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INTO THE ORBIT

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last update Last Updated: 2024-10-10 17:00:36

"What have you got on her?" Damien asked Gray, who was standing at his table side. It had just been twenty-four years since he got the news about Lila's release and he had told his assistant to get information on her. He knew that the best way to bring her down was to first get closer to her and then bring her down one way or the other. He had to make her suffer for taking a life; it should not be that easy for a murderer to get free from jail.

"Basic information and current information"

"Tell me," Damien gestured, leaning into his seat and taking off his glasses. 

"Lila Carson, the only daughter and heir to the Carson empire, left home when her father died when she was eighteen years old. She got into a relationship with Gavin Holt; the car that was being driven by Lila that night belonged to Gavin. Gavin is now married to one supermodel, Evangeline Mark." 

"What is her relationship with her family?" 

"She is closer to her brother than she is to her mother. Her mother is barely in the country and has not been seen in the last two years. From my findings, it seemed like Lila was closer to her father and was left heartbroken when he died."

"So she knows the pain of losing someone, yet she had the nerve to hit and run someone else?" The pain in Damien's voice could be heard from miles away. He was not doing well with this conversation, but he was going to hold out to the end so he could find useful information. 

"I am sorry about your loss, sir," Gray said. He did not know how else to comfort his boss, even though he had constantly told him not to say things like that. The pain he was seeing being emitted from this man was too massive to be ignored. 

"What about her current information?" Damien asked, ignoring the condolences. 

"According to my findings, Gavin was supposed to get married to her after she was freed, but he stopped coming to see her six months into her sentence and got married to Evangeline Mark. According to the man I put on her yesterday, he tells me that Gavin shoved her out of the house and asked her not to return." 

"Seems he also knows that it is taboo to get with a murderer," he said spitefully. 

"It seems she has a child; she was pregnant by the time she was tried and gave birth a few months later. The baby was taken away and raised by Gvain." 

"Is she to be reunited with the child?"

"I am sorry. I will do more research and get back to you on that," Gray said, closing the file he had been reading out of. 

"It is okay, I do not think I need that piece of information just yet, maybe if I get closer to her, I might get it myself." 

"Get closer to her?" Gray said. If his boss were to ask him what he should do about the woman, he would have said that they take her away and torture her. 

"And what are her current living conditions?" Damien asked, ignoring the questioning comment from Gray. 

"She seems to have gone back to her brother's house."

"So Oliver Carson has her now?"

"Yes, sir, that is correct."

"Find every event that Oliver will be attending this week and next and let me know." 

"Yes, sir," Gray said. Damien waved his hand to dismiss him and he went out of the room. Damien was going to attend events hoping that he would run into Lila and form a relationship with her; he had to get close to her to find a way to repay the hurt that she had caused him. 

WEEK LATER

"Do I really need to go for this event?" Lila groaned. 

Oliver had come home and announced that she needed to go with him to a party and it was compulsory that she go. She had made a case that she was just fresh out of jail and did not need to be mingling with all those people. 

"You need to get yourself out there; I did try to get your name and image out of the media for nothing. You must repay me and it would be good if you snagged a rich bachelor and got married so we can finally expand." 

"Are you going to marry a rich heiress and expand as well?" Lila asked sarcastically and he nodded. She rolled her eyes "You are no fun." 

They got to the party and Lila stood in a corner; she was not interested in making any friends or interacting with anyone tonight. She saw a man walking toward her; she sighed as she took a full swig from her champagne flute. She dropped the glass to the table and began to walk away. 

She noticed that the man's steps became stronger as he walked toward her; she slowed down because she did not embarrass him. He caught up with her steps and she caught a whiff of his cologne as it began to fill her nose. It was a mixture of citrus and spicy, and she could smell some aftershave in there as well. 

"If I did not know any better, I would have thought that a beauty like you was trying to avoid me," he said. She stopped and turned to him with a frown on her face.

"Avoid you? But I do not even know you." 

"Exactly," he said, and she smiled. "Do you care for a refill on your wine? I see you ran out."

"I do not want to drink so much, so maybe I would go for some mocktails instead." 

"Wait right here, and I'll be back with something for you to drink," he said, walking away and reappearing later with a glass in hand. 

"Thank you," she whispered, taking the glass from his hand. 

"I did not catch your name," he said in his most flirtatious voice ever. 

"I haven't told you yet," she replied with a smile. 

"That is right, but I would love to know it."

"Lila Carson" 

"Damien Calloway

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