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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
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 39: Wedding Party III.
Adonis, certain it had been Jockey who’d pulled the stunt spoke up, though he knew without a doubt that defending himself would be nonbinding because the woman wasn’t ready to hear any sort of counter defense.“I'm sorry,” he stated apologetically to ease her riling, incessant behavior, but the woman wouldn’t still hear it. She blabbered non-stop and demanded that he be thrown out of the party. Valerie had to step in at that point.“Ma'am,” she called to the woman's attention. “Please stop making a fuss, he’s already apologized.”“I'm not going to let him off so easily for such act!” she rasped, prompting Valerie to up from her seat, dropping her utensils, and grip Adonis by the hand.“Once again ma’am, he said he’s sorry.” And without pausing to get a reply from the raging woman, or turning to observe the marveled gazes of everyone watching, she looked up at Adonis.“Let’s go,”Adonis couldn’t help but reason himself as an embarrassment as she pulled him with her out the dining hall.
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 40: The Wedding Party IV.
Adonis was lucky enough as after tracing his way towards the restroom's door and stealthily avoiding Reed, he fled through the exit, leaving her to writhe in the darkness. He found his way out into the hallway which also had a power outage, but in that moment, the lights came on again, cascading the entire hallway with its blinding luminescence. Adonis made sure to get as far away from the restroom as possible, to avoid Reed. Meanwhile, in the dining hall, there had been an uproar of confusion and diverse perplexity when the lights went off. It triggered the intensity of their noisy chatter that some men with few engineer skills had to go to the power room to check out the cause of the power outage. They figured the light control had malfunctioned and it was immediately fixed, restoring light current back to the whole rooms and lessening the perturbation in the dining room.The men that had fixed the lights informed them that it had just been a malfunction, alleviating their curiosit
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 41: Desperate Escape.
She was on her bed, lying in wait for an information when her phone began vibrating beside her, indicating that there was a call coming in. Harriet snatched the phone to her line of sight and answered the call the moment she saw the caller ID.“Have you done the job?” she inquired the moment she responded to the call, her brows creased with sheer curiosity.“Yes,” replied the deep, masculine voice from the other line. “We succeeded in locking them all in, not one escape path left.”Harriet grinned with sheer excitement at the news as her heart fluttered with relief and logistical, vengeful pride. She was finally getting back at Adonis for what he'd done to her Oliver. Ever since the doctor had told her that he had a fifty percent chance of survival, she had been darkened with the need for revenge against Adonis. She hired someone to keep on his tail and dig into his life to find out what she would use against him as her retaliation and found out that he was always around the woman th
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 42: Conflict.
The ceilings manhole started as their break way point. Valerie and Adonis had snuck out of the hall without anyone's notice, or so they thought, in search of the manhole created as a pathway to get to the ceiling, as it was their only suggest able path to freedom. Climbing into the manhole was a hassle, as the ladder leading up into it quivered at their weight when they climbed through it. It was feeble. Fragile, that they had to be careful going up to avoid a catastrophic downfall. It was encamped with an darkness as they stepped into it, with tiny rays of dim light seeping through some parts of the ceiling and the light reflection that eluded from outside the hole. Turning on their phone torches to aid their sight, they journeyed into the maze-like path in search of an exit route. It was no easy feat, as they stayed for more than five hours up in the ceiling for an exit that wasn’t coming to view. “Gawd!” Valerie exhaled, exuding tiredness as a she sat down on one of the ceili
A Rise to the Throne Chapter 43: Tension Brewing.
On the course of his deliberation, Adonis then decided that getting Valerie to a medical center first was fairer, as he couldn’t bear her little pained whimpers in the back seat of her car. She laid at the backseat, fragile and in pain—and it hurt his gut so badly. He knew that he could not just give an excuse as to why he wasn’t at the palace as it would tag him as irresponsible and not fit for the throne to Oliver's favor. He didn’t want that. And then was when a rising need for Jesse erupted, because he couldn’t also leave her side. He glanced at Valerie through the rear-view mirror at the back seat in her distressed state and his remorse piled. But before he could rev up the car engine to move, his phone beeped, signaling to his attention that a message had entered his phone. He looked into it and confirmed that it was a message from Jesse. In case you get this message, your highness, we’re already at your location; it read. Adonis typed in a brisk reply about the others tha
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