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Andrew snickered, he was certain that Ethan would go back to jail as two security men and three sales reps including Dorris surrounded Ethan and Loretta.“What's this about?” Loretta asked, looking very confused.“Your pathetic boyfriend just stole a piece of jewelry while he thought no one was watching,” Andrew responded, sneering.Ethan smiled calmly, “What's it with you Grays and trouble? Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough?”The other sales reps were too eager to make a show of Ethan for making them look foolish a little while ago.“I knew it. Once a thief, always a thief, and this time around I hope no one lets him out of jail again.” One of the sales reps commented.“Let's search him quickly before he leaves,” another sales rep added.“What's going on here? Why are you not attending to customers?” The manager of the store suddenly came out of his office with a scantily clad girl. He had been in the middle of an intense session when he heard the noise in the store and so he w
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“You set them up, admit it!”Ethan chuckled, amused by her statement.“Well, those two deserved it for trying to set me up. Besides, they needed to have a taste of what it feels like to be labeled an ex-convict, don't you think?”Loretta burst into laughter, “Remind me never to provoke you.”Ethan laughed deeply, as he made a turn and drove in through the gates leading to the main building.“Hold on a second,” Ethan stopped Loretta before she got out of the Maserati.“You forgot this. It's yours, so you should wear it,” he said before taking out the diamond necklace that the manager had given them a while ago.Loretta blushed, as Ethan drew close to her and fixed the necklace around her neck.As he did that she felt his breath around her neck and she froze instantly but suddenly turned around, her lips inches from his.Ethan lost himself briefly, his lips hungry for hers as he reached for her, pulling her closer to himself to close the little gap between them. His lips had almost touc
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Everyone including Ethan got up and moved to the dining table as the maids quickly served different delicacies that made Ethan's mouth water.Samantha, who had been acting like she hadn't noticed Ethan, glared a few times at his wristwatch and also at the one Loretta was wearing.‘I hope he leaves me alone after this,’ she thought to herself.Ethan caught her staring at him and wondered if Loretta's weird sister was all right.Ethan had been too engrossed with work at Lopez Conglomerate to find out what was going on with Loretta's kid sister.It was Maurice's voice that interrupted Ethan's thoughts.“Ethan I can see you've been taking good care of my daughter. Keep it up but try bringing her home more often.”Ethan chuckled softly, “Thank you, sir. I'll do as you've said.”Ian smiled, “It's hard to find a humble young man these days. Men like you are such a rare commodity,” thought quickly crossed Ian's mind as he spoke but he didn't say anything about it, instead he lifted his glass.
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Nolan walked out of the Campbell's mansion and as he approached his limousine, a hefty-looking fellow opened the passenger door for him and got in with him.“How was it boss, do you think they would go for it?” His new bodyguard asked.After his last encounter with Ethan, he had spent a fortune upgrading his security and even going as far as recruiting ex-military men as his new bodyguards.“They have no choice. It's either that or they watch their family name dissipate into oblivion,” he smiled mischievously.“Either way, I get what I want!”***As the Maserati pulled up in front of Lopez Conglomerate, Ethan opened the door for Loretta and smiled at her as they passed the former security men from Tasty Grilled Chicken that Ethan had just recently employed.Ethan had barely settled into his office when Tim came in.“Good day Sir,” he greeted before placing a hot cup of chocolate on Ethan's desk.“Good day Tim, thanks for the cup of chocolate. Is the team ready with the reports,” he as
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Loretta gave him a piercing gaze, half-guessing what had previously occupied his thoughts.She had entertained similar thoughts just moments ago before Tim told her Ethan wanted to see her when she had some time on her hands.She was somewhat grateful that Ethan never brought up the incident as she wasn't sure how she would react.“I didn't think you would come so quickly,” he smiled, sipping some more hot chocolate more from embarrassment than the need to.“Do you want some,” he pointed to his cup of hot chocolate but she turned it down.“I just had a cup but thanks for asking. So what's up?” She took her seat as she asked.“I wanted us to go over the marketing strategy that the team of department heads submitted. Are you up for it?”“Yes, sure.”“All right then,” he immediately placed a call and had the secretary bring physical copies of the report for both of them to go through.After a hectic day at the office, Ethan and Loretta decided to pick up some groceries at the Mall.After
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Henry walked into Ethan's office with Tim following closely behind him.Henry's impression of Ethan suddenly changed as he stepped into his majestic office.“Was this not the fellow my cousin claimed was a nobody?” He whispered, trying to make sense of everything.First, he was convinced that Ethan was an important person, for him to have made them lose in a matter of seconds a contract that had taken them months to secure for months.But then his cousin said he investigated Ethan and it turned out that he was the divorced live-in-son-in law of the Gray family who was recently released from jail, and so his impression about Ethan changed again.Not until Nolan Perez came knocking on their door with a 2 billion dollar too-good-to-true merger deal for a so-called nobody! “Who goes to such lengths to fight a nobody?” He had asked himself.“Mr. Campbell to what do I owe this visit,” Ethan broke his chain of thoughts with his powerful voice.Henry could sense the coldness in his voice but
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“Grandfather please hold on!” Henry yelled as walked and saw that his grandfather was about to sign the last part of the document for the merger.Morrison furrowed his brow, pausing to listen to his youngest grandson.“What's this rat up to?” Lucas cursed under his breath, angry that his cousin had stopped their grandfather from completely signing the merger documents.Henry was glad he had made it just in time, a few more seconds and it would have been too late.“Grandfather, we don't need the merger anymore, we have our contract back!” He announced, causing everyone's eyes to widen.“Hahaha…We have our contract back!” Lucas snorted, imitating his cousin mockingly.“How is that even possible? Grandfather, please don't pay him any attention, let's not keep Mr. Perez waiting,” another member of the Campbell family added.“Grandfather, I'm just coming from Mr. Banks office and after apologizing to him, he agreed to return the contract to us on the condition that you allow me to oversee
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Ethan woke up in the middle of the night, sweating profusely.It was the same dream he had a couple of nights ago that had woken him up.“Why won't it go away,” he asked himself.“Okay, I've received your message, my lord,” he yelled at the medallion on his neck as if talking to someone on the other end of it.Since he was yet to figure out the meaning of the dream, he found it difficult going back to sleep each time he had it.He peered at his bedside clock, “Huh, it's just nine minutes past four,” he grumbled, unhappy that his sleep had been cut short so early in the morning.An idea suddenly popped into his head, ‘Why not hit the gym,’ ‘Yeah why didn't I think of that?’ he thought as a smile suddenly appeared on his face. Since he had never used the villa's gym facility, he welcomed the idea with open arms.Within a few minutes, he had already changed into his workout clothes and he dashed off instantly in the direction of the gym.Suddenly, a slim figure appeared from the shadows