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Chase couldn't help the glowing feeling in his heart as he stared at Hailey learning how to skate. She wasn't a professional but she was doing her best.He noticed every little detail; from the way, her hair was flying in the wind to the way her smile reached her eyes. She was very beautiful, there was no doubt about that. He knew he shouldn’t be feeling the way he was feeling about her but he couldn't help himself. The heart decides who to love.His brain froze at that thought.Love.He couldn't possibly be in love with Hailey, there was a lot at stake here.He had to get his head in the game so he could focus on Natalie and get what he wants with her.“Dad, watch out!”Chase blinked just in time to avoid a collision with another skater but he ended up stumbling and falling with Hailey.They rolled down the hills all covered in snow. He was so focused in his head he didn't know when he had almost bumped into someone.“Are you alright?” he asked Hailey.She giggled. “This was fun. I
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Natalie stomped into the sitting room. She looked around, hoping to set her eyes on Chase. She had specifically come early in the morning so she didn't have to go to his work place to see him.Her eyes narrowed at the sight of Hailey helping Dawn with her puzzle.Who did puzzles as early as seven in the morning?She plastered a fake smile and walked—this time calmly, a total contrast to how she bad walked into the house—towards them.“Hey! Dawn baby, are you doing a puzzle?” Dawn raised her head and regarded Natalie with a bored expression before she went back to her puzzle. Natalie frowned. She then turned to Hailey.“Hey you! Don't you know to regard your bosses and accord them their demanded respect?” She shot harshly. Hailey opened her mouth to speak—most definitely to greet her and accord her so-called respect to her—but Natalie stopped her with her words.“I am going to be the queen of this house. Don't you know that you whore?” Dawn raised her head and narrowed her eyes. She op
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While Chase's eyes were on the zooming cars that passed, his mind was totally elsewhere. He didn't know what to do.How could he have let himself fall in love with her? He knew that he couldn't marry anyone else. It was either Natalie or the family business that drowned. How did he let himself fall for Hailey?He couldn't marry her. That would mean calling off the wedding with Natalie. And that also meant letting the family business drown. He couldn't afford it.He sighed and rubbed his forehead. This was a disaster, he was a disaster. He had no idea what he was to do.The car stopped and he stepped out of the car and entered the house.“Good evening Sir.” Hailey said with a smile but he kept on a straight face and walked ahead, ignoring her greeting.She frowned and shrugged. He was probably in a bad mood.****“Hey Nat.” Natalie faked a smile at Chase.“When are you going shopping for the white dress?” Natalie whipped her head up to chase, surprised.“Why do you suddenly want to go
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Hailey realized she had stopped listening. She placed her ear closer to the door, trying to hear what they were saying. It seemed they had gone quiet.“Honestly grandfather, he needs this...” Natalie suddenly went quiet and that was when Hailey realized that she had mistakenly touched the door knob and the door had opened slightly.“Who's there?” She heard Natalie say and that was her cue to run. She tiptoed away and when she had placed a short distance between her and the room, she ran. She entered her room and closed the door. She locked it and pushed her back against the door then gulped.She waited with baited breath, expecting Natalie to come knocking at her door and drag her out for eavesdropping. She counted to sixty, and when no one came, she released a sigh of relief. She pushed herself off the door and started to walk towards the bed.Rapid knocking came on the door and she screamed. She opened the door with shaky hands and closed her eyes, awaiting the impact of... Well w
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Hailey looked around the corridor and when she saw no one, she locked her room door and pulled out her notebook. She began to scribble more things on it, stopping every now and then to think.Thirty minutes later, she was done. She sighed and looked at her masterpiece. She just needed more information and it would be the perfect one. She decided to edit for any mistakes and when she was done, she dropped it back in her suitcase and locked the suitcase.She picked her phone to call Ciara when she saw a call coming in from an unknown number. She looked at the number for a while before deciding to pick before the call ended. Maybe it was even someone important.She answered the call and put the phone to her ear. She was quiet, waiting for the person to talk first. And when the caller didn't speak for five minutes, she got irritated.“Hello? Who is this?” She said annoyingly and a chuckle came.“Feisty as ever, just like you have always been.” Her blood ran cold before it began to boil in
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Chase walked into the house with Leo holding his suitcase. One look at him and anyone would see that he was beyond tired, he looked extremely drained. Like any pressure on him and he'd be on the floor like a pile of nothing.“Daddy! You're home.” Dawn screeched and ran towards Chase who picked her up and twirled her. He would always have time and energy for his baby girl no matter what. It didn't matter if he was coming back from hell.“You've been a good girl right? No stubbornness or any trouble?” Chase said, flicking his eyes to Hailey who had her face in a frown, her gaze averted. If he could ignore her then so could she!“What do you mean daddy? I've always been a good girl.” Dawn said, playing with her dad's tresses.“That's great. Now, I'm going to bed early today. Does my baby girl need anything?” Dawn pretended to think for a while before she widened her eyes dramatically.“Daddy! Do you know what I heard today?” Chase looked at her with furrowed brows before he shook his hea
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He picked his staff and adjusted his hat. He walked with gait and stamina that was not supposed to be practiced by an eighty year old man. He took the steps, one at a time with a cat-like grace.The maids around who were cleaning the house from his earlier guests all halted their work and stood with bowed heads.“Good evening sir.” They said in unison and he gave them all a single nod.He walked outside the house and waited for a few seconds before Emmanuel, his chief driver, came around with the car. The thirty year old man—Emmanuel—hurried outside and opened the door to the owner's corner for Franklin.He entered the car and the driver drove him to his usual place. The driver knew he would only go there at this time of the night. He had been his driver for over ten years, and he had sworn his allegiance to him. So everything he was doing was nothing new to him.They reached a remote area that was dark. There was no lighting at all, just perfect for what they wanted to do. They drove
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Natalie walked into the house with her usual childlike demeanor. Her usual lilt in her steps was there and she had a wide smile on her face. She walked into the dining room where Chase, Hailey and Dawn were having breakfast.She ruffled Dawn's hair making her scrunch her face up. Dawn used her hand to arrange her hair back and eyed Natalie stealthily. But Hailey saw her so she nudged her a bit.“Good morning to my favorite bridesmaid.” Natalie said with a wide smile making Hailey and Chase both choke on their food - Hailey on her bacon and Chase on his tea. They both looked at each other before they averted their gazes immediately to Natalie.“What?” Hailey said after taking a gulp from the glass of water Leo handed her.“What?” Natalie repeated with a raise of her brows. Though her tone sounded like she was saying 'Why are you all acting so surprised?', unlike Hailey who sounded like she was saying 'can you repeat yourself?'.When no reply came from anyone at the table, Natalie sat d
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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
