Ethan's POV I ran out of my car with a full speed after abruptly stopping my car and stopping the engine. Max had the driver kneeling on the ground already with his hands to the back with something I didn't know and don't want to know.Annelise was behind him with her arms wrapped around herself. She was still dressed in the two piece from earlier, of course, she didn't go home yet.“Boss." Max said when I got to them.Annelise snapped her head to look into my eyes, and for that one moment, I wished I hadn't come with the hatred displayed on her face towards me.“You said he wasn't the one who sent you!” She screamed at Max.She stepped away from him and went to stand close to the same person that wanted to kidnap her."Ma'am, you can't be so close to him, he's dangerous.” Max said to her."I'd rather he kidnap me than stand close to HIM right now." She replied him, gesturing at me."Max, take her to where she was going. I'll handle him.” I ordered Max.I didn't want to look into he
Ethan's POV “It's your wife." He confirmed my thoughts. The car stopped on its own this time as I stopped navigating it.“What are you talking about?! Didn't I tell you to guard her with your darn life! Where are you? F*ck! Where is she?" I yelled.“I just brought her to the city hospital."The hospital was on the same lane I was on, I just continued driving, this time without any interruption or sudden stops.The only thing on my mind was getting to her first. I drove into the hospital in no time and threw the keys at the valet. I ran into the hospital with speed. “Annelise Harrington." I said to the nurse I met at the lobby. She looked up at me and instead of looking at the book before her like she wanted to, but she just gasped and looked at my face like she just saw a ghost. “Are you going to keep staring at my face or you're going to talk?!”She jolted upright and muttered some incoherent words before going over the book with a shaking hands.“She was brought in minutes ago an
Annelise's POV I groaned as a wave of nausea hit me. I've been finding it kind of hard to get out of this darn bed in the first place. I just had to push myself up to open the door I was seeing that I presumed to be a bathroom and it ended up being true.I emptied everything in my stomach which happened to be just water into the toilet. When I was done, I almost couldn't stand on my own.Leaning on the toilet’s wall, I tried to catch my breathe as it looked like I was going to lose consciousness anytime soon again.I walked back into the room panting for air as though I just ran a marathon. I laid down back on the bed and almost sighed in relief at how good it felt to rest my back again.The oxygen mask was removed from my nose earlier this morning, I've been really awake since then. I wasn't feeling any more pain, the only place I'm feeling pain was in my stomach and that was because of hunger.Aren't they going to serve breakfast this morning? Now that I think of it, the last thing
Annelise's POV I didn't realize that a gasp had escaped me till Esther rushed to my side, she looked into the phone to check what made me gasp that loud.The content of the message was even worse, it wasn't what I expected to see. Ethan's picture was pasted largely on one side of the news.'Popular young businessman, Ethan Harrington, the CEO of The Harringtons holdings has been exposed after a business he has been covering for years now was dug out, he was conversing with one of his clients hours ago when he let out a loophole.This seems to have been going on for years, according to what was said in the conversation, click below to watch the clip.'With shaky hands, I pressed ‘play’ on the video after the link directed me to a page.The voice that came on first was definitely Ethan's, only that it didn't sound like him on a second thought after I listened with rapt attention.Ethan's voice isn't as rough as this. The video was almost pitch black, the only thing that could be seen w
Annelise's POV “Go on a date with me to find out.”I stared at him like he was just joking so I let out a dry laugh before a normal look came up on my face.“Haha! So funny." I laughed dryly. Ken looked serious, he waited for me to finish laughing before he talked again.“I'm not joking, Annelise.""You say you want me to go on a date with you and it isn't a joke?” I scoffed.“I really want you to go on a date with me." He repeated, trying to move closer to me. I moved back from him, holding a hand up to create space between us.“You don't know what you're talking about, Ken. What do you mean by you want to go on a date with me? A date isn't some random dinner or lunch.” I scoffed once more."I know what a date means, Annelise." He sighed and ran his hand through his hair.“We can't go on a date, Ken. That's insane." I told him."Please, Annelise. I promise it's not going to take much of your time, I need this please.” He pleaded.That was when I knew that he wasn't joking at all, th
Ethan's POV Immediately I saw the news, the first name that came to my mind was Simon. He's the only one I'm currently at loggerheads with, I just knew he was the one.Lucas had bombarded my phone with calls and is currently calling me that it's starting to get annoying. The clip was obviously edited and it's so obvious but no one would believe that, it looks and sounds real.Whoever edited it must be really good at it, it looked so real that I wanted to believe that it was real. The fact that even when the background was dark, the silhouette still looked like me.If not because I wasn't the one they were trying to impersonate and I knew deep down that it wasn't me, I'd have believed it normally.“F*ck! I need to talk to someone!” I yelled as I ran out of my room. It's still really early and I've been so distraught since last night, even before the news was published this morning.I rushed downstairs, running like my life depended on it. When I got to the living room, Angela blocked
Ethan's POV A huge sigh of relief escaped me at her response, my heart that was beating erratically in my chest calmed down instantly.Knowing that she didn't believe it did nothing but made me relieved.“Thank you, Annelise. You have no idea what that means to me.” I muttered, my emotions were bare in my voice. Her face was blank, she's trying so hard to hide her facial expression and she's getting good at it. "It's nothing. Would that be all? I'd like to go back inside now, I need to sleep.” Annelise said.Her hand went down to her stomach, my eyes followed the movement too. Her stomach was now bigger than the last time I saw and now round.“Uh, yes." I mumbled, trying so hard to act normal.“Well then, bye." She made a move to go into the apartment back, almost at the door when I stopped her.“Annelise." I called out the name really fast that it was as though I was scared she was going in and I'd never see her again.She turned around with her hand still on her stomach, one of he
Ethan's POV It's really late at night but I tried to dial Ken's number. Lucas and I just got to my house after a complete drive in silence.I've not turned on my phone since afternoon, the internet is getting crazy at the moment, and I sure didn't want to see the kind of messages I'd receive in my personal email at that point.I caught a glimpse from when Lucas came online on his own phone even though he tried to hide it from me and it was hard.Ken picked the call on the second ring, just when I drove into my house.“Is this really Ethan calling me?" He asked the moment he picked up."It's me, Ken. Do you have a moment?”I stopped the engine, getting out of the car along with Lucas who was staring intently at the phone as though he wanted to hear everything.“Yes. You calling me on its own is something, so I know it's really important.” He said.“I need your help." Those four words felt weird on my lips, when was the last time I said that? Years ago? Never?“I'm all ears." He replie