The Return Of The God of War

6

An angry Duke pulls the manager up to his feet and drags him by the collar back into the office.  

Melody is confused, she doesn't know what to do. She saw some of the workers making phone calls and she knows that she is going to be in trouble and her husband too.  

She doesn't want Duke to get arrested because her family is going to mock both of them.  

She walks into the office and shuts the door and presses her face against it as she breathes through her mouth, she has never been more scared in her whole life.  

Mister Maxwell has found his way to his sit and is groaning in pain as he wipes the blood from his nose and tries to sniff the rest back in, where they are supposed to be.  

" You stupid, jerk!" He curses at Duke. " Just wait until the police come and take you away. You are going to rot in jail for the rest of your life. " 

Duke is angry at this man's audacity to still speak to him with such disrespect and so he grabs him by his neck and bashes his head into the table.  

The man almost passes out but he gets up to his feet and curses some more at both of them before fleeing the room.  

Duke isn't satisfied and he wants to go after him, but Melody stops him.  

" Duke!" Melody shrieks and grabs his hand and pulls him away. " You are going to kill him!" 

" Yes, I know. " Duke answers. " He serves to die a thousand deaths. " 

"No. " She fearfully refuses. " We should be begging him instead, we don't want to end up getting arrested because of your anger issues. " 

Duke grits his teeth in anger, he wonders if Melody didn't hear all the atrocious things that this man said to him about her.  

" The Bank president is coming. " Duke folds his hand. " If he is an honest man, he is going to give us the justice that we deserve. " 

" You don't understand. " She says. " Nothing bus going to happen to him even though he is wrong. You heard him, his uncle owns the bank." 

She is talking too much and saying so many things at once and it's all because she is scared right now.  

"Hush." Duke places a finger on her lips and stops her from speaking anymore.  

He pulls her closer to him and circles his hands around her waist and rests her head against his chest.  

" It doesn't matter, we are going to be fine." He assures her.  

Melody isn't as confident as Duke is and she heaves worriedly, but he only kisses the top of her head and snuggles her into his warm hands.  

The door bursts open and a man enters the room with two bodyguards with him. He is sweating profusely and the fear in his eyes looks like he has encountered the devil on his way here.  

He looks like he is in his late sixties and his hair is all grey. His protruding belly seems to point in whatever direction that he moves and his medicated glasses seem to be awfully small for his large head.  

He looks around the room as if looking for someone and as soon as he sees Duke, he rushes toward him and shakes his hand with apology.  

" Hello, I am Thomas Jean, the president of this bank." He fearfully introduces himself. " I am sorry for any inconvenience that this brat has caused you. " 

" It's okay." Duke forces a smile. " It's obvious that age is not evidence of maturity. " 

" I'm sorry, I apologize once again. "  

" I hope that he gets punished for this. " Duke suggests. " He caused me and my wife such discomfort and embarrassment. " 

" Don't worry, I will make sure that he pays for this."  

Melody is behind Duke, she is scared, and doesn't fully understand what is going on because it's not happening the way she thought it would.  

The man just notices her and is about to say something to her when the manager walks back in.  

In his hand is a handkerchief covered in blood, he has been using it to clean up his nose and he freezes as soon as he sees the president.  

He recovers quickly because he stuffs the handkerchief back into his pocket and walks toward his uncle as he points an accusing finger at Duke.  

" Yes, uncle, thank goodness that you are here already. " His voice is loud with excitement. " These are the taunts who walked in here demanding a huge loan and when I refused, the man attacked me and beat me up. Thank God you are here now, did you bring the police with you?" 

The president shouts at him so loudly that he flinches. He makes as if to hut him, but he stops and runs his hand over his jaw in anger.  

" You are not going to be the death of me, Maxwell!" He yells. "you hear me, you sick son of a bitch!" 

He turns around the room and his eyes fall on Melody again. He walks towards her and respectfully offers his hand to her.  

She slowly takes it and is so surprised by the way a man old enough to be her father keeps bowing to her with respect.  

" Ma'am, please can you tell me exactly what happened?" He requests.  

" Sure." She nods and swallows hard.  

She glances at Malik and he gives her a small smile and a nod of approval.  

" This morning, a few hours ago, my husband and I walked through the door of the bank intending to seek a loan here. " She starts. " We met Mister Maxwell, the manager, and he told us that it would be impossible but he is willing to bend a few rules if I agree to be his sex thing for a month. " 

That's all the president needs to hear. He turns around and the manager tries to back into the wall when he sees the flames in the president's eyes.  

 He grabs a book from the table and rolls or into a cylinder and he hits it against the manager repeatedly.  

The manager falls to his feet and tries to shield his head with his hands as he gets the beating of his life from his uncle.  

The president is not satisfied and he pushes the manager to the floor and kicks his ribs with his shoes and curses at him with all his heart.  

" You Crazy fool, how dare you to run my business the way you please?!" He shouts. " Do you what to die by my hand?" 

" No, uncle, I'm sorry. " The manager begs.  

The president spits at him and gives him the most painful kick yet and turns to his bodyguards.  

" Take this lunatic away from my presence right now. " He orders.  

They bow before walking over and forcing the manager up and they force him to walk out of the office.  

As soon as the door shuts, the president bows again to Melody and Duke.  

" I'm very sorry, sir and ma. " He sighs. " I had no idea that this was what he had turned you. He was a very good lad, I don't know what happened, but I am going to get to the bottom of this and make sure he gets punished too. " 

Duke is just smiling, Melody is still recovering from the shock of all that has happened. She thought that they would just get handed over to the police and that would be the end.  

" Please, let's sit. " The president requests.  

He goes on to pull the chairs for them before walking around and sitting down too.  

Duke makes sure that Melody has seated before he sits too and then.  

" With all of this that has happened, I am hoping that it doesn't affect the loan that we came here for. " Duke says.  

" Of course not. " The president shakes his head. " I am going to personally see that you guys get the loan before you leave here today. " 

Melody feels a joyful jump in his heart and her heart and she grabs Duke's hand and lightly squeezes it, trying hard not to smile too much.   

" Thank you. "She sighs. " Thank you so much, sir. " 

" Please, don't thank me. " He begs. " This is the least I can do to make up for what you have done here today. " 

He grabs a paper from a pile and begins to write on it, he wipes the sweat off his brows and continues to write.  

" Do you need it in cash or check?" He asks.  

" Cash, please. " Duke chooses. He wants to see the look of surprise on Melody's grandfather's face when he drops the huge bags of money in front of him.  

The Lord is going to be so shocked that he might get a mini heart attack.  

" When do we have to pay back?" Melody's worried look returns.  

The president looks up and looks from one person to the other.  

" You can take as long as you like. " He says. " We will be expecting no interest too.   

Melody can't hide her joy as she turns to hug Duke tightly, they did it.  

Her joy is short-lived because someone barges in and they are two police officers with guns pulled out.