"Are you sure about this?""My Dad is nothing like Lucia. He seems mean but has a good heart," Jade said, without taking her eyes off the road. "Really?" Bruce felt bad for Jade. Both of parents were jerks. She recently found out how evil her mother was and her father was about to break her heart just like her mother did. "You shouldn't trust people too much," Bruce warned and Jade laughed"I know, but thus is my father we're talking about here. He looks really intimidating and acts so but he can't hurt a fly."‘Well he hurt my parents. Helped Nicholas Athen send them to the land of no return.’ Bruce wanted to say but he said nothing. He did not want to ruin the smile on Jade's face. "He was talking about forgiveness," Jade continued talking. "He said if we push everyone away, we would end up lonely. He wants our family to be together." Jade frowned. "He called Lucia and her son back home for this cause. At first, I was annoyed but I later decided not to let it affect me. That hou
Bruce paced about his room.He growled angrily in frustration. He had solved the problem of Bryan threatening his life and now another sprang up. It was annoying. Whenever it seems like there is a happy ending in sight, something always sprang up."I have to get myself and Jade far from here as soon as possible." He frowned. The problem was that Jade seemed adamant on remaining in town with her family members."She is surrounded by snakes but she's too naive to know that she is.""Bruce." It was Jade. She walked into the room— their room."Dad's sick. He is complaining that no one in the house cares that he was sick." Bruce rolled his eyes. Bruce felt sure of one thing— that Mr. J. J. Fulton was not sick."Are you seriously rolling your eyes? It's your father in law we're talking about here. He kept on telling me that you make it hard for him to accept him and I now see why."J. J. Fulton was up to something. What it was was just hard for Bruce to decipher."If you want us to be on
"Looks like I'm back to you," Bruce said to himself as he walked into his former room in the Fulton's mansion. Like he had predicted, J. J. Fulton's water was poisoned and the blame was pinned on him.The maids were interrogated but the fact still remained that he had gotten the water to give his father in law all by himself without the help of any of the maids. Of course, the maids had nothing to do with J. J. Fulton's poisoning. His father in law had planned everything. He was okay even before the doctor began treatment which showed that he had the antidote of whatever poison he used in poisoning himself.He hoped Jade had some faith in him, but it seemed like her faith in him was too little."Did you really think I did it?" Bruce remembered asking Jade who was pacing up and down her room, while he stood at the door of their room which was now back to Jade's room."I don't know what to think." That was Jade's reply. "I have been proven wrong for distrusting you many times, but
"I said he did not do it. Why don't you just forget it?""Dad, I'm not arguing with you on whether or not Bruce poisoned you. I did not think he did and that was why I did not get him arrested in the first place despite how much you had insisted. I just want to know how you got poisoned. What did you see or find out that warranted this sudden change of who you think poisoned you?"Bruce smirked as he heard J. J. Fulton sigh in frustration. After much pleading from J. J. Fulton, he had told him that he wouldn't play the audio recording for Jade to hear if he was able to convince Jade that he had nothing to do with the poison he drank. He was unwilling to be that merciful, but Bruce was worried about Jade's mental health.If Jade found that her father was very much like her mother, Lucia, Jade would be devastated. J. J. Fulton was not out of Bruce's wrath though. If there was anything Bruce was sure of, it would be that J. J. Fulton was in big trouble and that trouble would be from him.
.Mr. Fulton took sluggish steps through the hallway of his company. He paused and placed his hand on the wall. This company— he had built it from nothing to this.This morning, he woke up to find out that more than forty percent of the shareholders of the company had sold their shares.It was scary. He had imagined the worst and that was the shares being sold to one person. He was drained from the number of calls he made. Those ungrateful bastards, Mr. Fulton cursed under his breath, referring to the shareholders that sold their shares. Forty-one percent of the company shares belonged to him. Nineteen percent belonged to his brother. The rest was scattered amongst other people and they all sold it— at the same time! J. J. Fulton finally got sight of his office. Surprised to see its door widely opened, he rushed to his office to see Bruce in it, seated on his chair.J. J. Fulton frowned. Of course, they all sold their shares to one person. J. J. Fulton scowled at his son-in-law. "Le
"Jade, we should go back home. Where are we going?" The smile that was in Jade's face disappeared as he asked the same question numerous times.Earlier today, when she woke up, she had not seen Bruce in bed. Instead she saw a letter asking her to go to the woods. In the letter, it was written that Bruce had a surprise for her.Her father asked her not to go and after a while of argument, he allowed her to leave on the condition that he tagged along. She had happily followed the map that was attached to the letter until things got creepy. That was when they pulled over near a bush track and began to walk deep into the woods."I think we should go back home. I have a bad feeling about this," J. J. Fulton said. "Bruce asked to come here. I would feel guilty if I left him hanging," Jade replied."Who on Earth plans a surprise in the middle of nowhere? What happened to the top restaurants and hotels around? I thought he was the son of Astor Ace. Why is he so greedy?""Well, I'm curious t
"Then you would get a valid reason from me," Mr. Fulton said with a smirk. "When you do, you must not go back on your words."Jade's heart missed a beat. Was Bruce trying to kill her? She looked away from her dad. What if it turned out to be true? No. She was not ready to face the truth. But, again, would it not do her good if she knew his true intentions?"It seems like you are scared of getting to know that Bruce means harm to you," Mr. Fulton pointed out."I'm not," Jade breathed out. Perhaps, if she said it, she would believe it."Then you don't mind me telling you why Bruce wants you dead," Mr. Fulton said."I don't. Say what you have to say.""If I say it, I know you would hate me, but I am telling you this because I love you and wish that no harm would come near you.""Speak."Jade turned to her father, awaiting his words. She watched as he closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. Creases formed on his forehead."This is hard," J. J. Fulton pointed out. "But, I would say it a
Bruce looked around Jade's room.The men that made it a 24/7 habit of standing before the door were nowhere to be found. As he got closer, he looked around to see if they were truly gone or were really hanging around.Seeing that they had really left, he heaved a sigh of relief and pushed the door open. Jade's eyes fell on him immediately he walked in.They were black circles around her eyes. Her eyes were red due to how much she cried. Marks of tears were everywhere on her face. Bruce's heart fell on seeing her. "She must have cried from when she had woken up till this very moment," he muttered to himself.He stood by the door, uncertain of whether or not he should walk deep into the room. They looked at each other without saying anything to each other."I didn't do it. I was set up," Bruce said with a small voice. Before he had walked in, he was eager to see Jade. He had planned to rush into the room and pull Jade into his arms in a long embrace. Now that he was here, he could do