ANDREW“The DNA result." Jason smirked proudly as he delivered his work.“What took you so long?” Andrew asked straight up, still holding the envelope, reluctant to open it.“Open it! What are you waiting for?” His father commanded but he didn't want to open it just yet. What if it was really his child? How would he tell Manny that? He was going to wait till he got home.“Give it to me.” Mr Allen ordered.Andrew sighed and stretched it to his father who snatched the result from his hand and tore it open.In haste, he skimmed through, looking for that important sentence, that sentence that would determine everything.Mr Allen’s breath caught in his throat for a minute there, it was like his soul had left his body as he continued to stare at the paper, his eyes on that particle sentence.With a better composure and an expressionless face, he dropped the paper, silence took over the place.“So?" Andrew asked expectantly, his father gazed at him, gesturing to the open envelope.“See for
MANNYManny had spent two weeks in Miranda's place, two weeks of eating and sleeping, and a week of not hearing from Andrew.He's been silent all week and his phone was either switched off or not available. It was driving her crazy, if something had happened to him, she would have known, and it would have been all over the news. The only thing on the news was her previous stunt and past story, people seemed to be engaging with it each passing day and it left a big dent in the fashion house.How did she know? Her mother had left dozens of messages on her email, threatening to freeze all her assets if she didn't come back to work and fix the problem she had caused. And like she did every day, she ignored her message.Manny sighed for the umpteenth time as she checked her phone again. She dropped the phone as it had burned her and took a sip of her orange juice.She's been awake since 6:00 a.m., sitting at the dining table, expecting calls from her husband.Her phone beeped and she quic
MANNYManny felt her heart pound hard in her chest, it was all she could hear.Her gaze shifted between Andrew and the breaker. The child was his?She had held onto a little bit of hope that maybe all this was a mistake, a ruse, but it wasn't, the child was his and he was going to leave her.She wanted to get angry but she couldn't, the news had drained any bit of strength she had left and the look on Andrew's face broke her all over again.Heavily and subconsciously, she dragged herself to him. Andrew watched as Manny walked over to him, what was she going to do now?The last time she came to him in that manner, he nursed a sore cheek. Manny stood before him, tearful. It pained her to know she was carrying his first son.With teary eyes, he gave him the best hug her belly could allow. Though surprised, Andrew wrapped his hands around her, he hadn't expected her to do that, but still, he was glad she did.Andrew was the one with tear-filled eyes, but his wife was the one crying. She h
MANNYAndrew went to work and left both Kate and Manny at home—only if he knew the disaster it would create he would have done otherwise.Manny left Kate at the table and headed to the living room, a bowl of ice cream and chocolate on each hand.She was already one step in when she saw a surprise visitor and quickly turned around to walk away.“Don't even try it." Kari said as she spotted Manny. What she felt was beyond anger, how could her own daughter do something so terrible to tarnish her image?“Mother." Manny greeted curtly, the giddy feeling she had was no more.“Don't be rude." Kari remarked, sat down, and looked at Manny, expecting her to do the same. She wanted to clear things out.Realizing this, Manny sighed and took her seat. Seeing her mother already made the day a bad one.“You think I won't know when you return, I have people watching Manny." A sneer appeared on her face as she talked to her daughter but all Manny could think of was how after the conversation, she was
MANNYManny paced up and down the room, as she thought about what she had done, her hands and clothes still covered in blood.How would she explain what had happened, she didn't even understand what happened. Liam was coming in for a hug and the next thing she knew, he was on the floor covered in blood, a knife inside of him. How he got hold of the knife remained a mystery.Andrew’s son was in the hospital and everyone thought it was her fault. Manny grabbed her bag, in search of her phone, and she poured its contents on the floor. She called Andrew, and it rang but there was no answer, she called again, and still no response. She called him once more but it said switched off.There was no one she could call again. Confused and stressed, she started to cry, If there was any chance of her in the Cooper family before, after what had happened today, she was sure that opportunity was gone, the next day they were going to kick her.Scared and exhausted, she fell asleep—not caring about he
ANDREW“Did it work?” Jason's voice boomed through her phone. Kate had revised her plan with Jason, she explained how she would set up Andrew's beloved wife and ruin their marriage.Kate and Jason had been working hand in hand since she had a meeting with him, from the DNA test to the setup.“Not quite, but it did the job.” Kate answered as she took a cigarette from a pack and lit it up, Manny was gone from the house but not their lives. She needed to finish the job, she had to be gone permanently.“It's just sad that poor Liam had to be collateral damage." Kate took a long drag from the cigarette and blew in the air as she spoke of Liam as if they weren't related.The desire to get the Cooper's wealth surpassed the love she had for her son; she hadn't even been to the hospital to visit him.“What's the next step?” Jason asked, the ruffling of papers disturbing his voice.“There's only one thing to do." The silence on the phone was a long one, like each of them reading the other's m
MANNYManny was confused.Between the crying monitor, what Liam had just said and him fainting made her frazzled, everything happened so fast.Andrew rushed in with the doctor who immediately got to work. They checked his vitals and other necessary things as the monitor beeped loudly.Andrew dragged Manny out of the room as she screamed and wailed over Liam, she didn't want to leave. She thought worst of the boy as she took one last look at him.Andrew walked a disheveled Manny to her car, she was in an unstable state.The last time she was like this was when she had set an hotel on fire, and couple with everything, the present situation was more heartbreaking for her.Andrew opened the door and made her sit at the owner's corner while he called one of his drivers to come pick her up. He waited with her in the car, afraid of leaving her alone.Manny's sobbing broke him. She wasn't Liam's mother yet she was this way—and Kate seemed to not care—she pitied her, she had to live with this
ANDREW “Are the cargos at the warehouse already?” Andrew asked as he went through his phone. He's thrown himself into more work these days, he couldn't allow himself to think about any other thing, just work.“Yes, but one was stolen.” Tristan voiced and placed his phone on the table, showing Andrew a video.Over the months since they met, Andrew convinced Tristan to be his business partner, and Tristan of course saw a golden opportunity and jumped on the offer. "Stolen? Same people?" Tristan nodded. Andrew hissed. The new faction that was created was getting on his nerves, they were supposed to be working with him, not against him. The audacity to even steal from him! He needed to do something about them.“Tell your men to get prepared then.” Andrew ordered.“It won't be that easy, This time the operation was ordered by one of the triads.”"Aren't they all dead?” "No.” Tristan replied and further showed him the picture of the last one standing.Andrew then remembered Jason's slo