Chapter 8

Will and Gomez got to Bernado’s room as Bernado begin to rant;

“You know I told both of you to guard him with your lives and yet you both failed to do so”.

“they are already fighting before we left your room”, Gomez responds as Will is still very nervous to talk.

“And so what?”, Bernado said.

“there’s nothing we could have done”, Gomez responds

“whatever! Anyway how bad is it?”, Bernado asks

“He lost one of his balls”, Will said as Gomez is reluctantly nervous to answer.

“What! Well you know what I mean by a life for life right? and time it is a ball for a ball”, Bernado said as he rants profusely.

“Get out of here”, Bernado said as Will and Gomez left for their rooms.

Will is in his prison room thinking as Nate is on the top bunk;

“Why are all this things happening to me?, could this be because I bought a child and raise him as my own without his knowledge”,

Apparently, Mason is not Will’s biological child because he bought him from a human-trafficking Russian called Pavulchenko.

Will and his wife (Birdget) tried for twelve years in marriage before they eventually had Claire.

Will and Bridget could not help themselves with lack of children in their marriage which made Will to buy a baby from the human trafficker Pavulchenko.

However, Mason eventually found his way to the private elevator and pressed the button to open the elevator on his knees because he is stupor drunk. Relatively, Claire just got down from the car as well with her phone in her hands still calling Mason and walking towards the ground floor.

Claire got to the ground floor elevator just when the elevator is about to close with her brother already inside but they both could not stop the elevator from closing because the space between the elevator door is already less than an inch.

The elevator moves downwards which Claire saw as well and when Mason got down he decided to take the elevator back up to the ground floor because of his sister he saw.

At this point, Mason had lost focus on what he was coming downstairs to do but one of IT personnel saw him from afar the moment the elevator bell dings and the door opens.

Jimmy who is the IT personnel saw him and he was surprised because he knows that most of the bosses don’t do overtime at work;

“Engr. Mason?”, Jimmy seem surprised to see him.

“I had no idea… ..” Jimmy got interrupted by the elevator bell closing ready to take Mason back up.

Claire who is on the ground floor that saw the private elevator go down with her brother in it already took the stairs just to meet up with her brother on time but on getting downstairs at the IT department it is another scene for her entirely because she couldn’t see her brother she saw in the elevator.

She met Jimmy;

“where is he?”, Claire said shakingly

“Which kind of Angel are you? Looking for your someone at this time of the day?”, Jimmy said without knowing that Claire is Mason’s sister

“I’m Claire Engr. Mason’s sister, he came down here not long ago”, Claire said despairingly.

“oh yeah, I thought he took the wrong elevator earlier when I saw him”, Jimmy thought aloud.

Mason who already went up came out of the elevator to look for his sister because he thought to himself;

“It is already late, I wonder what she is doing here at this time?”

“I promise to take care and protect you”, Mason thought to himself.

While Mason is still in his thought, he suddenly heard the elevator bell dings and it’s going down. Mason thought to himself and asked himself how he got to where he is because he is still drunk and all what was in his head at the moment is to get his sister first.

When he was at the end of hall towards the restroom he heard the elevator bell dings again which opened and his sister came out from the elevator;

“I have been looking for you everywhere, you got me worried?”, Claire lamented while she hugged her brother tightly with some tears from her eyes.

“I was doing some overtime work”, Mason said calmly even though alcohol is reeking all over him and Claire smelled it graciously.

“overtime work?, when did you start doing that? Or you were doing some overtime drinking as well?”, Claire is ranting.

“I was lost in some thought today and I lost the track of time, so I had to finish up the documents afterwards”, Mason said like a cover up which is not still convincing to Claire.

“if you had to finish up at work, you still have not explain the part of reeking with alcohol?”, Claire still ranting profusely.

“OK I have to drink up because of some thoughts of somethings I was accused of doing that I didn’t do”, Mason started explanation.

“I am trying not to tell you about all this because I want to handle my emotional and love life myself and not bother you with my problems”, Mason said

“But I am your sister and I’m not complaining about you giving me problems, so why did you assume you are giving me problems by telling me about your life problems?”, Claire still calm ranting.

“I don’t know, and now I am more confused than ever”, Mason said in a confused state.

“OK tell me about the accusations against you and let me see how I can help out with it”, Claire said calmly.

“Trisha, Jasmine and Adivah accused me of sending a heartbreaking message to them all when I did not send anything of such to them”, Mason said blatantly.

At this point Claire put her head in hands and turned her back towards her brother because she started thinking that all she has done is now becoming nemesis that she has to deal with again.

“what happened?, why did you turn your back ? I just told why I almost lost my mind at work but you felt relaxed? What is going on?”, Mason became curious and a bit sober

“it is not that bro, I could feel the same pain you felt during the day and I can’t just imagine how hard it was for you, I’m sorry”, Claire trying to cover up her emotional lapses.

“ oh don’t be sorry, this is the reason why I didn’t want to tell you about it, you will be more emotional about it than it is supposed to be”, Mason trying to console his sister but “who supposed to be consoling who?”.

“I am really sorry, I never meant to hurt you”, Claire said with another emotional lapses.

“what are you talking about, what is your fault here?”, Mason said confusingly and soberly

“ the way I rant earlier is my fault because you made me look for you all over the place and yet I was thinking you are throwing a mini-party for yourself with the way you were reeking of alcohol when I came close to you”, Claire covering up.

“don’t feel bad about that, I would have felt the same way if I’m in your place as well”, Mason said calmly.

“I am already thinking of a possible solution anyway because I really have to move on with my life”, Mason said convincingly.

Now Claire is more curious to know what her brother wants to do with his phone or it would make her be in a more dangerous position.

“What solution?”, Claire asked

“I have searched about the possible cause and solution online”, Mason said.

“What have you seen?”, Claire asked persistently.

“Geez, calm down I think my phone has been hacked and I could only fix it by upgrading the firewall on it”,

“oh… oh.. Yh.. Yh”, Claire stammering

“So I want to take my phone to the information and technology department of our company to get it checked if it was hacked or not”, Mason said

“what! …oh.. Okay”, Claire feeling all worked up without doing any work.

She could not go against her brother’s opinion because she knows her brother might be suspicious if she says otherwise.

“yh.. Yh… why are you feeling all worked up about me checking my phone?”, Mason confused because of the mixed signals he is getting from Claire.

“nothing, it is just a long night and I want to rest a bit”, Claire trying to cover up lapses again.

“oh.. That’s true.. We can both go downstairs to the information and technology department shift room to relax a bit while Jimmy works on the phone”, Mason calming the situation.

“holy sh*t!”, Claire said in her mind while her heart was pounding and pacing.

Mason grabbed his sister by the hand and move towards the IT elevator in which they got to in a matter of seconds. They entered the elevator together… .

Will Mason get the truth?

(Knock on the door)… .the person at the doorstep of Jasmine is Pamela;

“why are you here at this time of the day mum?”, Jasmine asks

“I just decided to come earlier because your birthday is coming up pretty soon, my baby girl!”, Pamela responds.

Pamela is the mother of Jasmine, Richard and a supposed twin brother of Richard. Richard’s twin brother was kidnapped from Pamela and Salomon their father when the babies were just five months old in the hospital.

The only evidence Pamela and Salomon got from the state regarding this case is that the baby was kidnapped by a Russian. During the time of this happenings, Pamela become depressed when she is taking care of Richard.

Salomon was also in emotional wreckage which made him kidnap another person’s child that could replace his own child but he was caught and arrested which got him fifteen years imprisonment initially at the North-side prison of Texas which is different from the prison of Will. Salomon still committed murder while in prison which got him another twenty-five years with his initial term in jail.

Pamela divorced Salomon after two years Santiago got to prison which made Pamela keep switching men every now and then.

As it stands now, Pamela is currently having an affair with Darby who set up Will to get imprisoned but Pamela keep this relationship a secret from Richard and Jasmine. Pamela and Darby seemed to have had a heated argument the night she came to Jasmine’s apartment and she just moved in with in with Darby when it happened. Pamela was just desperately looking for a place to stay for the time being which made her use Jasmine’s birthday to cover up.

All the way down in the elevator….

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