CHAPTER 5

I stepped into the elevator that led directly to my office, my own private elevator.

I removed the dark glasses I had on and pocketed them, then I turned to Eddie with a full toothed grin, he was one of the only people who saw me like this, to others I was mostly mean and curt because I had to put of a front, I am a successful business man, a millionaire at that, if I didn’t have this front, I will certainly not have attained this level of success.

It was war out here, and the toughest survived, growing up I was pampered to a certain point because my dad was in oil money so we were rich growing up, but ma didn’t believe un spoiling a child, so pampered not spoilt. So growing up both of us were supposed to work together, but my brother took over because it was his thing, I on the other hand didn’t mind for oil and senior bro did an excellent work with it, so much that I could stay at home and not work and to my tenth generation they will still be rich, I was a billionaire but I preferred to be called a millionaire because I didn’t want to have the same status with dad and I loved to catch people unawares especially with my bank balance.

Back to me, I studied business and architecture in NYU, because of my love for buildings, I loved to make it, design it and sometimes resell or keep, and the perfect way to do that was to own hotels, I could always do a design that was calm, hard, so out of human imagination, or whatever I decide to create and no one could talk, the good thing about hotels.

“why are you smiling stupidly”, Eddie asked after sparing me just a glance.

I shook my head and smirked, “I’m fucking Devon Black, I can do what I like”, I replied.

He burst out laughing, this was a joke between the both of us. How it started was at a club when I was still at NYU, where I met Eddie, the night I met him, I was totally drunk, and in my drunken haze I started a fight with a big dude, really huge, I cant even remember what caused it right now but, I took the first swing, and the nigga had me on my ass in a split second, he literally wiped the floor with me, and then dearest Eddie rescued me, I have no idea how because I blacked out.

The next day, Eddie came and told me how we broke shit and had to go pay, so I followed him to the club, when we reached, we went to the manager and we started to explain, he was so furious and started calling a large balance and insisting we paid it there and then, I think he thought we were poor asses and he was so pissed, the sum was so large that I had to call dad, because then I didn’t have access to my trust fund yet, so dad asked to speak to the manager, I passed the phone and after 2 seconds or even fewer, the manager opened his mouth so wide and his eyes looked like they might fall of.

Then he wordlessly passed my phone back, in confusion, Eddie and I looked around, but before we asked, he stood up on the bar and summoned his staff, we still stood there in shock wandering what the hell was happening when he shouted.

“Yo, listen up, this young man here is fucking Devon Black, and he can fucking do what he likes, even if it means pissing on you motherfuckers, clear?”.

So since then Eddie and I made jokes with that sentence.

“so, tell me Eddie, have fun at the club”, I asked wiggling my eyebrows.

“not as much as you obviously, I mean I didn’t need to have a second bath or nothing”, he said and I burst out with laughter.

But before I could say something back, the elevator opened and I schooled my face to its stony form, time for business.

I stopped Eddie with my hand on his arm before he could go to his office which were the only offices on this floor except for our secretaries and yes, we had a separate office where all the decisions about our hotel was made, our lawyers, accountants and things like that were all here in this building.

“The red head, find her and everything about her, even the color of her fucking panties”, I said tapping his arm.

“And if she doesn’t wear any?”, he replied smirking as he walked left for his office.

Damn bastard! I laughed as I went into my own office.