Evelyn was conscious of his hand on her waist and when he pulled her closer till she wrapped an arm around his back as they swayed softly and tenderly to the slow music in the air, she concluded that this was the best dream she's had in a while.It was surreal. She never knew he could be such a romantic. This was straight out of a fairytale; expensive dinner, a beautiful house with a nice view and an equally beautiful dress and now this? Dancing like there was no one else in the world.She sighed, closing her eyes to bask in the moment. This was beautiful. She could do this all day and every day. Her life felt like a fairytale whenever he was with her."This place," she didn't pull away from his embrace, he smelled divine and she didn't want to part with that. "It's beautiful. Does it belong to your boss?"He nodded.That bit wasn't a lie. It did belong to his boss and he was the boss of himself."And the car too, right?" goodness! It looked so expensive she didn't need to be told the
"Did you lovebirds sleep well?" Eric grinned as soon as he walked into the suite the next day to say hi to them.They were having breakfast after ordering room service. He was having a hard time concentrating on his food because Lucas was sending death glares at him.Did he walk in on something or did he come too early? It was too late to apologise now because it seemed like Lucas would eat him alive."Oh! Let me go get the dress," Evelyn said and made to stand but Lucas held her back."What dress?""The one from last night. I have to return it," she said, glancing at the confused duo. They looked cute with that look on their face."No, you don't have to return it. I won't take it," Eric refused."What? But why? I couldn't possibly keep it," she argued. "It's not like I bought it-""I'll buy it," Lucas said. "The dress suits you, plus why do you have to get rid of it after what we did in it last night-"Eric's eyes widened in shock as he almost choked on his spit. His imagination ran
"I don't have the money, what am I gonna do?" Olivia cried, throwing a fit on her bed as buried her face on her pillow."Olivia, snap out of it!" Diana screamed. She was sick and tired of the tantrum her daughter was pulling. She's been acting this way ever since she came back from her outing.Before leaving the house, she had looked so happy with high hopes on her plans but a few hours later, she rushed in crying and went straight to her room.Seeing her cry wasn't new to her but she hated it every time. It was just a mother's thing to be worried and concerned.She decided to try a much softer approach, "Dear, if you don't tell me, how will mummy fix this?""You can't fix this!" She screamed, lifting her head from the pillow and snapping to her. Her mascara and eyeshadow was rolling down with her tears. She looked like a crying ghost!"Look at you, you've stained your pillows! Do you know how hard it is to get those stains off?""That's all you care about? If the pillows are hard the
Behind closed doors, Evelyn sat before her computer, staring at the screen and flexing her fingers over her thighs. She gulped loudly before lifting her hand over the keyboards.He swore to never do this again. She didn't want to have to use her hacking skills but she needed to get out of this mess that Olivia had dug her in.A forty thousand dollar debt was too much to ignore and even with her current job, she couldn't cover it. Plus there was Peter's monthly hospital bills too."Just this once," she assured herself as she took a deep breath and began tapping away on her keyboard.Her heart was drumming wildly in her chest as she flowed on the keyboard. It had been years but the way the memories rushed back to her like they were never forgotten only buried within her consciousness, she never wanted to admit. She was a little surprised.After what happened, she had tried desperately to forget this part of her yet seeing how she still remembered every detail in hacking, Evelyn felt the
Evelyn had taken a day off from work so she returned back home, exhausted from having stayed up all night. She went into the kitchen for a glass of water and when her eyes narrowed to the door, she was startled when she saw Lucas.She coughed, heading to the sink at once and spitting out the water."Sorry, I didn't see you there," she said and turned to him. He was dressed in simple pants and a shirt. "You don't have work today?""No," he folded his arms and leaned against the door, watching her. "You took a day off," he stated the obvious. "Where were you this morning? I was worried when I heard the front door shut.""I had to stop by the police station," she moved to and fro with the empty glass cup in her hands, her eyes avoiding his face."What for? Did you find something?""Hmm?" she lifted her head in his direction only for a moment, before she headed to the fridge. "Yeah, something like that. The cops did."That wasn't what Mr. Parker said and given her body language, she was o
Lucas returned to the office just in time for Mr. Parker to render the results of the investigation he had carried out on her."You look like you've seen a ghost," Lucas said, loosening his tie as he sat on his chair. "Get on with it. What dark secrets did you dig up about my wife?""Well, sir… I extended the search to her late sister- Jessica-- to get some information about Evelyn and I found something strange. Her sister's account frequently logged into several computer forums until the day of her death. It has been silent for years until last night between 11pm. to 4am. this morning, someone logged back in."Evelyn.He didn't need to think too far about that. But why was she using her sister's account?"Go on.""You may want to take a look at this," Parker said and dropped some documents that contained some programming details and codes. He studied them closely."On the right is programming code we managed to extract from her sister's computer and on the left is the famous hacker a
On their way home, Lucas and Evelyn were silent throughout the drive. Their thoughts were all over the place for different things.Evelyn was wallowing in self loathe as she felt responsible for her sister's properties that Olivia had almost destroyed.Why was she so useless? She couldn't even bring herself to protect anything that belonged to her. It was devastating to think about and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't forgive herself or let go of the feeling.“That's my sister's house,” she said once they walked in through the front door. “We used to go there a lot for holiday to just get away from Diana and Olivia. It was our only means for escape.”“How could she… how could she try to destroy it? Jessica did nothing wrong to her when she was alive. She did nothing at all to those two, why do they hate us so much?”Lucas hugged her, holding her close to his chest as she sobbed in his arms. All the questions he wanted to ask were suddenly unimportant for now.Her wellbeing w
Evelyn cracked her knuckles as she took her place before her computer again. She didn't want to do this but she couldn't stay away from the situation.She had really wanted to rely on Lucas and it felt nice to even have someone so supportive by her side but she had been responsible for herself too long to just relax in someone else's comfort.Besides, this was about her sister. She could handle this much.Going back once again on the promise to give up programming, she hacked into Olivia's computer again.Her heart was troubled and her mind was uneasy. Especially now that Olivia attacked her sister's property, she couldn't help thinking back on the photos of her sister's accident.Evelyn was suspicious. She copied the death certificate and the photo's, going through them all over again made her heart heavy and her eyes blurry.She wiped her tears and got sidetracked in her thoughts when the door suddenly burst open."Evelyn," Lucas called as he opened the door to reassure her that he