ELENA"Mum..." I tried to explain. But she was not done, because she was interrupting me immediately, with a long speech I knew was going to come."Now, how could you do that to me? I thought Mrs Gilbert was joking, until I went online myself, and had to Google images of you! Your father is hurt! I am hurt! I mean the others are exciteqd...but the church is certainly talking about it... because there was no news about a church wedding!" The next series of statements went by in a blur after she said that. My heart started to squeeze painfully as she mentioned a church wedding. How could I explain to her that this was fake? My parents had been anticipating my marriage, even going as far as bugging me about it which had cemented my not moving back home with them like they had initially thought I would after school."...are you even listening to what I'm saying?" She asked, drawing me back to the present.I nodded, momentarily forgetting that I was on the phone and not in front of her. "O
JASONI awakened to the soft vibration of my phone. I had intentionally put it on silent right before getting into bed with Elena, so I wasn't going to wake her up with the sound. Knowing I had just one day till I resumed work fully at Richardson's, wasn't going to stop clients from calling me. Especially when I had put them on hold for a full week. I had done the same to Elena's phone, hoping she wasn't going to get important calls from the people close to her.She had looked tired as hell when I had seen her earlier. And I had jumped in, helping her get into bed comfortably, instead of watching her sleep in those tight clothes and shoes.Now, as I stared at her beautiful face, I was entranced. Even as she slept, she was easily the most beautiful woman on the planet. I had known that, all the while, and had just pushed it to the back of my mind to avoid any awkward feelings.But now, that was quite difficult.And judging my the hard on I was currently sporting, I couldn't agree more.
ELENAI had the longest sleep ever.In fact, I woke up complete groggy, and too tired to stand up. It felt like I had run a horse race in my sleep, because what was with all the weak muscles I suddenly had?I was in that situation when you just open your eyes, and nothing made sense around you, and then you go back to sleep because something keeps dragging you have under.But I did force myself to awaken, only to be greeted by the charming smile of Jason, who just stood there, looking at me with amusement as I fought with the angels of sleeparia. Hah!"What the Fuck is sleeparia? And why do they have angels?" Jason asked, his brows raised high and almost disappearing into his head.I frowned. "Huh?" I hadn't said a word yet, so why was he asking me about something I had literally just formed in my crazy head, only a couple minutes ago?Jason shrugged, folding his arms accross his chest as he leaned into the dresser behind him. "Well, toy kept murmuring about them for the last fifteen
ELENA"where is the husband?" Jane asked, the moment she walked through the door.I just stood back and let her pass, smiling as she gasped in awe, as soon as she saw the inside of the house. Yep. It was my reaction too, so I could relate to her behavior."Oh, he went to see Tyler. Apparently, they have some business together." I answered, shutting the door and following her from behind while I let her explore. Jason hadn't stayed long after breakfast as he had been on his heels the moment he out the last bite of the delicious pie in his mouth. And it was delicious. Too delicious that we had actually finished the thing. He had apologized for leaving, stating that he had in fact, wanted to spend the day with me, and promised to make it up to me. All of which made me feel special."Well, I am not exaggerating when I say you could fit both our apartments in here, and still have room for more, right?" She asked in obvious wonder, making me laugh.I nodded. It was true after all. "I'll jus
ELENA"So, have you and Jason talked about this hot blooded romance going on between the two of you?" Jane asked, sipping from the cup of iced coffee we found on the refrigerator. "I mean, you guys have to talk about how and if it will affect your lives." Here we go again..."No. We haven't. Besides, I did tell you we were going with the flow." I said. "And I don't think it would affect anything. It actually makes living together easier." I admitted, getting an eyebrow wiggle from Jane. "And, can we not talk about that, and talk about how we are going to resume work from tomorrow. I know tongues will be wagging about how we got to take a break from work, following the past weeks events." I didn't even want to start imagining the stares and the whispers."Oh yeah. More so you, than me." Jane said as a matter of factly. "You got married to the boss's son, and have somehow become the boss too. So it's your head that's gonna be on the platter, while I trail behind." I groaned. "Besides,
JASONThe moment I opent the door to the house, I knew something was wrong. Not like dangerous, or anything close, but just off. It was way too quiet for my liking, so I just stepped in and shut the door behind me.I had just had a long conversation with Tyler as we prepared for the week ahead, and looked for loopholes and ways to improve the company from where it was now. Our father had actually done a good job from what we could see, but there was still room for improvement. And for the first time ever, I was looking forward to working in New York. I mean, it was sad that I would no longer be able to work at my old branch, but I knew that things were going to go smoothly there, and I had absolutely nothing to worry about. Tyler too, was returning to his company, and once again, I could already feel the tingling sensation as I knew I was already missing my brother. Gosh, the past two weeks had been a treat, and something I wouldn't have been ready for. Ever.But then again, things we
ELENAI wasn't exactly sure why I had just caused a tantrum in the presence of Jason, but I was pissed as fuck. I was jealous. And I was admitting that to myself. But as I stormed out of the room, I couldn't help but feel like I had definitely over done it with my childish actions. But I was pissed.Just when I had been understanding with Jason's Ex, I had recieved a text from Jane, who spent way too much time on her phone, telling me to go check what was written online. And when I did, I had felt like something had exploded in my head.I had seen those pictures, and then the captions, which of course, painted me bad as usual. I was now the damsel in distress, who had seduced her boss, and stolen him from his girlfriend. I was a gold digger. Nada nada.I thought Jason had hadled the press the last time, and promised shit like this wasn't going to happen again?What the heck was going on now?And he had just waltzed into the house like everything was okay, when he had been out and din
ELENAI sat in my new office, which was the next office after Paul's office, which was in turn occupied by Jason, mulling over my crazy morning.I had never felt so overworked like I currently did, sitting in that office, without actually doing anything. In fact, I had been in the office for less that two hours, and I was sure I had reached my stress limit.The looks I had gotten, from everyone, as we walked into the company building was enough to make me wish the ground opened and swallowed me whole.I stared at my now empty second cup of coffee, which I had made for myself and wished it would magically refill itself. But I knew if I did, I would literally be bouncing of my high heels for the rest of the day, so I pushed it aside and focused on work.There wasn't much for me to do, and I wondered at the awkwardness of it all. The door to my office opened, and I was about to ask who opened the door without knocking, when I saw Jane peak her head through the door at me."I would love
ELENAI smiled as I looked at my self in the mirror.It had been exactly two weeks since the incident with Colton, and we had resolved a lot of issues.Jason had come to confess to me about what he had hired Colton to do, and the truth was, even if I had been hurt hearing it from him, I had actually known about it. The night before that day, I had been having a very serious headache and had been on my way to the bedroom when I had heard him and Tyler argue about it.But I had also heard him say that he hadn’t gone through with it and had only kept Colton there.I had forgiven him then, because I couldn’t blame him. It wasn’t easy losing your father and then hearing that he had given everything he had to his assistant.Jason had even confessed that he hat thought that I was his father’s mistress and had cast it out of his kind the night we had made love for the first time.It had been a long discussion, but had actually settled a lot of things.And there was something Colton had said t
JASONI didn’t want to believe what Lucinda was saying, but with everything that had been happening for the past few days, I couldn’t not believe her. I would be a fool to give Colton the benefit of a doubt.I had taken care of that man right from the time I had seen him looking all tattered and unkempt. And all that had been a ploy to extract money from me?Well now that he had taken the millions I gave him and the one that he had stolen from Elena. Why couldn’t he just let my family be?“And did he tell you why he was doing all of this to me and my family? Did he tell you why he tried to kill us?” I asked in a raised voice that sent Lucinda cowering away, and hiding her face behind the curtain of her straight blond hair.I had always known there was something off about her. The way she behaved. The way she spoke. The way she kept mostly to herself as if the whole world was against her or something. You had always known.I just hadn’t expected this.“No. I swear he didn’t. Most of th
ELENAI didn’t have to stare at the picture for very long before I realized who it was. Even if I had seen his face only once, I could recognize him from anywhere.The eyes were a dead giveaway.Such dead eyes. Menacing eyes that looked like they had no soul.I could remember the first and only time I had seen his picture and had literally been scared of it the moment I set my eyes on him.It had to be him.“What do you mean by knowing who this man is?” It was Tyler who was asking and I turned to look at him.“Tyler, where is Lucinda?” I asked, lifting myself off Jason’s lap.The both of them looked at me in confusion as I went in search for Lucinda.“She just left. What does that have to do with anything?” Jason, who had gone completely silent, finally spoke, in a cool voice.I looked from Jason to Tyler and sighed, leaning on the kitchen counter as I recalled what had happened the day I had seen that face.“I am telling you, that that man in that picture, is Lucinda’s boyfriend. So
COLTONMy stomach hurt.I couldn’t breathe.I had been running for hours and hours as the police chased after me, showing up at every spot I tried to hide.How had this happened?I had planned everything. It had taken me weeks to do so, but I had put everything in place for the big day. Including all those distractions at Elena’s parents home, and the prank with the him.I had done everything to make sure things went according to plan. But Craig had spooked everything when he had gone inside and probably alerted the police and Jason about what was going on.This was not the first time I had gone to that bank to make a huge transaction. And it was a the fifth time either. But that idiot had chosen to make a big deal out of it. And I wasn’t going to forgive him for what he had done.By the time I was done with Jason and Elena, then i would go to Craig.Deep down though, I knew it was all because of that idiot. He had already made Craig’s transfer that huge sum to his Swiss account. And
JASON“Are you trying to tell me that Colton is involved in this sham too? Because I find that very hard to believe.” Tyler, who was usually reasonable in situation like these, looked like he was about to lose it. And I didn’t blame him. I found it hard to believe too.It was crazy as fuck just thinking about it. In fact, I just wanted to go home and rest already.We had closed all activities today as the police went in search of Colton.He had escaped as soon as Craig had gone into that room to make that call.Probably had panicked when Craig spent a little over a few minutes in his bid to reach me.“I’m as confused as you are, Tyler.” I said, as the guilt that always ate me up began to resurface again.We were currently on our way home as we had closed really early and had decided to head home and wait for any news on the police chase that was going on right as we spoke.“Do you know if he had any kind of animosity towards you are something?” Jane asked from the seat opposite us. S
ELENAI couldn’t even believe what was going on as I looked from one brother to the next. What were the odds?I knew it definitely wasn’t a coincidence that the same to y Richardson was the one who had rendered my family broke beyond repair, and had run off with my fathers vast wealth, to go do whatever he liked with it. That was as far as I knew at the moment. My father had claimed that he had known nothing about his were abouts, until his death in that plane crash. “Something doesn’t just feel right about all of this.” Tyler said, looking from me, to Jason, who had gone really quiet ever since he had told me that Tony was his uncle.I cleared my throat and looked at them. “I mean, I’m not trying to say anything to worsen the situation or make anyone suspicious of anyone. But do you think the three of them knew each other?” I asked, staring pointedly at Jason. His frown had been increasing by the minute.“I don’t know, because the only person alive out of the three men, is Thomas.
JASON“What are you talking about?” I asked Jane, dropping the file that I had picked up, babk in its place in the shelf.I made my way over to the computer with a huge frown on my face.What the heck did she mean by me having Elena’s father’s enemy’s picture in her phone?“This man right here.” Jane said, as soon as I reached and saw what she was talking about.But I was in for a shocker, and not just because of who she was pointing to, but what she had referred to him as. “But that’s my uncle.” I said, shaking my head. It was the picture I had taken at Elena’s fathers house with my phone. And since most of the things save in my phone went straight to my email, it automatically showed in my computer which had my email in it.And the picture was one of those things.Jane looked at me like I was mad. “No. I can recognize Tony Richardson anywhere_ “ she paused and looked from me to the picture. “Wait a minute. You are Richardson. And he is Richardson.” Her finger pointed from the me to
JASONI sat in the office with Jane, trying to work on a little problem we were having with two of our plants. For some reason, while Colton had been working as my assistant, he had failed to realize that those particular plants was scheduled for maintenance and would take exactly two days before it could be in use again. And also, he had also omitted that detail when he had been maki g some entries on the particular time we were to make some deliveries.And now, since it was just me, Jane had offered to help me, while Elena was in a meeting. Which I was thankful for, because it was already taking a toll on me. I hated not delivering when I was supposed to.“Do we have any other option? Because at this moment, I think we have run out of every option we have.” I said tiredly.We ventured into a lot of businesses, and while this particular issue wasn’t going to make us actually loose much, but it would affect the other party badly.And I didn’t want that.My father had brought me up in
ELENAI didn’t know what I was doing.All I knew was, I had to have my husband inside of me. I was honey as fuck, and I wasn’t sure that was the way it was supposed to be after the long conversation we had just had, but I guess that’s the situation I found myself.I had acted out on impulse a few minutes ago, telling him everything that had happened with Colton. I had known him hen that if I hadn’t done it that time, I wasn’t going to ever have the courage to do it again.And I could hear Jane’s voice egging me on as I started to speak. Even when I wanted to stop.I had seen Jason’s face show signs of jealousy and anger, but he had managed to sit through all of it, until I was done.And where I had expected anger, or at least, an indication that he was not happy with me, after I was done talking, I had been super when he had taken my hands in his like he had done, and told me what he did.“Don’t start what you can’t finish, Elena Richardson,” Jason said, clearing his throat. The hand