"My dear, come here, how have you been? Hope you're strong and your bones are still intact?" Asked the Monk master, to others he was asking about her health but to Maria he was asking her something else.
"Master am good but you don't look fine good, did he touche you?" She asked glaring at Edward James before focusing back on the Monk.
" This bones are getting weak but you have to protect yourself from now on, I won't always be here" the Monk said
"Take these and sign them, if you want your precious daughter alive" Edward James said stressing on the word precious daughter'.
The Monk got the message and also the reason he's son had been cold towards him. He believes he had an affair which resulted to him having Maria.
"SON, you're mistaking; she's_" the Monk was saying but Edward James wasn't ready to listen.
"Is it difficult to fulfill the request of a legitimate child to a mistress child, ha! I would have known better" Edward James said as he brought out his gun pointing at Maria.
" Don't do that son if you don't want to regret this later" the Monk told him
"The only regret I have now is knowing that you are still alive" Edward James told him and a chill ran through the Monk master still he managed to smile
"If I had the choice I would prefer to die with my wife but knowing she will want me to be with you and Vanessa crippled me son" the Monk said
"Is he the son you've always talked about? If so am your_" Maria was saying but Edward sneered at her
"Can't bare to have me as your brother same here I can't as well; sign the damn papers else you'll lose her" Edward James told the Monk
"Is this how you speak to your parent huh?" Maria asked him now upset with his rudeness towards the Monk
"Come get this bitch out of here!" Edward James commanded but know one came in; Newton had taken the guards by the door with him and now there were all having lunch.
"Coward" Maria told him and he didn't as much spare her a glance as he fired the gun at her arm but it just grazed her skin.
"Your head is_" Edward James was saying but the name the Monk called made him pause.
"Maria_ doctor Lazarus come on in immediately; what have you done son?" The Monk spoke into the intercom before facing his son shaking his head
A middle aged man came in and took Maria away but Edward James never took his eyes off her and so did she until she was out of his view.
Those outside heard the gun shots and came back in but the Monk dismissed them.
"Master are you_" Dew was going to ask but the Monk signalled her to leave.
"What name did you call her? Edward James asked in a more calm voice
"MARIA" the Monk told him giving him a knowing look.