The men couldn't decide. They kept looking over at Don, then back at Grey.Don laughed. "What prank are you playing? Do you think my men will betray me?"Richard sighed. " He's telling the truth, Hercules doesn't accept a useless apology. You should leave now but you can hang around," he voiced out.The man exchanged glances and left one after the other.Don turned to Richard and gripped him hard by the collar. "What games are you playing with me? I'm going to kill you for betraying me!" He yelled in anger." He didn't really betray you, Don," Grey interceded. "He was merely carrying out orders from above, from Hercules himself."Don whirled to look at Grey. " Shut up!" He screamed and rushed to grab the gun on the table. He cocked it and stretched it towards Grey. "Shut up or I will shoot this through your head!" He threatened." You are making a big mistake, Don!" Richard said quickly." Shut up! Or you will be the next!" Don snapped at him."I'm going to count number one to three,
What mystery power does Grey have? Why did he pretend to be nobody? These questions were on Caramel's mind as she drifted off into deep slumber this time.Grey settled her in the back seat and decided to let her sleep. He still had some hours to spend before Avery would call him.He relaxed in the chair and decided to take a nap as well. He was feeling exhausted and thirsty but he didn’t want to leave Caramel alone in the car.“Grey!” A soft voice jolted him out of his slumber. He looked back at Caramel. “Did you sleep while waiting for me?”Grey nodded. “I thought we could go somewhere else and have fun,” he darted at his watch. “I still have less than an hour to spend,” he revealed.Caramel nodded, with a smile. “Let’s do that. Do you have any place in mind?”Grey nodded once and looked away. “Let’s just go to a bar. Alfred has one close by,” he responded.“Let’s go then!” Grey started the ignition but he couldn’t help but notice how much Caramel was staring at him. He knew that sh
The first thing that came to Grey’s mind was how Chris got the Diamond. There was only one auction house in town. In fact, Grey heard that Giovanni visits the place whenever he wishes. It was a place where even enemies met whenever auctioning was concerned.Most of the enemies ended up making the auctioneer happier as they would increase the bids till the opposition couldn’t afford it. It was exactly as he did with Aphrodite.Avery pulled the car to a sudden stop. “My friend is staying the night at our place. She just arrived from the state and would only settle down tomorrow.”Grey nodded briefly but he was startled when the door opened suddenly and a fine face lady stared up at him. She had golden hair and green eyes. She was also very flawless. She could have passed for a model or a movie star.“This is Grey?” She had a smirk on his face.Avery nodded quickly. “Grey, meet Chloe. Chloe, my husband,” she introduced.Chloe sniffed. “Get down!” “What?” It felt like Grey didn’t hear he
Grey had to wait in front of the door for the girls to finish up. It took a while as they were laughing and chatting. Grey groaned severally but he knew that Avery wouldn’t want to be late as well. She was currently the CEO of LN material company and she wouldn’t want to disappoint her grandfather.Truly, the door opened a few minutes later and Avery stepped out, still laughing with Chloe.“Good morning,” he greeted but the ladies were too busy talking that they didn’t even hear him or maybe they heard and didn’t want to reply, Grey couldn’t say.Grey entered the room and tried to get ready very fast.As he was making his tie, his phone beeped. It was a message from Aphrodite.Grey's eyes went wide with shock as he read through. The Blue Diamond was really rare, that was what Aphrodite confirmed. In fact, only one of the diamonds was in the city at the time of the auction to that moment. It was because of this that Aphrodite desperately wanted to buy it. That was why she kept increas
Chris was too shocked to speak for a while. After several minutes, he decided to act along. Since Avery already saw it as the original ring and because he had no money to buy the original, he would just play along. He placed a call right to Avery. It took a while before Avery would pick it up. "Hello, Chris." Chris smiled. "I'm sorry but I had to do something real quick. What were you asking the other time?" he feigned ignorance. Avery cleared her throat meaningfully. " I'm talking about the blue diamond that you got as my gift." "Oh, that?" Chris laughed shortly. "You were really notified of the price. It's fifty million dollars but I got it for more at the auction." Avery couldn't believe her ears and she gasped softly. "You got the ring from an auction?" "Yes, anything for you. And well, I will do more if you can accept to be with me," he urged softly. Avery was moved. She didn't know that Chris would spend such a huge amount on her birthday. Though she didn't really know
Smith walked into grandpa Lucy's office with a sad face."I don't know what's wrong but Protos Pubblicita is terminating the contract."Lucy's face took on a wry line as he regarded Smith. " What do you mean? Everything was going well. Why would they terminate the contract?"Smith shrugged slightly. " We need to sue them. Hercules shouldn't terminate like that!"" You idiot!" Lucy snapped at him. " How could you even think of something like that? Hercules is a prominent man in society. We might find ourselves falling into the mud. We should rather seek his favor rather than his wrath."" What should we do then?" Smith murmured.Lucy looked away as he thought about it. " Does he state anything he wants?"Smith thought quickly about the question and his eyes sparked. " He wants Avery to be in charge.""What?" Lucy couldn't believe his ears. How did Hercules get to know Avery that he would be choosing her over Smith?"I told you. I told you that Avery had been disgracing you secretly. I'
“You came home earlier yesterday,” Avery repeated as Grey made his tie. She was watching Grey with so much curiosity. He looked so handsome and had all the physical attributes of being a man but he lacked them mentally and he wasn’t even as rich as Chris. Avery would have never imagined herself getting married to someone like Grey. To that day, she still found the incident unclear.“I was so tired,” he looked up at her. “I saw the ring that Chris gave you_”“Very good!” She said quickly, interrupting him. “That should remind you that you didn’t even get me anything for my birthday.”Grey sighed. “You went out with Chris, remember? If you hadn’t, I would have given you something nice.”Avery waved it up and stood, showing her nice shape to Grey. “It wouldn’t be worth Chris's gift anyway. I don’t regret what I did that day,” she took her bag and walked out of the house.“Troubles always come whenever you are around, Smith,” Emma teased.Chloe wasn’t around. So, Grey took his seat besid
Avery's last words kept ringing in Grey's ears. Well, he was also tired of hiding but there was nothing he could do at that time.He still needed to stay hidden, he needed to pretend for his wife and others. He had to trust Alfred and the rest of the elders, except for Charles anyways.Grey kept thinking Charles might know something about his father's death. Though he hadn't confirmed it he hoped to do so soon.So, there was no way he could stop being the live-in son-in-law. It was what he needed at that moment.A soft knock sounded on the door again and Maria walked in."Here, it's the copy of the signed contract," she stretched out a file that Grey took.He flipped through the pages while perusing them."A half payment has been made? The WW Products?" He raised questioning brows.Maria nodded briefly. " Yes, we are supposed to deliver the full products on Monday, which are already available. However, we got the message that they would be needing an extra package," she explained." T