Vivian I was so enraged I was nearly panting as I stormed out of my office, the crumpled note still clutched in my hand. How dare Richard try to manipulate me like this? I was furious and confused. What was he thinking, sending me flowers and notes like he was my lover? I marched down the hallway, my heels clicking on the floor. The others stared at me like I had gone crazy but I didn't care. I couldn't wait to confront him, to demand answers. Why was he playing these games? What did he hope to achieve? I barged into his office, throwing the door open wide and slamming it behind me. Richard looked up from his desk, a smug smile spreading across his face. It was certainly not the reaction I expected. “Ah, Vivian. I see you got the flowers.” I stood facing him, my eyes blazing with anger. “What was the meaning of those flowers, Richard? You know I'm a married woman. What the hell do you think you are doing sending me romantic gestures and all sorts of things?” Richard's smil
Vivian“If you try to breach that contract, if you try to tell anyone what's going on here,” he said, his eyes glinting with menace, “I'll make sure you regret it. I know where your mother is, Vivian. I know all about her little stay at the hospital remember.” I could feel tears brimming in my eyes as I remembered our stay at the pack when he had followed me to the hospital. How foolish I had been in that moment. I struggled against him trying to pull away, but his grip was too strong. “Don't bother trying to hide her, Vivian,” he said, his voice dripping with contempt. “I'll always find her. And if you try to cross me, I'll make sure she suffers.” He suddenly let go of my arm and I collapsed on the couch, a crumpled mess. I could barely hold my tears back as I felt a new wave of fear wash over me. I was trapped. He had me right where he wanted me. “What do you plan on gaining from this, Richard? You're not even making sense. I'm a married woman, and Nate will never let you get awa
NATE“Nate, please … please!” she pleaded but I was no longer listening to a word that she was saying. I walked faster till I was seated in the driver’s seat of the car and without looking back, I turned the ignition on and drove out of the garage and onto the exit of the estate.My heart pulled strings and tugged severely, I new I had hurt her. The worst of all been the time she had been at the hospital when I learned too late that she had just had an Uterine Evacuation. At the time, I had no idea and the fact that she went through something like that and she was alone through the whole process was something that hunted me till this day.I was pissed, I am still pissed at myself that I allowed something so trivial to be the reason why there was a ridge driven between us. I had finally found out that I cared for Vivian way more than I even wanted to admit, I was slowly warming up to the feeling and then the accident happened and everything got burned and I knew it was my fault.I had t
NATE“That’s great! Gran is in town and I had no idea?” she asked but I didn’t know how I was supposed to respond to that so I just gave a small smile and I decided not to press on the issue.“Well, it was nice running into you, but I have where to be,” I said as casually as I could and turned around but suddenly, her hands wrapped around my arm ad pulled me back. I stopped in my movements as I tried to process what just happened.“You look paler than usual Nate, are you not doing well? Is it work?” she asked and I looked taken aback. I was about to open my lips to say something when my phone rang, I decided to use this opportunity to check out my items.“Hello?” I answered, looking back at the last minute to see who was calling me, the international number that flashed across the screen of my phone told me immediately that it was an important call.“Mr Stuart, I wonder if you could make it back to the office. There has been a new development on the situation of things and I am afraid
Vivian Nate’s harshness was something that I knew I honestly deserved, his pain was something even more palpable. I had betrayed him and there was nothing I could do to change that and the very idea haunted me. The moment he drove off, I went back into the house determination etched on my face as I decided on something I had already been rolling in my mind. I just had to make sure I paid Richard back in every penny and every cent. I take my laptop and log into the company's logs making sure to dig into everything they have been doing for the past twenty years but nothing was coming up. I was sweating even though I was under the Air conditioner, my body clamped with stress as my hands clicked and clacked away. The maids were not around and the environment was as quiet as a graveyard. I hated that Nate had sent the maids and everyone home because he had prepared for a fight that had now altered the course of our already struggling relationship where for the first time I was in the
VIVIAN “OK? Then explain,” I said calmly and Ethan breathed out a sigh. “Tracy called me originally when she heard the news and somehow we both got to know that you were no longer working for Nate because apparently you must have told her that you were planning on quitting your job, she was only looking out for you and when I found out that you no longer worked for Nate, it started to make more sense but at the same time it couldn’t be true that you would do such a thing that they were saying on the news, that was our conclusion earlier today and when you called her for some files, she called me because I was close enough to pick you up and its faster,” he confessed and the anger I had in my chest dropped drastically. I felt a bit of guilt, I really didn’t deserve Tracy. “So, lets get those files?” he asked and I nodded my head, deciding to focus on the evidences I was storing. We arrived at the company and I noticed that despite the fact that the day had gotten darker there were
VIVIANEthan escorted me to the door and eventually, waved me off and that was how the conversation about the crush thing took a turn and died. I tried to invite Ethan inside but he declined and when he turned to leave, he was exceptionally sad and I knew this time I had to drop the issue.I decided to concentrate on the work at hand, I didn’t know why Nate had decided to go to the office or why Eve was there but whatever was happening, I knew that once I took down Richard that I would be done with this, after all there was nothing holding me here asides from my guilt.I began to compile all of the evidences on me and started to arrange it, pointing out all the instances that made Richard’s so called proposal come out as the fraud that it was. I also added proof of how the AI technology that he had made was actually just a way to make sure that he was able to hack into companies databases and steal technology.As I rounded up my collation and mailed it to the company police and some m
VIVIANThe butler led me out of the room but I didn’t want to move. I didn’t want to be taken away from Gran or Nate. Something was amiss and it wasn’t pretty.I have never seen Gran quite as angry as he was and it was scary to see.The butler closed the door but I refused to stray away from the double doors.“Mrs Stuart?” he asked suggestively but I placed a fake smile on my face “Why don’t you go on ahead?” I asked and he gave me a look that he knew what I was doing.I wasn’t leaving this place until I could get into this room and be sure Nate was OK.The image of Nate’s blood-stained arms and the small cuts, the throbbing veins on his exposed arms made bile want to rise up my throat as I questioned why on earth Gran would be so violent and harm his grandson like that.I knew that Gran had other Grand kids, Ethan included but it was obvious who was his favorite without even trying. It has always been Nate, so why the bruises?“How dare you, Nate?!” I heard Gran’s unmistakable voice