Crystal's POV I smiled to myself as I walked around the penthouse in admiration. I had been there for three days but I was yet to get over the beauty of the whole place. I didn't go back home to Eric's house the day Midas’ personal assistant had called Eric's mother to get me to Midas’ office. Midas had actually shown me that he was indeed wealthy because a complete wardrobe was delivered to the pent house the next morning after I got there. The only thing that saddened me was the fact that Midas had refused to spend time with me at the pent house. He came and rarely spent five minutes before leaving. He said we would be going to Paris and he was getting everything ready and some other excuses about attending to important things before we left. If I hadn't known better, I would have said that he was avoiding me. Thinking of his behavior again at that moment, I concluded that he was definitely avoiding me. The door to the pent house opened but I didn't bother to turn
Midas' POV ‘All my way here, I kept wondering why you might want to see me Mr Eric Conner. I expected that you will be out there trying to rectify your mess so that it will not affect your company. Remember I have an investment there? I don't like wasting my money,' I said immediately I entered my secretary's office where Eric was waiting for me. ‘Mr St Clair. I am actually here in that regard,’ Eric said and stood up to greet me. I shook his extended hand but I felt an overwhelming feeling to squeeze his hand and make him roll on the floor in pain. The son of a gun took what was mine and made her see hell in the process. ‘What do you think I can do for you?’ I asked him with an unsmiling business mode face. ‘Can I speak to you privately?’ Eric asked casting a worried look at my secretary. ‘Sure. Come with me,’ I said then turned around and walked to my office with Eric coming behind me. We entered my office and I offered him a seat. He looked worried that I would have
Crystal's POV ‘Welcome on board ma'am,’ an air hostess said as I got on the plane. I smiled in acknowledgment of her greeting while trying as much as I could to hide my excitement at boarding a plane for the first time in my life I kept looking around as she led me to a seat on the plane. I was smiling as I looked around. I had never thought that I would ever board a plane, not to talk of an expensive-looking one like the one I was in. ‘Welcome onboard ma'am,' another person greeted me as I got to the seat the hostess had pointed out. She was not dressed like the hostess so I knew she wasn't an air hostess the very moment I set my eyes on her. She was wearing a well-tailored suit and pants, and she looked impeccable with her hair tied up in a bum. ‘Thank you,’ I said smiling at her. ‘My name is Natasha. I will be your escort for this journey, and I will see to your needs,’ she said, and I nodded happily as I sat down. Midas had mentioned that there would be someone with me o
Crystal's POV ‘It is good to finally get to meet you, Crystal. I have heard a lot of beautiful things about you,' Midas’ grandfather said after Midas and I finally went inside the house to join him in the sitting room. ‘The pleasure is all mine sir. I have heard beautiful things about you too. Thanks for coming to Midas' rescue,' I said sincerely. ‘Now, that is nothing to thank me for, young lady. Midas is all I have got. I lost my wife very early and stood my ground never to remarry, just to honor the memory of the love that we shared. I raised Midas’ father single-handedly, but he too was taken away from me along with his wife, and then I lost Midas. If I didn't come looking for my grandchild what will I gain?’ Midas’ grandfather was smiling as he said those words but I wasn't fooled. I could see the pain in his eyes. ‘I am sorry for your loss, sir,’ I said, looking away from the old man. I could feel his pain. My grandmother was the only one in the world that I had. I imagi
Midas’ POV ‘You have been picking your food Crystal. Aren't you hungry?’ I asked. Ever since I got downstairs to meet her with a barely touched pie, I knew something was wrong. I asked her if she was okay and she said she was okay. I had finished the rest of the pie and playfully told her that I was glad she didn't eat it. She had only given me a tight lipped smile. ‘I am fine. I guess I am tired,’ Crystal said without raising her head from the food to look at me. ‘It is your first time boarding a plane right?’ My grandfather asked her. ‘Yes. It was exciting though but I guess it affected me and I didn't know it,’ Crystal said to my grandfather and she raised her head to look at him. She was lying! I knew Crystal too well to buy her lies. She was angry and bothered about something but she wouldn't even say anything. I knew that whenever she was angry, she would keep mute and I had to say something to make her more angry so that she would say exactly what the problem was.
Midas POV ‘You should try to smile a little you know? You are the host. Going around with a long face might scare the guest,’ Edmond said coming to join me where I was standing in front of the bar attender. ‘Does it look like I care?’ I asked. The party was in full swing, very few of the invited guests were yet to arrive. The whole place smelt of rich perfume both pleasing and unpleasing ones. I didn't enjoy social gatherings but I had to endure because I was a public figure and some things were expected of me. Blending in at first had been difficult because of the type of background that I had but when I discovered that I didn't have to do much, I had accepted my fate and just sat through them. I talked, smiled and greeted when it was necessary. ‘Tell me what crawled up your ass and died there?’ Edmond asked raising a brow. ‘Why are you here badgering me with questions Edmond? I thought you were supposed to pick up a certain DNA.' ‘That is fine already actually,’ E
Crystal's POV I looked at the clock in the sitting room for the umpteenth time. I knew that Midas had told me to go to sleep because he would be coming late but I couldn't bring myself to go to sleep when he was still out. I wished I had gone to the party with him but I knew it was better that I stayed away. There would be paparazzi everywhere for such an event and we didn't want to raise suspicions yet. Midas had left in the morning after he made sure that I had an early breakfast. He had said he needed to take care of somethings at the office before the party in the evening. He had made me promise to tell him what triggered my question when he returned. I had only promised him because I wanted him to drop the topic but when I saw the way Reine looked at him when she helped him take his bag to the car, I decided I was going to tell him. I would not say I was jealous per say but I just wasn't comfortable staying under the same roof with someone who said Midas had slept with
Crystal’s POV I stared at the fainting man in utter shock. Midas was trying his utmost best to hold him up but when he saw that the older man's eyes were tightly closed, he swore as he swung into action and quickly got the older man's hands around his neck while shouting for help. I quickly joined Midas so that we could take the older man outside where there was fresh air. ‘My goodness! What happened?’ A man who looked like one of the farmers asked when we got outside. He must have heard Midas shouting for help. ‘Get the car. I think he just had a heart attack,' Midas said. The man rushed off then returned shortly driving a car. The man got down and opened the doors before rushing to our side to relieve me of the weight. I sighed in relief as I stretched my back. He was a grown man so holding him up was difficult. I had expected that Midas would ask me to stay back when I was about getting in the car but he didn't. He only looked at me for a second as if he was deliberati
Pearl's (Crystal's) POV ‘I still feel embarrassed about the fact that my grandfather is getting married,’ Midas grumbled beside me as he came to sit, and I laughed, making people close to us glance our way. We were in the garden of his grandfather's house in Paris. Midas had not wanted the outdoor wedding. He had said his grandfather and Karen should just go to the registry, sign the wedding, and be done with it, but his grandfather had insisted on having an outdoor wedding. ‘What are you so uptight about Midas?’ I asked smiling teasingly at him. ‘Getting married at his age and making a hell of a noise about it. He is getting married to a lady half his age, for Christ's sake,’ Midas said, gritting his teeth. ‘I thought you were already used to that idea,’ I said. ‘Yes. But the idea of getting married this way totally takes a whole lot of getting used to,’ Midas said ‘Look at him Midas. He is happy,’ I said pointing at Midas’ grandfather where he stood before the officia
Six months later Pearl's (Crystal's) POV ‘The auction is about to start, ma'am,’ one of my staff came to the backstage and said to me. ‘Yeah. We are set,’ I said casting another glance over our model. My company was having an auction for our latest jewelry designs. Designs I had made myself during the most depressing month of my life. Midas wasn't joking when he said he was breaking things off with me. He cut off all contact with me and returned to his main office in Paris while he left Edmond in charge of everything in Roseville. I tried to contact him several times to no avail. I went as far as traveling to France, but I was told he had gone to London for a business meeting. I went to his grandfather for help, but the older St Clair only pointed out that he had talked to Midas about his decision, but he doubted that Midas was going to bulge. During the hearing of the case of attempted murder and murder that my stepmom and her cohort were charged with, Midas di
Pearl (Crystal’s POV) ‘I still can't believe that your adoptive sister was a part of your kidnap,’ Karen said as she replaced the lid of the bottle she was pouring water from. I was back in the hospital for loss of blood and malnutrition. Two days after I was kidnapped, I started spotting and it got worse. I was practically bleeding by the time the police arrived the day I was rescued. ‘According to her, I made her father's company sink along with the Conners, so she was doing everything she could for money,’ I said, hissing. ‘The Martins are horrible people,’ my grandmother said. She has been in the hospital with me since I was rescued. No matter what everyone said, she refused to leave. Midas made sure I was in a private ward so that a bed could be moved into my room for his comfort. ‘Mrs Martins called me telling me to remember everything her husband has done for me and drop the case immediately. I simply told her that I had no power over the case. She can call the pol
Midas’ POV ‘I can't sign these damn papers. What does she think she is doing? How does she intend to get away with this?’ Mr Rotman said fuming as she paced Agent Kendrick's office. ‘Left to me? I will ask that we keep quiet. They wouldn't understand what we are up to. That will confuse them,’ Agent Thomas said. ‘We can't just decide to say or do nothing. They can harm her,’ I said in frustration. It has been three days since Pearl's stepmother took her from my house. The only thing we heard from them was the documents delivered to her father's house the previous day, accompanied by a letter demanding that he should sign his properties and businesses to his wife within the next twenty-four hours or lose his daughter. We have searched so hard and we had less than five hours to the end of the ultimatum. We had paid media houses to announce that anyone who provided useful information would be greatly rewarded. ‘How did I not see beyond the facade my wife put to the front? I am
Pearl’s (Crystal's) POV I didn't have a choice but to let Midas leave. Whatever Agent Kendrick called him for must be very important. I sighed and lay on the bed. I wondered what Midas was about to say before his phone rang. What could he be hiding from me? I got out of bed to get an answer from Karen; at least she was there all through my stay at the hospital. I got up but stopped just before I turned the knob. I changed my mind and went back to sit on the bed. I decided that I would wait till Midas returned so that he could tell me himself. I didn't know for how long I was sitting on the edge of the bed browsing through my phone, but the door suddenly burst open, and my stepmom walked in looking as if she was nervous. ‘Mum, is anything the matter? You look nervous,’ I said. ‘Why won't I be nervous? I was half expecting your self-acclaimed husband to stop me from seeing you,’ she said, walking into the room properly and closing the door behind her. ‘You know he wou
Midas’ POV ‘You won't believe it, grandma. Midas was in the arms of another woman when I woke up,’ Pearl said, glaring at me while I smiled at her, making her glare harder. ‘I was the one, Pearl; stop being dramatic,’ Karen said as she placed the tea cup in front of Pearl. We were back in the house. Pearl was discharged three days after she woke up. Her vitals were fine and the doctor didn't see any reason why she should not be discharged. And the best news was that she had remembered everything. Pearl kept saying I was declaring my love to another woman who ran out the moment she realized she was awake. Karen had tried telling her that she was the one Pearl saw but Pearl kept insisting that Karen wasn't the one. ‘Eat your food and use your drugs, miss. I was talking to Karen, and you know II, but you are just trying to punish me for something I don't know,’ I said, I was inking at her playfully. ‘I am not eating, and I am not using my drugs until you confess to your
Midas’ POV ‘We might be having something massive on our hands right now,’ Agent Kendrick said. I was in the office to see him because he called about the things he observed at the Rotman's mansion. ‘What do you mean?’ I asked frowning. ‘All the security cameras in the Rotman mansion have not been working for two days before the incident. So there were no recordings on the CCTV tapes,’ Agent Kendrick said. ‘How was that possible?’ I asked. ‘Now here is the real deal, one of the house helps put Mr Martins at the scene on the day of the incident.’ ‘What? Mr Martins? Pearl's adoptive father?’ I was surprised. ‘The same,’ Agent Kendrick answered. ‘What was he doing there?’ ‘Apparently, it was not his first time coming there. According to the help, he comes only when Mr Rotman was away on a business trip and the madam always made him come through the back gate.’ ‘That means they are having affairs apparently,’ I said thoughtfully. ‘But Mr Rotman was around that day.
Pearl’s (Crystal's) POV I watched in dread as Eric came into my hospital room. He had never done that before. Each time I landed in the hospital, he jetted away somewhere and would not come back until I left the hospital. ‘Hello darling,’ Eric said and I frowned. Since when did he call me that? What happened to whore, slut, fool, idiot, and the other names he could come up with according to his mood. ‘Hi,’ I stammered. ‘The doctor said I could come in. Where is Karen?’ He asked. ‘She went to get me fruits,’ I answered him in bewilderment. Eric sat on the bed, and I would have moved away from him, but I was too scared. I didn't want to be battered again with the pains I was already going through. I was sitting with my back propped on the pillow. ‘I brought you this,’ Eric said handing the bag he brought with him to me. I collected it and thanked him. ‘Aren't you going to look inside?’ Eric asked smiling at me. ‘No. I will do that later,’ I said. ‘Okay then. So ho
Midas’ POV ‘What is going on doctor?’ I asked the moment the door closed. ‘I think we should have this talk in my office,’ the doctor said and we all followed him into his office. The doctor sat down and then sighed heavily. We quickly sat anywhere we could. The doctor looked worried making my insides tighten. ‘Doctor, what exactly is going on?’ I asked once we had all settled down. ‘At the look of things, I think she has amnesia,’ the doctor said. ‘Amnesia? What is that?’ Karen asked looking confused. ‘Amnesia is a post-traumatic condition that makes you forget things, and in the case of Miss Rotman, I think it is partial amnesia,’ the doctor explained. ‘Which means it could be worse,’ Pearl's stepmum asked. ‘Yes. Now, she has only forgotten a part of her life. Some people forget everything including their names. Her fall was quite fatal, so it is expected to happen,' the doctor said making my insides tighter. ‘If she forgot who she is in recent times then she