"Rebecca, are you sure about this?" Elizabeth asked, her voice was steady as she spoke. "It seems a bit too risky for my taste." She said to her and Rebecca eyed her in a strange manner. She immediately waved her hand dismissively at Elizabeth. "Oh, come on, Elizabeth. You have to take risks to make money. This is a golden opportunity." She told her. Ashton tried his hardest to hide the obvious smirk that was on his face. His plans were working.."And why the hell did you have to bring me here in the first place?" She asked Elizabeth. "I don't want to have anything to do with you and this friend of yours." She told Elizabeth who looked at Ashton. She wanted to call Rebecca out. To tell her that she knew about her past with Ashton. How she was his ex wife and how she had divorced him so cruelly. But she didn't do that, she didn't want to. She wanted to bid her time to see the kind of person Rebecca Knowles was. And so instead of saying any words to the contrary, she nodded bee head s
Rebecca smiled inside of herself as she drove to Myles Jameson's office. She was glad she had successfully deceived them into believing that she had bought their idea. How stupid did they really think she was? She let out a laugh. Did they really think that she would get to the heights she had attained with such mediocre thoughts and moves? Did they really think that she was that low in thoughts? How did they think she was able to clinch Knowles Corps and take the business to the place it was? Did they really think that it was through making such foolish investments and advances? She rolled her eyes as she tried to not get riled up..To them, they had succeeded in exposing her to Elizabeth Cooper, little did they know that this was all going well into her own plan. Now she was headed to Myles office to finalise all the arrangements and the gun Ashton and Thomas had put to shoot at her would backfire and shoot them right in their asses! She giggled a little at the thought of how frus
Rebecca dialled Elizabeth's phone and it rang for a while before the call went dead. Elizabeth wasn't taking the call and it was quite unlike her. She recalled the line again and she heard it ring again for another couple of seconds before it went dead...again. She glanced at Myles who watched her in equal confusion. "She seems to not be taking her calls. Rebecca said to Myles and that made him let out a huff in frustration. She guessed that what Ashton had tried to prove to Elizabeth about her had gotten to Elizabeth. Ashton had finally had those ugly claws of his deep into the life of Elizabeth Cooper. Somehow that seemed to make her laugh. Myles eyed her in confusion as she laughed loudly and heartily as if what was happening wasn't getting to her. He didn't know that this was an angry laugh. One that people let out before they did vile things. And it was no exception for this case. Myles eyed her again before he spoke up. "What are you laughing about?" He asked her, wondering h
Ashton's cab stopped at the gate of the Coopers' villa. He got down and walked to the gates. It's been quite a while since he last came here. He thought the last time he was here was when he had been making enquiries about the ashwagandha plant and that had been the last time he was at the Coopers' place. This time too, just like the last time, he didn't go with Thomas and he hoped that he would be recognized at the gate since it had been quite a while since he last visited. He got to the gate and buzzed himself in. A door man appeared and recognized him, thankfully and he let him into the estate. Ashton nodded his thanks as he began to find his way into the building without any help from anyone. He fished out his phone and called Elizabeth's line. She probably wasn't expecting him. He had informed her that he would come see Angel but he thought that she may not believe him or something. He heard the phone ringing for a while and then it went silent. He tried it again for the second
Rebecca and Myles had decided that they would be visiting the Coopers' villa that day. Rebecca was glad about this. She had intended to use this opportunity to see if she could speak to Theophilus Cooper, she was looking forward to presenting to him a more better and probably more acceptable perception of herself to him so that whatever the hell it was that, that shameless conniving ex husband of hers had painted about her would be wiped. She got into Myles' car at the front of her house. He had opted to come pick her instead of them to both have to drive separately. This way was more profitable and less expensive, she thought. Myles got into the car and was about to drive away when Rebecca spotted someone running towards them. When she saw who it was she let out an eye roll in disgust. Theron! "What the hell?" She asked him as she stared at him in confusion at what he was doing. "Wait up!" He said to them, " I'm coming with you." He announced and that seemed to get Rebecca to rol
Ashton scoffed in disbelief. He couldn't believe the audacity of Rebecca. Her incessant questioning was getting under his skin way too quickly. The hospital corridor echoed with the tensed atmosphere that grew consistently between them; it was even making other people feel uncomfortable."Why are you so obsessed with this woman?" Rebecca asked him again in a disdainful voice. "Are you that much of a golddigger that you would even visit her to get to her?" She asked him with a scornful look on her face. Ashton let out a laugh at that. It was bitter and mirthless laughter. "Hi pot, I'm kettle," he said again to her with hints of sarcasm in his tone. "You have the nerve to call me a golddigger? You of all people?" He asked her. Rebecca's face flushed with anger. "How dare you!?!" She yelled at him. "I know enough," Ashton retorted. "You are a walking red flag Rebecca Knowles. " He told her to her face. There was a heavy tension between them and at that Myles stepped in as he tried to
It was going to be difficult to do this, Ashton knew this way too well. It was going to be hard for him to do it right in front of everyone in the room but Ashton knew that this had got to be the only way and that there was no other way. Ashton was calm when he turned to everyone in the room. He wanted to tell them to give him some time, some space so he could do what he wanted but he could see that everyone wanted to watch. What else would he do better than to let them. He could see that Myles was watching too. He was hell bent on watching just to see what Ashton could do. And somehow that made Ashton happy. At long last someone was going to watch and then inform Rebecca of what Ashton was capable of doing. "I would like to begin." Ashton said and he smiled at them. Mr Cooper nodded his head. "Of course." Mr Cooper responded to him. "You can do that." He said and added to him. After Ashton had taken a glance at everyone in the room, he turned to Elizabeth and smiled kindly at her
Elizabeth lay in her bed as she felt a warmness spread through her body as Ashton removed his hands from her stomach. The pain and discomfort that had painfully hurt her for the past few days vanished immediately and was replaced by calmness and something that resembled strength that was growing in her body. She smiled at Ashton with so much gratitude in her eyes. "Thank you," she whispered to him, her voice full of emotion. "I don't know how to repay you for this." She said to him as her eyes watered with tears of joy.Ashton returned her smile, his expression was gentle. "There's no need for repayment, Elizabeth. I'm just glad I could help." Ashton told her as he smiled at her. Elizabeth's friends, Laura, Michael, and Anthony, entered the room shortly after Ashton left. They had been waiting anxiously in the hallway, and they were relieved when they saw Elizabeth sitting up, looking healthier than she had in days."Elizabeth!" Laura exclaimed, rushing to her side and embracing h