“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
Finally, after a while of coaxing, Elle’s tears ceased their flow. She slowly broke away from the warmth that was Jason and raised her head to stare at him. She gave him a grateful stare. “Thank you.” “Don’t mention, Elle. You know that I’ll do anything for you. If you ask me to jump off a bridge, I will.” Her eyes widened. It was the same man that she’d spoken cutely to the other day, the same man she threw out of her car and humiliated. Yet he was the only one there for her when everyone else had vacated her. “Do you really mean that?” She stared at him with teary eyes. It was the first time she actually felt that she meant something to someone. It was the first time anyone had whispered such words into her ears. Never before had she had anyone hold her so close that it felt like home. Yet she couldn’t stand the thought of being with him. If she wasn’t so sad and needed comfort, she would have chased him out of the house already or worse exposed him to her father. But she neede
From the moment Anna got married to her husband, she knew that her life was going to become easier. She knew that her life would become better, especially in the part of her revenge schemes. And she was right, her life did become better, much better than she expected.She had the people that she loved around her and there were no longer any fake people around her. There was no one who pretended to love her but then turned around and stabbed her in the back just like Jason, Elle and Sylvia. No more negative people. There was only Caspian, Dali, and her brother, Elias. She was surrounded by genuine people who liked her for real. After the whole incident that played out, Dali and Elias had insisted on taking her somewhere fun to get the day’s situation out of her mind. They took her to fun places and at the end of the day, they all ended up having dinner in a fancy restaurant.It was both pleasing and scary. On one hand, she couldn’t believe that she was back in time, that she wasn’t in
Fucking gorgeous,” he breathed. In a swift motion, he lay in the bed and grabbed her on top of him, his big body spread out beneath her. “We don’t have to fuck. You’ll grind on my tongue won’t you?”Anna’s eyes popped wide and her face morphed in a bright shade of red. She didn’t know what was happening to her but she wanted it. He was right. They didn’t have to have sex for her to feel good. She didn’t know what got to her but she wanted to nod so bad, she wanted to listen to every command of his, her body wanted to. She shook her head, trying to form a coherent word in her head. “Th…that is dirty,” she disagreed. “It’s not going to be when I plunge my tongue into you.”“You’ll call it a mistake when we’re done.”“Nothing is a mistake with you. Not even the first time.”She blushed. Does that mean that he didn’t mean what he said after the night they first had sex? That it wasn’t really a mistake that day as he made her believe? But what if this time would be called a mistake too?