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The Son-in-law's Revenge Out of place
VICTORIA I stretched my hands apart as I stood up from the bed. Richard, my husband was already awake talking indistinctly into the phone.One couldn't know what exactly he was saying or even getting a clue of who it was.Richard kept on moving his right hand aggressively like he wasn't just in support of whatever the caller from the other end was saying.I remained on the bed as I looked at him pace round the corridor of the room that faced the garden.He gripped the bars firmly like he was trying to control his anger. I knew it wasn't good, whatever the other caller was saying to him was not in his favor.I knew my husband well enough to interprete any of his actions. I stood up from the bed as I sat upright, using my legs to drag the slippers to my reach and got my legs buried inside of them.I stood, walked into the bathroom to go brush my teeth and wash off my body. For a minute I heard his voice grew hoarse.I walked out from the bathroom, tying just a towel around my body tha
The Son-in-law's Revenge In charge
RICHARDI sat back on the chair as I puffed my pipe. I never failed to carry my tobacco everywhere I went. And just the way I love it, all my pipes were customized with my nickname, "DRONE" boldly written on it in italics.My driver had tuned the volume of the music low, making it a sweeter version of it.I never failed to take my convoy everywhere I went. I moved with four BMW and sometimes with Tesla.I was a secret force in the California security force. Most of the officers of high position had me to be thanked for making it possible to get them there effortlessly.I placed a call to Jefferson, he answered the call almost immediately like he had been waiting for my call."Oh Richard, how are you doing?" His voice echoed from the other end."Hello Jefferson!" I puffed my pipe, making circles with the smoke."I'm on my way to the Royal field." He added."Oh!" I replied. "That's totally fine. I was about to suggest that as well. I would drive down there straight! See you there.""Oka
The Son-in-law's Revenge I'll Pass
ESMEAsher also has been avoiding me ever since our last fight yesterday and for the first time ever since we got married he went to bed early enough, sleeping outside in the balcony.He seemed occupied since then.I sat down to dress the cut I had sustained few days ago. It was suddenly aching. Asher did nothing than to avoid me, a stoic expression permanent on his face.I took a deep breath and went close to him,"I was hoping we return back to our normal lives and maybe,"Maybe we could just ignore each other's shortcomings, soon enough, we would get divorced as you have always wanted from the day one of this fixed marriage." I mumbled in a lowly tone."Who mentioned anything about divorcing you?" He raised an eyebrow, smiling at me smugly. At that moment, I wanted nothing than to smack the smug smile off his face.I tried speaking but nothing come out, if i said what was on my mjnd, it would only make things worse. Here I am offering peace, yet he is taking it for granted."I under
The Son-in-law's Revenge Nightmare
Asher's POVI had barely walked few steps when my father called me. I hailed a taxi to my father's place and sent a message to Jonas, my personal assistant to meet me there."Asher's here!" A tiny voice accompanied with giggle drifted to my ears.A smile lit up my face as I entered."Hey!" My younger sister jumped into my arms, "Feels like forever.""I know pumpkin. A week is definitely like forever. How have you been?""I'm fine." She kissed my cheeks and whispered into my ears, "But dad isn't. He is angry.""I'll talk to him now, don't worry." I put her down gently and went to my Father's study."Oh! He's finally here." My father's hoarse voice welcomed me."Oh my Asher, Just look at you. Welcome!" My father's second wife, Zainab, rushed over to hug, "I'm glad to see you again. ""Good to see you too Zainab." I returned her hug."Aw. I've missed you so much." She said wearing a broad smile on her face as she brought my head closer, pecking me on both cheeks."What brings you to Cali
The Son-in-law's Revenge Lingering feeling
"Ethan!!!" A shrilling scream pierced his ears, Ethan woke up with a jolt. He glanced around, expecting to see Isabel. He hit his head with the heel of his palm. He was supposed to get back his memories not have wet dreams about a wife that didn't like him. "Ethan!" The scream came again. He climbed out of the bed, instantly recognizing his wife's voice. "I'm here." He announced, climbing down the stairs, "Is there a problem?" Isabel regarded her husband and noticed he winced with every step he took. "You've not treated your wound." Isabel noted, eyes accusing her husband, "Why?" "I'll treat it later, why did you call m3? Did you need help with something?" "No," Isabel shook her head, "I justed wanted to know if you're inside." "Oh..." Ethan murmured. His wife keeps surprising him with her attitude each day. One minute she is harsh, demanding and the next minute, she's all sweet. Like how she is right now. "Come on." She nodded for him to follow her to the kitchen. She made
The Son-in-law's Revenge background check
Ethan met Drogo in an alleyway, waiting for him."You took a long time Master, I thought were not coming." Drogo commented, leading Ethan into a quieter place."Sorry, I had to quickly attend to something." Ethan replied.He noticed the feeling had left, he no longer felt like he was being watched."Why did you ask us to meet?" Ethan added, following Drogo without questions. "Have you seen any changes yet?" Drogo asked turning back to glance at Ethan. "No." Ethan shook his head, feeling a bit embarrassed. "Nothing at all? Not even a fragment?""No." Ethan replied, his head down, "We are going to another pharmacy then.""Why not visit a doctor?""No." Drogo replied sharply, "we can't. " He added in a quieter voice, "We can't risk anyone finding out about your real identity.""Still...." Ethan pressed, "When I was my real self, I must have had a doctor I trust with my life.""I am not going to take that risk." Drogo said in a firmer voice, leaving no room for arguments. Ethan was
The Son-in-law's Revenge A lesson soon
****When Ethan got home later that night, he met Isabel waiting for him in the living room.For a second, his heart flew, then he forced himself to calm down and walled on properly. He noticed she was drinking the ginger tea. She ran her eyes over him when he closed the door to acknowledge him."Has it been long since you came back?" Ethan asked, freeing his hands from his pocket and standing few feet away, waiting for her to scream or yell at him or so whatever she needed to do to feel better because she looked really angry. "Not quite long. I called for you and checked the whole apartment before I noticed you were gone. I initially thought you were sleeping." She said, sipping out of her tea.Ethan regarded her for a few seconds, perhaps it was the calm before a storm."I went for a walk." Ethan answered."This late at night? Haven't you been seeing the news? You can't go for a night stroll anymore, you don't know what is lurking in the shadows." Her eyes flashed with an emoti
The Son-in-law's Revenge Friends to each other
Ethan entered the family house the next morning to continue with his duties, which involved sweeping and cleaning. It was his routine, especially on Fridays. When he entered, he rolled his eyes at the mess made by his in-laws from the family time they had last time.He rolled up his sleeves, wore an apron, and picked a mop."Ah.... you're here." Victoria sounded behind him, her voice dripping with mockery."Good day, Mother." Ethan replied in a tired voice."What's that tone?" Victoria snapped, moving forward so she's facing him. Ethan stood straighter and regarded her. He noticed her wrinkles were more visible than before, and she had worry lines on her forehead. "What tone?" Ethan questioned and resumed cleaning. "I am talking to you!" Victoria snarled, glaring at Ethan, "Your focus should be on me!"Ethan exhaled and fixed her a stare, "You have my attention now, Mother.""Huh?" Victoria frowned, "What's with that tone?""What tone?" Ethan asked innocently, swallowing down
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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