn't hurt her. I also could remember asking her about it but she didn't say anything to me, she didn't even try to hide the fact that she didn't know how it got there. "I honestly have no idea how that thing got there but I believe it's because of all these drama that is constantly going on around me. I may have been hurt there without knowing," she had said before. Before now, I have always thought that maybe, just maybe, she was kidding but the more I looked at it, the more I realized that she knew ex
"Wait, is this some type of joke? Please tell me that this is some type of joke? What exactly is going on here?" I asked him. Was he actually serious about everything he said or was everything he said just a means to get to me and get me to do something that I was definitely going to regret? Could he actually be serious? Because if he was serious then that simply meant that everyone that Olivia was surrounding herself with were bad news on a good day. All of them can easily hurt her and get away with it if they were really working with Billy.I immediately felt an urge to protect her some more, I could not allow anything to happen to her and now that I knew that no one around her was actually sincere or a good person, I could not sit back and allow her be with such people. "Is it the same Alexander as I one I showed you?" Tony asked him and Reuben nodded his head. I didn't like to be kept in the dark. "Which Alexander did you show him? Is it the same one that I know?" I asked Tony
"What?" The more Reuben spoke, the more I realized that I knew very little about the drama that was actually going on all these years. But now, it was beginning to make sense. The pieces of the puzzle were beginning to add up. "Yes. The woman was already pregnant and when Billy found out, he was very upset because he knew that even if he got Valerie, all of her attention would be on the child and not on him. His new plan was simple, get rid of the same kid and remove her from Valerie's life," Reuben said. "What?" Tony asked. "I mean, I know he can be very very evil but isn't this just supposed to be downright cruel. Why separate a mother from her child? Please tell me that he wasn't successful?" "Oh he was. However, he didn't do it alone. He found out how far gone Valerie was and during the time he found this out, she was about to give birth. That was when he paid Deborah to do the needful and take the baby away from the mother after birth." "And she did?" I asked, surprised that