4. Better Than You

What happened thirteen years ago? Their parents were found dead in their bedroom, shot in their head. Nobody know the reason for their parents' murder. They were ordinary people. They owned a café which happened to be in a perfect spot where offices and a university was located. So, they progressed really well and were able to give their two sons good schooling.

Mr. and Mrs. Levingston were kind and generous people. Nobody expected them to have such endings. People doubted they had enemies. Police couldn't find enough evidence to point out who may be suspected for the crime. There were hardly any clues left behind, and the murder happened in broad daylight without catching any attention. Meaning this was a well-planned murder done by professional assassin or assassins.

Bill Levingston, Beckett's father was an orphan and had no records of being troubled by others. But Mrs. Joanna Levingston was the lone child of Frederick Cason, the heiress of the Cason Family, one of the noble families of Mabith city. Frederick was against Joanna marrying a no name person like Bill so the two lovers eloped and got married. Police investigated the enemies and rivals of the Cason family, but none turned out to be the cause of the tragedy.

[MABITH_ is an imaginary city created by the  author. It is the capital of Danes Land, also an imaginary country where the whole story is based on. The country follows a monarchical democracy with strong military force. Further information will be given as the story progress.]

After the death of Mr. and Mrs. Levingston, Frederick took in his two grandsons and repent himself for not being able to protect his child. If only he had not let her escaped home, if only he had sucked in his anger and disappointment at his daughter, if only he had not waited for 16 years for his daughter to ask his forgiveness then all of these would have not happened.

Beckett didn't remember much about his parents' death. He was just 12 and he was in a boarding school then. But the same couldn't be said for Evans, his brother who was more than three years older than him. It's said he was the one to find the corpse of his dead parents. A cruel sight it must've been. No child should have the such tragic luck to see his or her parents lay on the pool of their own blood. The tragedy left a great impact on Evans. He needed a phycologist for more than half decades and later chose to be one himself.

They have healed up, but they never forgot the missing love of their parents. Evans was sure to find the murderer and take revenge. And with the help of his associates and being a part-time detective himself, he would do it.

"You don't have to worry Grandpa. A press conference has been arranged. All things will be cleared then." Beckett decided to back down for now.

"Oh! That great." Kayla was thrown off by his sudden calmness and she didn't like it. She really like getting under his skin? Yes. But to sound as if she was the one being unreasonable was not in her plan.

"And why didn't you come when I told you to?" She asked.

"I was busy."

"Then why didn't you say you were busy?"

Beckett gave hear a 'Really?' look. "Did you even give me the time to say so?"

Kayla was silent. 'Thinking back to it, I guess I didn't.' But still, she was unwilling to admit her mistake.

"You could have just called me back." She made her argument.

"No time."

The short and sluggish answers were getting into Kayla's nerve.

"I doubt you even don't have time to take shit." She mumbled under her breath.

"What?" Beckett asked as he couldn't hear it properly.

"Nothing." She replied in a hurry, making him doubt her. But thankfully for her, he just ignored it after giving her a glare. He continued his paperwork.

Being ignored, Kayla sat on the couch in front of his desk and watched him do his work. She had to admit, man looked sexiest when they're serious. She watched every twist of his muscles like a hawk at its prey. Her stare did not go unnoticed by the man, of course.

"Would you stop staring at me? It's so annoying." Hissed Beckett, glaring at the woman in front of him.

Kayla was taken aback at his sudden outburst. She was caught staring at her supposed enemy and began defensive.

"Who is staring at you? I was just looking at the picture behind you." Kayla said.

Beckett looked behind him, at the abstract painting of sunset hung on the wall. And then his eyes went back to his wife. He thought of her as a troublesome woman. Getting his attention again, Kayla pretended to read the newspaper in front of him. But to her irritation, what she saw first was the blurry of her husband and his secretary. She placed down the newspaper again and asked him,

"So, you really didn't have something going on with this girl?"

"Yes." Beckett replied.

"Good. I would question your taste if you really had a thing for her, ya know."

"What do you mean?" Beckett frowned.

"Well. You have a bad taste if you like her. That's what I meant."

"And why would it be so?" Beckett asked.

"Well. President Beckett, anybody can tell how much of a fake person she is. She is just a sugar-coated gourd."

Beckett was annoyed hearing it from her. It's not that he was offended with what she had said about his employee. It's just that she was the one to say it.

"At least she is not a shameless schemer like someone." Beckett said. "And who are you to judge my employee. She may be ambitious but she is sweet and caring. Being with her would be a thousand times better than being with you."

Of course, Beckett didn't mean that when he said that. He said that just to spike her up by putting her down. But to his disappointment, she turned out to have a thicker skin than he thought.

"So sad. You're stuck with me for now." Kayla replied with her sly smirk which Beckett hated very much.

"You're such a_ Whatever. I shouldn't argue with shameless people." Beckett said to himself.

"Indeed. You shouldn't. They're quite hard to deal with. That's a great principle you have there."

Beckett almost burst out in anger when Lewis rushed in without knocking the door. He seemed anxious, sweat running down his forehead with nervousness.

"BOSS! We have a problem... A big one."

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