Malik Hampton drove into his mansion with a mischievous smirk displayed on his face.
Highlighting from his car after it was opened by one of his bodyguards, his personal assistant rushed towards him.
He was breathing heavily when he came and this made Malik attend to him immediately, he asked him what he needed.
Why he had thought that the matter would not be beyond money, he received a shocker because it was
"Mr Hampton, your father is here." He said.
Malik stood for seconds and stared at his PA with a questioning look, it went on till his P.A coughed to bring his attention back.
"Did he not say the reason for his visit?" his PA said.
Without uttering another word, Malik took giant strodes as he walked into his mansion and found his father seated.
He was majestically seated on one of the beautifully decorated and well designed leather couches with legs crossed.
Malik couldn't read his mood and did not know what he probably would be thinking during the process of waiting for him.
"Leave us" he instructed whoever was around without looking back, and his personal assistant left.
Oddly, the P.A stared at him, then passed a look to his father before leaving them. He wanted to know the situation.
"Why are you here?" Malik immediately inquired walking towards him and taking the cup of wine in his front.
He did the act just like he was angry at him and gulped it right down.
Shawn Hampton stared at his younger version, and he was left speechless like he first knew about him.
At first, he never believed he had a son from his ex lover who his parents never allowed to marry because of his contracted fiance.
Yes, weird as it would sound and look, his parents wedded him to a gay person cause of one stupid contract.
They later divorced after three years of the ridiculous marriage because they were not compatible at all.
There were so many reasons they had to leave each other and the main reason for their divorce was cheating.
Even though he doesn't want to cheat, he had no choice than to because he is straight and not gay like his partner.
After the divorce, he decided to work harder without his parents' help, which he succeeded with doing.
"Son" he called, he could see himself in him and that scared him greatly.
"Yes." Malik replied flatly, wondering what his father had been thinking all the time he went mute.
"I went to check up on your mom, and the doctor said she would still come out of the coma."
Malik just shrugged at first, he had heard this line times without number that he no longer had faith so he just stared.
"And it would be sooner than we expect it to be," his father finally added.
Malik's face hardened as he reminisced on how his mother got into a coma.
"That bitch caused it, she put my own mom in a coma." he muttered beneath, gritted.
"I will make sure she regret her existence" he spat out in anger venomously as he remembered his days in highschool.
It was as though he had completely taken his mind off what he needed to focus on, he should at least be happy for his mother.
He remembered that he was a timid child then and also a very shy boy.
All he wanted to do was make his mother, the one who would be fending for their needs and make her happy also by staying out of trouble.
He just wanted to be a good boy before he encountered a bully and bitch who he foolishly had a secret crush on.
She bullied him at any chance she got and when he remembered the time she found out he had a crush on her, he boiled.
Her name was Massy,the great Massy Tedd.
She turned him into an object of bully, he could remember when she found out his mother was a cleaner in the town's restaurant.
It was the worst day of his life then because she mocked him and made him an object of laughter.
She was also part of who made his mother go into a coma,he could remember that day.
That day was bittersweet because his mother had just got her dream job in her father's company finally.
They were celebrating it until the second week. His mother was accused of being a spy from a rival company.
The news spread out as a falsified video was released with his mother giving the rival company the company's documents.
Malik and his family were almost the only ones who knew that the video was edited but no one would believe them when they said it.
And of course Massy used it against him in school and made him a laughing stock which hurt him so badly.
He was over it but what hurt him most was when he caught her stealing the question papers for examination.
Unfortunately and to his amazement, he was held responsible for it which made the school authorities expel him.
When he tried to defend himself, none of the authorities wanted to listen to him.
They never believed him, after all, he had nothing and he was still a nobody at that time compared to Massy.
After he was expelled, his best friend who was trying to find justice for him was also killed.
Till this moment, his killer was unknown while his case was closed. Everything she did was because of her father's wealth.
He was happy he met his father after those terrible days, months and years and he promised to make her pay.
From that time he had started to do all he could by running her father's company by using her covetous stepmother.
Now it is her turn to be ruined, he was even shocked to see her leave the ill luck of her family when she was the cause of everything.
Unknown to her, she was the major reason her family was suffering and their wealth flew into thin air.
Shawn gazed at his son as he clenched his fist with gritted teeth, he knew what was happening.
But he did not know what to do so he looked away because a larger part of it was his fault.
Well, if his parents had allowed him to marry Malik's mother who is also the woman he wanted to marry, all these would not happen.
He knew that if the family had been together from the start, then his son would not be bullied, and looked down on.
That was the main reason he wanted to make Malik forget those days and that has not been easy but he was still trying his best.
He wanted Malik, his only son, to feel fatherly love and all other things which he missed when he was young.
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Massy on the other hand stepped out of her small bathroom as if something was pursuing her.
Again, she hurried, rushing to her small bag at the corner of the room to get what to wear.
She got a call from her step mother telling her father had slumped and was in hospital.
Even though she was still having a hangover from the drink she had yesterday, she had to leave the house immediately for the hospital.
Yesterday, after Malik left, she drank three bottles of strong alcoholic whiskey nonstop.
She rushed out of her house looking like a psycho and waved at any taxis she spotted but none waited because of her psychotic look.
A patient taxi driver later waited to pick her up.
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On getting to the hospital, she stared at her father who was connected to different wires and wept uncontrollably.
She couldn't control herself with what she saw till the nurses begged her to stop and encouraged her to be strong.
The doctor had told her that he had only two weeks left to live but there is a possibility for him to still live many years on earth.
Her heart was gladden when she heard that she could still save her father until she heard the remaining news that was too bad for her.
The doctor further added that he would live longer only if he did a heart surgery which was fifty fifty percent chance.
The money for the surgery was so huge that she was left speechless.
But If it was in the past, it would be one of those tips her father gave to people but now it is very huge.
She obviously did not know where to get such a huge amount of money when she was jobless.
"Pops, please stay strong for me, you know you are the only one I have and I don't want to lose you like I lost mom." She cried again bitterly.
"I will try to get the money, don't worry you will be fine very soon, I promise."
She came out of the ward with a swollen face, she stared at her step mother with deep hatred as she walked out.
On her way out, she got more angry as she remembered what happened; they would have been in their big mansion.
Her dad would have paid for his treatment by now and she would have been in one of her father's company ordering workersa around.
She thought also about how she would have been modeling which was also her dream.
"You caused this." She wanted to yell at her stepmother but swallowed it by not saying anything.
Massy finally took painful steps and walked out of hospital with the thought of searching for another job.
She was afraid that she would not have enough time to save up for the bills so she should probably make way if she could borrow it from someone.
At that point, she knew that she is ever ready to do anything for her father's survival.