knock! knock! knock!...' the door sounded and rush quickly made himself invisible
"Isa? I'm coming in...." the person at the door said slowly and aliya walked in
she looked around and frowned
"where is your guest? i clearly heard a male's voice..." aliya said and stared at Isabella suspiciously
"oh, i....."
"you are very strange Isabella, first and foremost, how did you make Alicia and jerry breakup? I've been curious about that" aliya asked
"Actually....."
"she sent me of course!" rush's voice echoed from behind
"what! wait....ain't you Larson Rush?" aliya asked in disbelief
"your are seeing right, i am indeed Larson Rush, don't you know? Isabella is my immediate elder sis. Apparently she ran away from home because she doesn't want to get married" Rush said non chalantly and sat on the bed
"but according to your bio, you don't have a family" aliyah said
"well, that was what my family wanted, now you know i have a family.
"Alicia grand is a big fan of mine so i simply visited her and asked her to break up with jerry which she did without hesitation, and just so you know, i was the one who posted the update in your school forum so stop blaming Alicia for it" rush said and aliya scoffed
"it's still her fault either way, she must have granted you access to her phone for you to be able to upload on our school forum" aliya said in akimbo
"Do i look like someone who needs permission to do anything?" Rush scoffed "I'm sure she's still confused about who uploaded the update with her account" Rush said and aliyah chuckled
"you are just as they say, very weird. whatever the case may be, i should thank you for helping me out" aliya said
"do you like him? i mean, that jerk called jerry" rush said and aliyah furrowed her brows
"He's not a jerk! why call him that? I'm sure Alicia shamelessly threw herself at him" aliya defended him
"if you know what he did, you won't be defending him, i think you deserve better" rush said
"i think you should mind the way you speak mr Larson" aliya said angrily
"i also think you should stop rush" Isa said
"Your dear jerry, he took advantage of Alicia when she was drunk at the last pool party that was organized at your school,
"what? you still don't believe me?" rush asked and aliyah scoffed angrily
"oh, you expect me to believe that? i can't believe i once admired someone like you as a fan, i wonder how you survived eight years under manager kim, i heard he fires at least ten artist in a month.
"let's talk later when he's gone Isabella, i can't stand him" aliya said angrily and slammed the door behind
"why did you do that?" Isabella scolded him
"what did i do? i simply told her the truth, i was only being concerned since she seems like a nice person" rush said with an indifferent shrug
"you never change, i think you should leave now before someone else overhear your voice" Isabella said
"i think you should introduce me to the family soon so i can visit anytime, through the door" rush said
"that's a good idea" Isabella agreed
"yeah, it would be cool to introduce the infamous top ten model as your immediate younger brother" rush said and Isabella scoffed
"dummy" Isabella said and rush smiled
"I'm off now, take care sis" Rush said and disappeared immediately
a second later, jason walked in with his hands in his pocket
"your guest didn't leave through doo.....This is the second time he's visiting, the first time was midnight and he also left without using the door" Jason said with a grin on his face
"i...."
"miss ella, i just hope I'm the only one you have a business with and my family are safe, mack and aliya really deserves to be happy,
"about eight years ago, i was really ill, my grandma and parents were nowhere to be found, my grandfather was on a two days trip.
"I thought i was going to die since we needed money for the operation and there was no money, my father was in possession of the properties as at that time so we had no access to any property,
" mack and aliya ran helter skelter thinking i was going to die. I can't forget the look of distress and agony that was on their faces, death is unavoidable so i wasn't scared to die but i was scared to leave my siblings alone in the hands of our cruel parents
"grandmother is a dog who always wags her tail shamelessly before our parents
"grandfather was all we had but he wasn't available as at that time
"that was when i realized, if there's still a reason I'm alive, it is all thanks to aliya and mack
"just so they say, when you are at the brink of death, do not panic, just hold on to the only reason you can't succumb to death and hope....just hope that you survive the blazing volcano.
"aliya and mack were the reason i didn't wanted to die, i was so scared to leave them behind in the cruel world created by our parents..." jason paused and allowed the escaped tear roll down his face
"that was when i met dray, he made mack sign the outstanding bill form and the operation was processed and was successful, grandfather returned after two days and paid off the outstanding bill, he transferred 70% of our family shares to me and left only 30% for our parents, he also gave me a rare strange gift before his tragic death
"did you know what my parents said when they finally returned and learnt about the property shares? 'you should have just died, why use death as an excuse to own such a large sum of the family's properties?.... what? do you think because you are a first son, its okay for you to become the heir when your father is still alive? that's greediness!
"and my grandma said, 'return the properties right now if you cherish your life'
"everyone only cared about the property. we were neglected and cursed by our own family so i just had to play my role and make sure mack and aliya doesn't get burdened
"then annex was betroded to me, for the first time in my life , i met someone who has experienced same thing as me and i grew fond of annex, but death took her away too...
"i don't know why you are here but if you are planning to hurt aliya and mack, please just take my life" jason said, fighting back the threatening tears and Isabella sighed
"you finding out like this would only make my mission easy, then i won't have to be discreet. remember the question i asked you earlier?
"does a hunter tells it's prey he's going to hunt him down?
"let me switch the question,
" what does a prey do, when he finds out a hunter is plotting to hunt him down?" Isabella asked and Jason stared at her eyes which is void of any warmth
"mr Jason, i need you to answer my question, it might determine your fate, or perhaps our fate
"you know what they say, your fate is designed in the moments of your decisions....