“Why do I need to do that? You said we need him to be powerful, so why I’m I doing something about Angelo?”“Because he will make you useless. Benedict is a pompous man with a fat ego, he is quick to waste assets when he is angered . Angelo is a very good asset. He will most certainly outshine you and when he does you will lose relevance in Nicholas’ eyes. He may not dismiss you because you are still a great ally but he will be confined in you less and less until he won’t at all.”Nora wore a blank expression but unconsciously she grit her teeth. Being irrelevant is the worst thing that can happen to you in the Belford family. People like her are just pawns, if she doesn’t matter then she will be sacrificed. No matter how goodie goodie Nicholas claims he is, he will sort to that too if he is corner and she does not want to be the victim.“Nora, are you still there”“I am. I understand your point. I will get right to it.” She hung up, picked out her sim card, broke the phone and mangle

“Where are we going?” Nicholas finally asked after sitting in the back seat for more than an hour.Angelo glanced at him from the front mirror and didn’t say anything. Nicholas placed a hand on his Smith n’ Western, the revolver with two barrels. Angelo chuckled, casually looking out the window.“Do you think I don’t see the gun? I am not going to pull a fast one on you Nicholas. I need you more than you need me remember.”“Thats exactly what I’m worried about. Needing me without telling me how exactly I am supposed to be of use, is questionable.”Angelo grinned, revealing his usually long canines. “Aiit. You win. I told you a while ago that I was going to make you powerful right?”“You said that much indeed.” Nicholas replied him.“Good. Well, Benedict’s birthday is coming up soon. I was planning to show this to him as a birthday present. I had been looking for it for over three years now. He once told me he wanted it. Well, I was so obsessed with pleasing him then that I madly searc

Nicolas drove back home alone after meeting the Ghosts. He had left instructions for them and Angelo who had still not woken up before he left.As he made the turns on the main street and wheeled into his apartment in the city, Kabuto’s words to him kept playing on loop.‘Oh Nicholas son of Belford. I guess you haven’t quite figured out yet that the Belford family was built on blood and bones and only the most heartless can thrive.’And much as he hated to admit it, Kabuto was right . He was bloody right. It was a dog eat dog world in the Belford family. If he gets in too deep, he will become like the patriarch and he didn’t want that. There has to be, there just has to be a code to cheat this system.A sigh of distress escaped his lips as he opened the door and entered his house. He unknotted his tie, slipped out of his shirt and trousers, pulled his socks off, before he got to his room, he was already stacked naked. He heaped the clothes on the bed and found his body into that Jacuz

ZAVION TOWER Fabio Zavion stood at the highest point of the tallest building in Alpha City. The Zavion Tower. He had his hand crossed behind his back and his gaze on the city below. Everything had been reduced to blinking lights from this height. He felt like he was on a chopper flying low. The wind rippled through his suit and fluttered his hair.Tonight he wanted to be away from all the glam and the work downstairs. He wanted to get away from the pretense and the lies. Have time to be himself. To be Bernardo Zavion again instead of continuing this lie that he is Fabio, his dead brother.He clicked his tongue, letting out a huff. Fabio should have just stepped aside. He should have just handed over power freely now he is rotting away in the bottom of his own backyard lake.“Boss.”He turned around, his reverie disturbed. The bodyguard bowed, then waited for the order to come closer. Fabio flinched his fingers, commanding the bodyguard to come.He came over and bowed again. “My apol

“Nora.” He mouthed, his voice barely audible.“Yeah.”“The patriarch may have left you there. The other members of the Bedford family may have used you as a shield but I need you to remember that I am Nicholas Belford. I am not the patriarch and I am not any of the other members of the Belford family. I will not leave you to die. I will not let you get hurt. By the way, what’s the use of a bodyguard when they are dead.”“By the way, who is going to keep me in check and give me a pretty hot tosh to look at when you are gone.”Nora punched his side. He groaned, chuckling. She smiled. ‘Tsk,’ he was being ridiculous right now. Trying to make her not to worry and all. It was stupid but no matter how she looked at it, it was also pretty good.The burner phone started to ring. The two looked down at Nicholas’ jacket pocket immediately.“We haven’t called anyone. So who is calling?” Nora looked at Nicholas.“Pick it up. This is a Stellar-grade burner phone. Even if it’s the greatest tech geek