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
After brushing her teeth, Vanessa left her room and went to the living room. Although there were so many thoughts going on inside her mind, she tried her best to look natural. ‘Until I figure out what the heck is happening, I can't allow Derek and Eric to continue working for my company. I smell something fishy. And unless I figure out what's fishy, I feel so unsettled allowing Derek and Eric to keep on working in my company’. Vanessa thought to herself, because when she was still inside her bedroom, she came to realise something.It was possible that someone else had framed Claire. And it was also possible that Claire was pretending to be the victim. So, unless she figures out the real truth, Vanessa did not want Eric and Derek to be involved in anything concerning her company at the moment. After Vanessa had arrived in the living room and could not find anyone there, she left for outside, as she desperately needed to get a breath of fresh air.She was walking around with her hand
Upon her arrival inside the living room again, Vanessa walked into Xavier’s bedroom corridor. She knocked on the door several times, and because Xavier did not open the door for her, she assumed that he was purposely ignoring her. “Good for you, Xavier. Good to you for ignoring me. Tsk. You think I don't have anything better to do? Well, you're wrong. I have to visit the cyber cafe more often now if I want to find out the real truth”. “Everything is quite confusing. Is Claire a good person or not? Is she the betrayer or not? Was she framed by someone or not? I'm even more confused because my hacking has shown me the same results over and over again”.“What's happening? I've never done anything wrong to Claire before, so it might not be her doing after all. I thought I was a great hacker who could easily figure out everything”. “There's no way that Blake could lie to me and defend Claire, unless Claire had hidden the truth from him, or maybe not”. “Seriously, without Blake, I don'
The reflection in the mirror was a tall fair lady with long blonde hair that's shoulder length. “Gosh, this can't be happening to me!”. Vanessa let out a loud scream before hitting the large wall mirror that was in front of her. Staring at her bleeding hand, Vanessa didn't mind and grabbed her cell phone. She soon scrolled through the news and each second she saw an article about how her company was about to go bankrupt, she grew even more annoyed. “Nicholas, that jerk! What an idiot!. I can't believe he has been using me all these while!”. Vanessa muttered harshly, and when she recalled how Nicholas treated her earlier this morning, she lost all hope and sat down on the floor. Actually, exactly an hour ago, after hearing the news about her company's situation, Vanessa went to meet Nicholas who was her fiance. She asked for his help, but it turned out that he had been using her and her company's fame the whole time just because he wanted to have a stand as the heir to T&N Co
It was already morning time and Vanessa was up from sleep. Her eyes were swollen because she cried for so long last night. She got out of her bed and weakly went to the bathroom and picked up her toothbrush, plus toothpaste. After putting a little bit of toothpaste on her toothbrush, she began brushing while staring at the large wall mirror. Soon, Vanessa recalled what happened yesterday at her office and wondered, ‘Was that why he said I should buy a lot of tissues? I mean, he had already helped my company, so how come my company was still able to go bankrupt? Just, what's that guy's real identity?’. Vanessa poured out the brushing foam in her mouth and rinsed her mouth with neat water afterwards. “I guess I'll have to start all over again”. Vanessa tried to encourage herself as she came out from the bathroom and headed to the living room, but when she recalled how helpful her company was to her, she couldn't take the pressure and wailed out, “My dear company, why did you have
Vanessa didn't want to continue having the discussion about her fallen company because it'd make her depressed, so she moved onto making breakfast for herself, Eric and Derek. Actually, since Eric and Derek had nowhere to go except the villa, Vanessa pitied them and suggested that they live with her for the meantime. “Here you go, little scoundrels”. Vanessa said as she served the tea and snacks on the dining table. Later on, she went and sat down on her own chair before she added, “I made breakfast, so to earn your keep in this house, you two are going to wash the dishes”. “Sure”. Eric and Derek easily agreed as they began munching the meals in front of them. “Tsk”. Vanessa slightly shook her head when she saw the way Eric and Derek were eating like fugitives who hadn't eaten for days. “Eat slowly. I'll make more if it's not enough”. Vanessa announced and didn't mind when Eric and Derek continued munching the meals. It took only a few minutes, and Eric and Derek were done eating.