"Barbara! God, I was worried, when I heard what happened." Barbara looks at him."Yes, I called to check on you but Kathleen was the one that picked up.""Oh no! That naughty Kathleen will tease me nonstop." She facepalm, Jeffrey pushed her into a hug. "Don't worry, if she tries that I will tickle her. Barbara pulled Jeffrey's hand to sit beside her.""That means you want to kill Kathleen, you know that naughty girl doesn't like that.""Of course, I am only going to scare her with that." Barbara laughed and then hugged Jeffrey. I know you are too sweet to do that, here you should help me tie my hair in one. Jeffrey pack her hair blushing his finger a little on her neck. Hey, your hand is ticklish."Does it make you feel better?""Ahem!" Dante coughed, and Gordon moved his gaze back to the three, he had been on call since he entered the office, and he had left his meeting halfway, as soon as he heard what happened to Barbara. Gordon drops his phone, he knows Dante is dying inside alread
At the cafeteria, Calvin sips on his coffee and then looks at Dante."I am sorry! He stares more at him. "Sorry, I wasn't able to...""Stop it, you shouldn't take my daughter's words to heart, I am sure she is only teasing you, you kind of look funny when you frown, that face of yours is hilarious." Dante wiped his face with his palm. "I see the reason why my daughter is teasing you."He frowns more, Calvin looks at him, then sips on his coffee."Do you love my daughter?" Dante nodded, Calvin smiled inwardly but then his face was without expression."I am sorry." He stared more without blinking. "I am sorry for the scandal I put your daughter into, sorry that I embarrassed your family; sorry I lied to you and your family, that we are dating when we are not; I want to come back then to apologize, to stop all of them from making jest of her. I was scared, too scared to face you all, especially Barbara, I know you hate me, for putting your daughter into that.""Yes, I was mad, too mad tha
"Ha! Ha! Ha!"Those were the wicked laughter of Camille Kyle, Barbara's mother, the devil herself, she was watching the video of Barbara's torment, seeing the fear on Barbara's face when that cockroach crawled on her skin, that terrible look was the same look on that two years old girl."Ha! Ha! Ha!" She keeps laughing at Barbara, Shirley is the lady in the hoodie, whenever she visits Camille Kyle, she is always in a hoodie, two years back when she got the information about Barbara's identity, she looked for Barbara's birth mother, she promised to help her get out of jail but she have to also help her get the man, her heart long for and if she was to do so, she had to make Barbara look stupid and useless in front of Dante.So Camille Kyle suggested that they bring Barbara's past into her present, even though, she might be too young then to understand anything, she is sure, Barbara will get flashes of memories that are not clear, if those things happen to her again, Shirley at first dou
Barbara hasn't been to work for the past two days, Dante asked her to rest, but she is in the garden with Gordon, the young man, who didn't go to work, he is taking care of Barbara, even when the young lady asked him to leave her, he insisted that he is going to stay with her"Here, you should have this and these vitamins are good for you.""Come on big bro, I am fine.''"I know Lucia will have my head on a tray if she finds out, I didn't take good care of you, you know how Lucia nagged.""I will tell her, you call her nag." Gordon Titter then pushed it toward her mouth. "Thank you!" She whispered as he ran his hand through her hair."Stop thanking me, sorry that I found out so late, I wouldn't have let my baby go through that stress, I would have protected you more.""Stop it, it's not your fault and remember it's better late than never." Barbara's face darkened, and Gordon pulled her hand, placing his on hers."You should tell me, what is bothering you? Don't you trust your big bro?"
After the meal, while relaxing Shirley suggested they play a game, it's called Truth and Lies, everyone was excited to play it, and now the seven of them sit in the garden in the excitement of the game, Gordon wasn't a fan of that, but he doesn't want to be a killjoy, so he had to seat.They were shared in two groups, all males were in one group while the females were in the other group, everyone is to say, three truths about themselves and one lie that the other group will have to guess out of the four words.Barbara seems to be more tense, she keeps thinking of what to say.The game began, and Gordon was the first to stand in the middle of the group."I am handsome, wealthy; cruel and I hate revenge."All the females try to figure out, the lie. 'The lie is, you hate revenge because you are kind and not cruel." Barbara comment."I don't think, he had just one lie, it's two..." Everyone turned to Sally, whose eyes were focused on Gordon."Really?" Gordon asked."Yes, one, you are not c
It's Monday morning already, and everyone is back to work, including Barbara. Dante keeps picking and dropping the different files in his office, he is getting frustrated, and he keeps spacing out, like his mind is wandering away, Barbara is watching his movement.Yet again, he is having dark circles under his eyes, the man must be stressed probably having Insomnia."Oh! Did he work all night because he did not show up at the office for two days?" Barbara thought to herself then sighed, she felt worried that she might be part of the stress.Barbara had subconsciously stared at him, and she didn't move her eyes from him, Dante raised his head, and their eyes met. He wanted to smile but then bit his lower lips to prevent the smile from escaping his lips then used his hand to indicate that she should come over to his office, she stood up in a hurry.In a few seconds, Barbara was there. "Are you enjoying my view?" Dante asked with an expressionless face, Barbara then fired back at him."En
The next morning, Barbara arrived a bit late, she didn't attend the welcome party of Shirley caused she had an urgent meeting at her father's resort, that morning, she had a call to deliver some documents to the administrative office.She grabbed the documents and then made her way to the administrative office, as she made her way through the company hallway, she could see that, the staff was looking at her differently from the one, they normally give her.She didn't give it a thought but returning, she could hear their mocking words"Did you not remember, that, our new COO, is the same woman who kneels before our CEO begging him to love her?""Huh! Is that true? She looks like her, now I remember, she is the desperate bitch begging for love.'"No wonder, she looks so familiar""Huh! What is she doing here? She doesn't have shame, after being humiliated by our CEO, she still had the guts to reappear.""Probably to seduce him this time, so he could be hers.""Too bad, the CEO's first lo
Dante's face is free from any emotions, he has this dark aura around him when he enters the administrative office."What happened here?" That was the first question he asked, the staff was confused and scared at the same time, Dante's anger was like fire, no one could withstand the heat from his fire."I am sorry sir, I don't understand." The staff asked in anxiety, she was scared, that Dante might get mad."Fine then, what did you do to Barbara, when she came to drop those documents? Did you two fight? Did you say things to upset her?'His staff shakes her head in fear, she didn't do anything to Barbara. "No, I swear, I didn't say anything to her, we only discussed the documents, before she left, she even invited me to her father's resort.""Are you lying to me?" Dante's voice is cold and stern. He couldn't bring himself to believe her, everything about Barbara changed as soon as she returned from this office."Probably, check the CCTV footage, which will confirm that I did nothing to