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ZACH couldn’t help it, he was visibly angry, fisting his hands and punching into the air.
His wife has just returned from Jeremy’s mansion, their second attempt to get Jeremy Petersons, the billionaire CEO, and it was yet another futile journey.
“I told you Zach, I told you, but you wouldn’t listen. Just take a look at the way you are making me litter my womanhood, my pride with dirt”, his wife kept shouting at him, but that wasn’t his problem now, his problem was how to solve this riddle.
“Don’t ever ask me to go on such nonsense journey again Zach, don’t”, she said shouting into his ears and to him, disturbing his peace.
He wasn’t concentrating, he couldn’t even concentrate anymore, and he hadn’t the strength to argue with her, or talk back at her.
He had to leave the room, for it was really heated. As soon as he stepped out, a call came into his phone and he looked into it at once, it was Gabriel, his assistant.
“Hello”, he answered the call, placing the phone on his ears and walking into the living room.
“He… hello Sir”, came Gabriel.
“Yeah? What is the matter?”, Zach asked.
“Sir, I do not know how to say this but the business has just been terminated”, he said in a rush.
“Huh?”, Zach gasped, his eyes widened in shock, “what has been terminated?”, he asked.
“The business deal with Petersons Kiddies World, I just received an email in effect to that”, he paused so the info could sink in.
Zach was more than shocked, this has really caused damage. Although Belinda said that that was the exact words of the CEO, that he was gonna terminate their business deal, and he just did that. Goodness!
“Was there anything done before hand that I do not know of Sir? I mean pertaining to the termination of this business deal?”, Gabriel asked jolting him back to reality, he was still on the phone.
In confusion, Zach looked around, not knowing exactly what to do.
“Gabriel, just get off my phone now, I need to think”, he said and hung up.
Flinging away the phone on the couch, he sank into it and growled. Damn it! He had just losed all trying to get another. He growled loudly.
He needed to do something, this Jeremy guy was now biting more than he can chew, was it because he was taking it lenient with him? Sending his wife? Ahhh! Now, he was gonna do this another way.
Instantly he picked up the phone he had flung away, and proceeded to make a call.
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As soon as Jeremy watched the Belinda woman in disgust walk out of the room, he followed behind and made sure she left his compound.
There was a great race of thoughts going on in his mind as he reminisced. What exactly was this lady looking for?
Hmm, now he knows she isn’t just coming after him for just the bed stuff, she had a motive, now he knew. And that motive was what he just couldn’t pinpoint.
Or, could it be she was the one behind his attempted abduction hours ago? Who knows, she must have come to complete it since that didn’t work, since he was rescued by his beautiful lady.
Immediately her car drove away, the gates slid close instantly. He immediately called one of his guards standing close by and he ran up to him.
“You know that woman who just left here?”, he asked, fixing his gaze on the gate.
The guard nodded.
“Yes Boss, I do”, he replied.
“Do not let her in here ever again. Inform the other guards and the securities, I do not want to see her, or a part of her in here ever again”, he instructed.
“Noted Sir, noted”, and Jeremy turned away and went into the mansion.
……. Next Day…….
As soon as his brown coloured Venza screeched to a halt, two men approached his car, and he alighted.
Immediately they began searching him, and he allowed them. They were a lot of protocols to see Lord Huh? First he had been thoroughly interrogated at the gate by some guys whom he envisaged to be the security men, and now here he is being searched.
This was Zach. He had resolved to come see Lord Lucas and ask for his help, following some investigations he had done on his own, Lord Lucas was the perfect guy to see.
He had made series of call just to get an appointment to visit the Python Confraternity, and he had been given.
After properly and thoroughly searching him, the two guys then led him into the gigantic mansion before him. He looked around as they went, they were a lot of the mafias going about.
They entered the mansion and led him into a room, which he later discovered to be the waiting room, and for hours he sat there waiting to be attended to.
Finally, a guy came in and ask him to follow, that Lord Lucas was ready to see him now, which he hastily did.
***
“Foxbook Enterprises? Do I know him? A CEO for that matter?”, Lord Lucas muttered to himself and walked back to his seat and sat.
Few minutes later, the guard returned with the man, Zach. Lucas studied him, he was tall, huge and his hair was very dark. From all indications, he never knew this CEO.
They got to the table and he dismissed the guard, then motioned Zach to the seat opposite him.
“Thank you”, Zach said and sat down.
“So, who are you?”, he asked, still smoking heavily.
“My name is Zach Gills, the CEO of Foxbook Enterprises”, he said.
Lucas watched him through the smoke floating in the air before his face. How come he doesn’t know this CEO huh?
Then after some minutes of watching him in silence, he spoke out in a growling voice.
“I hope you do know whom you have come to see?”, he asked.
Zach smiled and nodded.
“Sure, of course I do. Lord Lucas, Lord of the Python Confraternity, dreaded, powerful and fearful, I do know”, he said.
Lucas smirked and nodded satisfactorily, he so knew.
“So, what can I do for you?”, he asked.
Zach sighed.
“Lord Lucas, I need your help”, he said.
Lucas simpered.
“Nobody receives help from me without paying heavily for it, you know?”.
Zach nodded his head.
“I know, I do know very well”.
“Good, so what is it?”, he asked.
Zach smiled and leaned forward on the table.
“Before coming here Lord Lucas, I have made a series of investigations, a whole lot of it”, he said licking his lips.
Lucas’ eyes widened in surprise, and he shook his head, like saying ‘really?’.
“What kind? This seems interesting already, go on with it”, he said to him.
“I have been able to gather that you are so very interested in the little mafia queen, Boss J…”, he paused to look at his reaction.
Lucas snorted, and a small smile played on his lips.
“Yeah, I am. What business has that got to do with the help you want?”, he enquired.
“Hold on My Lord, I am gradually getting to my point. Alright I also noticed that um, a silly thing seems to be going on between her, and the CEO of Petersons Kiddies World, Jeremy”, he said.
Huh? Lucas marvelled, he flinched and then fixed his gaze on this Zach of a guy, who the hell was he? And how did he know?
“Yeah, although I am not really sure if something is really going on but…”, he leaned forward, “can you enlighten me a little?”, he asked.
Zach smiled.
“Sure, sure Lord Lucas. Actually they aren’t dating, they are only trying to, and Jasira, I don’t even think she is interested, it’s Jeremy here, that is trying to make a move”, he said.
Lucas slowly nodded his head, now he was getting the whole scenario. Jasira as he expected, wasn’t interested, he is only making her fall for him. Hmph, he smirked.
“You haven’t still arrived at any point Zach, what do you want me to do?”, he asked and Zach sighed.
“His company is partly involved in the shares to be given by Oando, the shell company”, he said looking straight into Lucas’ eyes, “… I need to be part of this shares, and I can only do this by getting a hold of him, of which I do not have”, he leaned back into his seat, still looking at Lucas in the eyes.
Lucas kept mute, still patiently waiting for his request.
“You need Jeremy, he is after the woman you intend to have, I also need Jeremy. Let us put our forces together and get him down”, he said.