Chapter 7

Gomez have just been summoned by Bernado as Will is right behind him while going towards Bernado’s prison room.

Will and Gomez seems to be more nervous than ever because they are still yet to get over the death of the cannibal when Gomez also saw a dead body at the entrance of his prison room.

Bernado who is already feeling vulnerable because of the arrival of his brother decided to give Gomez another task;

“I called you for another reason this time”, Bernado said.

“for what?”, Gomez asks nervously.

“how will you feel about protecting rather than killing?”, Bernado asks as well.

“that’s better?”, Gomez said with some sigh of relief.

“ok, you will have to protect Aveiro with your life and I believe you know what that means”, Bernado said as he ordered Will to come in as well.

“Same thing is applicable to you”, Bernado said to Will.

“Ok”, Will and Gomez responds as they leave the prison room of Bernado.

Mason is still in his office spacious cubic meters, pacing while walking to and fro, it is almost as if he is lost in thought because he lost the reality consciousness that he is still at work.

Mason still has a lot of paper work to do for the day but what is bothering his mind will not let him concentrate at work and Johanna could not help but see how lost in thought her boss is. Johanna walked in to discuss her observation.

“What is wrong with you sir?, you look off the radar today”. Johanna asked.

“I… I… don’t know” Mason stammering to answer.

“you are skipping your words, talk to me maybe I could help?”, Johanna said.

“is it possible for two different people to say I sent a text message to them when I didn’t?”, Mason said confused.

“I don’t think that’s suppose to be possible”, Johanna said.

“And is that what you are so worked up about” Johanna followed up.

“you still don’t get it do you?, th… they are bad messages”, Mason losing his calm feelings.

“Really, what are those exact words and how bad is it” Johanna a bit more serious about it.

Mason took his phone to show Johanna the exact words of the message which made Johanna a bit more skeptical about the message because she assumed it is what Mason can do.

There was a time Mason was dating one of Johanna’s friend called Adivah, Adivah was also on the receiving end of Claire’s message through Mason’s phone in which she showed the message to Johanna but Johanna could not really confront her boss about it until now.

“Oh really! Now you suddenly have a heart?”, Johanna impulsively said.

“Wh… what? What the f**k are you talking about?”, Mason in confused state again.

“now you want to play dumb? Oh what the f**k is this you are doing?”, Johanna still in her impulsive state.

“I am not playing dumb, I am telling you about my predicament and yet you are condemning me?, wh.. What the actual f**k?”, Mason just lost his cool on Johanna but Johanna is still not having it all.

“you are not explaining your predicament to me because that’s who you are, a heartbreaker!”, Johanna emphasizes.

“What did you mean by heartbreaker, I didn’t break anyone’s heart c’mon”, Mason said convincingly.

“Oh c’mon you are a heart breaker because that message is similar to the one you sent to Adivah which she showed me”, Johanna also said convincingly and holding Mason’s phone to point at the picture on his phone.

“w… .wait a sec.. Adivah said I sent her a message?, Mason said with his head in his hands sitting on the chair like almost depressed.

“yes because the message is similar and you told her to leave you the f**k alone”, Johanna said annoyingly.

“Now that makes it three”, Mason said with confusion all over his face.

“oh God! I didn’t send any of the messages”, Mason said with despair.

“You will have to do a lot convince me that you didn’t send any of those messages because they are even pure evidences that you sent them because the sender number and name is at the top of everything”, Johanna said in disbelief that Mason is innocent of everything.

“I never should have told you about my predicament, you just made it worse”, Mason said hopelessly.

“yeah… maybe you are right about that because I will be factual, truthful and honest everything”, Johanna said honestly.

The CEO (Mr. White) walked in to meet them at the conversation which made them keep quiet and compose themselves.

“I’m not paying you to talk you know”, Mr. White said mockingly to both Mason and Johanna which made Johanna go back to her cabin.

“Mason, what happened to the sales and export documents I have been expecting since morning? , Mr. White asked.

“I’m on it sir, you will get it in a couple of minutes”, Mason replied.

“You better do so on time because I want the export team to ship out on time to cash my money completely”, Mr. White said teasingly.

“Yes sir”, Mason said with a smile.

In the prison, as Gomez and Will left Bernado’s place while walking towards the pathway, Gomez saw Aveiro receiving some beatings from Moses’s men that circled him earlier and said to Will;

“is that not the person we are asked to protect?”.

“you d**m right he is”, Will responds.

Will and Gomez ran downstairs immediately because they have to protect Aveiro before he gets beaten to death.

Will and Gomez knows the meaning of ‘protect him with your life’ because they don’t want to get killed as well. Will and Gomez got to downstairs just in time to break up the fight before Aveiro got beaten to death; notwithstanding Aveiro lost one of his balls which made Will call the guards and Aveiro was rushed to the hospital for emergency care.

After the conversation Mason just had with Mr. White, he went to his table to check how fast he could finish up the work but it seems he has spent a lot of time on the thoughts of his mind rather his work so he realized it is not something he could finish in a couple of minutes.

Mason then thought to himself that he might need some help which made him call Johanna.

“Johanna please come over”, Mason called Johanna through the telecom.

“what is it sir?”, Johanna said with some strange professionalism.

“can we put our personal issues aside and let us work together because you heard what our boss just said ,I can’t finish all this in a matter on minutes; I was just bluffing”, Mason said convincingly.

“Yeah I can see that, but I thought you have done some out of them before?”, Johanna said surprisingly.

“I thought so too but seems the joke is on me”, Mason said hopelessly.

“OK then, so let’s get to work”, Johanna said.

Some couple of hours went by as Mason and Johanna were pushing the pencils and pens om the papers until they finish up the work and Johanna went to give the CEO all the signed documents.

Johanna left the office after the work without giving Mason a good-bye which made Mason feel bad the more because he felt he has really done something bad to Johanna and Adivah as well.

Mason seems to be working late in the office without any work left in the office because he is still thinking at his current predicament and staring at his phone in the process.

Claire who is already in Mason’s house through the spare key she had with her and waiting expectantly for her brother to know the update of her brother’s girlfriends so she could plan her evil properly.

Claire is beginning to lose patience and already thinking otherwise that her brother might have known the truth of what she did or what is going on.

Claire decided to call her brother’s phone but he is not picking up his phone which made her more worried than ever.

She tried to call his secretary as well but she is not picking up as well because Johanna already went to Adivah’s place to tell her about what happened and her phone is still on silence mode in her bag.

Mason who is already driving himself crazy as he is checking his office for some bottle of liquor which he believes would help him calm his crazily deep thought and could not even check the phone when his sister is calling him. He eventually found a bottle of “Elliott” and while he was getting drunk then he decided to browse through internet about

“How message could be sent to someone without the sender’s knowledge of it”.

Google brought out some possible ways which he thinks one of them is the most possible match of them all. To him, the most possible way of them all is the “hacking of phone to send message to another person”.

Mason so much believe in this reason to the extent of thinking that the possible solution to it is by taking his phone for some upgraded firewall at the information and technology (IT) department for fixing and fortunately the information and technology department in the company runs on night shifts which means the information and technology department is always available.

The information and technology department could possibly know if the phone was hacked or the message was from the phone without hacking it which could also show more truth to Mason about his situation.

Mason who is already drunk is staggering to walk down the stairs to the information and technology department elevator because the department is below the ground floor of the company; and the company has a private elevator that only goes below the ground floor and a private elevator that only goes above ground floor.

However, Gomez and Will are both wondering about why Aveiro would be kicked in the ball while he was receiving a beating from the Jews. Bernado also heard what happened to his brother and summoned Will and Gomez at once.

Claire who is in her brother’s house is already feeling restless to the point of getting into the car with a mind of searching for her brother which made her drive towards her brother’s office to look for him.

Will she catch up with staggering Mason before he got to the information and technology department when she gets there?

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