Chapter 5 The Driven Lust

"Oh my God. It's a cloudy morning." He said to himself as he stretched the parts of his body where there's joint. He stood from his fancy bed, and went to the window. It's a large glassy window. He sees clearly, lot of things going around in the city from the top of his apartment in the mansion. He rested on the glassy window and fed eyes with views.

(KNOCK KNOCK!!) A knock came from the outside of his room.

"Who is there?" He asked.

"It's Melanie Sir." One of the maids that works in the mansion. She proceeded, "Mr Michelson said, you should hurry and meet up with him in the living room before he leaves for work Sir." The maid said.

"What does this old man need me for this early morning?" He said barely above whisper to himself.

"All right. I've heard you." He replied the maid.

In about half an hour, he was done taking his bath and doing other things. He went to join his dad in the living room. As he got there, he met his dad on a couch, the chief minister for Z-CAPITAL group sitting on the couch opposite to him. He saw some people around him as well.

"Morning dad." He greeted. "Morning." He said to other people around with his right hands raised.

"You sent for me dad."

"Is your sister still inside her room." He asked

"Yeah Dad. Sleepy head." Stefen replied making an impression of someone sleeping with his head on his two palms placed on one another.

"I called for you because I need to bring somethings to your notice." He raised his back from the resting pasture for conveniency while speaking.

"The first thing I want to say is that, what's this Lawyer's name...uhmm" He racked his brain for few seconds before getting the words of from his memory bank. "Jones. That's stubborn lawyer, he together with his crew in the Dominion Law firm filed another lawsuit against our company. And it's all from our alliance with your Uncle, Mayor of New Orleans."

"Is there not a way we can put an end to all these?" He asked.

"Even cutting ties with your Uncle in terms of business, they might later come up with another things we've done in the past."

""I mean putting end to any action that could bring up with the lawsuits and related cases." He said clearly with his two hands raised in desperation. His dad stayed quiet and so did all the people around. They were looking at him.

"Whatever, we'll get over with it. What's the next things dad?"

"Okay, I will be leaving for China today, and I want you to take good care of the company before my return on Monday. Tuesday is the day for the court case."

"All right Sir. Don't worry dad." He said to him

"Good, so make preparation for the seat of CEO. You own my seat until I return." He said to him, got on his feet and moved outside. All the people inside also followed him outside.

Stefen pulled the Chief Minister of Z-CAPITAL Group back as the man was about stepping out of his living room. The man is almost as old as his dad, he wears suit always. In Z-Capital, he is the closest worker to the CEO. He receives information from those that head other firms of Z-CAPITAL such as Z-pharmaceutical, Z-Supermarket and others.

"I will need your help Sir." Stefen said barely above whisper to him.

"Make sure you call me immediately you get to work. Uhn,bye." He twinkled his left eye to him.

"So, bye bye Sir." He said as the man left.

Stefen looked at the compound big gate, he watched as the last car left. He returned to the living room, fell himself on the couch in relaxation.

"Haa!!!!! I'm free now. Who cares about going to your CEO seat. I have my own schedule for today. I'll be going to May's house. I have the address already."

He got back to normal sitting posture. "Mr William should frame my presence in the CEO seat for me." He said, referring to the Chief minister.

He stood up with blissful movement and sang as he walked cheerfully on his way to his room.

"You know I'm about to give you my heart

But remember this one thing

I've never been in this love before

So, you gotta go easy on me

I heard love is dangerous

Once you fall you never get enough

But the thought of you leaving

Ain't so easy for me

Don't hurt me

Desert me

Don't give up on me

What would I wanna do that for?

Don't use me

Take advantage of me

Make me sorry I ever counted on you

One, two, three, four to the five baby, I'm counting on you"

"It's Saturday, I suppose lawyers do not work on Saturday. Yeah, they don't." He said to himself as he looked at the address of her house through his phone.

He went to his wardrobe, opened it and saw dozens of suit inside of it. "Oh! Gosh. Live of a billionaire. I can't believe, I've been wearing the same cloths for years. I'm going to a place not official like work." He said to himself as he pulled all the suits to one side, hoping to see fancy cloth like joggers. To his surprise, he only saw different T-shirts of the same colour.

"What life I've been living for years." He said to himself. He took his phone and made an order for joggers and sweaters.

In few minutes, he got up

After few minutes, he got himself dressed in a joggers and a canadian sweater. He checked himself at the front of the mirror for the fifth time to recheck on his look.

"Yeahhh!!! confirmed." He said to himself as he looked at the mirror. "What do you think dude?" He asked himself inside the mirror and proceeded. "You look awesome dude. Not it's handsome not awesome. Awesome. Handsome not awesome. Whatever."

He took his phone and his credit card into his pocket. He got his room locked at other parts of his apartment. He stepped out of the mansion, staying inside the compound surrounding. He looked around the corners, from left to right. He looked up into the sky, felt the sun's vitamin D rays. The glittering sunrays spread various hues of morning breezes to his face.

"Morning Sir." The voice of a woman came from his four o'clock. He didn't bother turning around to see the person for he already known whom it was. Mrs Grace. Head of the servants that work in Mr Michelson house.

"Uhmm. Morning Sir, how was your night Sir?. Are you having an urgent meeting to attend Sir?"

Stefen didn't reply any of her questions. Instead, he kept on staring at the clouds with his face filed with smiles.

"Mrs Grace, can you read the quote?" He asked.

"Which quote Sir?" She replied him with a question, trying to look at the sky if there was something writing in there which he was reading.

"They quote the cloud says." He said to her and continued. "The quotes says, "Be inspired through me by staying positive throughout the day." He said and turned around to face her.

"I'm leaving here for a VEEERY crucial meeting. Don't let anyone know about it. BYE!" He said to her, put on sunglasses changed his direction and moved out of the building.

He got out of the compound and hopped on a taxi at the outside.

Inside the taxi, he looked around and felt something different from that which he has always feel inside his car or his dad's car. "Would you please turn on the Air Conditioner?" He asked.

"Uhn. What do you say Sir?" The driver asked.

"AC, an AC Mister". He said to him

"Pardon me. You want me to turn on the Air Conditioner for you. Where are you going once again?"

"Anderson CT".

"Good. You're going to Anderson CT and you're expecting me to turn on the Air Conditioner for you. Just for the twenty minutes you're gonna spend in my cab here and for the five box you're five box you're gonna pay me, I should turn on the Air Conditioner to drain my cab gas."

"Ok I'm not gonna pay you five box." Stefen said.

"You're not gonna pay me my money?" He got pissed.

"No, that's not what I mean." Stefen tried getting him calm but he was on his long way of being shattered.

"You're not gonna pay me because I ain't gonna turn on that Air Conditioner. Fine come and get down." He said to him as he parked his taxi at the side of the road.

"I saw, I would pay you an hundred dollar instead of five dollars, if you turn on the Air Conditioner for me." Stefen said to him.

He got calmed and his mind changed completely like he was coded.

"Oh, Good Morning Mister. Would you like to have a nice trip to Anderson CT with my taxi." He asked with a nice and gentle tone, trying to act dramatic after seeing the hundred dollar cash on Stefen's hand.

"Yep, I would like to". Stefen replied.

"Then let's roll." He said and moved on to the direction where he was going to.

Stefen kept on enjoying the music played by the driver in the taxi for the next ten minutes until his phone rings.

He brought the phone out. The call for his reaction changed fully. "Turn it off, turn it off. Quickly quickly dude." He said to the taxi man and he did as he said.

"Hello Stefen."

"Yes Sir, how is the trip going Sir?" He asked.

"This is just 09:00am. I suppose I told you I would be leaving by 09:30am. And I called to tell you that I left an important document in my room. I am returning home to take it."

His heart pumped faster as he heard his dad is returning home. Her thought of different things to do.

"You can ask someone to bring it for you. You could have called me".

"No, you would be busy at work and I only would know where I left it."

"Okay dad." He said to him and he hanged up.

His heart beats faster as he knew his father would definitely see traces that he didn't go to work when he gets home.