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Clinton laughed as he sipped his drink. "The challenge was supposed to happen within six months, Ethan but you didn't complete it with the six months given. Even though you managed to get her, you still did not keep to time."
Ethan smiled. "The main point is that I got her, I finally got my pawn. I got to kill three birds with just one stone, my dad, my uncle and that slot. I want my uncle to feel the pains of taking what belongs to other people. The same he took from my father, is this same way I am going to snatch things always from you."
"Ethan let us not ruin in the moment because of that old fool. It is not good to monkey with drugs neither is it good to talk about monkeys like your uncle," Clinton said.
Ethan laughed and drank his alcohol. Clinton dropped his glass on the table. " Ethan have you told your dad about your engagement?"
"No. Not yet," he answered to his question.
"Why? What is holding me back,"
"When do you intend on telling him?"
"I am waiting for the day of his birthday. I want the good news to hatch properly before I deliver it," Ethan explained to him, plaintively.
"What about your uncle, does he know you plan on getting married?"
"He will be the last person to know about my marriage," Ethan swore it..
"Yeah. If I were in your shoes, I would have also done the same. Of he has the slightest idea that you are about to get married, in order to will your dad's properties, he may come up with little tricks to get your dad to will him all his inheritance instead. So I advise you rush things up as fast as you can, cause any delay could make you and your uncle have to share the inheritance and I am very sure that you wouldn't like that," Clinton suggested, warned and advised at the same time.
Ethan clearly understood what Clinton was trying to say. He also saw meaning in his friend's words. The point was crystal clear, he needed to make his moves fast before all his efforts was going to drain away.
Ethan nodded his head in an agreeing manner. "I guess you are right. That evil uncle of mine is so dubious and sly, who would go through any lengths to get whatever he wanted, not caring about his loved ones. If he should have the slightest idea that I got a woman engagement, he would try to find out the reason to this sudden movement of mine. Once he manages to find out it is because of the will, I guarantee you that he will not rest until my father splits his inheritance or until my father gives him everything instead."
x x x x x x x
"Dad I just watched a video," Ethan's cousin said to his father.
"So?"
"It's about Ethan, dad."
"What about him?"
"He engaged a woman," he revealed.
"What? How possible is that?"
"He detest women, so why did he propose then?"
"Son, I think something fishy is going on here and I must find out about it."
"Ethan has always been brilliant and smart, I get this feeling that the proposal of thing is fake, he must have done all that to achieve something. So we have to find out why he did it," Ethan's uncle added.
"But dad how are we going to find out, Ethan doesn't share his plans with people."
"We do not need to go through any much before we can figure it all out."
"How do?"
"We are going to get his friend to tell us."
"Not bad, but Clinton is not someone who can ever think of betraying his friend."
"He won't have a choice, once I black mail," the crooked, elderly man, after which he let out a loud laugh.. Obviously this man was out to destroy his brother's family and too together with his son.
Somewhere in the market...
Someone mistakenly bumped into Whitney.
"I am so sorry," he apologized, as he bent down to help her pick her stuffs, which littered on the floor.
"Ok.." Agnes replied, also bending down to pick her things.
After the guy was done speaking, he stood up and gave everything to her.
"Ohh, it's you sister in law," he called out, immediately he saw her face.
Whitney looked at him.and remembered who he was. "Ethan's cousin?" She whispered.
"Yes it's me," he answered.
Agnes quickly remembered that Ethan hated this his cousin so much, so it was better for her not to have anything to do with him.
"Thanks a lot, bye," she quickly said and walked passed him.
Ethan's cousin quickly ran after her, "hey sister in law wait up, why are you in so much hurry, you man isn't around, so do not be scared." He smiled to her. The way he comport himself in front of her made her think he was a nice person but she had no idea just how bad he was and how badly he wanted to take her to bed. "Why does he hate you so much?" She mistakenly voiced out her opinion.
"None of my business because I hate him so much too" he didn't dare to say his thoughts out to her though.
"Because of what happened way back in college," he replied to her question with a lie.
"What did you just say?"
"Ethan hates me this much became of something that happened between us, way back in college," he repeated but in more details.
"Tell me what transpired between you two," she inquired.
"It's nothing too important, I advise that you get going," he said, trying to avoid answers questions that he did not have answers too.
"No I don't plan on going, until I hear the full story," she replied adamantly.
"Alright then, I will tell what happened," he said and paused for a moment, thinking of a good lie to tell.
"Go on and stop delaying," Agnes spoke up.
"Back then in our college days, your boyfriend like a certain girl, whom I liked too. So one day, he decided to try asking the girl out but she refused. On revealing that the girl had rejected, I decided I was going to try my luck on her too. So one day while she was on her way home, I rushed to her and told her I liked but she rejected me too. I do not need to go into more details, soon afterwards it became a news in school that two cousins proposed to the same particular girl and got rejected by her. Ethan also had if it and found out that I had also asked the girl out. One day while I was in the house, he suddenly barged in and started attacking me blows, calling me all sorts of name like, hypocrite..." He narrated.
"That's all," he added.
"Was Ethan really that hot tempered?" She asked.
He smiled, then he answered her question, "yes and he is still hot tempered, just that he is learning to tame himself, I guess."
"Ohh I see but what about your father, what did he do to Ethan?" She inquired.
"Wait a second, did Ethan also say he hates my father," he asked, despite the fact that he knew Ethan hated him..
"Yes, he said he hates you both.
"The only reason he hates my dad so much is because that day he came to beat me up, my dad tried to stop him but he refused, so in anger my dad asked the security men to throw him," he added another lie.
"Ethan," she whispered in shock.