"Alexander Albert!" Todd excalimed when his mask was off and he could see who was at his party. "Oh my God, I can't believe that it's actually you!" He was gleaming with so much happiness at being able to be in the same room with someone as influential as Alexander Albert. "Hello, Todd," Alex said and looked at Aurora in anger. "I didn't even know that you got my invitation. It is suc a honour to have you here. Oh my God!" He gasped when the euphoria of seeing Alex began to die and he could remember how badly he treated the young man. "I am so sorry for the way I treated you. I had no idea that you were the one. If I did, I would have never allowed anyone to bully you at my party. Can you please forgive me?" Todd asked, desperate to hear a yes. Instead, he heard the voice of Brittany's father. "Okay, I am lost now. Who is this man and why are you all fawning over him? This is the same man that raped my daughter and you should be calling the police instead of trying to make him fe
"Alex, what are you doing?! These are my parents!" Brittany screamed again as she saw police men placing hand cuffs on her parents and dragging them away. "How do you really expect me to survive now, huh? How do you expect me to live without my parents taking care of me? Where do you think I will get the money to even bail them out. Don't you know that this is nothing but wickedness. Come on now, I deserve better than this. Please, I am begging you. Don't do this." She begged but Alex turned a deaf ear to her pleadHe did not understand what the big deal was. After all, he took care of himself all by himself and he did not get any help from people outside. Hers was better, she had access to her parents money and she could use that to sustain herself and even bail her parents out. So Alex did not understand why she was busy acting like her life would be over if Alex took away her parents"Can you stop being so dramatic? You are making me look like the bad guy but you and I know that so
"Please tell me that this is some kind of sick joke," Tyler said as he looked at Brittany. "Why? Why do you care if it is a sick joke?" She asked skeptically. "So it's true isn't it. You actually wanted to get married to me just so that your father could take over my parents company?" She said hurtfully. "A company that does not exist? A company that is in debt and do not have any income? Oh come on now, we don't care about such a company anymore." Tyler said angrily. Suddenly, all his softness had gone with the wind. "You must be delusional if you really think that I don't know what you are up to. Look, I know exactly what is happening here. You guys just wanted to take advantage of our company, isn't that right?" "Oh will you look at that. A pot calling a kettle black." Brittany answered him rudely. "Do you know what your problem is? Your problem is that you actually think I care about this madness you are about to display but the truth is that I don't. I want to know what the p
Tyler looked around the room in horror. Suddenly, what he had done became very clear to him and he desperately yearned for a place to hide. He could not understand what had come over him for him to say such words in such a gathering but he knew very well that he had successfully ruined his father's business and his father would have his head on a silver platter because of it. "No, that's not what I meant," he chuckled as he tried to fix the mess that he had made. "I did not mean any of those things I said. Of course I will not want to destroy their family that way. I was only joking. Our company is all about helping people.""Oh for the love of God, will you please shut up!" Alex commanded. "You can't fix this by lying because everyone here already heard what you said and we are not deaf. Or do you also think that we are so stupid to not understand everything that you said?" Alex asked him. "But you need to understand that I never meant to say all those things. I was just angry and
"Please tell me you are joking?" Tyler asked, desperate to know that he did not just kneel down for nothing. "I'm not sir." Alex said with a smirk on his face. "See you had your chance and you totally blew it. You destroyed everything that you had, everything that you had worked for so what actually makes you think that I would care that much and that I would actually want to say anything to defend you or your father's company." "Because you have a company as well, how will you feel if a single mistake is what made you lose it all?" "Well I know that you don't know anything about this industry that we are in but more often than not, it's just one small mistake that makes us lose it all. And let me give you a piece of advice, if you are humble in this industry, if you are kind to people and if you treat people's problems like yours and you are empathetic, you will go a long way. Take a look at me for example, my company was involved in a scandal, I understood how hurt the public fel
"You don't have to worry yourself about that ma. I only did what I did because I hate to see injustice being done to people. And now that I know you have seen that man for who he truly is, I think my job here is done and I can finally leave. I don't need anything from you ma.""Please, you must at least stay and have some drinks with us to celebrate." The mother insisted and Alex immediately caught on to what she was trying to do. She did not want him to just stay and talk, she wanted to boost about his relationship with her daughter to her friends and use that to feel great again. Alex smiled as he caught on to the woman's plan and decided that he would not be a part of such drama. He had more pressing issues to attend to. "Have a wonderful night," he said with a tone of finality and turned to face Todd. "Still upset with me?" Todd asked."Well, more disappointed than upset. After all, you invited me to your party and did not care to follow up to know if I would be coming or not.
Ivy did not like Alex's face when she opened the door for him. She had stayed awake all through the night expecting his return. She even went out of her way to make dinner for both of them even when he told her not to. She did not care because she knew that it made her happy to do all these for him. But his face made her think twice about her actions. "Is everything okay?" She asked as he avoided her and walked inside. "Yeah, can I get a glass of water please?" Alex asked calmly as he took a seat on his couch. "Sure," the girl responded and rushed to the fridge to bring his water. After giving him the glass, she stood by his side as he down the entire glass of water and handed the glass back to her. "Thank you." He said and leaned into the couch. Ivy took the glass and returned it to the kitchen counter. When she came back, she saw his eyes closed and his face worried, but he wasn't sleeping. "Alex what's wrong? What happened there?" He asked. "Well, I don't actually know where
Ivy staggered as she heard the news. She never thought it would run so deep or hurt so badly and she was amazed to see it do. "What did you say?" She asked after a while of silent. Alex had allowed her to stay quiet. He never said a single word to her and he tried his best to not allow his emotions to show on his face but he was sure that he was doing a terrible job already because when Ivy looked at him, somehow her eyes welled up with more sadness in them. "Alex, what did you just say to me?" She asked again. Her voice was still coming out as a whisper. If Alex was not sure before of how she felt about him, he became sure immediately he heard her voice. It sounded so sad and so much filled with sorrow."I said that I am in love with someone else," he repeated himself and watched as tears formed in her eyes. She sniffled, fighting back the tears that wanted to fall and looked at him in sadness. "who is she?" She finally asked and Alex wondered where she got the strength from. He