"Hello" the voice on the phone was peepy like a little child who was excited about something. Ophelia drew the phone from her ears as she groaned annoyed. She was still sleeping. Who calls this early? The voice was unfamiliar to her but she knew that no one would have her private line except she gave it to them. She did not know any woman who was that happy so early in the morning.She struggled to get into a sitting position knowing that her morning voice sounded horrible. "Hello," she let out. Hearing herself made her realize how much of a growing teenage boy she sounded like in the morning."Oops Cade?" the voice came out and she knew that the person could tell that she was the one but was trying to get on her nerves while maintaining the appearance of being a nice person. The only person she had met in recent times who was that kind of person was Frances Gates and she immediately knew that this was the kind of stunt that she would pull.'Bring it on B**ch' Ophelia thought to herse
"Uggh" Frances exclaimed as she threw the phone to the bed."What is it" Cael groaned as he turned to the side as he stirred from his sleep."How can you be sleeping so soundly when everything is going so wrong" she asked rushing to sit by his side."Because a pretty face does not just happen like that, I have to have my beauty sleep as well," Cade said. She rolled her eyes and slapped his arm not too hard for it to hurt."Your pretty face would not mean anything if you lose to Cade""Why would you bring him up now? It is too early in the morning for you to be talking about him""Is it?" Abigail asked walking into the room. "To win a fight you need to know your enemy" she added going to pull open the windows."Mom? Really? Are you supporting Frances over your son?""Yes, I have to support the most reasonable person in the room" Abigail replied. Sometimes she wondered if her son had gotten switched out at birth. She had even been so extra that she had a DNA test done and it was a perfe
"Did you have to bring me here?" Cade asked as they walked into the house for the party."I had to, and you had to be here""Why?" he whined. Ophelia stopped and turned to him holding the collar of his shirt."If my speculations are right I have a feeling that your brother and girlfriend are trying to play the family card on your grandfather to make him see reasons to leave the company to him""And why does that matter?" Cade asked to shrug. "Isn't it obvious that all those kinds of things barely move grandfather? He is looking at power and competency, not some silly love"Ophelia shook her head as she rolled her eyes. "There is no doubt about that but..." she trailed off her eyes catching the glimpse of someone coming towards them. "Someone is coming, time to act" she leaned in whispering before going back and smiling at him."You look too good, I can barely take my eyes off you" she said dusting off the imaginary dust from his shirt. "Do not allow any girl to look at you okay?" she
"What are you doing here?" Cade asked stepping back so that there could be space between them since it was clear that she had no respect for personal space."Ohhh, your brother's girlfriend called me up and invited me to your brother's party and I was so excited to hear from her because I knew that there was the possibility that I would get to see you here" Harper replied closing the gap that Cade had made."Go on then and enjoy the party" Cade said turning to leave."Is that all you are going to say?" she asked going to stand in his way.Ophelia rolled her eyes in annoyance. She could not believe the nerve of this girl, how dare she try to cling to her husband right in front of her."Hello," Ophelia said trying to catch her attention."Oh, hello," she said with a giggle before adding in an exaggerated high-pitched voice. "I am so sorry, I was just too far excited to see him that was why I did not say my hello before"'Of course, you are far too excited to see my husband that you are
The cake was cut and now they were sitting at tables to eat, Ophelia and Cade were invited by his grandfather to sit at the same table as he was sitting because they were family just as Frances claimed, Frances had earlier planned to remove them from their table but Charles had insisted that Frances knew it was pointless to argue with him about it."Why haven't you come with your wife to visit me one of these days?" Charles asked as they ate."We have both been so busy that we have not been able to squeeze out time""You scoundrels" Charles backed at them. "You should do better" he added."We are sorry about that and we shall soon come to say Hello, very soon," Cade said. He knew that his grandfather was still very traditional in his thinking and there was no separating them, there was nothing he could do about it too."You had better" Charles added."Oh Charles, you are busy going on and on about Cade when it is Cael's birthday today" Abigail said."Do you have to bring that up now?"
"Why did you not say anything about us staying here""Because I thought you were handling the conversation pretty well" Cade replied with his back to her.They had gotten to bed after all the guests had left. When they had first attempted to step away from the party, Frances had come up and held them down with the excuse that the night had just begun. It was not until almost everyone was unable to hold their liquor anymore that she announced that the party was over.Ophelia and Cade went to the room silent but mostly because both of them were tipsy. They stumbled into bed and were now lying side by side."Do you think your excuse makes sense?" Ophelia asked then followed by a hiccup."Why wouldn't it?" he followed up shutting his eyes because of the pain that surged through his body because of the excessive drinking spree he had involved himself in."Are you trying to annoy me?" she asked sitting up in bed abruptly almost screaming at him."Lay back down and keep your choice down, rem
Cade woke up to the vibration of his phone on the nightstand, he groaned as he struggled to pick up the phone. Living this long had taught him never to answer the phone without first checking the caller. He picked up the phone before closing his eyes."Come to the study immediately" the line cut dead. Cade stayed still for a few more seconds on the bed before he pushed himself off the bed into a sitting position. It was not a new thing to him for his grandfather to call him into the study sometimes to discuss a range of things."Where are you going?" Ophelia asked as she thought of the possibility that Harper was still in the house and they had agreed to meet up. She wondered if he would go running when she called. She also wondered what his family would say. Would they be glad that there was a loophole in their marriage and that Harper could help them wreck their marriage?"My grandfather called for me" Cade said before whispering "Did I wake you?""I have been awake for a while now"
Cade knocked on the door and waited to hear from Charles. "Come in" the gruffy voice from inside commanded. Cade opened the door and pushed himself in with Ophelia on his tail. Her goal there today was to charm him. He might seem like a closed-off man but she knew that since he was asking his grandchildren to start families to be entitled to the company then he was probably a softie at heart."What took you so long," Charles asked taking off his glasses from his face. He rolled his chair towards them and Ophelia titled her head in wonder. All the times she had met him he had been walking, she wondered why he was bound to a chair after seeing him walk last night."I came with him and I was the one who took his time" Ophelia's tone was different. She was like a child who was trying to get something from his parents. Cade was so taken aback by her tone that he almost asked her what had happened."You came with him?" Charles asked his eyes shifting to Ophelia who now left Cade's back and