“Gabriella, the address of the cyber-cafe your best friends frequented is not that far from Xavier’s mansion”. Vanessa announced. Her eyes widened after she noticed her mistake. She quickly added, “I mean, the address of the cyber-cafe your best friends frequented is not that far from my husband’s mansion”. Eric and Derek forced themselves not to laugh at Vanessa. They found Vanessa funny because of her mistake and shocked reaction. ‘This is so sad. Poor Gabriella. All these years, I had misunderstood and blamed her. She didn't cheat on Master Xavier. Neither did she betray his love for her. Her best friends were the main genesis of everything’. Mrs Charlotte shook her head in pity as she thought. Gabriella was lost in her thoughts that she couldn't even realise the mistake Vanessa had made. “Didn't you hear what I said to you, Gabriella?”. Vanessa asked her, but there was no reply. Turning to Xavier, Vanessa noticed that he was staring at Gabriella with a poker expression on
After Mrs Charlotte left the living room, Vanessa and her twin brothers ate breakfast. They couldn't wait for Xavier because they couldn't find him anywhere in the mansion. When they saw that one of his cars was missing, they realised that he had left the mansion. It took them a few minutes to finish eating breakfast because Vanessa had hurried them to eat faster. She wanted all of them to report to her Diamond V company at once, because she had an important investor coming over today. “Seriously, who's the important investor you're refusing to tell us about, Vanessa?”. Derek raised an eyebrow as he asked her. “Yeah. And why didn't he show up and help you when your company was facing a crisis?”. Eric asked Vanessa too, and was impatiently waiting to hear what her reply would be. “Both of you are getting more annoying lately. Seriously. Now, shut up and quietly follow me outside”. Vanessa ordered them. After they went outside, they entered Vanessa's car, and she drove off and was
Gabriella thought about going to the airport to await Jasper's return. But after thinking much about it, she understood that it wasn't such a good idea. Because, what if she missed Jasper and couldn't find him at the airport? As she was walking around with her luggage, she came across a payphone on the way. Seeing this, an instant sigh of relief escaped from her mouth. Without any delay, she walked towards the payphone. She pressed Jasper's number and called it. After many attempts at calling Jasper, he finally answered the phone call. “Who is it?”. Gabriella flinched, and her eyes also widened, because Jasper's voice sounded cold and distant. She never knew that her own brother's voice could intimidate her to this extent. She was puzzled, but had to compose herself. She knew Jasper was being cold to her because he had no idea that it was her calling him. “Brother, it's me, Gabriella”. Jasper had come out of the airport. He initially wanted to hang up the phone call, but halte
Diamond V company, Vanessa and her twin brothers had arrived at the company and entered the building in front of them. After that, Eric and Derek followed Vanessa straight to her office. They were curious to see the important investor who their sister wanted to meet. As they arrived at the elevator, Vanessa, Eric and Derek entered it, even though there were some others who were already inside. After Vanessa pressed the button for her office floor, she stood straight with her hands folded on her chest. She didn't mind nor pay any attention to the way her employees were endlessly staring at her as if she were made of gold. The employees didn't want Vanessa and the twins to hear what they were about to discuss, so they stayed close to themselves as they began to whisper to each other. “Why didn't I notice this before? Our chairman is charismatic”. “Exactly. Her aura is breathtaking”. Another person agreed with what the first person said. “Our chairman has led the Di
‘But, why was their big sister annoyed?’. Eric and Derek wondered. Blake walked towards Vanessa because of the feisty look on her face. He asked her, “Are you alright, chairman Vanessa?”. Realisation hit Vanessa upon hearing Blake's question. A while ago, when she got a headache and became annoyed, she completely forgot about his presence. Staring at Blake with a slightly embarrassed and complicated look on her face, Vanessa replied to him, “I'm okay now, Blake. Don't mind me at all”. Because Vanessa had already replied to Blake, she turned to Eric and Derek, and said to them, “Blake is not the genius. And from now on, both of you aren't allowed to mention the genius in front of me again. Do you understand?”. “Alright, Nessa”. Eric and Derek both agreed, because they didn't want to argue with Vanessa and make her become more angry.Vanessa invited Blake to sit in front of her, at her desk, while Eric and Derek went to their desks to review files and some other important informati
Gabriella felt anxious. She also felt a deep sense of fear, which caused her to quickly turn to her brother. She shouted at him because she was panicking, “Jasper, this can't be happening!”. She couldn't believe that Nova, Isla, and the cyber cafe owner weren't inside the cyber cafe. Without thinking much, she shoved Captain Tristan, who was standing in front of her, and entered the cyber cafe. “I must see with my own eyes. There's no way that no one is inside there!”. She declared. “Gabriella, what are you doing?!”. Jasper asked her, and because she didn't answer him and was now inside the cyber cafe, he followed her. Jasper went after Gabriella into the cyber cafe mainly because he instinctively thought that being inside the cyber cafe at a moment like now was dangerous. Additionally, he could never allow or permit anything bad to happen to his little sister under his watch. After Gabriella and Jasper entered the cyber cafe, Captain Tristan stood there puzzled. He was stunn
{Flashback on what happened yesterday}On the rooftop,Vanessa arrived at the rooftop with Blake. Her back was facing him, so she turned around and looked at him. Unknown to both of them, Eric and Derek were spying and eavesdropping on them from a safe distance. Vanessa didn't hesitate and said to him, “We are already on the rooftop, Blake. You can feel at ease and tell me what's wrong. Back in my office, you told me you were desperate. Why is that? Is your problem so bad that it's making you feel desperate?”. Blake nodded at Vanessa. It was strange for him to say what was inside his mind, but he still went ahead and said, “Chairman Vanessa, my sister has been feeling so down and devastated. She has refused to eat anything, and she's getting skinnier as we speak. I had to return to the city because the nanny in charge of taking care of my sister was so worried about her that she would not stop calling me. Please, you have to do something about this, chairman Vanessa. My little sist
Vanessa got out of bed. She tried her best to stay calm, but in the end, she ruffled her hair aggressively.“Why is all of this happening to me? I don't understand. How come Claire is not the one who betrayed me and caused my company to go bankrupt? I, myself, found out that she was involved in it. There's no way I'm wrong. My hacking results have never proved me wrong before”. Vanessa said to herself. She was not ready to accept that she was wrong. To be sure that she wasn't busy deceiving herself or being overconfident, Vanessa quickly rushed to the desk. Her laptop was on top of the desk. She unfolded the laptop and switched it on right away. It took only a few seconds of loading, and the laptop was finally switched on. Vanessa began typing fast. She was searching for information concerning Claire by using her hacking abilities. Once again, with the help of her hacking abilities, Vanessa found out that Claire was truly Blake's little sister. Not only that, she again saw that
Vanessa returned to her room. She freshened up and wore a black T-shirt with black trousers. She grabbed her bike’s key that was on the table before she left her room and went outside. As soon as she put on her helmet and climbed on her bike, she rode it toward the gates, after which the security guard opened the gates for her. …. Cassandra had arrived outside the Triple Union company with officer Ricky by her side. A broad smirk appeared on her face as she entered the company before her. Max approached Cassandra the moment his eyes landed on her. According to Mr Lincoln’s orders, he must assist detective Cassandra with the investigation by showing her all the infected computers and laptops.“Detective Cassandra, I'm glad you made it”. Max smiled as he said to her. Though he became wary of her because he noticed that she was behaving indifferently towards him. “Plea - please follow me, detective Cassandra. I'll lead you to see the laptops and computers that the hacker had attacke
“Say something, Mr Xavier”. Vanessa demanded. “Yes. I loved you even before I made you sign the marriage contract agreement”. Xavier said to Vanessa, and that made her gasp in disbelief. “Yo- you didn't even deny it?”. She exclaimed, and was feeling anxious. “Why would I deny it when my feelings for you are true, Nessa?”. What Xavier said made him and Vanessa stop talking. They stared at each other for a few seconds. “I-” Xavier saw that Vanessa was pressured. He didn't want her to be overwhelmed, so he quickly assured her, saying, “It’s alright, Nessa. I won't ever force you to do what you don't want to do”. He added with a smile, “But you should know that my love for you is true. I would never take any advantage of you or betray you like Nicholas”. “I'll take my leave then”. Xavier left the room after glancing at Vanessa's face. He was going to the living room. Meanwhile, Vanessa couldn't understand the strange feeling she was feeling deep inside her heart as s
Xavier said nothing else after he had finished muttering. He was frowning as he made his way outside. Eric and Derek followed Xavier outside, as they were curious. But Mrs Charlotte remained inside the mansion. She suddenly began to wonder about something that had already been bothering her before, “Why are Master Xavier and his wife still staying in different rooms? And what day would I get to witness their wedding ceremony?”. Mrs Charlotte wondered about Vanessa and Xavier’s wedding ceremony because she knew that Vanessa and Xavier had enough money and were both more than capable of hosting a wedding ceremony. Again, she has yet to understand the reason behind them sleeping in different bedrooms. ‘Are they staying in different rooms because they haven't had their wedding ceremony? But haven't they already registered their marriage?’. She thought and was confused. “Ha”. She sighed in defeat when she realised that she had spaced out. She brushed off all her curious thoughts and
“Calm down, Claire. Stop crying. Give me some minutes, and I'll come and meet you today”. Vanessa said to her, but that only made Claire cry more.Claire thought that what Vanessa had said was an excuse to hang up the phone call. “Claire-”. “Do you hate me, chairman Vanessa? Is that why you purposely said those words to me so that you could hang up the call?”. Claire asked her, before her eyes widened in shock after she thought of something. She asked, “Did you call me by mistake?”. ‘Claire has never behaved like this before. I must have really broken her heart. Thanks to Zuri for framing her. And thanks to me, who believed that she betrayed me! I casted her aside! I'm also at fault’. Vanessa thought to herself. She gritted her teeth, causing the veins in her neck to pop out after she had done that. She felt the urge to vent her anger right now on Zuri. Fortunately, she suppressed and chained all the boiling rage she was feeling. She sighed and said to Claire, “Please listen to me
8:30am in the morning, “Should we knock again, Derek? We have been standing here for an hour”. Eric asked him, but Derek shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. They were standing outside Vanessa’s room, and had knocked several times on the door. But up to this very moment, Vanessa had not opened the door for them. Derek's fingers were on his chin as he wondered. He later said to Eric, “Maybe she's still sleeping”. “But that's unlike Nessa”. Eric said and frowned. He was feeling desperate and unsettled because he wanted Vanessa to tell Derek and him everything that happened last night. Xavier’s bedroom happened to be the closest room to Vanessa’s bedroom. He went out of his room, before he coincidentally saw the way Eric and Derek were about to knock on Vanessa’s room door. “Don't do that, twins. She might still be asleep”. Xavier said to them, causing them to retrieve their hands that had almost knocked on the door. Eric and Derek stopped facing the door a
“What should we do with her?”. Xavier asked Vanessa. There was a dark look in his eyes, and one glance at his face, one could tell that he was ready to unleash his wrath upon Zuri. While still glaring at Zuri, whose hands had become sweaty, Vanessa replied to Xavier, “We should leave her be, Xavier. At least now I know that Claire is truly innocent”. After saying that to Xavier, Vanessa got closer to Zuri and squatted on one knee. She grabbed Zuri’s jaw and raised it up, so that Zuri was staring at her. “Live well, Zuri. Don't you dare try to escape from this house after I leave. One day, I might have a use for you, thanks to your dreadful talent. If you try to escape from this neighbourhood, please know that you will surely end up in jail for framing Claire”. Vanessa let go of Zuri's jaw. She turned to Xavier, who was standing behind. She said to him, “Xavier, I guess there's no need for us to compensate our host for the door you broke. After all, our humble host has a debt to pay
Upon arriving outside the mansion, Vanessa and Xavier rushed to the same car that Xavier had driven to the villa. Using the car key in his hand, Xavier unlocked the car's doors, before he and Vanessa quickly got into the car. Xavier drove off after that. As he was drawing nearer to the gates, he sounded his car horn twice, causing the security guy to come out of his house and open the gates immediately, for Xavier’s car to pass through. Now, Xavier's car was driving on the main road. “According to the location of that strange person, we have to drive for a whole hour before we arrive there, Xavier”. Vanessa sighed in defeat as she said to him. Because of the long distance, her hunch was telling her that the strange person must have committed a crime, for he or she to be staying at such a far distance. Seeing the impatient look on Vanessa’s face, Xavier noticed that she couldn't wait to get her hands on that strange person. A smirk appeared on the corner of his lips, and he said
“Yes, twin brothers. Xavier knows everything because I told him”. Vanessa nodded and said to them. She didn't want Mrs Charlotte to hear their conversation, so she said to them, “All of you, follow me to my bedroom”. Xavier, Eric and Derek obeyed Vanessa and followed her to her bedroom. As they arrived outside Vanessa’s bedroom corridor, they entered the room after they saw that Vanessa had entered the room before them. “Make yourself comfortable, guys”. Vanessa said to them, and she was also the first person who sat down. She was sitting on her bed, while the guys sat on the sofa. “Eric, Derek, you guys should understand that I have told Xavier about our secrets and our hidden identity. So please, I'm not ready to explain further concerning this matter. I'm tired of explaining stuff”. Vanessa spoke her mind. Though they seemed to agree with what she had said to them, and that was enough to make her glad. “Concerning the matter I have tasked both of you guys with, I h
Many hours passed and it was now evening. Gabriella was forced out of her bedroom because she was starving. She needed something to eat since she felt like she was dying. As soon as she came out of her bedroom, she saw Jasper, who was standing in the corridor and was staring at her with a smile on his face. “Oh. Has my princess finally decided to go out of her room? Tell me, are you starving already, princess?”. Jasper asked her. He forced himself not to laugh at her after seeing the pale look on her face. Gabriella didn't say anything and was quietly staring at her big brother who was busy having fun teasing her. “My princess, stop staring at me like that. I was not the one who told you not to eat anything”. Jasper said to her, before he became serious and added, “Let's go to the dining room. It hasn't been long since I made dinner”. Gabriella nodded at Jasper and followed him to the dining room. As they both arrived, she apologised to Jasper, saying, “I’m sorry, brother, for