ELENA“Will he be coming back tonight?” Jason’s mother asked for the second time, almost making me shed the tears I was holding inside of me.Why did she have to ask the question I already answered some minutes ago, again?I shook my head, facing away from her. “I’m not sure. I guess we would have to wait for Tyler to call or something.” I told her. Again. While focusing on the scenery as the car conveyed us home.Jane, who sat in the front with the driver, turned and locked gazes with me, before turning back to face the road.I hadn’t even told her what had happened in that garden. Jason had left, Tyler and a security guy, had carried colton to the hospital, and had asked me to go inside to get his mother and Jane, and not say a word about what had happened outside.Like I was going to say anything.When I had gone inside, I had rushed to the bathroom to go freshen up and put on a pretentious face, so they wouldn’t suspect anything. How they had not noticed my puffy as fuck eyes was
ELENA“What?” Jane exclaimed in a low voice from above me. “How the heck could he have done that?” She asked.I raised my head and leaned back on the door. “I don’t even know.” I answered, referring to Colton. “I just knew that there was something off with him that’s past few days, but I let it slide, thinking I was just over reacting and that he had apologized to me already, so everything was okay. And now this.” I shook my head and waved my hand in a wild gesture. Jane looked at me pitifully. “You shouldn’t blame yourself Elena, I’m sure Jason would calm down and listen to you when he comes back.” She said, and pulled me into a hug.But I wasn’t sure. He had looked too angry when he had left. I wondered the kind of confrontation they had had when I had left, that had made them exchange blows to that extent.Another thought came to my mind. And I pulled away from Jane with a frown.“What?” Jane asked as I leaned on the door without saying anything.“Before he kissed me, Colton told
JASONI sat in the bar, nursing my drink and feeling really down.By body hurt from the places Colton had managed to land a blow on, but I didn’t care about it. In fact, the pain was welcome, and was the driving force behind my rage.How could she?How could he?How could they?I closed my eyes as I let my mind go back to the time when I had hired Colton.Flashback.“I’ll meet you at the outdoor restaurant at the resort.” I said into the phone, despite Tyler’s warnings. There was no way I was going to stand, and let her destroy everything I had worked for.“Okay. I’ll be there. Give me a few minutes.” Colton said from the other end of the phone, before hanging up.I shit the door of my cabin and made my way towards the resort, enjoying the cool breeze fanning my cheek.Tyler had been on my neck about this particular issue, and for the first time ever, I had to ask myself if my brother actually knew me.Because if he did, he was supposed to know that when my mind was set on something,
JASONTyler looked at me like I had gone crazy. “Are you being serious right now? Elena is the problem? Elena?” He asked in a crazed voice, and turned in his stool till he was completely facing me and leaned over. “Lest I remind you, it was you who thre her to the wolves. I fucking warned you for days that you should let that woman be and just go ahead with dad’s plan. But did you listen to me? You married her and then in your childishness, decided to hire a man, to seduce her and make her commit adultery, since it was the only way you will get back what father left. And mind you, she doesn’t even know about this clause. If you had listened to me and maybe had a conversation with her, where she would willingly plan things with you, we wouldn’t be in this mess. Meanwhile, your dear Colton, is lying in the hospital, unconscious as we speak. And it is all your fucking fault because you decided to think with you anus!” Tyler spat at me, and leaned away from me, banging his hands on the ta
JASONI woke up with a crazy hangover. And believe me when I say it was worse than what I had initially imagined I was going to get.First off, the curtains were shut tight, but the room still seemed too bright, and that was because of the damn walls that where completely white, making the low light that was coming from the other room, bounce off brightly.Tyler had gotten us a suite, with two huge rooms, which I appreciated, as I had literally lost most of my consciousness when I had almost fallen from that bar stool, and had had to be carried through the back door and whisked to the hotel, to avoid the paparazzi that had somehow, gotten the information that we were in that club.If not for the club bouncers who had kept them outside, and had come to inform us when they had gotten to know the reason while they were there, I would have had my pictures plastered all over the damn internet before dawn.I stared at my reflection in the mirror and winced out of pure pity. Looking back at
JASONI woke up about half an hour later to the sound of Tyler calling my name.“Wake up, you. The cctv footage is here,” he said from where he was standing at the entrance of my room. I blinked and sat up, pulling my robe together as I groggily made my way towards him.“Have you watched it yet?” I asked, yawning a little. I was kinda eager to see the footage and know if we were able to get anything this time.Tyler sjooom his head as we went to sit at the desk. “I came to get you as soon as it arrived. And we have some breakfast too thst just arrived. I told you to order for food, but you decided to sleep off.” He said in an accusing tone.I rolled my eyes as I sat down and pulled the plate of scrambled eggs towards me. “I think you are forgetting that I’m going through some shit here, and you are supposed to pet me a little.” I said, picking up a spoon and taking a bite of the creamy eggs.I mean, they tasted good and all, but I didn’t care for food as I was just trying to satisfy m
ELENAI was cooped up in my room all day.Neither Tyler or Jason were back yet, and Mrs Richardson had coincidentally, been called back concerning her art exhibition, and had just left about thirty minutes ago. Although she had been a little bit disappointed, she had gotten to talk ti her sons on a FaceTime which Jane had made, while I pretended to be really busy in my room to avoid questions.But now, as I still continuity stay cooped up in the room, I couldn’t help but feel a lot of self pity for myself.Colton had destroyed what I had with Jason, and I was going to even dig a deeper hole for myself when I told Jason about Maldives. If he ever gave me a chance to talk, I was going to come clean. I was still there, rolling back and forth in by he middle of the bed, when I heard a loud bang from what I assumed was the living room.I forced myself not to shriek as I jumped off the bed and made my way over to the door.I didn’t pull it open immediately, but chose to just listen again,
JASON“Shit!” That’s all I could say as we navigated our way across the stupid traffic that had held us for over thirty minutes.It was all my fault.Tyler had tried to make us go home all morning and afternoon, but I had been adamant in staying back, all because I wasn’t ready to face Elena. I had even been so stubborn that I had taken it out on my own mother.Just how could I have been so stupid?How?Now Elena was in danger. And I was still over thirty minutes away. We had received a call just after she had called, telling us not to bother calling the cops or the two women currently in the house were going to be killed.They had met Lucinda in the house and had put her out before going for Elena.I wondered how they were doing.A notification came on my phone and I saw that it was a text from Elena.She’s asleep now.The message read, and I almost collapsed.“What happened? Who was that?” Tyler asked from his seat next to me. Our driver was doing a great job at avoiding the cars a
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