“You send the goods to the warehouse. I'll handle everything else,” Caspian ordered the man staring at him from his laptop, signing a few files on his desk. “Yes, boss.” “Anything else? It’s the weekend.” He asked, opening the files on his desk, his fingers picking up the small blue pen. All of a sudden, he felt something soft in his foot, a wet sensation. Realizing what it was, Caspian threw the pen in his hand in surprise and sprang up from his chair, glaring at the white little puppy beneath him. “The fuck. Did you just put your tongue on me?” “Is that a dog?” His eyes looked back at the laptop to see his secretary’s eyes wide. “Shut up.” He closed the laptop and returned his attention to the puppy who had his pink tongue out, staring at him. The dog took steps toward him but he retreated backward, his eyes not leaving it. “How the fuck you got in here?” He stared around the study room and just then, he heard a tiny giggle outside the door, his eyes darkening once he put t
Anna’s smiles blossomed, stretching across her face, her eyes glistening with joy as Mariam placed a decent amount of snacks on the island table for her. She rubbed her palms together, smiling at Mariam in excitement. There wasn’t a better househelp than Mariam at the moment. “I hope Caspian didn’t see this?” She raised her eyes to stare at Mariam, her gray eyes glistening in excitement.“He did not. He already left for work a few minutes ago.”“Perfect.”It was Monday morning and she’d asked Mariam to bring her some snacks without the knowledge of her overbearing husband who banned her from eating junk food. But it wasn’t her fault that they suddenly became better than normal food. Thus, after breakfast, according to her, she indulged in a post-breakfast snack. She gazed at the junk foods ranging perfectly on the table and then at the dog who stared at them with the same glistening eyes as hers. She glared at it. “I’m not giving you any, you know that right? Just because I pitied y
She looked away from him to stare at her baring phone, moving over to grab it. She groaned at the caller ID before swiping on the green button. “If you’re calling to ask why I’m late, Maya, then please end the call. I’ll be arriving soon,” she snapped at the person on the other line.“That’s not it, boss. There is a problem.”Anna straightened, suddenly interested in whatever it was that May was about saying. “A problem? What problem?”“There is a huge problem, boss. Your mother… she..”“She’s what?”“She’s causing trouble for everyone here. The police are here too.”At the mention of the police, Anna’s eyes grew wide. What had her stepmother done to require the police's attention? “I’m on my way.” The line went off. She looked over to Caspian, the snacks becoming irrelevant to her.“What is it?”“There is a problem at work.”“Come on, I’ll drop you off.”She didn’t flinch when he threw the snacks in the waste bin and simply walked behind him, grabbed her bag from Mariam and they bo
“Mom, mom, what’s going on?” Elle charged towards her mother, her overly high heels clicking in urgency on the tiled floor at each step she took. She snatched her mother from the policemen’s grip, her eyes glaring daggers at them. “If you come close to my mother one more time, I’ll make you regret it.”She let out exasperated sighs before turning to stare at her mother again, her hands searching for any trace of injury. “Mom, are you alright? Did these people hurt you?”Sylvia's shoulders trembled as she struggled to hold back tears. Letting go of her mother for a while, Elle stepped forward to Anna. She lowered her head.“You’re the only hope that we have, sister Anna.” She clasped her hands together. “Please don’t let the police take mother away. Please help us this one time. I swear, if you don’t let Mother go to jail, I’ll come get you immediately, I’ll make sure to get you out.”Anna leaned back with her hands behind her and her chin tilted upward. Her gaze traveled from the top
‘Anna Riordan revealed as a snitch.’ Anna read the first line of the heading inwardly, her eyes widening as she let the words settle in her head. She continued. ‘Sold company’s secret, big bully to her family, and a gold digger. Anna Riordan must be canceled.”Her forehead creased with mortified lines, eyes rolling to the back of her head. She continued reading the article. The netizens were requesting that she get canceled for a crime she didn’t even know anything about, for a crime that she knew the culprit not. They accused her of leaking the company’s secret to the rival company for a few bucks and they even went as far as to bring her marriage into the matter. They called her a gold digger, one who had intentions to use her husband for money. The audacity of them to call her a gold digger. “Mrs Riordan, say something. Are the allegations about you true?”She returned the tablet to Maya and cleared her throat, ready to address the flock of reporters. “I know nothing about these
“Elle Cooper, stop right there!”Elle froze in her spot immediately and her hands clutched her purse tighter that her fingers became red. She flinched when everyone’s eyes turned to her, her body trembling slightly. How had Anna seen her? She’d done her best to be silent, slipping away when everyone’s attention was on Anna. She didn't want to get caught or be involved in the drama playing out in the company. She intended to slip away despite Anna’s call but before she could get into the elevator, she heard footsteps behind her and slowly, oh so slowly, she turned only to see her sister marching toward her with a ferocious expression.Anna’s eyes brewed with anger, walking toward Elle in fast strides. Seeing the impending danger on her way, she stepped backward in fear. Anna had never looked at her this way before. Her sister was kind, naive, and seraphic. She wasn’t irascible or Animated. But the Anna stepping to her was different from the Anna that she knew. Gooseflesh covered her
Anna coughed, hitting Elle’s arms to get out of her hold, but she didn’t relent. She kept on pressing until she felt life slipping off her slowly. Her eyes became blurry, her hands weakened on Elle’s arms but before she could succumb to the darkness that threatened to envelop her, she felt Elle suddenly pried away from her with a force and her body collided with a much-needed warmth. With her hands wrapped around the new source of warmth, she coughed loudly, burying herself in the warm body as a pat began on her back. She’d thought that she would die in Elle's hands for a second time, she’d literally felt like she failed in her mission to get revenge. Elle was way too strong of an opponent. “The next time you lay a hand on my wife, I’ll make sure you'll never be able to use those two hands of yours ever again.”Anna finally caught her breath and raised her head slowly, her eyes falling on Caspian who had his blazing eyes behind her. An arm of his was wrapped around her waist, keepin
~Cooper Mansion. 7 pm, same day ~“Now, what are you pleading with me for? What do you want me to do about this situation?” Mr Cooper threw his hands in the air as he yelled at his daughter who knelt beneath him. Elle’s knees were pressed to the cold floor as her tears streamed down her cheek in the Cooper large living room. She had her palms pressed together, her lips drawn in a thin line.“Father please,” she pleaded.“Don’t fucking plead with me. I didn’t ask you to do shits that land you in trouble.”“I didn’t want to do it,” her sobs increased. “It’s all Anna’s fault. She pushed me to the wall. Please help me, father.”The man looked over to his wife who had the same pleading look plastered on her face. He shook his head. “You better caution your daughter. This insolence is not going to happen in my house.”Sylvie swiftly rushed to his side and held his hands. “Calm down honey. You know how these kids are, they’re still kids.”“Kids? Do you even hear yourself? She’s a grown-ass