“Vivian works with you now?” Peter asked Alphonse as he helped button up his shirt. “How come?”Alphonse grunted in pain as he tries to move his hand a bit.“Harry asked for a position for her” he said readjusting the sling for his hand."How do you want this to work?" Peter asked. "She still loathes you for taking the company from her father" "All she knew is I bought the company, she does not know if I own shares or own the company completely down to the janitors office" Alphonse said."So what do you want to do? What position is she taking and what position is Harry taking. By the ways, you do know you have created an Avenue for them to screw themselves around in the office like rabbits" Peter said after setting the last button and stepping back.“To answer your first question, I'm the manager” Alphonse said and Peter's brows furrowed with confusion.“What?” The old man asked “Yes. I told Harry that because I know he's going to turn the whole thing around. You watch and see" Alph
"Hello "Manager". You forgot to iron your suit today?" Vivian threw her regular insult with a snicker as she walked past Alphonse at work today.And like always Alphonse ignored her and checked in.For the past two weeks since she resumed work she had been throwing jabs and insults at him whenever she could.It was not like he had not expected it, he did because he knew Vivian was never the type to change.And the past two weeks Alphonse had not found a reason to smile.Firstly, he convinced Charlotte to take her father to a more comfortable and secure home for the elderly with a private nurse to care for him properly.Next he assigned a driver to her and his mother and a two day routine check of all his vehicles before leaving the house.And then his hunt for Paul began, Ursula had claimed she didn't know where her son was with glee and he knew the way she was smiling she knew.Surprisingly, the Halls have not bothered him since and last he heard Hannah and Cornelius were having "rel
Ursula Edmund invited me to tea" Margaret announced as she came into Vivian's room with two gowns. "The red or the silver?" She asked as she held the two gowns up for Vivian to pick her favorite.Vivian who was eating and pressing her phone raised a bored brow before asking "Interesting and why?" Margaret shrugged "I have no idea and I don not care. Do you know why? It was a personal invitation" Margaret said with a smile."She sent her butler to me with the message can you imagine" she squealed. "I know right" she added before Vivian could say anything."Now the red or silver?" She flashed the gowns in her front again."Silver" Vivian said while chewing."I knew it." Margaret said and walked out of her daughter's room."I hated the red gown anyways." She said as Vivian quickly forgot about her food and towed her mother behind with her phone still in hand back to Margaret's room."It was an anniversary gift from your father. Now that I don't like it, it's useless to me. I either have
Alphonse was signing off some papers with his secretary in his manager position that morning, he was already stressed and the day was about to get sour.His arm was finally out of the sling but now in a smaller cast but every moment he sighed out of frustration the hand ached and it annoyed him even further.He was trying his best to fit everything in all at once and curb his problems but they seemed like they were falling out of his hand and out of his control.Alphonse knew he needed a grip on his sanity because he had been barking orders of late and skipping meals and also burying himself too much in work.All it took was for him to fire Harry and get back to running things smoothly but he let the devious young man continue his trade because at the end he would want everyone to know he tried giving him a chance.He gave everyone a second chance, Vivian was working again, he was about to clear off the charges on Paul before he got released and went missing, he was keeping Ursula’s s
“He strapped me to a chair in front of a small cauldron of boiling water, hung my legs above the water and flashed a blow dryer in front of me” Vivian explained the torture she went through in the hand of Cornelius.“Oh my God. That’s horrible” Paul sympathized with her.“I know. The dread I felt every minute when that dryer swung in my face. I wondered how quick I would die if the dryer fell inside the water and my legs were dropped. Imagine my skin scalding” Vivian said and shivered as she thought about that day.“So how did you get out?" Paul asked.“I don’t know. He just let me go, I cried and told him I could not do anything now that his son was in jail. That vile man laughed and told me to go after telling me to watch my back.” Vivian finished. Paul straightened from the position he had been since Vivian had been telling him her story.“I tell you what. He knew he could not kill you and go scot free. Do you know how powerful you are?. Besides I knew he could not bear to hurt y
“Did you meet the Rochesters concerning their investments?” Alphonse asked as he entered a seemingly busy Harry's office that morning.Harry nodded and quickly signed off some of the papers on his desk.“Yes and In fact it went more perfect than I could have ever imagined. They’re now looking to broaden their market share” Harry said and relaxed into his seat before he started playing with his pen like a businessman.The face he had on disappointed Alphonse.“In fact?” Alphonse raised a brow while giving Harry a pointed stare."Indeed Alphonse. All we have to do now is wait and try to convince them to invest more" Harry said."They're our biggest client" Alphonse noted and Harry nodded."And that's why I'm putting in extra effort to make sure we don't lose them, '' Harry said with a satisfied smile.“Good job Harry. Very good" Alphonse said and applauded him while Harry bowed a little with pride."But there's a little something that's bothering me and that is because when I called thi
“You’re not new to this game are you!?” Alphonse slammed the police report on Harry’s desk in the old study Harry had arranged and turned into his makeshift office at home.The younger man who was tirelessly trying to come up with some sort of new scheme to try and defraud his half brother before running away, looked startled to see Alphonse in front of him.He had only come home to get one or two of his things before heading out but it surprised him to see his nemesis in front of him angry.His usual demeanor whenever he was around him these days.“What is this?” Harry asked as he eyed the brown file skeptically.This was not his first time with Alphonse and files. And now he was beginning to hate anything that had to do with these two things."You would know better" Alphonse said to him to rein his anger in.Alphonse motioned for him to open the file on the table.Harry picked up the file and opened it slowly and as he went through the papers slowly, his face became ashen, pale and
“Vivian?” She shuddered and slammed the drawer of files she was just rummaging.She looked like a deer caught in headlights with open mouth and a slight sheen of sweat on her forehead.What are you doing?” Alphonse stood in total surprise where he had been for the past five minutes watching her.She opened her mouth and closed it before running her hand through hair to arrange it.“I was just uhhhh” she started to stutter looking for words or an excuse to cover up for what she been caught red handed doing.He tilted his head waiting for her to continue but no more information was forthcoming so he concluded himself.“Stealing.” Alphonse replied for her nodding once before entering the office and closing the door behind him.The tension in the air became tight and Vivian's heart thundered in her chest.He set his briefcase down on the desk, stood opposite her and folded his arms.He gave her a few moment of silence as they both threaded carefully in big office space.After Harry had be