The small group of friends and family went silent and watched Ms Wayne do her thing. She reached into her bag and took out a laptop and some wires. “What are we going to do with all of these wires?” Trevor's brow arched as he asked. He couldn't hold in his question any longer and he wasn't really the kind to watch in silence and patience like the rest of his group. But Ms Wayne didn't mind his question and gave him an answer without breaking her focus from her work. “I'm going to connect four androids together. This phone,” she pointed at Charlie's phone, “this phone,” Tara's phone, “my own phone and my laptop. All of them will be linked together.” “Why do you need to connect them together? And why is your phone a part of it?” He watched intently at what she was doing as he laid down another question. “Well you see,” Ms Wayne started. “These two phones–” Tara's and Charlie's, “--both hold secrets that we all need to know. It would be stupid of us to take the risk of going through
The group dispersed to stretch their limbs while the files were being transferred and Ivan went outside the café for some air. He couldn't take his mind off the things he had seen on Tara's phone no matter how hard he tried. He wished he hadn't opened the phone yet but what difference would it make? He would still see the images later on anyways. The sun shone less than it had before as the evening breeze began settling in. He raised his hand to check the time on his wrist watch. About three hours had passed since she started the transfer, how long would they have to wait? More importantly, what kind of files were on the phone– both phones that three hours weren't enough to transfer everything? Or was she having some difficulties but didn't want to alarm them? He had too much to worry about these days. His mind was starting to wear off and he told himself he would go on a long vacation with his wife and step son when everything was settled. He nodded his head to confirm his own
Vienna felt a smile work up on her face. The night before, Ivan had promised her a night she would never forget in a thousand years but he ended up leaving her behind to attend the dinner with the Banks family. While she worked at the hospital, he told her they were already putting the evidence together and once they were done, he would spend the entire night with her. She quickly wrapped up with her work and left her son in the care of the personal maid Alfred had hired for her. Ever since Alfred moved out of the mansion with all the other maids and returned to the Wayne residence, she was all alone so he hired a few new faces to help keep the house tidy since it was too big of a job for one person anyway. Her personal maid was Frankie, a young and beautiful brunette with bright blue eyes and a warm character. “Be a good boy okay?” Vienna said to her son. “Frankie will play with you all you want tonight, mommy has to work outside tonight.”“Again?” Williams heaved a sigh. “Yes,
The aroma of fresh coffee caressed his nostrils as he lifted the cup to his mouth. Taking a sip, he dropped his cup back to the table and continued with his meal. Vienna watched him in silence as he ate without uttering a word. After such an erotic experience, he just got up and went straight into the shower then changed into a comfy black hoodie and free black tracksuit pants. Still not saying anything about what happened earlier, he asked her to join him for dinner which she silently did. She could barely focus on her own food from all the discomfort she was feeling. She cleared her throat rather loudly than normal but he pretended as if he hadn't heard her and just ate his food. “Ivan,” she called out his name and was surprised that he barely gave her a response. Rather than responding, he arched his brow in response without taking his eyes off his food. She didn't mind his method of response, instead, she continued on with the conversation. “Where did you go today?” “Didn't
The room was silent for more than a minute. Ivan remained on his seat with his eyes fixed on Janet while she stared back as if nothing out of the ordinary had just happened. “You speak.” He finally managed to get the words to leave his mouth. “I always did.” She responded plainly.Ivan let out a soft laugh. “What exactly were you trying to gain by pretending not to be able to speak when the others were here?” “I was saving my first words for you. I know we didn't quite end things properly before…” “Before you suddenly passed out? Yeah, we didn't.” Ivan completed her words for her. “What happened to me? I feel some slight pains in my stomach–” she reached for the blanket over her lower body to lift it but Ivan held her hand and she looked up at him with a mix of confusion and surprise. “You… you were on some… pills.” He said and her eyes widened.“How do you know that?” She asked surprisedly. Her hands moved away from her blanket as she stared at him. “That's what happened to yo
The room fell into yet another awkward silence, both staring at each other as if anger was the thread that pulled them together. Ivan wondered how a woman could be determined to ruin another life for her favor. The rest of the night went by in silence. Morning came and Alfred gave word of his departure and asked for the go ahead to handle Charlie's matter that day. Ivan gave him a go ahead and thanks to all their proof, Charlie was easily apprehended. The entire school was left in awe and the Graham's family, shaken. For the charge of bullying for many years all through college, attempted murder that led Ivan to a coma, attempted murder once again by hiring an assassin, for assaulting a woman woman severally and also attempting to murder her multiple times out of his rage, he was sentenced to forty years imprisonment and forced to receive medical help from rehabilitation center.Ivan couldn't help but to feel bad after the deed had been done but there was nothing else that could
Everyone watched in silence and awe as Janet turned away from Ivan, escaping his hold, and walking away. She climbed up the stairs in silence and went straight to her bedroom. Ivan let out a sigh as he let his eyelids fall for a minute to regain himself. He turned around and found all eyes were on him. Trevor rose to his feet and dragged Ivan away from the dining table. Arriving at Ivan's room, he slammed the door behind himself and grumbled angrily. “What the hell is wrong with you? Huh? What kind of trick were you trying to pull out there?” Ivan looked at him as if he was confused. “What are you talking about? Weren't we both worried about her earlier?” “Yes we were but in a situation where she walked in like that, I should have been the one to run to her and not you! Why would you hijack my chance to show her how much I care about her huh?” Trevor couldn't hide his anger as he spoke. “I didn't hijack anything, you were just too slow. It didn't look like you were going to stan
Vienna arched her brow at him. “How did you ever love me? I don't know, you tell me.” She crossed her arms below her breast.Ivan looked at her as if he was looking at a woman he had never seen before. How did he ever really love her? Was she always like that? Arrogant and careless? “You know… for a while now, I had been considering us breaking off our marriage, this abortion thing was what helped me decide. For over six months I have been thinking about getting a divorce, I even had the papers prepared but I was confused. “I didn't know if it would be a mistake if I handed it to you or not but I have been thinking about it. The way you talk to the helpers around the house and treat them, the way you treat Trevor, the way you act around everyone, do you think you are on top of the world with us beneath you?” He arched his brow at her as he asked. “Fine!” Vienna exclaimed. “I let the power and wealth get to my head but don't you think a divorce is way too much? Isn't this something