CHAPTER FORTY-ONE Alex knocked on the door and one of the guards opened it to let him out. Taking in enough air, he exhaled sharply as he took the first step out of the room through the large wooden door.As she looked at him going out, Tiara was pained that she couldn’t meet up with her own end of the bargain. She looked at her mother, but her eyes were closed and she didn’t look like she was going to open them anytime soon. “This is not right Dad! Not right at all.” “Maybe when you know what plans I have you would appreciate me.” Mr Newton said but by the time he had finished talking, Tiara had already stormed out of the room. “Come back Tiara! Why do you bother yourself so much.” Mr Newton called out to his daughter but she was already out of the room and far from sight. “Wait Alex ! Please wait I beg you.” Alex continued to walk out of the house through the hallway ignoring the voice of the lady calling out to him from the back. “Gosh he walks so fast!” Tiara said to hers

CHAPTER FORTY-THREE “Is it ringing? Has he picked?” Maya asked impatiently but the look on Victor’s face showed that the person he was calling was not taking his call. After a few seconds, Victor angrily took down the phone from his hand and clutched it tightly in his palm almost crushing it in anger. “Why isn’t he taking his bloody calls?” Victor yelled angrily almost startling Lady Rodriguez, who was so deeply in thought that she lost balance. “What’s happening? Why do you all look so worried?” Said the deep male voice ascending from the door of the hall. They didn’t even realize that someone else was amongst them. “Dad? There is a little problem.” Maya said to her father almost letting out the tears that were gathered up in her glands ready to stream down. Seeing the look on his daughter’s face, Kelvin hastened his steps towards her and embraced her warmly still trying to figure out what the real problem was. “What troubles you my dear?” He asked as they both pulled out from

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE “Is it ringing?” Lady Rodriguez asked but she got no response. “What’s he saying?” She asked again but Kelvin was silent. He seemed not to be getting any better with the look on his face. “He refused to take my call.” He said regrettably making everyone in the room to sigh in disappointment. “Call him back then, maybe he didn’t see the first call.” “It’s pointless Erin! He clearly is too annoyed by the post and wouldn’t want to pick up my call. I can’t do this right now.” Kelvin said, then he went back to the couch and sat down without saying a word. “That’s your phone ringing Maya,” Victor said looking down at Maya’s pocket. “Oh!” Maya said, then she gradually pulled out her phone from her pocket and looked to see the caller. The look on her face grew darker as she looked at the screen. “Who is it?” Victor asked trying to look into the screen of the phone but it was blurry from his angle. “This is not good at all!” She said showing the screen to Victor. “

CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN “It must contain a reasonable amount of money. Something to get me a good place to rest tonight.” He thought to himself, then he sighed and twisted his neck making a cracking sound. As the taxi man drove on the main road, he took the liberty of observing Alex closely through his rear-view mirror. He thought the man was really strange as he smiled to himself after a while of being sad, then went back to a gloomy face. “What’s your name son?” He asked tilting his neck a bit to the right to look at Alex. “Who? Me?” Alex asked trying to be sure if it was really him that the driver was referring to. “Yeah, sure!” Said the man with a slight nod, then he turned his face towards the road and lifted his head a bit in a gesture that showed that he was still listening to Alex. “Alex Sir, my name is Alex,” Alex said slowly still wondering why the man asked him for his name in the middle of the road. He looked above his shoulders to be sure that he wasn’t in for some tro

CHAPTER FORTY-NINE “Please I beg you. I am super exhausted and would love for you to just give me a room. What’s with everyone in this hotel?” “Do you think this place is some sort of charity outlet for the homeless? Someplace you can just walk into and demand a room.” The receptionist said still firing shots of disgust at Alex. She was pissed that the first person to come to her after almost an hour of waiting for a potential guest was a madman. “Why are you being so rude to me, did I tell you that I am homeless or that I think this place is a charity outlet?” Alex retorted, trying to hard to control his anger, but his words didn’t get him anything good rather than a snigger from the unruly receptionist who continued to chew on her gum ignoring him for a while. “Hello! Excuse me!” Alex tapped on the wooden counter trying to call the attention of the receptionist who completely ignored him and fixed her gaze upon the screen of the desktop computer in front of her, and even though