Ryan finishes setting up the food tray and returns to the lounge to find Mel. But she is big there, so he enters his bedroom, carrying a snack tray laden with an assortment of treats: crunchy chips, juicy grapes, creamy cheese, crackers, rich chocolate-dipped strawberries, a wide variety of mini drinks like soda and yogurt, and even ice cream.When Ryan enters, he finds Melanie lying on his bed, her eyes fixed on her phone screen. The soft glow illuminates her face, and Ryan's heart swells."Hey, what's got you entertained?" Ryan asks, setting the snack tray beside her.Melanie looks up, a hint of a smile on her lips. "Just watching TikTok…I needed a distraction.""TikTok, huh? What's the most interesting thing you've seen so far?" Ryan chuckles, sitting beside her."Oh, just some funny cat videos and dance challenges... You know, the usual." Melanie giggles, scrolling through her feed."Sounds like my kind of entertainment." Ryan grins, picking up a grape and popping it into his mout
Ryan's eyes widen, his mind racing as he excused himself to the bathroom. He locks the door, taking deep breaths to calm his racing thoughts. "One night stand on my way to Pearl Coast." Melanie's words echo in his mind and it feels like he's been punched in the gut.Ryan's feelings for Melanie swirl, mixed with a dash of betrayal and confusion. Why didn't she tell him sooner? Did she still have feelings for Caleb? He thought they were growing closer, but now he felt like he is stuck in limbo.As Ryan splashes water on his face, he struggles to reconcile his emotions. He cares deeply for Melanie, but this revelation changes everything. Was their friendship tainted by her secret? Could he ever look at her the same way?In Melanie’s defense, her phone got broken on the night of the one-night stand and the day after she got shot, so it wasn’t exactly like she kept the secret away from him intentionally, the situation and circumstances surrounding it weren’t the best and he knows that and
“I gave Kalinin my word that I would get back to her once I heard anything from you and I should have reached out to her immediately Caleb told me that you were in my house waiting for me, but I guess my abandonment issues that stemmed from my daddy issues is a thing just like Brenda said“Who is Brenda?” Melanie questions“You have never mentioned her before,” she states raising an eyebrow at him.“That is because she is not in my life anymore and she is not important so there was no reason to mention her” he mentions“What exactly happened between you two?” Melanie questions, giving him a pointed look“I see what you are doing there Mel…you are trying to make me give you all the gist that you have missed since Sunday and way before you came into my life and I promise you, I will tell you everything that you need to know but I have something else in mind for us both, just let me get my car key from my mom’s room and also say hello to her fast…okay?” he tells Melanie and she nods.Rya
“Oh, my goodness, this has to be the best Suprise ever” Kalinin gushes. “Nobody told me that you were coming,” she says to Melanie, still trying to her sister and examining her because Caleb sent her a picture of what she looks like after she got out of surgery, connected to all those machines, and even do she is a doctor that daily, seeing her sister like that just broke her, and she turns Melanie around to get a good look at her sister while being careful with her right hand, “Babes…” allow them to come inside instead of making them wait outside for long” Martins calls out to Kalinin and she becomes self-aware. “My apologies, please come in” she apologizes. “I will get Mel's stuff down from the car and I will be on my way…I have things to prepare in advance” he tries to escape having to go inside so that he won’t be tempted. “That can wait...Melanie’s celebratory dinner can't wait” Martins says as he joins them outside. “Celebratory dinner?” Kalinin asks “Are we celebr
“Everybody, meet Olivia… the social media manager that the photographer recommended for me” Kali introduces Olivia to everybody officially and she curtsies, making Kiki laugh.“I am the blide” She uses a TikTok sound to introduce herself and the people who got the joke like Mel and Kali laugh out loud while Ryan and Martins are left wondering what is funny.“Let's get down to business,” Olivia says as she starts dragging the content creation tools that she brought with her, so Ryan and Matins swoop in to help.“Take everything to Melanie’s room, and I will go pick up Kiki’s outfit,” she tells him as she starts to walk towards their room. “The boss has spoken,” Martins says as he urges Ryan to get up and he does. They pick up the box that contains the softbox, tripod, different sizes/types of light, with makeup folders and they start making their way to Melanie’s room.“Martin, I have a question for you,” Ryan asks once the ladies are out of earshot.“Shoot,” Martin says as he struggl
Location: No 123, Cedarwoods estate "Caleb, I need to go," Melanie said, her mind already made up. "But why? We just got here. I thought we could spend some time together," he pleaded. "I need to see Ryan. It's urgent," she replied, her tone firm. "Can't it wait?” he asked, trying to convince her. We didn’t get to spend much time together in Pearl Coast," he explained. “We didn’t go to Perl Coast to spend time together, we went there to find Shirley,” she said as a matter of fact, but Caleb’s face was a mixture of shock and utter disappointment. "You helped me find Shirley and I appreciate it but I really have to go now," she said, cutting the conversation short. “If you don’t want to drop me at his house, I can Uber there,” she said and that got him angry the more. “This issue is not even that deep, I will just drop you off since that is what you want” Caleb just had to offer to drop her off because even though he was angry, he couldn’t bear the thought of allowing her to
Caleb did not think of picking Alistair up before, but on getting to the junction of their office, he just thinks about it and calls Alistair to join him with a few bodyguards from Iron Clad Security Solutions (ISS), Alistair's father’s company, and he waits for about thirty minutes for them to get to him. After waiting for them for 30 minutes, It takes about five minutes for everybody to put themselves together, and throughout the time they try to organize themselves, but the kidnapper keeps on calling consistently but stops after a while. When they are like 15 minutes into the journey, the unknown caller who called Caleb’s mom and informed her about the kidnapping keeps on disturbing Alistair with calls, urging him to send the money otherwise they are going to torture Benjamin to the point of making him unrecognizable. “Collect the account number and Make the wire transfer,” Caleb gives Alistair instructions but there is a faint squeal in the background of the distorted voice a
“Who orchestrated the plan?” Caleb asks just and he points his finger at Ben and his three friends. “The two jolly best friends planned it and that was why Ben took 50% of the money, Trent took 30% and their lapdogs shared 30% among themselves” he answers. “So they didn't give you anything?” Caleb asks to be double-sure “ You can confirm from your dear brother, I am a Christian, and lying is not something that I will do,” Justin says. “But being a kleptomania is accepted by Jesus right?” Trent asks and he suddenly goes cold “I have a class so I need to go now,” Justin says as he leaves the room without carrying a single book. Even though Caleb doesn't understand everything that is going on, he can see the power dynamics going on in the room and why his brother and his friends consider Justin as less of a human. “In case you haven't read in-between the lines, you are deferring this semester and by implication, you are going to have an extra year,” Caleb declares Alista