The Twist

CHAPTER 1

Jack`s POV

“Ah, finally, what a tiring day,”

I usually use to be exhausted with work but today, the workload was just too much, my whole body was in pain. I really needed a masseuse, I was still yet to settle and find one. I pack up all my files ready to go home when my phone beeps. I open my phone and see a message, I ignore it, I will attend to everything when I go home. Now, I just want to finish packing up. I close my windows when my phone starts buzzing. Angrily, I pick up my phone, all I want is to pack up, but everybody just seems against me today. I tap on my phone screen to see it is my PA. I swipe it to pick the call.

“Good evening sir.” I roll my eyes.

“Evening.” My tone is laced with anger and I am very sure he will notice it, after all, he has been by my side for years now.

“Sir, I am calling to draw your attention to the message I sent earlier, please do well to see it whilst in the office.” I inhale deeply, my veins popping out.

“Is that all?” Honestly, I want to just bail out but since it is just one urgent task, I might as well just finish it up.

“Yes please.” Without further ado, I quickly cut the call before any more message or task can come in. I open the message and it is definitely not what I expect.

“Please report home, orders from Mr Solomon.”

Father rarely demands for things and especially not on such formal notes. I can`t think about any particular action that will require such formality, my thoughts just keep on raging, my mind crosses death, but if such calamity happened to father, it would have been on the news the very minute it happened. I quickly erase it from my thought, it is certainly not that. Is Dad about to remarry, the press would have also carried it, something fishy and strange is going on. I shake the thoughts off my head, I will find out everything when I get home. I get into my car and I speed past the break limits, I will pay for them in the twinkle of an eye. I go home and the first thing that draws my attention are my brother`s cars. They are all parked neatly beside each other. And I start wondering if truly the old man has gone to the heavens, I loosen up my tie, nervousness tightening its grip on me. I stroll in, I do not bother asking the maids about them, I know they are with father already, that is, if my worst fear has not come to pass. I open father`s door and the first place my eyes dart to is father`s bed. It is clean and arranged and I let out a breath I didn`t know I was holding. I turn around and I see all of my brother`s standing, all in seriousness and straight faces.

“Father.” I acknowledge still curious about the reason for this impromptu meeting.

“Welcome.” He responds to my greeting, I keep silent but I know my eyes are raging a thousand questions in them.

“I called all of you here in regards to your respective inheritance.”

He stops to stare at us, his eyes bearing the seriousness of his words, I finally relax, I know I am definitely going to get the company and many others. I slave the most and I have contributed immensely to Bowel`s Heaven, so I relax, but father has planned a totally different future for us.

“None of you will be getting a dime, I have worked so hard to get to where I am today and I will not hand over my company to children who have fed from hand to mouth all their lives, you will all go out into the society and make a life for yourselves. The most successful gets to inherit my company and that is my stand, now if you lazy punk dim witted children have any thing to say, I will appreciate if you say it quickly and leave my space.”

I try to wrap my head around what father just said and none of his words sounds clear, so after all of my hard work, years of slavery, he just denies me of everything.

“Father, I have contributed so much to Bowel`s Heaven, you can`t do this.”

My heart just feels as if a poisonous arrow has hit it, I can feel my insides crumbling, dying, struggling for breath, this is the real definition of a heartbreak.

“ And that is why, I expect the most from you, my boy.”

I shut my mouth and I struggle to think.

“You can`t rid us of our inheritance! These are our properties, we are at liberty to expect what we want! And when we want!”

I place my head in my palms still trying to understand everything that just happened. Headaches bang my head furiously and I can feel a hangover coming without any drink at all.

“Scott, that is no way to speak to father.”

Ethan tries to pacify the situation.

“Oh please, you and Jack have always been the daddy`s boy and now, you have no single thing to show for it, not one!” His words hit the most, but then, I know father, every father would want the best for his child and father is no exception although his ways are quite complicated.

“Scott! Tino! Come back here!” I try to call them back. There are definitely better ways than handling things and if we come together, we can achieve a whole lot more than when we are divided. But they pay no attention to my scoldings and they go their way. I look at the whole scenerio and I taje a deep breath. I am already thinking of ways to pacify this situation but none seems to be coming to my mind at this particular moment. Certainly not what I was expecting after a long tiring day at work. Realizing father has already made his decision. I accept my fate and go to face my new world.