Chapter 55: Chapter 55
The evening comes quicker than I expect and this whole thing makes me sick that is the party, ball or whatever they call it. I can't wait to depart from this town forever and return to Denver. Hopefully, I will find, Sheila still waiting for me.
“Or I think I should go check on her from time to time. On weekends just to show her how much she matters to me. Omg, I could have done better before living. Now I have no idea about how she is and she’s not even picking up my calls. She's making me sicker as seconds pass by I don't think I would be able to take it any longer!” I think to myself and no matter how much I try our memories she sticks to my mind like a leech.
Smoking through the window, I see Dad’s invitees parking their luxurious cars one by one and moving to the ceremonial hall. I also see a lot of beautiful ladies but somehow I don't feel interested or intrigued by them as I used to be in the past.
When I'm done smoking, I moved back to bed and I fall heavily back into bed, feeling so lonely. I take out my phone and I text her “Hey, bb, I hope you ain't too mad at me. I will make it up to you” I text Sheila. She doesn't text me back and this shit hurts more than I want to admit it.
Sudden knocks on my door…
“Who the hell is it and what the fuck do you want from me?” I yell out of frustration. “It's your father, open this door right now before I ask them to take this door away,” he yells and I frown yet I still abide as I opened the door.
“You ain't making any efforts to regain back my favours as I can see” he pulls out his words as he walks into my room looking left and right… “I'm here what else do you want me to do?” I reply weakly in a low tone. I'm fed up.
“It's not enough because I called you here on purpose. Get properly dressed and meet me if you want to discover the enormous surprise I have for you. Trust me you won't regret this, it's a lifetime offer which will either take and have it all or reject it and have nothing” he says in a parable and I can't infer what's up and this makes me worried because this man can be very crazy at the time.
“Anything you have to say or propose to me, do it here because I'm not in the mood for any kind of celebration, no matter how small or boring it can be. I'm mentally down can't you see it?” I frown. “We all have issues but we never allow our issues to affect the family business unlike you!” he says.
“We who? Do you mean that witch, Olivia? She's not part of this family and she will never be. Everybody but not her” I chide. “Meet me downstairs, you have five minutes so be quick about it” with this said he leaves.
I have no choice as it seems. I would have been eager about the surprising thing he said. Unfortunately, I don't trust my father. I didn't expect some good to come out of it. My head is telling me not to go but my brain knows all that I might lose if I don't go.
I put on a black suit with a black shirt. Everything I put on is as black and down as my present mood. Once I'm down I walk into the hall to meet my father as he ordered me to. Immediately I step into the hall, people start murmuring among themselves. Only God knows what they were saying.
I greet a few people as courtesy demands. Then I grab a glass of whiskey from a waiter's tray as he was passing and I drink it in a gulp I drag another class before he moved too far away from me.
Before I could even find that, he was already on the stage, hitting the microphone. “Hello everyone,” dad greets me ever so happily. The hall becomes quiet as they all gather around him keenly.
While I get distracted by this beautiful Pamela voice that hit me from behind. “Hey, Freddy” she greets and I immediately turn back to her because the voice seems familiar. As gorgeous as she has always been. “Erika” I smile. “Damn! She's so sexy” I tell myself.
“It's been so long, I missed you” she hugs me tightly and my eyes widen in shock. We once had something sex-contract together but it didn't last for a month. Two alphas can't reign in the same clan, either one has to give up or die.
And Erika isn't the kind to give up. She’s an alpha male in a woman’s body. A very sexy body for that matter. But since her contract cancellation, I had tied to lay my hands on her several times all in vain. She's the hard-to-get type, the time that way turns me on.
“What the hell are you doing at such a lame party?” I wonder out with shock. “My dad insists on having me here, you know how much I hate all these formalities and I guess you do too,” she says. Our stares consistently meet With lust.
We are still talking when Dad is making his announcement. “… It's with great pleasure and honour that I'm announcing the engagement of my only child, son and hire, Freddy Logan with the beautiful Erika Biden. Daughter of the great and very famous Biden vice president of USA state of America and owner of the Biden empire” he screams happily and crow shouts.
We were still staring at each other when dad uttered those lies and my eyes widened in shock “What the hell is going on here?” I tightly clutch her arm “What the fuck is going on here?” I yell at her but she looks away and smiles instead. “Are you crazy?” I get mad.
“Stop it, Freddy, all the cameras are on us… so smile” she murmurs with a fake smile. I follow her stare and I see several cameras pointing at us just then I started receiving the flashlight of their cameras into my eyes and the sound from their phones and cameras irritates me.
I knew coming down here was a big mistake. I should have followed my heart. Damn! Sheila is the first thing that came to my mind. Now, she will think I'm a liar. I have to see her as soon as possible. “I'm taking the first flight to Denver tomorrow morning. She has to know the truth” I move out of the hall to go make a reservation.
I choose a first-class flight and when I click on payment, my card gets rejected. I try all the payment methods I have but all my accounts are frozen. “Damn!” I scream and I scream again “All this is arrant nonsense. I won't take part in this facade”
“Please, bb, don't believe everything you see. We have to talk!” I text Sheila immediately. I'm outside in the compound behind the house roaming restlessly like a fool. Anyway, it was better until he showed up asking me “What the hell are you doing out here?” he yells at me.
“Do you know what I want to tell you right now; sometimes I doubt if you are my father. But I won't say that because we both know that you are my father. You are just a wicked, heatless monster. Keep acting this way and one day you won't see me anymore. I will disappear from your life and I will see who you will marry for your selfish ambition” I yell at him.
“Why don't you retire like your mates, eh? What is looking for that you haven't found in all those decades? Why don't you rest and enjoy the fruit of your labour for the little time you have left on earth?” I yell.
He glares at me and asks “Are you done?” and I hit my face in dismay. “Discussing with you is pointless!” I say. “Yes, for once I have to be angry with you because we weren't discussing young man, you were shouting at me, — the man who places food on your table and gave you this flamboyant lifestyle that can permit you to buy a whore a house at Denver. You should thank me for that because not every man of your age can afford that”
“Who told you that?” I ask. “Hey, I always do my assignments remember? I have eyes everywhere and I have people securing my money and giving me a count of every deal that's why all those Anonymous accounts you created to embezzle my money are all locked. You have nothing, not even dining”
“So stop acting up like a bitch and come here let's have a man to man’s discussion about business. The more you get reticent the more your whore gets to lose everything you gave her with my money or power!”
“Don't you dare touch her or anything that belongs to her? Just leave her out of this shit!” I yell. “There you go again, yelling like a bitch. Hmmm, I can see you got attached to this whore, luckily I ended everything on time because the last time you felt like this for a woman, I nearly lost everything!”
“She’s not a whore. This girl is innocent!” I say. “Any girl that comes closest to you because of your money and signs a damn contract is a whore” he slurs happily. Like he’s happy to hurt his son. “Go to hell with your double-edged prejudice. I don't give a fuck about it!”
“Young man, mind the way you talk to me, I'm your father and the lower of everything you have!” he chides. “As if I cared anymore!”