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After the kiss, there was a brief and awkward silence before Hailey left the confines of the car. Saying a quick goodbye to Kol, she hurried into the apartment like one with fire on her heels while Kol watched her departing figure with a smirk and took her hastened steps as a sign of shyness.Kol shook his head with a smile and waited for a brief moment. His lower lip was taken in a bite as he thought of the kiss he shared with Hailey. Never did he think that he was going to be granted such an opportunity again after their not so pleasant fall out earlier.The evening they spent together brought his hopes high on what they had potential to be if only they could work on it. Kol didn't quite know where Hailey's headspace was at the moment but one thing he knew for certain was that there was something between them and it was his duty to see to its continuous growth.Kol's car was pretty much still riddled with the alluring scent of Hailey which only reaffirmed the reality of the kiss the
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Chase was seated in an office chair with his hand over his brown hair. These days he was pretty much almost living in his office, slaving himself and his current workers for a solution that would take them out of the slums they had plummeted into due to the scandals and near bankruptcy.Chase was in his office at the hotel, sending out various applications, setting and attending meetings that were proposed for the seeking out a solution out of the abyss that was rapidly overtaking the Denver's corporations. Due to the recent events, a lot of workers who were loyal to the business had turned in their resignation letters, everyone wanting to cut their losses and find themselves a much secure job.Everything was dwindling and Chase was determined to save his business. So far he had attended not less than eight meetings per day, each and everyone more of a rally for partnership and sponsorship with his business, promising that they would not be disappointed.But of course no one was ready
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"Dawn."Dawn raised her head and smiled at her father. "Hey dad, I was just finishing a braid. Want to see?" She asked and pulled him into the room."It looks beautiful." Chase said sitting on her bed. She was very young and yet so brilliant and smart.Dawn looked at him and smiled. However her smile was replaced by a frown when she noticed his clothes. Gone were his casual clothes and instead he was now wearing a suit and trouser to match. The kind he wore to the office which meant he was on his way out. "Dad, where are you going? You promised we'd spend time together. You promised!"." She said pouting and Chase sighed pulling her into his lap.If only she knew how badly he didn't want to go out today. Chase thought with a sigh but said instead. "I know and I promise you that I'd be back as soon as my meeting is done. I really need to go for this meeting though."Dawn sighed and pulled away from him. The frown on her face and the pout on her lips were still there. "Alright, but you a
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The meeting was finally over and Chase wanted nothing more than to go home and be with his daughter. However he had something to do first.Kohl's revelation had shocked him to his bones and it made him wonder how much Natalie and her family had done to get him in his present condition.Perhaps if he hadn't been so out of it at the time when everything happened, he might have realized that she had left way too fast for someone who's finaceé was in deep waters.But he had been so out of it because of his crumbling business and he had even begged her to stay with him. What if she had stayed? Would he even be alive? Or perhaps he'd have targeted his daughter....Chase banished the thought not wanting to think about Dawn and misfortune in the same breath. He couldn't bare anything happening to her.Kohl's revelation was giving him a reason to want to find out everything that had happened.To scrape his own version and discover the real version that had been hidden.Did Natalie ever want to
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"Whosoever this visitor is, he had better have a good reason for disrupting my plans for the afternoon..." Hailey grumbled as she marched into the living room.Coming face to face with the one person she had been avoiding for days, she halted in her steps and avoided his gaze."Hailey.." Kol said smiling at her. She didn't smile back feeling ashamed and thoroughly embarrassed."Kol, hey..""Are you okay?" Kol asked making a move towards her but she moved away far out of his reach making him frown."I'm fine, just tired. Work was really long.""Well I'll take that as my cue, it's great to have you here Kol. Please stay for lunch." Ciara said as she walked off leaving the two alone."I'd love to.""Kol, I ... what I mean is.. Kol I didn't mean to ghost you like that. It's just after everything that happened with the kiss and all, it was all too much, too sudden and I didn't know how to handle it so I panicked and.and what I'm trying to say is I can't be more....I'm sorry but I can't be
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Hailey was comfortably covered between the sheets in bed. The lights were dim and the curtains drawn as she snoozed her way deep in subconscious. The recent happenings in her life had no doubt taken a toll on her, she was in need of a sizable amount of rest and her body was in no way ready to give up the maximum comfort of the bed.Much to the disadvantage of Hailey, it was a Tuesday. Which also meant that it was a work day and she had to be up early. Hailey managed to locate her alarm which rang aloud during the early hours of the day, muttering to herself just a little more time as she hit the snooze button.Five minutes turned into ten and ten into fifteen. In no time, she was late. Hailey was forced awake by the loud opening of her room door and the burst of sunlight which was let through into the room space. Courtesy, Ciara." Get your slothful butt up and get to work Hailey! It's past seven." Ciara announced with a voice very much louder than usual, aiming to get her point acros
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Chase was seated in a pretty messed up office. His mind was riddled with a thousand thoughts on what exactly his next course of action would be. As the head of the corporation, he needed to do something and do it fast. There were a lot of people who depended on him and he couldn't find it in himself to disappoint their trust in him.As Chase sat on the office floors, the events which led him to this deplorable state occupied his thoughts. While he retraced his steps, he kept on wondering if there was any moment where he made a terrible decision or did something that wasn't supposed to be done which in return led to the current situation.As much as he knew that the company had been going through some major finance issues in the past years, he was of the thought that they were almost recovered, if not already recovered. Who would have thought that one day the very renowned and notable Denver group would face such trying times?Chase stood up from the floor, his face pretty much scrunch
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"I can't believe I have these, I thought I lost them." Hailey said gaping at the documents she had previously worked on.They had suddenly disappeared into thin air when she was about to present them to her boss. She had told her about her findings and she had been very proud.However, after working on it, she had looked everywhere for them. Her boss had even blamed her for being careless saying their job required a lot of organization, a skill that Hailey obviously lacked.She was going to make her eat her own words.Hailey squealed as she scrolled through the documents marveling at her discovery. Who knew iCloud could be so useful?She felt her mood rise and she wished this mood could remain permanent. Finally, she had patched things up with Kol and made it clear that they couldn't be more than friends.He understood and he was still in her life. Hailey didn't know what she'd do if he had decided to leave once she told him she wasn't interested in him as a boyfriend.These documents
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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
