Isabelle got home looking so tired as ever, she settled herself on the sofa in the living room, she called out to her mum, "Hey mum!!!, I'm home!!!". " I know you're home baby", Cassie said coming out of the kitchen. "Guess who's baby is back!!!", Cassie said excitedly and Isabelle sat up and cat walked to her mum's side, " Its Cassie's baby", Isabelle said and they laughed out together. "So go freshen up upstairs and come down for dinner. I came a bit early from work so I prepared your favourite, knowing you would be tired from your first day of work", Cassie explained. " That's my mum, I've got a lot to tell you about on my first day at work", she giggled and Cassie smiled, "That's my baby girl", " Oopsies, there are a lot of commas in today though", she replied her mum and ran to her room. "I wish she never took after me with her clumsiness and forwardness. I wouldn't wish she took after Stephen either", she hissed and returned to the dining area to continue setting the table for dinner.
Few minutes later, Isabelle came out in her nightwear looking refreshed and smelling good, she sat beside her mum who was serving their meal. They ate in silence, Isabelle cleared the the table and they both settled in the sitting room to watch the evening news. " You know my boss isn't dead", Isabelle said to her mum who had her eyes fixed on the news, "Really, you saw him at work?", Cassie asked her daughter. " Nope, his cousin, Jason, is the heir to the company but Ryan took over but since he was involved in an accident, Jason had no choice but to take over till he gets better", Isabelle explained. "I see...", Isabelle cuts in, " O even met his mum, Mrs Rose Sydney, she sent her regards to you", Isabelle said and the expression on Cassie's face changed. Isabelle who was not aware of her mum's expression carried on talking, "I think she is ill too because she was on admission by the hospital even she still looks healthy", she sighed after talking. " Her name is Rose Harvey", Cassie said with a low voice. "You know her also?", Isabelle asked and continued, " She said she's Rose Harvey and said she would love to see you again", "She is the friend I told you about, who convinced me to date Stephen, Rose is a lot older than I am, she got pregnant in high school after her early marriage with Raymond Sydney. Being that the Sydneys are very rich and influential, she wasn't expelled and we graduated together. I had to hide myself from her when I had you in my tummy, I was ashamed of myself and also, I couldn't find the father of my unborn child, I'd definitely become an object of ridicule if I stayed around and I don't want Rose to feel guilty of my condition", Cassie explained. " I guess she still does", Isabelle said. "She still wants to meet with you, will you see her?", Isabelle asked, " Not yet", Cassie replied, she continued, "I want to at least be successful enough first, she's more influential than I am", Isabelle rolled her eyes and said, " Don't be intimidated by someone's success mum", "Look at my little big girl motivating me", Cassie smiled, " So tell me about your first day at work". "Uh-huh, it was good but I feel as though I shouldn't resume tomorrow", Isabelle said and her mum was worried about what she said, " Why is that? What do you mean?", Cassie asked and Isabelle smiled and replied, "C'mon mum, its nothing serious, I was just too forward and talked to much". " How many times do I have to tell you to keep your cool as a lady that you are?", Cassie asked rhetorically, "After tomorrow and you're not called to work, then submit your application to a school and become a teacher", Cassie concluded and left the room as she had a lot of school work to attend to. Isabelle returned to her room with a cup of ice cream after eating the burger her mum kept in the fridge. She climbed her bed and her mind refreshed the day's activity, she found her boss attractive, her boss who would soon become her family friend, she literally won't work for him anymore, she had no choice but to follow her mum's advice on applying as a school teacher. Her mind roamed to the night she had with the stranger, there she tried linking the night to the flash of memory she had at the conference room, there was a similarity in the way the stranger and her boss smiles, 'Or could he be the one?', she asked herself and replied herself, 'No he can't be, if he was the one, he would have said something about it', with that she slept off.
Jason on the other hand had dinner with his mum, he waited till she slept off and he tucked her. He went back to Ryan's room but he found out that the bed was a bit rough, the first thing that came through his mind was, 'Did he move? I have to call the Doctor to check on him', he immediately called the Doctor to come check on Ryan and he did, "There a whole lot of improvement in him, if it continues like this for three days, then he will be up on the third day", the Doctor said and Jason dismissed him. "I wonder when you'll get up, man. I want to continue living my life, you know how it sucks for me, wearing tie all day with suit", he complained, he decided to go home that night, to at least change environment. But he decided to pay his dungeon a visit. He entered and his men greeted him, he nodded his head as a reply and walked through the hallway, there he heard the sound of a man screaming, which only means his men are at work, torturing his criminal. He entered the room they were and his men stopped torturing the man and saluted him. Jason nodded his head in respond to the greeting and sat on the high chair in the room, he brought out his phone and played a slow and heart wrenching tune, he turned to the man and said, " If you don't tell me all you know, I'll make your death process as slow and painful as this tune", he relaxed the chair and closed his eyes. Its been four days that the man has been held captive and each day, he has faced hell on earth. He can't face it anymore, the pains are becoming unbearable for him, he decided to tell the truth, "I'll tell you all I know, just let me go, I have a family at home", he cried out immediately Jason talked. " You know you have a family but you decided to end a family. Is that how things are done lately?", Jason asked as he wore rubber gloves. He stood up and his men helped him wear an overall rubber apron, another one fr his men helped him used a nose mask, he walked to the man and brought out a pocket knife, the man looked extremely scared as he screamed, "What do you plan on doing with that? I already said I'll tell you all I know!!!", he shouted but Jason replied calmly, " I don't dress up for no reason, I'll listen to you when I'm done with you. My puppies are hungry", with that, Jason signalled to his men and they gagged the man's mouth with a cloth and he crouched beside the man, he unsheathe the pocket knife and started cutting off flesh from the man's arm, when he was satisfied with the amount he got, his men moved the man to the medics in the dungeon, then he left the dungeon looking clean as he returned to his home.