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A Rise to the Throne Chapter 31: The Ambush.
“This city has a beautiful, captivating sky,” Valerie remarked, her gaze fixed outside the glass wall of the restaurant at the full moon, standing in all its night glory over the clouds. Adonis watched her as she admired the captivating scenery of the night sky, taking up a spoon of his casserole dish into his mouth. They'd decided earlier during the day that they would have dinner at this restaurant; BAYLIE'S KITCHEN, it was called, when they were done for that day's tour as it was very close to the hotel and seemed to have good food varieties and ratings when Valerie had checked it up on the net. “You sound like where you came from didn’t have a beautiful night sky,” Adonis pointed out and she turned to gaze at him. “Occasionally,” she replied, taking up a piece of chips from the appetizer bowl set at the center of the table. She dipped it into ketchup before throwing it into her mouth.” I don’t get to see the moon all the time because the clouds covers it up, but since I came her
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 32: Counter Saving.
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO: COUNTER SAVINGMinutes passed as they were still knelt down on the ground, with these armed men deciding on what to do with them while Adonis reeled his mind on different thoughts.“Hey!” The leader remarked snidely at Adonis, waiving his gun in the air to get his attention, which he did. “Listen,” The man stepped away from his league of hoodlums and squatted closer to him. From the close distance, Adonis could only see the shape of the man's eyes, and its color – more of green that brown in them. It was almost memorable and easy to recall.“Now you’re gonna come with us, because you’re the one we have a problem with and not your girlfriend over there,” he nodded in the direction of Valerie who still was shaken with anxiety at what she’d heard them say. They wanted Adonis, so it was obvious someone wanted him out of their way.No one needed to tell him that it was Oliver behind all of this.Oliver was the only one he had problem with, and the only one he knew coul
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 33: Power Usage.
The next day, Valerie had to leave for work; the reason why she’d travelled down to this city, and Adonis insisted on driving her there, as she still did not seem to have a relaxed state of mind to drive. After dropping her off and promising to come back to drive her home later in the evening when she had closed from work, he parked at a corner blocks away from the company he'd dropped her off at and phoned Jesse immediately. When Jesse answered the phone call, he CHAPTER THIRTY THREE: POWER USAGEboomed with inquisitiveness through the phone.“Found anything?”The previous night, after he’d watched Valerie sleep, he had called Jesse to get him to figure out who those men were that had attacked them. Since Jesse was trustworthy enough to get information at a quicker pace, he assumed he would have found out something about them now.He needed to treat Oliver's fuck up, and punish the gang that had accepted to carry out his scheming plans.“Yes, your highness.” Jesse replied. His backgr
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 34: Overtaken.
Oliver was having a post-celebratory drink at his home bar when he heard the news about the arrest of the gang he’d asked to deal with the freak Adonis, and it didn’t settle well with him. First, he wondered what had caused it to result into such situation as he was sure, from the brief details he got about the utter failure and the gang's uproot, that Adonis was too weak to have caused such dissention, unless he had help from someone powerful. Now, he couldn’t tell who would have agreed to help such a lewd punk like Adonis, and he ached to know who.Second, he hoped the gang leader would not rat him out.It was very common in situations like this. The gang leader who didn’t seem so amiable would think he was shady because he hadn't let out too many dutiful information about their target to have considered a possibility of someone with power helping him so he could be prompted by a rush of inconsiderable anger to let out the identity of who must have asked them to do it to the cops. H
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 35: Payback.
“We meet again, Oliver,” Adonis remarked, delightfully spiting Oliver by stating his name without a title. “Puny brat!” Oliver scoffed, his voice dripping with intense revulsion. “I'll punch you in the face one day again for being so disrespectful to your Prince and I swear you won’t like that day. “Oh yeah?” an unpredicted smug smile invaded Adonis' expression. “And I suppose I should await your failure just as your previous attack on me versa that amateur gang. You couldn’t even do so well in hiring someone better enough to get rid of me. Just is everything about you such a failure?”He knew the nerves he was desperately pricking in Oliver with his words. He was seething, almost like he would pounce on Adonis without warning, but he still maintained a balanced composure.“I wish…” Oliver drew threateningly close towards Adonis who was unhinged by the glare Oliver shot him, and his close proximity. “I had a gallon of acid I could pour down your god forsaken throat to keep you from
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 36: Wedding Party Preparations.
As the days passed, Adonis and Valerie's bond with each other only grew stronger. They both felt a growing attraction towards each other, but neither dared to confess their feelings. Despite this, their mutual infatuation was palpable. On a bright, sunny morning, as Adonis was indulged in figuring out some distinct problems in the PDF document Don-Louisa had sent him dutifully concerning the bank's rising stock statement and the survey result of the transactions that had been carried out in the previous weeks, an unanticipated knock rapped on his room door. He could tell from its cheerful texture, and the manner at which the person knocked that it was none other than the lady who always seemed to blow his mind away with little to no effort. “Door's open,” he boomed, inviting her in. His eyes went to the door the moment it swung open, revealing a Valerie basked with all pretty glory in the world. She wasn’t clad in her usual, formal attire, but rocked a pair of crazy jeans (of the mo
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 37: Wedding Party I.
The atmosphere rocked with the symphony of a tango music as the massive hall swarmed with different people. Not one person looked below dignified, as they all portrayed one curtsey or the other in their expensive get-ups, some making merry, cheering wine and buzzing with hearty laughter in their conversation while others moved their bodies rhythmically as they danced in sync to the music as they awaited the starting of the main event. Valerie was immediately indulged with conversation the moment they stepped foot into the bubbling hall, looking like an angel descent in her white, feathery, knee-deep dress that accentuated her svelte bodyline. Adonis, well fitted in a tux with his hair properly fixed that it enhanced his manly features and made him more attractive, accompanied her by the side, their arms interlocked. As they walked and Valerie mingled with some people that she supposedly knew, Adonis tried keeping his thoughts in check, mostly against ending up being talked scornful
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 38: Wedding Party II
“Hey Adonis! Long time no see, man!“ Jockey exclaimed with a wide façade of a grin on his face. The music tuned back on, this time, a slow waltz, distracting most people’s attention from them. Valerie, glancing from one man to the other in a perplexed disposition, trying to figure out the relation the two had that she was oblivious about. Adonis forced a tight-lipped smile and replied, “Yeah, it’s been a while, Jockey, ” Valerie could faintly sense Adonis’s discomfort and made to step in, but Jockey spoke before her. “You’ve only slightly changed from back then, Adonis. “ he stated to the hearing of most people.. “Although you still look like the total dork I used to bully back then in high school. I could practically recognize your dorkiness from afar off. “ When Valerie glanced at Adonis for a confirmation to what Jockey was saying, and saw his detached demeanor, one she didn’t appreciate, she stepped in. “Jockey, can you please leave us alone, now?” Jockey’s gaze diverted
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