“If it isn't the beautiful Loretta Lopez, baby I've missed you,” the tall handsome person none other than Nolan Perez said to Loretta mockingly.“Oh, I see who you replaced me with. What a poor helpless-looking fellow!” He said turning to Ethan.“Hey scumbag, do yourself a favor and walk away!” Ethan warned him sternly.“Oh! I'm scared,” he responded mockingly.“Nolan, what are you doing here? What do you want?” Loretta asked him coldly.“Now that's no way to talk to your long lost lover baby. Did she tell you we once had the dream of getting married and renaming the Lopez and Perez business empire to Loperez Conglomerate?”“Call her that one more time and I'll redesign the walls with your face,” Ethan warned him through gritted teeth, ignoring the last part of his statement.“Nolan, get lost or I'll have you thrown out!” Loretta stood up in anger as the mere sight of Nolan rattled her to her very core“I love how powerful you sound but mind you, I own this fine establishment.”Lorett

Ethan had to wipe his eyes several times to be sure he wasn't seeing things but it still remained there.“Can you see that?” He asked Loretta.“See what?” Loretta responded, unsure of what he was referring to.“Does anything on that piece stand out to you?”Loretta looked at the statue closely and nodded, “No, looks just all the rest to me?”Ethan looked around to see if anyone was seeing what he was seeing but no one seemed to have noticed the glowing inscription “You were chosen,” written on the statue.Ethan furrowed his brows, not certain about what it meant but then something about the statue looked familiar.It had the same markings as the medallion he was wearing.“What could be the relationship between the medallion and this statue? Did it mean that his finding the medallion that day wasn't a coincidence?” He asked himself these questions but none of the answers came to him.The lady from the museum who was initially rude to them was still looking for a way to get into the go

Andrew snickered, he was certain that Ethan would go back to jail as two security men and three sales reps including Dorris surrounded Ethan and Loretta.“What's this about?” Loretta asked, looking very confused.“Your pathetic boyfriend just stole a piece of jewelry while he thought no one was watching,” Andrew responded, sneering.Ethan smiled calmly, “What's it with you Grays and trouble? Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?”The other sales reps were too eager to make a show of Ethan for making them look foolish a little while ago.“I knew it. Once a thief, always a thief, and this time around I hope no one lets him out of jail again.” One of the sales reps commented.“Let's search him quickly before he leaves,” another sales rep added.“What's going on here? Why are you not attending to customers?” The manager of the store suddenly came out of his office with a scantily clad girl. He had been in the middle of an intense session when he heard the noise in the store and so he w

Everyone including Ethan got up and moved to the dining table as the maids quickly served different delicacies that made Ethan's mouth water.Samantha, who had been acting like she hadn't noticed Ethan, glared a few times at his wristwatch and also at the one Loretta was wearing.‘I hope he leaves me alone after this,’ she thought to herself.Ethan caught her staring at him and wondered if Loretta's weird sister was all right.Ethan had been too engrossed with work at Lopez Conglomerate to find out what was going on with Loretta's kid sister.It was Maurice's voice that interrupted Ethan's thoughts.“Ethan I can see you've been taking good care of my daughter. Keep it up but try bringing her home more often.”Ethan chuckled softly, “Thank you, sir. I'll do as you've said.”Ian smiled, “It's hard to find a humble young man these days. Men like you are such a rare commodity,” thought quickly crossed Ian's mind as he spoke but he didn't say anything about it, instead he lifted his glass.

Loretta gave him a piercing gaze, half-guessing what had previously occupied his thoughts.She had entertained similar thoughts just moments ago before Tim told her Ethan wanted to see her when she had some time on her hands.She was somewhat grateful that Ethan never brought up the incident as she wasn't sure how she would react.“I didn't think you would come so quickly,” he smiled, sipping some more hot chocolate more from embarrassment than the need to.“Do you want some,” he pointed to his cup of hot chocolate but she turned it down.“I just had a cup but thanks for asking. So what's up?” She took her seat as she asked.“I wanted us to go over the marketing strategy that the team of department heads submitted. Are you up for it?”“Yes, sure.”“All right then,” he immediately placed a call and had the secretary bring physical copies of the report for both of them to go through.After a hectic day at the office, Ethan and Loretta decided to pick up some groceries at the Mall.After