CHAPTER 4
1017 Words
Mike landed painfully in a puddle, just outside the building huge gates and with his expensive suit stained and tattered, he wondered what kind of luck he had for everything to be taken from him, on his twenty sixth birthday, the day he should have had everything.
“Damn! Damn! Damn!” He cursed angrily as he wiped off the excess dirt stuck on his suit and he looked up at the iron gates, wondering if it was all a dream, for yesterday he had been on the twentieth floor, in his luxurious office with Simeon and Richard, who were his friends at that time.
Yesterday, he was being congratulated by the people that planned to over throw him, that had been jealous of him for so long…that had been sleeping with his girlfriend for years behind his back.
The bile in his stomach increased and he hurried off to throw up the contents at the side of the road, ignoring the stares of pedestrians as they crossed over to the other side of the road as if he were a mental patient and judging from his looks, he might as well be.
He arranged himself and gave the huge gates one last look with a promise of his return, then he hailed a taxi, for his car was still in the premises and knowing very well they won’t let him back in, he decided to leave peacefully for now, even though his heart was in pain and shadowed in confusion…he needed to clean up and speak with his lawyers first, to know his line of action.
After been stuck in traffic for fifteen minutes, Mike became restless as time seem to be running out for he needed to do something urgently and he doesn’t know long he was going to be stuck there, so therefore, he called the company’s lawyer’s office, but was placed on voice mail and he being a smart guy, got the message and stopped trying to reach him, instead he called his personal lawyer who picked at the first ring.
“Hello…Sir Anderson…” Mike called out, worriedly, as he tried desperately to get a grip on his emotions.
“s**t! Calm your pants down boy” the old man swore angrily, “Do you want to deafening this old man?”
“I’m so sorry Mr Anderson…but I’m in a kinda fix and I don’t understand what’s going on?” Mike replied briskly as he tried to breathe, in order to calm his nerves down.
“Let me guess…the snake has finally attacked” Mr Anderson muttered.
“Sorry?” Mike asked confused and unable to make sense of what he just heard.
“Oh son…the snake…Mr Stewart” Mr Anderson replied, “He has been planning this since from the day you lost your parents, because he wanted everything, the whole company and not just to be partner.”
Mike shook his head in disbelief, for he couldn’t still believe that the man that raised him as his son….his father’s best friend for years, will ever do this…
“He had always been pretending to care for me” He muttered weakly, “….pretending to prepare me for the partner position…he always spoke about me joining him at the ministerial table when I turn twenty six…that’s all he ever spoke about.”
“It was all a facade, a lie” Mr Anderson laughed, “a ploy to divert your attention from his original plan and by the looks of it, it worked.”
“But why didn’t you warn me, Mr Anderson?” I lashed out angrily, “why didn’t you inform me of the impending danger? Why did you allow it to happen? What’s your duty as my lawyer?!”
“Think about it…if I had inform you of my suspicions earlier, would you have believed me?” Mr Anderson snarled back, “You liked that man like a father…even now, you are still in doubt and let’s not forget his daughter, whom you are in love with….so would you have believed me if I had come to you, accusing your ‘father’ and his daughter, your girlfriend of betraying you?”
“Besides…” he continued, with his voice calmer now, “I don’t want to loose my license…you don’t want to be on the bad side of the Bio-tech CEO.”
Mike sniffed and struggled to put himself back together, then when he was sure he was settled, he asked, “So what do you suggest I do, Mr Anderson? I don’t want these people to move freely after what they did to me…that position is my birthright and I lived all my life trying to be worthy of it, so as not be laughed at as a product of nepotism….only for it to be snatched from me by my father’s best friend, my ex girlfriend and my best friend…what an irony!”
“I understand that you are being hurt right now” Mr Anderson said distraughtly, “I understand everything boy…but there is only one advice I can give you.”
“What is it?” Mike asked eagerly, hoping that this might be it, a solution, something to do or someone powerful to meet, that can solve his case and make everything normal again. But he was utterly disappointed by the reply, for he wasn’t expecting it at all.
“Nothing.”
“What?! You can’t be serious Mr Anderson…these people wants to ruin my life!” Mike shouted as he held his phone with trembling hands.
“I know boy…but let’s just take this as part of life ok?” Mr Anderson muttered, “I am guessing you have some money saved up right? You should go ahead and open a small buisness, marry a young nice woman and live a nice life, for you won’t win the case against Bio-tech group, that company is too powerful for any smaller company to fight against, not to talk of a single man…so give up boy and that’s my sincere advice to you.”
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