The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

Chapter 157- The real enemies

Frowning slightly, Elijah knew that the voice belonged to Lawyer Meeks, and yet he was skeptical of the fact that he was alive. A part of him still could not believe it, but the rest of his logical mind seemed to think differently.

“How did you survive the fall?” Elijah asked.

After dealing with the Hayeses for so long, Elijah knew how tricky and treacherous the family can get to achieve their goals.

“I black out during the fall and the next thing I knew, I opened my eyes in a tiny room with this old lady and her daughter, and they had been helping me since then… I can not walk, Elijah. The impact of my body hitting the water with such force injured my spine. I need to get out of the country to seek treatment… If I keep hiding with no proper medical care care, I will die, for real.” Mr. Meeks spoke slowly and he sounded very weak.

“What happened that day… the evening the accident took place?”

“I want to see your face first… I want to explain things to you in person because I don’t trust a phone call.”

Silence settled on the line as Elijah processed what Mr. Meeks said, and then he asked, “What device are you using?”

“A smartphone,” Mr. Meeks said.

“Video call me.”

The call abruptly ended in Elijah’s ear, and he sighed in annoyance. But as he was about to put his phone back into his pocket, it started buzzing, and Elijah looked at the screen to see that he was getting an incoming video call.

Immediately, Elijah answered, and the video call connected to a small camera, and there, staring back at him was a man who should be a ghost.

“Send me your location. I will be back in Syldavia at night, but I am sending my men, Jerome and Matt, to pick you up, and take you somewhere safer.”

“Okay,” Mr. Meeks said.

After ending the call, Elijah drew a breath, knowing he hadn’t told Peach the truth yet, and now that this had surfaced, he was still hesitant to do so.

The dinner room was lively as Mrs. Maxwell told Peach and Mrs. Grace with a smile, saying, “I can’t wait to take you guys to Madam Elle’s book club tomorrow… Side note, she likes. bragging about her son’s marriage and her daughter-in-law to my face, and now that my daughter-in-law is here, I want to rub it in her face too.”

Lisa.” Mr. Maxwell teased, causing Peach to chuckle at the eye roll her mother-in-law

since your son almost gave me a heart attack. when he said he wasn’t getting married

“AAH,”

her “Thank you,” from earlier meant, and Peach gave her mother-in-law a big smile when

and saw her husband walking into the dining

asked softly, seeing exactly what her

from speaking for a moment, but then he said, “Matt called

and her mother-in-law said at the

twice about his decision, but he smiled at the both of them and said, “Yes, but Hopefully, I will be back

book club party,” Mrs. Maxwell mumbled, eyeing her husband for support but got none

Maxwell, Peach realized that there was no stopping

you leaving?” Peach asked, holding back the feeling of sadness that arose

heart dropped at little bit. “It’s just a few pieces of paperwork that I need to attend

to her lips as Peach looked into his eyes, and he waited for her to say something, and

“Excuse me,” Elijah mumbled.

to her, Peach’s smile disappeared, and Mrs. Maxwell’s

spent one week in prison, Damnit! My son! He’s behind bars because

have in you for Elijah

“You are gaslighting me!”

trick, to tear us up from the inside so we can

business circles, the companies are crumbling, and our family.

his eyes with a cold stare and said, “Dean, chill. That’s our mother you are talking

son’s voice made Madam Jewel flinch as well. Her hands balled into fists as a deep sigh escaped her lips, and she said, “You are angry about what happened to your son, Dean. But that is not my fault. It’s Joshua’s own doing. I never told him

going to spend the rest of her disabled life. locked up?!”

words in my face, Dean!” Madam Jewel screamed, tears. forming at the corners of her eyes. “I carried you for nine months, breastfed you till you were one year old, and raised you into the man that you are! You

play this victim game with you all because it’s

Madam Jewel could put her grandson in his place, Mathew’s ringtone went

had been in contact with their father for days now, Dean stopped from his seat and then walked out of the dining room, “It’s Elijah damn fault, but that doesn’t excuse you either. The

who my men just spotted leaving the airport?” Thornton’s voice filled his son’s ear. “Who?” Mathew asked,