Erica went silent, she swallowed her words as her mother continued pouring her rage on her. "I'm sorry Mother.." She drawled, her voice breaking at every word she spoke but her Mother didn't give a hoot as to what was wrong with the sadness in her voice seeping through the phone."He came back yesterday, he's in his office now…" She trailed her words, dragging snorts at each word.Her mother's spirit lifted when she heard Frederick Clayton was around. She beamed through the phone. "Set a meeting with him" She harshly ordered her daughter."What?... You're joking, right? I can't do that, just set up a meeting…" She was cut short by her mother mid-sentence.Madam Doris scoffed. "Then let your husband know, set it through him."Erica sighed heavily through the phone and went silent until her mother yelled her back into reality. Her Mother's yell startled her so greatly that the phone fell from her hands onto her thighs. She picked it up and heard a raging Madam Doris over the phone. "I
Sir Frederick growled. "You deceived me, Doris…" His tone was stiff and gruff. "I selected your family because of the honor and dignity you possessed, but deceiving me this way…""Tsk…Tsk…" He sucked his teeth.Madam Doris was uneasy, she felt so uncomfortable in her seat, it felt like little pins were sticking out and piercing the shit out of her. She bowed her head from him to avoid his gaze. Even though she was scared of how he might react, it was better to let him deal with Aidan before he ruined her.Silence fell in the room and Frederick gritting and clenching his jaw could be heard until he talked finally."How could you let such a loser go scot-free to have so much power to threaten and blackmail you?" He strolled back to his cigar away from the window, picked up one, and lit it up.Madam Doris finally spoke up as the atmosphere in the room became stuffy–not because of the smoke from the cigar but because she was uneasy from Sir Frederick's aura."I'm sorry Sir, I thought he w
"Unfinished business?" Jeremy said scornfully as he growled. "What is the meaning of this Ethan," He scowled at him.Ethan stuttered and mumbled his expressions. "Let me help him out," Aidan smirked as he spoke. "He sought for…" He drawled and chuckled lightly. "He has been begging and sending emails for the past two months to invest in his company." As Aidan spoke, Jeremy's face turned sour. He furrowed his brows and looked at Ethan disdainfully. "What the hell is he talking about? If you've done this, why then did you call me over to invest?" "I made it clear to you that I want to be the only one investing" Ethan was dumbfounded as Jeremy spoke, he didn't even give him a chance to explain himself.Jeremy, after spitting furiously on Ethan, turned his gaze to Aidan. "It's obvious this idiot doesn't know where his loyalties lie." He looked over at Ethan disgustingly and continued speaking. "Well, let's settle this. How much do you want so you can back away from this company? I mean
"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