Hollywood Zenith

Chapter 685: Gossip-3

Meanwhile, Samuel arrived at Kate's bar to see that something was off about it. The sun was beginning to set so there should be more customers but for some reason the place looked deserted. It was a quiet little place from what he could tell and with a long history they bound to have some regular customers.

Last time, he had seen people arriving first thing in the morning to have their Irish coffee, that was before the holiday. The place should be crawling with customer in this holiday season. He parked the car and saw few that looked too expensive to belong to the staff.

Maybe they had a prior arrangement that he didn't know about? He walked inside to hear mellow music playing in the background but there were no rowdiness of customers to accompany it. He spotted couple of guys sitting in the corner quietly drinking water? They also saw him coming in.

Samuel felt like they were about to say something when one of the staff came to take him away. She pushed him through the service door inside the kitchen.

" Mr. Samuel! Thank god you came!" She said crying tears of joy.

" Are you the one that answered the phone?" He recognized her voice. She did sound tense over the phone but he brushed it off of them being busy or something but it seemed like she wanted him to be here.

" Yes! The thing is..."

" What the hell is going on? Who is he?" The same men entered the door and began asking question. Samuel could see from their build and the choice of clothing that they were guards in disguise.

" N-nothing sir. He is one of our food supplier, here to make a delivery." The girl came forward and said in flattering tone.

" Supplier? Why didn't you mention before if you had a prior arrangement? Beside, since when these suppliers started wearing such expensive clothes?" One of the guard could recognize that Samuel was not a normal person.

" That-" Samuel came forward lifting his hand to stop her from saying anything else. Discover more stories at m v l e mpyr

" Who are you to meddle in their business?" He glared sharply at them. They instantly took a step back feeling a sense of danger.

" Why should we when our boss owns this business? You said you were a supplier right? you don't need to deliver things here from now on. Now, go back before I break your fucking legs!" The bigger one among them came forward. He couldn't believe he was scarred off by a young man!

" Ho? So you are the new owner of this place? But as far as I know, this building doesn't belong to you."

" How would you know?"

" That dumb bit..." Samuel almost cursed her. When did they ever learn to rely on him? He couldn't understand why she would keep him in dark about such a serious issue when it was his fault to begin with!

He walked upstairs angrily ready to scold her but as he opened the door violently, he saw her disheveled face. Her employee weren't kidding when they said she was mulling over it all day because she had clear signs of fatigue and sleeplessness.

" S-sami?" Kate stood up abruptly didn't know if she was dreaming. She tried her best not to ask for his help but he had been on her mind constantly. Maybe she was manifesting her desires through hallucinations? But he question was immediately answered as he smacked her on the head.

" When will you learn to ask for help? Do you think I am playing around or my feeling are not sincere? How could you not tell me when there are thugs running around the bar threatening your customers?" Samuel yelled out. It was rare to see him angry but she knew he was angry for her.

" I-i was asking the authorities for help. I didn't think it would come to this." She hung her head feeling distraught. If she ran back to his protection everytime they faced a problem, wouldn't it be akin to taking advantage of their relationship? She had been running this place for years, as the owner, it was her responsibility to look after her business.

" What did they say? ' We will look into it ma'am?' ' If they are not obstructing the business there is no basis for investigation?' or ' These things take time?' " Samuel repeated the common phases at it actively matched with what the police reported to her.

She looked at him with utter shock almost believe he was spying on her. He stared at her exhausted expression, there were large dark circles under her eyes and from the looks of her clothes, she must be staying her nights in her office.

" That's what they do when they don't want to offend someone important. There are some people that could bend the rules because of how much sway they have over these officials. You will not be getting any assistance from them anytime soon. They are only waiting for your business to go into red before swooping in to buy it."

" What? Do you know who is behind this?"

" You don't know?" What the hell was she even doing up to this point?

" They never said anything. I rushed here when I received a call from the staff members. They said someone was disrupting the business by scaring away all the customers. I tried to talk to them but they would say anything only telling me to sell this place to them. I vehemently refused them but they were literally camping outside so that no one dared to come inside."

" Is that even possible?" Samuel shook his head.

" That's what I think too, they will go away seeing that I will not sell it to them but it's been two days and police refused to come and evict these bastards!" She exclaimed feeling frustrated about it.

" That's because it's him. I think he found you."

" He?.....Brett."