The Billionaires Desires novel Chapter 50

Miguel’s POV

Why can’t she just listen to me, why won’t she just listen?

After I stormed out of the room in anger, I went to pick up her car from the hotel where we had abandoned it when those thugs came after us. The plan was to follow behind her and keep watch over her to make sure nothing happens to her. It’s my responsibility as a Hartford, I can't back down now, not after the promise I made to my twin brother Raymond, it’s been more than four months and I still haven’t heard from him, but I won’t give up, I won’t believe whatever the media is saying. His beacon is still turned on, yes the tracker is turned off but it’s still on anyways. 

Besides, he is a Hartford, we went through the same training, he knows the drill, he knows that if the threat is too great for him to handle alone, he is supposed to use the Hartford’s special flare gun and signal for help. Unlike other flare guns that shoot one bullet at a time, ours shoots five bullets at once and each bullet has a different color, making it unique and different. Every Hartford would come trouping to that direction to lend a helping hand.

We knew the risk involved before we decided to embark on this mission. The future of our family depends on this mission Ray and I decided to carry out this mission when we realized that our family did not just work for the Trents, we are actually blood bound to the Trents. Out great grandfather did not just swear his allegiance to the Trent’s, he also pleaded his life and the life of his unborn children to the Trent’s, This means that our lives belong to the Trent’s, so we are mandated to serve a Trent until the day we die. 

We had no idea that the covenant between our great grandparents was too powerful to be ignored. After Gramps left the Trent's, his life never remained the same again. He had no focus and no ambition anymore, he simply induced himself in drinking, drinking himself to a stupor every blessed day. No agency accepted him for any kind of job whatsoever, he couldn’t find any other job, it felt like his name attracted bad luck for him. He had to bring down his standards and apply to be a janitor, yet he got nothing, nothing at all. Whenever he mentions his name, he gets rejected and disappointed, it started out as a joke but with time it got even worse, our rivals started mocking us for being incompetent, but Gramps never let their words get to him, instead, he focused on working harder to secure a job for himself, but as usual, he got the same refusal and rejection from everyone. 

The only job he could secure for himself was at the Trent's company. He applied to work as a janitor for the Trent's and it got approved almost immediately. It was then that we realized that the bond between our family and the Trent’s can never be severed. Gramps sought out the elderly Trent’s at the Caribbean, telling him of the mishaps that befell our family because of the problem between them. He tried to let him see that both families can never be separated, but the elderly Trent did not pay any heed to his words, he was driven by the guilt in his heart, he failed to heed to my grandfather's warning and now his conscience is plaguing him because of the evil he had done.