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Chase sighed as he took another swig of his champagne. He would've loved to take alcohol or something that'd numb the pain of hearing Hailey say those words. But he didn't want to get drunk because he could be needed at work anytime. If not for the business that would drown at any wrong move from him, he'd have canceled out the alliance with Natalie's family. He didn't even like Natalie, not to talk about love. Only one thing bounded him to her. Like father says, there are just some things you have to do for your business. He pulled at his hair and dropped the champagne flute. He lowered his head into his hands and sighed. The earlier he accepted the truth that he and Hailey could never be together, the better it would be for him. He'd just hurt his mental health for no reason. His mental health was barely surviving anyways. And it already seemed like Hailey had moved on from him. She probably never liked me anyways. He took the champagne flute and refilled it. Well, whatever th
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Hailey sat at the table and looked around. The way the mansion was bustling with activities, one would think today was the wedding, but there was still about a week to the wedding.“The flowers will be arriving today, make surethe store is well kempt and arranged well to accommodate them.” Leo threw at the maids that were carrying a broom each. They nodded with bowed heads and Leo turned around to look at the person who was changing the wallpapers around the house.“No! Don't put the white one down here, that'll be upstairs. Use the grey ones.” The worker sighed and dropped the rolled up bundle of white and silver patterned wallpaper and picked the grey one.Hailey took her sandwich absent-mindedly and bit into it. She took a sip of her orange juice and continued looking ahead, thinking about everything she could think of, but not really thinking about them. She didn't even know what she was thinking about.Kol came and took his usual seat beside Hailey.“Good morning Hailey.” His voi
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Ciara watched the phone ring. She had said she wasn't going to talk to Hailey and she'd stick to it. If the girl thought she'd dismiss her words and warnings and then come running to her then expect her to accept her with open arms then she was mistaken.The phone began to ring again and frustrated, she turned it off. She dropped the phone in her bedside drawer and laid to sleep. It was too early for her anyways.****Hailey dropped her plate in the sink and began to wash her hands. Leo who was inspecting Francis' dinner looked at her. She had a certain glow to her, and she was smiling more often now.Was it because of Kol? “Hailey.” She turned to Leo with a smile before she turned back and continued scrubbing her hands that had nail paint on it. It was kind of stuck and she had been trying to get it off since the previous day. It was all Dawn's doing. She said she wanted to give Hailey a manicure and when Hailey tried to refuse, she began throwing a tantrum. She had to agree.“Yeah.”
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Dawn watched as Hailey walked the flight of stairs, her hips swaying left and right, which by the way she was doing intentionally to spike Natalie. She looked around the room, noting everyone's expression. Chase had a dumbfounded look on his face. He stood up from where he sat on the couch and headed towards Natalie. All the while, Dawn had her eyes on him.“What the hell was that about? Huh?” Chase said through gritted teeth grabbing a hold of Natalie's arm aggressively. His voice wasn't loud, infact he seemed like he was whispering but the sitting room was extremely quiet, so his words were loud and clear to everyone's hearing.“Get your hands off me.” Natalie seethed but Chase pulled her closer to him. He narrowed his eyes and dragged her up the stairs too. The sound of a door banging indicated the end of Chase and Natalie's drama. Or at least to their hearing and seeing, it had ended. But they all knew that there was going to be a lot of drama behind those doors that were just ban
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The sound of Franklin's hand hitting the glass table made the man flinch.The place Franklin hit with his hand had shattered and pieces of glass were in his hand. Blood dripped unto the clear now broken glass table. The man was surely a strong geriatric.“So we lost goods worth about one point five million, and you're here looking like we didn't lose a dime?!” Franklin snapped angrily.He hardly ever got angry, but when he did, it was never good.The man that brought him the news was already shivering in his seat. He knew better than to cross the geriatric, a snap of his finger could end him.“Leave my study.” Franklin said in a disturbingly calm voice that sent shivers down the man's spine. But the shivers engulfed him whole because he had no spine. He was a spineless man who did each and every bidding of Franklin. And if he happened to develop a spine, he'd become lost in history and life.So the man stood up and walked out of the room quietly.Franklin tapped on the table bell onc
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Natalie turned completely such that her back was pressed to the tinted windows of the car. The cold from the air conditioning system in car which had made the windows cold seeped into her exposed back making her shiver slightly.“Yes, Chase or anyone at all can't be trusted. You're naive, childish and in love so you won't understand what I'm trying to do.” Natalie narrowed her eyes to slits.What does this old man mean by childish?“Chase can be trusted. Do you even have any idea of how he's being pressured at work? And you're telling me he can't be trusted?” Franklin turned to face Natalie by just a tilt of his head. He raised a single brow in question.“How does him being pressured at work and trust correlate?” Natalie folded her lips into her mouth. She raised her hand and opened her mouth to talk but she didn't have anything to say.“You don't realize that he can fake the marriage just to get what he wants. Men will do anything for what they want, Chase is a man.” Natalie wasn't g
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“Well, Dawn was a talkative. She talked a lot right from childhood, even when she didn't know how to talk, she'd sputter gibberish and whenever I don't reply to her or react, she'd cry. I had to keep her on the bed all the time other wise she'd run aoo around the house.” Chase stopped to chuckle, remembering how he'd wake up in the middle of the night and not find Dawn in bed.And he'd have to rummage the whole house before he'd find her. Later on, he had to start locking the room door and keeping tge keys away from her reach so that she would never be able to leave the room unless he let her.“This girl would wake up in the middle of the night and go downstairs. Till date I don't know exactly what she does. And it's not like she sleep walks. She would be very conscious.” They had a good laugh about it and they both kept quiet. A question that had been bugging Hailey stayed on her lips.It's now or never.“You know,” Hailey lowered her head and braced herself for his reaction to her s
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Dawn walked up the stairs, wondering where Hailey was. She suddenly decided to 'go to bed' when she knew very well that she was supposed to tuck her in, read her a bedtime story and kiss her goodnight. It was basically their routine.She headed to her father's room, a pout on her pretty face. She was going to talk to her father and wish him Goodnight then tell Hailey to tuck her in.Loud laughter emanated from the slightly ajar door of his room. She peeped in and her face broke into a smile at the sight in front of her. She pushed the door open slightly and looked on with a grin on her face.Her father and Natalie were laughing with Hailey's head thrown back and her hand constantly tapping Chase's shoulder while Chase was looking at her with a smile. She started laughing all over pointing in Chase's face. Anyone would've gotten annoyed at her laughter seeming as it was directed to him. But he had a wide smile on his face.Dawn sneakily entered the room and looked around. She saw her fa
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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
