Chapter 65.Forgiven.Adrian's POV.I was sitting on the street bench with my face resting on my palms. I had cried and no tears were in store to shed again, my heart ached and the thing I couldn't do was to go home, I was not ready to see anyone who knew me, not my family, not Raphael, not Lincoln. If there is somewhere I would go after here, it had to be a place none of the people could find me.I stared at the passerby but my mind was so far from them, my head hurt, and so did my inside, I felt weak and I almost felt like dying, I almost couldn't feel my soul in my body, like I was dying and the night cold was not helping the matter, I was freezing.I have to go indoors else, I might freeze to death. I thought and I stood up from the bench, I stared at my gown that was making me look like a homeless person, the down part was torn out and that was done by me because it was stopping me from running as much as I wanted to, it was tangling with my legs. My legs too were barefooted, I h
Chapter 66.Away from everything.Galton's POV.I couldn't sleep throughout the whole night, I kept on trying Adrian's number, 'Where can she be? Is she okay and fine?' I kept on questioning myself and pacing through the room. At first, her number was ringing and she was not picking it up, but now, it is switched off, or better still, not reachable.Mom was not giving me a rest of mind too, she had been knocking at my door every hour, telling me to open up and my question to her had always been the same, 'Is Adrian back?' A question she was still finding very difficult to answer, which got me knowing that Adrian is still not found.I picked up a T-shirt from my wardrobe and threw it on before unlocking my door and walking out of the room with my phone still in my hand, trying Adrian's line.I got to the sitting room and found Mom being consoled by Lincoln Lime. Anger surged through me and I threw my phone in my pocket before stomping on them. "What the hell are you doing here?!" My v
Chapter 67.Is this fate?One year later.......Adrian's POV.My heels were clinking the floor in an echo rhyme as I marched through the tiled floor of the company. I could not say that I was walking because I was pacing. I was a minute late to the meeting with my boss and it was all Ryan's fault, he didn't wake me up in time after I successfully broke my alarm.Today marked my tenth month in this company and maybe Raphael was right when he said that I couldn't run away from literature, I might grow up to like it because the company's main focus is books. Literature.When I resided in England a year ago, I was healing, while Ryan put it upon himself to help me distribute my CV and Resume around the companies and out of a few that picked me, I took a liking to this one. I Love My Books. As funny as that sounds, that is the name of the company and I could say that you wouldn't find a company so great with books in another place in all of England but with us, and the juicy part was that
Chapter 68.Stricken with questions.Adrian's POV.Raphael.His brows furrowed at me in a glance like the speed of lightning, though he did not seem as surprised as I was like he was expecting me here and maybe he was here for me. 'Is it all a set-up? How did Mr Carter get to know him? What's happening?' I wondered.My eyes remained on him when he took some long-slow slides towards me. He offered me a handshake, "Hi, I'm Raphael O'Neill, Maven told me a lot about you and I must say meeting you in person is such a nice feeling."I scoffed in my head, 'What's he insinuating? That he could proudly show me his betrayal face and could proudly stretch his hand towards me for a shake like nothing happened? Is he kidding me right now?' I wondered. I smirked. 'Two can play the game.' So I took his outstretched hand with a cold smile, "Mr Maven could be such a talkative sometimes, please forgive his uncalled behaviour." And I took my hand away like it burnt.I created like six feet between u
Chapter 69.Raphael again!Adrian's POV.I was in my office, typing away with my laptop in front of me as I was busy with a guiding list for my crew to follow while editing. Though we had a guiding list for editing before, some new rules just came to my head when I was viewing one of the books sent to me by one of my colleagues.The landmark on my table began to ring, distracting me. "Mr Maven," I called him immediately I picked up the call."Miss Williams, I will be having an important meeting with one of the company's clients in thirty minutes, and I will need a secretary. You should represent Beatrice," He told to me."Oh Mr Maven! I will be there.""Good." And he hung up the call.I sighed.I was getting tired of fitting in for Beatrice and I don't understand why my boss would not call another person as a substitute instead, it was like I was being punished. My eyes were on the phone for some minutes. I dropped the phone.It had been four days since Mr Carter came to the company
Chapter 70.How life is treating me.Raphael's POV.I was in the wine cellar, sipping from a bottle of wine. I know I was supposed to pour it into a glass cup for easier taking but I was too lazy to go for a pour, I would rather drink from the glass with how sorrowful I am.Carter joined me at the cellar, "Good morning, boss," He bowed, "I know I'll see you here."I stared away from him. "I will take that as a compliment."His words were far from being a compliment, it was like talking about a disgusting habit I just found and am doing, though it was not a new habit, I had done it before, but this was more painful than the first, not when I'm like this because of my negligence."Boss, will you be okay by yourself?"I turned to him, "I'm not alone, the maids and guards are here, so don't worry, I'll be very fine.""You know what I mean boss, if you want to go out to the bar, the maids and the guards would not be able to stop you."I rolled my eyes, "Adriana is in this city remember? I
Chapter 71.The deal is a deal.Adrian's POV.Beatrice had returned to work and I thought that I was free from all the responsibilities of winning Raphael who had made it clear that if I didn't want to work with him, he was not ready to invest in the company and turned out that he was the real investor and not Mr Carter.On a real, I went back to my normal editing job and that morning when I resumed work, I picked up the paper bag I came with which was filled with black coffee for Mr Maven as a token of apology that I chased off his investor who was ready to invest all his dollars in the company if only I would be the one to finalize the deal with him.As usual, the journey to Mr Maven's office was such a short one. I got to Beatrice's seat and it was empty, I needed no soothsayer to tell me she would be with Mr Maven.I wanted to knock on the door, but I heard my name being mentioned from inside the office and my curiosity peaked. I leaned my ear on the door to listen to everything
Chapter 72.Who is Raphael O'Neill?Adrian's POV.Was that not what he wanted, for me to agree to his terms and conditions even if it was not the best for me? 'Then why is he sullen when I finally agreed to it?'Raphael fell back on his seat, looking very hurt. "You should leave," He muttered to me.Leave? And what next? Getting automatic firing when the company couldn't pay its employees anymore? That's bullshit.I gently returned to my seat, looking dejectedly at him. "Aren't you supposed to be listing out your terms and conditions to the contract and start thinking of penning down your signature?"He intertwined his fingers and glanced at me before returning his eyes to his held fist, "I'm an asshole, I desperately want to have you close to me and it is toying with my reasoning, I can't believe that yet again, I made you cry."He got out of his seat, "Look at me, I came here to rectify my mistake and I still have the gut to make more, I feel like punching myself in the gut right no