Chapter 3.

Dan slumped on a couch in his living room and pulled off his shoes, he was just coming from the new site he bought where his new company was being built.

He wants to start another Automobile company from scratch after his mother-in-law sold his previous company to one of his competitors.

This time around, he decided to be very careful to gain and pay back the millions of dollars he borrowed from his father's agency to start up another company. Getting the money from his father was very hard, at first his father refused to give him the money he requested because he warned him to stay away from Isabel but he refused, claiming he was in love with her.

With the help of his mother, his father finally agreed to lend him the money after much pressure from his mother.

"Welcome Boss," one of his workers greeted and placed a pair of slippers before him.

"Take the shoes away and get me my laptop," Dan said as he put on the slippers. He pulled his shirt off and threw it on the couch, the worker picked it up and started leaving. Almost immediately another worker showed up, carrying a tray of freshly made orange juice.

"Welcome Boss, here is your juice, freshly made as you always wanted," he announced and dropped it on the table before Dan. Dan peeped at the juice and looked away.

"I don't want it," he declared and got busy with his phone.

"But Boss, this juice has been your favorite for years now… even when ma'am Isabel…" the worker didn't complete before he shut up. Dan glared at him with anger burning in his eyes.

" You cannot force me to drink what I don't like, do you understand?" He thundered.

"Yes, Boss!" The worker replied, shaking with fear, regretting why he tried to convince Dan to drink the juice. Just today, he taught the chef another pattern of making orange juice for Dan which he left from his aged mother and he wanted Dan to taste it.

"Is it poisoned… Do you want to kill me off?" Dan questioned.

"No, Boss! I would never do such… my entire loyalty lies with you," the worker replied with apprehension. Ever since his aged mother died, he became homeless and had been wandering in the streets before Dan picked him up.

So he couldn't imagine doing anything to hurt Dan, who has been his savior.

"Fine, then taste it," Dan said, looking at him in the eye to notice any form of hesitation. The worker understood and quickly grabbed the orange juice, he drank some of it and removed the glass from his mouth.

"Drink all of it," Dan urged watching him as he found his reaction amusing, like a flash, he gulped all of them down and licked his lips. This made Dan chuckle before making a straight face.

"Now you have proven to me that you don't have any underlying plan, but from henceforth, don't ever mention Isabel to me, am I understood?" Dan asked.

"Yes, Boss! My apologies," the worker replied feeling happy that he didn't get into trouble.

"Now, leave. Tell the cook to set up the table for my dinner," Dan said with authority. The worker bowed and scurried off with the tray. Dan sighed and got busy with his phone.

He sat on the dining table, staring at the mashed potatoes and gravy his cook served him. He thought about having a yummy victory chicken buffet with his workers for dinner as one of his missions turned out successful yesterday.

"Make me a chicken buffet," Dan announced to his cook who stood beside him.

"But sir…" the cook tried to say.

"No, but I want a chicken buffet. As much as you can prepare. We all need to celebrate…" Dan explained. This left the cook and other workers wide-eyed.

"Yes Boss, I will do just as you said," the cook replied and hurried off to the kitchen.

Dan stood up from the dining table and started heading to the elevator, as it opened the worker he sent to get his laptop appeared.

"Go join them in the preparation," Dan said and collected the laptop from the worker.

"What preparation Boss?" the worker tried to ask but the elevator was already closed.

*

Catherine stood in the hospital pacing about, the news of Isabel's death left her devastated. Even if she had plans of removing Isabel from her life, she never wanted to kill her, she only wanted to make her become mad and then dump her in a rehabilitation center.

"Gosh!" She scoffed with frustration.

"I must get him at all cost," she promised herself, thinking of how she would gruesomely murder Dan in cold blood.

"Honey," her husband, Mr. Jacobs called and got closer to her. She embraced him and started weeping aloud.

"Everything would be okay, the police are still looking for him," he assured Patting her back.

Catherine smirked in her mind, calling him a fool for thinking that the cops would get Dan so easily.

"I know but it's just that Isabel doesn't deserve to die, he doesn't deserve to kill her… no one knows he survived the accident, we only relocated to this place out of fear that his wealthy family would kill all of us," Catherine replied, still sobbing.

Mr. Jacobs pulled her out of the hug and stared at her face, he wiped her tears and cleaned her eyes.

"It's going to be okay… I only pray that the cops get him and punish him for murder. I would make sure he gets a gruesome death sentence," Mr. Jacobs said and escorted Catherine to sit on an empty chair.

She sat with him and wiped her eyes with a handkerchief.

Just as they sat there, James, one of their employees, walked towards them. He bowed in greeting before saying.

"Sir, the doctor seeks your presence in his office."

"Okay," Mr. Jacobs replied and stood up, he excused himself and started leaving for the doctor's office. James also excused himself and started walking away but he was somewhere to watch Catherine.

After everyone had left, Catherine quickly stood up on her feet, she looked around before heading to Isabel's husband, Edwardo to see him.

He survived the gunshot because he escaped being shot twice by Dan when the cops arrived.

She found him sitting on the bed, sipping a beer. She rushed towards him and knocked off the beer before hugging him.

"Do you want to kill yourself?" Catherine asked with concern.

"What took you so long?" Edwardo asked back amidst the hug.

"My husband is here, you don't expect me to come with you when he is close by. Do you want him to know about us?" Catherine asked with fear.

"That's not an excuse to come be with the person you love," Edwardo hissed with anger.

"I'm sorry baby, but we have to be careful and go along with the plan. I love you okay," Catherine assured and kissed him on the lips.

Edwardo reciprocated and they started kissing, not knowing someone was watching them from the window.

A knock came which stopped them from quickly pulling off the kiss, Catherine adjusted her clothes very well and Edwardo relaxed back on the hospital bed.

A nurse walked in, greeted Catherine, and injected some drugs to drip connected to Edwardo's vein.

"I just added some antibiotics as the doctor instructed, it would heal the wound quickly," she announced and bowed before walking, slamming the door.

Immediately after she left, Catherine walked close to Edwardo and sat beside him.

"I will summon the boys tonight and give them the task of finding Daniel, he would pay for cutting our plan shut and almost killing you," Catherine announced and caressed Edwardo's hair.

"Ummm!" hmmm a good idea," he replied, enjoying her gentle fingers. He brought his hands closer to her boobs and flicked on Catherine's nipples lightly, this made Catherine start burning up with desire. She quickly stood up not wanting to be aroused by Edwardo in the hospital which might lead them to have sex and get caught.

"You ain't strong enough yet, when you recover we will do it as you please, and, secondly, here isn't a good place for it," Catherine said.

"But we haven't tried sex on the hospital bed, while not dressed as a nurse, let's try it all night," Edwardo said as his mind got filled with naughty thoughts.

"Damn!" Catherine scoffed.

"You want my moans to draw all the people in the hospital to your ward. Get a strong boy and we would think of how to accomplish that," Catherine added and turned to leave. Edwardo smirked and spanked her Ass which made her blush, she blew a kiss at him and walked towards the door.

"I'm gonna miss you," Edwardo said with a sad tone.

"I miss you more," Catherine replied, she winked at him and opened the door before walking out and slamming it shut.

She saw someone hurry off out the window and became anxious, the person cornered her to another route leading to another hospital ward.

She rushed after the person and caught up with the person in no time.

She held the person's collar and made the person look at her.

"You!!" She yelled when she saw the person's face.