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The Rise of a Billionaire CHAPTER 125
“I think we should go on a simple date tomorrow evening." Peter said. “I can't go on a date; I am too tired." Kayla snorted from the other end of the room, where she was sitting on the couch with her laptop on her thighs. “Why? Okay, maybe we can do a movie date or something. I just want us to spice things up a bit." He said this to her while he sat with his pajamas on.She looked at him with dangerous eyes and then squinted them owly till her eyes darkened.“Mr. CEO, don't you have anything else to do by the weekend? I need to rest and remember that I am a pregnant woman." She protested with a serious look on her face.“Pregnant. Not sick. Remember, you told me so yourself? I believe you can manage. Kayla Look, I just want to ease off, okay? Work is tiring, with cases here and there. Problems with staff and all, I just want to cool my head with you in it." Peter said. His tone was fierce and determined. For real, the past few weeks have been really rough for him, and Kayla can att
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By morning, Peter felt much better than he had been in the middle of the night. When Kayla woke up, he was sleeping peacefully, so she decided not to wake him up. She has been in his place for a couple of days, and she would really need to go home to get a few things.She got into the bathroom and brushed her teeth.Meanwhile, when she left, Peter woke up and raced his hand on her space beside him with his eyes shot, and when he didn't feel her around, he opened his eyes and sighed. Wondering where she must have gone as early as this, he sat up on the bed and stared at the bathroom door. The door opened gradually, as though she had felt it in her spirit that Peter was awake and waiting for her.“Hey. Are you awake?” She asked him when she finally got a glimpse of him sitting up right on the bed. “I am away, Kayla. I hope you slept well." He asked her.“I guess I did a little, but not with the way you kept tossing and turning and groaning like someone was in pain." She replied to him
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“We will be late if you keep crawling like this." Peter told Kayla. He was standing by the mirror, fully dressed in his azure-colored suit and nice Balenciaga shoes. The Rolex watch on his wrist speaks of volume and luxury. “Tell me why I won't be the envy of the town." He asked a rhetorical question that left only a surprised look on Kayla's face. He knew he was handsome because of his height and his body build. His chiseled abs and jaw—there was nothing he didn't have made perfect for him, and he could easily pass for a model.Kayla, who was busy with her makeup, stole glances at him from the mirror in front of her. “You are just so full of yourself." She sighed and continued.“You never give me credit for it." He said it jokingly to her."Oh, how nice. I bet you have to go for some pageantry. You are fine, and you know it. I can't keep telling you that every day, my boss." She winked at him and grinned sheepishly.“Get off me. You are such a killjoy." He teased and laughed.“You
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“It's beautiful, and it has diamonds.” She twinkled her fingers and smiled at them. Then she suddenly went gloomy again.Surprised at her sudden change in demeanor, Peter asked, “What? You ‐ don't like it?” He stuttered the question.“Not that”. She took a deep breath. “We should have been married before this baby set in. You know it's some kind of family ethics, and I just broke it. I feel really bad, and I don't know how mom would take it,” she complained, still looking at the beautiful diamond ring sitting pretty on her finger. “I understand, but trust me, everything will be fine. I had no idea about this family ritual thing, and you never mentioned it. I would have been more careful, Kay. But it has already happened, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it except get rid of the baby. Is that what you want?” “An abortion? Over my dead body. I could never do a thing as horrible as that to my innocent child.”.“Good. So that leaves us with the option of facing your paren
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She got out of the car, and the duo went back into the house. That night, Kayla smiled all through, and even in her sleep, she smiled so hard.************Very early Monday morning, Kayla pulled up in front of the company where she had worked for a few months. All those who had mocked her for driving that old Corolla car had to see the goodness she had come to work with. She wouldn't have bothered, but the fact that they mocked her behind her back was something she had to fight back against. She had been quiet for a long time, and everyone at the firm, especially those who weren't on the same team as her, thinks she is pompous because she was given a higher position than those she worked with for more than five years. For Godsake, she was a goddess when it came to designing, and even the goddess of art and creativity gives her the accolade for it.She parked silently, waiting. When she looked around in search of their cars, she found out the leader had arrived. It was just 7:15 a.m.
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At exactly a few minutes past twelve, Alex knocked on Kayla's door.Kayla, who had forgotten she had fixed a date with Alex, looked at her stunned as to why she would come into her office during lunch break.“What? We have a date, remember?” Alex quickly quenched Kayla's curiosity. “Oh, that's true, and I totally forgot we had plans." She said that and began to pack her things. She turned off her system and moved out. “So where are we going? The canteen?” “No way… You are way bigger than that canteen. I shall take you somewhere really nice, down the streets for about a few blocks. But we will ride in your car." Alex told her.“Sure, that's a sure thing." Alex was super excited about her boss's growth. No one could do it better than Peter. Sometimes she wonders if she will ever get a man as determined and intentional as him. She took a deep breath and helped Kayla with the door. As they strolled out, they met a few other colleagues who had seen Kayla drive into the premises with her
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“Back off, moron. She just told you she isn't interested in what is difficult for your grown Guinea fowl to understand. You are not her class, and you can't compete with her man, so f***k the hell off." Alex screamed at him. The man was shocked, and I too was shocked. My mouth fell open as I watched her speak to him in such a manner.“Alex, you should come down." I want to say something to her, but I kind of loved how protective she was of me. I found it strange and fascinating, and I wondered how jealous she would be of her lover. I chuckled and looked back at the man, who still stood perplexed at his marrows.“If I were you, I would stay away from her and never show your ugly face here." Alex screamed in her voice and called the attention of the other person's who were having their solo lunch date.“Well, I wasn't even talking to you; why are you even flipping and yelling?” “Move Mr.” “Mr. Marcus”. He smiled at Kayla, who still had her arms folded against her chest.“I don't give
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They drove off to work, but on their way, they stopped by a store to get Lisa's ice cream.“I can beat my chest and say this is not the first time you are meeting Mr. Marcus. I mean, how on earth would you treat him in such a mean way if you haven't had a bad encounter with him before now? Kayla asked. She paused for a while and took the seat belt off her waist.“I haven't met, actually. I just hate his guts the moment he shows up at the front door." Alex confessed. She had her seat facing the door, so it was easy for her to see who was coming into the restaurant hall from the front door.“Whoa! You even noticed when he got into the restaurant from the door?” She asked Alex as he got out of the car and closed the door.“Yes. I saw him come in, and he came straight to meet us, Luke. He had nothing else to do but woo a lady for the whole day,” she said, angered and pained, and I just couldn't relate to the reason she was angry. But I could tell she didn't want anyone coming close to me
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Reynolds has his eyes on the records. He has checked all the files he printed out, but there was simply no name that matched Red's name. He wondered while sitting in his office alone. He has done all he could to make sure he wasn’t making any silly mistakes with the names.He paused, looked at the files for a while, and smiled. He knows that he will find what he is looking for. Just as he was about to scroll again, the door to the office creaked open. Cora was shocked to see him sitting behind his desk with his eyes wide open and focused on the door.“Hey Detective Reynolds! What are you doing here at this time? It’s the weekend, and you should be home." She said this to him as she walked into the room.“Well, I know it’s the weekend, but I have got so much work today before next week. Remember, the case with the Colemans is a very crucial one, and that is why I put you in my eyes to see the places I can’t see. “I see!” Cora exclaimed as she took her seat on the desk.“What’s your fi
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Victor said this on his couch in his living room, wiping off the blood from his nose. The hospital seems to know him for always getting into fights, so he was not going to waste his time answering any questions or even driving down. The blood from his nose has increased incredibly, so he picked up his phone and called his personal doctor to come over. In less than thirty minutes, the doctor had pulled up outside the house.“You sounded really urgent over the phone." Dr. Kylian said as he hurried into the house.“I'm bleeding, doctor. I want to call if it isn't urgent." Victor answered. “I see,” the doctor replied, placing his first-aid box on the table.“You got into a fight again. Typical of you”. He teased and laughed.“The bastard always has a way of showing up here to fight me, and I am not going to let him beat me up all the time.”.‘Don't you think it's time you let him have his peace? You have done more harm than good around that man." Dr. Kylian said.‘Stay out of my family
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“Talk to me, Victor." She pressured him to speak, and then he finally spoke by asking her the question that had been bothering his heart for almost two hours.“Do you love Victor?” “What? How dare you ask me if I love that goat? Peter, I am wearing your engagement ring, and I am carrying your child. How. Can you degrade me to that lebel? Is that how you see me? Is this what you think of me? Kayla was broken by his question. She looked at him and let tears well up in her eyes.“I saw the pictures of the two of you standing at a close range like lovers,” Peter lied.“A picture? Show it to me and tell me about the idiot who took the picture. This is a setup, and you want to believe it after all we have been through together?”. She asked in disappointment.“So are you going to tell me what happened today after the ice cream shop?”.“Ice cream shop? Wait a minute. Are you stalking me?”“Someone saw you, Kayla, so this is what you do behind my back?”. Really.Okay, Peter, now you are going
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Peter sat in his office thinking about what he would do, and just then his alarm reminder for the meeting ahead came beeping. He turned his eyes to the phone and saw the notification. He grabbed his phone and got up. Just as he was about to leave the office for the conference room, Tyler came in to carry the laptop. Peter was already disheartened by the pictures and interpretations. He didn’t say much. He didn’t know what to do, but he was sure he would do something to protect his woman from Victor..He went to the meeting, and when everything was finalized, he got up from the chair, shook the men, and went back to his office."Boss, is everything alright?” Tyler asked as he had noticed his boss’s change of demeanor before the meeting commenced.“Sir, you look bothered. Is there a problem? Is everything fine at home, boss?” Tyler asked as she raced behind his boss, who had increased his walking pace. Tyler could sense that Peter was angry, and so he tried his best to sort out whateve
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Victor walked away in shame while Kayla and Nurse Betty drove off. The Camry waited for a while after Victor’s car moved before driving off. “Hello Rey. We got your man trying to bully a lady but I think someone fought him off already”. Cora spoke the moment Reynolds came on the phone.“Oh! Great. You got some pictures?”“Sure. What I am doing as a detective if not providing pictorial evidence?“Great job Cora, you can drop the photos on my desk. I shall check them as soon I get to the office.“Alright boss’. Cora answered and drove off with her teammate.In about two hours Reynolds reported straight to Peter’s office. The heavy knock on the door made Peter raise his eyes from the computer he had been focused on for the past three hours.“Detective Rey, it’s so good to see you again, it’s been like a week already is it?’ Peter spoke with happiness in his tone.“Mr. Coleman is good to see you again” Detective Reynolds spoke. The two men shook hands and then the Detective sat down.“Wh
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Kayla has been living her sweet life in her apartment by herself. And since Peter isn’t in total support of it, he tells nurse Betty to go live with her to monitor her resting and eating habits so it doesn’t affect the baby as the doctor had said. Kayla knows that if she agrees to Peter's options, she will be a wife in less than twenty-four hours, and that’s exactly what she doesn’t want. After all, she could still have her baby and live a peaceful life without Peter in it, but that’s not what she wants for her baby; she just wants a father and a friend whom he or she could play with.She enjoyed her childhood with her parents, especially her father, Ethan, who gave her almost everything she ever wanted in life. Kayla knows that if her father had more to offer her, he would go out of his way to get it. She lay on the bed and checked her time. Since her boss had decided to give her a day off work, she wasn’t going to misuse the opportunity. Today was also her antenatal day, and the ma
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“I will be leaving in a few days,” Reynolds said to Pablo, who was busy picking pebbles and throwing them into the water.“In a few days? That’s quick?” Pablo responded sharply. He had only been in Reynolds Company for a few days, and he was beginning to blend in with his vibes so much.“And when do you plan to return?” Pablo asked like a woman whose husband was going on a war trip.“I do not know. But I am sure I will visit this part of town sometime soon.” There was a little silence between them for a while before Reynolds spoke again. “I wonder why he brought the factory this far; his father knows better. What could he possibly do after inheriting this space from his father?" They both chuckled at Reynolds' thought.“I hope you find what you seek, detective.”“You are the only one who knows about my mission here, and I know that we have had a good deal. Keep to your side of the bargain, and I shall keep to every word I said to you the previous night and now. He checked the smartwa
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Reynolds got to his shabby apartment and spent the night. Now that Pablo had seen his real face, it was going to be a little bit difficult to be free around him with that mask on, but he had to do it after all. He took off the mask and lay on his bed while his heart raced through his home, wondering if his items were safe in the house.”I guess I have to call Richards to go help me check what’s going on with the house, or if someone has boggled it. He has his most valuable things there. He took a deep breath, rummaged his phone on the side of the bed, and called Richard's number. Richard answered the call with a cracked voice.“You must have been sleeping. I am so sorry for waking you up.”“No, it's fine,” the voice said at the end of the call.“Well, I want you to help check on my home to see if everything is still intact. I bet you still have my spare keys with you." He asked“Yes sir. I still do." Richard answered as best he could. After he finished with the call, he put the phone
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After a quick shower, Reynolds rushed off to the playground, where the others had been waiting for him to come and play the game. The moment he showed up, the crowd began to cheer for the victory of the previous day."Oh, my good friend is here, and today I shall teach him the ways of the old when it comes to chess.”“Be mindful of what you wish for, my dear friend," Reynolds spoke, his fake white beards dangling from side to side. They played the game for very long hours as no one of them was willing to quit for the other, and then at the last minute, Reynolds won again.This time, Pablo had put his one hundred dollars into a bet. Reynolds laughed hard and patted him on the shoulder. Pablo shook his hand off with all his strength and then fell back into heavy laughter."Man, you are a monster. Now I can believe that you are a lord when it comes to the game of chess. I will hand over the crown to you for as long as you are here." He told Reynolds, who was busy taking his drink. Reynol
