"I thought I told you to call me Kol?" "It's my mouth. I can do whatever I want." "...and your mouth will put you in trouble." Victoria Trisha has had life deal her a terrible hand. She has loved and lost but when she comes up with a ground breaking idea, she has no one to turn to. She's been scarred by those she once trusted and she will not repeat her mistakes. Nicholas Drey is one man who almost has the world at the tip of his finger. Only one thing, one woman can give him what he's looking for, what he needs. Fate pulls these two together when Victoria applies for a job at Nicholas’ company. They're both sworn off office romance but the universe has other plans to throw their perfectly planned worlds off kilter. Will they allow these feelings take hold or will the echoes of their past pull them apart? Dare to find out in this amazing, unusual story that will leave you questioning everything you've ever thought true.
Узнайте больше“Sent!” I sighed.
“girl! You finally did it… after weeks of postponement.” Cynthia or Thea as she preferred, my roommate and best friend, was beaming at me. It was because of her I was able to apply for a product design role at
Drestech.Co. “Now I just have to wait for them to call me… or not” I looked at her apprehensively. I had worked with Jaskey Technologies for five years before they stabbed me in the back and let me off. It was also there I met my ex-boyfriend who cheated on me with one of our coworkers. I could say with absolute confidence that Jaskey Technologies was the source of most of my sadness. “Toria, I’ve seen what you can do. There’s no way you aren’t landing this job.” Thea was a source of my comfort. She helped me through the pain and I’d forever be grateful for her. Despite being the owner of Moore and More, a high end fashion design company, she was the most down to earth person I knew and she spoiled me silly.“Hey! Earth to Toria.” fingers snapped in front of my face. I had zoned out.
“Sorry! I just don’t know what I’d do without you” I smiled sadly.“Absolutely nothing my dear.” she winked at me. I shook my head. “We have to celebrate though." I knew this was coming. Thea always looked for an excuse to go out or drink wine. Emphasis on the latter. I gave her a dirty look.“Celebrate what? I only sent an application letter. Just admit you want an excuse to drink wine. I saw it in your bag”“What bag?” faking absolute cluelessness was something she did with skill. I rolled my eyes.“the bottle of chardonnay?” “you saw that?” I laughed.“of course I did. You didn’t exactly hide it.” she looked sheepish. She knew I didn’t drink.“Fine. I bought it. I believe you actually have something to celebrate. Well, some things. The f**kery that is Michael and your exit from that bloodsucking company. You worked what? 5 years for them and they screw you over just like that? Nah. We’re drinking…” I cleared my throat at her obvious mistake. “I’M drinking tonight. I got you orange juice though.” She said mockingly.“I’m fine with that." I flashed her a small smile. "You know what? On second thought, let’s actually go out tonight.” She looked at me wide-eyed. “I need to get this application thing off my mind or I’m going to lose it.” “Yas girl! Now that’s what I’m talking about!” She high-fived me.“I’m still not drinking though.”“Girl, I don’t care. I’ll drink for two.” She sauntered away as we both got changed.***The line was so long I was for once glad that I knew someone who frequented a club long enough to be considered VVIP.“The view from up here is so crazy. You can see the whole club. Including things I don’t want to see” I yelled over the music.“Yeah. I know right?” She lifted her hands to a waiter.“A bottle of whiskey and one coke.” She smiled suggestively at the waiter.“Thea…” I groaned, palming my face.“What? We’re here for fun. Let’s have that.” She winkedThe waiter had returned with our drink a while ago and we were now dancing to the music, drink in hand.“He’s been staring at you the whole night.” She pointed over to the other side of the bar. Who? I looked over to see who she was talking about.“I can’t see anything.” I squinted very hard. I don’t know who declared poor lighting in clubs but it was a very bad idea.“He looks somewhat familiar though… I dunno, I’m pretty drunk. I’m probably seeing things.” She giggled.I rolled my eyes. Of course she was. She had almost finished the entire bottle. How she wasn’t staggering yet, I had no clue.She motioned for us to move closer so we could see him. Apparently, he was also a VVIP member. The closer we got, the clearer I could see him. I was short of words. The lights were so dim I could barely see his face but I saw enough to know he looked really good. No, he was magnificent. Sitting there in all his glory in a white shirt and black pants. So formal, even in the club. His shoulders were so wide I could almost not see anything directly behind him. “Kol, I don’t think he’s going to show.” A man beside him said to him. We were within earshot range now. “Give him 5 more minutes.” he replied. His voice was such a lovely baritone that I could feel it reverberated within my chest.Thea hiccuped beside me and it reminded me of the fact that we were being very creepy.“Let’s go.” I held her by the hand to drag her back to our corner. She must’ve thought that was an invitation to go join them because the next thing she said knocked my imaginary socks off.“Hey fellas.” She walked up to them in what I assumed was a sexy catwalk.‘Dammit Thea’ I thought to myself. This wasn’t my idea of fun.Kol and his friend turned to us. “I thought we should introduce ourselves since you...” she pointed to Kol “have been staring at us all night. Well, her.”Kol had a cool look on his face. His eyes so dark they seemed black. His friend though was the opposite. His eyes were full of emotions. He looked confused. I had to admit even he was very good-looking even with poor lightning. Not my taste though if at all I would give it a shot.“I think you have the wrong person.” His friend said.“No, Josh. She’s right. I was staring.” He smirked. “but not for the reasons you think.” The smirk fell off right after. ‘His friend’s name is Josh’ I noted. Not that it mattered to me.“Right, because there are many reasons to stare at a girl dancing in a club.” Thea rolled her eyes.“Thea, let’s go. This isn’t looking good.” I whispered in her ear trying to drag her away, again.Kol turned his eyes on me and I could swear my heart stopped working. My throat felt dry all of a sudden. Unable to keep eye contact, I looked everywhere else but his eyes. They seemed to pull me in.“She…” he paused, dragging his eyes from my head to my toe and back to my face “was dancing funny and that provided more entertainment than this bar ever could. That’s all.” Well, that was embarrassing.“Well, you look funny.” Thea, in all her drunken glory replied. “Thea let’s just go.” His friend found their banter funny. I just gave a small and apologized.“I’m sorry. She’s a little drunk. Don’t mind her at all. We’ll leave now.” He gave his full attention to me this time. “Your friend should be more careful around men she doesn’t know.” “SHE, is right here you know?” He didn’t still take his eyes off me making my nerves go wild. I was beginning to rethink all my life choices. “Got it.” I pulled her away. It was like pulling lead.“What an a**hole!” All I could think about was the way he was staring at me. I hadn’t felt that way before. Not even with Michael.“Right.” I said absentmindedly. I subtly glanced back to take one last look at him when we got back to our cubicle. He didn’t take his eyes off me, not until someone else drew his attention to them. “What was he thinking?” I thought to myself.***We got back at around 2am. I couldn’t sleep a wink throughout the night. I wasn’t this nervous when I applied for Jaskey. The man from the club, long forgotten because I had to face reality at some point. I knew I would probably never get to see him again but my application gnawed heavily at my mind.“What is wrong with me?” I pondered as I rubbed my eyes for the fifth time that night. I rolled over to look at my alarm clock. It was 6am. I had thought through the entire night. I sighed, grabbed my phone and stood up. “Might as well just get the day started.” I muttered to myself.I walked to the kitchen with bloodshot eyes. Thea was looking like she got dragged through a train track.“Migraine?” I asked.“Jesus! You scared me.” She grabbed her head and groaned. Being loud didn’t help with migraines.“You look worse than I do and I was the one who drank. Couldn’t sleep?” she asked. I nodded in reply. “I sincerely have no idea what you’re worried about. You are one of the most brilliant minds I’ve ever met.” I smiled at that. At the fact that she had more faith in me than I did myself. “You have nothing to be scared of. Trust me. I’m a psychic remember?” No, she wasn’t. She was more wrong than right most of the time. I looked at her apprehensively.“That’s not comforting, considering the number of times we got into trouble just because you 'thought' you were right.” I air quoted.“But I’ve been right before, no? Just trust me on this one” she said.“You’re so delusional but fine.” I chuckled.“We should be getting a reply any day from now.”“I don’t think so. They’d have so many applications to look through. Maybe a few days or …” my notification sound silenced me. Out of panic I looked at my phone in time to see the sender from the push notification before it disappeared.“Was that…?” she asked with fully awake eyes now.“Yeah.” I said not quite sounding like myself.“Well… what does it say?” I opened my phone to read the contents.My stomach twisted in knots. It wasn’t what I was expecting at all.
EPILOGUE“Kol, this doesn’t look right.” Kol pulled the Christmas tree to the left again. I could see his veins about to pop as I shook my head. We’d been at it for almost 30 minutes straight and Kol was getting tired.“A little…” He groaned as he moved the tree a little to the right. There!“Perfect.” I huffed like I was the one doing all the work. Kol collapsed on the rug for a few minutes, probably thinking of new ways to most like strangle me and then stood up.“Baby, I’m sorry.” I kneaded his shoulders, his body relaxing under my touch.“It’s fine.” I placed a kiss on his back hoping to relieve his muscles but he turned rigid instead. I didn’t stop kissing his back though.“I think you should stop. Your dad will be coming over in a few hours and I would prefer the house smelling like hot chocolate and cookies.” He spun around to face me, grabbing my jaw.“Not wild s*x.” He always had a way of leaving me w*t and speechless every d*mn time.Now I wanted the whole place to smell like
“I cannot believe you woke up late. We should’ve left hours ago.” I smacked my forehead in exasperation.“You mean 30 minutes ago.”“You’re late. It’s all that matters.”Dimitri had an amused smile on his face as he watched Charlie and I bicker in the plane. They were all late, except for Kol and me. That was pretty much a given but Charlie was the latest of them all.“Can you too stop fighting so I can enjoy my champagne?” Josh was pouring a glass for Thea who had her sunglasses on, even in the plane, seemingly unbothered about everything.Both of them had been pissing me off.“What the f*ck is going on between both of you?”“They shagged.” Charlie pipped up beside me.“Ew! I cannot believe this.” My nose wrinkled in grossness.“Pay up.” Kol stretched out his hands. I now owed him a couple hundred dollars. Thea’s brows pinched together in confusion and sudden realisation.“They bet on us.” She pointed accusingly.“Why am I not surprised?” Josh glared at us, mainly at Kol.“How much?”
“Imagine having time to take care of your family because your app helps you work out your day effectively from just keeping track of what you do per time.”“We are in the age of health and lifestyle. An app that could sync up your life with routines that have been mastered by our app would make life so easier.” Everyone was paying rapt attention as I continued to speak.“For example, Miss Tina doesn’t usually work out but she syncs her app to her health. On Monday, she works out by 9, on Tuesday, she does the same. On Wednesday, she doesn’t work out at all. Maybe something else has her preoccupied at that moment.Our app notices these routines you have skipped throughout the day and reminds you at 9 that you haven’t worked out. You’re not forgetting anything and you’re not storing unnecessary data in you brain.”“It doesn’t just work with health, it works for anything that has a routine. Something you do every time. You don’t have any activity you’re forgetting because something is re
“How?” I couldn’t process my words. It was like I had entered a new realm where the sun had been replaced with fairy lights. Concrete had been replaced with soft grass that tickled my feet. I pried open strings of steams and walked into the space before me.“Was that…” Julia Michael’s song played in the background but this song felt different than when I first heard it. It felt like a lifeline, my lifeline. The song that had pulled me out of a wandering abyss at the hospital.I’d been so caught up in the beauty of the environment that I hadn’t noticed Kol in the centre of everything, standing right there. My eyes welled up with tears and my mouth felt very dry.I walked slowly to him and stopped where he stood.“Kol, what is all this?” I gestured to everything he’d set up. His hands found mine and squeezed.I looked up at him and my heart raced within its cage. There was a new emotion in his eyes I hadn’t seen before. Contentment. He seemed content with everything, his life. Gosh, I w
“Thea, meet Charlie. Charlie, meet Thea.” I motioned to both of them as we converged outside Thea’s new place. She’d moved into Charlie’s neighbourhood and thought we should all just meet at her place since she hadn’t been properly introduced to Charlie.Both of them smiled at each other and Thea being Thea just ran off her mouth.“You’re so pretty. D*mn. If I were into girls, I would lick you up.” I threw her a disgusted look. Some thoughts were better left as thoughts. Charlie didn’t mind though as her cheeks turned rosy.“Can we please go inside?” I rolled my eyes at both of them.We joked around for a few hours and I could tell that they would be fast friends. They were so similar in nature, both beautiful, fashionable and resilient, tough nuts to crack, but would defend what they thought was right with all they had.Thea looked at her phone surreptitiously and turned it off. She’d been acting edgy all day. Was she expecting a call from someone?“What is it?” I whispered beside he
We sat inside David's study. A room with wood that looked richer than my bank account. It probably was richer. The shelf behind him held so many books that had been considered priceless or just lost to most of the world.His house looked just as elegant as it did outside on the inside. The couches smelled of expensive leather and one could smell a citrus-cinnamon scent everywhere else.We all sat in the living room just staring at one another until Gerald came in to ask for what we'd eat, his stare at me unwavering. I shifted uncomfortably in my seat.We'd all echoed the same thing."No, thank you. I'm fine."When he saw no need for his services, he calmly left the room, sparing me a final glance before exiting the door.I didn't know where to start or how to David's face wasn't welcoming. He looked angry but he hadn't thrown me out yet. So, that counted for something.Instead of leading with a 'why the f*ck did you help me?', I asked something entirely different. "How long have you
I went up to the room and lay in bed, looking up at the ceiling but not noticing it.First I was shocked, then I was mad. Shortly after I was confused. Why?Kol walked on eggshells around me all night, not knowing how to handle the situation for once. I understood that there was no choice and he was the only option in that moment but why had he done it?I was under the impression that he hated me and that I should’ve died in place of his wife. He’d made that abundantly clear. If you asked me, I thought that was a very obvious opportunity for his wishes to be fulfilled.While I continued staring at the ceiling, Kol glanced at me surreptiously.“I’m sorry.” I turned my face to fully look at him.“I’m not mad at you. I would’ve done the same thing.” I would’ve. His life over any other thing. That would’ve been my choice too.“I’m just… honestly, I don’t really know how to feel.” I moved a lock of hair from his forehead and left my hand on his face, cupping his cheek.“That’s fine. If you
FIVE WEEKS LATERTori’s POV.“I swear, I’ll kill him if he tries to bring a spoon near me to feed me.” I hissed through my teeth.Thea chuckled beside me as she got the bath ready for me. I’d come back from the hospital and Kol had been treating me like I was made of glass, carrying me everywhere, spoon-feeding me, tucking me in bed.I was tired and he was slowly getting on my nerves. I’d thrown a fit when he’d demanded that I let him feed me. My arms were f*cking fine. I was fine. I still needed bed rest but I could do a few activities without groaning so loudly.“It is so weird to see Kol like this. I think it’s best if you just let him baby you. We don’t know when he’d go back to cold - no emotions Kol.” She was right but it was getting overbearing.I rolled my eyes at her.“I am serious about killing him though. He won’t go beyond holding my hands though.”“What else do you want him to do? He’s scared he might break you.” Her eyes glinted mischievously at me. I scrunched up my nos
Tori was awake. I couldn’t believe my eyes. The doctors couldn’t either.They were all shocked at her miraculous recovery. She could barely speak or move much. She still needed weeks of rest and medical care but she was awake. It was all that mattered.I watched her sleep and wake up, drink water when she was parched, cleaned her myself and then watched her some more for long hours.My phone rang, disrupting my new position as the room hawk and mother hen according to Thea who was asleep in a very uncomfortable position by the way.“How’s she?” Josh had also rushed over, dropping every other thing when he had heard she was awake but returned back to work shortly after.“She’s asleep.” He sighed deeply and then continued to talk some more about work. We were doing fine, thanks to Josh. The short period when Tori was almost lifeless, there were moments of reflection where I realised that not a lot actually mattered to me in the grand scheme of things. The grand scheme of things being sp
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