"Why are you laughing? It's not even funny," Sarah said to her uncle with a deep frown."To you, it's not funny, but to me, it's funny; just some minutes after quarreling with your ex-husband, someone came and proposed to you, so what reply did you give him?" He asked Sarah, who shot him an angry glare."Of course I rejected it just the same way I rejected Xavier's apology," Sarah said to him in reply."Wow, two rejections in a day, not good at all, but you should have given Mr. Charles a chance; who knows, you might end up falling for him," Sarah's uncle said to her, and immediately she burst into a round of laughter."Do you think that I'm ever going to give any man a chance after what I went through with Xavier? I'm sorry, Dad; that's not ever going to happen," Sarah said to her uncle firmly."Really? So you want to stay alone throughout your whole life?" Her uncle asked her with an inquisitive look."Who said I'm planning to stay alone? I already have a son; he might not be here in
"Come on, Dad, when are we getting to the place? We have been in the car for almost an hour," Sarah said to her uncle, but he remained silent while manipulating his phone."Dad," Sarah called out to him once again, and immediately he sighed heavily before turning his gaze towards her."Young lady, have a little patience; we will be there soon, and we haven't been driving for over an hour; it's just thirty minutes," Richard said to Sarah before returning his gaze towards his phone."Dad, I'm not a young lady; I'm twenty-eight for crying out loud," Sarah said to Richard, and once again he lowered his phone and looked at her."Even at a hundred, you are still a young lady before me, so please allow me to enjoy the ride," Richard said to Sarah, who scoffed at him before bringing out her phone from her handbag and manipulating. "By the way, did Mr. Charles agreed to do business with you?" Richard asked Sarah, who was still busy manipulating her phone. "No," she replied with her gaze stil
It had been over thirty minutes since Sarah and her uncle arrived at the party room where the event was taking place. Meanwhile, Richard had been busy presenting Sarah to his friends as the new CEO of the company. Even though Sarah wasn't happy about it, she had to play along with him by smiling in front of his friends and also exchanging contact with them, but deep down, all she could wish for was for her uncle to let her go so that she could fulfill the main purpose why she accepted to come to the party.As her uncle was still busy discussing with his friends, she started looking around to see if she could find one way or the other to escape from her uncle. As she was looking around, her gaze fell on Claudia who was standing all alone, while Xavier, on the other hand, was busy discussing with his friends. Once their gazes met, Claudia glared at her angrily, but Sarah smiled at her in return, knowing the frustration she was going through.When she was still living with Xavier, she
"Hey, my love, we meet again," Charles said to Sarah while grinning ear to ear."And here we go again," Sarah muttered to herself inwardly before slowly turning around to look at him."Good evening, Mr. Charles, How are you?" Sarah asked him casually."Fine, what about you?" Charles asked her."I'm fine too," Sarah said to him in reply."You look breathtaking," Charles said to her with a warm smile while expecting her to smile at least, but Sarah maintained her casual facial expression while staring at him."Many people have told me that tonight I was thinking that you were going to say something different," Sarah said to him."Ooh, I wasn't aware of that; I wished to be the first to tell you that, but it seems like I was a little bit late; by the way, tell me, are you angry at me?" Charles asked her."No, of course, and what makes you think that I'm angry at you?" Sarah asked him."Well, it's written all over your face; remember, facial expressions never lie," Charles said to Sarah, b
As Sarah and her uncle were on their way back home, she couldn't help but laugh due to the awful event that took place at the party. The videos of the event were already trending on every social media site, the wife of the CEO of Quim Corporation getting drunk at a social gathering and humiliating her husband in her drunken state.The story of Quim Corporation being on the edge of bankruptcy was already dying down, but the event that had just taken place had arisen it once again, damaging the image of Xavier and the company the more."Did you see her face when I slapped her?" Sarah asked her uncle before bursting into another round of laughter."Well, from the way you slapped her, one would have thought that you had been wanting to slap her for a very long time, but the opportunity never presented itself," Richard said to Sarah."You are right about that; since she and Xavier took my baby away from me, I have been wishing for an opportunity like this one to present itself, but just as
Chapter 21: Unexpected MeetingIt was a sunny morning, the following day after the horrible incident took place at the party, the news was still circulating and Xavier was still doing everything he could in order to bring it down, after dropping Justin off at school, he started heading to the company.As he was driving to the company, his phone started ringing, without hesitating, he brought out his phone to check the caller ID which was the director of the hotel where the party had taken.Without hesitating he connected his phone to the Bluetooth of his car before picking up."Hello Mr. George how are you?" Xavier asked through the phone."I'm fine sir what about you," the voice of Mr. George sounded from the other end."I'm fine too, hope you find out what I requested for?" Xavier asked him."I'm so sorry Mr. Xavier but I didn't, the security guard informed me this morning that the security cameras had some technical issues last night during the event, so he wasn't able to recover t
"Well the main reason why we organised this urgent meeting is because we want to inform you that we all want to withdraw our shares from your company," Mr. Renold said to Xavier."What!!" Xavier exclaimed in surprise."This is a joke right?" Xavier asked them in a surprised tone."No Mr. Xavier, this isn't a joke," another shareholder said to him with a serious tone."Can I know the reason behind this drastic decision?" Xavier asked them in surprise."You already know the reason behind this decision, and contrary to what you said, this decision isn't a drastic decision, we thought about it over and over again before taking it," Mr. Renold said to Xavier but he remained silent allowing him to say what he had to say.As we all know, the success of a company depends on it's image, both internally and externally but for over a month now, it has been from one issue to the other, when the first issue that shook vigorously the financial state of the company took place, we said nothing about
Lucy had come earlier in the morning, just as Sarah had instructed her the previous day at the party; she was already at the company even before Sarah's arrival.Once Sarah came and saw her, she asked her to follow her to her office for the interview.When they got into her office, Lucy couldn't help but admire how beautiful Sarah's office was; both the decorations and her pictures hung in her office.As Lucy was still busy admiring Sarah's office, Sarah kept her bag on her desk before keeping the files she was holding on it.After sitting down, she cleared her throat, jolting Lucy, who was still staring in awe, back to reality."If you are done admiring, please have a seat," Sarah said to Lucy, and without hesitating, she adjusted the chair and sat down."Your CV, please," Sarah said to her, and without hesitating, Lucy brought it out and handed it to her with other documents she brought along.After going through it for some minutes, Sarah heaved a sigh before looking at her."I wan
A Year Later "Xavier !!! Xavier !!!" The name of Xavier echoed from the sitting room.Once Xavier heard Sarah screaming his name from the sitting room, he immediately dashed out of the kitchen, where he was preparing a cup of tea for Sarah , and started running towards the sitting room.Once he came to the sitting room, he saw Sarah wriggling in pain while holding her protruding stomach."Babe, are you okay?" Xavier asked Sarah ."How can you be asking me if I'm okay? Can't you see that my water has already broken?"Sarah asked Xavier . Her voice was filled with agony."But, babe, I still don't get it. What do you mean by your water has already broken?" Xavier asked Sarah with a confused tone."Argh!!! The baby is already coming out," Sarah screamed in pain."Oh my gosh, that was what you were supposed to say instead of saying that your water has broken," Xavier said to Sarah ."Argh!!!" Sarah screamed once again in pain."It's okay, babe, let's start going to the hospital," Xavier sa
It's been a month since Xavier was discharged from the hospital, and since all this time he has been on very good terms with Sarah and Richard. The first week after he was discharged from the hospital, Sarah spent the whole week at his house with Justin in order to keep an eye on him and also to be sure that he had recovered completely. It was during this period that she discovered that Xavier had another company aside from Quim Corporation that he had sold to her. Hearing this made her feel less guilty for everything she had done to him; if not, she was already feeling sorry for him and was even considering handing the company back to him, but Xavier had told her that it wasn't necessary and the company was doing much better with her as the CEO, so it would be better if she kept on managing it while he, on the other hand, concentrated on building up his new company. When they announced their upcoming marriage which would be taking place very soon, it immediately became the top trend
*Five Months Later* It's been five months since Xavier have been in coma, after taking a bullet for Sarah when she was kidnapped by Charles, he nearly lost his life, but fortunately he was brought to the hospital where they did surgery on him in order to retrieve the bullets. But since when the bullets were retrieved, he have been in coma and the doctor have also informed Sarah that he wasn't sure of when he would wake up and that it was also possible that he never wakes up, so she shouldn't keep her hopes high. Since the past five months that Xavier have been in coma, Sarah makes sure to visit him every day to see if he have waken up and sometimes she even visits him with Justin who have been greatly affected by his father's absence. Ever since he heard that his father was in Coma, he haven't been himself, he has been a shadow of himself even at school. Hr hardly talk, laugh or discuss about the things that happened at school like he used to do. Sometimes Sarah and Richard takes him
"I thought I asked you not to tell anyone about this?" He asked Sarah with a fierce tone while pointing his gun at her."I swear I didn't inform anyone before coming I swear," Sarah said to him while trembling in fear and at the same time the gunshots resounded once again."Damnit," he muttered before lowering the gun. "Go on put on the clothes we are leaving now," Charles said to Sarah."What?" Sarah asked him in surprise."I said you should put on the damn clothes," he yelled at her before pointing the gun at her."Okay, okay," Sarah said to him with a frightened tone before removing the clothes she was putting on and beginning to put on the one given to her by Charles. ______________________________________As she was putting on the clothes, Charles brought out his phone and placed a call across some of his men but none of them picked up.Damnit," he muttered once again before placing a call across someone else who picked up after some minutes of ringing."Hello is the jet read
After discussing with Ben on the phone, Xavier drove to Sarah's house to see if she was at home or whether her Richard had any idea about her whereabouts, but on getting to their house, he was informed by the security guard that none of them were at home, that Richard had gone to the hospital for some checkups and since when Sarah left for work in the morning, she haven't gotten back home. On hearing this, Xavier collected Richard's phone number from the security guard and placed a call across him to ask about Sarah's whereabouts but to his greatest astonishment, his phone wasn't going through, it was switched off. Seeing this, he immediately got more suspicious, and at the same time, thousands of thoughts started running through his mind. As he was still trying to connect the whole puzzle, he immediately got the idea of Richard being abducted and then the abductor requesting for her to show up if not he or she would hurt her uncle. Even though he wasn't sure about it, he knew that i
Meanwhile, Sarah woke up some minutes later only to find herself lying down on a huge comfortable bed and in a well decorated room.Once she woke up the memories of her being shot with a strange syringe and a walking towards her as she was passing out came back playing in her head and without hesitating she jolted up from the bed while panting heavily and at the same time she remembered about her uncle and without hesitating she rushed to the door to open it but found out that it was locked. After twisting the handle of the door for some minutes, she started banging on it so that whoever was outside could hear it and just as expected, she heard the footsteps of someone walking towards the direction of the door and when the person got to the front of the door he stopped and with that she started hearing the sound of keys as the person was about to open the door.Once the door bursted open Charles walked inside while looking fierce like never before and followed by him were two armed m
"Okay, whenever you do it, just let me know," Xavier said to Sarah, who rolled her eyes at him before walking away. Getting into her office, she sat down on her chair and switched on her computer and was about to start working when her phone started ringing once again. Sighing heavily, she took the phone and checked the caller ID, which was her uncle, before picking it up, but when she placed the phone on her ear, the voice of the person she heard was totally different from that of her uncle, and hearing the person's voice alone sent shivers down her spine._________________________________________"Charles," Sarah muttered as her hand started trembling."Hello sweetheart, surprise!! How have you been?" Charles asked her through the phone."Charles, what are you doing with my father's phone?" Sarah asked him with a frightened tone, fearing that it shouldn't be what she was thinking."Ooh that, we are just having a chitchat," Charles said to her through the phone."What do you mean by
"Switch on the television and go and go to any news channel," Richard said to her."Okay, Dad," Sarah said to him before standing up and walking to where the remote of the television in the conference room was, and with that, she switched it on and started searching for a news channel and at the same time wondering what the issue was._______________________________________As she found the news channel, she immediately switched to it before hanging up the phone in order to hear clearly what was being said on the television. Meanwhile, Xavier, seeing her switch on the television while taking the call, sat down in order to see what was going to be displayed on the television.Immediately she switched to the news channel, the news about the arrest of the famous syndicate named Old Man started displaying. According to the news, an anonymous contact sent every single piece of information about him to the cops, including his three hidden warehouses, giving the cops the opportunity to arre
It was a Tuesday morning. Sarah was supposed to meet up with a new client who she wanted to finalize a very important deal that will profit the company enormously. They were supposed to finalize the deal a week or two after her marriage with Charles, but since the marriage didn't take place anymore, she called the client and asked him if he would be able to come over during the week so that they could finalize the deal. Since the client was a little bit free, he told her that he would come over the following day, which is Tuesday.Walking into the company, Sarah went to her office and dropped her bag before taking all the necessary documents that were needed for the finalization of the deal, and with that, she started heading to the conference room where the meeting was going to take place. Getting into the conference room, she was surprised to see only Xavier and the secretary inside the conference room discussing with each other, but the client wasn't present.Seeing them, she immed