Annelise's POV I ignored the call for yet another time, he keeps disturbing me with calls even though I block eveey number he uses to call me.The stranger I've been chatting with on the phone just doesn't want to rest. I started having mixed feelings about him when after a while.I'm busy painting yet another artwork but I've not been able to concentrate with the annoying beeping of my phone.I hissed annoyingly when he called again, I swiped on the green icon to accept the call.“What do you want?"“Hi." He said.“What do you want?” I asked again."I have something to tell you.” The person finally used their real voice. It's been an automated voice since the first and only time I picked the call."Who are you?”"Come on, Annelise, stop acting like you don't know who's speaking." The person said again.That voice, it's so familiar but I can't just pinpoint where I've heard it from."What do you have to tell me, some of us have better things to do with our time." I said.“It's someth
Annelise's POV Esther didn't say anything, but it was really obvious that she wanted to ask me a million questions. I watched as he walked up the stairs.I didn't see him before he left for the event, I'm only just seeing him now. At this point, it would definitely be a miracle if we made up.A huge part of me wants to badly talk to him, have a heart to heart conversation with him, I want him to know that I didn't intend to ever keep anything from him.Everything I do, every form of manipulation from my father that i consent to is because of my mother's health.I miss him so much and it looks like we weren't even acquaintances at some point because of how rocky our relationship is.I felr someone tap me, making mw jolt back to reality, I looked at her to see a shocked expression on her face.“Are you okay?” She asked me."Of course, I should be the one asking you that, I'm completely fine.” I forced out a smile.“I'm okay. I've been trying to get your attention for some time now, but
Annelise's POV I was forced to wake up because of the pain in my neck, i groaned out and fell over, only for my body to make contact with the hard floor.“Oh my goodness, Anne!" I heard a panicked voice shout that my eyes were forced open immediately. Esther stood above me with worry in her eyes.“What happened?" I asked, my voice still sounding sleepy.I stood up with a little bit of difficulty as my entire joints were aching. Esther helped me up and I gripped her too.“Are you okay? You just fell." She asked.“I'm fine." I responded, looking around to see that we were in the living room.“You're up early." I commented as I caught sight of the time on the clock wall in the living room.“Do you know how we slept overnight? You were practically on me, and you weigh a lot, girl.”I gasped, acting offended. "I'm not that fat! How was your night, by the way?” I asked.“Are you really asking me that question?" She asked, raising up an eyebrow at me.I laughed out loud, “Sorry, I just miss
Annelise's POV My mouth dried up immediately, I stared at the phone with all my attention on it. I just keep getting in even deeper troubles each time I think I'm getting somewhere.‘What exactky do you want with me?’ I texted back as I stood right at the place I stopped.‘I just what to talk.’ He texted almost immediately.‘There’s nothing to talk about.’‘Trust me, there is. Meet me at the mall you met my grandmother the other day, twelve.’ he said.‘I can't meet with you. If you have anything to say then you text it here how you're doing it currently.’If anything, meeting Ken might further complicate issues right now, he's not the best person I want to be seen with.‘Do it your way then, don't be shocked when you see the next thing that happens.’I didn't bother to reply him, I just walked back into the house with my head aching already even though it's still morning.When I got back into the house, I saw Ethan about to get to the door while I was at the door.“I was looking for
Ethan's POV “Congratulations once more on the achievement." One of the board members said with a straight face."Thank you.” I replied, also in a professional tone.I resisted the urge to yell at them all to just stop with the fake greetings and all.They should just eat the f*cking food they came here for and leave. The head of public relations department thought it would be a nice idea to have the lunch to push out the company to the media once more.It's not like this would be my first achievement, this one just needs to be made known to the public.“Let's start." I ordered and the cooks brought out foods. The media man brought for this one has started taking pictures.The idea of Annelise coming isn't known by any other person except for her. Speaking of which, she should be here by now.Everyone was served food and they all dug in after making a toast.We were just one minute into eating when the door was pushed open. Max came in with Annelise behind him. She looked around the r
Ethan's POV What the f*ck is she doing with him? I'm sure she knows the kind of relationship between Ken and I by now already.It was as though my legs had a voice of their own because I found myself walking towards them with my fist curled.“I don't understand what you're talking about, Ken." Annelise told him. Her back was facing me, Ken was resting on the car she was meant to go home with, Max isn't anywhere in sight.“You know what I'm talking about very well, kitten." Ken smirked, he glanced up and his eyes made contact with mine.The idiot only smirked at me then continued talking to Annelise like I wasn't even there.“I’m not a kitten.” Annelise replied while grinding her teeth.I just stepped beside her then did the most stupid thing by wrapping my arm around her shoulder. She tensed in my hold but I didn't pay mind to that.“What's going on here?"“Oh, you're here brother. I was only asking your wife if she knows the reason you didn't invite me to your little lunch." Ken rep
Annelise's POV Ethan stormed out of the office too and I was left alone. I stared hard at the picture in my hand, the only thing I could see was a damaged car and that is the major reason I didn't believe Ken at first.Ethan also didn't say anything, so it definitely meant that it was true. I'm still finding it hard to believe that Ethan killed someone like Ken said though.I have a premonition that something just isn't right somewhere, there's something fishy somewhere.The more I stared hard at the picture, the more confused I got.All I have is this picture and I intend on working with it for the meantime.I got to the parking lot for the second time again to see Max leaning on the car.“Let's go home." I said to him as I got to the backseat. He nodded and got in the driver's seat.He started the engine while I continued staring at the picture as though I wanted it to talk to me itself.I fished out my phone after just staring wordlessly at the picture for a while.I decided to se
Annelise's POV Wait, what? My throat dried up instantly. That name, that name. That's my mother's name too.‘Is there anything in particular about the person?’ I texted back with shaky hands that what should have taken not up to a minute was sent after five minutes.My legs suddenly felt too weak, I couldn't even take in any breath. All I kept thinking of was ‘Ethan was the one who hit my mom.’He's the reason she's lying down right now in a coma, he caused it. Everything started making sense in my head right now, I started connecting the dots together.My phone pinged in my hand, that was the only thing I could see through my blurry eyes, everything else in the living room was unfocused.‘She was dressed in a black dress and wanted to cross over when the car hit her.’That was all the confirmation I needed to know that she was truly the one. She was coming back from an event that night, that was the exact dress she wore.I fell to the floor like a pile of goo immediately, my heart w