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The Secret Successor CHAPTER 32
Jessica scuttled over to Russell with a cold expression. Seeing her, Russell’s heart skipped. He looked away.“Why didn’t you answer my calls?” she asked aloud.“Whoa,” he turned back toward her and hissed in a low voice, “why are you shouting?”“Then answer me!”“I-I thought you might be working, and I didn’t want to disturb you.”“That’s nice of you, but I quit the job,” she casually said.“Oh, you quit, huh… wait, you did what?” he was shocked. “Why did you quit?”“Why else? I didn’t like how they treated you,” she quickly replied. “How can I work there after what happened…” she suddenly remembered about Kyra’s offer. “Nah, scratch that, how about we both work there again?”“What do you mean?” Russell raised his brows. “I just got fired today. I somehow managed to get this job. They pay 15 dollars per hour, and I don’t like the smell here, but it’s better than nothing.”“So you won’t work in that restaurant no matter what?” Jessica asked. “Even if you’re paid more?”“No,” Russell w
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 33
Russell sat next to a woman in a car many times, but still, sitting next to Kyra gave a different feeling altogether. It wasn’t just one feeling but a mix of feelings from thrill to nervousness. Overall, it felt good.“Oh,” Kyra turned her head to look at him, “by the way, who was the woman that kissed you?”Russell’s expression froze, but his heart was thundering inside.“I couldn’t see her face, but she seemed really close to you,” Kyra raised her brows.“Uh, she’s a childhood friend,” Russell had nothing to hide, so he spoke his mind.“Though so,” Kyra added. “That’s why she’s pinching you everywhere.” Her tone turned sharp. “She definitely likes you. Do you also like her? If so, tell me, I’ll personally get you two married.”“What?” Russell couldn’t believe what she was saying. (Is this some kind of a test?) Whatever it was, he didn’t feel like he should talk about personal things with her before the marriage. “She’s a good friend, but we never dated. That’s all I can say.”“Mm,”
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 34
Viola’s elbow was badly injured, but before Russell could ask what happened, Jennifer howled, “Look what your ex-lover did to your sister.” Her eyes were on flames, and she frothed at her mouth with fury.“What happened?” Russell hurriedly asked Viola with a stressful face as he checked her wound. He wanted to hear from his sister and not from Jennifer whose words he couldn’t trust.“I went to Natasha’s house,” Viola explained, hissing between sentences because of the pain, “to tell her to stop talking badly about you on social media. She… She slapped me, and I fell down the stairs… and this happened.” Viola saw her badly bruised arm near the elbow. She had never suffered an injury like this, and it made her very nervous and uneasy. “Her fiance, Denver, was also there, and he was laughing hard. It was humiliating.”“She could have easily died from the fall,” Jennifer added, glaring into the distance, clenching her fists. “I told your dad, but he doesn’t want to face Fredrick now. Heck
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 35
Russell woke up and found himself in his bedroom. His head was neatly wrapped up in bandages. He had no idea how long he was out, but the pain and swelling was still very much there.“I remember falling down in the street…” he murmured to himself. “How did I end up here?”A second later, he remembered what he had done. He had beaten Natasha with a hockey stick. He didn’t seem the least bit happy now. God only knew where his heart was now.His anger hadn’t fixed anything.He still felt betrayed. He still felt like screaming at the sky. He still had no one to hold onto tightly.Other than telling himself that he was alright, was there anything else he could do?Could he love another woman? Could he trust another woman again? Could he dance with another woman with his heart full of happiness? Could love flow through his veins again?He was trying, but it was still hurting and haunting.All the thinking hurt him some more.Just then, James entered the room. “You woke up! That’s great.” He
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 36
‘She can change boyfriends at the drop of a tampon.’This was one of the titles Viola used in her online posts to describe a certain woman, without mentioning her name anywhere.However, everyone in her circle and most of the viewers very much knew who she was talking about.Natasha had always harassed her targets in groups, but now she was on the receiving end of an attack from a pissed-off lone wolf.Russell hadn’t met Viola after he had beaten Natasha. For the first time, he entered her room in a long while. She was busy chatting with her friends, coming up with a new plan to pick on Natasha.Was this really the same Viola who once told him to not bother about Natasha and think of her as nothing more than a barking dog?He sat down on her bed. After a few minutes, she finished her chat, sat up and gave him a hug. “I’m so glad that you taught her a lesson, Brother! I always knew you were brave, and you were only holding yourself back. Now, Natasha won’t dare bare her fangs at you an
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 37
Jessica was bringing buckets of water from the neighbor’s well as the pipes in her house busted, and she had no running water. She had already told the owner, Harvey, a 62-year-old man, but he was indirectly asking her to give him a quick blowie. Harvey had always been a pervert, and he had tried to seduce Jessica’s mother as well, but her mother found someone much richer and settled with him. She never came to check up on Jessica or her younger brother, which deeply affected Derek, to say the least.Jessica wasn’t troubled by all this. At least she didn’t appear to be troubled. Having a new headache everyday had been a big part of her life, and she got used to it.She took a quick bath and then prayed to God for food and for the pipes in her house to get repaired soon.And then she bought a couple of chocolates, ate one, and then attended an interview at a prestigious burger shop.The manager was a 45-year-old man who kept staring at her weirdly when she explained her experience with
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 38
Russell returned home. The one being that would usually come to greet him was nowhere to be seen.Straight away, he felt terrible. He didn’t enter the house but went to the small dog house. It had a blanket with bone designs. Perro liked the blanket so much he wouldn’t even let Russell take that for getting it washed.He would tell Viola to take the blanket when he took Perro out for a walk, and Perro would make a lot of fuss after coming home. The amount of sass he would show, no other dog would probably be able to come close to him.But all of that is past now.“Denver Dankworth…” Russell clenched his fists. “You’re not going to get away with what you did.”Russell then went to find a part-time job as he had a debt to pay for having paid Nora her salary.He tried a walk-in interview for babysitters. He particularly chose that job because he didn’t want Kyra to see him working.He got the job to work in an apartment’s room. He had to babysit siblings that were three and four years ol
The Secret Successor CHAPTER 39
The next morning.Jessica spent the last night without eating anything. She was so hungry she couldn’t even sleep. To add to her stress, her brother didn’t come home until dawn. When she asked him where he went, he put thirty dollars in her hand. When she asked how he earned the money, he didn’t answer.“You didn’t steal from a beggar, did you?” Jessica demanded an answer. He went into his room and shut his door. She put the money outside. “I’m not spending it until I know how you earned it.” Saying that, she went out, looking for a new job yet again.Her mobile rang. It was Irene calling.“Hey, I’m heading out to look for a job,” Jessica answered. “We’ll talk later.”“Actually, I called you to tell you there’s a walk-in interview for a CEO’s PA post for a tech company,” Irene excitedly said. “Are you interested?”“PA?” Jessica shook her head. “Is the CEO a female?”“I think it’s a male.”“Then, no. I’m not interested in working as a personal assistant for some male.”“Hey, beggars ca