"If she is, then our debt is paid," she repeated the words in deep thought.She arrived at their apartment and went straight to the bedroom, ignoring her mother who was sitting in the living room, waiting for her.Mrs Brown got up with the help of her walking aid and also entered the bedroom. She found Ruth lying on the bed still in her work clothes. She sighed and drew closer to her and also sat on the bed after shutting the door."How did it go with Mrs Hayford?" she asked and Ruth opened her eyes and lay on her back staring at the roof"Not too good. There was something about her statement which made me feel she was behind our misfortune," she replied Mrs Brown lowered her head and breathed heavily making Ruth turn to look at her"You remember the day we were leaving the apartment and I rather ended up in the hospital?" she asked "Yes, what about it?" Ruth asked "My fall on the stairs and the loosing of my tongue was no accident," she said and Ruth quickly sat up on the bed"Mrs
'They will not know what hit them," Mrs Hayford acknowledged with a smile.At the drinking bar, Nick had had his fill. Half drunk, he sat behind the wheel and started driving towards home.Back in Nick's apartment, Katherine was happy to learn Ruth and her mother left. "This is nice. Now I can have Nick to myself. She said and she searched her closet for a sexy nightgown to wear. She found a blue nightgown, with a flare at the end. The length was up to her thigh and it had a low back cut. Looking in the mirror one more time to admire herself, she let loose her blonde her and exited her room wearing a robe. She entered Nick's bedroom and lay in bed waiting for him. "What are you doing in my bed," came Nick's deep voiceKatherine open her eyes and scanned her environment."It's morning already?" she asked looking at the morning light shining into the room"No, it's dawn," Nick replied sarcastically "I said what are you doing in my bed?" he questioned again sounding furious "I was
"Mum, Aunty Cassandra," she called out and entered the bedroom and froze "I am not sure what happened but I found her like this?" Cassandra reported holding a wet tower in hand Ruth got closer and felt Mrs Brown's forehead and she had a fever. She blamed herself for her condition as she concluded acting code towards her may have triggered this. "I have some money with me, let's take her to the hospital," Ruth said and called an ambulance. She had a fever and was also unconscious. Ruth got into the ambulance with her mother and Cassandra followed them to the hospital in a taxi. She sat on the side and watched as the paramedics attended to her. They soon arrived a the hospital and her mother was put on a stretcher and quickly pushed into the emergency room. Ruth waited patiently for information on what was happening to her mother. She had already lost her father. She is all that she has left in the world. Chantel has found her family. They may have grown up together born of the
At another place in Los Angeles, Gustave was on a call with someone "Get me everything you find about that night. Something doesn't look right," he said before ending the call Back at Nick's apartment, he has just arrived home from work and as usual Katherine came to greet him but for some unexplainable reason, her presence was infuriating him. He walked past her ignoring her greetings and went straight to the office. Katherine followed him and knocked gently on the door wondering what was wrong with him. She knocked and entered the office without waiting for a reply and found Nick sitting behind his desk holding a piece of paper in his hand. "Everything alright?" she asked with concern and Nick lifted her gaze to look at her above the paper he was holding this face with a frown "I don't recall asking you to come inside," he said in a deep voice with traces of anger "I have reason to be concerned. You have been acting strange these past few days," she pointed out "Katherine, you
"Just a little more wait time and I am good to go," she said with a smile of achievement dropping herself on the bed. "Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day," she thought smiling to herself. She moved her body up the bed to lie down properly and covered herself with the sheet. With a smile plastered on her face. She slept excited about tomorrow. Early morning at the hospital, at 6 am, Ruth woke up to find her mother awake. "Mum, how are you feeling," she asked with concernShe blinked twice and looked around. Resting her gaze on Ruth she spoke but her voice was very low. Ruth drew closer to head her and all she heard was an apology. Ruth's eyes were quickly filled with tears."Mum, please don't do that to me again. I need you and I love you. We will get through this together," Ruth assured her and held her hand in hers.She respond with a nod and Ruth cleaned the tears that were falling from her eyes. Ruth didn't ask as she has been told it was a suicide attempt.At 7 am, the do
"Why do you want to see me?" she asked standing at the entrance with her arm crossed over her chest "You would need a seat for what I am about to tell you," he said pointing to a chairKatherine remain standing as she had no intention of doing what Gustave is requesting of her. "Once I become Nick's wife, I would let him get rid of cockroaches like this one," she thought resting one hand on her waist and staring at him with a frown "Okay, don't say I didn't warn you," he said and sat down crossing his leg. He opened his back and brought out some printed documents and placed them on the small table. Katherine looked at him wondering what he was up to. "Gustave, if you don't leave now I am going to call Nick and tell him you came here to harass me. Wait, I don't need to do that myself, I can let someone do that for me by screaming at me," she said and started screaming throwing herself on the ground "Help, somebody, help me," she screamed "I would just hand these documents over t
"What do you want from me? I confessed to him," she said "Good girl," he said and ended the call before she could make any requestShe cried calling him back but he won't answer."No!" she cried dropping herself to the ground.She lay on the floor crying her eyes out. This is not how she had planned things to go. How did it all come to this? Later that evening, after 9 pm, Gustave came to visit Nick. He knew his friend better than anyone. He knew how much he truly loved Ruth but the prom night incident made him relapse. With Ruth, he was becoming a better person and recovering from what happened with Jenny and now because of Katherine he had gone back to that terrible lifestyle. "Leave me alone," Nick said as soon as Gustave entered the study "Nick, life would throw so many things at you, good or bad, how they impact you is a decision you make," he said and they both heard a knock on the doorGustave went to answer it since Nick had decided to shut everyone out."Katherine?" Gusta
With the truth of what truly happened at the prom, Nick is now feeling regretful about how he treated Ruth. He had never cared about any woman that came into his life. He saw them as his sex toys following the heartbreak incident with his first love Jenny. Ruth was the only woman who made him want to change and be a good man again but then the prom incident happened and it made him relapse. "Help me find Ruth," Nick asked Gustave "Nick, you have your resources, use them to find her," Gustave suggested "Yes, you are right," Nick said and searched for his phone "Where is my dam phone," he yelled "Nick, Nick," Gustave called out to him realizing he is agitated "I would help you find Ruth," Gustave promised and picked up his phone from the table which he handed to him "Your phone," he said Nick took it from him with a thank you He unlocked it and went into his contacts and scrolled through and retrieved a number which he dialled immediately "Hello, I have a job for you," he said
"Yes, we found their hideout and took all of them to a warehouse. I was getting my revenge while the leader also end Nick but things didn't work out as expected. Nick was way ahead of us," She narrated and Chantel covered her mouth shocked "The rest of the story you know. I am here and so are you," she added and Chantel sat down next to her "So what are we going to do?" she asked "The leader mentioned to me on our way here that, he has a secret connection with some drug lord and he will get us out of here," she said "Do you believe him?" Chantel asked "Yes. They are allies. He was sure he will not abandon him and he has promised, he would not abandon me," she replied confidently Days passed and Mrs Hayford, Chantel and the group of criminals found themselves in court. The evidence was presented in court. Nick has been discharged from the hospital and he was present with Gustave, Cassandra, Mrs Brown was still in a wheelchair and Ruth at the court. Nick was called to the witness
Meanwhile, Chantel who had not been herself following the demise of her sister was now heading home after staying in the office for a while after closing. She packed the car in the garage and stepped out after a while heading for the main door. The servant opened the front door when they heard the car drive in. "Welcome home Ms Chantel," she greeted and Chantel just waved her hand in the air dropping the keys on the counter next to the door. She quickly changed her shoes to something more comfortable and the servant took them away to clean them. She headed straight for her bedroom. After taking a shower she just jumped into bed and closed her eyes. Meanwhile, at the station, Mrs Hayford was now awake and the leader of the criminal group together with his three men were all behind bars. At the hospital, Nick and Gustave received medical attention while Ruth and her mother were with a therapist. Cassandra had her leg bandaged sitting in the same ward as Nick and Gustave since t
He read and turned to Nick "The police are here," he said but before he could return his focus to the door, he was shot in the shoulder and the stomach, but Nick shot the man that had entered. "Boss, we are surrounded, the police are here," reported one of the men to the leader "What should we do?" he asked He said nothing but removed from his breast pocket what looks like a phone and flipped the pad open. The other men watched him as he dialled some numbers on the device and next, they heard explosions accompanied by screams. "Get everyone, out there and call the rest to come in," he ordered "I will take care of Nick and his friends, they are wounded right?" he asked and proceeded with the men to find Nick "Yes boss," the man replied and pulled out his phone to make a call as he followed his boss together with four other armed men to search for Nick and his friends. All this while, Mrs Brown was still locked up where Gustave kept her and Mrs Hayford was also still sleeping
"I don't intend to let you go. I will only be happy when I send you away to join your husband," she said and pulled a gun but before she could shoot her, someone shot her neck with something. She felt the back of her neck and pulled what looks like a dart and she fell to the ground. "Sssh, I am here to help," came the voice of a man in a mask. "I have to take you to somewhere safe," he said "Okay," Mrs Brown responded unable to recognize who her saviour is due to the mask he was wearing but the voice was very familiar. The man sneaked her out of the room and put her in another room. "Stay here quietly and whatever happens, don't scream and don't make a sound. I will come for you," he said and Mrs Brown nodded. She could not walk anyway and without her wheelchair, how far can she run was the question. She sat on the floor quietly as instructed by the man. She heard the door being locked but she remained silent as instructed. Even though she could not tell, the man that had re
"Looks like you have a lot of settlement to do Mr Hugo or should I say, Nicholas Brown;" the leader said and Nick only looked at him "Where is my family and what have you done with them?" he asked again "There are breathing. I can assure you of that. Now let's make this simple. I have all the documents on every property your parents owned. Some I am sure you didn't even know about. All you have to do is simple. Sign everything over to me," he said and gave him a document. Nick took the document from his hand looking at the man pointing a gun at him. He went through them. He did know of some of the properties mentioned including his company. There were some hotels and Estates his parent owned that he didn't know about. He looked through the document and immediately found out the reason why his parents were killed. Aside from the fact that his parents acquire so much wealth making them the 6th richest in the world. They were aiming to take over the security of every country. They wer
He went to the bedroom and ready saw a note. [If you want to see your family again, come to this address. Don't do anything funny, we are watching you] He read and his heart skipped multiple beats. He paced up and down the room thinking of what to do. "Who has my family, Mrs Hayford or the tugs that took my parents?" he thought and paced up and down the room. He took the clothes he was wearing off. He took a quick shower to remove the tunnel smell from himself. He put on fresh clothes and without combing his hair, he sent a message to Gustave. [I just got back and everyone is gone. All I have is a note asking me to come to an address] He typed and sent it to Gustave. He grabbed another jacket with a hoodie and went out of the house in Gustave's car. He rolled up the windows so no one will see him. He went off the main road towards the direction of the location he had on the paper. After driving for half an hour, he found himself on an untarred road heading towards a place that
The day went to a close and Alice called Gustave "Nothing is happening. The game is over so they are not doing anything," she reported "Okay, I will give you a callback," Gustave replied ending the call. He sat in his study for a while in deep thought. He tossed a few ideas around, unable to come up with anything, he left for the underground apartment. He locked the main entrance door and put the surveillance camera on and ensured he could see every part of the house on his phone. He headed for the underground apartment. Nick let him in and they went to the living room to talk after briefly engaging with Cassandra, Ruth and Mrs Brown "I know it sucks staying home all day," Gustave commented "Yeah, I never for once thought I will miss seeing people going about their normal routine and outside air," Ruth replied "I know the feel," Gustave acknowledged "How soon will this be over?" Mrs Brown asked "Not sure but it will be over soon and you can have your freedom," Gustave en
"O jeez, girl you have some dramatic entering. You almost gave me a heart attack," Gloria said still recovering from her frightAlice laughed and got up from the seat and walked towards Gloria and hugged her.'You poor little thing. Next time I will bring the paramedics along," she teased"You have not changed a bit," Gloria replied hugging her back. Alice sat down on the chair behind Gloia's desk and Gloria took her seat behind the desk. "Okay, I know the rat does not come out of its hole unless there is smoke or to hunt," Gloria said rotating the pen she had picked up from her desk after placing the file down in her hand. "You know me too well my friend," Alice said and got up from the seat walking towards the window"I came out to hunt," she replied over her shoulder and looking out the window"Huh!, which idiot fell into your trap?" Gloria asked laughing"A handsome one," Alice replied turning to face her"Wait, you want to settle down now?" Gloria asked sitting up in her seat
"Maybe, I am not sure. She is not my type of girl. Besides, I am not ready to date right now," he replied sounding awkward "Hmm, we need to be careful then. If she is doing this because she likes you, she may as well give you out if she feels betrayed or used," Nick pointed out and Gustave started thinking The ladies soon joined the men in the living room and they watched TV together. Gustave left for his floor after 8 pm. Everyone retired to their room. Nick lay on the bed with Ruth in his arms. Ruth was asleep but he was thinking of their plan to put an end to all their problems, The next day, Alice will be meeting her friend Gloria. He was confident until he realize Alice likes Gustave. After thinking about it for a while, he stretched his hand to fetch his phone from the night ensuring he didn't wake Ruth. Once he had the phone in his hand, he searched his contact and pulled a certain number. He typed a message and sent it to the person and placed the phone back on the nig