“Can you remember what happened to you, son?” Mr Cyrus asked with a worried expression as he gave Ellis a bottle of water to drink. Ellis drank the whole bottle, and half of a new bottle before he felt better and was able to respond. “My mind is still fuzzy. I can remember speaking to someone, but I can’t remember the words that were said to me.” “Can you at least remember the aura of whoever took you away? The spell I did is a simple trance spell. It was supposed to be easy to wake you once I was done checking your aura. Instead, you were taken somewhere beyond my reach. I spent almost thirty minutes trying to pull you back.” “What would have happened if you hadn’t succeeded?” Ellis asked. “Your soul would have been lost forever. Your body may remain alive, but it would wither away. It would just be an empty shell without your subconscious in it. That was why I was so terrified.” “Well, not to worry. I don’t feel like I was in any form of danger. Whoever it was that tried to get
About an hour later, James arrived at the mansion with his tech equipment. “You can set your things up in here.” Mr Cyrus said as James was directed to an empty room with a comfortable desk and chair.There was enough space here for him to arrange all the computers and other things he came to work with. He would also have privacy to work without being disturbed.“Before I set up everything, I’ll need to see your security system.”“Sure. Come with me to my office. I have master access.” Mr Cyrus replied and they both walked together while two house staff carried all James’ bags inside his assigned room.In the office, James sat at Mr Cyrus’ desk. Mr Cyrus logged into the security system with his master code and left the rest to James, he just watched from the sidelines.“Does anyone else have master access to the security system?” James asked as he clicked buttons rapidly while writing up a code to scan the system.“No. I’m the only one with master access for now. But some others can
Mr Cyrus was a bit shocked at this news. How could Maurine’s parents just decide to start throwing accusations without proof? He had involved the police in the investigation in order to show the family that he had nothing to hide. Now they had the audacity to come out and try to blame their daughter’s recklessness on him and his family? That was unacceptable.“Don’t do anything yet. If it has already gone viral, then there’s not much that can be done. I will check out the article right now, and then the video. Then I will get back to you, and we’ll decide what the best form of action to take should be. All we can do at this point is damage control.” He replied.“Okay Sir. I will be waiting for your call.”As the call was disconnected, he addressed James.“Will you be okay to work on your own? There’s a small issue that requires my attention right now.”“I have all my equipment, and you’ve already allowed me to access the system. I’ll finish what I’m supposed to do, and wait for you.”J
Ellis wasn’t thrilled when he was told to attend yet another event. But he went on his father’s behalf because he knew how important it was that they divert attention from the gossip flying around. As the heir, it was his job to make sure his family stayed away from negative publicity. So he showed up to the business conference in a hundred thousand dollar, custom made suit, and a million dollar smile. The organisers of the conference had already been severely warned to thoroughly vet all the reporters that would be present that day. Any reporter who would ask about the poisoning scandal going on would be fired immediately and never find employment any where else for the rest of their lives.Reporters had been trying to get anyone from the Royale family to give a statement, but the whole family had already been ordered by Mr Cyrus to not say a word to anyone. The official statement had already been released, with details on what truly happened that led to maurine’s death, and the fac
The video was taken at the balcony where Emily had come to meet him. Now he understood the reason she had been behaving weirdly. She must have put someone there to record everything, while she was acting like she was being hurt. The video had obviously been edited to cut out the parts where he was trying to ask her what she was doing. Their discussion was also removed, the video just showed her walking up to him, then when he grabbed her wrist, then when she was crying on the floor pretending like he pushed her. Ellis was summoned to his father’s office.“I just got a call from my P R team. They sent me a link and I watched a video of you allegedly assaulting that Emily girl. I know you wouldn’t do something like that.” Mr Crus said as Ellis stepped into his office with a robe on. Ellis sighed. He was so tired, yet he had to deal with this because of Emily.“I didn’t hurt her. She came to speak to me, and I told her to leave. She was insisting on talking to me, trying to get in my p
“What did he say?” Her father asked as soon as she finished speaking with Ellis. “He said I will have to go on air and tell the truth. I will have to beg him in front of everyone as well.” Emily replied. “You have to do it now, so he can stop coming against my company.” Her father said with a panicked expression. “Why are you always bringing shame to our family, Emily? How could you bring this upon us? You were supposed to get Ellis back, not make him hate us.” Her mother yelled. “Why are you blaming me? Weren’t you the ones who made me break up with Ellis in the first place just to get engaged to Jordan. I tried everything I could but Ellis refused to forgive me. What else was I supposed to do? It was your suggestion for me to blackmail him for something. You even said I should accuse him of rape, but I decided to just accuse him of assault.” “Don’t talk back to me! Just fix this mess.” Her mother huffed in indignation.”I don’t know why you’re such a useless child.” Emily ran t
When Ellis saw the video made by Emily, he was disgusted. Other people may have believed her lies, but he knew she was not being completely truthful. “At least she did the video, and now people know the truth about you.” Mr Crus said to him.“But it still irks me how she painted herself as the victim in the story. She doesn’t deserve to get off that easily.” Ellis replied and Mr Cyrus nodded.“I agree with you, but for your peace of mind, forget about her for now. If she ever tries to mess with us again, then we’ll make sure her name is never even remembered among her family members. At least she made it easier for her parents to be sent to jail. That’s one less problem for me.” He shrugged.“I guess you’re right. Now we can focus on the Maurine incident. That video is still circulating around the internet. And now, there are so many preposterous versions of the first video. It’s getting annoying.”“I already have a plan to handle that. I will give the reporters the interview they so
“You seem to be popular among the ladies.” Mr Cyrus teased Ellis with an elbow bump.The amusement on his father’s face made his anger evaporate, and he chuckled at his father’s playfulness. “You know more than I do that none of them actually like me. They just want me now because you made me your heir. “ Ellis said.“Of course. Who wouldn’t want to be the wife of a trillionaire? Plus, my son is so handsome.” Mr Cyrus chuckled and Ellis shook his head with an amused smile.“Welcome back, father.” Amira greeted as she walked to the door. “We all saw the interview, It’s a good thing that the family name has now been cleared. The bad publicity was badly affecting our stock prices. And we can also move around freely now without getting run over by reporters.”“We’re Royales. Reporters will always follow us no matter where we go.” George said as he joined the conversation. “But I get your point. We won’t be the centre of attention anymore, so we would have a bit more freedom. We should ce