“Genevieve.” Eve stopped at her father’s call, turning to look back at the man in hopes that he would say something better, that he would say that he believed in her one hundred percent and that she was his daughter. But the next words that came out from the man’s lips, shattered her world totally, perhaps forever. “I didn’t expect this from you.”Before the man could speak further, Noah grabbed Eve’s wrist and glared at the man. “If you don’t mind, Mr Gray. We’ll take our leave now. My wife is tired.”At that, he held her wrist and led her out of the hall. Together, they made their way out of the mansion to the parking lot and got into their car. Her tears streamed freely once they got into the car, her shoulders and lips trembling as she tried to register the situation in her head. How exactly did things turn out to be how it was? One moment she had the love of her father and in the next, he was disappointed in her. No, she wasn’t hurt and angry that an imposter was taking her pla
The next morning, a light headache woke Eve up the next day. She struggled to open her eyes and when she eventually did, she closed them back due to the ray of sunlight that threatened to blind her. She felt someone hurry to the windows and drew the curtains closed before hurriedly walking back to her. She slowly opened her eyes.“Ella?” She asked, her eyes widening in surprise. Was it a dream? She looked around her. She was in her house, Noah and her room of course but what was Ella doing with her? “Eve, you’re finally awake.” Ella stepped to her side with a bowl in her hand. She dropped the bowl on the bedside table and dipped a towel into it.“What are you doing? God, my head hurts.”“You caught a fever, girl.” Ella touched her head. “You’re burning as fuck. I’ll take care of you.” She squeezed the water out of the towel, folded it perfectly, and dabbed it on Eve’s head. After a while, she helped her sit up on the bed and poured her a glass of water. Eve passed a grateful look,
Ella and Eve walked into the Gray Corporation a few minutes later. They stepped in like normal people with scarves and glasses protecting them from the eyes of the reporters who flanked the company. They walked past them like normal employees and made their way inside the building, heading toward the elevator. “Don’t worry, I’m sure no one recognized us,” Ella reassured, grabbing Eve’s trembling hands in hers. Eve nodded. She felt nervous walking into the company, not as usual. She had to hide her appearance which is something she’d never done before. She was worried that if the reporters found out who they were, they wouldn’t hesitate to shove their cameras in her face and force her to speak. Not now that everyone hates her. She would have a breakdown. Only when they got to the top floor where the CEO's office was located did they pull off their scarves and glasses, standing before the security guards who stood before the office. “Get out of our way,” Ella ordered them. “Didn’t y
“Trust me, you’re going to regret ever messing with me, I swear,” looking at Genevieve dead in the eye, Eve swore. “The one who’s regretting now is you. Deal with your problem before thinking about making me regret it, okay.”“Watch and see. You’ll be pleading very soon.”Saying that, Eve swiveled around and stormed out of the office followed by Ella. They both walked side by side until they got to the last floor.“We should take the back exit,” Ella suggested. Eve nodded and together, they walked to the back exit that only a few people knew about. They put on their scarf and glasses and pushed the metal door open. Once they were out, they climbed the stairs downward that led to the parking lot. Finally getting to the parking lot, Eve let out a puff of breath. “Back there, I felt like strangling her to death,” she gritted her teeth. “Not just you, Eve. If you’d given me the chance, I would have done it right there and then.”“Then we’ll fall into more trouble. Don’t forget that fa
“Damn, girl. I can’t believe Melissa had the guts to snitch on us.” Ella groaned once they got out of the premises, her hands tightening around the steering wheel in anger. “We should’ve created a fight and beat her to a pulp.”“I can’t believe it too. How did she know we were going to be at the Gray Corporation at that time? Do you think she’s spying on us?”Ella shook her head. “Melissa wouldn’t dare. Not with your husband’s security around us. I think she simply just guessed.” No one in their right senses would dare spy on Eve. Noah’s security team was everywhere around her. There were shadow bodyguards and others too. Ella knew Melissa wouldn’t be able to go spy on them even though she wanted to. “I guess that’s the case too. Goodness, this is upsetting.” Eve placed her head on the window beside her, her eyes staring into space as the incident played in her head over and over again. “We need to do something about this imposter stuff. Did you see how she spoke to us?”“We can’t bl
Once Ella was sure that Elaine had been put in good condition, she turned around and made her way out of the mansion. Entering into her car, she headed to the nearest Cafe, needing an urgent cup of coffee. She parked her car at the parking space and climbed down from the car, walking into the cafe and taking her seat at the end of the building, right beside the floor-to-ceiling glass window.“Do you want your usual coffee, ma’am?” She raised her head at the familiar voice before her.“Hey, Olive, what’s up with the ‘ma’am?’” “Was just trying to be professional, you know. What are you taking?”“The usual, cookies too. I’m starving.”“You know that you should eat if you’re starving. Coffee doesn’t serve as food.”Ella let out an exasperated sigh, pinching the path between her brows. “Just do as you’re told, Olive. I’m already exhausted.” “Alright, ma’am. I’ll go do your bidding.”Once Olive left, Ella dipped her hand in her bag and fished out her phone, staring at the incoming call wh
Despite her disagreement, he stretched his hand forward and picked a few cookies from her plate. He brought it to his mouth, his face scrunching in disgust at the first bite. “I forgot you have such bad tastes.”“Why are you here, Liam? Like I said, there is no Eve here.” Or was there? She looked around to have a good confirmation and like she guessed, Eve was nowhere to be found. Wasn’t Liam always with her when there was Eve? “Oh, you must want to ask me about Eve.” She nodded. “Well, as you know, things aren’t going so well right now and Eve might be sick. We need a lottt of help right now and you can help her in many ways to bring the imposter down. And then….”“Shut up!” His voice was low, her commanding and she immediately clamped her mouth shut. “I wasn’t asking about Eve. I’m here with you, not with her.”“And?”“How are you.”Ella felt her heart skip a thousand beats at his words, and she stared at him with a confused expression. When has it been since he asked her about hers
The sight that Ella met with after she opened the door, caused her feet to freeze on the floor. She gasped, her eyes moving across her living room in suspicion. It was abnormal. Staring back at her wasn’t the apartment that she left, it wasn’t the apartment that she left perfectly arranged and clean. She couldn’t recognize the apartment that she was staring at at the moment, it was way beyond recognition. Her whole body trembled tremendously, her hands shaking at the sight of her living room. Everything was turned upside down. With each step that she took into the house, she felt her legs threatening to give her away. Her living room was a mess. It might look normal to an outsider, but not to her. She knew exactly how things were in her house, where they were placed, how they should be placed and even the slightest bit of change would be noticeable to her. Most things were out of place. Her couches were slightly bent, the small gold lion statue on the top of her table was turned to