“Ask him boss if what is his crime."
“Okay but from now on, he will be under my protiction. Are we clear?” Angelo firmly said ignoring what the other inmate said.The man hold Angelo’s hand then clasp both hands and bowed as a gesture of thanks and respect.“You go to that bed.” Angelo commanded at the new arrival and point the double deck bunk bed on the opposite side.The new arrival immediately followed Angelo and utter foreign words again. Angelo felt something mysterious about the man. For weeks the man has no visitors. Angelo ask the guard about the man’s crime but even them has no explanation. They hinted that the man’s crime was related to drug trafficking. A crime despised by Angelo so he begun to keep his distance at first. But the man is always following him where ever he went in the compound.“Le Fong.” The man constantly said to Angelo, pointing to his chest. Angelo predicted that it was the man’s name so he called him Le Fong. They tried to communicate thru sign language. Until he begun to like the man.Until one day, Le Fong got a visitor. A lawyer and a woman. The woman was pretty and her feature shows royalty. The lawyer was a Filipino. Le Fong and the woman talk for a while and then turned to Angelo. Uttered a foreign word which he could not understand.“She said, Thank you.” The lawyer interpreted.Angelo flashed his timid smile and said, “What crime he was in, Attorney?”The Pinoy lawyer introduced himself as Atty. Jack Bien. Angelo learned that Le Fong was a victim of mistaken identity. He was Vietnamese and was just visiting as tourist. But because Le Fong cannot speak English the arresting officers, filed a case against him as drug trafficker.“They were looking for chinese drug courier, incidentally they found Le Fong and was traded as PALIT ULO.” The lawyer furthr explained.PALIT ULO is a modus of some crooked police to show off their accomplishment and to declare cases as closed. Presenting dummies like Le Fong and freed the guilty in exchange for money.“This man is so pitiful." The lawyer said. "The family was looking for him for long time. That woman is his sister. They never stop until they got leads where Le Fong was lock up. But it took them months before they found where Le Fong was. That day Le Fong was freed. Angelo thought about his situation. Like Le Fong he was also a victim of crooked elements of Police Force. He was framed with a crime he did not commit. Robbery and murder was his case. Planted evidence and fabricated testimonies brought him to jail. He later on learned that the frame up was orchestrated by police officer who wanted him out from the operation and replaced by the officer’s crooked men.But again, deep inside he believed that it was his father who brought him to jail. If he was not abandoned, maybe he finished schools and have a better life. Not like this. Time will come. Time for reckoning. His anger towards his father constantly grow as sufferings filed up.Be ready Arnald Lopez, I will get back to you. Very soon.One day Angelo received an unexpected visitor. Le Fong was with a man his age. The man introduced himself as Han Le.“Le Fong was my younger brother.” Han Le continued in straight English, a language that Angelo understand. “He said thank you for protecting him during his time here.”“So you speak English. Why is it that Le Fong can’t?” Angelo asked a little intrigued.“I lived in America for quite sometimes. But now I am in our country to take over our family business.” Han Le narrated.“Thank you for your visit.”“Don’t thank us yet. I have a proposal for you.”Angelo was puzzled but said no words.“Le Fong told me how tough you are. I want you to work with me. I need people like you?”“How could I, I am in jail and my sentence is life.”
“Don’t worry, we will do something about it. As far as I knew you are just framed.”In a month Angelo was freed. He later on learned that Han Le had pulled some strings in the bureaucracy. He later learned that Han Le was an influential leader in their country. His family was actually very rich with lots of business interest. Among them is export. Angelo learned the trade until he was assigned as point man handling all transaction in the Philippines.Just a few years, Angelo gained his millions and his reputations as businessman. He learned the trade well. His experienced in the underworld before help him to delivered all their exported goods to the Philippines from agricultural products, textiles and almost everything. He became the master of pulling strings from every office he dealt with. He learned that everybody has his price. Money can buy everything.He acquired properties in both countries. He immersed to business and social circle. His good looks and wit, are his passport to enter even in the very illusive circle of elites. The world of his father and his brothers and sisters.By this time, he had already known everything about his despised family. His research was thorough with the help of the private investigator he hired. He had already found out about the other siblings. And he promised to himself that he will bring them down one by one. He will introduce to them the true meaning of sufferings. The sufferings he suffered from being abandoned.Among his brothers and sisters, Samantha was the most visible in the social circle. Being an international model, she was always featured in magazines and newspapers. It was easy for Angelo to bump and befriend Samantha.He was amazed how the little girl he saw when he was seven years old turned into a beautiful gorgeous lady.He was almost tempted to bring Samantha to bed with him. Her beauty was really exceptional. Her pretty face was almost angelic and her body was so appealing. He had already gone to bed with many pretty girls in countries he visited but Samantha was really different. There are nights he woke up fantasizing Samantha. He almost jerked off thinking Samantha making love to him. And the temptations even grew stronger as time went by.He made his way to meet her in one of the fashion shows in New York and they actually dated a couple of time but everything just ended in dinner. When Samantha invited him to escort her during her father’s birthday, Angelo felt that fang inside him. At last he will personally meet Don Arnald Lopez and his other brothers and sisters.Sleep was not easy that night. Angelo remembered the events and how he played along with his brother’s and sister, especially Samantha who is so pretty with her red gown. She played well as his girlfriend, and as he smelled that scent from her almost brings his erection.His excitement grows stronger as he plotted his plans in his mind. He smiled and wonder how Don Arnald feel when he destroyed his lovely daughter Samantha.It’s payback time.WITH so many things occupying her mind, Samantha was surprised to see Angelo Lopez in her office accompanied by her secretary Becky Sanchez.“He insisted Boss.” Becky reasoned.“That is okay, Becky. You can leave us now.”“You are very hard to find, Boss.” Angelo said mockingly. “Cannot reach your phone and the apartment was empty and no neighbor can tell where you transfer.”Samantha understood Angelo’s resentment. Because of the fast turned of events in her life, she actually forgotten about the man. Due to Franks advice she terminated her subscription with her old cell phone, instead she used burner phone. An inexpensive phone designed for temporary call. According to Frank it will be safer so that no one can track her. She forgot to inform Angelo about it.Also due to Frank’s insistence they already move to the mansion. Her mother resisted it at first but when she realized the gravity of danger to Samantha being Frank’s daughter she eventually obliged. She already realized by now t
MARISA was overwhelmed, elated and more than happy seeing her new face. She was even more beautiful now. The doctor had really done a miracle on restoring her damaged face. She cried and hugged Angelo with too much happiness.“I think this needs for a celebration.” Angelo suggested silently feeling overwhelmed too. The burden that was lurking inside him and the fear that Marisa could not make it suddenly disappear.“Ohh… honey. I am so thankful.” Marisa said with misty eyes and then turned around. “Thank you Doctor.”“Thanks the Lord ma’am. I am just his instruments.” The doctor humbly answered. “The miracle was from him.”Marisa nodded in silence. She believed the doctor. In her past reading of the holy bible she contemplated much about her past and she realizes how lucky she was. A blessing that she should share to less fortunate. She was so touched and now she had promised herself that she will do good deeds in the future.They dined happily that evening as a celebration. She now r
FRANK was thinking if he will tell Samantha everything about his secrets. When his wife and son Roberto was killed in the car explosion, he vanished for a year. He also spread rumors that Franco Ortega was also killed in the incident. His youngest daughter Beverly, orphaned at two years old was raised by his wife’s parent.When he resurrected, he became incognito and very careful. He transacted business online and made some slight changes in his appearance through plastic surgery. He became Frank Sevilla. In his absence he stayed at the hotel he inherited from his grandfather. That was the time he met Divina Montes and Samantha was born.He looked at Samantha and contemplate whether it is her time to inherit the organization. He sensed that she had the quality of a good leader. In her few months as Chief Executive Officer of the company, Samantha showed prowess in decision making. Decision making makes or breaks a leader. Poor decision went astray while good decision made it through.
The Boss lead Samantha to a sitting room after they eat. It was a huge room with no windows but well lighted. There was a steel framed working table and a sofa. Aside from collection of antiques, the room was almost bare. No pictures or paintings hanged. Only a brown painted wall with high ceiling.The Boss took a bottle of wine and pour it into two wine glass and handed Samantha the other one which she eagerly took. She badly needed a drink after the incident of gun fire and surprises that had happened. Her adrenaline was still up and she wanted to eased a bit.“I know you are surprised seeing me here.” The Boss said after he emptied his glass. “I think we have to be introduced properly. I am Franco Ortega. But to you and your mother I am Frank Sevilla. I am sorry that I did not introduce you myself earlier. I have reasons.”“So you knew that I am your daughter all along?” Samantha said sounding like a statement of annoyance.“Yes. Since you were born. I was in the hospital when you
AS they speed away going to the office’s direction, Constantine eyes was wary and wandering. He was looking at every direction of the road. The bodyguard seated at the front also do the same. Samantha was sitting at the back and trying to relax but she could not. She sensed something was up to. The way Constantine and the other bodyguard was acting made her nervous. She touched the gun on her bag and adjusted her bullet proof vest.Samantha was thinking about her daughter and was almost tempted to make an order to turn around and go back. Constantine had fill her in about how dangerous Marisa Madrid’s family. An old mafia family that made things done by violence and guns. She glanced back and saw the other car following them. It was part of the three car convoy. Their car was in between and the first car leading them was speeding constantly.As they are about to cross the bridge, there was an explosion in front of them. The first convoy was almost hit and then there was another explos
Marisa Madrid was sleeping in her hospital bed. Angelo was staring at the woman who was fully bandaged on the face with broken nose and gunshot wounds on the right cheek. The wound was not fatal because it exited the soft skin of the jaw but the doctor said that it will need longer therapy to restore both the skin and the broken jaw.Marisa also suffered fractured bones and limbs. Other than that she was already out of danger and the good thing is that the baby was not affected. Angelo got a mixed emotion about what happened. He learned that Marisa provoked the fight but he could not imagine that Samantha was now capable to break somebody’s limb. What happened to the sweet soft woman that he used to loved? It seems that something had turned out within the woman that made her a killer.Marisa moved and open her eyes. She was wary at first but when she saw Angelo sitting beside her bed she started to mumble incoherent words. The bandage and the wounds made her difficult to talk.“P-Plea