OLIVIA“Beautiful flowers, who are they from?” asked Marcus coming in and standing next to me. “I think they are from Nick.” He didn’t say a word and just moved away from me. “They mean nothing, flowers are not going to erase everything Nick did to me, and they will not change our plans. Nick Jones is still going to pay for what he did to me, and I am going to make sure of it.”I didn’t know who I was trying to convince by saying that, the truth was that the flowers affected me and left me with many questions. Like what made him send me flowers suddenly, what was going through his mind, and did he think they were going to fix anything?“Phase two is underway. It will be any day now; we just have to wait.” Okay changing the subject was a clear indication that he didn’t want to talk about Nick. “The flowers don’t change anything Marcus, really.” I didn’t know why I felt the need to convince him of this. I just did.“I understand, don’t worry about me.” I nodded and went back to the loun
UNKOWN POVSomewhere downtown of New Village City, the shadiest place in the city, two individuals were meeting. The other was a young master of one of the prestigious families in New Village. The young master’s luxurious car was sticking out like a sore thumb in that place. One could tell it didn’t belong there.But to him, the car was unmarked and mysterious, not like the other cars he owned that were marked and could be easily recognised. The other was in disguise, no one could tell who the person was. Or what gender.The voice was modified and had a mask cover the whole face. Even the young master didn’t know who the individual was, but he was happy with the information the stranger was providing for him. “Are you prepared to enter the next stage? You saw that Walker was not affected in the slightest by what we did today. I want us to do more.”The young master said, he thought that burning that warehouse down was going to stop Olivia and Marcus, but the stubborn man appeared on t
NICKI was woken up by my phone ringing nonstop. I tried to ignore it, but the person was persistent. He would call and cut then start again. Without opening my eyes, I picked up the call. “What!” I was so annoyed; did they see the time? Well, I didn’t know what time it was as well, but it was not the time to be calling people.“Sir, I am sorry to wake you, but you have to see the news, it’s bad boss, really bad.” I was awake in a second. I got out of bed wearing only my shorts and went to switch on the tv. “We don’t know who leaked it, but Jones enterprises stock is plummeting over the news.” I caught that bulleting at the end.I didn’t know what it was about and what was it about our stock plummeting. Just what the hell was going on? I cut the call and checked on my phone. Written in bold the article was there. “Jones enterprise stock is plummeting following the news of their former CEO James Jone’s dirty laundry being aired for everyone to see.Mr Jones senior is accused of steppin
NICKI threw the phone on the wall, and it shuttered into pieces. Father looked at me with a raised eyebrow not moved at all by my outburst. Just when I thought I was wrong about my wife, she goes and does something like this. If she wanted to be with Walker, then why couldn’t she just be with him without doing such things.I now don’t regret sending her to jail, it was clear that she deserved it, it was only a pity that my son had to be caught in the middle of his mother’s schemes resulting in him being born in prison. I wanted to make it up to her for sending her there. To bring her back home but I was just fooling myself.Olivia was worse than I thought, it was clear that I didn’t know the woman I married at all. “Stop pacing of you will dig a hole in my study and I don’t want that.” he was pissing me off as well. How could he be so cool when our world was falling apart.“Reporters are camped outside waiting for you. Our investors and board of directors want answers, hell. I want a
OLIVIAI sat there watching the news with my jaw dropped. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and seeing in the news and the silence from the Jones family was worrisome. They must know that the situation was not going to go away without them addressing it.It was midday and the news broke in the middle of the night apparently and still there was no statement issued by the company or the family. Their stock continued to plummet, and it was not looking good. Every news house was running the story and the video of dad going into the club and coming out an hour later.Besides the news I wondered who did it, it was clear that the whole thing was intentional and the question on my mind was who did it. Who had the guts to attack the Jones directly like that, I feared for that person because once they find out who the person is. That person was going to regret messing with them.“I wish I had thought of something like this a long time ago, but I take my hat off to the person who thought of
OLIVIAMy hands shook as I typed a reply. “Nick, I didn’t do this, you have to believe me.” my eyes were glued to the screen waiting for his reply. I didn’t want to get on Nick’s bad side like that. I wanted revenge yes but in business. I would never go after the family like that. I was not that kind of person.Also, why did he think I did this, what evidence did he have to think that I would do something like that? I stood and started pacing. Nick could be a hot head and there was no telling how he was going to retaliate. He already sent me to jail for something I didn’t do once, who knew what he would do this time.My head was spinning as I kept checking the phone and going to messages like one would magically appear. With him telling me that he understood or that he sent the text to the wrong person, that it was not meant for me. But nothing.“Olivia, what is wrong.” Marcus asked coming in. I handed my phone to him showing him the text. “I don’t know what kind of man this is, doesn
NICKTwo days later and the news about my dad and sister had not died down yet. I was sick of it and wanted it to be over already. But it seemed the reporters were not going to stop until they got the whole story. My parents refused to indulge them, they refused to give a statement again and give them the full story.I have been working from home because my office is crowded by those vultures. It didn’t help that my lawyer wanted me to let my son stay with Olivia. She said it was good for children to grow up with their mothers, but my concern was the kind of role model Olivia was going to be to my son. The woman was not who I thought she was.She went after my family, she might hate me, but she went after her son’s family. What was that? our son still has to know us; what did she think she was doing when she put something like that out in the world for all to see. Did she want our son to grow up thinking that our family was bad
NICKI was shocked, mother would never do something like that. “What are you talking about?” she ignored me and took her bag then headed to the door with me following behind. “I assume you parked at the back, yes?” I nodded and she walked forward.I couldn’t get what she said out of my mind. What did she mean mother chased her mother away? She didn’t seem angry that father found her, she was angrier that he didn’t tell her that he managed to find her. Would someone who chased her mother away back then do that? I didn’t think so.“Don’t think too much little brother, I understand where your mother was coming from. From what I have been told, her relationship with your father was still new when my mother went there with me. she must have felt threatened by her and me.” I said nothing. She sat next to me in the car and Given drove us home.Could it have been mother who warned