Tony looked at me in horror, he could not believe that such words could actually come out of my mouth but I was dead serious. I wanted nothing more than to make Olivia feel the same way I was feeling. Because even after she had hurt me, she still went ahead to be with another man, bringing more pain and misery to me. I just didn't know how I would forgive her for that. All I knew was that needed my own thorn of flesh and I would get it. And after I am done I will skillfully take her away from the arms of that man she had decided to leave me for. I didn't stop to think of how Tony saw me, especially after I had just told him that I had feelings for the woman who was supposed to be my step sister. But in my defense, my father was not going to marry that woman after the hurt she had brought to him and if they didn't get married, then it simply meant that Olivia and I had a chance to start our relationship without people accussing us of being inconsiderate. Still I knew I had to thread
I told him exactly what I wanted to do and I saw as fear became very evident in him. I know he could not believe that I would actually come up with something so devious but he should have known a bit about me already. I was not the type to play a stupid game and when I did play games, I made sure that I covered all my tracks and ensured that nothing came back to me. It was the same thing I was going to do with Olivia. I would be very delighted to take her life up and then bring it down at once. "But Daniel, hold on. Before you go wrecking this young girl's life, what is the guarantee that this girl actually did all these things that you are accusing her of? Did you actually confront her about these details and she said that she did them?" He asked me "Are you stupid? Of course I confronted her about it and of course she lied to me, what else did you expect her to do? Of course she will lie to try and save her face and to top it all, she was actually with her lover, Alex. Of course
"So all I need to do is actually go to my father and ask him what he has that would actually make this woman to chose him, right?" I asked "No, that is not what you are to do. Look in all that we do during this period, we cannot breath a word of this to anyone. We will be messing with important folders, important documents. As a matter of fact, we will be dealing with things that are highly confidential and if any law official should hear of what we are doing, we will be done for. So if you know what is really good for you I would advise you to keep your mouth shut and not breath a word of this to anyone, understood?!"I nodded my head in agreement. I knew that Tony had a deep understanding about the things that he was actually talking about. He had spent two learns studying criminal law and he had a mindset to know how to catch criminals and he would always tell me that the best way to catch a criminal is to think like one. He knew how to cover all his tracks when he was done, he u
I reached the car just in time to see him leaning by the passenger seat and I opened the door for him to enter "What's your obsession with local bars these days? You were not this obsessed about it before. What changed?" he asked me and I smiled. I knew better than to lie to myself about what the main reason for my sudden change was. But it had everything to do with Olivia. "I'm still waiting for an answer. So when you are done thinking in your head, please give me one." He added. "Okay. It has everything to do with Olivia. The girl is different and has really changed so many things about me. Yes I used to love going to fancy bars and all that but after dad took me to a fancy restaurant to announce that I will be getting married to Sandra even if I wanted to or not, I knew that I had to change something. The next best thing was a change of scenery.""So I went to one local bar around this side of town and that was where I met Olivia and had the best night of my life. I have never f
"What is it?" Tony asked when he noticed that I had stopped when we got closer to the door. "Well, see for yourself," I told him as I moved away and allowed him to see the security lock on the door. "Well don't you know the code?" He turned to ask me, still whispering. "Have you gone nuts or something? I told you in the car that no one has ever been in this room apart from my father and somehow you actually think that I will have the code to it?" I asked him. "How in the world were you not even curious in a little bit to find out what was actually happening? How did you manage to live in that house without being curious as to find out what was happening and why this room was locked?" He asked me."Look I had way bigger things to worry about okay? I actually had so many things to worry about that I unfortunately could not concern myself with something like this, so please don't blame me that much for wanting to not pick a fight with my father this way." "You are just unbelievable.
I looked at the pictures again and wondered who the man could be but because I knew that for his picture to be placed in the same place as Olivia's mother own, then he had to be someone of very big importance, I called Tony over. "Tony, come over here," I said and the young man rushed to my side. "Look at what I have found. What do you think all these means now?" I asked him even when the man had no gotten to my side yet but in a few seconds, he did and immediately he saw the picture, he could not help but gasp. "Oh no, not this man," he said and took the file from my hand. "Why? Who is this man?" I asked him and he smiled before answering. "Well he is a Spanish mafia king. His name is Gonalez and if the is anything I know, I know that people avoid him like a plague because he is bad news on a good day. But why does Olivia's mother know her?" "First of all, the woman's name is Deborah. I would love it if we actually addressed her by her first name from now on and honestly though
I did not understand what was going on. I knew that this young man definitely had the kind of wisdom needed in situations like but I did not want to believe the words that came out of his mouth. I was not sure he even understood what he was saying. How was it so possible that my father was business partners with a mafia king? Was it that my father did not know he was a mafia king or he knew but he just did not want to care about his reputation anymore? Was that why he had this secret room? So may thoughts flew through my head as I tried to hold myself back, as I tried to lie back and wonder what exactly was going on. I did not understand anything about what Tony had said and I was not going to believe him either. It was obvious that he had some sort of anger towards my family and he wanted to wreck my father's name. "Do you have any idea what you are talking about?!" I said angrily as I took a hold of his collar and pushed him further into the chair that he was seated on. "Daniel,
I could hear my heart pounding as I wondered what I could do. His footsteps didn't seem to be coming my way but I knew that with time, it actually would. The man definitely suspected that something was actually going on and the sooner I was able to get rid of that thought from his mind, the better it would be for me. But the was no way I could actually get rid of that thought and so all I did was pray that his footsteps doesn't take him to where I stood. My prayers seemed to be working because almost immediately, he moved from my direction to yet another. I let out a small sigh of relief as he kept going, trying to get to the root of how those papers ended up there. "We need to do something," I whispered to Tony in very hushed voice but the man did not respond instead he just placed a hand over my mouth and as I turned around, I saw that my father had turned his neck towards the sound that I had just made. He took slow steps towards me and I froze in shock. He walked so close to w
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