LEGENDARY THOUGHTS II

Joal said to Justin "we barely met and I know it will be very difficult for you to trust me. I treated you badly when we first met but that was all an act. If I don't do that my boss will start suspecting me and it might put us in trouble." Justin replied. "I understand."

You see Joal continued, "my dream is to make enough money set a sail on a ship and take a trip around the world with the woman I fell in love with but unfortunately for me she got married to a man I was worked for. Like they say life goes on right? "I have tried to make things work the right way, the legit way of course. But you see the challenges I faced trying to make it work started to make me ask questions I don't have answers too. Life is really unfair, most of my friends forgot about me. They even went as far as seize communication with me. Every time I call them they ignored my call and pretend as though they never say it. After my mother got sick I decided, I have to do something. I am not proud doing this job. I only did it to see if I can pay my mom's medical bills but in an effort to do that, I lost her to the cold hands of death. Thanks to that stupid man who calls himself The Engineer."

As a result, I decided to take him out of the picture, raise funds and start a company of my own. "Enough of my story" Joal said. "I told you this tale for you to trust and believe me. We are on the same side. I am your friend unless of course you decide to look the other way."

"I have nothing to lose after all. If I don't trust you, what other hope of getting our of here to I have?" Replied Justin. Fair enough says Joal. "So tell me, what is your story?". "My story? It's a very popular one first child of a low class family. I had to struggle my way through school. Graduated didn't seem to find myself a better job. I was only managing at the construction site to provide for my family before my adoption and now I don't even know if my family is still alive or not. This is not my dream, this is definitely not how I planned my life to be."

"What is your dream?" Joal asked. My father always told me a dream is that one thing you live for, you have none, you live for nothing." In response Justin said, "My dream is to be the greatest of all time. The richest man on earth." Joal nodded his head and said "you see what I mean, we are alike in a way. So right now all we need to do is get out of this place before we end up dead. The Mafia is not going to stop until he finds us. He has people everywhere, police, FBI you name it. So we have to tread carefully.

"Please I have to call my wife too know if they are okay and also tell her to stop worrying that I will be home soon." "You have to be very careful while making this call Joal said." There are people everywhere. Never tell your wife you location and caution her to act as if she has never heard from you since your adoption. Most importantly don't speak for too long. Make sure it is brief and precise. You don't know if your wife is with the police or anyone, she might give us away in the process."

"I will do just that. I totally understand the risk involved." The next day Justin called his wife and explained everything to her warning her not to tell anyone they spoke not even his best friend Greg. He also told her she should not worry too much about his whereabout and when he will be coming back home. The most important thing here is that he's is alive.

Lina was speechless, confused and happy at the same time. Just the thought of her husband still alive made her day. This past few years had been a nightmare for Lina. She works in a bank prior to her delivery. She was giving leave to care for her child until she is fit to return. She could not resume work as expected but the management understands what she was going through and gave her all the time. Lina is devoted and customer friendly. She brings a lot of clients to the bank.

She had to carter for the children with the absence of her husband. So she decided to go back to work. A colleague of hers has been developing feelings even before her husband's disappearance but was scared of letting her feelings known, considering how Lina will react when of course he is aware that she's a married woman.

The next day after Justin called, she went to work and was a little bit lively compared to her previous years at work after her husbands adoption. Abraham a colleague of his who wants to get romantically involved with her from the first day he worked at the bank felt this is the right time to let Lina know. He worked up to her and said "I have been thinking Lina ever since this incident about your husband happened. I have never gotten the chance to cheer you up." "Dinner? Please don't say no."

Lina did not object. She agreed by saying "it's fine. Let me know when you are ready. Lina always pick the kids at 5PM every school day but this time she asked her sister to pick them up that she will be late from work.

It's close of business. So Abraham took Lina to a fancy restaurant. He has other ulterior motive of drugging her drink so that he can get a taste of her in bed. Everyone at the bank admires Lina because undoubtedly she is the prettiest in that bank's branch.