The news of Anthony Roster’s death made more fire in the media than Liam Foster.
What ignited the fire was much more than just death news.
The hype was not that a dangerous serial killer is on the loose; rather, a worker of the Porter’s construction company was cheating on his wife.
It ignited a gossip around the social media platforms and even news magazines.
Jeffery had his hands full with the situation.
He wore dark-shaded glasses to avoid eye contact, and bodyguards were escorting him from the office to the house.
He is having a handful of problems every day.
The reporters even surrounded his house for an interview.
The price of the company’s shares fell lower than he expected, and worse, the rival companies are taking full advantage of the situation and taking away the projects.
At this rate, the company will be closed very soon.
Jeffery knew there was a silent life of Liam behind the office, but to have a brother cheating on his wife was just on another level.
This was a blow from the blood side as well.
Mental stress attacked him from all over the sides.
All things considered, the police are getting more personal.
They understood that there is something hidden here, and even though their main goal was to find the killer, the fact that two people were killed in the company attracted more attention, and they wished to dig deeper into their company.
Jeffery did not wish to have any more problems.
He was exhausted.
Already the pressure from the projects is making him answerable to the clients, and big projects would not arrive if the police were going through the office for clues.
He can no longer keep the police out.
Then comes the pressure from the family for Anthony’s deeds.
They want an answer from him, as Anthony was under him when things happened.
However, he did not know anything about this particular life of Anthony.
His brother did confide in him about the pressure he is feeling from his wife and wanted to proceed with divorce.
Jeffery was shocked at first, but he did not wish for the situation to be too messy.
He kept himself away and gave advice to the younger one so that the media problem would not be an issue to the company.
Anthony was happy with the advice; he could not understand what he was supposed to feel.
On one side, there is the pressure of the company’s downfall.
On the other side, the pressure from the family with the deeds made by Anthony, and on the third side, was the grief of losing his blood.
Jeffery could not understand what he was supposed to feel.
Grief or disappointment.
He felt the worst in this.
“How is this a fault?
Why did they do this to me?
My friend betrayed me, and my brother hid things from me.” He slammed his hand on the wooden table with anger.
However, just like the other days, there was no one to listen.
His office was almost empty with the police taking a lot of the files.
Jeffery was sitting in the middle with an angry emotion on his face.
His hands turned into fists.
Soon the debtors will start calling him.
With no project left in the end, his people will be out of a job.
He stood in front of the large window looking at the city outside.
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This view used to give him determination, and now it is giving him more questions.
He got up after slamming his fist on the table and stared at the view.
His hands were inside the pockets.
The lights were dim inside the room.
The only bright light was the lamp light on the table.
There was an empty cup of tea on the right with a number of checks in the middle.
There was not enough light in there.
All need to be cashed.
Jeffery had enough; he wanted to make the last payment, and he would hand in his resignation.
The company has nothing left anyway.
He took a deep breath and turned around only for his eyes to stop in front of a figure.
Jeffery watched the figure standing before him.
His body gave a shiver in fear.
“Who are you?…….
How did you enter this place?” He took some time and asked.
The figure came into the light.
She was wearing a white shirt and black pants.
“I came here to see your face.
I thought I would see a strong man, but it seems it is a weak one.”
Jeffery squinted his eyes.
He did not recognize at first, but the face was clear now.
It was Anthony’s wife.
Martha.
“I thought you would be seeing me in court to sue; why are you here?” His voice went low.
Martha was chosen by his father for Jeffery, but for some reason it did not work, and she was chosen for Anthony.
There was an awkward relationship between them, but since they only met a few times, it was not a big deal for him.
However, these days, the way she rushed everything against the family with the reporters, Jeffery could not help feeling hostile toward her.
“You should not be here, Martha.
You should go back.” Jeffery moved his face away and took the remote from the table to brighten the light.
Martha scoffed.
“I warned you they would be your downfall, but you never understood what I said.
It was always a problem with you.”
“While you did not care about anything more than the fall of my company, I had friends and family; no matter what you said, I cannot take your words just like that; I must decline your words.
This is family, Martha.” Jeffery almost scolded her.
“IF YOU DID NOT GIVE UP, THEN I WOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR FAMILY.” Martha scolded him.
She did not keep anything inside her.
Jeffery turned around.
Martha’s eyes were teary.
The silence followed them.
There was a tension between the two.
Jeffery watched her with a helplessness.
He could not tell her how important she was to the family, and Jeffery was in a liability situation.
Anthony was a better choice for her.
How could Jeffery choose the girl to be sacrificed like this?
“Just like that, you would give up.
You turned a blind eye to all their antics.
I was a victim as well, Jeffery.
Tell me, what was there?
Why did you give up on me?
Why could I not stay with you?
Was I not wife material enough for you?
I wanted you to be my partner, yet you pushed me towards your brother.
This was not at all fair, Jeffery.”
Martha’s voice was like a needle in his heart.
Jeffery, from a very young age, would be a pushover.
The prodigy was not only an obedient person but a reliable one as well.
“What do you expect me to do?
Martha?
I supported you, and I helped you all.
Yet, it was you who decided to make things complicated.
You should not have asked for a divorce just like that.
You should have worked hard to keep things working between you and Anthony.”Jeffery replied in anger.
“It is your job as a wife to help your family.
You were not in the right mind for what you did.
When we needed you, you betrayed us with this!” Jeffery took a paper and threw it towards her.
It was the terms for alimony.
Martha was suing the family for cheating.
There were terms and part of the money asked for them to give.
“You could have kept your husband in line.
You could have stopped him.
What were you actually doing there?
You did nothing worthwhile for the family.” Jeffery was fuming.
Even though he was careful not to scream at her, there was still a control of emotions he could not handle.
Martha watches as the paper falls close to her feet.
She smirked with the corner of her mouth.
Her eyes moved from the man to the paper.
There was no fear of words, no fear of pain.
She just watched him.
This was the man she was going to marry.
She loved this one; the talent, the smartness, everything attracted her when she saw him in the clips and paper.
But as things moved forward.
Someone seemed to have taken a large pin and busted her bubble.
She was married to another one; the more she thought she would adapt, she would come to work well in the future; the worse things had been, even Jeffrey, who was standing before her, was no longer attracting her at all.