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The Son-in-law's Revenge Go back to strangers
Not in the mood to argue, Ruby quickly changed her mind as grabbed her drink as soon as the barman brought it, choosing to sit in one of the booths in the room instead. She chose the one neared to the door that provided a view of the outside so that she could distract her mind while she sipped on her drink. But she wasn't on her own for too long because Tony rolled into the other side of her booth with his glass and a bottle.Ruby's gave went from numb to squeezed. “Go sit somewhere else Tony.” “Come on Ruby, just for tonight. Be nice to me. Leave all this feud between the Smiths and Logans that I'll never understand yet find myself in and just be my drinking buddy. Hmmm?” He adjusted himself in his seat with a grunt, opened the bottle and poured himself another serving.Ruby watched him down the whole thing. It seemed like he too had something burdening him tonight, too much that he was okay with asking her to be his drinking partner. “I am not a Logan and I will never be a Logan
The Son-in-law's Revenge Step sisters
The rain had other plans for them obviously and so did fate because the rain didn't stop falling and by the time the rain stopped, Tony was knocked out from crying and drinking. Ruby frowned at her predicament, staring at their Tony while Tony slept peacefully in her shoulder that was beginning to ache. “Shhhh!” Ruby hit herself in the side of her head softly with the heel of her palm wondering what she was going to do next. She had a man as heavy as a bull to drag to go knows where. She didn't know his house and from the looks of it, waking him up to ask him was a bad idea. Mustering all of her strength, she pushed Tony to the side and then realized that the force was too much so she tried to prevent him from hitting his head against the wall. Ruby roved over the mess of their table, she had joined him in drinking so she was but tipsy. Illegal to drive but she knew she could manage herself home. She stood up, walked to her side of the booth and grabbed her purse. She was goi
The Son-in-law's Revenge twisted emotions
Ruby had exited the hotel before Tony woke up so she had no idea of his current status and since they never exchanged contacts, there was no way she could call him to ask him how he was feeling. “Not that I care that much,” she mumbled to herself with a small pout as she pushed her hair to be back and adjusted her fringe clip-ins in front of the mirror. Today was Tuesday. It was the day she was going to meet up without Ethan and his evidence that could not be fabricated at the new cafe that was near the SoHo yoga studio. She was going causal today, switching her usual heeled sandals for sneakers, paired with this pants made of elastic denim material and a white vintage shirt that looked like a cool newspaper. The last she applied was a nude lipstick and clear lip gloss to giver lips the full effect. After she was done, she returned the nude lipstick back into her closet and decided to hold on to the lip gloss just in case her lips needed a retouch. Next, she grabbed her car key
The Son-in-law's Revenge sense of accomplishment
Ruby scanned the plaques on each table when she got in. The restaurant was fairly large and it had this toning down effect and ambience such that when you walk in, you would think that the lightning was lowered. She found plaque 26 but it wasn't empty as a man was seated there with his back turned to her. By the time she got to the reserved table, she realized that the man was the one that had bumped into her that morning at the company and had ruined her heels without apologizing. That incident still slightly infuriated her. “I think you're at the wrong table.” Ruby addressed the gentleman with a formal tone. Luka looked at her with a be slight frown. “I know that I'm not at the wrong table. Thanks for your concern though.” “No sir, I'm pretty sure you're at the wrong table because I am meeting someone here and is definitely not you.” Ruby insisted, her eyebrows lifted defiantly. Luka put down the book he had been sticking his nose in and released an annoyed sigh like he was dea
The Son-in-law's Revenge Of all people, Tony?
“I'm sorry if I interrupted anything…” Luka eyebrows couldn't seem to decide between drawing towards themselves or lifting themselves up. “Huh? Ha-ha-ha” it was an awkward laughter. “No you weren't interrupting anything.”“You don't have to hide your love interest Miss Smith.” Luka said. Ruby's eyeballs were in the verge of popping out of their sockets. “L-love interest?” Now she scoffed, looking at Tony and then scoffed again. “He's not my love interest, I just managed to bump into him.”“Really?” Luka pushed his lips forward in a skeptical frown. “You can bump into someone like that?”“Like what?” Ruby snapped. “Like…” Luka tried to demonstrate the embrace with his hands but when his eyes darted to Tony's, he faltered and looked away, clearing his throat and adjusting his tie. “Is there a reason you rushed out here Mr…” Ruby trailed off now realizing that they've never had any proper introduction the two times they've met, both which were rather unpleasant..“Luka. Just call me
The Son-in-law's Revenge Aphrodite
“Where do you wanna go?” Ruby asked in a strained voice that showed her discomfort, her face was in a permanent frown. Tony's gaze was fixated outside her window. “Just keep driving,” he replied.“Huh!” Ruby took her eyes off the road for a second to glance at him. “Look, I don't have the time and the fuel to drive around aimlessly.”Tony turned his head to look at her with a slightly amused expression, his eyebrows were slightly raised. “That's funny considering your financial status. You can afford anything, burning fuel shouldn't be something to complain about.”“Ha!” Ruby gave a humorless laugh. “Unlike you Logans, I don't have the habit of spending frivolously.” One glance, and she saw the hardness in his eyes. “I told you never to compare me to the Logans again.”“You remember?”Tony's annoyance disappeared like volatile gas at her surprised tone. “Were you expecting me not to remember what I said?”“I mean…” Ruby struggled to find words for a short moment, thinking about how
The Son-in-law's Revenge Redevelopment
“This is the site I think is best after much research and consideration sir.”“But that's an abandoned plaza.”“Abandoned as it seems, sir” the man in the beige suit on white dress hurt and a tie as black charcoal who's sides were as straight as a set square pointed out in a professional tone, “a few big companies around the state are fighting for it too.”“Why?”“Redevelopment.” The man answered and lowered his voice to a discreet pitch. “A little bird told me that Senator Barclay intends to cause redevelopment and has already purchased some properties, abandoned likewise, in that district. After he announcement of the redevelopment, it will be harder to acquire any property to that district.”Lukyan straighted and stoke his bread once, thinking for a moment. Acquiring the property didn't necessarily mean rebuilding it immediately. Since his family has decided it was time for expansion, he could but the property now and rebuild after the announcement of the redevelopment. He knew tha
The Son-in-law's Revenge Channel house
The gasps could be heard all the way from across the table to the kitchen and when both Ethan and Isabel turned their head towards the direction of the sound, they saw the fleeing heads of the maids from behind a corner of the wall followed by the hush sound of them scurrying away after being caught. Ethan has been taken aback by he form of punishment Isabel had chosen, but he was also concerned for the maids that had been eavesdropping. “I apologise on their behalf,” he muttered, his face pulled into a regretful frown. Isabel sighed, dropped her teacup, and nodded. “Sit Ethan.” Although she wasn't yelling, the stiffness in her voice was still there. Ethan hesitated before taking a seat two chairs away from her. Isabel sent him a look of half bewilderment. Her lips parted slightly like she wanted to snap at him to move closer but decided she might appear clingy and pursed her lips instead.Breakfast was awkward. The silence was filled with the soft clanks of spoon against ceramic as
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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
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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
