“Please accept it as our token of gratitude.” The manager and two of his baristas were standing by their side as the manager gave Gift a great card that had the chef hat logo of the cafe. “Token of gratitude? But we didn't really do anything. What's this by the way?” She asked as she examined the second card she was receiving that day. “It's a member of gratitude given out to our most outstanding customers of the year. We give it twice yearly after 6 months,” the manager said and Gift's eyes widened as she looked between him, her aide and Olivia seated around their table. It was starting to get dark, but she had wanted to wait till the very end of their working hours in case Zenith eventually showed up. But up until they started to clean up although they didn't have any customers to attend to, but he hadn't shown up until the very end of it. “in that case, I can't have it, If it's such a special thing, then why would you give it to us. I only invited my friends over to eat…”“Tha
Zenith was just about to leave house in search of her when the gate opened and their car pooled in. “Where have you been, you had me really worried!” He hurried to her side and shook her shoulders before pulling her into a rather rough hug, slamming their bodies with eachother. “Worried?” Gift couldn't understand his concern. “There was no need for that. How did your date go by the way?” She tried to free her head from resting on his chest as she was close enough to hear his troubled heartbeat. “I had to cancel the date. How about you. Where have you been since morning?” He glared at her aide as she got out of the car. I'm sorry that we didn't inform you of her location, but I can promise that she was safe and there no need to worry,” her aide said in order to placate him but he was still just as angry. “It's really dangerous outside and no matter what, you can't be too careful, not with what happened to Winifred. Despite my instructions to put safety first, you still stayed out
“Why didn't you tell me about it before now?” “You had to attend to important business. I understand that you're very busy and you have a lot of responsibility.” “ Lot of responsibility that includes you Winie. I have offended you enough and I really couldn't afford for this to have happened. You are my number one most important business, yet I had been acting like you were just a replacement and I'm sorry. I'm really sorry Winie.” “Antonio. Please don't be like this, I already feel guilty for hiding everything from you. I should have told you.”“No, it's not your fault. It's me who should have looked into your past during that time that we were separated. It's all my fault.”“No, remember I asked you not to look into it if anything, it's my hus- that's man's fault that this happened, so please don't blame yourself.”“Well, someone has to take responsibility for this, right?” a deep low chuckle followed and Gift who was eavesdropping in front of the hospital room felt chill down he
“Why aren't you leaving for work early? Don't you have to deal with the issue you won't talk to me about? Or do you have another fake date to attend today?” Gift who had barely eaten her meal couldn't help but take in the outfit Zenith was wearing but she didn't want to say a thing about his outfit, not when he wouldn't tell her what exactly Timothy did. “You sound pissed, it makes me sad to see you upset,” he said and she scoffed. “As if! Just answer the question, are you going for another fake date today?” She asked as she eyed him before looking away right at the moment that their eyes connected. “Yes, I'm going for a date, but it's not going to became today,” he said and she almost exploded in fury as she gripped the arm of her wheelchair tightly. “Oh, I see,” she breathed as she tried to sound normal, but her trembling breathing gave her out, “you you've decided to make it up to that woman with areal date right?” How shameless?! She thought as she started to move her chair.
“You came late,” was the first thing she heard as she joined the group of familiar and unfamiliar faces. Although she had looked into them back when Olivia first told her about the bullying, it was her first time meeting most of them in person. “You shouldn't have a problem with that since you came to apologize,” Gift was on the 9ffensive from the get go as she removed her Polo cap and placed it right beside the cup in front of her. They were meeting in an Asian restaurant, so the setting was very fitting for the meeting. The table was rectangular so the others say on the seat on either side, however because of her wheelchair, she couldn't join them, so she had to seat at the shorter side of the table, making her look like the head of the table, but that wasn't why everyone else was seething with rage and couldn't hide their anger. Rather, it was because of her words and the fact that there were four people dressed in black plus her aide acting as bodyguards and they couldn't hel
“I'm sorry, but we can't just let you get any closer.” One of the guards who was stationed close to the main door of the restaurant was in charge of notifying the four guarding Gift of whoever entered the shop, that way, those seated around could act as barricade in case intone tried to get too close to the table she was at. All spaces surrounding their perimeter was empty, but the other ladies had no idea why. And they were not supposed to understand the gravity of how well guarded she was, however, Scarlet's presence was about to evoke fear they thought was a far reach until that time. The noise at the table was what distracted them that made Beauty's mom stop talking for a while as she turned her attention to the area where the noice was coming from. It was from the occupied table closest to theirs although the table was three away from them. Gift also turned her head and when she did, a genuine smile that reached her eyes formed on her face as she watched the drama that was
“Go check the rest room,” Gift signalled to her aide who in turn signalled to another guard who disappeared into the restroom and when he came back out, he gave the one signal that they all wanted to hear. He shook his head and everyone breathed a sigh of relief while gift just let out a smile. “We would all like to apologize for what our children did. I promise to discipline my daughter to groom her to stop bullying other people, please forgive my family,” she said with her head lowered and now Ava Rose smirked feeling like she had gotten the upper hand for apologizing earlier than everyone else. “Is it just her? Are you all refusing to apologize because you think bullying is wrong? I guess some children need to be expelled to be thought the lessons of their lives,” gift said as she stroked her jaw. Her tone sounded uninterested, as I'd she was just talking to herself, but audible enough to pass the death sentence. “We apologize!” “I'll train my son!” “I'll train my daughter we
Leo's POV You can call me stalker because I put a tracker device in a woman's car, hacked her phone to listen to everything that she hears and says and put monitoring device in the necklace pendant I gifted her on her last birthday, but believe it or not, I did it all out of pure love. And that was why I was able to trace her to this rowdy club full of horny strangers that wouldn't hesitate to take advantage of her. I ran breathlessly through the main door of the crowd and did a quick scan. I could hear what she was saying though her phone, but not exactly over the crowd, so I removed the eardots I was wearing to properly use my eyes and I finally caught sight of her. There she was, in the middle of three heavily tattooed men who looked bulky enough to carry a tractor, but that wasn't all, they were enemies and I felt a strong blood thirst as I saw them touching her. “Here, drink this one too. It's pretty strong,” one of them said as the bartender handed them a new cup of wine.