Chapter 17
I swear I’ll make you pay if anything happens to my mother” Ria said angrily
“Ria, I have always known you as a tough and strong girl , so go get the papers and save your mommy. Till then I’ll see you ”Mr hector said and ended the call making Ria burst into another round of tears.
The memories of her mom came running into her head, she missed her so much and was ready to do anything to save her.
She remembered how her father was arrested for stealing from a very rich man in her town. She and her mother had struggled to get her father out of prison but they couldn’t, they had to get help from somewhere.
They’ve heard a lot about Mr Hector, how good he was and how he had helped the poor and decided to ask him for help and suprisely in return he didn’t ask for anything. He only told them in the future they’ll be of use again. He helped her father out of prison and they were so happy and grateful.
After some days her father got into trouble again and this time he couldn’t escape it neither could mr hector help them because her father was killed.
It was a painful death, this broke Ria and her mother Stella , a lot. Mr Hector then raised a helping hand and took them in as his own family. Ria was just 10 years old then. Anytime he stared at Ria he saw a strong and a tough girl so he decided to train her and use her to carry out his plans.
Ria had always seen Mr Hector as a nice man who couldn’t even hurt a fly , she never knew he was a devil himself. She wondered why he hated Mr Alfred so much, there’s more to it buh she cared less, all she wanted was for her mother to be fine.
What a heartless man. She’s sworn on her life to make Mr Hector pay for everything he’s done to her mother and she.
She wiped the tears streaming down her cheeks and stood up from the bed then walked towards her window staring outside her room.
She needed to think of a way out of this mess buh no idea was coming. She closed her eyes letting pain wash over her.
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Alfred is seen in his office going through his office work when the door bursts open revealing willow.
“Sir, I tried stopping her but……” the secretary spoke looking as scared as ever and Alfred waved his hands signifying it’s okay and the secretary can leave.
The secretary bowed his head and quickly walked out of the office locking the door behind him.
Willow scoffed and turned to Alfred whose eyes was still fixed on his computer, acting like she wasn’t even present in the office.
“Al……”
Alfred didn’t let her complete his name when he spoke. “What do you want willow? I thought I had made it clear to you before that I didn’t want to see you again. If you need anything you could have just called instead of coming to my office unannounced, fighting your way in.. it’s inappropriate willow” he finally moved his eyes away from the computer and stared at the woman standing in front of him.
After Willow had left Alfred’s house the last time. Alfred had thought about some few things, if Willow would always come and be poking nose in his personal business, it would be best if he stopped her from coming to his house. If he needed to fuck anyone, he could easily get a whore. So, he had Andrew send millions to her account and warned her to stay away.
Willow stared at the heartless man in front of him and sniffed. He knew Alfred had always seen him as a whore and nothing more. He never saw her the way she Wanted him to see her.
Even though he didn’t cherish her, she cared less all she wanted was just to be around him. There was a time Alfred couldn’t do without her now she realized he used her to pass time because he was going through lots of shit.
How could he just wake up and decide he didn’t want to see her again? How can he be so heartless, she thought as she stared at at Alfred in tears.
” Are you just gonna stand there crying or say something?” Alfred asked as he rested his back on his chair properly staring at willow like she was some sort of drama.
“How can you just end everything just like that? We’ve been together for years now and you just wake up and end everything just like that? Is it because of her?” She spoke as tears slide down her cheeks
“Where are you heading to the willow? We were never a thing in the first place and it was never because of Lisa. So I would advise you don’t drag her into this” Alfred said, already getting pissed off by her words. Willow bit her lips and bowed her head slightly. He was right they were never things. she was nothing more than his whore. She made a mistake big time by ending up catching feelings for him.
She raised up her head and stared at Alfred short of words and wiped her tears. She turned away from him and was about to leave but paused and turned to him.
” I’ll be leaving for good this time. Don’t come looking for me” she said and walked out of the office hoping he would stop her but he didn’t. She wasn’t surprised, Alfred had always been heartless from the start.
Immediately, she walked out of his office and the door burst open revealing Andrew who just came back from a meeting with a client.
“What’s up? I saw willow leaving in tears” Andrew asked looking concerned.
“How did the meeting go? Was it successful?” Alfred shunned his questions and Andrew sighed. He wasn’t suprised anyways. This wasn’t the first time he was doing something like this.
“Yes, congratulations. They signed the contract” Andrew said and placed some files on his table and he nodded. Andrew stood there watching his face expression waiting for him to smile or maybe act exicted but no he was still as cold as usual.
“Anything else?” Alfred asked and he nodded
“Uhm, yes. You have a meeting with Mr Joel by 2pm. I’ll be taking my leave now. If u need anything you can call me” he said and with that he walked out.
Alfred sighed softly as he stood up from his chair and walked towards the corner of his office. He put his hands in his pocket and stared at the beautiful picture of his mom and then he gave out a sad smile.
Days without momma by his side to comfort Hasn’t been easy at all but then he smiled and reassured himself that everything was going to be fine even when he knew nothing was ever going to be fine again.
“Mom, the company is moving forward just as you’ve always wanted. I know wherever you are right now you’ll be proud of me” he muttered softly. He was so lost in thoughts that he didn’t know when tears had slipped down his cheeks.