Unveiling Cade Donovan

She was dead!

{GRAY}

Past...

The days that followed were used to plan our next step. I sneaked into Molly's room—because her mom hated me, and researched more about the man named Cade Donovan. We found out that he was a billionaire who grew up in a wealthy and well-known family. He owned a lot of buildings, including the one he was currently staying in, The Central Park Tower, which had the most expensive penthouse in the whole of New York. We couldn't find anything about his age, and the pictures we found were taken five years ago when he'd bought the One World Trade Centre.

"There's no information about where he currently is. This is so frustrating!" Molly complained, banging her head on the table. I wasn't fazed by this. It was something she did when she'd run out of patience. "What about the penthouse?", I questioned. She raised her head from the table.

"That information was five years ago. Do you still think he is living there?"

"There's no harm in checking", I reasoned, and so we did. Molly, Niko and I took a train to the place the following day. Our mouths dropped open at the sight of the building. It was the tallest building I'd ever seen. I wondered why people lived in tall buildings like the one in front of me. It just seemed unsafe to me.

Everything about the buildings, the streets and the cars and people that were on them smelled rich.

We didn't even make it to the entrance of the Central Park Tower when a security man started to chase us away, calling us rift rafts. I didn't blame him, we looked like that, especially me with my messy hair, faded black shirt and ripped jeans.

We returned to Oaks Avenue that afternoon, still at square one. I'd lost all hope of saving the park and dreamed of all the trees, including the one in the centre of the park that I liked to lay on, being cut down. What I didn't know was that the next day would change my whole life.

It had started as a normal day for me. It was a very sunny Tuesday, and I was running my morning shift as usual when I had a call from Molly saying she had found something and that I needed to come to the park. I checked the old clock in D'Angelo's Diner, and it read fifty minutes past eleven. Ten minutes more till my shift ended. The owner of the Diner, Andre D'Angelo, was in the pantry ordering people about. It wasn't a very big place, but it had a lot of customers because of the mouth-watering Italian pizza he made.

"Andre, I have to attend to something urgent and it's almost twelve. Can I close early today?", I walked to him and asked. He stopped yelling at Elise, another girl who worked here and smiled at me.

"Don't worry, you can go.", he patted my shoulder and continued yelling at her. Andre was known to be a very kind and selfless man. His only shortcoming was that he was a perfectionist. Not saying it was a bad thing, but he got furious when someone didn't do things the exact way he did them. It made him difficult to work with sometimes, but most of the time, he was cool. I removed my apron, placed it in the storage room and exited the diner.

Niko was already outside waiting for me in his mother's car. I opened the door to the front seat and sat down.

"What's going on, what's the emergency?", I asked him as he started the engine and drove away from the diner.

"Molly managed to get information from her mom that the mayor and Cade Donovan were visiting the park to inspect the place. Today was the last day."

"I don't get it."

"He's inspecting the place as we speak, and if he likes it, by the end of today he'll be owning it."

"Really!", he nodded his head while looking at the road, "What are we going to do then?"