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RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW THE DEAL
The car arrived in front of the restaurant Le Bernardin. A valet opened the car door for Scarlett while Alarick came down on his own. Alarick started to walk into the building when Scarlett wrapped her arms around his. He froze for a second, shocked that she would show this much affection in public to someone who wasn't her husband. Alarick played the part though. He needed something from her and he was sure to get it. Scarlett smirked immediately as they crossed the threshold into one of the most exclusive and elusive restaurants in the city.Although the place was popular, there was little to no information about it. Only the elite knew what went in behind those doors. The mystery was what made it appealing to the 1 percent with deep pockets and Scarlett knew this. She had been here once before and she was impressed. Alarick was already doing something right. She spoke."You brought me to one of the most expensive restaurants for lunch? You must really adore me."Alarick chuckled a
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW STOLEN FILES
Alarick checked the time on his watch. He contemplated going to work or going home. His decision was to go to work. Alarick had already missed a boatload of things and although the people at the company were taking good care of everything, he didn't want to be a half baked CEO. Alarick headed straight to the office once his mind was made up and informed Vivian he was returning. He parked in the garage himself and went into the building. As he reached the lobby, Vivian walked up to him. Alarick walked in front towards the office while Vivian was a step behind him."Welcome back sir.""Thank you Vivian. What's on my itinerary for the rest of the day?" Alarick asked after responding to her greeting. Vivian scrolled through the device I'm her hands."Since I didn't know if you would come back or not, I cleared out your schedule for today. Do you want me to bring anything up for you?"They stepped into the elevator and ascended up the company building. "Call the board back. We still hav
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW DAMAGE CONTROL
Alarick went home immediately to inform his father. There wasn't much he could do to hide it, sooner or later Cillian would find out. It was better if his father heard it from him first. Cillian was no longer the CEO but he hadn't retired just yet. Alarick got to the mansion and parked his car. He stepped out of the car but took his time entering the house. Once he did enter he went straight to his bedroom. He was about to video call his father to tell about what happened but he was hesitant. Cillian was supposed to be in hiding, protecting Grace and Charlotte and now Alarick was about to drop this bomb on him.Alarick opened the door to his bedroom and stepped in. He removed his suit and reclined on his workspace chair. Alarick tried to calm himself down as he brought out his laptop to contact his father. Once the laptop turned on, Alarick called his father. The video call rang three times before Cillian answered. Cillian chuckled through the screen."I actually expected you to cal
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW CHINY FINDS THE CULPRIT
Later that day, an unknown man carrying a large bag walked into the King company building. He wore all black and his long pale blonde hair covered most of his face completely. The employees in the building watched the man in suspicion, wondering who he might be. The man walked over to the receptionist's desk. Her name tag read Clarissa. She looked at him warily but chose to act the way she was taught to. "Good day sir. How may I help you?" The man scratched his chin. "I'm looking for Alarick King." Clarissa typed on her computer. "All right. Just give me your name so I can see if you're on the system for today." The man didn't speak and continued to scratch his chin. The receptionist noticed what was going on and asked him a question. "You don't have an appointment, do you?" The man shrugged. "No but I am meant to see Alarick King." Clarissa looked away from her computer and then at him. "I'm sorry sir but if you don't have an appointment you can't see him today. I suggest
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW HE BOUGHT HER COMPANY
Alarick sat in his chair pondering on what he could do to get Charlotte back. He couldn't believe that the person whose father's death they bonded over would do such a thing to him. It was hard to believe. How would she even have a plan that would lead to her father dying or did she underestimate Jonathan's friendship with his father? Alarick tried to piece together all the information he had gotten some minutes before with everything that had happened so far, just as Chiny walked into the office. He had accumulated all the information that he could find on Charlotte and approached Alarick's desk holding a flash drive in his hand."I've got it." Chiny said, pulling Alarick out of his thoughts. Alarick brought out his hand to collect the flash drive but Chiny hesitated."The money."Alarick sighed."Give me your account number."Chiny smirked and called it out.Alarick typed on his computer for some time before speaking."Done."Chiny's phone dinged. He checked it and saw that he had
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW WELCOME BACK CHARLOTTE
Ethan had signed the documents that handed over his firm to Alarick immediately they settled down in Alarick's office. Once Ethan was gone, Alarick finished up some menial jobs before deciding to head home that evening. On his way out he spoke to Vivian who sat at her desk typing on her computer."Vivian, email all the members of the board that there will be a meeting tomorrow by 8:00 am to review what we spoke of at the last meeting. I'm done for the day. You should go home.""Okay Mr Alarick. Have a nice evening."Alarick walked off. He left the company building and drove to his house. He parked, entered the mansion and went straight to his room, opting to have a bath before calling his father to inform him of what happened today. The warm water that touched his body relaxed his tensed muscles. He was tired but he had things to attend to. Rest would have to wait. After his bath, Alarick had dinner in the dining room. The place was somewhat empty with only him being there. Everyone
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW TAKEN AGAINST HER WILL
"Welcome back Charlotte." Charlotte looked to the door and back to Alarick at the desk. She walked closer to Alarick, dropping her bag on an empty chair and confused. "Alarick, why are you here? How do you even know where I work?" Alarick unfurled his fingers. "It isn’t a government secret, finding out wasn’t a problem." "Where's Ethan, my boss? This is his office." "He isn't here and he isn't your boss anymore. Well he is, just not at the top of the command chain. I'm your new boss because as of yesterday, I bought this law firm." Charlotte stepped back and chuckled, covering her eyes. "You can't be serious. Bought the firm I work at? Why on earth would you do that?" Alarick stood up from his chair. He had to convince Charlotte to go back to the mansion with him where he could question her before handing her over to the police. He didn’t want to take the chance that he would get tipped off and have time to run away before getting to the mansion, if not he would have waited s
RISE OF THE DISCARDED SON-IN-LAW TIP OFF
Alarick walked back into the room after some minutes holding a flash drive and a laptop in his hands. Charlotte sat on the lounge chair with indignation. Alarick set the laptop in front of her and put in the flash drive. He opened the document on the laptop and faced the device towards Charlotte. Charlotte saw a picture of herself with her name beside it in bold letters. She scooted forward on her seat to get a better look."What's this?" "Evidence against you. That's what I'm going to use to put you behind bars for the rest of your life." Charlotte surfed through the documents on the file, her face frozen with shock. She thought she had left this part of her past behind but here it was, staring her in the face. Charlotte sniffled and turned the laptop away."You did a background check on me? How dare you?"Alarick scoffed."Yeah right. Like I didn't have a right to do that when you stole confidential files from my company.""I did no such thing."Alarick walked over to her and tur
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VICTORY AT LAST
The judge walked back into the courtroom and the room immediately turned quiet. She took her seat silently and looked at the jury. It wasn't a guess what the jury would pick. The massive amount of compelling evidence that was shown was more than enough to convince everyone in the room of who was innocent and who was guilty. She turned back to the crowd while hitting her gavel. "Court is now in session. I have to ask both sides. Does either the prosecution or the defense have anything else to say in this case?"Both sides of the court shook their heads, no one wanting to come forward and say another word. The judge turned to the jury."Has the jury come to a decision?"A man from the jury stood up."Yes we have, your honor.""Could you read it out for the court to hear?"The man opened the envelope in his hands and brought out the paper. He looked at it and read."In the case of Alarick King versus Grace King, the jury found the defendant, Grace King, guilty of defamation."The crowd i
HIDDEN MOTIVE
It had been a day since the fire incident at the King mansion. Luckily they had all made it out alive and unscathed apart from the man on Alarick's security detail that was shot, Henry. They had disposed of the dead bodies of the attackers and had rounded up the culprits who were caught. It took them some time to get rid of or repair the damage that was done that night but they pushed on especially when they knew they finally had their smoking gun. The thing that would end Grace. The day of the long awaited court hearing had arrived. Alarick sat beside Charlotte and they both sat some distance away from Grace and her new lawyer. Grace eyed them both still angry at the fact that they had survived the fire. The tables were turned. Now they were the prosecution and Grace was the defense. She was going to be the one to fend off their attacks and just like the night she sent men to get rid of Alarick, she would lose.The tension in the air was palpable and with the agreement of both parti
ATTACKERS
The group stayed glued to the floor for some seconds when some of Alarick's security detail barged into the room armed to the teeth and lifted them up from the ground. Alarick, who had landed on Charlotte to shield her from whatever was going on, got up and looked away, avoiding the gaze that Charlotte gave him when she stood upright. Scarlett noticed the exchange and bit her lip till she drew blood. She said nothing though, not wanting to incite a fight when they still weren't sure of what was happening.The guards immediately turned around and pointed their weapons at the door as if expecting for assailants to come running in guns blazing. One of the security men shouted over the deafening noise of gunshots coming from outside."Mr Alarick, are you okay?"Alarick gave the guy a nod before the man who was seemingly the head of the security team turned over and asked the same questions to the women in the group."What about you ladies? Is anyone hurt by any chance?"Charlotte, Scarlet
EXPLOSION
Five days had gone by and there hadn't been a peep from either Grace or the company on the business scene. It had been unusually quiet and Alarick didn't like it. He paced in his study as the sun set with Charlotte watching him while she arranged the papers on the desk. They had finished creating and compiling evidence in their argument for the court hearing that was going to take place in the next two days. All they had to do now was wait. Alarick ran his hands through his hair frustrated. Charlotte knew the feeling all too well. It's not like anything bad had happened but they wanted it to. They needed it for their plan to fully be realized. A few days ago Alarick and Charlotte had come upon a video of Grace commanding someone on the phone to burn Alarick's house down so that he and Charlotte would die in the fire and not be able to make the court date allowing her to legally take the company as her own. Alarick had already put in contingency plans for her attack but him dying and
NEW EVIDENCE
It had taken two grueling days for Charlotte to draw up a defamation lawsuit to give to the court and incidentally the court date was set to take place in a week. On the same day as Alarick's real birthday, the day he was actually born before he was stolen from the King family, not the day he thought was his birthday, given by whoever had found him. But even though that was the case Alarick wasn't enthusiastic about it.Alarick and Charlotte sat in the study and like most times went through some documents that could further increase their chances of winning the case. They had gotten over their little misunderstanding that day in front of the courthouse and planned to just win it all and then move on. As they worked in silence, Alarick's phone rang. He looked for his phone as it continued to ring out amidst the vast amount of documents that covered the desk at the time. In another second or two he found it and checked the caller ID. It was one of the members of the board. Jameson Clay
STILL NOT FORGIVEN
Alarick and Charlotte walked out of the courtroom together. The reporters rushed towards them as the duo stepped out, and they were also swamped by the crowd that gathered outside the building. Alarick's guards did their best to keep the crowd away from the both of them and they succeeded in that, but they weren't successful in quickly taking them through the crowd and to their car because the bystanders were just too much.The light flashing from the several cameras partially blinded them as they tried to leave the premises through the steps but when they found it impossible to, they decided to stay back and answer the questions of the masses so they would be allowed to pass through. Alarick spoke to his men and told them that he wanted to stay a bit and speak to the crowd and the guards relented, opting to just shield him rather than try to break through the impenetrable wall of the people who wanted answers. Just as the group had stopped their descent, the questions came flying."M
A WIN IS A WIN
Everyone that was in the courtroom before the break was called back in as the court was about to be in session. They all took their seats anxious for what was to come next. Some bit their nails and some sucked in a breath, nervous. This was the time that the verdict would be given. Would the prosecution win or the defense win? What would happen if the verdict didn't go the defense's way? What would happen to the company that so many people respected in the business world, not to talk of the King family if the allegations were indeed true and they were involved in shady business? All these were questions that the crowd in the court had. Everyone including the prosecution and the defense. Alarick and Charlotte took their seat as they shared glares with Grace and her lawyer. The tension in the air was palpable. A knife could cut it in half. They were all on their toes. The jury had to decide on this case and all they could do was hope that the verdict went their way.The door opened up
COURT CASE II
“I won’t waste any more time by going through the process of how the evidence was found. Instead, I’ll show everyone the proof and allow them to make a decision for themselves. This is exhibit A.” The lawyer for the prosecution took a file from off his desk and showed it to the whole room. He brought out a copy and gave one to the judge and then another to the jury to peruse. He crossed his fingers and gave it some time before he continued. “In the file that you were given you will find the dealings between the King Corporation and a well-known notorious cartel headed by Lorelie Mandan. This was for the shipment of a large number of guns and possibly explosives to an undisclosed location somewhere in the Mexican desert. The drop off was made by the company and the cartel picked it up. If you still have doubts then I would like to call a witness to the stand.” The lawyer turned to the judge and he gave his go ahead for the witness to be called out to the stand. “I call Matteo Sanch
COURT CASE I
Just as Alarick had predicted there was a huge trial that was going to be held due to what Grace had released to the press. It had only been a day after her false announcement when he had gotten a letter saying that he had to be in court for a hearing concerning his company’s activities. Surprisingly, Charlotte was ready for the hearing. The zeal to crush Grace at her own game had pushed her even more to provide everything that they needed or might need when the court case held. Alarick had also prepared until he was ready to face Grace again and confront her.The day of the court hearing came and the buzz of how the day might end filled the television stations, news outlets, media rooms and even gossip mills with so much anticipation that the hearing was allowed to televise live due to the pressure that was put on the courthouse. The press had used the excuse of trying to educate the masses to get the exclusive content but everyone knew the truth. Everyone knew that no matter what ha
