"I can't believe how he ruined everything for us. All the board members backed out of the meeting last minute. That bastard cousin of ours, does he think we are going to allow him to keep hugging the whole damn company for himself?" Mark said as he paced angrily around the room, his fist tightened and he bumped it heavily into the table with a curse. Panting heavily from the heat of the situation,"We are going to have to find another way to force his hand about this. If we do not do something about his influence, he is going to ruin us and leave nothing for us at all.""You need to be careful about this Mark, we still don't know how he orchestrated all those things 5 years ago, if you force his hand you might just end up in a ditch somewhere like Dad, he's shown us just how dangerous and scheming he is and we just have to find a way to match him," another man said from across the room. He wore a calm expression as he closed his eyes and took a seat in the swivel chair. Weariness to

Aliyah was feeling really good about herself but something about Ben's look from earlier unsettled her, she decided she was going to wait till evening, when she had a chance to face him, maybe by then he'd have cooled off, but he was never around. Waiting in the living room, her mind wandered far and back as she thought about where he had gone off to. Maybe he was somewhere out there clobbering someone to death, she shook off the thought as it would only bring forth memories she had been trying hard to keep locked away in her mind. If she continued to think about all that it would be the same as playing directly into Ben's hands, since he relished in the thought that she was deeply scared of him. Her thoughts drifted back to his Grandfather's receptiveness toward her. If Aliyah played her cards right, The opportunity she could gain from gaining his grandfather's affection would be endless but that was something she could only start exploring when she would finally be seeing him arou

An awkward silence engulfed the room, Ben was just busy on his phone and Jennie thought of all she could say and do to get him to look at her, to get him to pay attention to her with keen unswerving dedication just like he was staring at the screen of his mobile.If she didn't make any move whatsoever there was never going to be any form of progress between them, and she knew that. Jennie recalled her father's words to her, more than just what he had said about his ambitions and advantages that would come from associating with Ben, she wanted him for herself, badly.Noticing the heat of her eyes on him he turned to her."What were you saying about having something you need my help with?""Oh, actually now that I think of it, it's nothing major or severely important, we can always get to that or maybe I could just do that when Karl comes back. I'd rather trouble him since it isn't that serious."Ben stared at her, a hint of suspicion in his eyes but then he returned his gaze to what he

It was a few days before the event that Aliyah's head had been wrapped around for a few weeks now.Her friend Clarice, whom she happened to meet by chance at the party, had informed her about it and she had promised without any such assurance that she would make it to the hangout. Since she had cleared up the cooking problem she was free to finally figure out a way to solve this problem. Dwelling on the reunion with her friends, Aliyah had been unable to bring it up for several reasons which included Ben's altercation with Jennie. He had been going around the house like she was invisible and he wanted nothing to do with her, which was odd since he was normally up to something. While she was usually happy about that. It gave her no relief thinking about what the man had in mind. But all of a sudden today he informed her that he was going to drop her off at his Grandfather's place, perhaps the elderly man had called for her, he didn't say. Now she was getting to the point where she'

Aliyah seemed shocked for a while before she quickly regained composure before her expression was noticed.That was one revelation she didn't think she'd be hearing today. Cecile looked away like she'd rather stare at something else than look him in the eye and, then her eyes suddenly turned to Aliyah, like she didn't want her to be here all of a sudden, hearing her getting scolded. Aliyah blinked. On hearing her grandfather's scolding, Cecile quickly got up and waltzed off in annoyance before the old man could get on with a long-ass lecture in front of a stranger. Mr Vawn's eyes held a grim expression of worry in them. He sighed. "Kids these days, What exactly is their problem?" He raised both his hands briefly before dropping them down to his side in obvious frustration. Aliyah stared in the direction Cecile had walked off before her gaze darted back to Mr Vawn as her mind wandered off. What the hell is going on? She is Ben's sister? That revelation hit her like a ton of brick