Ashton pulls out a chair for Ivy to sit in before he walks around and sits opposite her.A woman in her seemingly mid forties approaches them. "Welcome to Dahee. What would you like to have?"The duo peruse the menu and think quietly.Ivy speaks first. "I would like some Udon noodles and Tteobokki." Ivy smiles while the woman chuckles. "Your accent is quite heavy on the words, they are pronounced as Udon and Tteobokki. It's quite simple but I'm native Korean so it's probably easier for me."Ivy laughs lightly. "I'll keep the pronunciations in mind."Ashton raises his head next. "Make the tteobokki a large one, then a medium sized donkatsu with cold noodles."She chuckles again. "Coming right up sir and ma'am."As soon as she leaves, Ivy chuckles lightly. "Even I can tell you didn't pronounce that other food correctly.""Donkatsu?"Ivy laughs. "Yeah, that one but that does not matter right now. We have things to share to one another and it's both pointing at one thing, Tiara's murder.
After a long day at work, hours after Ashton and Ivy had met for lunch.Ivy receives a phone call from Ashton. "Hello?""Hello darling, I'm downstairs. We can leave when you're ready."Ivy smiles. She's tired, too tired to drive. "I'll be right down. I'm exhausted and would appreciate the drive."Few minutes later, Ivy meets Ashton downstairs and gets into the car. She smiles tenderly. "Thank you for picking me up. Without you, I would have just taken a taxi to the hospital.""That's why I'm your husband. Let's go."They drive down to Axis Hospital and go in, taking the elevator to Veronica's room where she's walking around, laughing aloud, along with Damien who's teaching her to do some sort of dance."Is this supposed to be so hard? I can't just get it."They stop for a moment to acknowledge the couples presence. "Welcome.""Thank you. What are you both up to?" Ivy asks as she places her bag on the bed and sits, watching them as Ashton also takes a seat beside her."He's teaching me
It doesn't take a long time for the police, along with the help from Ivy and Ashton to begin their hunt for Arielle but strangely, she's nowhere to be found.For a whole two days, after an APB has been put out for her, she has been seen by nobody around.There is no way she could have possibly known ahead that they were coming for her so why? If she really had no skeleton in her cupboard, she would not have had any reason to run but if course, she knows that she is deeply involved in Tiara's death and the anger of her now forty eight million followers follow her everywhere, even though, Arielle herself now has twenty two thousand followers, all of them coming to curse her posts.Arielle on the other hand, is nowhere to be found.There is a bang on Richard's door. He frowns as he rolls off the bed, grumbling.Since he's jobless, he makes it a point to just stay in and sleep all day and at night, he makes a long party ride around town, visiting a ton of clubs and ending at motels with w
Anita makes her way into Ivy's office and bows slightly in greeting. "Hi Ivy. I have letters from the post office today. I don't even know if it's a post office, it was just delivered.""Letters?" Ivy chuckles "They still do letters?""I'm just as surprised as you are." Anita laughs as she places the single small brown envelope on her table and exits.Ivy looks at the letter and picks it up, she tears it open and brings out the neatly folded white paper inside. She opens it and reads the contents...And with every sentence she reads, her smile fades slowly until all she has on is a grim scowl on her face. She grabs her jacket, phone and keys. She stops at Anita's. "I'm going out. Can't say if I'll be back today. If I'm not back by two pm, then I won't be coming back at all. About that deal we're working on, you can tell them we'll do the audit on a condition. I'll let them know my condition during the meeting tomorrow."Anita nods and waves as she leaves.Ivy takes the elevator downs
"Your fighting and strength only arouses me... Ivy Wright."The sheer shamelessness of the man in calling her full name, along with get husband's last name, giving it away that he knows she is a married woman scares Ivy even further but she stops fighting him and lets her arm go limp in his hand so she won't give him any satisfaction.*"Do you really think this product you're showing me right now is worthy of the market? Do you even know how brutal sellinf anything is?" Ashton starts, as soon as the lights of the room return and the projector goes off.The man who presented the slideshow stands stock still by the projector, listening to Ashton. "Even if it is a good idea which I agree with actually, do you think your forms of marketing are going to be sufficient enough to sell this product? Because..." He's momentarily distracted by the vibrations of his phone and then it lights up with a message. "Excuse me." He checks the phone and sees a message from Ivy.Without any other word a
As soon as they get home, Ashton walks right behind Ivy into the house where he meets her in a chair, her eyes slightly red. "I'm sorry." She whispers to him and he pulls her into a big hug."You don't have to be sorry about anything. You did nothing wrong.""He told me to come alone that if I didn't, he would have killed you in the meeting that you were and I remembered you telling me you had a meeting so I believed him. I just wanted to have a trace of where I went that's why I sent the text message. I'm sorry I made you his target now."Ashton chuckles lightly and wipes her eyes. "Come on, I was already on his radar before he met you, he probably chose to meet you because you're my wife and maybe meeting you would have broke you into giving up the fact that I was the one who beat Roger up. Well, I robbed the opportunity for Roger to say it right from his mouth, we won this round so you do not need to be sorry about anything."Ivy manages a small smile through her tears."I should b
"Hello? I'm so sorry I'm calling so late but I have reliable information on where Arielle Brown is right now..."The police officers on the end spring up and into action, getting into their black van and driving right for Richard's house with the instructions given to them by Ivy.The two cars arrive at the perfect moment, at the same time and thankfully, the men had enough sense to put off the siren that would have given them away.Inside, Arielle has located the zipper behind the chair and has frantically began to pack the money into the bags she brought with her while humming and muttering to herself, sounding happy and elated. "That bastard won't see this coming. He stole it anyway, it doesn't matter if it is stolen from him too...""Is that what you think?" Ivy's voice rings out in the silence of the night, making Arielle stand stock still. She looks up and sees Ivy standing by the door, flanked on every side by men, including Ashton who has a small winning smirk on his face."Wha
Ashton jerks Ivy aside just in time and Richard hits him instead. Ivy gasps.Richard stands to his feet. "I know you're not my actual blood brother but the relationship we have stands way stronger than the relationship you have with this witch."Ashton gives him a tight slap. "Don't you dare call my wife names."Richard reels from the slap and takes two steps back. "So you're supporting the fact that she will take my money and still ruin me? I'll really be a poor man if she takes all of that from me.""Do you think we don't know that it is not up to two billion anymore? Those damned executives you paid five hundred million each, and the ones you have taken out, spending on your feeding and partying and clubbing... Who are you to talk about being a witch?" Ivy retorts, coming back to stand beside Ashton. She turns to her husband. "He is not even remorseful for what he did. Not even getting the money through corruption but still thinking he didn't do anything wrong."They turn around a