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 felt like her heart had jumped out of her chest. No, it literally did. What was this? Didn't Alex say that it would just be the two of them? So, what was this? What was he doing here of all places?She didn't think that she would have to go through this again. Not that she hated it, no. In fact, she really liked it. What she didn't like was making a fool of herself the way she did last time by fainting.There, standing at the door and smiling at them, was Ansel. Yes you heard that right. The same Ansel who never smiled. The iceberg of Xela, was standing there smiling at them like it was nothing but natural for him to be there. He didn't even seem like he was surprised that they were there at all."Hey you two," he began and up-to now, Denise was just staring at him hoping that he was just anapparition. But did apparitions talk or smile at people?"Hopes you dont mind my coming here unannounced. I was having a meeting here in my office and when I was leaving, Xavier told me tha
They talked and laughed and didn't actually notice that time was moving. It was much, much later when the waiter came to pick the used plates that they realized that they had been talking and laughing like old pals for almost two hours.Denise was actually surprised that she could hold her own for that long when faced with an enigma like Ansel. She also realised that he was an easy going man and she shouldn't have feared him as much.Ansel, on the other hand, was on cloud nine. He was ecstatic. Who would have told him that his crush was that fun to be with. They were like two sides of the same coin. All Ansel knew was the high class stuff, business and closing deals but Denise knew the street life. She had been there and she knew more about the life of the poor and the middle class than Ansel did. They thus talked about all this and that without any care in the world but the downside came when Ansel asked her about her family. This was a topic she had never talked about with or to an