Twisted Tangles

Chapter 18, Rolls Royce Callinan

Friday, 14th of June 2019

Ever since Monday night I have been having sleepless nights and constant nightmares, I was not becoming myself anymore. It was like going through hell and the only option was to carry on going because who wanted to stop in hell? Well at least I wasn't alone, Rosalià was with me day and night accompanying me whenever I cried and visited my mother, she was taking care of me like how her mother-in-law would want her to while I kept my strength in recovering my gunshot wound.

It was a cold but sunny Friday morning when I woke up next to her, as she was still deep in her slumber, I remembered all our dates we used to go on. I remembered the day we first met and that was on my birthday, the 12th of April, the day I may have met the woman who was about to change my life for the better but with more risks involved now that I had pledged to never reveal her family's secret to their wealth.

It was thrilling yet scary simultaneously because at any given time you would find yourself caught red handed and sent right away to jail. I would say that is the best part of it all you know.

As Julien kept drowning in his thoughts, that day was when the big meeting was going to be held for the Andrews Agency at the Andrews Mansion. The meeting was about carrying out long term critical decisions for all enterprises hence discussing new measures to be taken to evade the feds.

Ben, Chris, and Martha had arrived at the Walvis Bay International Airport from Cape Town, after a hectic week of negotiations and creating new relationships. This was their life, a life of Tom and Jerry, creating opportunities for themselves rather than waiting for opportunities to appear out of thin air. A perfect example of marketing by maintaining good customer relationships no matter what the implications or work effort needed.

It didn't take long for them to leave the airport as an escort of BMW 7 series awaited them outside," You know we've been used to sedans for too long now. I saw a beautiful car in Cape Town, what car was that Chris?" Ben asked, "Are you talking about that Rolls Royce?" Chris replied, "Yes that one. The Rolls Royce Cullinan, buying that car would really be a treat to me after all the hard work I put in this week. We have new investors and new routes awaiting to fill up our pockets this will be the perfect timing to the opening of the university don't you think Martha?" said Ben excitedly.

"Get a hold of yourself Ben, if it wasn't for Chris you would've been a teacher in Kuisebmund. In times like these we must be on a lookout for any big surprises and watch our backs in case any of us miss out on threats. As for now can we just relax and carry on with this conversation at tonight's meeting, thank you." said Martha looking out the window.

"You know Martha that wasn't necessary, I'm just happy I did a great job and completed my work over this week. There's no need to spit venom today, its Friday, where's the life in you huh?" Ben expressed, "Okay I think that's enough Ben, you become annoying whenever you're happy and sweetie please try to calm down. We are all exhausted as you and would love to be at home, let us just wait for a little longer. We're almost home." said Chris intervening between the two of them.

Chris was more of the diplomatic type to solve tensions and disputes throughout any situations whether it may be family or business, as for Martha, she was the fiery queen, straight to the point without any entertainment towards nonsense. Then there was Ben, a self-centred individual but one of the most hardworking, taking the Andrews Agency to greater heights as well as known to be contributing to high risk ideas with great rewards behind them, thus aka Big Ben.

Chris was the type to keeping a low profile as one of the founders to the union followed by Martha helping maintain Poetry Bar and Mungunda trucking. For Chris and Martha, they felt that Ben had the best character to negotiate and handle packages from the Congolese distributors, he knew who he was working with and how the system worked.