Cade and Ophelia went down to the car and he drove her to the venue of her meeting with her friends. As they approached the venue, Ophelia began to think of the possibility that her friends might recognize eCade but she did not think too much about it. Cade had always been that popular guy even when they were in school. Almost all girls who like to party knew that one guy who spent a lot while partying."Do you want me to wait till you are done?" Cade asked as he pulled up into the car park of the restaurant."Do you want to?" Ophelia asked taking off her seat belt and turning to face him."Well I have no idea how long it might take you so I don't know" he said shrugging as he mirrored her action."It might take us a while since it's been a while since we were all together in the same place so I don't think waiting for me is the right thing to do" Ophelia told him.He bit the corner of his lips as he thought. If he dropped her off and allowed her to use a taxi service home he would no
"Girlll" Sarah exclaimed as soon as they sat down. They had hugged each other and caught a bit while standing till one of them brought it to their attention that they had been standing for a while now.Ophelia had always stuck out like a sore thumb and luckily for her so was the same with Nancy and Sarah, they happened to meet at the university and suddenly began to compliment each other so well that they knew they had to be friends. The three of them knew of Cade and she had to hide from them the escapades she had with him that night."Don't start" Ophelia said, she knew how dramatic Sarah could be and how far they both could take their teasing. She would do the same for him."Is that the same Cade Frost?" Nancy asked not able to believe her ears. It was impossible that the man responsible for any tears in six years while in Starlit Haven looked that happy with the girl also responsible for turning so many men down as well."The same one" Ophelia responded."How did this happen? I wa
By the time they got home Ophelia was passed out on his back. He took her in and dropped her on the bed. It was as if as her back touched the bed her eyes flew open and were now staring at him. She did not take her time to process what she saw because she saw him staring down at her was not what she expected to see."What are you doing here?" she shrieked as she stood up and moved to the other edge of the bed covering her chest area with both hands."What are you doing?" Cade asked tilting his head trying to understand her actions."What are you doing here?" he asked again almost screaming this time.He stood up straight from the bent position he had been in and began to laugh doubling over and holding his knees. A frown grew on her face as she wondered what was so funny now. He was in her room and when she had caught him he was using laughter as a cover-up to get out of the situation.Her eyes felt heavy and her throat dry like she needed water. Her head pounded and her ears rang, th
Ophelia sat on the bed with the warm honey water in her hand, she could not believe how bad she had treated him just now. "He is really mature" she murmured to herself because she knew that she would not have sat still with the accusations and would definitely not have brought them something to help them feel better.She took her phone and scrolled through it, she wished she had someone she could tell how she felt about what was going on. Her mind randomly ran to Green and she wondered why she thought of him. He was well aware of the terms of her marriage, maybe she could talk to him because she just felt the need to explain everything to someone.She scrolled to his name and her hand hovered over it as she contemplated calling him, she knew his well and she knew that he was going to be up and ready to take her call. Even though the marriage was basically an agreement she still did not feel good calling another man at that time, she took a deep breath and controlled herself, with her
Cade tossed and turned in the bed as he thought of the accusations that Ophelia put on him. He had tried his best to handle the situation as calmly as possible making excuses for her that maybe she was still a bit drunk at that time. He struggled to put his mind at ease and sleep calmly and he could not put a pin on the reason.His phone chimed on the nightstand. Considering his work he knew it was not unlikely that it was a client from another city. He picked up his phone and opened it. There was a message sitting on the screen of his phone.I want to be a part of your life Please let meHe read the message and reread it multiple times because he could not understand what the message meant or who it was from. He ignored it thinking it was a scammer who was trying to get him to interact so he ignored the message. He dropped his phone to the bedside and laid back to the bed.Cade finally drifted to sleep in between the thoughts that flooded his night since he laid down to sleep. He was
"Why the hell are you so obsessed with your brother?" Frances asked as she sat with him in the living room."Obsessed with my brother?" Cael asked. He did not like the sound of the stamen that someone on his side was making."Yes, you somehow make everything about him, it has been two days since the wedding and you can not seem to shut up about it, do I need to meet my boyfriend and then talk about his brother?" she asked air quoting the word boyfriend because they both knew what they actually meant to each other.Cael was sure that his brother's marriage was a sham but there was nothing he could do about it, all his efforts to expose it as one unfortunately ended badly for him."We are here to discuss my birthday party and not my brother" Cael said turning his nose up. "I was in a good mood but you managed to ruin it" he added."Just as you always manage to do for me" Frances murmured to herself sipping from her wine glass.She could not deny the fact that although she started going
"Are you always a baby about situations like this?" Ophelia asked as they made their way to the room. They had just gotten to their honeymoon destination and were about to check-in. Cade had asked the hotel receptionist for two rooms but Ophelia had overridden his requests by asking for a single room. They were on the verge of arguing when Ophelia stopped them and delayed it till they went to the room."A baby?" Cade responded.Funnily, Cade had tried his best to keep his distance from Ophelia and she always tried to cross the boundaries he tried to keep in place. He never spelt any boundaries for her but he expected that if she was the one who brought the no intimacy rule then she should at least be the one to uphold it.He did not want to be seen as a man who could not control himself. "Was two rooms such a bad idea that you had to shut me down in the presence of everyone?""So you expected to me to respect you even though you were clearly making a wrong choice?" she asked.Cade cou
"What makes you think you can use that tone with me?""Because you keep acting like a child who needs to be told what to do" Ophelia said breathing from her mouth in annoyance."I do not want to go out, is that too big of a deal? If you want to go why don't you go alone instead of dragging me into it?" he asked closing his eyes again. "You are the one acting out like a child" he added under his breath."What acting out?" she asked walking up to him and standing in front of him. Cade's eye opened a bit and she tilted her head to the side."Yes acting like a child, we are in a city so why do we need to go out?" he asked."Because we are in a different city," she said through gritted teeth staring him down."Oh please, there is nothing to see here" he said closing his eyes again."Oh my gosh, and they say you are a genius" she said making a sound with his tongue as she walked away."What does that mean?" he asked."I DON'T KNOW" she screamed as she entered her room and slammed the door.
"Are you sure that grandfather has enough evidence to make sure that you stay as the heir?" Ophelia asked. Since they got the memo that the shareholders meeting was going to be held, she had been worried about it and biting the insides of her cheeks. No matter how much Cade had told her not to worry, she could not help but worry."I am sure that we have nothing to worry about," Cade said, holding her hand and rubbing his finger against it. "Can you stop worrying about it already?" he said."How can I not worry? See how much we have had to face in just a few days," she muttered as he bent her head."With the way you are worrying, I would have thought that you were with me for my money," he said in a teasing tone. "It seems like you do not want me to go broke; are you going to leave me if I go broke?" he asked, and she raised her head slowly. He could tell from her expression that she knew that he was teasing her, but she did not like the sound of it."I might leave you," she said, a se
"Are you sure you want to give this to me?" Charles asked, looking up to Cael, who stood uncomfortably in the corner."Of course I do; why would you ask me that?" Cael said."Because you are avoiding my eyes and you keep shifting uncomfortably, when I asked you to sit, you refused, so I am led to believe that you do not want to give this to me, and if that is the case then it is okay," Charles said. As much as what he wanted to do was important, he knew that Cael had a strong bond with his mother, and throwing her under the bus might be a little difficult for him."I am here to do the right thing," he said, shaking his head. His mother would freak out if she knew she had been played into handing over the documents to him. He could not believe how easily she gave them to him. She trusted him so much, but he had done this to her. She was going to lose her mind."Do you know that the right things sometimes have consequences?" Charles asked Cael to drop the file on the table. He would let
Marie felt the air of the city touch her skin; she had not been here for years, and she had sworn to herself that she was never going to come back here, but one word from Charles and she was here again. She took a deep breath; her goal was clear: help Chatles out and be out of the city before anyone catches a whiff of her. Charles knew very well not to ask her back, but it must be that it was a situation he could not avoid.She looked around the departure hall, hoping that he had sent someone to her. Her eyes caught the signpost with her name, Marie Frost, on it. "Marie Frost?" she murmured to herself as she walked at a slow pace towards it. "I haven't used that name in years; who can he still think of referring to me as that?" she asked as she walked towards the man."Mrs. Frost?" the man asked when she stopped in front of him."Just call me Marie," she said, clutching her small suitcase she had been rolling after herself."I cannot do that, ma'am," he said before his eyes caught the
Abigail could not believe that instead of debunking the rumours that Cade was an illegitimate child, he was owning it like it was his identity. He was still facing so much backlash for keeping it a secret from the public that the people seemed not to like the idea behind the fact that he was not a full-bodied Cade.The girls who swooned over him before suddenly began to dislike him. Abigail was thrilled, but she knew that the battle was not easily over; there was no way that Charles would just let him go; she needed to do something that would make the board of directors and all of the people of the nation want him to leave the company. She had to make him unfit.She was glad that she always prepared for this; while she was busy siphoning money away, she was still actively preparing for someone else to take the blame in her stead, and now it meant that she could easily take all of the blame and dump it on him. She had called Frances into the room to share the news with her; she knew th
Carl had come to meet his grandfather earlier. He was tired of his mother's games and how she kept trying to put him in the middle of it all. He knew he was incapable of being the good chairman the company needed, and amongst all the grandchildren, only Cade had been preparing for this moment his whole life.The rest of them sat with their hands folded because they believed that since they were affiliated with the Vale family, a responsibility was going to drop on their laps soon, and they could get on with their lives. Even without the jobs in the company, they could live good lives on the return on the shares they owned because they all owned a lot, and the company was always doing well."But Grandpa, if we do that, the prices of the shares?""See this," Charles said, showing an electronic tablet that had been resting on his lap since he came in. "This is supposed to go up tomorrow, so are you saying we should do nothing about it?"Cade took it up and read through it. His face chang
"I did not think that you would help me out," Harper said to Green with a smile on her face. She had called him about a week ago to tell him that Ophelia and Cade were now locked in. Green had been so angry about it. He waited years for Ophelia, only for her to end up Cade. He had expected that he could pull them apart, but now he was hearing that she was together with Cade and they loved each other now.When they kept telling the public that they were deeply locked in, he could tell that she was doing this just because her father asked her to do it. He waited, hoping that there would be a time when they went their separate ways and then he would swoop in to save the damsel in distress."I refuse to lose to Cade.""I like how you think," Harper said, and her phone began to ring. She took up her phone and stared at the screen. "Ophelia is calling me?" She murmured, looking at the screen, her eyes growing wide and wider."What are you waiting for? Pick it up," Green urged her."I should
Frances was sitting in a coffee shop; she had gotten a message from Ophelia that they had to meet up. As much as she did not want to have to go out there to meet her, she was curious to see her face after reading the news. She had not thought to publish the news like that because she did not want to do anything that might affect Cael, be it directly or indirectly, because she still believed that they would be able to get together soon.She was however happy for whoever had taken that news and ran with it; the entire city was buzzing while waiting for a statement on the family. She felt that now that Cade was so put in the public eye, Charles might consider Cael as a better-suited candidate for the position."Did I keep you waiting for long?" Ophelia asked as she sat down.Frances swallowed as she saw how good she looked; she was tempted to almost comment on it; she did not look like she had seen the news. "No, I just sat down a minute ago," she said, and Ophelia nodded."Have you orde
THREE DAYS AFTER THE WEDDING TUESDAY MORNING "Honey" Ophelia sat by the side of the bed shaking Cade; his eyes opened slowly as he wrapped his hand around her waist and pulled her in."Good morning, darling," he said and pouted, waiting for a kiss. She closed her eyes and bent down to kiss his lips. "That was so short," he said, his eyes opening wider. "Something is wrong; what is wrong?" he asked, his eyes catching a glimpse of the frown on her face. "What happened?" he asked, sitting in bed quickly."You might want to see this," she said, taking her phone and giving it to him. He took the phone from her hand and sat up straight. He read through the screen as his eyes widened with each statement he came across."What is this?""The number one trending news in the city this morning.""From what source?""Apparently it started as a rumour from a blog but when the reporters reached out to Abigail yesterday evening for an interview, she did not confirm or deny it so they are just carry
"My mom wanted you here, but I never did, so it is crazy that you are trying to force me to sleep with you," Cael scoffed as they sat on the bed in the room. They had been so preoccupied with other things that it was the night of the wedding that they all realized that they did not have a house, so they went back to the mansion.Charles had taunted them for their poor planning; Cael could not believe that his grandfather had not stepped up to do anything concerning the wedding even after he had leaked the secret to him. He was feeling overwhelmed by the situation and was now convinced that his grandfather was doing the right thing by not allowing him to be the next in line for succession. Even when he had leaked the secret of the wedding to Charles, he did not do anything about it.Even this evening, when they got back to the house after the wedding, Charles was not shocked to see them back at the mansion; he just nodded his head at them and retired to his room. He did not know why he