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" How was your little investigation? " Ciara said the moment Hailey went through the door, her eyes never leaving the screen of her apple laptop" You sure left very early, what's the catch?" She asked with a smile, waiting for the response of Hailey.Hailey, tired and having a lot of thoughts on her mind, slumped to the couch and heaved a sigh. With the continued silence, Ciara was prompted to look up in question.On seeing the glum look on Hailey's face, every trace of light disappeared from her countenance. She set aside her laptop and scooted closer towards Hailey, before moving forward to asking with a soft tone." Are you alright? Should I be worried?" She inquired, already freaked out from Hailey's response or her lack of.Hailey was afraid. She'd successfully walked into the lion's den and it was only a matter of time before the effects began to show up. While Ciara countlessly asked her what the problem was, she slowly removed the wig and supposed disguise she was putting on.
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Chase was all smiles when he arrived back home that evening. He couldn't believe that he was finally out of the dog house. Having been treading dangerous waters in the past few weeks, it was a great feeling of freedom to be getting some relief.As the car drove into the house and came to a stop, he came down with his briefcase, and with a tilt to his step, he walked straight towards the house, tagging the day one of the best in a while.Chase, having had a few sips of wine with Mr Amore, was in a great mood. He wondered if it was as a result of the wine or if it was just a general reaction to the news. Either way, he was quite happy and nothing could dampen his mood.With the contract signed, he believed that he could resurrect his business from the dust and totally regain the glory of the family. During the little conversation with Mr Amore, who for some reason was interested in his family background, his heart was stirred towards making the business great again.As he told the story
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"Well someone is happy." Ciara said smiling as she walked into Hailey's room. "Why are you up so early? And you're dressed? Where to?""I'm going to see Dawn and Chase today." Hailey said rising to her feet and holding onto Ciara when she tripped. "I have to show him the evidence I have against Franklyn and Amore or Chase will never believe me."Ciara stared at her for a brief moment and sighed. "How are you sure he'd believe you even if you go there with all this evidence? Remember what happened last time?"Hailey sighed and slumped back on the bed, her excitement waning. "I remember everything as if it all happened yesterday Cee. But that is different. This time, he'd have no choice but to listen to me."Ciara stared at her wordlessly for a few minutes and sighed. "You've already made up your mind so nothing I say can stop you. But please be careful when you go there. If he dares to disrespect you again then call me and I'd be there..."Hailey laughed cutting her friend off and soon
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"Right this way boss."Mr Franklyn spat on ground and jumped over it headed in the direction his man had pointed out.This person really had a lot of nerves spying on him.He had been sloppy, he thought as he got to the door that will lead him inside. Way too sloppy and too trusting.If Amore hadn't noticed that light from the recording device then he'd be having more problems than just a mole. Thankfully, the mole had been caught.He glared at the man standing beside the door, feeling his anger rise again. He raised his hand and it landed on the man's face. The sound bouncing off the walls and frighteningly the other men in the room."Are you waiting for me to open the door myself?"Three men rushed towards the door at the same time shaking in fright just as Franklyn hissed and looked forward again. He glared at the three muttering"fools" under his breath as he walked into the facility."Boss!" Everyone inside greeted as he walked in.He ignored them as he walked further into the roo
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Natalie was in her room at the Denver's mansion. Ever since the arrival of Hailey to the house not so long ago, she wanted to permanently win Chase over for herself.The fact that he wasn't making any attempt at taking things further with her or even spending time with her made her worry about just what it is that they had in store for her.She wasn't naive to the happenings around her. She had pretty much figured out that the reason she was called back was a calculated step towards getting her father back on the financing of the Denver's corporations.Natalie remembered how great she felt when she had so intelligently laid off Hailey and it was a feeling she pretty much savoured to the last second. She wanted to so immediately stamp herself as Chase's lawfully wedded wife and she knew it was a feat she couldn't achieve on her own.She needed help, and she needed it immediately. For as far as she knew, Chase nursed something for her but it needed to be trained to maturity before she c
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The words hung on the air for the longest period of time. The eyes of both Hailey and Ciara were on the recorder, each nursing a look of seeming unbelief. One thing was crystal clear, Hailey was being threatened.There was no two ways about it all, she had been caught up by the devil she was supposed to bring to book. Ciara felt like with the supposed recorder bring found,it was only a matter of time before they connected the dots to their much recent harvest.Hailey was terrified. She had never for once considered that she'd be caught up this soon and threatened. Seeing the red inked fingerprint of who was supposedly Iris, she felt her heart go down between her ribs.She didn't need any magician or fortune teller to know that Iris wasn't fine wherever she may be. She desperately hoped that she was still alive, but the more she scrutinized the paper, the more her hope depleted until it vanished to thin air.Hailey, aware of the way they were trained to avoid any sort of slip ups, coul
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'We finally did it.' Was Hailey's first thought as she woke up the next morning.She still couldn't believe it and a part of her was ready to believe that it had all been a dream but she was naked in bed with Chase Denvers who was still sleeping beside her.Their legs were tangled together and she felt soreness down there.It wasn't a dream."I had sex with Chase." Hailey said as her cheeks grew hot. Chase stirred beside her and her heartbeat picked up. Thankfully he only turned on his side and continued sleeping.Hailey let out a breath of relief and leaned against the headboard thinking about last night.She would have never imagine that this day would come especially not after her encounter with Natalie the other day.Did she feel guilty? No. Did she want to do this again? Yes.At her last answer, Hailey felt her cheeks grow hotter. But it was the truth, she was in love with Chase and this was just something she'd hold as a memory for the rest of her life.Hailey got out of bed and
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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
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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
