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CYRIL“Where am I?” I asked rhetorically, rubbing my blurry eyes.I caressed my head in pain and glanced around to confirm my surroundings. Still, I couldn't recall how I had ended up in a hotel room.The last thing I remembered was being bundled out of Adrian's party like an intruder.My back still ached from the beating I had received at the hands of Adrian's guards.“What was I thinking? When did I suddenly become a chronic drunk?” I questioned my decision to attack Olivia. That was when I realized I was the biggest fool on earth.It wasn't my intention to appear drunk at that party. It was all Rene's idea.After she narrated how Olivia and Kate had inflicted so much pain on her, I decided to fight for her.I never realized I was making the biggest mistake of my life.In the process of trying to unravel the truth, I got a sudden call from my grandma.It came as a shock because I couldn't recall the last time she had reached out to me.I wasn’t her favorite grandson. She had always
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RENE.Olivia had no idea what she did. She made me the happiest woman on Earth after filing for a divorce.I waited so long for this day to come, and it finally did at the moment I least expected.After the fight that ensued between Cyril and his lawyer, I was scared that I had lost all hope.Now, I don't have any reason to think that the divorce procedures might take too long for Cyril to get it done.The only person proving to be a stumbling block is Cyril's grandmother.Adding five years to a marriage that was on the verge of crashing was something I couldn't fathom.It all depends on Cyril to make the final decision. His verdict on the issue will prove whether he ever loved me or was just using me for his selfish gain."Yes, five years. Exactly what I said, Rene. I can't understand why my grandma is prying into my affairs. Why can't she just let me be? Shouldn't I be old enough to decide what's best for me?" Cyril lamented.I loved the seriousness displayed by Cyril. It was precis
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OLIVIA“Book an appointment with Adrian. Tell him to meet me in my office in the next hour. I want to have a meeting with him,” I instructed Kate as she drove me back home.She stopped the car immediately and turned to me. “Did you just say I should book an appointment with Adrian in your office? Perhaps I've started hearing things that aren't real.”“This is no joke. Yes, you heard me right. Or do you have a problem with what I said?” I affirmed.“And why did you stop the car in the middle of the road like that? Do you want to get us killed? Don't you know how dangerous that is?” I snapped at Kate, pouring my frustration on her after my nasty encounter with Cyril's grandmother.“I am still shocked to hear you say that, ma'am. I mean, we are heading home and not to the company, yet you still want to have a meeting with Adrian in your office? You clarified that you had no intention of stopping by the company today. So what changed? Please make it make sense to me,” Kate lamented.After
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OLIVIA"You're finally getting a divorce?" Adrian asked, his voice laced with disbelief."Yes, I am. Why do you sound so surprised? I thought this was what you always wanted?" I questioned him, not expecting such a reaction."It's not that, Olivia," Adrian said, standing up and coming over to me.He sat on the desk and fondled my hair. "Of course, you know I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I’m just surprised you finally took the bold step. I've waited all my life for this moment."I got up from my chair, crossing my arms. "Why do I have a feeling you’re lying to me? Your facial expressions don’t match your words. Adrian, am I making the biggest mistake choosing you over Cyril?"I wasn’t impressed with Adrian. His reaction made me wonder if I should reconsider spending another five years with Cyril, just as the Penshurst matriarch suggested.“Olivia, please don't say that. You know I love you, right?” Adrian spoke in a soft tone. He vacated the Desk to come flirt with me.
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OLIVIA“I am going to ask you for the last time, Rene. What in heaven's name are you doing in my office? And how did you get here? I guess I need to replace the security for letting you in without my permission,” I roared like a wounded tiger that had lost a battle.“Put your shirt down. You're not going to do anything to the security. This has nothing to do with them. Hold on a second. Is this how you welcome a friend? That's quite rude of you, if you ask me,” Rene said.“I am not your friend and never will be. We have nothing in common. The earlier you realize that, the better for us,” I fired back at Rene to set the record straight.I couldn't imagine myself being friends with someone like her.“Don't get your hopes too high, my friend. I am not here to sing your praises. This is just a harmless visit. I am not here to waste your time either. Trust me, it will be worth it. Just hear me out.”Rene stood up from the chair and paced around my office as though she were searching for a
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OLIVIAAdrian walked into my office and saw me lying on the couch. He wasn't alone; he carried a bouquet of flowers.Noticing the worrisome look on my face, he rushed to me."Are you okay? You don't seem too well," Adrian asked, pressing the back of his palm to my neck to check my temperature."I'm fine. It's just fatigue," I lied.It was the same thing I had told Kate. Adrian was the last person I wanted to burden with my problems."Damn it! How can you be fine when your neck is this hot? We need to get you to the hospital," he insisted."Trust me, that's the last place I want to be right now. I'm done with hospitals," I declined without sounding ungrateful."You know I can't leave you in this condition. We need to get you back on your feet again," Adrian bemoaned.I sat up from the couch. "I just want to go home. I’m sure I’ll be fine there."I tried to walk around, but I staggered like a chronic drunk.Thankfully, Adrian was there to catch me, holding me up before I could fall."Le
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OLIVIA“What are you doing here, Cyril? I wasn't expecting you,” I frowned and picked up my bag from the ground.“Hi, Olivia, can we please go inside the office and talk?” Cyril spoke softly.“You haven't answered my question, Cyril. What the hell are you doing here? I thought you said you never wanted to set your eyes on me again?” I fumed at him.I was doing everything possible to make him walk out in frustration, but it wasn't working. He made it clear that he wanted to stay and have a decent conversation with me.“Let's go inside. Five minutes is all you got. I've got other important business to tend to,” I finally agreed to let Cyril inside the office.From the way I treated him, it would be difficult for a total stranger to believe that he is the CEO of the Penhurst company.“You didn't pass the night at home. Where were you?” Cyril asked me just when I thought it couldn't get any worse.“Are you stalking me now? If this is the reason you're here, I guess I should just leave,” I
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OLIVIA“You don’t intend to ignore her forever, do you? We both know that women are stubborn. She won’t stop calling until you answer the phone,” Kate asked me.“I can’t answer that. You already know the answer to my question, Kate,” I responded.I took my phone and declined the call. “I guess you’re happy now?”Not long after I declined the call, Cyril’s grandmother called again.I was confused. I felt immense pressure not to answer, but I had no choice. It was the powerful Miss Penhurst—she always got what she wanted, no matter how difficult it seemed.“Maybe you’re right. I should shun my fears and answer the phone. This might just be the perfect time for me to end this drama,” I told Kate.She didn’t respond. She wasn’t convinced I had the courage to do it.“Why weren’t you picking up my calls? Don’t you dare lie to me—I have my ears on the ground. I know your every step,” Miss Penhurst spoke in a placating tone, as if she had spies watching me.“I am deeply sorry for not taking y
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OLIVIA"Stay calm, ma'am. You're not helping matters," Officer Julian called me to order.I ignored him, saying, "Don't you dare tell me to stay calm. Didn't you hear what he said? He accused me of something I know nothing about. Now that's insane.""You were the target. We were paid by someone to kill you," the criminal finally confessed.His confession sent tiny shivers down my spine. I lost some brain cells and stood up from where I was.I now know what it feels like to be agitated."Who sent you? Start talking now," I moved a step closer to the criminal.Seeing how close I was, Adrian rushed to pull me back. "Don't do this. Let him speak. I understand how you feel right now, but this isn't the way out."I stood back. I forced myself to stay calm, but deep inside, I was a burning furnace.I was being consumed by the desire to kill the criminal even before he was done with the confession."Some lady called Rene. She gave us your photo and asked us to kill you," the criminal confesse
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OLIVIAAfter a failed attempt to kill me, the gunmen abandoned one of their members who had no gun in his possession.As he tried to escape, Adrian pounced on him and struck a powerful punch that tossed the masked man to the ground.As though that weren't enough, Adrian continued to punch the masked man until the police arrived at the scene and arrested him.After the arrest, we all rushed to meet Uncle Dante, who was in a pool of blood, struggling to stay alive.His eyes were slowly shutting down as we got to him."Don't leave me, Uncle. Please stay back," Adrian cried as he rested Uncle Dante's head on his lap.That was my first time seeing Adrian cry. As I tried to console him, I fought back my tears."Please take care of Olivia. She's got a heart of gold. Don't let her slip away from your palms." Those were Uncle Dante's last words before he passed away.All efforts to revive him proved abortive. He must have suffered severe internal bleeding as a result of the injury sustained f
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OLIVIA“Damn! This party is the bomb. See what we've been missing all along,” Kate told me at the party. She seemed to be having fun.She wasn't far from the truth.I can't recall the last time she attended a party of such magnitude.Cyril is such a joy killer.The son of a bitch is deprived of a life like this due to his insecurity.“I am glad you're having fun. But don't get too drunk. We still got work for tomorrow,” I reminded Kate.Adrian joined us some minutes later, shortly after I saw him with Uncle Dante.“I hope you're having fun already?” he teased Kate.“More than fun, Adrian. You've got no idea what this means to me. If Olivia doesn't get married to you, I will,” Kate joked as she continued sipping her vodka.Then she stormed out to allow Adrian and me to have some moments of privacy alone.“My uncle wants to see us. He asked me to bring you to his table,” Adrian said.“Shall we?” He stretched his hand forward to hold mine.“Of course.Why not?” I held his hand.As we wal
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OLIVIA Anxiety spread from my face and traveled down to my lungs' region as I stood at the prosecuting area, waiting for the judge to pass the final verdict regarding the allegations against me of being responsible for Cyril's condition.I lost count of how many times the case has been adjourned. I've lost all hopes of getting a favorable ruling. Currently, the only thing left inside of me is emptiness and fright. I might as well confess to the crimes I never committed just to be free from this dungeon of calamity and frustration.I looked behind me and saw Kate resting on the chest of Adrian. Poor girl! She's been through a lot this period. And she isn't even the one accused falsely.I drifted my attention back to the judge to avoid missing out on what she had a say.“So here's my verdict,” the judge said before she took a deep pause to put on his glasses. I was yearning for her to be done talking. Her silent treatment keeps raising my blood pressure. From the look of things, I
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OLIVIAMy legs quivered as I stepped outside with Adrian. They suddenly felt too heavy to move, as if some unseen force was dragging me back.The moment Kate saw me approaching the car, she rushed forward and embraced me. I fought back my tears.She thought the kidnapping had broken me. She had no idea it was something else entirely.Adrian looked equally disturbed. Just like me, he wasn’t happy. Sadness was written all over his face.That was when Kate sensed something was wrong. She pulled away from my arms and turned to Adrian. “Can you please explain what's going on? I know this isn’t about the kidnapping, so don’t lie to me.”After Adrian narrated everything to her, Kate lost her composure and fumed. “What the fuck? That ain’t true! Olivia had nothing to do with what happened to Cyril. They barely even spoke because I was there to kick him out!”As much as I appreciated her defending me, I wished she had done it back in Lily’s office—to prove my innocence where it mattered.“Now
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OLIVIA“What did you just say? Rene did what?” I lost my cool and jumped from my seat.It took the joint efforts of Adrian and the detective to calm me down.“Don't tell me to calm down! Didn't you hear what she said?” I blasted Adrian.I expected him to take my side—or at the very least, caution Lily about the false accusations thrown at me.“Ranting won't solve anything. We need to take this case lightly,” Adrian said to me.His words somehow calmed my nerves. But deep down, I was burning with curiosity. Why would Rene point fingers at me when I hadn’t even been in New York at the time of the incident?“Over to you, Detective. Why would Rene file a report against Olivia? Olivia hasn’t been to New York in recent times,” Adrian questioned Lily.For the first time in a long while, I was genuinely proud of him. That was the move I had hoped for.“Just a moment, please,” Lily said, shuffling through the files on her desk.“Oh, yes. I found this one.” She handed the file over to us and as
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OLIVIAI still can't wrap my head around what happened in the last couple of hours.It still seems like a dream to me. I never, for once, imagined that I was going to survive the assassination attempt.I had already accepted my fate—that I was going to be shot dead in the head with reckless abandon. Suddenly, Kate and Adrian showed up when I least expected it.“Hey, Olivia,” I heard a voice calling my name. I disregarded the voice since I couldn't recognize it.I drifted back into my thinking mode until I saw a hand wave across my face.Looking next to me, I discovered that it was Adrian. Apparently, he'd been trying to get my attention, but I seemed not to be bothered.I wasn't even conscious of my surroundings anymore.“What's running through your mind this time? Do you want to see the Detective?” Adrian asked me while we stood next to the car.“Nah! That won't be necessary. I'd rather wait for her to summon me to the interrogation room. Want to take this one step at a time,” I told
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ADRIANDetective Lily finally led us to the wood where Olivia was tied up around a tree like a sacrificial lamb.Lily wasn't wrong when she told us that she had been to the woods before to apprehend some criminals.Olivia wasn't alone in the woods. She's got two hefty men standing right in front of her. From a distance, I could tell that they were cold-blooded murderers.Right in front of her was a man pointing a gun to her head while she cried her eyes out.“Did you see that?He's trying to shoot her.We have got to save her now.We can't let that son of a bitch accomplish his mission,” I called the attention of Lily.At that point, I was tempted to snatch the gun from her and shoot the assassins from close range.“I saw them!I'm just waiting for the perfect time to strike, so I suggest you shut the fuck up,” Lily whispered, yet it still managed to get on my thick skin.I drifted my gaze at Kate, hoping that she was going to take sides with me. I was wrong.From the look on her face
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ADRIAN"Stop the damn car right away! I know what I heard. Would I be joking about something like this when I know what's at stake?" Kate screamed at me.That was the moment I knew it wasn’t a joke, just like I had thought.I stayed calm to observe the situation. Suddenly, I heard Olivia screaming. "Please don’t kill me! I don’t want to die. Somebody save me! I don’t deserve any of this. I am ready to give up an outrageous fee for my freedom!"At that moment, I felt like punching myself in the face for doubting Kate when she initially revealed what she had heard."Do you believe me now? Why don't you apologize for doubting me?" Kate demanded.I snapped. "Get down. We need to go inform the cops about our discovery."As Kate and I stepped outside the vehicle, we saw a female cop approaching our direction. It was obvious that she had something important to say to us."I was about to meet you. What's your name again?" the female cop asked.I glanced at Kate, waiting for her to respond, bu
