RAFAELThere I was in the study with Rachael as we waited for Hernandez and Athena to come in. I had called them because I needed advice on the next step to take and I needed everyone to be present.“I still do not understand why you called her though.” Rachael said, referring to Athena. “Why should she be here in a strategy meeting?”“She offered to help and there might be something that she knows which we do not know.” I replied, “Right now, I need all the help I can get. It is my mother’s life that is on the line here so all suggestions and helpful ideas are welcome.”I could see that she was in no way pleased with that answer but I did not care. It would be strange to anybody and it sure as hell was strange to me, but for some reason, I felt like I could trust Athena with this. When we had spoken in the room back then, she had a look of sincerity in her eyes and I felt like I could trust the words that came out of her mouth. She looked like she actually was willing to help and at
ANDREAI felt all kinds of nervous as I prepared myself to follow Rafael into the meeting with my father. I had not been nervous the last time I went to see him but after knowing everything that I now knew, it was a given why I was this nervous. All of it still seemed like some sort of distant memory, a bad nightmare which I definitely wanted to wake up from as quickly as possible. I had tried to wake uo so many times but it definitely was not working. This was not a nightmare in any way. This was reality, my reality and I had to face it head on.So many thoughts kept on playing in my head as I kept on wondering what my father’s reaction when he saw me would be. His words over the phone were still playing in my head, he really did think I was some naïve brat of his that couldn’t handle herself. Thinking about it now, I wondered if perhaps he was right about that.In a way, I had been the cause of everything. I had been the one who put myself in the situation I currently was in. Whethe
“What the fuck do you mean by she is gone?!” Hermes yelled out, as his car sped along leaving the warehouse. He was completely furious at how things had ended between him and Rafael. Rafael was the one who had the last laugh as he got away with Athena while Hermes had to be led away, completely shielded by his guards to stop whoever was operating the sniper which was aimed at his head from taking a shot which would have definitely proven to be extremely fatal.The fact that one second he was completely in control and the next, it had all slipped right through his fingers continued to mess with his head. He had no idea how that had happened and even now as he sat in the car trying to think about it, he still couldn’t come up with an explanation as to why everything was the way it was.“Fuck all of this.” he yelled out, “You are all a bunch of incompetent fools.”His driver looked at him through the mirror of the car and they both locked eyes but he dared not say anything in objection.
RAFAELThe joy which I felt in my heart was beyond anything that I could bring myself to explain. It filled me up to the brim and I could feel it overflowing as I drove back to the house. A part of me had felt it was not going to work and I would have to hand over Athena to Hermes which would mean that he definitely has won. I had not expected that he would ask for my estate and everything that made me me, but the more I thought about it, the more sense it made.If I was in his shoes I most likely would do the same thing as well. It made sense for him to want to cripple me and take away my resources totally. I had half expected him to try to kill me there and then and maybe he would have tried to do it if I didn’t have the sniper trained on him. He already knew that if any of his men pulled the trigger, the chances of him making it out of there was extremely slim. There was no way he was going to want to die in a warehouse when he could leave to try to fight me another day. I knew Her
ATHENAImmediately I opened my eyes, they were greeted by the warm rays of sunlight that seeped in through the open windows. This was the first time in a very long time that I was having a very good rest and my heart was actually at peace. I knew it shouldn’t be because we were not completely out of the clear, but for some strange reason, I felt completely relaxed about everything.I sat up in bed and looked around, taking in the scene of the room as I thought about what today held. Being cooked up in the room and house all day had proven to be extremely boring but after all the recent activities that had happened, I knew exactly why I had to be in the house. A part of me was still scared that my father would do something completely crazy, for some strange reason, I couldn’t completely shake that feeling.This was the exact same way I had felt before we learnt about the abduction of Rafael’s mother. I didn’t know what to make of it though and so I brushed it to the back of my thoughts
RAFAELI woke up in a very good mood today. This was the first time in a very long time that something like this happened and I was sure I was going to embrace it. I remember giving my mother a huge hug goodbye before I stepped out of the house to the office. My assistant had been trying to reach me for weeks now to tell me about problems in the office but then I was facing my own problems so I had been blowing her off. I couldn’t do that anymore. I had to turn into the office today and have a couple of meetings to ensure that the business which I had setup was still running smoothly. It was a pain in the ass but it still had to be done.Today, it didn’t feel like a pain though because of the mood I had found myself in. I was sitting on the chair in the office trying to get through the mountain of paperwork and files which had stacked up on my desk over the past few days. Corporate life was definitely not for me but then I had to do it in order to maintain my status. This was how my i
Rachael lay in her room in the house as she thought about everything that was going on all around her. She had purposely boycotted the dinner last night because she was in no mood to share in the festivities that all of them were taking part in. They were acting like they had won and that the war was over when this was certainly only the beginning. If there was anybody that knew this very well, then it was certainly her.Given how closely she had worked with Hermes, she was well aware of everything that he was capable of. The depths in which he would go to come after people who he felt had wronged him totally was beyond anything that they could even imagine. They had no idea about this because they had not been with him for as long as she had been.They felt they knew the depths of Hermes’s evil but they were not aware that what they knew was only the surface level. Rachael had watched Hermes order hits on whole communities just because they refused to pay their dues to him. She had w
ATHENAMy heart had still not stopped beating frantically from the moment I stepped into the car. I kept on thinking about everything that had happened and what was going to happen. I had still not yet figured out what I was going to say and the time of reckoning was drawing closer and closer. Every time my eyes locked with Rafael’s mom’s, she shot me a smile and a look of reassurance, as if telling me everything will be alright without actually saying any words.I understood that she was trying her best to calm me down but nothing seemed to be working at that very moment. I hadn’t seen that bastard in months ever since he got married and now I was just going to show up at his doorstep with a baby in my belly. It was definitely going to be weird and I had no idea how he was going to take it.So many scenarios were running through my head as I sat in the car, tapping onto my knees, rhythmically. It was a method that I had developed many years ago in order to calm myself down when I was