Contract Marriage; Fated Love

Noah stood up instantly as beads of sweat ran down his forehead.

“What happened?”

“Sir, we don’t know yet, but we will find out. He has been rushed to Merlin hospital.”

Noah’s heart throbbed, his breathing was fast and heavy.

“What happened to dad? Please dad, stay alive, I can’t lose you,” he prayed silently.

Although he didn’t have a very good and cordial relationship with his father, he still acknowledged him as his father and wanted him alive, hale and hearty.

The thought of his father losing his life as a result of the accident made his hands tremble and his knees shook.

He got into his car and drove to the hospital. His father had already been attended to and treated, owing to his influence.

Noah looked at his father on the hospital bed and his heart bled. The drip went into his almost lifeless body. Noah blinked severally to prevent the tears from falling. He was a brave man, but not when his father’s life was at stake. He had lost his mother and didn’t want to lose his father too, at least, not now and not to a serious accident.

He left the ward and sent for his father’s driver. He only had minor injuries. Noah studied him for a long time, his eyes boring deep into his soul as if he could read his mind.

He turned to one of his men and said,

“Check the CCTV footage.”

He focused once more on the driver.

“What happened?”

“It was a planned accident sir. The person was clearly aiming for my master. Our car was hit from the rear and from the side as well, that’s why the master sustained serious injuries.”

Noah looked at him and his instincts told him the man was saying the truth.

“Someone dared to kill my father?”

He was definitely going to get to the bottom and root of this.

The man who was sent to check the CCTV with the road officials returned soon.

“Here is the video sir.”

Noah watched the video but there was no trace of what he was looking for. The video was tampered with. Whoever that was behind this was a smart person.

“This video has been tampered with. Go back to the road officials for the right one.”

The man returned with the same response as before.

Noah sighed. This person wasn’t going to go scot free. He fumbled his pocket for his keys and gave it to his father’s driver with the instruction,

“Get my laptop from the car. There are two, bring the one on the back seat and be fast about it.”

He was smarter than whoever it was. He opened his laptop and set to work. He was very good at coding and hacking. He put in the required information and navigated through successfully. The deleted and full video popped up in no time. He zoomed the culprit’s face and said to his men,

“Find him, bring him to my suite.”

Noah checked on his father one more time and left. He asked for the man to be sent to his suite and not the hospital because he didn’t trust himself. He would murder the man with his bare hands if care wasn’t taken.

The man lay on the floor and waited for his judgement to begin. Noah’s men stood by the side waiting for orders from Noah. They knew what was coming, he was going to tell them to beat him up. But he didn’t. Instead, he stood up and moved closer to the man. He raised his face and dealt him a heavy blow. The man spat out blood and pleaded for mercy.

Noah’s men shrank back in fear. They had never seen their master so angry or deal with a culprit himself.

“Who sent you?”

The man didn’t speak. Noah made to give him another blow and he screamed,

“It’s a foreigner…. It’s a foreigner, have mercy on me please.”

“A foreigner sent you after Joshua Harper and you obeyed. How dare you!”

“I’m sorry sir, I will…”

He was cut short by a deafening slap from Noah that made him fall on his face.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Has the bloody foreigner no name?”

The man was groaning in pain and he could barely talk but he knew better than to ignore Noah one more time.

“He does… I will talk. Please, pl.. please, be merciful.”

“Don’t waste my time! What’s the name?”

“Jessy Harlord.”

“Look him up this minute, find out who it is.”

“Yes sir.”

The men set to work and Jessy was located a few minutes later.

“We have found him, sir.”

“Show him to this idiot for confirmation.”

The man on the floor looked at the picture and confirmed it.

“Are you sure he is the one? If my master finds out you are lying, you will be done for,” the servants cautioned.

“I swear on my life, he is the one. Have mercy on me please.”

Having confirmed the master planner, they took the laptop to Noah. Noah saw the picture and his jaw dropped open. He turned red in the face and clenched his fist.

“Jessy! That bloody bastard!”

Noah took his car keys and drove off, taking none of his men along. This was going to be a personal battle. He was going to murder Jessy that very day.

He drove into the compound, taking the security men off guard. They didn’t dare stop him for two reasons.

One was his influence and the other was that his eyes were brewing fire and he was gritting his teeth.

He flung the door open and barged into the house. He grabbed one of the servants and asked,

“Where is Jessy?”

“Pr… sir.. he…”

Noah shook him roughly and yelled,

“Speak up!”

“He’s upstairs! Upstairs sir….”

Noah shoved the poor fellow aside and hurried up the stairs. There were three rooms on the right. He opened the first and the second and there was no sign of life.

He opened the third, and there was Jessy sitting on the bed.