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
We waited patiently in the cupboard till my father got what he wanted and then he finally walked out of the room without turning off the lights. "Is that supposed to be a trap?" I asked Tony and he smiled. "Yes. He wants to see if the light will go off or on and he will confirm it when he wakes up in the morning. I don't know if he has placed more triggers for us. I will say we take the document that we actually want to carry and go away with it, we don't need to stay here and complicate things further for us." I agreed with him even though I wished I could stay a bit longer and actually get to see more documents that will give me more insights about this man that I called my father. But as Tony said I had to keep my identity a secret. And even when I knew that dad wont do much to me, I could not imagine the things he would actually do to Tony if he discovered this. I may not be able to defend Tony the way I may want to and I could not risk starting a problem like that for the you
We looked at each other, none knowing what to do to make the matters of our life better. I looked at Tony with a strange look on his face as I wondered what could actually be going through his head, he was very silent but I knew that he was definitely thinking of something. The more I looked at him, the more I wondered what it could be but when his arched eyebrows and his silence got too much for me to bear, I finally asked him. "Well since you don't want to say anything without my asking. Take this as me asking, what exactly is going on?" I asked. "What are you talking about?" He asked me back. "You are obviously thinking of something. I want to know what it is." "The only thing that I am actually thinking of is how I can get out of here." "Tony, come on now, I am actually being serious here," I told him when I notice the shimmer in his eyes. Tony was always the friend who like to joke a lot. He had a lot of things to say about life in general and he never ceased to keep his op
"Any more questions?" Tony asked breaking me from my tran of thoughts and bringing me back to reality with him. I was scared to ask the next question that was on my mind and I didn't know if Tony had the answer but I needed to know. "The relationship between my father and this man, is it because he wanted to clean some money as well?" I asked. Tony looked at me, contemplating if he should answer that question or not. I could see it in his eyes that he was terrified to answer the question and tell me what was actually going on. He feared of how I would react and the different emotions I would feel. But I think his most major concern was how I would take the matter and respond to it when we finally get to meet with Henry. He didn't think it wise to risk it, I could see it in his eyes and immediately I saw the confusion in them, I knew he would opt for the easy way out. "Right now, I cant say for sure because even when Henry is known on the street as a money cleaner, he does have oth
I woke up the next morning to screams echoing from downstairs. As soon as my eyes got open, I knew that I was not in for a surprise because I knew the exact people that were actually fighting. Deborah and my father. I was shocked that the woman was still around. I had thought that dad would have sent her away immediately he learnt of what she had done. And he had but the woman refused to leave. Still, I believed he would have gotten rid of her if truly he wanted to but he didn't and that made me wonder why. Was it only because of love or did this woman know something about my father that he didn't want anyone else to know and because of that, he was keeping her around to buy her silence? Tony woke up a few seconds later, also not completely bothered by the argument coming from downstairs. I had told him in details everything that was going on during the process of us getting here and he knew that currently, the two lovers were not on the best of terms. "Your dad didn't kick her o
I wasn't going to answer that question. The only condition in which I would answer it is if I actually wanted to be dropped dead. Dad was not the type that liked people listening in on his conversations and worse when he was angry, he knew very well how to transfer that aggression to another person. The best thing was to keep shut but with the way he looked at Tony and I, I kne that even keeping quiet would put me in a ton of trouble. My hands were shaking. It was not that I feared my father but the truth was that i grew up being beaten by him a lot and currently, I didnt know why he would be upset about most things but I knew that the man loved to use his hands more than his words. Mom was always the one who knew how to calm him down but now that mom had left, he was just a walking ticking bomb and I always knew how to set him off.But now that I didn't even know the kind of illegal things he was doing and I was just finding out that his hands are not as clean as I would have thoug
We left home after breakfast and got to school just in time before our second lecture for the day. We had missed the first because we were hoping that we would get more information about our research from the horses mouth. But when Deborah came back after her call, all she could talk about was her daughter and how she actually knew the guy and had feelings for him. My heart broke the more I heard someone else say it. She wasn't supposed to have feelings for the guy, she was supposed to have feelings for me but somehow, it was very difficult for her to do that and yet, she chosed to be with a man who did not give a hoot about her. A man that I knew was using her for the most stupid reasons and soon, I was going to find out what that reason was. I looked at my face in the mirror and remembered how it looked when I stared at it through the cutlery in the dinning room and how my dad looked at me. I could only hope that the young man did not put two and two together and later find out 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
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