I looked at Alex as I walked back to that table and wondered if he had any idea what was waiting for both of us. I saw him staring at me with worry in his eyes as I lowered myself into my seat. I wasn't allowed to settle down perfectly when Daniel pulled Stacy in by her neck and placed a passionate kiss on her lips. My insides exploded as I stared in horror at a man that I had deep affections for kissing another woman.I was at a loss for what to do but I knew very well that I would lose my senses if I kept sitting there. From the preying eyes of everyone at the restaurant to such a dramatic scene in front of me, I was drawn back to the hurtful truthI was not strong enough to handle thisAlex may have given me the sense of strength but I suddenly realized that it was a lie and I was just as weak as when I first came to the town. I turned to look at Alex with tears in my eyes and the worry on his face increased. "I'm sorry," I mouthed as one tear dropped from my eyes and with li
"What the bloody hell did you do that for?!" I resorted back at him. "You know, you are nothing but a real piece of work. You just couldn't let us have one evening of rest, could you? You had to go the extra mile just to make her cry right? What the fuck is your problem? Why are you so against her happiness?" I couldn't help myself. I suddenly bursted out in laughter. "What the fuck is so funny to you now?" Over the sound of my bellowing laughter, I heard the young man ask."You know it's just so funny that you think you are the source of her happiness. How can you actually think you are that one person that makes her happy when you don't even know the things that she likes?" "I know what she likes. Unlike you, I actually pay attention to my women. Maybe if you did, you would notice that your woman and the waitress are fighting in there." The thing is, I knew. I just did not care. Stacy loved to embrass herself and I was not a party to such nonsense. My father was a reputable ma
The bar was warm and buzzing with energy. Exactly what I needed. I looked around and found a spot open at the bar. The bartender was no where in sight and I waited for a few minutes to see her pulling her heads from underneath the counter to mix up more drinks that would love the thirsty men intoxicated and unwilling to go back home to their wives. I pitied the women that got married to them. If I had a beautiful woman as Olivia waiting for me back at home, I would move straight from work to her arms without making any stop anywhere, apart from when I needed to get her flowers. Not even a bartender as juicy looking as the girl mixing drinks would lure me away from her loving arms. But unfortunately, Olivia did not care about that and I had done a perfect job in making her think that I hated her.But I couldn't stop now. I had to continue doing what I did. Even if I had feelings for her, my urge to wreck her mother and make her cry for what she did to my father was more important t
I watched in awe as the beautiful lady sat beside me and searching my eyes, moving to search my soul without saying a word."You look troubled, what's the matter?" She asked after keeping mute for a while I didn't even tell her my name and she could sense that I was already troubled, I was eager to know what sort of lady she was.But then again, she probably took a general guess, after all, half of the people in the bar were troubledApart from the ones that left their perfectly good homes just to come and stare at a bartenders boots."You don't know my name but somehow you know that I am troubled. Are you a psychic or something?" I asked and chuckled at her expression to my question It was one of shock but I could tell that she was faking it, she made it so obvious.And then she giggledHer's was a breath of fresh air. One that I yearned to hear more of. "Well I don't have super powers but I can just tell that you are not in a very good mood right now. Care to share what the probl
"Do you really even have to ask? I mean, it's very obvious why I am that interested in thus." She said with a straight face and took a sip of her drink."How about you go on and enlighten me then?" I asked her, not sure I understood what the pretty girl was up toShe had a mischievous smile on her face but at my drunken stage, I would not bring myself to even believe that such a beauty could be planning anything wickedTo me, she looked like she could not even hurt a fly. "Tell you what I think. I think that you are more worried about those pictures of you and Olivia than you are of her being with another man. For all we know, she could be out with her friends or just having a good time by herself. The is nice guarantee, no whatsoever that she is actually with another man and I feel like you are just being delusional about that. What is really bothering you are those pictures and that is why I am so eager to know. What exactly is the content of this picture?" She asked meI downed a
I couldn't stand the look on her face. The shock, the worry, the disappointment, all emotions were very evident on her face and she did not try to hide any of it.In my distorted state, I saw as she shook herself off her emotions and looked at me. She cleared her throat and said'I'll take it from here. You can go now" and then she tried to take me from Aurora like I was a burden she was eager to get rid of but the young girl was not going to have any of it. "Hey, what do you mean? I Brought him from the bar and I intend to ensure that he gets home safely, so no, I won't be leaving him anytime soon.""Are you daft? Can't you see that this is his house and he obviously does not need you to be around because I am here, I will take him in. Now get out!" It was one of those priceless moments that I had seen Olivia be angry and possessive about me. It was a beautiful moment but only if she had known that Aurora was not an easy meat to chew, maybe, just maybe she would have put in more ef
I didn't know Aurora from Adam but I knew very well that she was the type that could kill a man if she wanted Olivia, even with her anger could not stand defending herself against Aurora and it was evident. I knew that Aurora would hurt her and I would feel the pain more than expected. I could not allow that to happen. I needed to do something and I needed to be fast before my sister would be injured. 'Stop it!' I used my last will power to scream out and like little children who heard their mother scream, they both stopped immediately. "Now I have been silent for a very long time but I will not have any of you hurt yourselves simply because you are upset. I maybe drunk but I am most definitely not blind and I know for a fact that both of you are wrong but I also know that both of you are very stubborn and you are not going to apologise to each other so the is no need in me wasting my time." "But Daniel.." Olivia tried to cut in "I don't care about any of that okay. I don
I went to bed that night, still not knowing which feeling I should be focused on but when I woke up, I decided that anger was more important.I wasted no time in finishing up with my chores because i was eager to get out of the house before he woke up but unfortunately, luck was not on my side at that moment. As soon as I stepped out, Daniel was sitting at the kitchen counter drinking a bottle of water."Oh so happy that you finally know your way out of your room now," I gave my snide comment but he just looked up at me and then went back to drinking his water.I was shocked. Was he really going to ignore me after the nonsense that he did? But maybe he did not know that he had done such stupid things. That would go a long to explaining why he felt it was right to actually shut up when he should be apologising.But then again, he wasn't the type to really apologise and I did not know why I was expecting anything different from him.But still, I was not going to take this lying down.
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