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“Hey Hailey.” Hailey stood up from the couch in the sitting room immediately, standing at attention like a soldier ready to receive an order. Chase furrowed his brows at that.“Good evening sir.” Chase furrowed his brows, he thought they were way past that. Why did it seem like they were back to square one?Hailey had her eyes lowered and shoulders stiff. She didn't like the feeling of helplessness, or how she had to feel like a servant. But she had no choice. She couldn't take the risk of having Natalie spill the beans. If Natalie spilled the beans she was going to be done for.“Hailey? Are you okay?” Hailey nodded, her posture still stiff.“Yes sir, I'm fine sir.” Chase furrowed his brows and before he could ask why she was acting so formal and restrained, Dawn screamed Hailey's name from up the stairs, probably from her room.“Excuse me Sir, I'll have to attend to Miss Dawn.” Hailey bowed slightly before she walked away and up the stairs making Chase furrow his brows. What could be
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“Bye daddy!” Dawn waved Chase as the driver drove him away. He was going to work.“Let's go, Hailey.” Dawn pulled Hailey inside the house and they met Natalie standing by the door. Her hands were underneath her bosom and she had a cocky smirk on.Hailey tried to sidestep her despite the feeling that something was about to go terribly wrong. But Natalie's voice halted her in her steps.“Hailey, wait here. I'm having guests over now.” Hailey didn't know how that concerned her but she stayed nonetheless. She stopped and turned around, standing slightly behind Natalie.Dawn shrugged and left for her room. She had excluded herself from all the drama between Natalie and Hailey.Hailey hated how Natalie was stepping all over her and feeling confident. As though the whole world was beneath her too feet. It irritated her to no ends but what could she do? She had to thread on the safer side of the thin ice. If she proved stubborn, she'd end up with nothing. So this once, she'd lay down low firs
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After going through Natalie's phone, Hailey was pretty much in the know of everything. more than she was in time past. With the latest piece of information she found, Hailey deemed it substantial enough to write a new article all together regarding her job so far.Suddenly, her stolen PC didn't weigh so much on her. Her only concern now was the incriminating evidence of her snooping around which was contained in it's storage. It wasn't news that if it's contents got into the hands of Natalie, it only spelled doom for her.Hailey having gone through the messages of Natalie and Mr Franklin, found out the reason behind the whole bizzare wedding between Chase and Natalie. It put her in the know of the wedding agreements and how they'd so threatened and exploited Chase's need to save his company.Her heart reached out to Chase who has had to tolerate the annoying existence of Natalie and her excesses just to save his company. As much as she pretty much already knew that there was something
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" Are you kidding me?!" Natalie bellowed at the duo of Hailey and Chase. Who upon hearing the furious and unexpected voice of Natalie, jolted apart." You! I'll ruin you, Just wait!" She screamed at Hailey, hands in her hair and her eyes red with anger. She threw a dirty look at Chase before she stormed away, not looking back even once.Natalie felt green with envy and red with anger as she stormed out of the house. She couldn't believe that with the firm grip she'd thought on Hailey, she'd still have the guts to hang around Chase. Her heart burned with fury as the picture of their kissing form reappeared in her mind again and again.She needed to do something. Natalie's desire to get rid of Hailey once and for all grew to an all time high. She so sourly regretted not getting her out of the way as soon as possible.With that thought, Natalie headed on to get the laptop cracked. She'd been putting it off for a while, hoping and leaching on its power to control Hailey but it was now evi
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Chase groaned as the sound of his phone buzzing on his bedside drawer reached his ears. Why couldn't they let him sleep? It was a weekend for God's sake!He reached for the phone to silence it but mistakenly pushed it off the bedside drawer. It went quiet and he couldn't help but feel happy. At least he was going to be able to sleep now.But he didn't. He couldn't go back to sleep. Not even after tossing and turning on the bed for almost thirty minutes.When he realized that he really couldn't go back to sleep, he opened his eyes with a begrudged sigh. He sat up and leaned on the headboard. He looked over at the bedside drawer and didn't see his phone. Then he remembered it had fallen down.He'd look for it later, he told himself. Right now, he was extremely hungry and not in the best of moods. And if he bothered looking for his phone, he'd definitely see the missed calls he was sure were what disrupted his sleep. And if he saw them, he'd definitely call the person back and there migh
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Hailey ran out of the house in tears. The day she'd been dreading had finally materialized and as expected she was a mess. She boarded a cab headed to Ciara all the while sobbing as she thought of how broken Chase looked.The fact that she couldn't even look at him in the face again without seeing what she'd done to him was the bone of contention. Hailey felt like she couldn't even ask for forgiveness or explain things from her side because of how things blew up.The repercussions of the events also affirmed the fact that she might not be able to see Dawn ever again, having successfully ruined the family's business and its chances of getting up again. Being in the know of the financial crisis that Denver's corporations were facing, she wondered if she'd been the last straw which broke the camel's back.Hailey finally arrived at Ciara's home and after the payment, she hurried up to the door, knocking aggressively as she visibly tried to contain her tears from onlookers. Ciara jolted up
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Hailey and Ciara ended up shopping for outfits for the party. It's been a while since they attended such kinds of events that required little to minimal amounts of clothing. Hailey wanted to go all out tonight, she felt like she's been enclosed and way too guarded these past few months with the whole drama that she'd not actually taken out time to let her hair down." I want to get this one!" Hailey yelled to the hearing of Ciara who was ten meters away checking out some denims while they browsed through the shop's items. The duo had spent more or less of an hour trying to get something just right for their night time out.Ciara walked closer to her friend, taking the cloth from her hand and inspected it, " okay, these are actually good, but I was hoping that we lean onto the less dressy and more slutty outfits." Ciara said with tut while she scrutinized the average floral dress Hailey was considering. " It's a party, Hailey. Not a date."Hailey tried to maintain a semblance of an off
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Chase was sleeping soundly on his bed during the night when multiple messages flooded his phone. His phone has been on do not disturb mode ever since everything went haywire with the scandal and news about the Denver's corporations. For the first time ever, Chase was glad that he had mobile phones for different specific purposes.During these trying times, Chase was unavailable to most of the people he interacted with daily and he desperately tried to gain a foothold on the happenings of the business, only answering necessary calls and having his family phone on him.His secretary handled all his work phone calls which were mostly diverted to the company phone to be held off and handled by the secretary of the CEO. Since the outbreak of the situation, Chase was unable to find rest or sleep. He spent his days looking for a way to resurrect the business and save the corporation from going bankrupt.With the stocks falling drastically, Denver's corporations were at the very Verge of coll
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The three days watch was finally over and Chase was over the moon. He had gotten up at the crack of dawn and had woken everyone in his house up. Today, finally after so many months of being apart due to one situation or the other Hailey was going to be moving into his house for good. Natalie, her grandfather were out of his life now and he was free to be with whoever he wanted.“Daddy?” Dawn’s voice pulled him back to the present and he smiled as he caught her form in the doorway.“In here Dawn.” He opened his arms smiling when she ran towards him. “You look happy, what’s the secret?” Chase asked lifting her up in his arms as if she weighed nothing. “Does this have anything to do with Hailey coming back home?”“Yes, I’m soooooo excited.” She started telling him her many plans for Hailey’s arrival. Chase nodded his head as he listened attentively, his mind creating images of the kind of family he, Hailey and Dawn will make. She continued listing out her plans and Chase let his mind d
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" Is she going to be okay?" Chase asked the team of doctors and nurses who came for the morning round and observed a sleeping Hailey." She is a fighter, Mr Denver. No doubt she'll be fine. So far there's been a lot of progress." One of the doctors explained with a smile, hoping to ease of the tension on Chase's shoulders.Chase sighed in relief, " oh thank you doc. Hopefully she wakes up early." He added, patting her hair for better measure." She will be up in no time. Just give her some time to flesh it out." The doctor affirmed and headed out of the ward, not before they'd both shook hands on it.It had been three days of total blackout. Hailey was yet to awaken and Chase sat by her side, looking rough, barely going home and waiting for her to wake up.For the first time in a while, Chase reevaluated his thoughts and prayed Vehemently that she woke up in good health alongside the child within her. He watched like a hawk for any little changes and continually felt the stomach of
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“She’s in critical condition.” George said speaking to the nurse who came outside to help them.The nurse nodded and placed her hands on Hailey’s wrists checking for a pulse. She smiled when she noticed there was indeed a pulse. “She has a pulse but its barely there and she has lost a lot of blood. She will have to be admitted immediately.” The nurse said and ran off to get the stretcher and some backup.George looked at Chase and sighed placing his hand on his shoulder. “Your wife is going to be fine Mr Denvers, they are good at their job.” He said and quickly answered someone over the radio. “I have to heard to the station now, there are some things I need to take care of. I will need Hailey’s statement and all the evidence she has against those men so we can ensure that they pay for all their crimes.”“You’d have to wait for her to get better then,” Chase said and sighed stroking Hailey’s hair. “I don’t know where she left the files she had been working on. Infact, she refused to g
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“We’ve found her.”Chase was on his feet before anyone else, his heart beating wildly in his chest. ‘Finally, some good news.’ He thought but said instead. “Where is she? Is she okay? How’s the baby?”The cop would have laughed if it had been a different situation but this was a very sensitive case. “We have found her location but we wanted to let you know first.” He said and watched as several emotions crossed Chase’s face, the most obvious ones being relief then concern.“Where is she? Can I see her?” Dawn asked walking towards the cop. “Where is Hailey?”“Come here little one.” Leo said and pulled Dawn away earning him a grateful smile from Chase who was looking frazzled. “Let’s go and get some juice for everyone.”“But I want to see Hailey.”“Come on, daddy will bring her back.” Leo said pulling her away.Chase sighed and turned to the cop. “I’m coming with you to bring her back. I can’t stay here while you go.”“Me too, I am coming along.” Ciara said. “She’s my friend and I can h
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An unconscious Hailey was bound by the arm and taken out of the car by some buff men. At the arrival of the car in the shady outskirts of town, Franklin's men were all in standby, waiting for the arrival since word was sent of the successful mission." What happened?" One of the men asked the alleged driver as soon as Hailey was carried into the building." Bitch tried to kill us both, and had to knock her out cold." The man said, taking off his glasses and showing a scar which ran through his lower lids." Get rid of the car and every other trace, there must be no traces." George ordered and immediately walked into the building. Leaving the man to his devices.The car was driven to a blind spot and set ablaze. Hailey was thrown into a leaking and dirty cell room, leaving her to await the arrival of Mr Franklin and Mr Amore.Hailey was brought to consciousness the moment water poured upon her from the leakage. It was raining outside.She looked around her surroundings and fear gripped
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While Chase was continuously ringing Hailey, her phone was on the couch of the sitting room. She had unconsciously dropped it while waiting for some sort of reply from Chase but to no avail.Everytime a new message came into her phone, Hailey rushed to see if it was the reply, abandoning every other thing with high emotions. After the fifth occurrence, she decided to put her phone on do not disturb mode in order to be able to get some work done.As she became submerged in her work, Hailey totally forgot that she had previously placed her phone in total silence. In that haze she worked tirelessly until she couldn't any longer and dozed off spending the night on the couch.The next morning, Ciara stumbled out of her room and met Hailey seated in an awkward way on the couch, the laptop was halfway down the floor, opened with the screen on and battery almost empty.After putting the laptop in place, she headed over to a sleeping Hailey and with two successive pats, she woke her up." Get
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Ciara was in Hailey's room, playing on her phone and simultaneously observing the little changes she noticed in Hailey's body.Her hips seemed much wider, and eyes much more dilated alongside her constant urge to puke. She had earlier researched on the known causes of such symptoms and the only diagnosis that seemed to tick all boxes was the pregnancy idea.Ciara played with the idea of Hailey being pregnant but she couldn't reconcile the two. At first she'd vehemently kicked out the idea of her being pregnant out to the curbs of her mind but then she remembered Kol.For as much as she knew, there wasn't any relationship between them and she believed if something of such nature had taken place, the Hailey she knew would definitely speak to her about it.At the same time, in contrast to that point, Hailey had shared a kiss with Kol not so long ago and deliberately kept it to herself.Although she was made to understand that she thoroughly regretted it and deemed it a mistake that would
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Three weeks later, Hailey and Ciara were finally leaving the hotel. Due to their prolonged stay while searching for an apartment, there was pretty much an hole in the middle of their pockets.Despite how fast they were able to secure an alternative apartment with decent security, it had cost them three weeks worth of money to lodge. A price for the protection of their lives.While they were in the hotel, Hailey reached out to Mrs Whitmore, informing her of the recent events and asking for some time off to figure herself out.Surprisingly, Mrs Whitmore was lenient and it was pointblank unbelievable when she accepted and later sent in a contract which included a working from home agenda and how to conveniently report to due authority for as long as the process dragged on.Originally, when she demanded some time away, she'd been scared of how Mrs Whitmore was going to react but with the reply she got, she was beginning to think her boss wasn't so bad after all.Or maybe she'd finally sca
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"Hey Cee, I'm home." Hailey said walking towards the house. She couldn't wait to lie in her bed again. Work had been hectic!"I'm craving some of your delicious snacks." She said and paused at the door noticing that the handle was broken.With her heart beating wildly in her chest, Hailey opened the door and frantically searched for her friend."What is all this? Cee?" She rushed towards her friend when she spotted her sitting beside the living room couch. It was turned upside down just like the rest of the house.What could have happened?With concerned eyes, she scanned her friend's body sighing in relief when she noticed no bruises or scars. "Cee, what happened?""This house is no longer safe Hailey. I met everything like this when I came home from work."Hailey pulled her friend close and hugged her silently listening to her sobs.Hailey didn't need the police to tell her who had done this, Franklyn must have put his men up to this. He was so desperate to scare her that he'd do an
