"Mom, are you okay? What happened?" Mallory asked as she stepped into her mother's bedroom, worry written all over her face. Madam Doris was lying on her bed with the doctor sitting beside her and checking her blood pressure. The lawyer stood on the balcony entrance leading out of the bedroom.Mallory rushed to her mother's side and held her arm caressing it. "You shouldn't exert yourself so much Mom, you're a doctor, you should know this better than anyone…" Mallory was talking with concern but her Mom wasn't ready for that when she cut her sentence short and wriggled her hand from her daughter's grip.She snorted and scowled at her. "Why won't I exert myself when your husband is hell-bent on ruining me? Look at him" She shifted her gaze from Mallory to Ethan who had stopped at the door entrance like some criminal who was caught red-handed. "He's been on the news these past days and not for good reasons"She turned her stare back at Mallory. "My name has been so tainted that I lost
The receptionist's lower lips trembled as his eyes stared at her. She searched his dark eyes for an ounce of pity but there were none as Aidan's remained dead, without emotions. The pleasantness he had when he came in had disappeared. She regretted her unfriendliness towards him.She patted her mouth to speak but words failed her. Aidan spun around averting his eyes from her, and faced Mr. Avangard. "I don't know how you ended up with such unruly staff but if my father is going to be investing in this place…" He smirked slightly. "Then there's no job for them here anymore.""Of course, Sir" Mr. Avangard spun to the three of them and without remorse ordered them. "You're fired! Take your stuff and leave this instant…""Wait…" Aidan drawled. "The guard was just following the orders of these two," He said pointing at the both of them. "Leave him out" He ordered. The guard bowed and thanked him before surfing to his post.Mr. Cuke's legs became wobbly from hearing the order. He had spen
"Since you're deaf, here's a list of all the personnel I want to be fired." Aidan picked up another file from the table and threw it at Ethan. It landed right on his face before falling to the ground. He looked at Aidan in scorn, his face was indifferent. He crouched to the floor level and picked up the file. "Good boy" Aidan had a sly smirk on. "Now I'm sure that won't be hard for you to handle, I expect results when I get back." He picked up his bag and phone and stepped out brushing Ethan out of the way as he did so. Ethan sank to the floor dejectedly as soon as he left, his knees were too wobbly to take the weight of his body. He buried his face into the file and let out a muffled scream. The staff all stood watching him as the door to his office was still open.Aidan got back to his office and parked in the Ackerman family's reserved parking lot. It was deeper into the parking lot. Before he even stepped out of the car, his secretary(Julia) and Mr. Milton were already standing
He got into his Bentley and banged the door. He held the steering wheel tightly and screamed to release the anger packed inside of him. The car was soundproofed and tinted, so no one could hear or even see his screams.He was brought back by a knock on his car window, he stepped down. It was one of the officers followed by Mr. Raymond."He described Kay, with the sketch, he would soon be apprehended." The police officer assured Aidan."The girls, are they okay?" Aidan drawled as he asked the officer, sympathy plastered across his face.The officer who had already turned to leave stopped and spun around to him. "They're going to be ok, thanks to you. One of them said they came here on their own accord, we've already alerted the parents." He tapped his shoulders reassuring Aidan. "Don't worry, we'll handle everything." "I'm sorry I couldn't get to her on time." Mr. Raymond said despondently. "If only I had worked faster…""You did all you could. We are going to find her" Aidan reassur
A couple of days after Sir Frederick started seeing Aidan pop up more, Aidan took over Martl group, he completely changed everything–from firing the entire staff and bringing in his own marketing group(Martl group is a marketing company) and demoting Ethan to the manager level at his former company and replacing him with someone else.Ethan's whole world crashed in on him, his wife; Mallory kept spewing on him any chance she got. He felt like he lost all he struggled to achieve over the years including his wife's respect.Mr. Benjamin was his only hope now, he was on his way to meet his nephew– Dr. Casey, as she was the one responsible for the DNA testing of Aidan and his father. "If anyone could wreck everything for Aidan with this, it would be him" Ethan muttered to himself and picked up the huge box of files the new president had offloaded on him as his job for the day.Mr. Benjamin's car arrived at Casey's DNA clinic and he parked in the front. The building was located in the sty
"I got here as fast as I could." Mr. Raymond went over to their side in Aidan's office as soon as he came in."I'm sorry I had to call you on such short notice, but it was important""You're my boss, I come whenever you call" He looked over at Casey and studied her. Her eyes and nose were red from the tears indicating she had cried a lot. She didn't even raise her head, not even once to look at Mr. Raymond, which told him that there was something heavy on her mind."Don't worry, we'll fix whatever it is" He sat beside her, tapping her gently on her shoulders. The tears Casey held back fell freely upon hearing those words from him. She fell on his shoulder to seek comfort and it was provided by him.Mr. Raymond and Aidan gave her time to let all her emotions flow to lift the burden in her heart. Aidan handed her a fresh handkerchief as she had soiled the previous one he had given her before. She cleaned her eyes, blew her nose, and looked at them. She told them everything the uncle ha
"Why was my daughter arrested? On what charges is she here?!!" Exclaimed Madam Doris, the moment she stormed into the police station. She had been in a meeting with some of her very wealthy clients when her lawyer called to inform her about the arrest of her daughter Mallory.On getting there, she met Aidan standing with someone else, she rolled her eyes and strode past them straight to the reception desk. "I demand she be released this instant!" She banged her hand on the desk as she spoke, rattling the whole contents on top of the table."Ma'am, I suggest you calm down as that behavior is not tolerated here." The attending policewoman on the desk said to her scowling.Madam Doris was insulted hearing that. "I can see you just got employed because it's obvious you have no idea who I am." The police officer looked her up and down and had an irritated expression on her face. She took a piece of paper not caring about her attempts at intimidating her and placed it in front of her.
It was the next day, Aidan was in a meeting when he was called out by his secretary because of an emergency phone call from Mr. Raymond."Excuse me," He said politely, stood up, and exited the conference hall.He dashed into his office instantly and the call was patched through to him by Julia."Yes, what's going on? I was in a deal-closing meeting, just know you interrupted that" He taunted.Mr. Raymomd's breath was weary. "I have bad news, Sir"Immediately, Aida's heart skipped a bit, he pulled his chair and sat down."Alright, what's the bad news?""Kay was found dead in his cell this morning, they said his food was poisoned as his body showed signs of it." Aidan chuckled weakly. He clenched and gritted his jaw, and bent his head forward, gently tapping the phone on his head in annoyance."Sir?""Sir?"Mr. Raymond called out several times before he answered him back. Aidan had drifted off to the fact that the only link to finding Rachel and apprehending Mallory was gone. "It was