**Two days ago**"Hey Ben, is everything okay?" Xavier asked Ben through the phone while placing the audio recorder under the table."No, boss, you need to get out there right now; we have company," Ben said to him."What!!" Xavier exclaimed in surprise."Yes, boss, be very careful. I'm already on my way in case something goes wrong," Ben said to him."No, Ben, stay where you are; I will join you in some minutes," Xavier said to Ben, but he had already hung up before Xavier could finish talking."Damnit," Xavier muttered to himself before returning his phone to his pocket and covering his face with his mask.With that, he slowly walked out of the office, closed the door, and started tiptoeing to the elevator.Once he reached the elevator, he selected the second floor, which led to the secret exit from which he got into the company. After some minutes, the elevator stopped, and once it opened, Xavier saw some men waiting in front of the elevator. Once he saw them, he tried closing the
"Good evening, sir; you are late," Ben said to Xavier without even turning to look at him, but Xavier remained silent while glaring at him from where he was standing, and with that, Ben turned only to face Xavier's burning eyes."So you are finally awake?" Xavier asked him with a cold tone while pretending not to be happy by the fact that he had already woken up."Yes, sir, but please, why are you glaring at me like that? It's as if you aren't happy that I'm alive," Ben said to Xavier."Of course I'm not happy; I was wishing for you to die; by so doing, you won't have to take a bullet for me again," Xavier said to him while feigning to be angry."Ungrateful as usual," Ben muttered in a low tone."What?" Xavier asked him with furrowed brows."Nothing," Ben said to him with a deep frown.Whatever," Xavier said to him, and with that, he closed the door of the room, walked to the chair that was in a corner, and sat down."I'm glad that you have woken up, and thank you for taking a bullet
It has been over three weeks since Charles and Sarah started organizing their marriage ceremony, which was going to take place soon. Since all this time, Charles has been the one taking care of everything, while Sarah, on the other hand, has been concentrating on her two companies as if there were nothing. For a reason unknown to her, she couldn't explain why she was slowly losing her enthusiasm for the marriage when the marriage was just a few weeks away.From the way she was reacting, one could hardly believe that she was getting married in some weeks ahead, and even Charles started getting scared thinking that she was planning to call off the marriage, but fortunately for him, she didn't until the last week of the wedding. And even on the last week to the wedding, it took many persuasions from Charles before Sarah finally agreed to spend the last week before their wedding at home, leaving the management of her two companies in the hands of her two personal assistants, which were Xa
It has been a long and hectic day for Xavier; he has been busy throughout the whole day doing both his work and that of Sarah, who has been absent for some days because of her wedding that was some days ahead.After finishing his daily activities as usual, Xavier arranged the documents on his desk in the shelf, and afterwards he arranged some documents he wanted to work on at home inside his briefcase with some of his belongings that were on his desk. With that, he took his briefcase, walked out of his office, and started heading to the garage.Once he got to the garage, he unlocked his car and entered inside, and without waiting, he ignited it and started driving out of the company.Once he drove out of the company, a car suddenly halted before him, and fortunately, he was fast enough to step on brake pads; if not, he would have surely hit the car.Once the car halted in front of him, Charles came down from the car while fuming in anger. Without hesitating, Xavier switched off the ca
"Any last word before I win?" Sarah asked Justin, who was playing a Ludo game with her in the sitting room. It was six p.m., and Justin had just finished doing his homework, so he decided to play the Ludo game with his mother. Even though he had never won her before, he was still ready to play with her over and over again expecting the day he will lucky enough to win against her."I don't have anything to say; you won again," Justin said to Sarah with a dejected tone, and with that, she smiled at him. "Don't worry, I will be easy with you on the second round so that you can get the chance to win too," Sarah said to Justin, and he gave her a doubtful stare. "But that's what you said the first time you won, but you have won two more times without giving me the chance to win," Justin said to Sarah while feigning to be angry, and with that, she smiled at him once again. "Well, I have been giving you the chances to win, but you aren't noticing it quickly. But don't worry; this time aro
Taking the phone, she unlocked it to see the notification, but once she saw it, she widened her eyes in surprise. It was the video of Xavier and Charles fighting in front of Quim Corporation, and the video had already gone viral._____________________"Hey Sarah, is everything okay?" Lucy asked Sarah, seeing how her facial expression suddenly changed after seeing the notification.When she didn't give her a reply after some minutes, Lucy stood up herself from the sofa and approached her to see what she saw that startled her in such a manner.Taking the phone from Sarah, she too watched the video, and after watching it, she ruffled her hair in frustration, not knowing what to say."I think you should call Charles; he will surely have a good explanation for this," Lucy said to Sarah, and immediately she turned and looked at her."A good explanation?" Sarah asked Lucy with a sarcastic tone."Have you taken a look at the comments? What is his damn explanation going to change? Is it going
"What do you mean by nobody is in the house?" Charles thundered angrily at one of his men through the phone."Boss, we had just searched the whole building, and there's no one inside; it's as if they knew we were coming," the man said to Charles."Have you searched each room to see if you will find a recording device?" Charles asked him."Yes, boss, we are still searching; the building is very huge," the man said to Charles."Okay, search thoroughly the whole building; if you see anything like an audio recording device, bring it to me; and if Xavier comes back, make sure you bring him to me. I don't care if you bring him dead or alive; just bring him here to me," Charles said to him."Okay, boss," the man said to Charles in reply before hanging up the call.Once he hung up the call, Charles sighed heavily before crashing the burning side of the cigarette he was smoking on the ash plate, and with that, he took the glass of alcohol on the table and gulped it down.Afterwards, he took th
It was ten p.m. in the evening, and Sarah was sitting all alone in the sitting room, lost in her thoughts.Justin had already slept off, and Richard, who decided to take a nap when he came back from the hospital, was still asleep.Meanwhile, after Justin had dozed off, Sarah had returned to her room to get some sleep, but she couldn't fall asleep.Everything Lucy had told her earlier was still replaying in her head.After rolling on the bed for almost thirty minutes, she stood up, went to the sitting room, and sat down alone. If there was one thing she needed the most, it was a cool environment like the sitting room, where she would stay and think about the important decision she's about to take in two days.Through out her entire life, she has never been this unsure about taking an important decision. There's this part of her that wants her to call off the wedding with Charles, after all, she presently has a reason to call it off. He fought in public despite his reputation; if he wa
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