“I will go with you to the office. I told you that I cannot stay here alone. I will just die of boredom.” Samantha said as she grabbed her tea and placed it in her mouth to take a sip.“That would not be a problem. We can go together to the office.” Eric said as he took his tea and took a cup from the tray and took a sip from his tea. “I even forgot to ask him whether he had contacted Emily and Lydia whom I asked him to contact and tell them that I wanted to see them,” Eric added, and Samantha took a deep breath before she cleared her throat to talk.“Oh. Perhaps you should call him back and ask him if he had done that.” She said, and he nodded his head, bringing out his phone and dialing his contact, waiting for him to pick up the call.“Hello, boss,” Damien said immediately after the call connected and Eric dropped the cup he was holding, inhaling deeply before he talked.“What is going on?” He asked as he temporarily forgot what he wanted to ask before. “Everything is going well.
“Yes. I never left the country. Who said I left the country?” Sir Chadwick asked rapidly, and he brought his phone from his ear to check the contact before putting it back over his ear to continue to talk.“You are not serious with that?” Eric said in a sharp tone, and he cleared his throat slightly as he made a scrunching face as he didn't seem to understand what was going on.“Why did you say that? Did Damien tell you that I left the country?” He asked, and Eric shook his head slightly, as he did not know what else to say or do.“No. He did not. I thought you left the country. You clearly told me that you were not around.” Eric said as he heaved a sigh, coming off the bed for a moment as he walked to the closet to grab a shirt to wear immediately he was done taking his bath.“I don't recall ever telling you that. And if I did, I probably, did not want to show you that I was around.” He said, and Eric exhaled heavily as he thought of what next to say.“Grandfather, I need to go and t
“I will get to my office now. I have a lot of work to do.” Damien said, and Eric nodded his head before he inhaled deeply to talk.“Okay then. Get to work as soon as possible. I won't be her for long. I just want to talk to Lydia and Emily before I leave.” Eric said, and this time Damien was already in his feet arranging his suit before he talked.“They should be here any moment from now.” He said, and Eric gave a nod before he inhaled deeply as he tilted his head to look at his wife.“Sam, are you going to your office as well?” He asked her, and she initially made a puzzled face as if she did not hear what he had said. After a few seconds, she chuckled and shook her head lightly before she talked.“No. I want to stay here. Since we are not here on official ground, I can stay here, right?” She asked, and Eric heaved a sigh before he looked at Damien.“You can go, Damien. Order for some snack for us so that we can keep ourselves busy with it before they arrive.” Eric said in a low tone
Eric inhaled deeply as he tilted his head to look at Samantha for a moment before he looked at Emily and then Lydia, who now had a puzzled face as everyone was looking at her. “Michael is my wife's brother. You see how my hands are tight on the matter. And even if he is not family, seizing their properties is enough punishment for them.” Eric said in a low tone, and she gasped in shock as she heard what Eric had just said. She tilted her head slowly to look at Emily and then Samantha, who was looking away as she did not want to make any eye contact with her.“I apologize for that. I had no idea this had turned out to be a family issue.” She said in a low tone and Samantha shook her head slowly before she tilted it to give Lydia a look and laughed.“You are absolutely right. He deserves all the names that you have called him. And he deserves to go to jail too, yes. Considering all that he had done, he is not supposed to be anywhere apart from jail. But you know that no matter a family
“This calls for a celebration. Dinner at my place. I will ask Damien to bring you both over to the dinner.” Eric said in a low tone, and they both nodded their head in response to what he had just said. “That would be nice. I will finally come to know your place.” Lydia said, and Samantha nodded her head slowly before she talked.“Yeah. And you both are welcome at any time.” She said, and before anybody could say anything, Eric had chipped in already.“Well, of course, that is when we are back from our honeymoon.” He said, and all of them laughed at what he said.“Okay. Thank you, Master Eric.” Emily said and just then, a knock came on the door, grabbing all of their attention as they tilted their head to look at the door. “Come in,” Eric yelled, and the door opened immediately, revealing Damien as he walked swiftly towards Eric's table and then noticed that he was busy with the ladies.“Oh. I might have to come back. I can see that you are clearly busy with them.” He said, and Eric
“There is no way I could ever forget that. No way at all. I will be there very soon. I just need to finalize some things here in the office before I take my leave.” Eric said and tilted his head to look at Lydia and Emily after he had gestured that they waited for him to finish before they left.“Okay… be here at the family mansion. I will be waiting for you.” He said, and Eric nodded as if his grandfather was there to see him nod his head. He inhaled deeply, trying to get his thoughts right before he talked.“Okay. I will be there. Make sure you have some snacks and I will be coming with Samantha too. You know, I always go everywhere with her.” He said, and he chuckled softly as he tilted his head to look at Samantha, who was also chuckling when she sat down. “Do you even know the family mansion at all? Have you been here before?” He asked, and Eric shook his head slightly as looked at the girls, gesturing that they hold on a bit longer so he could finish before they go home. He inh
“Hello.” Damien picked up the table phone and placed it over his ears immediately, to talk, to whoever was calling. There was a moment of silence over the phone as Damien tilted his head around to look at Eric and then Emily before he inhaled deeply to talk but stopped as it seemed that the person over the phone was still talking.“Okay! That's not a problem. Set a meeting for us in the coming days. Check my schedule and fix them somewhere. But let them know that the CEO is currently not unavoidably absent, and I will handle the meeting.” He said and Eric made a scrunching face as he looked at Damien who was nodding his head sharply before he brought the phone off his ears.“Who was that?” Eric asked in a low tone and the Damien tilted his head to look at Eric, clearing his throat before he talked to him.“Some business associates were calling for a meeting to discuss some potential business planning phase. They also wanted to use the opportunity to meet the new CEO, but I told them t
“Eric, can I see you briefly in the room?” Sir Chadwick asked in a low tone, and he nodded his head, tilting it to look at him before he talked.“Sure.” He said and tilted his head back to look at his wife who was looking at her phone at that time, clearing his throat to grab her attention. She raised her head to look at him, heaving a sigh before she talked.“Were you trying to talk to me?” She asked and he nodded his head slightly.“I will be back in a jiffy. I want to see sir Chadwick personally.” He said in a low tone as if he were whispering, and she took a deep breath as she tilted her head to see Sir Chadwick and then back to look at her husband before talking.“I hope it's nothing serious?” She asked, and he shook his head slightly while closing his eyes.“No, I guess he wants to brief me on the matters to be discussed in the family meeting so that some things, when said, would not sound new to my ears.” He whispered into her ears and she nodded before he heaved a sigh stood u
Their gaze fell on Samantha as she walked rapidly with a smile on her face as she walked towards Eric, who looked away from her as he wanted to act like he was angry at her. She chuckled lightly, and she sat on the couch beside him, heaving a sigh before she talked.“I am so sorry for getting you worried. When I just received the call from him, and he asked me to come over, I didn't know what to do. I had wanted to tell you, but he had instructed me not to tell you.” She explained and at this point, Lydia was already smiling.“You got us all worried. But I am glad that you are alright.” Lydia talked even before Eric could talk, and they both tilted their heads to look at her. Samantha smiled slightly before she inhaled deeply, clearing her throat to talk.“I honestly did not mean to put you all through such position. I apologize for that.” Samantha pleaded, and then there was a moment of silence before Eric cleared his throat slightly, tilting his head to see the expression on Samanth
“It's Emily.” Her voice echoed and Eric quickly drew his face into a puzzle as he looked at her before she picked up the call and placed it over her ear to talk to Emily. Eric looked away from her as different thoughts ran through his mind. Just then, he tilted his head back to look at Lydia, who was still talking to Emily over the phone.“Where are you now?” Lydia asked and then tilted her head to look at Eric, who was looking directly into her eyes for a moment before she brought the phone off her ear to place the call on the loudspeaker.“On my way out of my house, I met someone in front of my doorstep. He is not letting me leave the house. Have you arrived at Master Eric's house?” She talked rapidly, and Eric slowly took his gaze away as different thoughts ran through his mind. “What was she talking about?” He asked himself.“Yes. I got here not long ago. I thought that I was going to meet you here, but the reverse was the case. Who is that person that is holding you from reaching
“That's very true. But at least, I should have gotten a hint that she was going out. Even if she did not tell me that she was coming to your place. Do you know how worried I was?” Eric asked in a sharp tone as he heaved a heavy sigh of relief.“Well, sorry you had to go through all those worries. I am done actually with her, and she will be back to your pace very soon.” He said, and Eric inhaled deeply as he looked to expel his anger and talk in a calm tone. He stood up from the bed and just as he was about to talk, a knock came in on the door, and he turned around to walk to the door.“Okay. I will be waiting for her.” He heaved a sigh as he walked to the door to get the door. As he tilted the doorknob, his gaze fell on the maid who brought his food to him, and he opened the door widely for her to bring the food inside the room. “Thank you. Is this for me and my wife?” He could not help but ask as he looked at her in the eyes, and she looked away before she nodded her head slowly be
Eric woke up to the buzzing sound of his phone, and he opened his eyes slowly to check who was calling him. As he looked around for his phone, he noticed that Samantha was not in bed with him, and it made him draw a puzzled face as he wondered where she could be at that point in time. Not minding that his phone was ringing, he sat up slowly on the bed and rubbed his palm over his face as he thought deeply, about where she might be. A thought popped up in his mind and he tilted his head immediately to look at the bathroom, but there was no sign at all that she was there.“Samantha!” He yelled out and waited to see if he would get any response, but he did not get any. He gradually came off the bed, heaving a sigh as he tossed his phone on the bed before walking towards the bathroom to check.“Samantha!” He called lowly as he walked inside the bathroom and looked everywhere but could not find her. “Where is she?” He asked himself as he quickly walked out of the room and headed out to lo
“How did you know that?” Samantha asked with a frown on her face, but Eric kept tapping her gently to maintain calmness so that Rachael could go on with what she was saying.“Someone told me about it. I would not say the name of the person for some reason.” She raised her head to look at her daughter and then at Eric for a moment before she inhaled deeply to talk.“I know, you probably don't ever want to have anything to do with me, but I just want you to let me clear my mind and make things right.” “There is nothing to make a right, mom. You already made your mark and you stood by it.” Samantha chipped in immediately, tilting her head to look at her husband for a moment before she exhaled deeply.“Sam, I told you to calm down. Just let her finish what she has to say.” Eric tilted his head back to look at Rachael before he talked to her.“You can go on.” Eric's voice echoed, and Rachael made a sign to thank him. She inhaled deeply before she continued to talk.“As I was saying, I kno
Samantha brought the phone off her ear quickly to end the call. Her heart began to beat erratically as she did not know what was going on with her mother. She took in several deep breaths to calm her racing heart, but it only got was. She constantly checked her phone to see if her mother had sent the address to her, but she had not sent it. Eric noticed how perturbed she was, and then he moved closer to her to talk to her.“You should be calm. She is going to be alright.” He said in a low tone, and she immediately tilted her head to look at Eric who had a pale look on his face.“She still had not sent her address. I don't think there is anyone with her right now.” She could not but talk back at him, looking away immediately after she finished talking.“I know. But I want you to be calm. You should not harm yourself before she sends her address….” Just as he was trying to talk to her, her phone suddenly chimed, and she quickly brought it to look at what came in. She noticed that Rachae
The dinner ended faster than they all thought, and they walked back to the sitting room. Lydia and Harvey sat by themselves, and so did Emily and Damien. Eric and Samantha also took their seat on the same side of the chair.“Now to the next part of the night's activities,” Eric said in a low tone, and they all tilted their heads to look at him as he looked at Samantha for a moment and thought of what next to say. He then tilted his head back to look at them before he talked.“We wanted to play some couple's game. So since there are three couples now, it's the best.” Eric said slowly as his eyes darted between Lydia and Emily. They looked at themselves, and then Emily cleared her throat to talk.“What games are we playing?” She asked, and they all looked at her for a moment before Samantha talked.“The one that couples play. Good thing you have a partner.” “But, I thought we all agreed that it was just to eat dinner. When did we say we were going to play some games?” Emily spoke in su
It was finally dinner time, Eric and Samantha were in the room, talking about how their day went and what they were going to do at the dinner.“Perhaps after, eating we will play a couple of games and then have fun. What do you think?” Eric looked away as he thought about what Samantha had just said. He thought for a while before he inhaled deeply, bringing his gaze back to look at her.“That's a nice idea. Since we are going to be out of town for the next couple of months. It's only right if we do some of those games and have fun.” Eric explained slowly as if he were counting his words as he spoke them. Not long after, they heard the sound of a car, driving into the mansion.“They are here!” Eric said rapidly, and she nodded her head slightly as she walked behind him towards the door. They arrived in the dining room and just then, the food was getting ready. The door suddenly opened, and Lydia was the first person to enter the room alongside a strange man. Eric's eyebrow furrowed as
The meeting finally came to a close after much rancor and disagreements. Eric inhaled deeply as he watched his last auntie leave the room. “Why were they pissed that I was announced as the head of the family?” He thought for a moment before he exhaled rapidly, tilting his head to look at his grandfather, who also seemed to be lost in thought.“Why are they all angry?” He asked in a low tone, jolting Sir Chadwick from his reverie as he tilted his head to look at Eric before he inhaled deeply to talk.“Pay no attention to them. You are now the head of the family. You can choose to do whatever you want to do with them.” Sir Chadwick grunted lightly as he stood up from the chair and walked slowly away from the sitting room but halted his steps, turning around to look at Eric as if he remembered to say something.“You can find your back to the mansion. I will be leaving for France tomorrow. My vacation has started and I don't want any disturbance. Take good care of yourself and of course,