Touching The Heart Of Ace (SAMPLE)

Chapter 55

TRIGGER : Death of a loved one.
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"You are your mom's son." Aunt Marie shook her head as she poured me a cup of tea. Robbie was brooding on the sofa looking like he wanted to bolt out of the door.

He did not like it here. He did not like her.

"Robbie, do you want to take Lia and stroll through the garden?" He picked her up in a second and looking longingly at me.

"What about you?"

"What about me?" I glared. He was not keeping me away from Aunt Marie; he got the message and went outside.

"Did you spank him too?" I asked my tired, yet so beautiful Aunt. Janice got her good looks from her mom.

She laughed clutching her chest, "Oh, I missed you so much."

"Stay with us for a few days, Lia does not get to be with you as much as she should. You are her grandmother; you need to be close. Mom stayed with us for two weeks and we missed you so much. You will love our greenhouse."

"Someday." She handed me her famous apple pie. "Claire told me about what you did." I slowed down my chewing.

"I did not do it for you..." I answered truthfully. "Or for Janice."

Aunt nodded. I hoped Robbie did not put Aunt Marie and Janice in the same boat.

I only did what I did, for my baby girl and Robbie.

The meeting that happened that day escalated to a disaster. I could not believe Janice expected Robbie to hand over a million and sixty thousand dollars just like that. She wanted him to stop asking her investors questions and just sign a check. I had to call Robbie on his phone from upstairs to wind up the whole 'meeting' because they were disturbing my Lia.

The tranquillity we were keeping in our home started to crack with Janice's frequent visits and deliberate shouts and crying.

I came up with the idea of buying their project, because Robbie was going to seriously hurt someone with the way he was grinding his teeth and fisting his hands.

After-gym health drink was a good marketing product. I told him that.

When I was regularly dancing, I had this muscle pains and fatigue that did not go away fast and if I ate food, it gave stomach cramps. If we could come up with something substantial yet wouldn't bring any stomach upsets, it was a good product.

Robbie was sceptic at first but I asked him how long he had to wait after his sparring and gym activities before he could eat normally without wanting to puke?

All they had to do was handover the product claims to us and we would take it from there, as ours. Robbie said they needed to wait a year before he would give them back their money; without interest.

The investors fought hard, but we backed our demands with my lawyers. One of them cried asking him to pay his bit, but Robbie was used to crushing people and he did not even blink his eyes.

At the end, they signed every paper we wanted them to sign. I felt a little bad. Now they had no product and no money. They were completely at Robbie's mercy.

I was surprised that Janice was not happy. He took away her threats, what more did she need?

It took us a lot of time before we could get all the ingredients right. It did not taste bad, it was watery but thick enough to settle the gnawing hunger, did not shock our fatigued muscles to cramp and it came in different flavours. We got it certified, meeting all the government standards.