speak

Warren made to speak but just then the MC got the stage, officially welcoming everyone to the gala. Just then Lady Williams joins them. Surprised couldn't describe what she felt seeing Warren at the gala. “What's he doing here?” She asked. “We’re just as shocked as you are grandma,” Troy said. “Don't stand close to us. I don’t want anyone thinking we are actually associated with a commoner like you,” Laurel said. Soon they were interrupted by the loud voice from the speaker. “...Please welcome on stage, the host of tonight's gala and newly appointed CEO of Sterling Heights, Warren Easton.” Loud cheers and applauses erupted immediately. Warren made his way to the front and stood until the noise died down. His eyes squarely on the Williams family. He watched as their faces switched from the looks of confusion to realisation to that of surprise. He had them where he wanted them. Bingo.

“Shut up, you lowly piece of trash! How dare you try to speak! Yes, the pregnancy isn’t yours, but there’s nothing you can do, so suck it up like the jobless loser you are!” These were the words Kai’s wife, Scarlett said to him when he found out her pregnancy wasn’t his. Following a whirlwind courtship during which Kai was fooled into believing Scarlett loved him, they got married, and that was the start of his troubles. Compounded with the fact that he had to claim another man’s baby as his or be kicked out of the house, his in-laws found every excuse to belittle and abuse him. After he found Scarlett and her lover getting intimate on the bed they shared and furiously spoke up, he was given the beating of his life by Scarlett and her lover and chased out of the house. He returned a billion times richer, to their shock, and swore he would make them pay.

A man known only as Cassian Vale, a former government ghost and criminal genius, surrenders to authorities after a decade in the shadows. But he has one condition: he will only speak to Ayla Trent, a rookie cyber-investigator who has no idea why she’s been chosen. Cassian claims that a secret society is orchestrating global chaos from behind the scenes, and he has the names, the proof, and the leverage—but he’ll only reveal them one by one, in exchange for favors, protection, and immunity. Each name he provides unlocks a new case—a corrupt billionaire, a hidden assassin, a double agent—and Ayla is pulled deeper into a world of deception, danger, and secrets that threaten everything she thought she knew. But is Cassian helping… or playing a longer, darker game?