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
School was torture that day. Everytime I would look around me, showhow, I would see Olivia around. To make matters worse, I constantly saw her with Sandra and I knew that could not be good for me. Sandra was yet another person that wanted nothing else but to have me suffer for crimes that were not my fault. And that was the kind of person that Liv was hanging around with. I didn't need a soothsayer to know that they were constantly talking about me and it was not a good discussion. The discussion did not favour me in any way and I knew that better than anybody else did. I closed my eyes and trust to avoid them as much as I could but the more I looked down, the more I saw them. As if my torture was not enough, Stacy came around every now and then to add to it. She kept looking at me like I had something in my face and hanged around me all the time. I could not even get some quiet moments to even discuss anything with Tony because she was constantly around me, trying to show people t
We drove straight to Henry's office. Tony had keyed in the direction of the place to my GPS and we moved without making any stop. According to Tony, Henry was a time freak. He didn't like any of his appointments to be even a second late and if we arrived late, then he would not attend to us. I could not risk something like that happening and so I needed to drive faster than I usually do. But finally, we got to what looked like a car park. When I finally found a place to park and I came out, it was actually a car park with lots o luxury cars being sold by the minute. "You were not joking!" I exclaimed at Tony as I watched cars that I couldn't even dream of buying currently being sold by the minute to men that I could barely recongize. "Don't be deceived by all of these and try your very best to not actually look these men in the eye okay? They get irritated easily and if you stare at them so much without them knowing you, they will just assume that you are a cop and get rid of you i
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 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