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19: DENIAL
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In Love Again 20: RETURN OF A FRIEND
While Alvira mourned her father's loss, Simon sat in his wheelchair waiting for her to resume the day's job. He was earnestly hoping she would come and beg him to take her back so, he could blame her for abandoning him in the rain the previous day, then melt down her punishment and watch her get mad at him for it. The mere thought of her getting mad at him made him smile unconsciously as he flipped through the day's newspaper, which had never seemed to stop sparking his interest ever since Alvira showed up. In fact, many things had sparked his interest since she became his caregiver, he had begun to find interest in things he had lost interest in, in the past, that is, as long as he had the opportunity to torture her while doing it. He chuckled to himself at the thought, that was probably why everyone in the mansion admired her and saw her as a competent and efficient worker. The knock on his door brought him back to reality. He looked up and his smile broadened. "She's here," He
Last Updated : 2022-12-09In Love Again 21: STAGES OF GRIEF
Emily walked out of the hospital room and shut the sliding door behind her. She paused for some time and rested her back against it. Alvira was neither eating nor drinking anything she offered, she was even refusing to respond to anything Emily said to her. If she responded at all, it was to say, she wanted to see her Tim. It was frustrating and Emily was not sure what to do, what if she took her to the mortuary to see Tim's body and she throws a tantrum there like last night, what was she going to do? As she tried to decide what to do about her daughter, she looked up and saw a family; a mother and daughter to be precise, pushing the wheelchair of a man who had a nasogastric tube passing over the base of his nose. The woman shared occasional glances with him and smiled. Emily looked at them sadly. It was not long ago, in fact, it was just yesterday when she had gone about pushing her husband around like this, with hope in her heart, now she had lost him. He had gone so suddenl
Last Updated : 2022-12-10In Love Again 22: FINDING HIS WAY BACK
Simon and Asher spent hours reviewing the documents that showed clearly the state the company has been in in the last three years that Simon had abandoned it.Simon went through the last page of the numerous documents and could only sigh. He had looked through the document showing all aspects of the company transactions; those carried out in every department. Including the accounts, sighed partnership deals, and monthly and annual productivity of the company products. "It's in a mess. A huge mess." He said and Asher nodded. "You're right." asher affirmed. "What has Josh been doing all these years? How can he run a company like this? Why is the board so patient with his incompetence? Is this some kind of joke to them?" Simon asked angrily. "What could they possibly do? The fall in stock value isn't entirely his fault, not on paper anyway, all these investments were things the board members saw potential in and agreed to together. Even if they wanted to seek out loopholes, they woul
Last Updated : 2022-12-11In Love Again 23: DIFFERENT
Asher strolled into the mini-study where Jared always took care of his own duties. He looked around the room, he hadn't been here in three whole years and nothing much have changed.The room had a single shelve, with books neatly arranged in it, a table stacked up with files, and two chairs on either side of the table, facing each other. It wasn't a spacious room, just one large enough for Jared to get his job done. Asher's eyes drifted to Jared, who seem busy going through different documents patiently. He was a little bit older than himself and Simon but was meticulous about his duty. He had received the job of a butler when he was way younger than he is now, as opposed to other butlers who only got such a job around the age of thirty or so. Unfortunately, even though they have both worked for the same family for years and have seen themselves, many times, he and this man didn't know themselves well enough to call themselves friends, so he thinks he would settle for acquaintance.
Last Updated : 2022-12-12In Love Again 24: WOUNDED LION
Simon had just finished having his launch when Jared and Asher walked into the dining room, picking up the servet paper, he wiped the corner of his mouth as he watched them walk in. "Is there a problem?" He asked with a raised brow. "No sir, I found her number," Jared said with excitement and Simon frowned. "Didn't you say, you have no access to her file?""Yes Sir, I do not, but I had asked for a number I could call her on in case of an emergency and she gave this to me," He said as he handed over the paper to Simon who looked at the phone number written it for before he picked up his phone and dialed the number. It rang a few times but no one answered. He looked at his pjone screen. "She's not answering," He said with a worried frown that Asher didn't miss, Jared sighed. He was beginning to believe Miss Alvira didn't resume work as a result of what he thought might have happened yesterday, even though he had been scared about asking Simon all day. He sighed again, gathering u
Last Updated : 2022-12-13In Love Again 25: NO GOING BACK NOW
Ever since the call to Alvira the previous day, the Walkers' mansion lost its cheerful glow and it was beginning to seem as if things would be returning to the way they used to be before Alvira showed up. Simon went up to his room and never came down, dinner was refused, and anyone who knocked on his door was either chased away or fired. By the next morning, no one dared to go near his room's door or make a sound loud enough to draw his attention, as everyone feared for their job. Jared could only sigh, what he feared was coming to pass immediately. No one was sure why he was reverting so quickly, maybe Alvira gave Simon a purpose for his uneventful life. Maybe seeing someone who never gave up no matter how much he bullied her, gave the hopeless man some hope and made him more curious about life. No one knew. "Where is Simon?!" Asher asked as he rushed to the foot of the stairs, disrupting the thoughts of Jared who had been standing there for the past hour, wondering if it wa
Last Updated : 2022-12-14In Love Again 26: POWER ENTRANCE
In the next two hours, Simon and Asher got themselves busy, Simon got ready for the ceremony, while Asher called a few board members who turned out to have already seen the news and were more than happy to escort the company's president that has been recuperating for the past three years. More board members also got the news from their colleagues and called as the news seem to have become a hot gist amongst the board members that Simon would be attending the contract signing ceremony. Simon got himself dressed in a pure black suit that matched the occasion and the color of his now sleeked-back black hair and found himself seated in an automatic wheelchair that Asher had bought urgently to add to the effect. When they were ready to leave for the ceremony, a new guest arrived and Asher rushed to Simon. "Simon! There has been a new development." He said and Simon looked up at him from the automatic wheelchair that he had always wanted. "What development?' He asked and Asher immedi
Last Updated : 2022-12-15In Love Again 27: RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT.
"Uh," Josh laughed nervously as he turned to the crowd, "I guess it is my honor then, to welcome back the president of Walkers' group of companies. 'Simon Walker', can we welcome Simon back home with a round of applause?" He said and the hall burst into a round of applause and cheers. As they cheered, the press clicked their cameras continuously while the reporters present there clacked away busily on the keyboard of their laptops as each of them wanted to be the first to release the news of Simon's return to the public Simon professionally smiled at the clicking cameras. One that he had learned from a very young age to present to the press along with an unreadable facial expression. "Hmn!" Josh began to clear his throat again in an attempt to restore the attention of the press back to himself, it took a few minutes for the desperate clicking of cameras to reduce but when it finally did, Josh smiled. "It is really an honor to have you back Simon, and to have you witness this great
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In a small town somewhere in Australia, Clarisse walked down the snow-covered street vigilantly, dressed in heavy padded jackets with a scarf covering her face tightly. She had been hiding here since she escaped the country and had been listening to the news of Josh and Lana in the country.Hearing of Josh’s death, she was more than excited, she was even glad that she had left him at the time she did, if not, only God knows what would have happened to her now, as for Lana that delusional bitch, hehe. Serves her right. She rang the bell of her home, a small apartment where she lived with her boyfriend who she had found in her first week in this town. He was handsome and romantic and he just made her happy. She rang the bell continuously wondering why he was not opening the door. She walked to the one place where they kept the spare house key, under a stone slab by the door but the key wasn’t there. She tried calling him but his phone was unreachable, so she knew she had no choice but
In Love Again 95: THE FINAL STRUGGLE 4
It was obvious that Josh had finally lost his mind and was trying to get everyone killed. Lana looked around from her hiding place in search of Simon. In this situation, if she could escape with Simon, it would be great. She thought, forgetting that she was wanted by the law. Just as she saw him and wanted to crawl to his side, Josh also saw her, this woman owed him a blood debt, and she dared ruin his plan. He thought with anger as he saw many of his men fall to the ground dead, he also wanted her dead.He aimed for her head. At that moment Lana felt a sense of crisis, looked behind her, and saw him pointing the gun at her. Her eyes widened in panic. Josh smiled at her, he hoped she would regret ever talking down on him.“No!” Lana screamed before the gun was shot and she was silenced forever, a bullet hole in her head. Even until her death, she was looking towards Simon with longing, failing to realize he was not the perfect man she envisioned. He was a man with flaws just like ev
In Love Again 94: THE FINAL STRUGGLE 3
Minutes before the gunshot, Simon walked into the building flagged by Josh’s men, unaware that they had been followed by Asher and that the police were not far behind. The hideout was an abandoned food processing factory in an area marked for demotion in town, no one could have guessed that criminals were hiding in such an unstable environment. He followed the men into the not-so-tidy office that must have been the director’s when the factory was still functioning and saw Josh who he hadn’t seen in the past three weeks seated there with a smirk on his face.“Hello cousin, happy to see me?” Josh, who was resting back in the chair, his arms spread out and a happy smirk plastered on his face asked.Simon didn’t care about him or the men surrounding him, he didn’t even care if Josh wouldn’t allow him to leave this place alive, all he wanted to know was if Alvira was safe and sound.“I have what you want,” Simon said seriously as he placed the black box on the creaking table before lookin
In Love Again 93: THE FINAL STRUGGLE 2
Alvira felt herself sink to the bottom of the transparent tank the moment she landed in, only then did she notice that the rope tied around her waist was inlaid with sandbags to keep her at the bottom and made swimming to the surface hard.She tried to swim upward but it felt as if she was only expending her energy wastefully, while Lana laughed at her from without.Lana knocked on the wall of the tank, drawing Alvira’s attention to herself, before going to pick up a chalk and a board and wrote, “Didn’t you say you would rather die than let my plans work? What then are you struggling to survive for? If you die, Simon might just be free from me forever.” She wrote with a smile and the struggling Alvira paused.It was true. If she survived, what was she surviving for? Wasn’t it for Lana to keep on playing with her, hurting Simon and causing him to do things that he shouldn’t do? What was she living for if she was nothing but a weakness to the man she loved? She thought and suddenly fel
In Love Again 92: THE FINAL STRUGGLE 1
Detective Peter frowned uneasily as he stared at the location where the van had been seen, which was marked on the GPS map. It was about an hour ride away from the St. Joseph hospital and out of town, he didn’t understand why these men would come to a damaged car garage with Alvira.There was no hidden place to keep her there, so why bring her? Was some kind of exchange supposed to go on there? Why did he feel something was off? He was wondering when he got Asher’s call, when he heard Asher’s question he felt even more flustered and confused, was there something he was missing? He picked up his phone and called Kalvin.“Hello? Are you with Simon?”“Yes sir, he had an emergency, so I went to get the doctor for him,” Kalvin told him.“Okay,” That’s understandable, “But your Lane is with him right?”“...No sir, he went to get Mr. Simon something to eat.”“So you mean no one is with Simon at the moment?”“We…ll, yes sir…”“What!” Peter shouted and the detectives in the same car as him lo
In Love Again 91: TAKEN 2
“Josh! Josh!” Jared walked into the slightly messy but old office with anger just as Josh got off the phone with Simon. “Are you messing with me right now? Why didn’t you tell me when you got Alvira? It’s been five hours.”Josh's eyes flashed with impatience before he turned to Jared with a smile, “What are you so worked up about? I obviously tried to call you but the call was not going through.” Josh said as he placed another call.“Hello? It’s me. I need a huge diversion. One big enough to get those detectives out of the hospital.”Jared's face darkened when he heard the content of the call, “You are planning to send Simon over?”Josh glanced at him but didn’t respond immediately, he ended his call before turning to him, “Calm down Jared, we are all partners now. The least you can do is trust me.”“Trust you? You didn’t even call me over when you got her and now Simon is coming here. How can I trust you when I don’t know what exactly you are planning?” Jared asked unhappily. “If I
In Love Again 90: TAKEN 1
It’s been a week since Simon was shot and life became more peaceful than anyone expected. Josh and Lana disappeared from the eyes of the public and the police investigation was hitting a dead end everywhere. Their whereabouts could not be found and it was obvious that some powerful people were helping them, but those helping them could not be discovered either.For Alvira life was pretty much good, she and Simon were reconciled and they were even more attached than they used to be in the past. She guessed that when people go through challenges together, their feelings for each other get deeply rooted. Simon was still forcefully hospitalized, as his hand was still in the cast, and the new physiotherapist didn’t trust him to be careful with his leg even though it was fine. As much as she wanted to stay with him at the hospital, she also needed to rush back to school to finish her exams.She walked out of a high-end restaurant, with takeout bags in her hand followed by the detectives th
In Love Again 89: A JOINT PLOT
[A shootout occurred at a coffee shop down lane 23 today, Mr. Simon Walker who was present at the sight of the shootout was injured and has been hospitalized, as at the time this report was made, his present condition is still unknown. The police, during their investigation however discovered that Joshua Stone, a highly wanted criminal, working hand-in-hand with a woman called Lana Jones, daughter of the millionaire, Mr. George Jones was the culprit in yesterday’s shootout. As a result, these two suspects are declared wanted….]The TV was switched off before the reporter could finish her report and Lana turned to Josh angrily, “What the hell do you think you are doing?! You. Shot. Simon? Why did you shoot Simon?! The one you were supposed to shoot was Alvira! That was the plan! That was why I got you out of jail?!”“Stop freaking out! You were there, weren’t you? He took the bullet for her, couldn’t you see that? He took it for her before my man could shoot her down.”“That’s a lie!
In Love Again 88: RECONCILED
The next time Simon opened his eyes, he was in his private ward at St Joseph Hospital. He looked around confused, tried to sit up, and was immediately helped by Sarah who had arrived at one point in time.“Grandma? What are you doing here?”“Silly child, what do you mean what am I doing here? I am your family.”“Yes.., yes, I know. I am sorry.” Simon looked around the room, “Alvira…, where is she?”“She’s fine. She’s giving her statement to the police as we speak and your grandpa went with her, I must say, you did a good job this time. Alvira finally forgave you.” Sarah teased as she nodded towards his casted hand which was hung to his neck.Simon followed her line of sight and sighed helplessly. His grandma was always like this, trying to cheer a patient with the weirdest joke. “Grandma, I didn’t wish to get shot at.”“But it was still a good thing in disguise, wasn't it?” She winked and smiled.The door to the ward opened and Alvira walked in, seeing Simon awake in bed she rushed to
