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.
After Vanessa left the hospital, she returned back to her apartment and was in the living room, as she was carefully thinking of ways to get the remaining bill balance. “What am I going to do now? Daddy's surgery for tomorrow is depending on me”. Vanessa announced and was pacing back and forth. She further started biting her fingernails because this was what she always did whenever she was feeling anxious. “Think of something, Vanessa. You have less than 24 hours to act”. Vanessa reminded herself before she finally thought of an idea. “That's right. All the people I helped out when I was still CEO. I'm certain they'd want to help me after learning about my situation”. Vanessa exclaimed and immediately brought out her cell phone. She called the first one, the person answered and by the sound of his voice, Vanessa was certain he wasn't ready to help out at all. This was what Vanessa did throughout the afternoon, by calling and asking for help from all the people she helped, but to
Vanessa collected the contract marriage documents Xavier offered to her. And after reading through the documents’ terms and conditions, she immediately inserted her signature on the documents since the deal was pretty okay to her. According to the marriage contract terms and conditions, Vanessa only has to pretend to be Xavier's wife for a year, plus, she also has to live in his mansion throughout the year, and after that, she'd be free and the marriage contract would become invalid. “All done”. Vanessa announced and gave back the documents to Xavier who collected it from her. After Xavier had collected the marriage contract documents from Vanessa, he reviewed it before a mischievous grin appeared on his lips.“It’s a deal then. Prepare to move into my mansion next week. After that, you'll follow me to my family mansion. It's going to be my father's birthday”. Xavier declared after putting the documents in his suit. ‘Isn’t he going to ask me what I need help with?’. Vanessa though
After chatting a little more with Eric, Vanessa went to pay the surgery f*e before finally visiting her father's ward. Mr Williams was laying on the bed when Vanessa arrived. “Vanessa honey, is that you?”. “Yes father”. Vanessa hurriedly replied before rushing to stay by Mr Williams' side. “I heard from the boys, you paid for my surgery?”. “Of course I did, father. Now, all you have to do is to get better and we'll become a big happy family once again”. Vanessa announced with a smile. “I heard from Eric that my surgery bill is super expensive”. “Eric, you big mouth!”. Vanessa said out loudly before she turned and glared at Eric who was behind her. “What were you thinking when you told our father about the bill? What if he had a heart attack in the process?”. Vanessa questioned. “I- I couldn't keep the truth all to myself, so I told Dad, Derek and mom”. Eric explained and immediately stopped talking when he saw the way Vanessa was glaring at him with threatening eyes. Mr
It wasn't a long drive and Cole made it back to Xavier's mansion. As soon as Cole parked the car in a perfect spot, he quickly came down from the driver's seat and walked to the back door. Cole stretched out his hand and was about to open the door for Vanessa, but she beat him to it by opening the door first. “Don't worry about opening the door for me…. As you can see, I also have hands”. Vanessa said to Cole before helping herself out of the car. Soon, she went to the car boot and was about to bring out her luggage.“I'll bring the luggage, ma”. Cole insisted and refused to let Vanessa do anything by herself again. After sighing deeply and massaging her temples, Vanessa said to Cole, “No need for the formality….”. “Cole. My name is Cole”. Cole introduced himself when he noticed that Vanessa was having trouble mentioning his name since she didn't know his name. “Alright, Cole. No need for the formality. Just call me Vanessa, I'm totally okay with that”. “Alright, mada…. I mean,