Chapter62:The center couldn’t hold

“Xho is dead. Yes food poisoning,”  Ziu  Lee said on the phone, shedding tears and struggling hard not to wince. He had been on the phone with all his billionaire associates who kept sending                   their condolences.                                                         He had spent better part of his days with the family of Xho; his pretty young wife and two children. He had been with them, consoling them and giving them succor. What he was yet to understand was the autopsy result that mentioned he died from food poisoning? He could recall vividly that they had visited Ruby’s Suite and everything they ate and drank was solely                                     supplied by the motel. He rubbed his jaw thoughtfully and picked up his phone to dial Ruby; Ruby had been at the balcony staring out to the fallen horizon and the huge skyscrapers that ascended into the cloud; he had actually been thinking over the sudden demise of Ziu’s personal body guard, who was admired so much