4: The Offer

Jonathan got into his police black car with his assistant Sergeant Brown, who asked, “What do you plan on doing to help your lover? You know the T-Group are very dangerous, and we have been looking for evidence since and none. They are very smart and vigilant. Why would your girlfriend’s father get himself entangled in a business dealing with Damian Tucker? I am sad but I see no help coming their way.”

“Don’t say that nonsense, Brown,” Jonathan snapped. “Damian is getting on our nerves and as officers of the law we must apprehend him and hand him over to the government.”

“I know, but how do you intend to do that?” Brown queried. ”Your father has tried to get Damian’s father behind bars but failed and now you want to risk your life to fight with the devil. He has the higher-ups backing him. So I’m suggesting you wash your hands off this case and help your girlfriend raise the money. That’s if Damian doesn’t come for her as I can see that she is beautiful and his kind of women that he messes with.”

“Don’t you dare say that crap to me!” Jonathan growled as he grasped Brown’s shirt.

“I will kill Damian, before he gets his hands on my woman. Start the car. We are heading back to the station to report the case,” Jonathan insisted, and Brown sighed.

“Alright.” Brown started the car and drove off to the police station branch in Northwind Town.

***

In a magnificent white estate, several black cars arrived and parked on the estate ground.

“Bring Mr. Max out and take him to the cell,” Damian ordered his men, as he left them and went to his mansion.

On his way home, Damian got a phone call earlier from his father stating that it was urgent matters and he was in his home.

Damian walked ahead to his mansion. The men in black working for him and guarding around the mansion bowed and welcomed him.

They had escorted Mr. Max to the cell they built to lock up their own prisoner.

It was an empty dark room and was built like a boy’s quarter apartment at the back of the exquisite mansions.

It was built away from the mansion, so the men in black bundled Mr. Max away like he was a criminal and took him into the room. They locked up the door and left him.

“Shout all you want. There’s no one to come rescue you,” the men in black warned and left.

***

Damian entered the living room and went upstairs to his bedroom. He ignored responding to his father’s call, thinking that his father was calling him related to business or why he went ahead and got Mr. Max apprehended.

Damian recalled the sight of Alicia Dawson. He had seen her before during his visit at the town’s hospital.

He wanted her and knew of the relationship that she was into with Jonathan. He decided to use her father as a tool to get her.

“There’s no way that the Dawson family would be able to raise such a huge amount of money with in a month,” Damian said, smiling as he went through his bath.

Entering his bathroom, he stripped off his black hand gloves, taking off his shirt and trousers, and he prepared for his bath.

After he was done, Damian came out of the bathroom and dressed up in sleeping wear. His phone rang, and he took it from the shelf to see who was calling him.

“Boss, should I arrange for any lady for you tonight?” Jeff asked.

Damian was in no mood for any woman.

“No. Contact the Dawson family and let them know about my offer,” he said.

“What offer is that, Boss?” Jeff inquired, confusedly. “We just left their mansion not too long ago.”

“I know. Let them know that I offer to have Alicia Dawson as my bride in exchange for her father’s release. Failure to show up tomorrow will get her father punished,” Damian said.

“Oh! Is that all, Boss?” Jeff asked.

“Yes. Send the marriage proposal to Mrs. Dawson tonight,” Damian said. “I expect to see Alicia first thing tomorrow morning.”

“Alright, Boss. I am on it.” Jeff replied and ended the call. He proceeded to contact Mrs. Dawson’s number.

However, Damian smirked. He awaited to see Alicia’s reaction the following day. He went back to his home office to get himself busy with some other deals that needed his attention.

***

In the Dawson's mansion, Lady Jennifer exited her room after her failed attempt to reach her brother on the call.

“Mom, what are we going to do to get Dad out of the T-Group’s clutch?” Alicia asked, standing in the living room. “We cannot wait for your brother to help us, and I don’t know if Jonathan will be able to help us?”

Lady Jennifer sighed and took a seat on the black couch. “I don’t know, Alicia. But you shouldn’t tell your boyfriend anything about your father. We cannot trust those policemen even if he is your boyfriend. He shouldn’t publicise us on the news and tell him you don’t know anything about your father’s job.”

“But Mom, Jonathan is only trying to help us,” Alicia said. “Why not tell him what you know about Father?”

Lady Jennifer frowned. Her eyes narrowed. “No, Alicia! You shouldn’t dare to trade love over your family. Your father’s life is in danger and you thinking getting the police boyfriend of yours every detail of your father’s business will help us.”

“What will happen after your father gets his release and they find something off? The police will come after him for fraud or anything else they want to use to hold him under arrest. So no!” Lady Jennifer looked serious and Alicia swallowed hard.

“So what do you plan to do now, Mom?” Alicia asked, while Samantha sighed and said, “Mom, I don’t know who to turn to for such a huge amount of money. I can only be able to pay up 1 million dollars. The remaining 9 million dollars is off my limit. Why not ask Damian Tucker if he can accept other offer.”

“Other offer like what?” Lady Jennifer asked.

Samantha shrugged, blushed and told her mother, “To become Damian’s woman.”

“What?” They gasped. Their eyes widened in shock.

“You’re crazy, Samantha! How dare you think of offering your body to that lunatic!” Caden charged forward at his younger sister to smack her, but his mother interrupted him.

“Don’t you dare hit your sister, Caden,” Lady Jennifer said. “What can you do to help your father? You are a lawyer, yet you couldn’t do anything to challenge Damian! Only one kick of his boot sent you flying away. Now you dare to raise your hands on Samantha, forgetting that your father’s life is in danger.”

“But Mom…” Caden tried to speak, but his mother cut him off. “I don’t want to hear it. Samantha is right, and we should think of how to contact Damian and offer the proposal to him. Samantha is very beautiful and a top model here in the country, so Damian will consider her proposal.”

“What if Damian rejects Samantha?” Caden pressed. “You know his record with multiple women. What if he is a carrier of any sexual disease? Haven’t you thought about the dangers in having Samantha become his woman? A man who engages in multiple women and a mafia kingpin.” His expression twisted with disgust.

Lady Jennifer shook her head and replied, “I cannot sit back and watch your father get killed. The police wouldn’t be able to do anything to help him. Damian is a mafia boss in this part of the state, and the best we can do is make our proposal and try our luck so that he doesn’t kill your father over his debt. Besides, you benefited from it. You went to the highest law school because of your father.”

“But I never asked Dad to engage with Damian,” Caden replied.

His mother frowned. “You are only an ingrate and I wish I had another son who is more smarter than you.”

“Mom…” Caden frowned, unable to rebel against his mother.

Just then, her phone rang and she took it up to see who the caller was.

“Who’s calling you, Mom?” they asked her.

“I don’t know. Let me find out,” Lady Jennifer replied and answered the call. “Hello, who am I speaking with?”