Chapter 36

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
Aristotle
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A deafening slap sounded in the mansion of Daniel Hamilton's mansion. Daniel beckoned to two of his guards and pointed to Andre who was kneeling on the ground.
"Beat him until he bleeds, " he commanded the two guards who bow and do as commanded. "This isn't the first time of you fucking up Andre." Daniel walked to his couch and sat down comfortably while watching as the two guards beat up Andre. "I gave you one instruction. Kill him and get away but you failed again!!!" He yelled and stood up from his couch.
"Do you know how I made it this far?" Daniel throws the question at Andre who was groaning out on the floor as he was receiving kicks and punches all over his body. "Let me tell you a story about how I became great and have this kind of power. I was once like you but everything changes when I wanted more." Daniel said and raised his hand to stop the guards from beating Andre.
"Bring him closer to me, " he commanded and went back to his seat.
The guards bought a bloody Andre whose clothes were soaked with blood and his face swollen from beatings. Blood flows down his left eye as he struggled to open it.
"Listen to my story and I'll decide if I want to kill you or not, " Daniel raised Andre's chin and began his story. " when I was born, my mother abandoned me in an orphanage home. Growing up was hard for me, I grew up without love. No one wanted me because I'm a little boy that's doesn't deserve to be loved."
Daniel scoffed and then continued his story. " I watched the people I grew up with getting adopted by decent families and most of them got adopted by a rich family but I was left alone." Daniel pour himself a vodka drink and took a sip of it. "When I turned eighteen, I got sold off because the Father of the orphanage felt I was too useless and he sold me off to a wealthy man who only used me as a slave. As if that wasn't enough, my master makes sure I did dirty works for him. Dirty works like killing innocent people and drug trafficking." Daniel stopped talking and took another sip from his drink.
"For ten years, I was used and abused by my master. Sometimes he made me sleep outside in the cold rain and he didn't even bother if I catch a cold or not. Most times if I do not deliver the job assigned to me, he burns my back and throws me inside a cold room without food and water for days." Daniel chuckled and shook his head while remembering his past.
"My boss belonged to a group of elites that calls themselves wings. The wings were powerful people in mecianda in the 1900s and my boss was their leader. The wings also used and abused me. I was used sexually by the women in the group and the men abuse me anything I do something wrong. When I turned 30, I couldn't take it anymore. I decided it was my time to break free from everything and so I planned on how to take him down. I mastered his ways and everything about him and when I finally got what I needed, I killed them all. I killed the wings because of what they did to me. Those people didn't deserve to live after everything they made me go through. I didn't become like this because I chose to but you can't predict your future. If you have power and money then you have it all." Daniel finished his talking and moved closer to Andre.
"The reason why I'm keeping you alive is that you are good and I know you won't betray me so I'll let you live but, you'll have to do something for me. " Daniel whispered into his ears.
"Anything sir. I will do anything." Andre bows. " please spare my life, sir, " he begged and cried. "I'll do anything, sir."
"Very well then. Here is what you will do." Daniel whispered some words into his ears. "Do that and gain your life back but if you should fail, then I will kill every of your family members and send their corpses to you." He threatened and push him away. "This is your last chance."
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It was another meeting of the feathers and they were all in the middle of an argument when they heard of what happened to Jeremy Akinsola.
"How could Andre be so stupid? It was one instruction and he failed at it. Fucking stupid, " Simone cursed angrily at Andre's mistake.
"Where the hell is that stupid Andre? I feel like wringing his neck." Munachi expressed his anger over Andre's failures.
"No need to get angry feathers. Everything is under control now and I have planned on how to get that stupid attorney." Daniel informed them.
"How?" Park asked.
"Once we destroy the evidence he has on my boys then he wouldn't have anything against them and that is the end of the case," Daniel replied.
"Really? And how do you plan on doing that?"Alissa asked with a hint of countless in her tone. She waited for answers and when Daniel didn't answer her quickly, she tapped her fingers on the table. " look, we need to know what you are planning so we can know what going to happen. "
"Calm down Alissa." Daniel smiled and then explained his plan to the feathers.
"That's is it?" Leonard questioned and Daniel nodded. "That's is your plan Daniel?"
"You have something better?" Daniel retorted.
"I'm just curious about how you plan to do such a thing, Daniel. If your plan fails then it would backfire and this could be the end of our project plan."
Daniel slammed his hand on the table and glared at Leonard. " it not going to backfire Leonard. It's going to work just perfectly. Just wait and see."
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It was early Monday morning and the banging on Jeremy's door made him jerk up from his bed and headed to the door to see who was banging on his door.
"What the hell yomi? It's 7 am!" Jeremy yelled at Yomi.
"You can yell all you want Jeremy but we have a big problem."
"What is it? Can't it wait?"
"I'm afraid it can't. Turn on the TV and see for yourself." Yomi said to him.
Jeremy walked to his TV stand and picked up the remote control laying somewhere on the stand. He looked at yomi before turning the TV on.
"A fire outbreak is happening right now along malish road and according to our sources on the site, it was confirmed that electricity was the cause of the fire incident and there is no casualty but the building was burnt beyond recognition. The building is a law firm that was..."
Jeremy didn't listen to the rest of the news as he turned off the TV and rushed into his closet to change his clothes. He couldn't believe that his law firm was on fire. Just yesterday, he was almost killed and today, his firm was on fire. Why was everything happening at a time?
"What causes the fire outbreak?" Jeremy asked yomi as he drove him to his law firm.
"I have no idea Jeremy but from the news, they are saying it as a result of electricity."
"God, " Jeremy buried his head in his hand. "Why is this happening?"
"Calm down Jeremy. The girls went there as soon as they heard the news so I guess they should have found out the cause of the fire."
"This is the feathers doing. They are willing to go the extra mile to see that I fall but their plans aren't going to work because I'm going to pay them back in a hundred folds." Jeremy swore.
When they got to the firm, Jeremy quickly rushed out of the car and raced to the burning building but he was stopped by the fire department.
"I'm sorry sir but you cannot enter the building until the fire is out " one of the firefighters stopped Jeremy who was rushing towards the Burning firm.
"Just do something before everything burns to the ground. I have some important documents inside there, " Jeremy let out a frustrated groan and scratched his head. He didn't know what to do and even when the reporters rushed to question him, he gave no reply to any of them instead his focus was on his burning firm.
Jeremy was boiling in anger at the sight of his firm. The feathers were playing a mindless game at him and he wasn't going to let them win. This was a battle that requires loss and his firm was his loss but were the feathers ready for his own game. He was going to make sure he served them well.
A soft hand touched him and Jeremy looked at the person who had touched him. "It all going to be okay Jeremy, " Lara said as she placed her hand on Jeremy's shoulders.
"Nothing is going to be fine until the battle is over."
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Thanks for reading.........
Well, this chapter tells us more about Daniel's story and his reason for everything. He wanted power and he didn't care who got hurt as long as he got what he wanted.
Jeremy, I'm sorry about your law firm. I'll be waiting on your revenge against the feathers and I hope you serve them hot.
Let's go catch some bad guys????
Melody