"Smack!"Tension hung in the air. The atmosphere was fraught with shock as everyone stood still. The weight of the slap lingered in the air, a palpable pressure radiating through the space. Jane's hand instinctively flew to her reddening cheek, her eyes wide with shock and hurt.The realization of her being slapped, made her shocked and angry."What the hell did you just do, Elvor?!" Her soft but loud voice asked, looking frustrated."You're asking me? C'mon ask yourself that stupid question! You come to my party uninvited and you even have the effrontery and audacity to insult my friend!" Elvor said, looking angry.A confused frown came on her face. "Your friend? This poor man is your friend? Elvor, you must be joking." She said, totally confused."Yes, he's my friend.""Besides, even if he's your friend, that doesn't mean you've to slap me. I'm your sister for crying out loud." Jane said, looking furious.A stern expression came on her face. "Point of correction, you're my step sist
Looking at his completely calm face made her even more frustrated and scared. She knew that Elmo wasn't the one that had her company bankrupt; it was just mere coincidence that all this misfortune happened when he said so. Knowing that nobody heard her conversation on the phone, she looks a little relaxed because she doesn't know what would have happened if they heard her conversation.Elmo shrugged. "Really? Then why don't we see your last contact info." Just hearing those words made her heartbeat at an increasingly high speed. She wondered if today was going to be the day she died out of frustration._Just why is this guy trying to destroy and humiliate me completely_"What are you really trying to prove, you poor thing? I'm not showing you anything!" Her pretty face was full of anger at the moment."Does that mean Ms Jane is hiding something? After all she said it was a friendly call." He said with a light smirk.Jane: "..."_I'm sure going to kill this man if he doesn't stop tal
There was a sudden knock on the office door and Elmo said,"Come in." And just like that, Stuart walked in with a lot of files in his hand.Getting inside the office, he dropped the files on the table as he spoke."Sir, these are the files from the pending and ongoing project. The progress of the project hasn't been encouraging due to the fact that the old man stepped down as the CEO but now that you're here you can surely look into it and begin work." Stuart said."Sure, I'll check it." Elmo said as he quickly put his head back into his work.Time flew within a twinkle of an eye and it was already evening with Elmo still working on the files. Just then someone walked in without knocking."Hey, Elmo, how have you been doing?" Peter said with a large smile visible on his face as he pounced on Elmo happily."Remove your hand from me, why are you smiling like this?" Elmo asked as he tried removing the hand that was already placed on his shoulder."Elmo, you're such a fun spoiler! Why are
Just as he was about hitting the calm Elmo, someone quickly stopped him."How dare you stop me?""Sir, actually it's against the rule of the club that fight should happen inside so please can you maybe go outside and.." the manager wasn't even able to complete his words before, sweetheart shone him and turned back to Elmo."Hey, come outside, right this minute!" A blonde shouted.Elmo shrugged. "Why should I follow you guys outside." His expressionless made them even more pissed."If you guys don't follow us right now, we are going to break your heads." They threatened and Elmo agreed to follow them.Their initial thoughts were that Elmo has already realized his mistake so they laughed feeling satisfied. With arrogance in the trio, they walked outside the club.On getting outside, the three men saw that Elmo and his friend were not stopping, instead they were heading to their car and they quickly shouted."Hey, where do you think you're going? We have got some beef to settle!" The blo
_What's happening.._ _How come he is now so strong?_ It was as if he was being restrained by an iron man. After all his effort to free himself was fruitless, sweetheart's expression changed slightly. "Humph! I really don't know if you guys are watching an entertainment movie, can't you see I'm being held, move your ass and come help me." Sweetheart cried at the standing bodyguards. His friends and the bodyguards looked at each other in utmost confusion. *Help him with what?* The bodyguards could only see Elmo holding sweetheart's waist so they were expecting sweetheart to free himself since they thought Elmo was already so weak after being beaten up to a pulp. "Damn it…" sweetheart almost broke out in pain seeing the hand on his waist was getting tighter as time passed. He panicked so much that a wave of sweat rushed out without constraints. With sweat still rushing out profusely from his handsome face, sweetheart managed to look at Elmo's eyes. With fear in his eyes, he looke
"Stop him…"However, the bodyguards didn't dare to move an inch, instead they crawled backward away from him._Just how is he able to fight like this?__He even defeated the bodyguards that were specially trained from abroad. This is amazing!_Meanwhile, the third rich guy on the other hand wasn't able to think of something. He knew he couldn't fight him; even his highly trained bodyguards couldn't fight him so what chances did he have to fight him.Just as the third rich guy had already lost hope of being saved, a roll of black cars came to the club in an orderly manner.This scene was just so cool and noble.Everyone's eyes were diverted from the fight and their eyes were glued on the parade of cars that was lined straightly.And just like that, many men dressed in black stepped out of the car.They walked forward to Elmo and everyone thought they were the men of sweetheart and his friends._Damn it! What's happening?!__What a pity, even though that man was able to beat up all of t
Elmo looked completely dumbstruck as the man flew up looking irritated by the touch of Elmo. "How dare you peasant dare to touch me? I really don't know what your problem is. People like yourself ain't meant to be here; if people like yourself always have a meal here, this restaurant would have been ruined for a long time." He spat out angrily as everyone at the restaurant joined to watch the show. Elmo, frowned seeing how the man was blatantly shouting just to create attention. Seeing everyone start whispering about him, he still kept an expressionless face. [This man sure is shameless! Why does he just want to leave this restaurant only with disgrace?] [ Mere looking at his not too costly outfit, I could comprehend that he can't afford even the cheapest meal?] [ He's just an attention seeker! Wanting to be known by the rich family! I hate him already] [ I support the manager, he shouldn't let a poor peasant enter such a renowned restaurant, otherwise this restaurant will be tai
_But how exactly will he be able to keep his job after that promise?!!"He knew if he didn't do something about this, he won't be able to wage his tail in the society again.Society only respects those that have a position and not the peasant who has nothing to call theirs.He has always hold a little pride in the society due to his job as a manager of such a restaurant and if I doesn't have the job again; no one knows how he will surely be mocked and dejected by the society.His eyes darted blankly as he kept on thinking of how to rescue himself from this deadly pit, he dug for himself.Just then, when he was about losing all hope of a way to save himself from the misfortune that's about to happen to him, a billiant idea came to his troubled and tensed mine. He raised his head swiftly as Elmo spoke."Since we have all seen the alert, why don't we let Mr manager fulfill his part of the bet." Elmo said calmly as everybody also remembered the manager had made a promise which he must ful
Wasn't she the one planning the downfall of Lily, so how was Lily able to win against her!? God! Why! Camellia, who had weakened on the sofa, had to take a hold of herself. She managed to regain her composure, before saying. "Kaira, sobbing won't do a thing. Remember Elmo?" She asked, out of the blue. Kiara glanced at her. "Elmo? Why are you bringing him up all of a sudden?" "Remember, Mr Henry had said Elmo is now wealthy but we refuse to accept it. What if he's really wealthy, why don't we give it a try and meet him?" Kaira shook her head in disagreement. " I don't believe it and even if he's now wealthy it's pointless! Have you forgotten how I said Elmo treated me at the film launching party? He really won't help me!" She said "Shut up, Kiara." Camellia snapped. "Having a doubtful mind won't help you. Let's believe that Elmo would be wealthy and he would help us!" Camellia yelled in a harsh tone. Kiara's mouth closed. She didn't dare to refute Camellia's words knowing fully
"Mom, honestly, there was nothing important between Lily and me. She merely asked for forgiveness and such," Kiara recounted the restroom incident to Camellia."Is that all Lily said? She didn't cause any trouble, did she?" Camellia's tone indicated her uncertainty to what Kiara was saying.In Camellia's perspective, Lily might have threatened her daughter, which explained Kiara's reluctance in explaining what had happened in the restroom."Mom, I'm not lying whatsoever!" Kiara felt wronged, seeing the doubtful look Camellia was giving her."If you're really telling the truth and not hiding anything, then why didn't tell me all this when I was asking you?" She gave her an I-caught- you look."I refused to tell you anything, because I feared you might go meet Lily and create another chaos again." Kiara responded truthfully."oh, so that's it.""Yes." Kiara said. "When Lily apologized to me, I felt it was all a pretense. I'm sure she has something up her sleeve." "You think so." Camell
Seeing the expression on Kiara's face, Camellia finally get her mind straight and kept calm. She knew forcing Kiara to speak might result in something else so it was better to just hold her calm and wait for Jiara to cool down. Silence befalls around them. None of the two said a word, only heavy breath echoed next to them.Kiara already knew that Camellia was giving her time to get her mind straight. The feelings and weariness back at the restroom had made her a little suffocated that was why she was like this now and the only way to remove those feelings was to keep calm and get rid of those feelings.After a good two minutes, Kiara who had finally gotten hold of herself spoke."Mom, I'm fine. There's nothing much to worry about." She squeezed those thoughts out of her mouth with the intent of trying to comfort her mom.The thought of telling her Mom everything that had conspired between Lily and her at the restaurant.She was afraid that if she should bring it up, then maybe anot
Lily offered a small smile. "I appreciate that, Kiara. Maybe we can find a way to work together without all the tension. After all, we both have roles to play in the film."As she smiled, her pretty and classy face shone across the restroom. Based on her beauty alone, it will make others see her words as nothing but righteous. Even if they did hear and plead words and some doubt still lingers in their heart, it would immediately be dissolved upon seeing the beauty in front of them.However,Kiara was different. She sneered inwardly, she wasn't that gullible to stupidly believe any pleading words from Lily. She knew that Lily accepted to be the second female lead with the intent of snatching the female lead role from before, so how could she be so stupid and foolish to be easily fooled with this whole facade from Lily.Even if she was the one in place of Lily, she would not simply foil all her plans and foolishly or pitifully find peace with herself. Never!As Lily kept on speaking, Ki
Lily's eyes narrowed, she at first thought Camellia was just one of those crazy fans of hers. She had wanted to even force a smile, but upon hearing the word of Camellia, she asked. "Yes, I'm Lily. Who are you and which daughter am I troubling?" She asked, with a curt tone. Camellia could already see that she's a proud and cocky actress. Just who the hell does she think she's to speak to he with such tone. She managed to restrain her anger for later."I'm Camellia, Kiara's mother and I know you know why I'm here." She frowned, as he muttered those words out. Lilky ewned closer to her chair, before she spoke with a mocking smile, "Oh, you must be Camellia, Kiara's dear mother. I've heard so much about you."Camellia's lips curled into a disdainful sneer as she retorted, "And I've heard enough about you, too, Lily. You should be ashamed of yourself for what you've done to my daughter."Kiara had been on the verge of intervening, hoping to de-escalate the situation, but her mother's c
Camellia's face remained widened for a while, as she heard the words of Chloe."What are you really saying? Mr Henry is a good friend of my daughter Kiara." The truth was that Camellia had never really told her friends anything much about Mr Henry. She had only randomly told them that Mr Henry was their helper and also a friend to Kiara, but who would have expected that Chloe would see through all their lies.How would she have known all this!?Her mind kept on running differently.For Chloe to be able to confidently tell her all her lies, then it means that the others already knew.No, that's not possible.She silently prayed for it not to be true."You must be wondering how I know? Well, let me be good and reply to you. I got to know.." she paused as she quickly corrected herself. "No, we all got to know from the day we started noticing that this so-called person, you call your daughter friends and helper is always visiting your house." She said,with a sly and mocking smile." So,
Eldie and Susan understood what Chloe meant by the word. They tried to hold back their laugh, but they tried to do so, while the laughing sound busted out."Why are you both laughing?" Camellia asked with a grumpy expression." Sorry, sorry." Even though they were apologizing, they didn't look as though they were sorry, because they were still laughing. After saying that, they turned to Chloe and asked. "What do you mean by your word? Can you emphasize it for us?" It was clear that those words of Chloe were to insult Camellia's past, so they all knew that Susan and Eldie were both lying, when they said they didn't understand."Of course yes, I would gladly do that." Chloe smiled innocently, as she faced the three of them, but her attention was solely on Camellia's sour expression."What I meant then, was that our Camellia here also has a rough past that was worse than ours, so we should consider not bringing up the car issue, after all Camellia had also told me that." She seemed innoc
"I'll be going to sleep, you should also go. It has been a long day today." She straightened her body, as she stood up."Alright, bye. Goodnight love." Camellia didn't disagree. She was also tired after this long day's conversation. From the exchange of words, to a lot of topics that were spoken about and also about the Vida story, but had really made her tired out.They sluggishly dragged themselves to their rooms.The next morning, Camellia was telling one who woke up first. She had already taken her bath and could be seen in the living room having a cup of coffee. From the side angle, it could be seen that Camellia was enjoying herself with a cup of coffee In her hand, however only she knew she was feeling.The memories of everything Kiara had told her yesterday kept flowing into the head of Camellia, and that main memory was about the reality story of Vida."Oh my…" she sighed. "That poor girl truly doesn't deserve any of those things done to her. How can someone who has struggle
The situation had reached a critical juncture. While Vida and Collins had both spoken out in their defense, the anonymous insider remained shrouded in secrecy, their identity a closely guarded secret. The scandal had become a battle of narratives, with the public left to decide whom to believe.What the fuck is really happening!?All frustrating and tiring.Chaos everywhere. Dramas everywhere. Just when would all this stop for goodness sake!?As the city of Archville grappled with the ongoing drama, a group of investigative journalists continued to dig deeper into the scandal. They interviewed industry insiders, former colleagues of Vida and Collins, and anyone who might have information that could shed light on the truth. The journalists were determined to uncover the identity of the anonymous insider and verify the authenticity of the alleged evidence.Days turned into weeks, and the investigation led to a breakthrough. A whistleblower came forward, willing to reveal their identity