“I don't believe this. My brother cannot be dead. There had to be some kind of explanation. He can't just die like that,” Elizabeth told her father. Over the week, she had been hiring a lot of private investigators to dig deeper into Zade's disappearance.Even though the body they buried days ago was unarguably Zade's, she didn't want to accept it. Her relatives termed it grief and decided she would eventually snap out of it and accept the truth but Elizabeth refused to give up. “Liz, I understand you. Zade was more of a brother to you than any of your brothers and the bond between you too was so strong. I understand, trust me. He was my favorite nephew…”“Your only nephew,” Elizabeth chipped in and the man chuckled. “Fine, my only nephew but he was also like a son to me. Since his parents passed away, I took it upon myself to raise him to be the son they wanted. It hurts me deeply that he had to die at such a young age but denying the fact won't change anything,” he continued.“Yo
“You mean there is a chance that my problem might still be I've and not dead like everybody thinks he is?” Elizabeth could barely contain her joy now.“Don't forget the possibility that he could also be a doppelganger and nothing like your brother.” She didn't say that to ruin Elizabeth's mood. It was so she wouldn't get her hopes too high to have them dashed in a second. He could be Zade but there was a higher chance he might not. “But what if he is? I have a good feeling about this, Helen. My brother could really be alive,” Elizabeth chattered on without paying attention to Helen. Helen wondered if she made a mistake. Perhaps she would have found some other way to get the DNA test done before informing Elizabeth. The girl was way too happy to bear any form of disappointment.“I only beg you listen to me first. You can believe whatever you want to but Toyi said we have to get some of your grandfather's hair for tests.” “That's easy. I just need to give him one of those teddy bea
All attempts from Toyi to calm Elsa down were futile. She was pacing frantically and sobbing, claiming that Ray was leaving her for another woman.Nothing Toyi said penetrated her ears. All she knew was that Ray was leaving her. The confusion on his face when she called him her love. The denial came shortly after that. Her heart continued breaking over and over. The tears continued leaking from her eyes with nothing to stop it. “Elsa, you need to calm down. This is not something you should panic about. The accident was fatal. He's suffering from amnesia. He will be fine,” Toyi tried once again.He knew the truth already. For Ray to mention Adera, only meant that he was indeed the Delamonte heir. He was going to send words to Helen but Elsa’s emotional state made him hesitate. He could see that the woman loved him dearly and didn't want anything to make her more unhappy than she already was. “Stop trying to make me feel better, Toyi. My father found him in the sea and he had no me
His memories were back. Every single thing.From Adera to Elsa to accident. His fiance was dead and life denied him the opportunity to mourn her properly. Instead, it pushed him into the arms of another woman. One he couldn't deny his feelings for. At some point, it looked like fate. Or maybe Adera led him to her replacement because she didn't want him to live in pain. Whatever it was, he was determined to mourn. To pay his last respects to the woman that stole his heart at first sight. As for Elsa, she was his wife now. He was in love with her. Letting her go was never going to cross his mind. He just had to assure her that the feelings were real. Zade was well aware of the guilt. It was evident in her eyes. Even though she had nothing to do with the condition, she felt like she led him astray from the life he was supposed to have. He hated the tears in her eyes and he told himself he was going to wipe them off. Everyone who caused her pain would be duly punished. “Now that yo
“You mean this is our house?” Elsa was in awe as she stared at the house before her. It wasn't a mansion or some giant building but it was one of the most expensive apartment complexes in town. “You like it?” Zade asked.“Yes! I love it! This is just perfect!” Elsa squealed, jumping on him with happiness. It was way better than her parents' house. More comfortable than the store. The furniture was on a different level. Everything looked so classy and polished. It must have cost a fortune. “Isn't this too expensive? I know you just regained your memories so you must be from a rich family but don't you think you are spending too much?” Elsa asked him. Zade had nothing to say in response.“I understand you want us to live comfortably, but I don't think you should throw money away like this. We already made plans to move. We could have gotten a smaller place somewhere else and used the bigger potion to the money to start a business,” she told him. Zade was touched by her concern. Pe
“Why do you keep staring at me like that?” Zade chuckled. “Because you just spent 10k and you're acting like it's nothing. Where did you get such an amount from? If we invested that money into business, we would…”“Money for business has already been set aside, El. Stop worrying. We barely had what to eat in the last few weeks, this is an opportunity to enjoy the fruit of your labor,” he told her. Elsa squinted her eyes at him. Fruit of her labor? What labor had she involved herself in that amounted to 10k?“I know you're excited that you're not as poor as you believed, but come on, you are spending lavishly and I don't like it. We would have gotten all this in the market at a cheaper rate,” she told him. The amusement reflecting in his eyes got her pissed. He was laughing at her. He thought she was a clown for asking him to tone down his spending.She wasn't far from the truth. Zade’s daily expenses ran from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on a daily so hearing her co
The SpiralRush event was for a selected few. Even the rich couldn't be sure of securing an invite. It took place once every year and it was usually the talk of the town for weeks. Dignitaries from all over the world usually came around for the event and even then it was hard to gain entry. So when Zade pulled out a ticket to the event, Elsa was shocked to the bones. At first, she reasoned that he might have picked it up somehow, but then she knew Ray. He wasn't someone who would just move things that didn't belong to him. “Where did you get this?”Elsa asked, examining the ticket to make sure it was real. “Where? The ticket came to us. My family receives about ten of those invites every year. I just asked my sister for one.”Elsa stared as the words rolled off his tongue with ease. Even getting one of those invites was a miracle and he had ten sitting in his house?Who was this man?“I've always wanted to go to SpiralRush. I would always tune the channels to watch everything happen
After the event saga, Edgar hired a private investigator to dig into Ray's sudden display of wealth but to his greatest disappointment, they found nothing.His mind deflected to the possibility of Ray being the Delamonte heir but when he remembered that the actual heir was long buried, he rebuffed the thought.That didn't put an end to the possibilities. Like the fact that Ray could have been Zade's estranged twin or something. It would make a good story but was it authentic? If it turned out to be false, his name would be dragged in the mud. He would be the one to bear all the consequences and he wasn't ready for that. So he decided to swallow his pride and meet with the man himself. He was desperate to know how he got his hands on that ticket.He could have stolen it, sure, but then the organizers should have noticed it. There should have been some sort of complaint from the original owner. Zade sat across the man, watching as he deliberated how to start the conversation. Zade di