Troubles
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Each one of them want to be heard and served first."If you please get ordery,I promise everyone of you that you will be well served.Please take your seats and relax."
I sooth as I make my way to the next door.I find the representative of Bluesky seated opposite Nickat his office.Nick feeding the stocky guy with forged stories and gossip.
"And here comes Mr.Ray popular known as "lovely" Nick says smiling at me.Our guest laughs rather hard.
"Hello!Call me Loveworth."I offer shaking his hand.
"You are actually lovely."The man compliments.
"Thanks! let's walk into my office so we can have this deal done."I say gesturing at him to follo gw.But before that,I give Nick the cheque and Rebecca's address and order him to make sure my office messager takes it where it should.
It takes us only twenty minutes if not more to agree on the terms of the deal.It's clear we all needed this deal.Thats why we have an easy time reaching a consensus.Once the deal is done, other clients flow in.Turns out the fruits of impersonating a dead hero are so much more than I had estimated.
I finnaly get my break late in the evening.But that won't stop me from making a trip to Rebbeca's residence.Even though am starving.I don't understand why I want to see her.I just want to.I will bother with reasons when I get there.
Half an hour later,I park my car in front of an old house with wooden doors.I can tell it's old because the window frames are deep brown with rust.I hope I didn't mistake the address.I can hear the sound of a T.v set as I get closer to the door.I knock hard so that whoever is watching the T.v can hear.
The door swings open half a minute later after I had knocked.A man in his late fifties stands behind it.He got this big eyes that resembles Rebbeca's.Then his face forms one of the most shocked expression I have ever seen.
"Adria! Adria! come see this."He shouts while his eyes continue staring at me.I raise an eyebrow at him but he doesn't bother.A lady in her twenties emerge behind him."What is it dad?" She asks before she notices me.When her gaze falls on me,her face imitate the expression of her father's face.One of pure bewilderment.Have I grown some horns that I haven't realized?
"Good evening!"I say.The man smiles in a friendly manner.His daughter does too.
"You look like that man on T.V."He says pointing at the T.v at the back of the room which is visible from where I stand.The problem is the only person on the T.v screen is a lady doing a commercial.
"It's is him!You are Mr.Ray, right?"His daughter ask in evident Glee.I am on T.v? I start to wonder then remember the meeting I had with reporters early today.
"I am mr.Ray."I confirm."Am here to see Rebecca .Is she home?"
A big flown appears on Adrian's face."You came to see Rebbeca?Why do you need to see her?"she asks.
"Adria for God's sake, just go and call her."Her father reprimand.She grudgingly turn around and walks back into the Chambers of the house.
"I wonder if all fraternal twins hate each other.Adria and Rebbeca have never failed to disagree even when they were little."Adria's father reveal.If I were him I wouldn't blame that on them being fraternal twins as has said they are.Adria and Rebbeca are complete opposite of each other.While Rebecca is humble Adria is wild.One must be quite inconsiderate to expect the two to agree on anything.
"You are the one who sent Rebbeca that cheque?"He asks.I nod and a big smile curves on his thin lips.
"I don't know how to thank you."
"Never mind.I help people all the time."
Adria comes back from whenever she has gone to find Rebbeca.She is openly fighting the smile that evident on her face.
"Am sorry to inform you that she is not home yet."She say ."I will tell her that you were here when she comes."
"You have no idea where she could be?"I ask feeling worried that she may be somewhere totally drunk and unable to come home.
"she sometimes works till very late.She must be at work now."Her Dad answers.
"Well, tell her to call me when she comes."I request and give the father my personal phone number.He promises not to forget to give it to her and walk away.I arrive home so fatigued that I am about to walk on my hands and knees.I pick a snack on my way to bed.I only get rid of shoes and tie before I Bury myself between the sheets.
It takes me six seconds to realize that am not dreaming.My cell phone is acctually ringing in my pocket and I badly wish that am imagining it so that I won't have to answer the call.My night must have been abnormally short.OthewiseI wouldn't be still yearning to sleep.I force my hand to fish out the cellphone.
"Hello!"I say having not checked the caller.
"Ray,We have a problem."Matthews voice say from the other end.
"What kind of a problem?"I ask.
"Andrew is selling his company shares."Mathews answers.Andrew is the second main shareholder of Greenstar.
"He has the right to if he feels like.Or is there more to it?"
"The selling is not the problem.Its who he is selling to."Mathews clarify.
""Who?"
"The Wilson family.You know Dean, right?"Mathews says and my heart nearly leaps out.Please let him be kidding.
"You are jocking,right?"Andrew can't sell his shares while we are about to make a fortune.He knows better."I say hoping to hear him laugh then admit it was a joke.But he goes ahead to say what I don't want to hear.
"I wish I am.Im worried too."Mathews answers.
"Then convince him to sell to someone else."I suggest.I don't know what kind of a person the so called Dean is,but I am certain he is after no good.He is a Wilson after all.
"I have tried.But they have got chains on him.He says he has to sell his shares to them or they will auction his property.He has got a loan with Wilson bank that has been accumulating interest.Now he can't pay it.They offered to forgive the loans in exchange of his company shares."Mathews explains and my heart beat accelerate with every sentence.
"when did they offer him the deal?"I ask.
"Yesterday.They Either want to be part of the forthcoming fortune or they want a way to take us down."He confirms my suspicion.If we wait until Dean gets to be part of the company,It will be suicidal.To make it worse, Andrew is the second main shareholder place after Mathews.And who knows how many more shareholders he is planning on buying their shares.He has the cash at his disposal.What else can stop him.
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