“Hello, Grand Patriarch”Jason’s sleep-glazed eyes opened more widely as he looked at the screen of his phone. It was a private number. That wasn’t so bad as the distorted voice that had called him in the title that he had not heard in a long while. He wanted to spring out of bed to track the call but then he realised that his left hand was dead and his chest felt heavy like something was weighing it. Jason panicked momentarily before he saw what was weighing him down.Alex was laying fully on him with his head on Jason’s chest and Jasmine was cocooned against his side, her legs flung over one of his and her head on his hand. Damn it.“Is that panic I smell, dear Grand Patriarch?” the sinister voice said with a mocking inflexion on the title. “Don’t worry. This is just a friendly call from a beloved friend to tell you that “I am watching you”. Regards to the kids” With that, the call disconnected.“Motherfucker!” Jason said in anger as he placed the phone on the bed gingerly and turne

“Please tell her she is being stupid and selfish!” Silas said as he changed the call to a video call. “Please tell him to stop calling me names or I would kill him!” Mia, said as she came to the phone. Her platinum hair swung in tandem with her long earring. “Nobody is killing anyone here but I think you need to reconsider your decision, Mia. this is Matteo we are talking about here. A Fitzgerald! Has it been so long that you have forgotten what they did to us?!”Celia asked in agitation. She shook her head and looked towards the screen. “Hi, Jason. Please talk some sense into her” With that, she left the room. “Why don’t you all understand? Why can’t you see…” she looked back towards the screen “What? Are you about to tell me that I am selfish too? That I should be a sworn enemy with him?” she asked with apparent intent to give Jason a sharp retort if he confirmed her thoughts. “Wow, I am just surprised. I thought you used to hate him so much. This is Matteo we are talking about r

The documents Millicent got from her grandpa were indeed enlightening and equally frightening. She had kept it from her aunt because she knew the latter wouldn’t have approved of what she intended to use it for - to use it in exchange for information from Jason about who killed her dad. She had had it before that time that she went to meet Jason at the Mausoleum in Seychelles. That was before she knew that there would be more tragedy in her life. According to her, she had only scanned through the barest of information. The part about Christos knowing Jason’s biological parents. Angry at him and trying to get back at him after the gazebo incident, she had read extensively through the documents. And that was when she realised something else entirely. The origin of Paragon Heights. Apparently, Paragon Heights had not been the name of the company that beget the now mighty conglomerate that Jason inherited. It was Monroe & Co. Ltd. Monroe & Co had started as a steel company created by Man

Jason went to Dengal. Not just because he had to see his family and to see the arrangement that Mia got going with Matteo first-on, but because he needed to talk to Matteo about the suspicion he once talked about. Matteo believed that Sonia and Don had a thing together. One of the doctors, who tended to Andre before his death finally sent a mail to Jose years later that his Andre’s death wasn’t as simple as supposed. Too bad that the doctor was no longer available to give more detailed reports about what he meant by not-so-simple. The good doctor was found dead in his sleep weeks after sending the mail to Jose. That was when Jose, who had thought the doctor would only cause his healing young master more grief, finally relayed the information to Jason.It was the same week after Jason returned Don’s property and men to him. Jason had a deja vu about the warning bell he had when he accepted Don’s request. He did not want to believe that Don could be capable of doing such a thing because

“And he wouldn’t pick up his damn phone again!” Mia said in frustration, then she paused as she said “Well, actually, the phone has been unreachable. But I am sure that set out to frustrate me! If not, why would he call when I am in the middle of a freaking, important meeting and then…make his number unavailable when I decided to call him back?” Mia ranted to Jason over the phone. Jason chuckled “You know it doesn’t work like that. He couldn’t possibly control the network now, can he? I am sure it was just a network issue. He will call back” “He could have! I put my phone in airplane mode, remember? What if he did the same? Or what if he regretted calling and he switched off his phone so that I couldn’t call back? He could have done that!” “Then it would have said…” “...That the number is switched off” she completed. “Yes, I know, I am being silly. Still, I think…” “Well, why don’t we stop overthinking and just agree that he would call back when he can? He is on a tour, remember?