THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
BY SIR ZACH
CHAPTER 48
Maverick and Damien arrived at Country M’s airport at night, yet Damien had no intention of leaving.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Maverick asked.
“I should be asking you that. Why are the spirits of the girls I killed following you around? Did you summon them?” He made a sarcastic joke as he looked at Kimberly’s sisters that were glued to Code 10.
He had noticed them since they entered the plane. He was shocked to see them alive and it dawned on him that Maverick had been messing with him. Kimberly must be part of the plan but now that she was unconscious, he can’t ask her anything. Good thing the girls were alive, now Kimberly won’t hate him anymore. He smiled.
“Hmm… to haunt you,” Maverick responded as he made his way to the line of black cars that were waiting for him.
“Too bad, their spirits are even scared of me, so how would they haunt me?”
Maverick turned his head to the side and curled his lips. “Soon, you’ll understand.”
Damien frowned. He was right. Maverick was digging a hole for him to fall into and it seems he cannot resist falling into that hole. Provided the plan doesn’t take his life, his wealth, or his Kimberly, then it will be fine.
Maverick entered the car that was opened for him. He placed his head on the headrest like he always does and tried to close his eyes. However, before he could lose himself in his own world, the other side of the door opened and someone got in.
Maverick knew that neither Code 2 nor Code 10 would get into his private space without being summoned, so he opened his eyes to see but was a little taken aback when he realized it was Damien.
Maverick raised a brow and said; “this is my car.”
“Of course, I’m not saying it’s mine…Wait, you weren’t intending to leave me here, were you?” seeing that Maverick wasn’t saying anything, Damien chuckled. “I followed you here, so it’s only right that you take responsibility for me. Moreover, I have a lot of enemies, especially Emilee. She’ll immediately kill me before anyone from the family knows I’m back. Until I’ve found out who is backing her, I intend to hide and your place is the best hiding spot for me.”
“What makes you think I can’t carry out my revenge on you?”
“You have no reason to kill me just yet.” Damien sighed. “You found out everything I did and you were undoubtedly angry but still spared my life until now. It means that I haven’t wasted my usefulness. Until then, you won’t kill me, I’m sure.” With that said he smiled bitterly.
Maverick glanced at him but said nothing and rested his head on the headrest and closed his eyes.
Damien stared at Maverick’s side profile for a long time as he slowly traveled down Memory lane.
Little Damien of around 4–5 years was eating in the cafeteria with his twin brother, Ruben who was of the same height but was a little bigger and looked more powerful than Damien– he was stronger as Damien appeared to look a little unhealthy.
A moment later, Maverick walked in with his three friends. Fin, Matt, and Celestine, and came to stand in front of Damien and Ruben.
Damien was all smiles as he looked at the person he wishes to befriend but never paid him attention.
“Maverick, you saw the note?” Damien asked with a sweet smile.
However, instead of Maverick answering, he looked at him with disdain, pulled out a paper from his pocket and slapped it on the desk in front of Damien, then turned and left with his friends.
Damien was hurt by that look that Maverick gave him but before he could take the paper and know what was written on it, Ruben took the paper and tore it into shreds.
“Ruben, what are you doing?!” Damien demanded with an angry tone as he gathered the pieces and tried to piece them together, but failed.
“What else? He already looked at you like a worthless thing, do you still want to read a letter from him that would insult you even more? Brother, stop being stupid. It’s obvious you cannot be his friend. Grandfather, Father and Mother said that the Lu family is our enemy and we must kill them if we can!”
“Stop talking nonsense. The older people are the ones at war, not us children. I like Maverick and his friends and want to be a part of his circle. If you can’t help me, don’t interfere anymore!”
The image switched to two years later. Damien was still stalking Maverick and was eager to be his friend but as usual, for some reason, Maverick always felt disgusted.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
On this day, in the cafeteria, Damien brought extra food from home and offered Maverick some. He accidentally heard from his parents that Maverick’s parents were having a fight. Believing that Maverick must not have eaten, Damien made his nanny get him more food.
When he placed the flask on the table, in front of Maverick who was looking lost as his friends ate while his side of table was empty, Maverick didn’t look at him with disdain and Damien was very excited.
“I– I brought you something. It’s your favorite. You should try it, I guarantee it’s very delicious and you’ll like it.” Damien beamed with pure innocence.
Maverick glanced at him for a little more than his usual one–second look, then he looked at the flask and was about to speak to him for the first time in his life when Ruben came over and knocked the flask away.
“Didn’t I tell you to stay away from him? He doesn’t like you one bit! He’ll only make fun of you again. Are you so stupid?!” After that, Ruben tried to drag Damien away but Damien resisted and threw his brother’s hand away.
“What is your business? I said I want to be his friend. How is that your concern? Please stay away from my problems, I don’t want you to interfere anymore?!”
“Really? Do you have to do what Grandpa said to you? You are still very young and naive. Do you think no one would know what you are trying to achieve by being friends with the enemies? It’s obvious as day, Damien and that’s Why Maverick doesn’t like you. Not only are you following Grandpa’s plans, but you are also becoming a nuisance. You are not even as intelligent as his friends, you are the dumbest person in the class! Maverick only sees you as a stupid person and that’s why he’ll never like you!”
Those words broke Damien’s heart. His Grandfather didn’t tell him anything and he’s not trying to befriend Maverick for any malicious reason. He genuinely likes Maverick.
He looked at Maverick, waiting for him to deny the allegations that he saw him as a nuisance. He was waiting earnestly for Maverick to push Ruben and call him a liar, but Maverick didn’t. He only sneered and walked out.
Damien wanted to run after him to explain his own part but Ruben held him, preventing him from leaving. However, Damien refused to be stopped and forcefully pushed Ruben away, causing him to hit his head on the edge of the table.
Because Damien was in haste to leave, he didn’t see the blood coming out of his brother’s head, nor did he notice that his brother had fainted.
Outside the cafeteria, he finally stopped Maverick and explained that Ruben was lying, then he asked Maverick what he thought about him.
“Just like your brother said, you are a nuisance. Get a life, you aren’t fit to be close to me. I despise you!”
Those words pierced Damien’s heart and for years, they stuck to him like glue and refused to leave.
He indeed started to take his academic studies serious and even outdid Maverick’s friends, still no matter what he did, Maverick was always some steps ahead of him. He could never catch up.
When Maverick’s father bought him an island, an invitation for Damien to appear on the island was sent to the Yu family but at that time, Damien was already locked away, so Ruben went in place of Damien.
When Maverick made his first kill at the school because of his little brother, Damien was triggered. If Maverick could, then he also can. With that, he bribed the informant who always brought him news in the darkroom to help him out of the room.
The plan took some months and when he finally came out by pretending to be very sick, he realized that Maverick had taken over his late father’s dying company and was trying to bring it back up.
So Damien, with the anger that his family was no family to him anymore, and also for the fact that Maverick was way ahead of him, killed his oldest brother, causing so much trouble in the Yu estate that forced everyone to submit to him.
When he became the leader of his family, he held a meeting with Maverick to ask him if he was now worthy to be his friend but not only did Maverick not honor the invite, he sent a message to tell Damien that he will forever be worthless and would always be below him.
From there on, Damien started to do things out of line to prove to Maverick that he was wrong, he had always been wrong about him but Maverick kept angering him each day that passed.
To make Maverick come to him and beg him for something, Damien set the scheme to involve a woman in his life, that was when he realized that Maverick loved a young child called Rossa, he tried to search for her but failed, still, he didn’t give up.
When he saw that after some years, he couldn’t find Rossa, he made his brother bring in Vera to stand as Rossa, but he changed his mind when he saw that Vera and Ruben were taking too long to appear at the hotel, SI he made his men to kidnap any girl and send her to Maverick. Who would have thought that the guards would kidnap the birthday girl who was drugged by her friends for whatever reason? So Jeslyn ended up being the one Maverick slept with.
After that, he tried to kill Jeslyn to close that plothole to his plan but realized she was too pretty to die just like that. So he started to form another scheme where she would be useful, however, Destiny played a cruel joke and she became pregnant.
How could she? How could an outsider get so entangled in his meticulous plan?
While he was trying to alter his plan to fit in Jeslyn and Vera without having to change the whole plan, he realized Jeslyn’s family was weird, so he tried to dig deeper. However, the only thing he found was that Jeslyn was actually Maverick’s Rossa!
It became even better when Maverick was still searching for his Rossa, that was when he built a nice chess game and started playing the two as he wished, using Vera as a substitute for Rossa and watched from the side as Maverick treated Vera as if she was Rossa.
Damien snapped out of his memory when the car came to a halt. He looked around and realized they were at Maverick’s mansion.
“Are you really allowing me into your home?” Damien asked, a little surprised.
Maverick glanced at him for a while. Yes, he was also asking himself what he was doing, having his wife’s enemy into the house. But they were already here.
He got down without uttering a word and started to walk towards the large front door.
Damien chuckled as he watched Maverick’s defiant back as he walked with an air of authority, arrogance, and pride. He was the definition of a superior being.
For some reason, Damien couldn’t help admiring this man who was his frenemy.
What does he feel for Maverick even after all that has happened between them? He wasn’t sure.
Damien couldn’t put his fingers on why he doesn’t see Maverick as a pure enemy. A part of him wanted that recognition and praise that he had been longing for, from Maverick. He felt that something in him will be complete if Maverick genuinely treats him like a human for once.
“You should get down.”
Damien heard the hard voice of one of Maverick’s men and turned to his side and saw that the guard had opened the car door.
Damien got down and looked around the beautiful compound. It was night time and people were sleeping, so it was only littered with armed men and women in black.
“Where is Kimberly?” He asked.
“She has been taken away for treatment. Follow me to your quarters.” The guard said and started to walk towards one of the many buildings in the compound.
THE LAST MINUTE GROOM SEASON 2: CHAPTERS 41 – 50
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