A Chase of Wind

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Fredrik had been a spoilt child right from his childhood, his father watched him grow up thinking he will change when he became older, he engages himself in dubious activities that's a threat to his father's business. Even though he grew up in a wealthy family he was never contended, his father had satisfied him with everything he needed.

He fakes a kidnap plan with his friends one day. He needs money to throw a party for his friends and girlfriends. He demands huge amount from his father, the father thinks it's real. But along the way his cover was blown, and they were all arrested. The father couldn't do much because of his status in the society.

Fredrick was never interested in his father's company, he had lost his mom at childhood and his father remarried for his sake. They all turned to waste, his warwardmess is beyond what his father can handle. He sent him abroad for a period time but he was sent back after he got involved in drugs.

As the only son, his father is concerned about who will be right person to handle his property after he is gone. He has been a source of sorrow for his father, he keeps enduring the embarrassment his son had put him through over the years.

On a fateful day, Fredrick gets a call from the company, they informed him that his father has been hospitalized, he rushes to the hospital to find the state of health of his father. The doctor told him his father had a cancer and that he is in his last stage.

Few days later the father died and he was buried. Fredrick only mourned his father for two days, he gathers his friends on the third day. He plans to acquire all his father's money and run away with his friends to another country. He can only access his father's properties through their Lawyer. However, ever since the death of his father, the lawyer is nowhere to be seen. Fredrick would spend his last penny to find the lawyers whereabout. After a week, he got an information from an informant that the lawyer is in Canada. He got a loan from the bank to be able to fly to Canada, when he sees the lawyer, he will get the money he wants and repay the loan. When he gets to Canada, the lawyer had came back home the previous night. He had to borrow another money to come back home.

While he had left for Canada, his friends plotted against him, they would dupe him and run away with his money. When Fredrick got back from Canada he finally gets in touch with the lawyer. His father left a file for him. He finds a clue to where his father's possessions are.

However, before he can get a access he needs a password to the locker. How will he open it? He brought different different experts from different countries to hack the password but they couldn't open the locker. He had spent too money already and he is not giving up either.

At last, he finally got a chance to open the locker, he finds the password after he had spent days searching for clue in his father's office. There in the locker he finds a key, looks like a key to a post lock, he rushes to the post office to open the locker there he finds a document, he smiles to himself after locating the document, he guessed he had finally acquired his father's wealth. When he opened the document the smile on his face turns to a frown, he finds a word boldly written on the paper; "THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL" Fredrick collapse on the floor, knowing he is running after a wind, his father wouldn't stoop so low to give him access to his lifetime commitment.

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