When Freya saw Denise for the first time, she thought that Denise must have applied a lot of makeup on her face because she didn't believe that someone could be that beautiful naturally. However, when Denise showed up for the morning exercises with a sleepy face and no makeup at all, Freya knew that this was the real deal. Her competitive self couldn't take it and she hated this girl called MS just because she was more beautiful than her.You see, Freya had been born and brought up in affluence. Her family was what people call filthy rich. Being the only daughter in a family of four children, everyone, including her three elder brothers, treated her like an expensive porcelain or like an egg that would break at the slightest of careless handling. Everyone did what she wanted and she was given anything and everything she demanded for. She was their little angel.In short, it would be safe to conclude that Freya was what people call 'a spoiled brat'.In school, many people worshipped he
There was an uproar in the room. People couldn't believe that she had the bracelet all along and made even Mr V come cutting his dinner short."Who does she think she is?" Some wondered loudly, not hiding their annoyance."Ah! So she is a thief? She took her friend's bracelet and just kept quiet one girl said and what was worse was that they didn't try to hide it. They talked loudly so that everybody in the room could hear."Not even that. Did you see how she shouted accusing MS and that other girl Zoe? So, she was looking for scape goats so that she could take it?" Another girl said and by now, that girls face had turned crimson with embarrassment. She couldn't even begin to imagine what went wrong. This wasn't supposed to happen.The situation was not only embarrassing but also humiliating to her. This was the first time she was on the spot for anything. And what was worse was she didn't know how the bracelet got into her pocket.This wasn't part of the plan. The plan was that Freya
Ansel sat in his office with a dark expression about his face. He was reading the report that one of his men had just given him about what happened in the training camp of Diamond Studios where Denise had went to. He felt like killing someone and a cold dark aura was round about him and it was good that he was alone in his office.Since he met Denise that day Fey and Alex brought her in his office, he had someone following her twenty four seven. He had a gut feeling that she wouldn't call him and true, she didn't. He, however, did not give up on her. He had her on his tab and he was ready to do everything it took to make her his and happy while he was at it. He wanted her by his side.In his 28 years of life, he had never had someone who had aroused his emotions the way that girl had. He had tried but it never happened. There was even a time he doubted himself wondering if he was asexual or even gay. But all that had been proven wrong and he knew he was a normal man with normal emotio
Ansel was a man who appreciated a good thing when he saw it. Take for instance Denise. He knew she was a jewel from the first moment he saw her and he wanted to keep and take care of her though he knew it would be hard because she was a wild thing. All given, he was ready for the challenge.The same went for Makai. Ansel knew he had landed a nice man the first day he met him. He didn't open that trunk the whole of the journey back to the city and it was opened when the car was about to be cleaned after the journey. He was surprised when his men told him that they had found an unconscious man in the boot of his vehicle.After looking at the man, he knew something was off. The man was wearing military clothing and he seemed beat. He looked bruised, exhausted and hungry. Ansel knew right away that he had a deserter. But he knew that it wasn't as simple and he wanted to hear the man's side before deciding on his course of action. He thus asked his men to take the stranger to one of the h
In Ansel's office, Kai and he were having small talk when the secretary called. She got back to him in less than the ten minutes she had been given. It was either she was that efficient or she wanted to show how efficient she was. Either way, Ansel knew her very well and the only reason he tolerated her was because she was good at her job."Sir, Mr. Emmet is on the line. Can I transfer him to you now?" She asked and Ansel answered with a grunt. He wasn't a man of many words and his workers had been used to it by now.After a while, "Hello Mr. Winston? How are you today? I hope there is no problem," Mr Emmet, the CEO and President of Diamond Studios, was worried when he heard that it Ansel Winston who was looking for him.He couldn't remember he and Ansel crossing paths any time in the near past and he wondered why Ansel himself would look for him. He really hoped and prayed that all was well.All the business people in Xela knew better than to mess with Ansel. This was because he was b
Denise attended every training faithfully and within no time, days had gone and the Independence Day was here. They had rehearsed well and they were ready.The hardest thing about such kind of a production was that it was to be acted live. There were no retakes and mistakes weren't tolerated.She wasn't fazed though. She took it as a challenge and if she were able to ace this, then she would be able to act in the movie without giving the crew a hard time. She was aiming for a one take per scene and she was confident that she could, she would, do it.They went, they presented and the crowd gave them a standing ovation. Her part might have been not so big but it was a crucial part to the whole play.The production had been about how the heroes of Xela had fought for independence and there was the legendary woman who had been coordinating everything from the shadows and how they won giving birth to this day when Xela was declare d sovereign state.Traditionally, there was no Xela. There
Denise looked at Alex and she didnt have an excuse. She was good grifter just that Alex seemed to see right through her and she actually liked the other girl. A lot, in fact. She didn't want to lie plus she didn't want to turn down free lunch. Ansel wasn't here and she didn't have anything to fear.Nevertheless, given the option of going out for lunch with Alex or taking her to her house, Denise obviously preferred the former. How could she let Alex know that she lived in the slums of Lorace?Yes, her house looked better now but imagine making Alex jump over the sewer lines and the smelly heaps of garbage in her expensive high heels! It would also be putting Alex in danger because it was like the slum delinquents could smell money. They would be tempted to steal from her. Not that Denise wouldn't be able to deal with them but too much unwanted attention was what she didn't need right now.The last time they met, she justified the fact that she saved Fey in the slums while on her evenin
Denise knew how to appreciate a good thing when she saw it. She drank in the beauty and the magnificence of this hotel and she loved it. It was just like how she would imagine anything owned by Ansel Winston to look like.She had been brought up as a pauper and she swore that if she was ever to become a mother, this was the life she was going to give her children. She was going to make up for what she had missed in her childhood.On the table, there was a bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice and there were wine glasses on a small transparent glass cabinet on the side of the room near the fire place. There were also appetisers and fruits cut and arranged in a beautiful manner on the same table. Denise felt bad that that beautiful art made with the fruits would have to be eaten. Ah, the ways of the rich!Alex invited her to sit and she did and she (Alex) went to pour the wine in the wine glasses."Don't pour for me. Sorry, but don't drink," Denise told her and Alex looked at her as i
Denise looked at Mandy and wondered why and where all the hatred came from. She didn't know the other woman and she really didn't think that even if it was a grudge because of taking Ansel or humiliating her the other day, it warranted her asking her people to kill her."Why do you hate me so much first of all? Do we know each other from somewhere?" Denise asked Mandy because she thought all this crazy.How can one hate someone else out of their own delusions? It wasn't normal. But she needed to hear it from Mandy herself because maybe she had a reason."Do I have any reason to hate you? You took my man away from me. Isn't that reason enough? I hate your very guts!" Mandy said through gritted teeth but Denise just looked at her with pity in her eyes. Really? Did Mandy just call Ansel her man?"Has Ansel ever told you that he loves you or has he ever given you any reason to believe that he does? Has he ever behaved in a way to suggest that he mightwant you?" Denise asked her again,
Denise had known that marrying Ansel would come with its own troubles but she didn't expect it to come so soon. She should have expected that there were people who were in love with Ansel in his own home but she never suspected that any of them would go as far as trying to take her life.But it was okay, they were giving her the experience she needed to live in this world that she had found herself in. She loved Ansel and she was ready to fight for him… literally.She sat on the couch again but her heart was still aching. Every time she would look at the bag that had been holding the food she had bought for Ansel and then think of how these fools had eaten it, she would feel so bad that she would feel better after beating them again.This time, even the guy who had been shot was no exception. They were beaten so badly that they could not speak well because their lips were the sizes of sausages.On the other side of the town, Ansel was going mad as his people tried tracking that taxi
These men regretted underestimating Denise and taking her nonchalance as fear and helplessness. If they had known that she could handle a gun and she knew how to fight, they would have recruited more men or even dealt with her more ruthlessly and without delay. They sat on the floor in a line like obedient school children and faced her. She then sat back on the couch and bent her back a little, parted her legs and placed her elbows on her knees and looked at them the way one would look at children. She was like a mother teaching her children how to be good boys. She was dangling the gun before them and they seemed visibly scared until one decided to be brave. "Do you even know how to use that thing? Stop pretending! Our young miss told us that you are a nobody. So, stop pretending to be brave. Why don't we fight and see what you can do?" He said and she smiled at that. An eerily scary smile that had him regretting why he said that. "Okay," she said just that and pulled the tri
These men regretted underestimating Denise and taking her nonchalance as fear and helplessness. If they had known that she could handle a gun and she knew how to fight, they would have recruited more men or even dealt with her more ruthlessly and without delay.They sat on the floor in a line like obedient school children and faced her. She then sat back on the couch and bent her back a little, parted her legs and placed her elbows on her knees and looked at them the way one would look at children.She was like a mother teaching her children how to be good boys. She was dangling the gun before them and they seemed visibly scared until one decided to be brave."Do you even know how to use that thing? Stop pretending! Our young miss told us that you are a nobody. So, stop pretending to be brave. Why don't we fight and see what you can do?" He said and she smiled at that. An eerily scary smile that had him regretting why he said that."Okay," she said just that and pulled the trigger.
"So, you guys want to tell me who sent you?" She asked them, looking all nonchalant and they laughed.She looked at them like fools and made herself comfortable at that dusty couch. She even placed one leg on top of the other on the knee and looked all bossy. She didn't look like she was the kidnapee at all."Yeah, we will tell you once we deal with you. Our boss told us to do with you whatever we would and she would come to finish you. Don't worry, we threw your phone away and no one would be able to locate you. So, it's just you and us. You can stop pretending to be all brave. But don't worry, we love breaking the hard ones," one said and he touched his lower lip with his thumb seductively, maybe thinking about how he was going to deal with her."Our boss should have told us you are this beautiful. I swear I would have asked for less than what we demanded. I would have even done it for free. Wah! It has been long since l was with such a beauty," another said and they laughed at that
Denise and Ansel stayed in the suite for the better part of the afternoon and since Ansel wanted to drive her home but they had to let her sign out first, change from her uniform and board her taxi as usual. Then, Uncle Mike dropped her three blocks away from where Ansel picked her.They arrived home together and Denise has never been happier.When she first arrived in Ansel's house, she felt out of place. She felt like a stranger and it took her sometime to get used to the idea that this would be her home for a long time to come. But now, with the workers support and the love of Ansel, she always looked forward to getting home. She felt warmth in the house that she hadn't felt when she was growing up with her own people.Since she didn't have anything better to do the following day and she was staying away from the hotel because she was sure that Georgina would send people to investigate her, she decided to go to the mall to do some shopping and maybe later in the day, visit her hus
Georgina and her minions went back to the room and called room service. She wanted to bribe the girls with food and drinks so that they could stay with her as she tried to figure out a way to know who the person with Ansel was. She knew it was easy to control her friends as she always did using her money and their greed. Then, one if the girls had an epiphany. She knew that Georgina always loved flashing her wealth around and why not take advantage of that? "I know how you can find out who that was!" She said excitedly and the others were all ears. “You could just ask one of the people who work here," she said feeling all clever. "Have you forgotten that anyone who works for Imperial never talks? Even the little information I have on Ansel, I had to pay someone a lot of cash, they won't talk. I have tried prying information out of Imperial employees but they are so tight lipped,” Georgina said feeling all downcast. If it was about using cash to find out about Ansel, she
The best feeling in the world is to love and to be loved. When one has someone who loves them, that's the best feeling ever. For Denise, it was magical because she had literally never experienced any form of love from those she mostly wanted to be loved and appreciated by. The people she always thought were family. She always wanted to feel the love of a mother, a father, a sister or a brother but she never did. She always thought that she had a defect until she realised that the problem with them and not her. They always hated her and at one time, they made her think that she never deserved love. But that was the past and she was now here with a man who would do anything for her. From what she had seen so far, Ansel would move a mountain for her and it felt good. As she waited there, she found herself smiling at the memories they had made so far even though they hadn't been together for long. She had thought that all rich people were snobby but Ansel had proved that the
That night, both Denise and Ansel slept like they had never slept before. They were happy and Denise was grinning like a teenager in love, though she was, literally, a teenager in love. Denise was happy because this was the first time she kissed someone and she actually liked it.She could tell how much Ansel felt for her from that kiss. It was sweet and strange in a good way. She loved it and she loved this man more with each passing day.Ansel on the hand never knew that love could be this SweetThough he would have loved to have her that night, he didn't want to scare her this early. He knew he might be too forward or too rough and scare her into never making love to him ever again. That's why he didn't force anything and took care of his desire by himself. But he knew that he loved her more and more as he discovered how his body reacted to her.The fact that Denise made his body react in such a huge way made him love her even more and he knew that he had made the right call. He s