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The Son-in-law's Revenge Just Drive
Simon eyed the station's entrance as the driver pulled the far slowly to a stop. He didn't think he would be coming to such an establishment like this soon. Pammad's trial wasn't over yet but he was certain he'd recieve a call from him soon. With a bitter cluck of his tongue, Simon pushed his legs out of the car as the driver opened the car door for him. By the time he got out and round the car, Bratté was waiting for him. He exchanged a troubled glance with her and then ventured towards the station with long strides. The receptionist lifted her head as soon as she heard the sound of his approaching footsteps and stared at Simon questionably.“William Otto.” Simon said the name in a clipped short tone, like it was acidic to this tongue and he wanted to get it out of his system as quick as possible. It appeared Simon was getting disappointed in his son with every passing second. “Oh!” The receptionist's eyebrows quirked up. The dude with the annoying cynical smile. That's your son?”
The Son-in-law's Revenge Better judgment
Bratté pushed hair behind her ears as she watched Otto down his…How many glass was this? She had lost count. Simon pushed his hand out for more and with pursed lips, she poured him another from the whiskey bottle. After driving around town till natural light was replaced with bright florescent light from stores and shops round the city, Simon finally asked his driver to stop. She couldn't tell whether it was coincidentally or deliberately but the driver had pulled up at this bar. And now, he was drinking. His face was still stoic, devoid of emotions that he seemed to be killing effectively with the glances of whiskey he had been downing. He had said nothing to her since he arrived but he was yet to ask her to leave him alone so here she was keeping him company because she was worried about him. Bratté felt he needed her presence even if he was too manly to ask. Simon wasn't the kind of person to ask for favours without gritting his teeth and she accepted that just fine. Bratté's p
The Son-in-law's Revenge Can't fool me
Her eyelids flickered a few times before opening slowly. White ceilings that glowed softly from reflecting the ward's lighting ce clear through her blurry vision. Her body ached everywhere and very faintly she could hear the constant electronic whirr of a heart monitor. Her eyes shifted to the side and she took in the form of a man, sitting cross-legged on a white chair not too far from her bed. He had a book covering his face. Why am I here? She wondered and her brain so eagerly delivered the answer with painful recalling flashes of the last twenty four hours. Photoshoot. Masked maintenance men. Grandpa dying…“Grandpa!” She gasped, flung her eyes open and jerked her body off the bed at the same time, instantly regretting it a punch-like feeling in her brain hit her skull from within and pain raked all of her nervous system.“Ruby!” The man rushed to her side to stop her from swinging off the bed. Gently, he pushed her shoulders back and up against the frame if the bed, propping s
The Son-in-law's Revenge An iota of truth
Ruby watched Tony carefully. If there was an iota of truth in what her accusation, she would see it in his eyes before he denied it with his mouth but after several seconds passed by in the silence that ensued between them, all she saw was confusion. “The Logans are the natural enemies of my family. We hate each other and anyone associated with them. I can't think of anyone else who would want to harm me and my grandfather or anyone else who's going to benefit from our death. And since you work for them, it isn't surprising that you're sent here to finish what they started.” Ruby folded her hands and watched his shoulders relax along with his face. “I'm not someone you care about so it makes sense that it's the only reason you're here.”Tony slipped both hands into his pocket and left the foot of the bed, taking two steps forward so he was now closer. Surprising Ruby, he brought a hand up to her forehead and she flinched at first but when she realized he simply wanted to smoothen th
The Son-in-law's Revenge I have a way
“I'm coming. I'm coming!!” Tony yelled from the kitchen as he tried to wash his hands to get some of the sauce he had touched up the mackerel with. After that, he undid the apron and hung it up on the wall before going to answer the door. “Hey there.” He greeted as soon as he swing it open.“Hi, it's about time.” Jenner rolled her eyes in slight annoyanve and raised a plastic bag over her head. The sound of bottle clinking together as she walked in past Tony was enough to tell him that she stopped on her way here to get some beer from the store. “Sorry. I had to wash my hands and your knock came on as soon as I opened the oven.” Tony told her as he collected the plastic bottle of beer, both of them walked straight into the kitchen. Jenner's eyes roamed the kitchen as she took a seat at the circular table in his kitchen. “Well, it looks like a fight never happened here. Like you never got attack.”Tony got an opener and took his position in the still across her so they were facing
The Son-in-law's Revenge let sleeping dogs lie
Isabel sat in her terrace, staring into the night sky with a glass of red wine in her hand. Her face was pulled into a woried forwn as she thought about Ethan. What if Ruby ends up being right? What if he wakes up and forgets that they were married? What if he wakes up a different man? One that doesn't love her and doesn't want to. She sipped from a wine and exhaled deeply. Should she be worrying about him forgetting or about him remembering. What if the accident juggled up memories from his past life and bring to light a kind of himself he had forgotten existed? Would his original self like her? She couldn't guess as she didn't know who his original self was like. She had nothing on him and had decided not to give it a thought because she was content. Why not just simply let sleeping dogs lie? But now someone had stirred them up and she was in danger of being bitten either way. She could only hope that neither remembering nor forgetting happen. Let things just stay as they were w
The Son-in-law's Revenge Busier than usual
Pinecrest was busier than usual with the hoard of reporters rushing to take a spot around the front of the building that will offer them the best footage the guests were yet to arrive but some of the reporters were already talking about the event with the cameramen in front of them. Security was present. Suddenly the air shifted around them as a lot of them began to murmur. Something had caught their attention enough to cut one of the reporters in the middle of their speech. Three cars has arrived, pulling up in front of the red carpet. When the driver stepped out with the bodyguards, a few of the security guarding the building started to make a clear path in between the reporters so that the guests could find it easy to make their way to the entrance of the building. The first car had only bodyguards, the second car had Grandma Anabelle, Victoria and Anthony. They were all dressed very exquisitely for the event with Grandma Anabelle in a lovely white dress with a feathery designs,
The Son-in-law's Revenge Highly appreciated
Isabel was tired. She needed to breathe fresh air. While everyone seemed to be enjoying wining and dining while making small business talks, Isabel wanted to not talk about stocks and market value and prospects; she wanted to stop smiling at everyone whether she liked them or not and was tired of hearing the word “beautiful” almost each time she was introduced. She also wanted to take off the damn heels that were hurting her feet without caring about what anyone might think if they see her walking barefooted. Isabel thought to herself that tonight will be the last time she would this deathly pair of heels again. As she rested against the railing, she took in deep breaths of the fresh air. In a few minutes, she would be called by her father back into the hall again. Her phone vibrated in her head as she rotated her head to ease the knot in her neck.“Great.” She muttered to herself in a pitiful tone as she picked it but it wasn't her father. It was the hospital.“He's awake?” Isabel r
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We are here
They were all waiting for one person to arrive. Ruby continued to glare at William, pissed that he was here. “I still don't see any reason why he is here Lukyan.” Ruby called him directly now that everyone present in the room now knows. “We need him to testify against his father in the court later. Besides an enemy of my enemy is a friend even if it's temporary. “ Etham whispered to her. Ruby spared another harsh glance at William who gave her look that told how pleased he was to be her source of discomfort. Ruby thought she's had her share of surprise that day until the AI announced Drogo's presence askimg Lukyan to give them entry. Them because Drogo wasn't alone. Ruby watched the door with expectant eyes as Drogo filed in, followed by Tony and a battered blindfolded man.. Tony pushed the blindfolded man to the floor, blood smeared the it as the man tried to gather himself up. In addition to the blindfolded, his mouth was gagged and his hands were tied behind his back. “A p
A visitor
“You have a visitor Will.” The officer informed him..William frowned, wondering who it could be. Has his father developed a remorse of his un-fatherly actions and wanted to right the wrong?Nah. William shook his head.“Who is it?”It's your uncle.” The officer replied over his shoulder. William halted. His father's brothers didn't give a hoot about family, why would they visit him all of a sudden.“Hey! Hurry up. I ain't got all day.” The officer yelled at him. William wasn't led to the usual visiting room. He was led to a more.lrivaye one hat a detective would use to interrogate a prisoner for details instead. “Who the heck could that caring uncle be?” William wondered out loud as the office urged him into a room.The bloody hell!” William yelled as soon as he saw who was seated waiting for him.Ethan and one other man he didn't know. Ethan looked at the officer and nodded at him to leave them in privacy. “Hey! Hey!!!” William yelled whn this officer locked them in.“I'd prefer
You'll see
The best they could do by themselves was make the study rid of dust so to recieve Mr Alexei Javi who was probably running down this way with his shadow behind.As soon as they were done, theybwere informed of his presence.“Sir Zaitsev, you have a visitor.”“Scan and see if you recognize his face,” Ethan replied the AI with a smile, knowing that it knows who Alexei was. It just simply felt good to be him again.“Alexei Javi, Chairman of Javinsons hotel. Would you like further information on him sir?” it replied.“No, thank you.”“Approve or deny entry?”“Approve.” Minutes later, a man in his seventies still with a youthful energy around hims burst into the room as if the fact that he had been given entry was not enough proof that Lukyan was alive. As soon as he reached the threshold of the study, he halted. Eyes shifted from Droho to Lukyan. “You.” He breathed, staring at Diego. His eyes softened and Justine was filled with relief. “You're here too.”Drogo smiled. “But…” He stared
As you live
Two hours later, Drogo and Ethan were leaving the coastal countryside with flash drives and documents from the smaller rectangular boxes in the treasure chest at the Ivanov's resident. They also didn't leave without having some money transferred to Polina and a promise to visit her again in the future.Now they were headed to Ethan's grandfather's beach house in the rental car.“I'm thinking of having Polina work for us after I resuscitate Belinsky Enterprises. I'm going to focus on how restaurant and food production part.” Ethan shared his thoughts with Drogo who responded with a small smile of approval.They got to the beach house in time. Outside, the building was beauty to behold but Ethan knew that the inside would be crawling with all kinds of creepy and stray things. After his grandfather's death, all of the workers had been dismissed including the housekeeper or do he thought until he saw a hunched figure in a black coat and a checkered print tweed flat cap hurrying out ofa cr
So long
The childlike giggle high-pitched by excitement travelled far thanks to the wind that came with the push and pull of the seawater against the sand, creamy white foam lining the tip. There were three figures playing on the sand, two wore blue shorts and were shirtless while the third one wore a green one with a tank top on. They all had light blonde hair. “I'm counting now!” The third one yelled, sounding feminine. “One! Two! Three! Stop!” The boys froze. They both found it hard to control their laughter as the girl chose which to go after. The game was simple. She had a maximum of three leaps to make it tonome person. If she does touch whichever she picked in those three leaps, then the person touched will replace her in he middle and do his counting. Between the two boys, one could tell which was older very easily. The one on the right hand of the girl was taller and older-looking than the cute little boy on her left who was about his elbow high. They all resembled each other so i
Satisfaction
Isabel's spirit seemed to drop further into despondency with each step she took down the stairs. Wrapped in a wool robe and her hair in a towel of the same material, her finger traced the silver railing of her stairs as she descended slowly. She's just had the loneliest heartbreaking bath. Despite the essence she had added to her bath water that was meant to help her feel great afterwards, her body still ached. And parts of her she couldn't exactly identity. She was sure if one thing however. That she was numb from head to toe. She's done enough crying to last a year, her tear ducts were probably tired and wouldn't produce any more of the salty liquid even if it was prompted to. Her slow descent finally came to an end and she had eventually reached the end of the stairs. Her eyes roamed the house at an unrushed pace, slowly taking everything in and noting how empty—super empty the house seemed to have become. Could one person really make such an impact? She asked herself, huggin
Silver
“You know, you could have just let Ruby drive us to wherever this Thai restaurant is than is having to ride in your car.” Ruby looked outside as she strapped the seatbelt across her chest, silently praying that no one else saw her go into his car. “Thank you but I'd rather not be seen in a Cosmo purple car. Who drives such a colour around nowadays.” Tony put on his seatbelt to and leaned forward to assess the tightness.“Uh excuse me, it's called being unique.”“You're certainly standing out.” Tony teased. “Well sorry if you can't stand a little colour because you're used to the greyness of your world.” She tapped the side of the vehicle lightly with her knuckle for emphasis.“Silver.” Tony corrected as he pulled out of the lot. “It's silver Lolly.”Ruby's eyes jutted together. “Lolly?”“Your car looks like grapefruit flavour so…” Tony explained.Ruby opened her mouth as if to say “the audacity!” “Look, I have varied taste. I'm not restricted to a colour okay. You know what, when n
Guy in black suit
Ruby's body perked up the instant she saw him wall out of the building. “Go after him!” She tapped the shoulder of the driver's seat eagerly.“Who?” Jena asked.“The guy in the black suit.”Jena scanned the parking lot of Logan Industrial Group and found he oerosj her boss was suddenly enthusiastic about. “Tony?” She blurted out thoughtlessly, wincing quietly when she realized her slip-up.“You know him?” Ruby watched Tony speak to someone in his phone. He looked attractive with his hands on his waist and his face switching to serious to slightly less serious as he conversed with whoever was on the other side of the line. Today was sunny and his gelled hair was shiny under the rays of the sun. “Yeah. Tony Ecaudor. Just by name. You know from people I've worked with in the past.” Jenner did her best not to stammer and raise further questions from Ruby. She watched Tony end the phone call and got out his car keys.“Quick! Drive up to him. Quick quick!”Jenner did her fastest starting
Signed
Isabel didn't wait for the car to completely stop. She couldn't. The words were still playing over and over in her head. “Ethan signed the divorce papers sweetheart. You're now a free woman.” As soon as her father had said those words, the driver had stopped the car while she asked—rather, demanded what he was talking about and why the divorce papers had her signature on it even when she had no recollection of ever signing the divorce papers. “You don't remember? It was the day we ate together at the restaurant.” Her father had answered before closing the door, leaving her even more consterned.She rushed past the guards and servants welcoming her, not bothering about her belongings still in the boot of the car. A light shower has started, miniature droplets of it getting soaked up by her blazer. She burst through the front door, eyes wide and searching as she scanned the premises. It was empty and her heart did a painful lurch. Next, she ran up the stairs to the bedroom and with
