Back in the university,Elise stood across her hostel hallway, exhausted. Unlike what normally happens, she had managed to stir her mother away from the idea of getting her a well guarded apartment in a gated community.Even though she was wild and spoilt with her dad, with her mom, she had to be careful about anything she wanted to do. It was always like living in her shadows. Elise had goals of her own. She wanted a shot at the world on her own.While living in an apartment had been an idea in her mind for quite some time, she didn't want it to be powered by her mother. If she had accepted the offer then the woman would never have stopped making her life miserable.She put her papers on top of the glass table and slumped onto the large leather coach at the corner of the room. The hostel was top-tier. She selected one that met her standards. Not just her standards, her mother’s standards too as it was the best and most expensive one in the school. The best part of it was that

The last few days had been full of work for Richard. Even though he never showed his face, he usually dealt with a lot of things behind the scenes, after all, if someone else could do the things he did, then the company wouldn’t even be his. After finishing up the bulk of it, he decided to make an appearance in school today. From his understanding, they would have already started classes but most of it would most likely just be the introductory. For someone that had done so many real estate projects, his course was not exactly a big deal to him. Besides, his major forte was technology. However, he also respected that a girl like Elise would go for a course like that. She seemed like someone that would go for courses like international relations. Since he had no idea about the school forum, the moment he entered the school, most of the girls hurriedly started passing the news. “See who’s back!” “I knew he was going to come back. He must have just been too ashamed these last few d

Almost as if it was planned, the moment Richard sat down on one of the couches in the already well furnished house, he got a call from his master. “Little brat! You don’t know to call?” His master, master Kai’s voice sounded over the phone making Richard to wince slightly. “I just managed to settle down, did you have them prepare the house?” He as he stood up and looked around suspiciously. Although the distance from his school wasn’t too much, the most important thing was how beautiful the house was. It had been furnished to the boots for his tastes. Clearly, this wasn’t something his subordinates would do. “Humph! After looking at the houses in those school area, I knew you wouldn’t stay there, after all, your taste is so big now.” The man’s voice was still stern, yet, it was easy to see the doting love in there. Clearly, he adored the young man even though he was talking like he wanted to rip him apart.“Also, unlike overseas where you can just show your faces to the top peo

Throughout the evening , Elise couldn’t get her mind off the way Richard her publicly humiliated her. He had completely ignored her when she spoke to him but yet , he readily spoke to another girl who was probably a common place person.She fumed inwardly as she sat in the car while her mother drove. Although her eyes were trained on the houses that does past as the car drove, her mind was elsewhere. It was heavy.Every effort by her mother to engage her In a conversation priced abortive. Not only was she insulted by the way Richard had treated her some hours earlier, she felt like it was an irreparable dent in her reputation. It could give other students a reason to disrespect her too, especially when it was convenient for them.She clutched her phone in her right hand, unwilling to check the school platform for the fear that the students had dropped that shameful video of she and Richard on the platform. She didn’t want to be in the spotlight of both students and lecturers and even

Richard stood at a corner of the noisy stadium, peering into the crowd with his arms folded across his chest. He terribly hated places like this. The whole place was raving wild with noise from the mammoth crowd. Almost everyone was singing in unison to the song that the artistes were performing on stage.His phone beeped. It was a message from Niko.His frowned deepened and he could feel his jaw tighten. Niko had dragged him over to this concert because he wanted him to meet an old friend who also happened to be on the concerts ground.The message from Niko read that he was going to show up a bit late at the spot where Richard was waiting for him.Richard shook his head in anger. Niko, one of his trusted men, had a way of making him do things that he wouldn’t usually do for another person. Niko stretched him to his limits sometimes but he always remained sane.He yawned and clasped his left hand over his mouth. Then, he decided to while away time by closely watching each person a