Chapter 2 The threat 2

Two years later, Hailey had just finished having her breakfast and was ready to leave for work when she heard a knock on the door.

“yes? Who is that ?” Hailey asked angrily.

The door opens slowly, and a maid walks in with her head bowed to the ground. “Good morning, Miss Hailey. A package arrived for you last night.”

“And why are you just bringing it now ?” Hailey asked, irritated.

“You came home drunk last night and I didn't want to disturb you, so I decided to bring it to you this morning,” the maid answered, already feeling uneasy.

“You must be very stupid and silly to talk back at me and to even have the guts to say that I returned home drunk. How dare you! Are you my mom? I can see that you don't value your job”, Hailey snapped back at the maid. “And what the hell are you still doing here ? Will you take your stupid self out of my sight this minute?” Hailey said angrily.

Hurriedly, the maid left the room, dropping the package on the table. Hailey hissed and angrily tore the package open and found an envelope containing a picture of her with the inscription “DEAD”. Immediately, she called out for the maid and asked if she saw the person that delivered the package and the maid nodded affirmatively. “Yes miss, it was a delivery man”, she replied.

Do you know the company the delivery man works for ? Hailey asked. “No ma'am,” the maid answered with her head still bowed to the ground.

Terrified, Hailey immediately takes out her phone and dials her Dad's number.

The phone rang for a few minutes and stopped abruptly. “Hello,” a male voice answered.

“Hello Dad, there's something urgent we need to discuss” Hailey said hastily with her voice shaking.

“Is there anything bothering my princess?” her father asked.

“Yes Dad, it's serious, and I'm really scared,” Hailey said, panicking.

Her upper eyelids were pulled up, and her lower eyelids were tensed and drawn up as well.

“Okay, I'll see you right after my meeting with the stakeholders”, her father assured her.

“No dad, please, I need to see you now”. Hailey was still worried and insisted they meet now.

Her father agreed after much persuasion and asked her to meet him at the office.

Hailey, in haste, placed the picture in her designer Louis Vuitton bag and hurriedly left the house with it.

Getting to her father's company where she worked as an assistant CEO, Hailey walks elegantly exuding confidence with her long flowing ginger hair. She doesn't seem to give a damn about the people greeting and staring at her.

She barges into her father's office, ignoring everyone in the office except her dad. “My princess”, her father, Mister Jones, fondly called her, spreading his hands wide, signaling her to embrace him.

“Hi daddy,” she said, smiling, trying to hide her fear.

Her father signals the people in his office to give him some privacy as he sits in the luxurious soft cushion chair.

“You sounded so distressed on the phone, what's the important issue that couldn't wait till the end of my meeting with the stakeholders?” Her concerned father asked, staring at her.

I received an anonymous package last night containing my picture with the inscription “Dead”.

She struggles as she tries to take out the picture from her designer's Louis Vuitton bag, but the picture is nowhere to be found.

“The picture must have fallen out of my bag on my way here, or maybe it's in my room.” she said, looking displeased. The vertical lines on her forehead were now visible.

“Is it something like this?” her father asked, bringing out from his desk drawer a picture identical to the one she had at home.

Her eyes widened in shock. Confused, she asked “How did you get this?” she asked, still looking surprised.

I've been receiving these death threats for the past one month, and I've been trying to put things in order.

“What do you mean by you have been trying to put things in order?” Hailey asked, still looking dumbfounded.

“I've been contacting some of my associates to get me a professional and skilled bodyguard”, her father said.

“A bodyguard for whom, Dad?” Hailey asks with a smirk on her face.

“For you my angel”, her dad replied.

“No Dad. please, I don't need a bodyguard”. She immediately objected and insisted that she could take care of herself and stated she was no longer a child who needed a babysitter.

“I am getting you a skilled bodyguard that will take care of and protect you.” her father, who would do anything to protect his only daughter, insisted and concluded that his decisions were final.

Hailey, already upset about the whole situation, stood and as she was about to leave the office, a tall, lean and handsome man walked in. Her jaws dropped. She hears nothing as she's fixated on his appearance. He looked very familiar, but she couldn't make out where she knew him from. She is lost for a while as she stares at the hot man as he walks in.

He's 6'3” of lean muscle and chiseled features. His dark hair is kept short and neat, and he has intense blue eyes.

“Hailey, this is Tyler Donovan. He's going to be your personal bodyguard from now henceforth”. Hailey is brought back to reality as her father's voice echoes in her ears.

The name also sounded familiar. It was as if she had heard that name before.

“What? Come on Dad, you can't be serious about this. I am a very busy lady and I wouldn't want anything or anyone to slow me down”, Hailey said angrily.

“I'm dead serious. You're my only child and my top priority. Your safety is my responsibility. I'll do anything in this world and beyond to keep you safe because you're my Angel, the best thing that has ever happened to me. I can't lose you too. He is skilled and has a good tracking record. He's one of the best in his field, so I trust him to protect you from any danger that may come your way”, Mr Jones said.

Tyler informs Mr. Jones that he has no problem surveying her twenty-four seven as he is getting paid for the job.

“But”

“No buts, young lady, this is not up for discussion. He will be your personal bodyguard as, from now henceforth, he will follow you everywhere, and anywhere you go, and that's final.” Mr Jones said with a stern look on his face.

Hailey gives up on trying to change her father's mind when it becomes abundantly clear that he is adamant about his decisions.

Hailey groaned in disappointment at her father. She angrily stormed out of his office and Tyler quickly followed her.

Hailey walks as fast as she can in hopes of leaving him behind, but Tyler catches up to her without much effort.

“Can you please keep your distance and stop following me like a pest?”

Hailey doesn't want him trailing behind her, so she instructs Tyler to stay as far as possible as he can. She also added that he has an offensive body odor and that he reeks of poverty, which irritates her, and she doesn't want to throw up. Her nose wrinkled in disgust.

Tyler obediently steps back and moves behind her quietly, because he doesn't want to offend her further.

As they walked, Tyler noticed a white van packed at the opposite side of the road. There was a man in the driver's seat.

He wore a black outfit and a face cap.

Tyler had a weird feeling about it. He knew something was wrong, but he couldn't make out what that was.

He also noticed the van moving slowly behind them as if it was trailing and surveying them, but as he was about to make a move towards the van, it sped off as if it wasn't moving behind them.

Hailey hated Tyler already because she felt Tyler was invading her space and making her life miserable and the last thing she needed was a man watching over her like a hawk.

She knows her father hired Tyler for her own safety, and she knows her father is doing all his best to protect her from bad people that could cause harm to her, but she didn't expect her father to hire a classless person as her bodyguard.

The only thing she needed was to see her best friend Chloe, so she could narrate how eventful her day had been.

Getting to the car, Tyler rushed to the car to open it, but Hailey was already used to that type of treatment.

Hailey is obviously a spoiled billionaire. Father made sure to give her the finest things in life. She had everything and never lacked a thing. She was pampered and spoiled rotten. Her father gave her everything anyone could only have dreamed of. She had the best of the best.

She had plenty of servants at her fingertips, and she used them as she pleased. She hated the poor because she was born wealthy.

On her 18th birthday she got all her maids fired because she needed a new set of maids as she was tired of seeing their faces.

She was a bully during high school. She derived pleasure from taunting kids who weren't up to her standard. This was as a result of the loneliness she felt.

Her father was always away on business trips and at all the meetings he had little or no time for his angel.

“Wow, who's that good-looking hot guy? OMG he's so hot. I love his bad boy aesthetic ”, Chloe, Hailey's best friend, gushes over Tyler's appearance.

“Can I have him for the night ?” Chloe asks Hailey while staring at Tyler lustfully.

“Oh, please, can't you see that he's a pauper? He reeks of poverty. I really do not understand why my Dad would descend so low as to give me a pauper as a bodyguard instead of a sophisticated man”, Hailey said. She rolled her eyes in disgust and looked at Tyler maliciously.

“One thing I know is that he does look familiar,” Hailey added.

“Maybe he is one of the numerous one-night stands you've had in the past. But hasn't it crossed your mind to have a good time with him?” Chloe asked Hailey, smiling mischievously.

“Get a hold of yourself, Chloe, you know I really don't have time for these things and, besides, you don't expect me to stoop so low as to have an affair with my bodyguard. OMG that's so beneath me”, Hailey retorted.

Hailey and Chloe were still talking about recent events when a waitress walks up to them and asks if they cared for anything.

Hailey, not pleased with the way the waitress addressed them, got irritated so much that she took the wine she was drinking and poured it at the waitress.

“How dare you? Do you know who I am ?? Oh, you must be new here because I can see that you're very silly to address us in that manner. Everyone here knows our usual except you're new here, I need to speak to your manager” Hailey blows hot on the waitress.

“I'm sorry miss'. Please pardon my manners. I didn't mean to offend you.” the waitress said while trying to wipe her eyes.

“Sorry for your poor and miserable life”, Chloe said angrily.

A man walks in looking sharp and neat. He's putting on a designer's suit that is well tailored to his body and a Richard Milles wristwatch. He wore a designer's Louis Vuitton shoes and the fragrance of his perfume is top-notch.

“This day couldn't get any better.” Chloe said to herself.

“Good evening ladies, I am Jack Gustavo, the manager, please, what seems to be the problem,” the manager asked.

“What will it take for you to fire this lowlife piece of shit?”. Hailey asked the manager angrily.

“I beg your pardon?” the manager said, dumbfounded.

“How much will it cost you to fire this good for nothing waitress of yours? I'll pay you any amount seeing her here irritates me. I hate poor people. They make me sick”, Hailey said angrily.

Please miss, I'm sorry for whatever wrong she must have done to you. She's new here, and she's not yet acquainted with our customs or how we operate. The manager pleaded on behalf of the waitress and ordered the waitress to leave that spot immediately.

Hailey and Chloe, not satisfied with the way it turned out, leave angrily for the bar, so she can get a drink to take her mind off the incident while Tyler follows them closely.

Tyler had witnessed the whole scene Hailey created at the lounge and couldn't help but wonder how such a beautiful girl could behave in such a rude and cold way. It was almost as if she didn't have a heart.

On their way to the bar, Tyler could not just keep quiet as he was wondering how Hailey would be so cold to her fellow human.

“You know that wasn't necessary,” Tyler said in a firm and straight voice.

Hailey pretended not to hear Tyler as she was in no mood for moral lessons, especially from a lowlife bodyguard like Tyler.

Getting to the bar, Tyler noticed a man taking photos of him and Hailey, but as he was about to make a move towards the photographers' direction, something unexpected happened