Jayden Dela Cruz, a pampered and arrogant heir, finds himself forcefully thrown into a harsh reality when his mother disowns him, leaving him to fend for himself in the unforgiving streets of Los Angeles slums. He is forced to seek help from Gabriella Torres - an orphan whom he had once ridiculed and ruined her chances at a good life. He discovers an unexpected friend in her and she teaches him the true meaning of life and love.
View More“My love!” He whispered unintentionally again the words just coming out of nowhere and just flying out of his mouth shamelessly as the elevator doors went open again, he locked his gaze in on hers with dropped jaws, he couldn’t bring himself to say anything to her, she was here, very real as real as the day and night.Gabriella face deepened in light lines of frown as he stared at her, anger began to course through her veins as she stared at him, suddenly remembering every single thing she had been through after putting her out of her job for no reason in particular, her hands tightened into a fist as she stared at him, he just wanted to flex power on that day and she was the lab rat and it was actually sad that she couldn’t do anything about, the fact that she couldn’t actually do anything annoyed her more.The doors were coming close again and Jayden stepped into the elevator wordlessly.“Love,” he called again very tenderly and affectionately and for a moment she almost thought she
Jayden released his fingers which he had unconsciously tightened into a fist as he took long strides towards his office.Finally!, Atleast this is a means to an end, he was grateful that he did not actually decide to give up, this was definitely not the end, he was certain that Charis would never backdown without a fight.And now was the time to buckle up more than ever for the intense battle that is coming his way.Without breaking his strides he walked into his office and slammed the door shut.“How come you’re always here, you’ve suddenly abandoned your hotel?!” He asked as soon as he saw Julius inside arranging some things on the shelf.“Well I’m not sure you know the life of the office well enough, I’m just here to put you through until your new assistant comes on board,” Julius answered, as he finished up what he was arranging, immediately he was done he walked towards Jayden with his hands tucked in his pocket.“I trust you though, but you know how aunt Gina can be,” Julius add
Jayden paused as he turned fully to look at Charis, the grin on his face widening, Charis began to take long confident strides towards him.They stared at each other none of them breaking the stern gazes they had on each other.“I can see you’re here!” Charis said as he got to where Jayden stood, Jayden exhaled deeply as he finally broke off the eye contact and gently slipped his hands into his pocket.“I am,” he replied calmly, his gaze gently returning to Charis, he couldn’t quite understand the look in eyes but whatever the look in his eyes meant, he was determined to to put an end to everything he had put up with for Charis.“This is a done deal, there’s no point fighting,” Charis muttered, a small smirk curling at the corner of his mouth, Jayden’s face didn’t change neither did his face mirror any expression, his straight face was fixed as he stared at Charis try to threaten him.“Is that so?! We’ll see about that,” he muttered in reply as he turned around and walked into the con
Three Days Later …“I haven’t been able to get through to her,” Julius said to Jayden as he put on his suit and buttoned his sleeve, he adjusted his suit well and slowly looked in the mirror.“I guess she changed both her contact number and house address as her Employee’s details are now null,” he explained further, Jayden nodded slowly as he gently turned to face him, he closed the distance between then and placed his hands on his shoulder.“Thank you, I think I’ll take it up myself from here,” he said to him, Julius just nodded slowly in reply, Jayden patted his shoulder shortly as he let go of him, picked up his bag and began to head out of the house.“Bro,” Julius called, he paused and slowly turned around to face him,“Be careful, and I wish you goodluck today,” he muttered, Jayden nodded firmly his eyes filled with appreciation to Julius as he turned around and finally walked out of the house.He got into his car, placed his bag on the seat beside him, as he turned around and gr
Gabriella exhaled deeply as she tore out another page for the umpteenth time, squeezed it and threw it to the other side of the room.She exhaled deeply as she looked up at the corner of the living room where she had being throwing every application letter she had tried to write, it had formed a small heap by the corner of the room.“Ughh! This is annoying,” she muttered to herself as she pushed the reading table backwards and stood up from it, she walked towards the entrance, deciding to take a walk she picked out her winter jacket put it on and headed outside after securely bolting the door.As the cold breeze hit her skin, making her hair blow in any direction, she took in a deep breath as she aimlessly made her way down the road. Jessica had been responsible for paying every house bills for the past twenty days now although she wasn’t comfortable with it but Jessica insisted on not having her spend her savings on the bills as another job hadn’t opened up for her yet.She couldn’
Next Day …“Easy, easy gently,” Isabella kept saying to Jayden as he walked down the staircase, she held his drip rack for him as she assisted him down the staircase and towards the living room.“Are you sure you’re strong enough for all these?!” She asked for the umpteenth time, he sighed deeply as he looked up at her.“I’m fine Bella,” He replied, she nodded slowly and they continued their slow and steady steps downstairs.Immediately they got downstairs, she assisted him to sit on the chair, turned on the TV for him, quickly dashed to the freezer and took out a bottle of freshly pressed pineapple juice for him.“You know you don’t have to do this ?! We can always get an help” Jayden said as she poured him the juice in a cup, she smiled and quietly moved the cup closer to him and recapped the bottle.“Let’s watch a movie,” she replied instead as she took her seat beside him, picked up the remote and selected a movie for them to watch, she scooted closer to him and the movie began,
Beep Beep Beep The hospital monitor kept beeping, Jayden’s eyes slowly went open, his eyes roamed the room, wondering where he was, he tried to sit up but he released a small groan, his groan was what alerted his mom, she sharply looked up from the Bible she was reading, she carelessly placed it on the table and rushed to him.“Where’s Gabriella?!” was the first question that rolled off his tongue.His mother looked at him her brows knotted in surprise but she quickly pushed his question aside, just glad to finally see him awake again.“Where’s Gabriella, where’s my wife?! she’s the one I want to see right now!” He repeated gently pushing her off of him.“Who is Gabriella, when did you get married?! This is Mom, this is your Mother Jayden!” She replied.“No you’re not, I’m not interested in speaking to you! Get me Gabriella, the woman you saw me with at the restaurant!” He said again struggling to stand up.“The woman I saw you with?! At what restaurant?! Jayden stop scaring me!” Sh
Shortly After ….Jessica placed a small knock on the door to the room before she pushed it in and walked in.Gabriella just stared at her as she walked in and slowly made her way towards the bed, Gabriella was seated in front of the mirror, she had just had her bath and was trying to do her skin care routine for the night.“Bestie, are you okay?!” Jessica asked, she gently took her eyes off her reflection in the mirror and looked at Jessica in the mirror, she flashed her a dry smile before turning the chair to face her.“Ofcourse I’m fine, thank you for listening to my rant earlier,” she replied and Jessica nodded with a firm smile, she gently pulled the chair close to her and sat on the edge of the bed, she took Gabriella’s hands in hers as she stared in her eyes.“You do know that Jayden really loves you right,” she said.“And you shouldn’t blame him wanting to start a family with you,” “That’s not the point,” Gabriella interjected softly,“I listened to you talk and I get your po
Eight months later ….Evening 6:00pm …“What’s wrong?!” Jayden asked as he increased his pace and moved up to Gabriella, she had spoken to him in only few words throughout their journey home.“Nothing?! Why do you ask?!” She murmured in reply, he exhaled deeply as he stretched out his hands and held her by his shoulders in place to stand in front of him.“Don’t tell me nothing Babes, I need you to tell me what’s wrong with you, are you thinking about your mom again?!” He said staring down in her eyes with deep concern, she took her eyes off of him rolling her eyes to the back of her head.“I don’t understand, what’s this ugly friendship between you and Lydia,” she grumbled in reply not able to meet his eyes, he exhaled softly with a light chuckle.“Stop laughing it’s not funny, you giggle with her all day, you don’t even pay any attention to me,” she complained further and he finally bursted into the laughter that he didn’t think he was holding.“Don’t tell me you’re jealous of Lydia,
“You must be very silly for saying that to me!” Jayden yelled, his voice echoing throughout the hotel lounge, Everyother concierge at the lounge at that time stood in intense silence with their heads bowed, they all knew better than to try to refuse the Jayden Dela Cruz Request, for something as low as hotel policies. As shocking and as surprising as that sounds that was how things worked over there because Jayden’s cousin and best friend actually owned the hotel, so he was more like a boss there too. Funny, but true!Jayden was the only son to the Dela Cruz family and apparently the heir to all of the family’s assets and businesses.After his father died, his mother could not bring herself to just handover all the properties to him, unlike most sons of her friends and business partners, Jayden was quite irresponsible and he knew absolutely nothing about any of the family business.His mother, Gina actually wanted him to take over the company, stop frolicking around town with differe
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