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Unsheathed Heir Chapter 131
"Well after your message last night you left me with no option other than to decide to show up," Joshua said as the door opened to meet him.''Did you get the mail?" Miss Noura asked."How could I not?" She whispered hoping her voice didn't carry.She stopped at the curb, opening the mailbox as fast as she could. The case of her being overly embarrassed by Joshua was still literal."Well. . .""I'm getting the mail, Miss Noura." Bonded by circumstances it was. She wouldn't have expected herself to be stuck up in this mess if she was told this is her fate years back when she was doing perfectly fine.Love, ambition, changes and God! She has basically gone insane.“That’s ridiculous! Our job is to give the client what they want!” Miss Noura sputtered in disbelief."Not that I find myself as your employee." Pamela fired back. Her heart thuds and she cringes at the thought of Mr Hudson, and the stages of annoyance he would be going through.She should endure if not she doesn't feel right
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With a turn from facing the curtain on the wall, Joshua smiled at the lady that stood before him."What can I say, you have such a choice to decline my offer, Mr Stark," Valentine said.Joshua smiled, his hand working through the table, his courage as blue as the sea. "Well, I have come to see you and give the news to you in person but don't sound more like asking now that I have rendered my voice plain?""The Benedicts will not accept this." Valentine almost screeched."Is it perhaps a forced mesalliance with a grown-up? An heir to the Stark?" Joshua laughed hysterically. Her face shot up, almost shocked, thatched taking her for a joke."I can help you against Mr Hudson and the executive and more the committee that gathered to see through the coats your ruin." Her payback to Pamela was not going well and it made her furious."I'm sure I'm delighted with your offer but weren't you the one that called me tardy and pushed all the hate on me? Well, have to become unduly worthy of your cl
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Pamela sat at the side of the hospital bed praying for her mother to wake up. Her eyes were swollen. Her lips formed into a thin line and she looked at the wall, summoning patience that was nowhere to be found. "Mother it's all my fault if you got in this state because I was stupid." She tried to sound calm but her inside quivered and she exploded into a thousand emotions streaming down her eyes like the flow of the river.She felt a hand tighten on her shoulder warm and at least she knew it was warm in the wild room. Her hand slowly trailed up and placed onto that one."You've been there all blighted, you should stretch out your body and maybe get some sleep," Oliver said.She was silent for a beat and she looked up."How far did the clinic say our treatment is due?" She couldn't, well, didn't call her father, Mr Mason was also like that not caring about anyone, his attitude they thought regarded his work ethic was rather plain to them and obvious now that he's got nothing to manage
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Was he being serious with her right now? She glared."I'm sorry but if you were in my case you would be hanging on a cliffhanger of saving the one person you love." She managed but her eyes were already dampened with tears as they streamed down.Joshua walked to her and hugged her to his chest. "It's okay you can cry there all you want." He mutters.She pulled away from him, he was rather jeopardising them even more. Pamela reminded him that the rumours about them still hadn't died down.And for that, no one would want to have anything to do with her. Hudson might be a terrible spouse but to cheat on your husband is one thing the patriarch is fully known to bad mouth with. Mostly Joshua— the enemy they still savour at his hoofs not that they have a choice. "I can't go in there." She dabbed her hand, ripping the tears across her face.“We’ll be late,” he said, pulling away with an effort.“Then go alone.” Joshua took her arm, and they tried to hustle through the halls, the old electr
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“We thought we’d wait on a family,” he said. “Three years at least, till I’ve settled in as a Benedict.”“And will that be a large family, or will you keep it small?”“Small,” they said, just as Nathan blurted out, “Large.” They exchanged surprised glances, and Sidney burst out laughing.“We’d settled on three,” Nathan added, “I guess Valentine thinks that’s a lot or you're not settling down with her?”Brandon laughed a little awkwardly. “To an only child, it is.”“I was one of seven,” said Mrs Blaze. “You can’t handle three?”“Of course, I can.” Nathan scowled. Had he blown the ruse already? She was watching him narrowly, deep frown lines carving a map across his brow."Well I can't say much, I love children but I can't remember when last." Sidney threw daggers at Pamela.“Oh, what smells delicious?” Sidney craned to look as the dinner cart rolled in trying to court her attention. “I wish I had two stomachs, so I could fit a bite of everything.” She almost rubbed her shoulder with he
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Joshua finds himself checking through the files he had collected earlier this morning from Miss Noura or his cyberpunk ever one.His eyes flash at the odd information. Mr Hudson was truly a whack with lots of secrets trying to conceal himself. And Derek wasn't at the Hornwort. The files show both of them were spotted together earlier. Hudson and Derek go into the Stark mansion."Well, what are you up to Derek? Now that there is a party at Hornwort? And I can't figure out not until I'm there."Joshua's hands were on the steering wheel and he revved the car onto the road.He was sure that this party and those talks by the patriarchs pointing to Mr Hudson was no mere coincidence. Mr Hunter can't be acting to inform him not when necessary.He got to the front of the house and killed the engine." I knew you could not stay true to Joshua, we all know you have what you desire but he's limiting you." Mr Hudson said with a grin as they walked around the cellar. "You were not as stupid as I ha
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Joshua's eyes were still on Mr Hudson as he carried around the bottle in his hand. He hit it on himself, breaking it into pieces."What are you thinking of doing Hudson?" Joshua asked more carefully this time."I want you out of the greater picture." He demanded.There was a chuckle that ousted the cellar. "I don't know what gave you the courage to face such claims, Hudson but you should know I'm a Stark already. A bloody head that you won't be."Hudson made his way to the door. "Well, I shall come back but not today. And when I do I will strip you of any dignity."Derek stood there shamed by his…With a suddenness that’s shattering, he breaks away through his threat to come back lingers and Joshua was desperate to find all he could about him.For a moment Derek is so surprised, he can’t speak. When he does, his voice is rasped."I'm sorry things I mean you have literally gone blind by your own longings." He flung his hand in the air."No, you shouldn't be questioning me when I know w
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Joshua's eyes were still on Mr Hudson as he carried around the bottle in his hand. He hit it on himself, breaking it into pieces."What are you thinking of doing Hudson?" Joshua asked more carefully this time."I want you out of the greater picture." He demanded.There was a chuckle that ousted the cellar. "I don't know what gave you the courage to face such claims, Hudson but you should know I'm a Stark already. A bloody head that you won't be."Hudson made his way to the door. "Well, I shall come back but not today. And when I do I will strip you of any dignity."Derek stood there shamed by his…With a suddenness that’s shattering, he breaks away through his threat to come back lingers and Joshua was desperate to find all he could about him.For a moment Derek is so surprised, he can’t speak. When he does, his voice is rasped."I'm sorry things I mean you have literally gone blind by your own longings." He flung his hand in the air."No, you shouldn't be questioning me when I know w