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Chapter Thirty-Five

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I looked closely at my brother Sammy, and my dad as they paraded themselves as the most important personalities of the day while I just sat, moody in the large dining hall where the welcome dinner party was to take place.

Ever since my dad came to the limelight and hit the jackpot of riches, he’d stopped at nothing to celebrate every little win, and that included the visit of my brother Sammy to the city.

He’d been away for years and we hardly ever talked all through those times. I watched from a distance as he topped his career as a successful business mogul while I was still on my limbs, crawling and struggling to get through life.

Life was getting tough by the day, yet no one ever tried to introduce me to their sudden source of wealth and income. I always referred to myself as the struggling son with the rich father and that was sadly my reality.

Sammy, barely twenty-four, was already making waves in the business world while I still vehemently struggled with my crumbling music ca
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  • The Deceiver's Handbook   Chapter Thirty-Five

    I looked closely at my brother Sammy, and my dad as they paraded themselves as the most important personalities of the day while I just sat, moody in the large dining hall where the welcome dinner party was to take place.Ever since my dad came to the limelight and hit the jackpot of riches, he’d stopped at nothing to celebrate every little win, and that included the visit of my brother Sammy to the city.He’d been away for years and we hardly ever talked all through those times. I watched from a distance as he topped his career as a successful business mogul while I was still on my limbs, crawling and struggling to get through life. Life was getting tough by the day, yet no one ever tried to introduce me to their sudden source of wealth and income. I always referred to myself as the struggling son with the rich father and that was sadly my reality. Sammy, barely twenty-four, was already making waves in the business world while I still vehemently struggled with my crumbling music ca

  • The Deceiver's Handbook   Chapter Thirty-Four

    A walk in the park had been on my list of to-dos for the longest time, and here I was, finally fulfilling it with Alex, my dear friend, being the chief pioneer and reason.“Nothing prepared me for the stress and responsibility that comes with being an adult, bro, bro. Why do I have to make decisions solely with no one to help me out?“Just yesterday, I was seven, playing in the yard of my father’s compound, and my mom was baking cookies for me in the kitchen. I had virtually everything done for me. Damn! Life sucks.”“I feel you, and it's sad because you have to trust yourself enough to execute based on your plans. How sickening!” he added.I and Alex strolled through the park in the cool of the evening, the warm breeze in the atmosphere slapping hard against our faces and shirts. We could feel the hairs on our head move in the direction of the slightly boisterous wind, giving us an ecstatic feeling.The sounds of birds chirping and the leaves of the trees rustling filled the air, giv

  • The Deceiver's Handbook   Chapter Thirty-Three

    “Baby, you're here,” I said to Sheena, grabbing her by the waist and planting a kiss on her tender lips.She looked like she had been working for quite a while. Beads of perspiration ran from her forehead to her cheeks, and her hair was messy.She had on a sky blue kaftan that went all the way from her shoulders to the ground, covering her feet and rubbing the floor underneath her.“You never told me you'd be here. What brings you here, and why is no one letting me in on the friendship between you and my dad? Is there something I need to know?” I teased, surprised by her presence in my father’s house.There was probably something up because my dad was always rooting for Sheena, and now it all made sense why. “Oh, baby, Dad called me last night after our date, complaining that he had been trying to get across to you but all to no avail. When he was to drop the call, I noticed he was not fine, and when I asked him, he casually stated that he had a severe fever.”“I offered to come pay

  • The Deceiver's Handbook   Chapter Thirty-Two

    “Dad, I have a friend’s birthday party to attend and I'll be out till it's late at night,” Sammy said to my dad, who was sitting on the couch in the living room and laughing out his lungs from a funny video which he saw on the internet.“What friend is that? A male or a female? Where's the event to be held? Are you going alone?” Dad asked him all at once.My dad was extremely protective of Sammy and sent him nearly everywhere with me behind him as a bodyguard. Ten years ago, when I received him as my sibling, I never knew that I was signing up for the position of a personal security agent.I sat on the side of the couch, not minding their conversation and praying silently that I would not be asked to accompany him for safety.I was just having a nice time after a hectic day in college, scrolling through Instagram and watching reels.“Dad, you ask too many questions. It's Lisa’s birthday, Lisa from high school. It's to be held at her parents’ house, just about a fifteen-minute drive fr

  • The Deceiver's Handbook   Chapter Thirty-One

    Do you know what hurt the most about everything? It was not the insults or the derogatory remarks. They were hurtful of a surety, but my dad’s silence while everything happened was it.It baffled me to see that he could not at least stand up for me when his mistress was busy battering me with her words. How dare he let a person label his offspring a bastard, and he still sits there smiling like it was just some compliment that was being said.My dad’s actions towards me, ninety-five percent of the time, always had me questioning my paternity and to whom I truly belonged.He had no fatherly instincts and was everything but protective towards his own. If it wasn't for my mom’s countless lessons that instilled bravery and self-confidence in me, I'd never be able to stand in front of my peers or anyone else, ever again.After Sammy’s mom’s first visit to our house, I tried in vain to steer clear of her son like she’d warned me, but Sammy himself was not having any of that.He would try

  • The Deceiver's Handbook   Chapter Thirty

    Sammy’s presence in the house made life a living hell for me.The incident of the spilling of the flour paved the way for a more carefree attitude and disposition, but more than that, it made my dad effortlessly take sides with Sammy who had now become his favorite son, while I was seen as the devil.Every misdeed that occurred in the house had everyone pointing accusing fingers at me automatically, and no one ever cared to listen to my side of the story.To my dad, Sammy was perfect and I was the kid who needed therapy and remedial actions. Sammy could never do wrong in his eyes and that bothered me greatly.It had been two months since he came to stay with us and I was the one doing the adapting when it should have been the other way round. One fateful Sunday morning, I woke up from the bed and knelt to pray just before I began my day as my mother had taught me.She always said that every individual had their peculiar beliefs and a deity in which they trusted and ours happened to b

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