Mrs. Randolph looked at the young man as he departed from her office and tried to pick out what he has just told her. He never knew that there are about more than a hundred security staff detailed in the office of the chief of Denson's empire. Right from when Adah got into high school, she had been with her and even in college. Her mission is to protect Adah and ensure that she is safe. For most of these activities and instructions, Adah is very ignorant. For this young man to be employed, she had to dig in deep to know every fact about him. The same she did when Adah became close friends and colleagues with Lily. Bami the inconsiderate and selfish friend of Adah was also dealt with. She fully knows everything about the young lady, this is her main responsibility. The office of the head of personnel which she covers now is simply a decoy. Her present office was simply created by Mr. Denson and it is solely for investigating personnel that works only for the Denson. She had received a message from the military base in Europe, an organization that details security personnel for the Denson's. This organization is employed by the most powerful men in the world that controls most of the wealth of the world. Looking back at her life, she regrets nothing and takes her job specifications and responsibilities paramount above other things. Now for just a newly employed to show such interest in Adah's security welfare, then something must be up. The young man is not an expert but innocently carries out his job specifications. He has not harmed and for this act, he should be commended. She knows his mother very well. She has been working for Mr. Denson for quite a donkey years. Within her, she knows that the mother and son are not a threat and they are harmless. She is referred to as Mrs. Randolph and that is what she is known as within the empire. The founding members of the empire know nothing about her and the others detailed to the Denson's. She turned to look at the clock and stood up from her seat before the thought hit her! Employing the young man as a personal assistant and staff should ring a bell. She knew Adah must be up to something, she is intelligent and smart, she is determined in her pursuits, and gets what she wants. She is a smart strategist, one filled with knowledge that is more than her. It is quite very funny that Adah never knows that the one person she sees as head of personnel actually is there for her protection and will always be except otherwise. She cleared her table and came out of her office, walking lazily towards the lift, her thoughts wandered away to her first time meeting Mr. Denson and Lady Denson. They met in that cozy hotel in the city of angels. She looked young and adventurous then and had without knowing fully who the clients are accepted the offer readily.
She was quickly drafted as Adah's driver with many disguises before requesting a change of responsibility which Mr. Denson granted and since then the rest they say is history. She has been efficient and the record books of her organization have dotted all her satisfactory boxes and columns, now she is fully in charge of recruitment for the Denson's. She is fully paid by the empire and her organization. She is marveled by the great wealth at the disposal of the Denson's. Their vast empire is quite frightening to the ears, the expanse and their coverage all over the world is nothing but intimidating to their rivals. She came out of the lift and walked towards her car, opening the door, she looked around and went in while she reached for the start button. As usual, Adah came out and elegantly walked to the waiting car, and got inside. While waiting for the car to leave, she was quick to sight the young man walking towards the exit gate. She made a quick reverse and moved the huge automobile towards him. She stopped the car and opened the closed window to call him in. At first, he looked surprised but later entered the car at the recognition of her. He sat down and smiled in appreciation as she drove off trailing Adah's car from a distance. They drove for twenty minutes before she started a discussion.
" How did you see your first day here?" She asked without looking at him.
"Oh, it was great." He answered
"Well never mind about the hustling and bustling. it's all part of the business of the Denson's empire especially now that we have a new chief." She said easily as she turned expertly with ease.
"I will say this again, I am very grateful and I feel blessed and accomplished to be here at the Denson's empire." He said with emotion feeling quite happy.
" You can thank the chief for her benevolence and generous heart." She said as she stopped at the traffic light.
"Once again thank you for the help and consideration." He said and looked out through the window as they passed the light and started ascending the bridge which leads to the long expressway.
" where will you be coming down?" she asked without looking at him as she increased the speed of the automobile.
"Last avenue by the Fountain square." He answered quickly enjoying the drive back home. He turned and looked at her for a brief moment and wondered about the mystery that seems to surround her. She looks foreign. Her complexion says it all, her accent looks foreign too but her shape is no giveaway. She looks like one of those ladies that are from the East. Ladies from there are regarded highly because of the beauty they seem to colonize and monopolize. She should be in her forties but looking at her he knew that she is quite beautiful to behold. He turned away from staring and rested on the seat as he closed his eyes. He was not born with a silver spoon. He never knew his father, his mother keeps telling him that the man that is to be his father ran away after he was given birth and since then has never been seen. He had grown up the hard way. From selling fruits with his mother in the slums of the city when he was seven to struggling for survival as a barrow attendant in popular markets. His primary school education was tough and disgraceful, countless times he was disgraced for not paying the fees promptly. The same scenario played out in junior and senior high. He spent extra years working tirelessly at a barbers shop where he learned the skill of barbing. He had gathered some savings with that of his mother to try his shot at college. It was about this time that the mother got a job and was employed at the empire. Their joy knew no bounds and from then good fortune began to smile on them.
Munah remembered the fears and joys, the sleepless nights and lack of food episodes he had gone through with his mother, and smiled. His mother had been by him through it all, teaching him nothing but the right principles towards life. She will always tell him that hard work breaks no bone and that laziness invites nothing but poverty and penury. His college days were quite eventful. It was there as a teenager that he learned to play the strings and became a musician to the disapproval of his mother. He had graduated with an excellent result and since then had been on the hunt for a good opportunity. He can effectively speak three foreign languages and sx local ones. He is very good with computers and is a sportsman with indebt knowledge of combat sports who even represented his college in many sports festivals. His ambition is to own a building firm and organization. He believes in working his way up, a trait that he got from his mother. He believes in good labor and selflessness to climb the ladder of success. Currently, he stays with his mother on the city outskirts in an area meant to inhabit the low-income earners. There is no shame! Now due to the favor from his mother, he works for one of the most successful multinationals and is a personal assistant to the chief of the Denson's empire. What a stroke of fortune! He still cannot believe his eyes, his heart is still slamming furiously against his ribs at the remembrance of this fact that looks like nothing but a fairy tale.
He adjusted himself on the seat and his thoughts wandered to his mother who had been through thick and thin. Yes, she had indeed struggled and unfortunately tasted the meal that penury had long served her. Now sick, the responsibility now has fallen into his hands to be the breadwinner. He has never been told of the package to be given to him but as his mother revealed, it will be more than enough to sustain them but that he must pray first to be taken as a replacement. To the surprise of all, it is now more than a replacement. It is a good offer of a job that will be too difficult to reject. He sure knows that the package that will be offered will be more than interesting. Munah came out of his thoughts as Mrs. Randolph pulled the car to a stop at fountain square and smiled up at him.
" This is it," She said still smiling broadly.
" Thank you very much and I appreciate this goodly venture," Munah said opening the door gently as he highlighted the exotic car. He waved his goodbye and started towards the road that leads to his abode. Without being told, he knew that his mother will be itching to hear all the news from him when he gets home.