2025-05-19 14:46:44Charles looked at his reflection in the mirror as he drove the Toyota Camry Sadie bought for him. They almost had a fight over it. She was going to buy him a Rolls-Royce but what the fuck was he supposed to do with it?
Even without using some extraordinary cars, a few important people in Atlanta recognize him. What'd happen if he now used an expensive car? And he'll admit, he'd never been more pissed off than he had been since he met Sadie. She would always do something to get on his nerves. Like this morning… “You have to start working here,” she had tossed a card on the table. “No, thanks.” “One way or the other, I'm going to be forced to tell people that you are my husband, what will I tell them you do for a living?” And that way, she forced him to get out of bed and now here he is, driving to start working as a CEO in some company he is not interested in. He pulled into the gate of the company. He parked in the garage and came out of the car. Just to piss her off in return, Charles made no attempt to wear something nice. He is an ordinary pant and a shirt you'll easily get immediately you step inside a Walmart store. “Good morning,” a man greeted him. “Good morning,” Charles greeted the man back. Before he got to the elevator, more than five people had greeted him. Nice welcome, huh? Thank goodness. He didn't want a company that will stress him out in the first place. “The new CEO will be here anytime soon, all workers move to the multi-purpose hall and wait for him,” a voice blared through the speaker across the whole building. “I repeat, all workers move to the multi-purpose hall.” Immediately, all the workers were rushing in a particular direction. Charles watched the uniformity in fascination. Lost in the amusement, he bumped into a woman. “I'm so sorry,” Charles bent down to pick the pen that fell from her hand. He straightened up and gave the pen to her but she didn't collect it. Instead, she was looking at him with total disgust. Charles smiled uncomfortably. He had only gotten this kind of look from the members of his ex-wife's family. Without warning, the woman slapped his face. The force of the slap made Charles stagger backward. He grabbed his face to relieve the pain. Been a long time since he was last slapped. “What gut did you have to stand in my way when you saw me coming?” She asked, her voice dripping in disgust. Charles glanced at her. Is she a worker here? She should become a military person. That slap was crazy. “I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to stand in your way.” “You meant to. You saw me coming and stood in my way. I saw you while I was coming,” she spat. Now, this is getting serious. Charles took his hand from his face. “If you saw me coming, you could have avoided me.” The woman roared in laughter. “What? Me?” She started laughing again. Some of the workers that were on their way to the multi-purpose hall have stopped now. No one had ever spoken to Miss Dakota. Definitely not someone who wanted to continue working in the company. “You mean to tell me I should make way for a mannerless idiot like you?” She laughed again. “Ma'am, I think that's going too far. You don't know me and you're referring to me as an idiot.” “That's exactly who you are, you worthless human being. Do you even have the guts to talk back to me? Do you know who I am?” “Who are you?” Charles looked her up and down. “Or who do you think you are?” She took her iphone and dialed a number. “I'll show you who I am.” Charles put his hands in his pocket. People like this are the worst. Who the hell employed a worker? As far as he knows, everyone here is an employee one way or the other. “Apologize,” Charles heard some of the workers whisper to him. “Get on your knees and tell her you're sorry,” a man whispered. “Tell her sorry!” Charles smiled at them. “Let's see who she is first.” Suddenly, there are echoes or feet. The sound made Charles nostalgic as he remembered his training and all the things he did in the military. He couldn't wait to go back. A group of scary looking men with tattoos marched in. The man who seemed to be their leader came forward. He had a hat on his head. He bowed at the woman. “At your service, ma'am.” “Teach this idiot who I am,” the woman instructed. The man in the hat turned around. He had a smile on his face as he took off his hat. “You're messing with Miss Dakota, huh?” The voice sounded familiar to Charles. He waited for the man to remove his hat. All of a sudden, the man fell on his knees in front of Charles. “I didn't know it was you, sir.”
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Charles stepped out of the car, his eyes sweeping across the quiet street. His gaze settled on the entrance of the hall where the dinner party was already in full swing. Small, yes—but it housed the powerhouses of the city.Sadie had asked him to come in with her, but he’d turned her down without a second thought.“I hate boredom,” he’d said.But really, that wasn’t it. Walking in there with her would be signing his own exposure slip. One look from the right person—someone with a long enough memory—and the game would be up, all his identity revealed. Add that to the fingerprint registration at the door?Too much fuss for a damn dinner.Charles pulled out a cigarette from the packet and flicked his lighter open. Just as the flame flared, he felt someone behind him. A presence he didn’t need to look at to recognize.“I’ve seen foolish people,” Roger said from beside him, “but you beat the record, man.”Charles slowly lowered the lighter and took the cigarette out of his mouth. What the
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Holden smiled nervously. Where did this nerd man come from anyway? “I'm sorry, sir.”“Shall we proceed to my office so I can get started immediately?” “This is your first day, sir. I'm not telling you what to do or anything like that, but on the first day, the CEO looks around the company and sees how the workers are doing and later in the day we throw a welcome party.”Charles raised a hand. “I don't want a welcome party. And, I am here to work so that's what I'll do first. I'll check up on the workers later. It should be done when they are not aware so we can know those who are slacking on their job.”Holden smiled again. “I love your strategy, sir.” Charles resumed walking. As they went, Holden tried all the manner of approach he could to get Charles to agree to the welcome party but Charles didn't have any of it.Holden knew he was in a tight spot. It was a matter of time before Charles figured out all the money that had disappeared mysteriously from the company's account. “Th
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Charles chuckled. He patted the man on the shoulder. Lainey's boyfriend. “Get up, get up.” “No, sir,” the man said. He could still feel the pain he got from Charles two days ago. His men that tried to deal with Charles were still in the hospital without hope of recovery. He wasn't ready for another attack again. Plus, his doctor warned him not to do anything with his arm for now if didn't want to lose it. “How are your boys? I didn't mean to go hard on them the other time,” Charles said. “They're fine, sir,” he quickly replied. “I said you should deal with him!” Dakota snapped. “Ma'am, we will stop working with you from today, if you dare to mess with our boss then we are not working with you,” Lainey's boyfriend said. Charles smiled. “I haven't agreed to be your boss.” He turned to Dakota, “will you now tell me who you are?” “Mr Charles?” A man called. He came forward and bowed slightly. “I was waiting for you at the gate, I had no idea you had arrived, sir.” Dakota frowned.
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Charles looked at his reflection in the mirror as he drove the Toyota Camry Sadie bought for him. They almost had a fight over it. She was going to buy him a Rolls-Royce but what the fuck was he supposed to do with it? Even without using some extraordinary cars, a few important people in Atlanta recognize him. What'd happen if he now used an expensive car? And he'll admit, he'd never been more pissed off than he had been since he met Sadie. She would always do something to get on his nerves. Like this morning… “You have to start working here,” she had tossed a card on the table. “No, thanks.” “One way or the other, I'm going to be forced to tell people that you are my husband, what will I tell them you do for a living?” And that way, she forced him to get out of bed and now here he is, driving to start working as a CEO in some company he is not interested in. He pulled into the gate of the company. He parked in the garage and came out of the car. Just to piss her off in
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“Later,” Charles quickly said. “Alright. I'll call you later.” Charles let out a breath of relief after ending the call. For now, he was covered. But really, he'd never understand why his godfather wanted him to have a kid. He was not even ready to be a father. The thought of it scared the shit out of him. “Sir?” A man in a suit bowed in front of Charles. “Miss Sadie said to tell you that the car is waiting over there.” He pointed at a tinted black BMW. Charles strode to the car. Time to know what the woman wanted from him. She seemed too sensible for the way she was behaving last night. He entered the car and the driver soon started driving. “Thanks to you I had to sign seventy autographs on my feet.” She drank from a bottle of water. “I wasn't the one who asked you to follow me all around.” She darted a glare at him. “So, what do you want from me? I'm more busy than this.” She accessed him. “What do you do for a living?” “Is that any of your business?”“Compared to the w
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He pushed through the crowd until he made it to the front.Roger was on one knee, right there in front of Emmy.“Will you be my date?” Roger asked.Emmy blushed. Beaming, she stretched out her hand, and Roger slipped the ring onto her finger.“He’s so romantic!”“I wish I was Emmy.”“They’re so cute!”“When will someone propose to me like that?”Just before Charles could reach the gate and leave it all behind, he saw it. The kiss. Emmy clung to Roger like her life depended on it, like she had something to prove.While they were married, Emmy barely let Charles touch her. A hug—only when her father was around. And even then, it felt like a favor. He respected that. Gave her space. Thought maybe, just maybe, she’d open up someday.Turns out, none of it ever meant anything.“Hey,” he heard a woman's shout. The voice was familiar to the voice of the woman he met last night. He continued walking. “Man in black jacket and earring,” the woman shouted again. He still didn't stop. He had
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“Does that mean I can have her?” Charles further twisted Lainey's boyfriend's hand. If he twisted it a inch further, the man would end up with a broken arm. “You can! You can!” Charles let it go. “Thanks.” He walked back to Lainey like nothing just happened. He held out his hand to her. “Shall we go on our first date?” Still not believing all that was happening, Lainey reached out her hand to Charles. For the first time in her life, she was seeing someone who could deal with her boyfriend without making an effort. As they left, Lainey's boyfriend swore under his breath to deal with Charles at all costs. Outside, Charles smiled at the woman. He wanted to continue flirting with her but seeing no need for that, he shut his mouth. He wasn't ready to get into any relationship and he didn't plan to in the future.“Thank you so much, sir,” Lainey's father said, getting out of the car. Lainey snapped her head toward the voice. “Dad?” Her father looked at her with a sigh. “If you don'
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—---At the Daryl's restaurant---Charles can't believe he agreed to this ridiculous thing. He is putting on a brand designed cloth that is worth millions of dollars and chewing gum like a total playboy. His job was simple—at least that was what the owner of the Tyrell Williams group said. The man had a daughter but the daughter had been going on a date with a very ruthless man of the underworld whose only mission was to bring the family business down. Now where did he fit in the drama? He just had to flirt with the man's daughter and rescue the clueless daughter from the ruthless man. Any man could have played this part but according to the owner of the Tyrell Williams group, the other men who had tried it in the past few months disappeared all of a sudden. As Charles entered the restaurant, he switched his walking step to one with some swag. Not difficult, really. He was a playboy before he got married to Emmy. He chewed recklessly on the bubble gum in his mouth as he approache
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Charles laughed, bitter and low. "Business partner? That's what you're calling it now?”“Wasn't it a business meeting? Didn’t you see the laptop and documents when you came in?” Emmy fired, eyes flashing with anger at Charles’s shocked expression.“Mom, you should’ve seen how Charles embarrassed me last night,” she continued, voice dripping with bitterness. “Mr. Roger stormed out in anger. It was humiliating, hearing that he had… other intentions. You know Mr. Roger, right? Mom?”“How could you?” Charles’s mother-in-law shouted, fists clenched. “After everything my daughter has sacrificed for you, this is how you repay her? I won’t let this slide. You will pay for this.”“I managed to apologize to Mr. Roger yesterday,” Emmy said, her voice now low and defeated, “but I’m not sure he’ll want to continue the partnership.”Roger couldn’t help but smile quietly. This was turning out to be more entertaining than he expected. “I’ll start the divorce papers and have them ready before the day
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