Chapter 28“Welcome back. I hope you had a good time at our launch event.” The interviewer started as soon as the Head of PR gave the directive to start.“You can pick up your tickets on our website for a cheap price, or at the ticket for a higher price to watch the testing of the AI glasses.”“Who knows, you might be one of the lucky people to go home with a pair of AI glasses.”“Back to spilling the tea. We still have Mr Lorenzo Rossi here with us.”“Mr Rossi had a little surprise for us.” The interviewer looked at Lorenzo.The camera was on Lorenzo again. “Hello everyone,” he said with confidence and a bright smile this time. Daphne had handed him his tab according to Ms Conor’s orders. She wanted him to see and reply to the viewers' comments on the livestream.He let out a brilliant smile as he read the comment. “I can see your comments.” He looked up at the cameraman.“Thank you for the compliments. I see more people are more concerned about my looks, even when I have an exquisi
Chapter 29Leonora kicked her heels off her feet and put them together by the door. Her little action reminded him of Hazel.The only difference is that Hazel never picked her shoes up after her.She went straight into their father’s room and Lorenzo followed suit. She had managed to hold a conversation with Aurora before they dropped her off.Her weary was written on her. She could not hide her emotions as she saw her father. She laid on chest as tears crawled out of her serially.Lorenzo asked the caregiver to follow him outside. “What did the doctor say when he came? How is his condition?”“The chairman isn’t improving. The doctors took him to the hospital to run some tests on him.”The caregiver went into the room and came back. “He handed a file to Lorenzo.”Lorenzo open the file with mixed feelings. “The chairman has had multiple heart attacks in the past, which he managed. The doctors said he might not survive this attack.”Lorenzo yelled. The file fell from his hand. He sat o
Chapter 30Five years later. Lorenoz looked around his office with satisfaction in heart. The smell, the interior reeked of perfection.He could not remember the last time he spent up to a week in Delaware.The last five years have been the busiest period in his life. He went to several summits all over the world, business meetings, forming alliances with the most powerful people in the world.It felt nice to be back in Delaware for good, he knew he was going to be staying for a long time.Work was the only thing he used to ease this stress and conceal his emotions, the weak and poor Lorenzo had become a ruthless and wealthy Quadbillonaire.He had made his sister retire from work and placed her on a monthly pay. She almost crashed from the shock of their father’s death.She developed psychological issues, her boyfriend Thomas was her major support because he wasn’t available to console her.Someone had to take the reins of the company, Lorenzo did just that. They got married two yea
Chapter 31“Alessandro, turn off the TV, we need to leave.” Hazel yelled from the room she shared with her son.She contemplated on if she was going to wear perfume or not. She didn’t want him to think she was there to impress him.At the same time, she didn’t want her problems to reflect on her. She had been through a lot in the last five years.“I am not going there to impress him, not like he even cares anyway.” She convinced herself in front of the mirror and sprayed a reasonable amount of perfume on her body.She carried her cross bag and slipped in some candies for Alessandro in her pocket.“Sandro, I told you to turn off the TV.” She scolded her five year old son. He quickly turned it off.“Mama, are we going to see grandma and grandpa today? I don't want to see them.” He complained bitterly. “They don’t like me.”She knelt in front of him and held his hands “C'mon, Alessandro. They love you.”He jerked his hand from his mother’s grip. “That is a lie.” Hazel was aware that h
Chapter 32“I heard you flew in yesterday.” The familiar voice caught Lorenzo’s attention, and he raised his head up.He had spent the whole day reading every report that came from every one of their businesses. Being a conglomerate was not one easy job.“You didn’t knock on the door.” He got up from the chair and headed to the coffee machine to make some coffee for them.He knew about her habits of taking off her shoes when she wants to be sneaky.“I did. Someone was just too engrossed in their work to notice me.” She settled in his chair and spun around. “Weee.”“I was just looking at a few things.” He handed her a cup, and he laid down on the sofa. “You are a child, gee.”“This doesn’t look like a few things,” she looked at the heap of notepads and files sitting on his table. “Yes. I don’t look like I’m 29 :), do I?”“You don’t. How did you know I had returned?” He folded his arms and closed his eyes.She smiled in response to his answer.“I ran into Leonora at the pharmacy this mo
Chapter 33 Hazel knew Lorenzo was in his office and she was determined to see him, she woke up early and called work to inform them that she would not come in. She didn’t have friends and dropping Alessandro at her parent’s place was going to lead to questions. He wouldn’t like that idea anyway. “Are you going somewhere?” Alessandro asked his mom while she was dressing. “Did daddy ask us to come today?” “No,” She kissed his forehead and tucked him into bed properly. “I need to get some mommy stuff at the store.” “You are putting on formal clothes, mama.” He asked with his sleepy eyes. “Detective Rossi, Can you stop interrogating me? You need to sleep.” She waved his question. “I will be back soon.” Not content with the answer he got, he held his mom’s hand. “Stay safe mom, the crime rate in our neighborhood at dawn is higher than any other time of the day.” “My so clever son, Nothing can happen to your strong mom.” She cajole him, pressing a wet kiss on his head and he wiped it
Chapter 34Laughter erupted from his stomach. “Oh my days, it's been a while I had a good laugh.” He held the side of his stomach because of the sharp pain he got from laughing so hard.“I should pay you for making me laugh today. Should I give you a stack?” he asked sarcastically. “I forgot you don’t spend dirty money,” he scoffed.She didn’t find what he said amusing, and she made up her mind that he was going to be childish and petty. She was ready for him. “I am not joking, Lorenzo.” She said with a straight face. “Stop with the dirty money joke. You are being childish. You are 35 years old, even your son isn’t this petty.”He came closer to where she was sitting and leaned against her. The air between them became tense. He drew a line on her face and saw her face turn red.He had an effect on her and he was going to use it well.“I have no son, Hazel . We both know that. We never had sex throughout our marriage so what are you saying?”He pulled away from, “You should think we
Chapter 35The ride to the hospital was quiet except for Hazel’s silent sobs. “Her son must mean a lot to her.” He thought in his head.He didn't know why he was in the car, driving all the way to the local hospital in his old neighborhood. He could have asked his driver to take her.A part of him wanted to see the boy that she had claimed looked like him. He had so many questions to ask her.He really wanted to know when they had sex and silently hoped that his dream was just a dream.Asking her about it was out of his options. He would be too embarrassed to hear that he did something like that.“We are here,” He announced and opened the door of the car. He didn’t realize he had gotten to the emergency room until he looked around and Hazel wasn’t with him.He smacked himself in his head when he looked back and saw Hazel by the car. He was making his actual feelings obvious. His curiosity was pushing him too hard.He waited for her to join him. She hurried into the emergency room and
Epilogue Five Years Later. Leonora had forced us to come down to Delaware for Father’s memorial, instead of doing it separately, depending on the country. “I do not appreciate being here when I have a meeting in France,” Lorenzo whined over Lunch. “How do you cope with this rascal?” Nora faced Hazal with a disapproving look. “He is addicted to work as always, talking about being in France while we celebrate our father’s ten years memorial.” Hazel giggled, “You know how he is.” “Sweetie, are you taking sides with her? This is why you should never trust women.” Lorenzo pointed his fork at Nora. “She told me I could work as much as I wanted before I retire.” Then he continued eating. “I did tell him that, he kept saying he was bored at home and all.” “You are in this together. Nice. How is work though? I heard you have opened an IT center in New York and it is making waves.” “It’s all thanks to my husband and your husband too, he helped out with the set up and internal works.”
Chapter 76(TWO DAYS LATER)Hazel stirs in bed, her first movements since her emergency surgery two days ago. She slowly opens her eyes but can’t open them fully because of the brightness of the room. Lorenzo notices that she is trying to open her eyes and rushes to her side.“Hazel… Hazel, can you hear me?” he asks, his tone laced with desperation and worry. “I…can…hear…you.” She replied weakly.Tears of joy rushed to his eyes as he broke down in front of her. “I thought I was going to lose you. I really thought I was going to lose you.” He said in between loud sobs.Hazel watched with tears in her eyes as her man wept in front of her. Being too weak to do any other thing, she reached for his hand with a sense of longing.“I’m here, Lorenzo. I’m here.” She reassured him. This little action made Lorenzo cry harder.Hazel then remembers that she is with child. Panicking, she touches her stomach. “My baby, is my baby okay? Did anything happen to my baby boy?”“Our baby is fine. The do
Chapter 75As he got into his car, the incident with Daphne was already behind him, he gripped the steering wheel in anger as he tried to calm himself. He didn't know what he would do to Aurora when he found her, but he didn't trust himself not to hurt her. He parked his car in front of his Company and rushed out. He rushed towards the elevator, ignoring the greetings of his staff. Before he got into the elevator, he stopped one of them and told her to call the police. She nodded weakly and ran to do that.The elevator door closed and he punched in the button that took it to the basement floor. He knew that if Aurora was here she would make sure that none of the staff had seen her when she was coming so asking them was pointless. She wasn't stupid and she knew her way around the company. The elevator dinged and he stepped out. He looked around but couldn't find anything, he only saw metal pipes and heard water dripping somewhere. He looked around and saw a small light coming fro
Chapter 74Lorenzo took his car keys from the chauffeur and ran towards his car. He couldn't believe he hadn't thought of this before. Daphne and Aurora had worked together even if Aurora was only using daphne, she was the most likely person to know where Aurora was. He needed to get to the detection center as soon as possible, or else Aurora would get away with what she had done. He couldn't let her get away with it. She put the woman He is in love with in the hospital and took his child away from him. He owed it to Hazel to make her pay for what she had done. He couldn't even begin to imagine how broken Hazel will be when she wakes up and her child is gone, and it was all his fault. If only he had seen the signs earlier, he could have prevented this from happening, Hazel would be fine and their child would be alive. Aurora had to pay.He hastily parked his car and jumped out and ran inside to the reception."I need to see Daphne Giovannì " He said, out of breath.The lady at th
Chapter 73He sank into the chair, tears moved freely from his eyes as he mourned his baby in his heart. He had not gotten the chance to give it a name like Hazel wanted.Work had taken all his time that could not make time to have a talk about the baby’s name with his baby mama and girlfriend. She mentioned it a few times and he had told her to pick any names she wanted since she did a good job naming Sandro.She refused and offered to pick out some names then they would select the best ones of the baby which he agreed to but he never did.He had seen a tweet that Elon musk has many companies, 10 kids and he still replies to random tweets on twitter, no one is ever too busy to make time.He was rich, very richer than Elon Musk but he didn’t have ten kids nor did he use twitter, he had no excuse for not making time for his family.What was he running from? Was he scared that Hazel would treat him like she used to? Does he still have PTSD from the situation?He needs to see a therapist
Chapter 72Lorenzo tossed the cup to the floor and picked his wife up, Luca and the other guards rushed in. “get Alessandro and one of you should get the car.”“Yes sir,” Luca replied as a maid opened the door for him to go out. The maybach was sitting in front of the house, the chauffeur opened the door to the car. Luca put Alessandro in the backseat with his parents then he went to the back seat. He dispatched about thirty other guards to follow them while seven of them remained at home to watch over Nana.“Daddy, what’s wrong with mom?” Sandro rubbed his eyes, he was just waking up and trying to register what was going on.“Please put the car on lock,” Lorenzo asked the driver for Sandro’s sake. He was sitting beside the wall. “Luca, please call the hospital to wait for us at the entrance.”“Mommy is a little sick, we need to take her to the hospital for treatment.'' He hopes that Sandro buys his story because he was a smart boy and was going to read the situation.“She had blood
Chapter 71Lots of things ran through Lorenzo’s mind as he drove on full speed home. Aurora was a dangerous person. It’s like she had a venom in her.Something strange had bitten her overnight. she felt so different than she used to be. He never thought he would meet that shade of her.Hazel and Alessandro filled his mind. What if she had kidnapped them? Poisoned them or even killed them. His grip on the car steering tightened. He was aware that he was breaking traffic rules but his family’s life was at stake. His heart felt like it was going to leap out of its spot.Going to see Aurora made him hear things he never thought he would hear, but he should have made sure his family was okay. What if he lost contact with Sandro and he had to suffer like him?This was a time for him to lose contact with his son, he didn’t obviously want that. He remembered his promise to keep his son under wings and raised him into a fine young man without following the family’s tradition.Universe gave hi
Chapter 70“It’s not too late for you to change your ways. You can still be loved, I can forgive you.”“She put out the stick of the cigarette she was smoking and opened a pack of gum then she threw a piece into her mouth.Watching Lorenzo’s movement, a grin formed on her face. “It would be great if you just stop all these like a preacher, it suits you" She said "maybe that's what you should have been doing instead of playing dress up as the CEO" "Watch what you say, Aurora." Lorenzo said, straightening his back, he wished she would see what she was doing was wrong but he knew he couldn't let her talk to him like that.He had worked hard on the Company for a long time and she had seen it all. She knew how much he loved the company "Or what?" She said, Her mouth pulled into a sneer,"what exactly would you do?" "Aurora…" "Do you remember that day?" She said, cutting him off."What day?" "The day you carried me to my hotel room, the day you ruined everything" she asked, her voice
Chapter 69“Why did you try to be friends with me in the first place? You didn’t want anything to do with me. I can remember how you made me go on that date with you. You were literally begging me.” He was furious, she wasn’t even showing signs of remorse. Her intentions were showing clearly on her face, how heartless and selfish she was.Her kind face was now dark. Lorenzo felt like he was seeing her deeds on her face. They were hidden, that was why he never saw them. It is better to say she was hiding them.He had never met someone that was so pretentious. Hazel’s family never hid their hate from him, this was pretty different to him.“Do you know the extent I go when I want something? Mind you, Michael and I had not broken up officially at the time he was seeing your wife, I planned to take you to make him jealous.”All Lorenzo could see was her pathetic face and the pathetic words flying out of her mouth. She was talking with pride and a sense of accomplishment. He should have j