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24. The Drive
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Until she met him 25. A Kept Woman
As she continued the drive home, she noticed the same black car from earlier following her. She had that scared feeling all over again as she had before but this time the that dread feeling felt so real to her. She wanted to face palm herself as she recalls not talking Derbie’s number earlier, by the look of things, it seems that person was scared of Derbie after all who won’t be? Derbie screamed trouble from a distance. She thought to herself as she smiled a little remembering her behavior earlier on in the day.Against her better judgement, she decided to drive at a high speed in attempt to escape the black car but the car also followed closely behind her. She drove pass the police patrol car and cussed underneath her breath because she thought the police will give her a ticket. Just as that thought occurred to her, she became rejoiced within herself by the fact that stopping her to give her a ticket will also save her from the freak stalking her.But to her dismay, the police who wa
Until she met him 26. His Anger
At the police station, Matthew was given a seat at the Directors office and was watching the scene unfold. His heart was gladden when he saw how Alice was humiliated and disgraced by the officers without any justified reason, all because he told them that she offended him, ‘now that will teach her a lesson or two not to offend me in the future. Im glad she will experience first hand the power of the Leej family in the country’. He thought to himself proudly.Alice was utterly humiliated and disgraced, they kept her handcuffed and had her kneel down at the entrance of police station with a sign saying,”I, a mere prostitute have offended the young master of the Leej family. Please Master Leej, forgive me!”.It was pleasing to Matthew as he sat down and watched the officers make fun of her, her entire face with flush with humiliation and she put her head down to conceal her face. People took their phones out and was making videos and also taking pictures of her, she wanted to cry so bad
Until she met him 27. The Leej Family’s Chaos
Alex called Jake to withdraw all Johnson fundings in the Leej companies and make words go out to other investors to withdraw their findings or face his wrath. Since no one wants to face his wrath as he has invested in a more than 90% of companies in M City and beyond, then every other company under the Johnson’s investment will go bankrupt within hours of offending him simply because of one family. Hence silently they all withdrew their investment from the Leej company one after the other.Matthew has been in the police cell for hours, he has long regained his consciousness and was out of his fake unconsciousness. He had been banging on the metal cells and shouting to be let but no one dare go close to him in fear of offending either him or Mr Johnson.“Please! Come on at least just fucking get me something to eat or drink! I’m dying here!” Matthew sighed tiredly in a loud voice. ‘Ha! to think I wanted to do this to that bi*ch just to make her submit to me but as it stands now, I’m ra
Until she met him 28. The Corp
When Alice and Alex got home, they were too tired to talk about what went on but Alice was very grateful, although she didn’t know how Alex get the knowledge about her where about that evening and was able to come to her aid that evening. Not only did he come to her rescued but he even bullied those that was bullying her. She was too tired of the stressful day she had and thought to herself quietly, ‘maybe I can ask him tomorrow about how he knew where I was and cane for me. Well I will also like the know the fate of Matthew too’.After a murmured goodnight between them, they went to their respective rooms, cleaned up and went to bed without dinner that evening. Food was the last thing on their mind after such a stressful day. Because of how tired Alice was, she slept till midday with rubbing her eyes tiredly. She yawned while stretching her body when she saw the time, “damn it! I have school hours ago! How did I sleep till so late in the day? Oh why didn’t anyone wake up for school a
Until she met him 29. Dinner
The office was very big like it can house about fifty people and still have space left. It was bright with an amazing view of the town. Because It was located on the fourth floor so the view of the town was magnificent. From all the furnitures and the layout of the office, they were beautifully designed and spotless clean.And when she turned to greet the owner of the space she was standing at, she was met with the eye gawking Alexander. The latter had been gawking at her since she entered the office. Standing shyly, she felt an electricity sparkle between them when their eyes met briefly. Then she slowly took in his appearance, his shoulders were broad and wide, not having a lot of contact with men since she was a teenager but having seen a lot over the years on the television and magazine covers, this man was the most beautiful man she has ever laid eyes on. He was extremely beautiful looking but not in a feminine way, more in a manly way.She lift her eyes to his face, she blushed a
Until she met him 30. Linda Davison
The entire Leej and Davison has been in chaos over the issue with Jnr. Matthew since the news of his arrest and detain had been in the front of news papers for days now. All attempts by the the Leej family to at least meet with Mr Johnson doesn’t seem to yield any positive results.The Davison family is also in a dilemma over the matter because the wedding of Jnr Matthew and Linda was to take place in a week time but as Matthew in jail with no hope of him coming out soon, the arrangements are crumbling down and money used will be going to waste. The Leej family couldn’t afford any more losses and because they’ve become inferior to the Davison family, they are trying everything to secure the marriage between the two families.The Davison on the other side, wants the marriage to go as planned for them to save face but a particular Davison doesn’t want the marriage anymore, not since the richest man in M city has reminded her of his existence and had been occupying her mind for some time
Until she met him 31. Humbled
The Leej family have been keeping the news of young master Matthew Leej arrest as a top notch secret and had been hoping that he will be released before the media got hold of the news. The scandal that will follow that will definitely ruin the family. It’s was as if their luck changed when Matthew appeared at the entrance of the Leej residence on the fifth day post his arrest. He was disheveled, lost weight and his eyes that always held a mischievous glint seem dull and lifeless. It made people wonder what actually happened to him when he was arrested. The maids and everyone present was baffled.“Master Leej welcome, please do you want something or should be help you anything?” all the maids rushed forward to attend to him at once. Although he has been a bully and was very rude to them in the previous years, they still have to take care of him when the need present itself. The maids been working for the Leej family for so long and his current appearance was very pitiful to uphold. Brin
Until she met him 32. Matthew’s Story unfolded
With all the Leej family seated, he started the story of how he made plan for an innocent girl to suffer just because of his ego but rather suffered in place of her.“You’ve all heard the news of how Alice cheated on me years ago and so I went ahead to date her sister Linda right?”, he questioned them with his head bowed down. He decided to tell the story from stretch.They family nodded eagerly not understanding where this was leading in terms of what happened to him in jail. With a bitter smile, he muttered in reply. “well it’s a lie, I was using Alice only to get close to Linda. I lead her on for years and dated her because of her sister so when Linda agreed to go out with me, I dumped Alice immediately for her without a second thought. Linda and I couldn’t just come out with the truth so we made that story up so we won’t look bad in front of people.”The family members that were once worshiping the ground Linda walked on suddenly disperse her as they thought of how she could do t
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