Alex“You can walk?” Father asked. I could see the surprise in his eyes as he spoke; he had not expected it, I made sure not a single track was left. I had him exactly where I wanted. I nodded slowly. “Yes, as a matter of fact, I've been able to walk for a while now. I Had the doctor kept it discreet, he would of course have told you about my progress if you'd asked, but I guess you were too busy with other things to worry about your crippled son.” I explained sure enough that the words were shot towards him like daggers.He seemed ashamed after hearing my words; he averted his gaze from me, but I didn't flinch by a bit; I wasn't worried about what his outcome might be. So long as I had all that I wanted, and things were fine so far. “Goodness, this is coming as a surprise to me, Alex , and I've been really busy. I expected him to reach out to me if anything came up. I have failed in that aspect, but tell me, why put yourself through the stress of Wheeling back and forth when you
Hayle 'S POV.It's been days already yet nothing sensible had happened, apart from the fact that he was indeed alive, nothing else new to me.my search for him was futile The first woman I had hired turned out to be half of the money that had been sent to her before I realized.As soon as I demanded results or at least proof of work, she blocked me. I had not reached out to her; I did more research and hired a new person who had found out that Alex was indeed alive, but his location wasn't accessible at the moment.A lot of this money had been drained; I had just a little left, and at this point I wouldn't even be able to find Alex if I was spending the last dime I had on the private investigator.A call settled in, and I raised my eyes slowly to see it was Giovani. Ever since he got me a phone, he kept calling me around, even the most basic. I couldn't just shove him off, could I? He has been helpful to me in a lot of ways.Only little could be done. I swallowed hard, picking up h
Giovanni.A loud squeal of laughter eased through my lips on hearing her words. I rested into a chair before kicking up my feet, laughing hard at whatever joke she seemed to be trying so hard to make.“Common now, Hayle , be for real, why are you here?” I asked again. After taking a long amount of time to laugh in her face, she held a right and diem trip to the hem of her dress before swallowing hard.“I don't get it; what exactly do you think I'm here for? Jokes?” Ahr asked, getting quite uneasy, and just then did I realize she seemed to be serious about whatever silky requests it was that she intended to make.“Oh, this isn't a joke? Are you serious? I'm expected to throw twenty-five thousand us down the decking drain for your mom? What makes you think I'll do such a stupid thing?” I asked, but she said nothing. Maybe she had a lot on her mind at the moment; it was just being curious in her speech. I wasn't entirely sure what the problem was about, but to see how she was bradley thi
Alex.My eyes remained pinned amongst the crowd waiting outside. I scanned through very carefully; my father had said that as soon as I got out of the airport there would be a man waiting for me.And it was just like he had stated, a man was indeed waiting, his eyes lingering in my wheelchair with a look tickled with irritation. “Mr Alex?” He called out to me, and I nodded with a smile, determined to keep calm and act foolish for as long as I possibly could; getting all wrapped up in their talks and acts wasn't something that I wanted.“You caught a quick glance of me; I was worried I would miss you,” I responded, feigning ignorance to the curt manner in which he had spoken.“Well, there aren't many disabled people in wheelchairs now, are there?” He asked once again before walking away from me,I said nothing else after him, drawing up a plan in my mind. My father has asked me to come down here to handle important business, but seeing how the driver who had been assigned to me only m
HAYLE S POV I laid on my side. My eyes wide opened in the complete darkness; it wasn't like I had many options to it; as a matter of fact, I was just as helpless; my sanity was teetering on the edge, and my hope and thoughts on how to save my mother kept dwindling. There was nothing that could be done; I was weak and hopeless, but most of all, seeing how things had begun unfolding these past few days really did bother me. Was I entirely sure I wanted a child born into situations like this? Where I couldn't even afford to get his drugs, of course I wasn't lazy; I would work several jobs, odd or part-time if I couldn't find office work, but then what were the long term plans on how to afford the bills and get myself together, sending a child to school?Besides, would it ever be safe in a country where the maniac Giovanni stayed?I couldn't risk the odds, that as much as I hoped Giovanni would some day wake up and grow bored of me or have no interest, none of it was happening, and a
HAYLE's POV.“This is bad, really bad.” I muttered beneath my breath, my eyes scanning through the files in my hands, and my palms became sweaty while I was struck by a sudden migraine.I ran my hands to my hair right after slamming the documents into the table.“What have you been up to? What exactly have you been doing?” I asked, yet their silence infuriated me more; it seemed almost as if they were pleased to see me in such distress.“I have a deadline to hold in less than a day, and you all bring this missing file and find missing reports for me. What have you been up to all week? Even a day before, how am I to present to the board new product ideas when the entire fund for the project has been looted from scratch?” I asked again.I wasn't pleased with their stares, and I fidgested, air narrowing down my lungs, I loosened the top button on my shirt.“Should we tell Mr. alex ?” The head of finance is required,My stone-cold glare passed across to him and probably rang a bell in hi
ALEX's POV.“What happened next?” I asked, my phone glued to my ears while I pranced back and forth down the halls. I swallowed hard, reeling in every thought of how the entire scenario could have played out.“Mr Alex ?” She called out my name. I could imagine her seated against her balcony, the laptop on her table, her feet crossed while she leaned into the armchair, her phone strapped to her ears."Yes, Hayle, you did a good job, and I'll be sure to commend you for it. I'm happy about the progress. I knew you were the perfect one for the job. Imagine if I never had you in charge of what would have happened.” I asked meekly, a faint smile on my face, before I punched myself on the couch.“Nothing else? That's all?” She asked out of sheer curiosity. I missed her. With each word she said, I pictured it in my head. My eyes were pressed firm, and her soothing voice rang like music to my ears. “What else is it that I should know about? Any other problems!?” I asked him, half-mindedly, on
ALEX's POV“Thank you all; Miss Hayle here filled me in on the entire situation. San showed it had been handled in my absence. I appreciate every one of you for aiding her in the best way. Moss Hayle here had pulled out the meeting perfectly! "Well, I on the other hand, had gotten the contract signed; it's a win for everyone, isn't it?” I asked They all giggle and chorus in unison, each excited. This was not only their habit, but also mine. I made sure to give them a slight tip whenever there's a very huge amount involved in any contract signed.“Be sure to share the money with your juniors, okay?” I asked again, tilting my head slowly and cracking up my eyebrows, knowing well that it was always one thing or another with them.Each of them was a department head, a director of a team, and I didn't want the younger lines to leave our “Also, it did come to my understanding they'd have a lot if you had a thing or two to say in my absence about Miss Hayle and me, and I can see your lo