The Heirs

She is really tired. She saw how those men burned the small apartment he rented. "If they catch me, they will kill me. I need to find a way to make sure that the contents inside the bag are safe"

'Make sure to remember everything I'll say. Take care of those, no matter what will happen.' She remembered that's the strong request given to her by the old woman while holding her hands firmly.

'But where do I need to bring them? I'm sure that madam will kill me if they find out that I have it.'

'Don't be scared. If you arrived in the Philippines, just go to her directly. Tell her what your purpose of the meeting is and it will be on her.'

The old woman took out a piece of paper in her pocket and gave it to her.

"I need to leave here," the lady said to herself. After a few hours, she arrived at the airport. Fortunately, the old woman fixed everything she needed for her departure. But before she arrived at her destination with her co-passengers, she heard a loud bang in the distance. The whole place went disorderly, the people ran everywhere. When someone suddenly grabbed and pulled her into one of the nearest rooms from where she was standing.

"You?" she was surprised by the person in front of her.

"Don't make a noise if you still want to live," a woman emphatically said while feeling the surrounding.

"You just requested me to do this, yet you also want to kill me?" she said while shivering because of anger.

"Your mouth will be the reason for your death if you won't shut up" the other answered.

After a few minutes, a cell phone rang, "Are you sure that they are gone?" She didn't hear the answer on the other line but saw how the woman keeps on nodding.

"Give me those you're carrying. When we get out of here, I will ask someone to send you to a place reserved for you and your family, you'll stay there until we fix the situation" the woman said to her after ending the call.

"How can I be sure that we will be safe there? How can I be sure that you won't kill us?" she asked with hesitation.

"If I want to kill you, why would I save you if I can just let them kill you and steal the things you're carrying and leave like nothing happened" she answered while one eyebrow is raised.

"Let's go before they think of coming back," the woman said, before going near the door and opening it. She followed her quietly until they went out of the building and arrived at the car that is waiting for them. But, when they closed the door the car exploded.

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The old woman almost fainted when watching the news on television that morning while in the living room of their house.

"You can't do anything mother. I already told you that only my children and no one else can inherit the name of this family" smirking Miguel said to his mother, who was currently in a wheelchair.

"Not to a greedy person like you, will fall everything my husband and I worked hard for," the old woman said.

"And to whom? To the illegitimate child of dad? I am your son but why are you favoring that bastard! I am your son here!" his son answered with full of pain.

"Yes, he is indeed a bastard but he is the one who helped your father which you can't. He is with us during the times when the company almost goes bankrupt because of your actions. And now you're asking us why we chose to favor him?"

"I don't care what else you're going to say. What's important now is for you to transfer the name of the company into me," after Miguel said it he stood up and almost went out of the room when his mother spoke.

"Even if I want to give it to you, I can't do nothing."

Miguel faced his mother "What do you mean?"

"The last will of your father stated that only his grandchildren who are deserving can inherit his properties."

Miguel almost answered, when his mother smirked and said.

"Unfortunately those grandchildren will not come from you."

Suddenly his ears tingled, from what he heard and without hesitation, he slapped his mother.

"Shut up!" he said while shivering with anger.

The lady had no trace of fear even though she knew she might be alone there. But she still said while smiling,

"When your brother returns he will set things straight which I should have done before."

Because of the last things he heard, Miguel's vision darkened which caused him to strangle his mother until dead.

"I want to talk to your guardian when you attend the class tomorrow! I will not accept you in my class if you won't bring your guardian with you" a furious teacher said to a fourteen-year-old girl, who doesn't seem to care while sitting quietly in front of the teacher's desk; using a cellphone. "Did you hear me?" she almost screamed at the girl because of anger. "I heard you, Ms. Sanchez" the girl replied with a smile when she glanced at the teacher in front of her.

"I've been talking on like this for a while, but you're not answering, yet you heard me" "You said that you want to talk to my guardian tomorrow right?" a girl replied while smiling and continued "Why should I make it tomorrow if it can happen today?"

Ms. Sanchez was about to speak when suddenly there was a knock on the door before it opened, and a handsome young man entered. "Good afternoon" a young man greeted her politely after he entered. "Good afternoon too, come here and take a seat" she offered the young man to sit on another chair in front of her desk. "What can I do for you?" the teacher said with a lot of smiles that almost tear her lips. The girl laughed while watching her teacher. Because she is acting like a teenager who is in front of her crush.

"My younger sister texted and told me that you want to talk to her guardian" a young man answered while smiling.

"Is this dem..., I mean, this girl is your sister?" the teacher asked the young man incredulously while pointing at the girl who couldn't help but smile on her lips.

"Yes ma'am, our uncle is not in the country as of now, so I decided that I'll be the one to come and talk to you instead. What did my sister do?" "One of her classmates is in the clinic as of now, treating his eyebrow that cracked because of her, kicking him" the teacher explained.

The young man looked at his sister asking her about what he heard. "Why would I not kick him? When I opened the door of the cubicle I caught him peeking at me below" she said with rudeness.

"We can't blame my sister for what she did, Ms. Sanchez" the smile of a young man still lingered while speaking.

"Let's say that she had a reason for doing it, but it's still wrong to hurt her classmate. She can just report it to us" the teacher explained to the young man with an annoyed voice. "Because of what she did Mark's parents want her expelled, but our principal pleads that instead of expulsion she will just face suspension for about 5 days to a month" While explaining it the teacher looked at the girl. "You can't do that" the girl got up from her seat "He is the one who's at fault here, why am I the one facing suspension," said the girl who almost cried.

"That's the decision from above, follow it if you don't want to be expelled for good" answered her teacher.

The girl looked at her older brother with a plea for help showing in her eyes. "Who are the parents of the child that my sister fought with? I'll be the one to talk to them." "Are you sure?" the teacher asked him hesitantly "Yes ma'am I'll be the one to talk to them."

When the young man said that, a door of the office opened and a sophisticated woman entered. The woman looks in her early forties.

"It's good that you're already here Mrs. Johnson, the guardian of the student that your son fought with is here." "Are you the guardian of that rude girl?" she asked with arrogance after sitting across from the teacher's desk, opposite where the siblings are sitting. "Yes, it's me" the young man answered.

"I think Ms. Sanchez already mentioned what punishment we want your sister to face for what she did to my son," she said while directly looking at the girl who also met her gaze. There's no trace of fear from the girl when she looked at the woman in front of her.

"Yes, it was already mentioned to me, but it seems like it's too much if you expelled my sister just because of what she did."

"Just? You're saying that what your sister did to my son is just trivial? Did you know that my son's eyebrow cracked because of your sister?" "It's good that's what I only did to him" the girl whispered.

The young man looked at her sister seriously which made her stop. And then he turned to look at the woman. "We can say that what my sister did is wrong. But what your son did is also wrong. Going inside of the women's bathroom is already wrong, and then he even peeked at my sister who caught him in the act, so she kicked him. I'll agree that my sister will be suspended even though it's unfair but your son must also face the punishment." the young man said gently.

"Maybe you don't know who you're talking to," the woman replied arrogantly.

"Don't worry I know you, madam, because your husband's partner in one of your businesses is my uncle" the young man answered while smiling. "Your uncle? Who's your uncle?" she asked while frowning.

"Miguel madam, Miguel Davidson."

The woman paled when he mentioned his uncle's name. She looked at the girl who had a big smile on her face.

"Mrs. Johnson, are you okay?" the teacher asked the woman when she suddenly stopped. When there was a knock on the door before it opened, a man not far from the age of the lady entered and was accompanied by a young man with a bandage on his head. He was shocked to see who his wife is talking to.

"Sir Louie", he approached the young man and shook his hands "What are you doing in his schoo?"

"Because of my sister Mr. Johnson, actually your wife and I already talked about the punishment she wants my sister to face because of what she did to your son" the young man answered and then turned his gaze between the mother and son. "Sir Louie it's okay, my son should be the one to apologize to your sister instead" after he said that he approached his son and guided him closer to the siblings.

"Dad, why would I apologize to that wicked girl?" his son complained. "Be quiet and apologize now." "But dad.."

"Just do what your dad says Mark!" said the lady to his son. Even though it's against his will the son can do nothing but follow.

"Sorry, Micay. It won't happen again." "Of course you must not do it again. Because if you will, you will suffer worse" the girl answered him with arrogance.

"Mr. and Mrs. Johnson" the teacher called them to gain their attention. "Will we continue to give Michaella a suspension?" "We don't need Ms. Sanchez, I want to apologize for the inconvenience that my son caused" the man answered.

"If that's the decision then you may bring your sister home, Mr. Davidson. Thank you for your cooperation" the teacher said while looking at the young man. "It's okay, we'll go ahead because they are also waiting for me to attend the meeting this afternoon," the young man said goodbye and motioned her sister to follow him.

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"Do you have nothing to do but give us a headache?"

The siblings are inside the car and on their way home.

"I just defended myself, what's wrong there?" his sister answered. "Didn't I tell you that if you will do something, make sure that you will not get caught? Because of you, I need to leave everything behind just to come for you" "Uncle Miguel is not available, that's why you're the one I texted" "My goodness Micay! I think uncle spoiled you too much" the older brother can't do anything but sigh.

"I'm sorry Louie, I'll just cook your favorite for dinner later," Micay said tenderly.

"There, you're good at fooling around."

The young man just smiled, because every time Micay did something, a little bit of affection made them swoon and stop being mad. Uncle and he loved her. Aside from work their world only revolves around her. Louie promised himself when their father died that he will do everything for his sister. No one can ever hurt her, and if he needs to kill to ensure Micay's safety he will do it for her sake.

"You are on a different level" greeted Micay from her best friend named Hannah, the next day after they entered the classroom, they don't have a teacher in their first class so they are free to talk.

"What is it?" she asked her friend with a laugh.

"You're really lucky. How does it feel to have a handsome and nice brother?" her friend asked and seemed thrilled and excited.

"I envy you. I told you not to fight your brothers, they're handsome and nice too" she responded with a laugh. "Handsome? Maybe. Nice? Not sure. They did nothing but to tease me." "We should review for our quiz later," she offered.

Both of the friends were walking to the library when Mark's group stopped them.

"What's your problem?" she asked arrogantly. "You think that we're over, huh?" he answered while going closer to the girl.

Hannah grabbed Micay's arm tightly for the nervousness. While she stayed calm. "Isn't it enough that your eyebrow cracked?" she said while giggling.

He suddenly grabbed her arm, when the teacher passed by near them noticed the interaction.

"Mark Johnson! What are you doing?" The teacher asked which made him let go of her arm.

"It's nothing Ma'am" he answered the teacher. "We're not done yet" he threatened Micay before he walked away with his friends. "They're scary," Hannah said when the guys were gone.

"Why are you scared of them? Mark can't do anything but run his mouth, so why would you be scared of them?" she just replied, "Let's go, maybe our teacher in the second subject arrived before us this we will be scolded"

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"Dad! Do you know that because of what happened my friends are laughing at me?"

Mark complained to his father when he got home that afternoon. He went straight to his father's office. And he caught up with his father who's in front of his laptop working.

"It's your fault. Among all of the people that you'll collide or fight with, why a Davidson" he glanced for a moment at his son sitting in front of his desk.

"So? So what if she is a Davidson? You can find another partner in our business, right? "Do you know what you're talking about? Davidson is one of the prominent clans not only here in the country, but also in other parts of the world as well. And our family owes them so much. So if I were you instead of fighting that girl, why don't you befriend her" "Are you kidding dad? Me? I'll befriend her? If you know how evil that girl is."

"I won't force you to befriend her, but don't fight her if you don't want us to have big problems."

After saying that he looked at his child carefully. The young man just nodded before leaving his father's room.

--

When that moment happened both the father and son didn't notice that someone heard and was watching them. A beautiful smile flashed on that person's lips before turning off his computer's monitor and singing a happy and gentle song as she left the room.

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"How come that any of you do not know?" the young man angrily stood up on his swivel chair.

"We're sorry boss, everything happened so fast, we didn't expect that to happen" came a frightened response of one of his trembling staff.

"Do you know how much I will lose if you don't get that land? Do I need to be the one to do everything here!"

"Boss, we don't expect that to happen, it's neighboring farms agreed to sell their land."

"That's true boss, only that young man refused, so Hernan pointed a gun at him just to scare him off."

"Idiot!" the young man responded furiously, "I don't remember permitting you to use force. What if there will be an accident?"

"We're just planning to scare his boss, but we don't know that he's going to fight back," Hernan replied while holding his bandaged right arm.

"You planned to scare him, but what did you have? Just be thankful you didn't get hurt much" Micay who had just entered Louie's office replied.

"What are you doing here Michaella?" the young man asked with a hint of annoyance on his face and tone"

"I want to invite you to have lunch with me because our class is done early, we also don't have class after lunch" The girl answered, she went straight to his swivel chair and sat.

"You must call me first" the young man replied

"I want to surprise you, but your voice was heard even outside. I thought something happened"

"Because of these people. Uncle Miguel ordered them to do something so simple but they still failed. They didn't get the land but look what happened to them."

Micay looked at each one of them from her seat. And after she did, she couldn't stop herself from laughing because of their faces. Others look like a panda, while others have broken arms.

"Ma'am Micay" some of the men scratched their heads because of the girl's reaction.

"I'm sorry but look at your faces. All of you we're men and big, yet you have a black eye like that?" the girl still couldn't stop laughing.

"Stop it Micay" Louie stopped his sister, looked at the men, and said "It's better if all of you just go home first"

"But boss..." Hernan was about to answer when the girl responded

"It's better if my brother and I will be the ones to go."

Louie looked at his sister "What are you saying?" he asked his sister.

"Let's go to the farm that you're talking about," the girl said while smiling.

"Do you know how far it is Mikay? And who told you that if I decided to go I will bring you along?"

Louie asked his sister seriously.

"I know brother, but next week will be our sem-break."

"I have a lot of work to do and will be left out if I'll go with you on a vacation."

"Do you want to get the land or not?" She asked him seriously.

"Fine. You win this time" the young man said admitting surrender.

"Yey, we will go to Turkey!" the girl shouted in excitement before turning the chair around like a child.

The young man suddenly frowned.

"How did you find out that the land we're talking to is in Turkey?"

The young man asked a serious question while staring at his sister's face. The girl paused for a while before smiling.

"With your voice being loud, who can't hear what you're talking about?" the girl answered.

Louie looked at his men.

"It's dangerous if you'll come with us ma'am Micay. That man is violent so you'll be hurt if you'll tag along" one of the men named Samuel suddenly speaks.

"I'll just come along, but I won't interfere"

The girl replied as she tried to open the drawer on her brother's table one by one as if she was looking for something.

"You're coming, but you won't get out of the car?" the girl looked up at his brother.

"You're allowing me to come with you?"

The girl just asked while smiling to show her happiness. The man just nodded with a smile.

'Yey! You are the best brother" she smiled while hugging her older brother.

"Ok yes go ahead, don't make fun of me anymore. Let's go and I'm already hungry." Louie offered to his sister.

The girl happily walked out of the office while pulling her brother's hand, but before the young man could finally leave the room he turned to the men behind him.

"What are you waiting for? Take care of those things you have to do," he said before finally going out of the room.