Richard was waiting for Michael’s call. He wanted to be the one to take caren of Cassy.
He really didn’t want to hurt her but he remembered the time he tried to beg her to stay and she did not care to listen.
When Richard and Cassy met, she was the sweetest girl ever.
She fell in love with him despite the fact that he was just a waiter in a small cafe.
Richard remembers that she lost several of her friends due to her decision to marry him.
The day she accepted his proposal was the happiest of his life.
The life Richard lived before he met Cassy didn’t encourage one to have a family.
This is because he knew that he would be putting them in danger the way it was right now with everyone trying to hurt Melvin.
He thus never thought of getting a partner or getting married let alone having a child.
But after that mission where he was betrayed and almost killed and managed to save himself with multiple injuries, he decided to leave his life as an assassin ans live a normal life.
After hiding for a while and treating his wounds, he went to LA where he got a job as a worker in a Cafe. And lived under disguise.
He couldn’t get a better job because he didn’t want to expose his identity.
He even used one of those IDs he normally used when he went undercover. He wanted to bury his past and live a new life.
But when he met Cassy for the first time in the Cafe, he knew it was love at first sight.
She took his number and actually called him the following day. He thought it was all a dream but it was not.
She later told him that she fell for him because he was sweet and so caring.
Despite Richard earning very little, he made sure to give her everything she wanted as long as he could afford it.
Everything went down the hill the moment she realized she was pregnant.
The changes began gradually until classy couldn’t hide the fact that she hated the baby she was carrying.
It wasn’t in her plans to give birth at such a young age and in such miserable circumstances.
Richard tried to understand her because he thought it was the pregnancy and the stress that came with it.
Maybe it was prenatal stress, so he thought.
But that didn’t change even after she gave birth.
In fact, when the labour pains started, she insisted on being put under anesthesia despite the doctors telling her that she was endangering the baby.
With anesthesia, one can’t push when needed because there as no pain.
She said she didn’t care and that she wouldn’t go through pain for such a miserable creature.
Richard again understood and he continued to understand until he found her in the house one day after work, months after giving birth, with the child sore from crying and classy just sitting on the chair.
On being questioned by Richard, she told him that he was lucky that she have birth to his child and didn’t abort it as she initially wanted.
She then decided to be going out at odd hours and Richard was forced to look for someone to help take care of the baby from when she could barely sit in her own.
Despite knowing that Cassandra hated Melvin, Richard tried giving her second chances now and then until that day when she wanted the girl to die.
That was his breaking point and he had had it all.
Now, with Cassy wanting to kill Mel with her own hands, Richard couldn’t forgive that.
He had forgiven enough already.
He really had hoped that she would notice her wrong doings and his change but apparently, she still thought that she could play with him.
In fact, if she had directed her anger towards him, he wouldn’t have minded.
But he minded because Melvin was his life, literally.
She had come to his life at a point where he wasn’t even sure what he was doing with his life and she gave it meaning.
Before that, he would just work for survival but after she was born, he got a purpose.
He was very grateful to Cassandra for the gift of Melvin but that gratitude had its limits.
He loved Melvin so much that he came back to the life he had vowed to never live again.
He would make sure that he would get rid of anyone who was involved in the mission of kidnapping and planning against his daughter.
Two days later, Richard hadn’t gotten any report from Michael.
He was at the verge of going to LA by himself and taking over.
But he knew he also needed to be around because someone was targeting the Dragon Empire from Washington.
He really pitied his father and what he had to deal with for the five years he was MIA.
He, however, was back and was ready to get rid of anyone and everyone who thought that they could walk on him.
Then, when his faith was at its end, he received the long awaited call.
“Young Master, we have all of them,” Michael said with that excitement he always had when he knew that they were about to skin someone.
“What took you so long?” Richard asked with irritation.
“Why don’t you come and see if you would have done any better?” Michael said with irritation and he was glad that he was at the other side of the call.
“It was such an intricate cartel that I think we deserve a raise for smoking them out so quickly,” and he continued and Richard understood.
He knew that for someone to be dealing with trafficking human organs, it must have been a well established cartel.
“Okay deal with whoever you have to deal with but bring the heads and Cassandra and her husband to me,” he ordered and Michael sighed.
“What?” Richard asked.
“You should ha e killed her when I told you to.
Look at all the problems she has caused,” Michael lamented and Richard didn’t say anything.
He just hang up because he hated to admit that Michael was right.
He should have killed Cassandra when she went back on the deal of paying for Melvin’s hospital fees.
But he believed that she was a mother and it was just bad influence.
What he had forgotten was that Cassy was a grown up and she was capable of making her own decisions.
He would have loved to save her for Melvin but he couldn’t.
When Richard was taken to where Cassandra had been kept together with her husband, all he could see was a shadow of the former rich lady who embarrassed him before everyone.
She had taken him to heaven and then back to hell again.
He had loved her once and he was glad that he discovered her true colours before she could learn that he was a rich heir to a multi billion empire.
Richard, you have to save me please.
I swear it wasn’t me who tried to kidnap Mel.
I would never take out daughter.
That woman who was with Mel was the one who was hurting her and I swear I was trying to save her and then… and then she shot me.
Look,” Cassandra began immediately she saw Richard.
Richard just looked at her because he didn’t want to argue and he knew the truth anyway and he wasn’t the man she had manipulated for all those years.
” What are you saying? Who came up with the idea of harvesting the organs of her daughter because her blood type and tissues were similar to those of the client’s child?
Who said that she could convince Melvin to follow her?
You knew that she was still hopeful you would love her some day and that was why you came for her,” Richard lamented and he looked worse than Cassy.
” Shut up. Shut up already.
What I have I never done for you? I left Richard and Mel for yih because I had been promised a better life.
I became a prostitute for you so that we could get money for you to start a business.
But did you? No!
You just bought more women and never touched me again!
I wanted to get away from your sorry ass.
I hate you William, I hate you,” Cassandra cried and shouted and Richard sympathized with her.
She as still his child’s mother and…
He walked out and talked to Michael,” find a nice mental asylum lock her there.
Let her demons kill her,” he said because he just couldn’t bring himself to kill her.
“What about her husband?” Michael asked.
“Get gigolos and let him die of pleasure.
Don’t stop until he is dead,” he said Richard said and walked away.
Killing William and saving her would be the last act of mercy he will ever show to Cassandra.
No more tomorrow.