"Babe, why are you acting so strange?" Vanessa asked over the phone."Vanessa, I'm a bit busy now and I have a lot to take care of." William responded in a firm tone."I'm hanging up till you tell me what's going on, is it because of the images? Do not tell me that is the reason you're upset.""Vanessa, you don't understand do you?" William asked, slightly raising his voice since he was unable to hide the annoyance in his tone."Wait, so this is how it really is right? So you're ashamed of me William? I literally thought you decided to take me out because you love me and my happiness mattered a lot to you!""Vanessa,... Look, you don't understand how bad this affects my name and my family's reputation. I'm married Vanessa, I shouldn't be seen outside with someone who isn't my wife. You know how this thing goes.""No! No I do not, at the end of the day, we're talking about same old Catherine, I can't believe you William, so this is why you've been trying to reach all the social media b
William descended the stairs, making his way to the living room. He met his mother, his father and Catherine already seated in the living room, they looked like they had been waiting on him to meet them down there already.The air was filled with an awkward silence. William took his seat, and Bradley cleared his throat, "William," he started, "According to Jorge and the rest of our sources, your illicit images and posts related to it have been brought down from all the social media pla--""Father, they weren't illicit images!" William interrupted."Yes. Exactly, they're eyesore-ic, William!" Bradley snapped.William's sighed and turned his gaze away from his father, "I just hope you have learned your lesson, and such silly mistake won't take place again. Simply because the posts have been take down, it doesn't mean people aren't still talking about it, some of them still have it saved on their phones, and always remember the Internet never forgets." Bradley pointed out, while darting
"You've grown even more prettier over the years, ma'am." Pete gushed over Vanessa with sparks in his eyes."Yeah I know, but that's not why I called you here." Vanessa shunned him and slid into her seat. "I have limited time, so let's get over with this... I have better things to do." Vanessa mumbled."So tell me what exactly you want me to do this time around." Pete said, rubbing his two hands against each other in excitement. "I just want to remind you once more that I called you here because I trust you. You've done many mini jobs and ran miniature errands for me in the past, but this time around, I need to be sure that I can actually trust you for bigger jobs.""Woah! Of course ma'am, is that even a problem, I'm ready to do whatever you want me to, provided money will be involved, then we have absolutely o problem." Pete said leaning in closer to her.Vanessa slid her hand into her purse and pulled out a long brown envelope, placed it on the table and slid it to Pete, her eyes d
Chapter Twenty-two - Breaking the newsAfter a moment of extreme intimacy, Vanessa fell asleep fully undressed underneath the duvet. William's arm rested under her head with the other hand under his head they both relaxed and let themselves cool of from the numerous kissing and moaning.Vanessa adjusted her position, tucking herself deeper under the duvet. William turned to her with a grin on his face, "You're awake." Vanessa smiled and nodded softly."I hope you're okay?" William's asked."Yeah, I'm fine... I just miss moments like this, it's been what? A year?" William chuckled softly, "Babe, don't be silly, it's been 2 weeks tops. Don't think about it okay? I'm here with you now."Vanessa laid her head one William's chest and crossed her hand over his body as he planted kisses on her forehead. She could feel the sound of his heartbeat and the up and down movement of his chest as he inhaled and expired. She shut her eyes and let herself sink into the beauty of the serenity in the
Vanessa stepped into her bedroom and threw her purse angrily to the other corner. On her phone, she dialed Pete's number and updated him on the next step to take. Now that she knew when they planned to leave the city, it gave her the opportunity to plan herself properly."Hello ma'am." Pete responded from the other end of the call."Yeah, Pete, get your truck ready, I'll need you to get the job done by Friday or Saturday latest.""Yes ma'am. I'll let you know how it goes,""Okay Pete." She hung up and fell to her bed. In her heart, her hopes grew, finally Catherine would be out of the picture and she wouldn't have to worry too much about Catherine snatching William from her.It's been two days since William's family came to their agreement about the honeymoon and preparations were already being made. Mr Bentley had already made arrangements for them at one of the best hotels far away in the Maldives. Their suites had already been booked.Catherine and William had just one day left t
Catherine was slowly loosing her breathe due to the carbon monoxide and smoke coming from outside the bonnet to inside the car.After a few minutes, people were gathered around some pulled out there phones and began to make videos of the scene. Catherine could feel herself slowly loosing it, tears rolled down her cheeks when she thought, this was it, her death. Her mind trailed back to felice and her parents, she was never going to see them again...she wished she could yell for help but she was too weak to lift a finger.The sky turned dark and it's been about five hours since Mrs Bentley returned home she began to wonder why Catherine hadn't returned yet. It was already so late at night and everyone on the streets was already returning back to their various homes. 'what could be keeping Catherine out this late?" She thought to herself.The sound of a car driving into the mansion threw her off her thoughts. She hurried to peep through the window to check if it was Catherine who had re
Chapter Twenty-five : Making the wrongs right"It's spread through the internet like wild fire" Michelle said sounding very worried with her fingers scrolling through her screen."Honey, I think you should put your phone down." Bradley said to his wife.She ignored her husband's words and all her attention was still on her phone, "honey, I get this feeling that we might get ambushed by paparazzi.""Honey?" Bradley called her attention in a firm tone. She raised her gaze from her phone to his face."Put the phone down and let's have a peaceful breakfast." Bradley ordered in a stern voice. Michelle faced her phone down on the table and started digging into her food. Bradley turned to his son, "William?" He called out."Yes father?" William responded."How are you? I know this must be a very difficult time for you, and yes, your mother does have a point, the paparazzi people will definitely be looking forward to asking you questions which is why you'll have to go with the body guards tod
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX : More Bad news"William, how are you?" Charlotte asked as she opened the door fro him and led him to the living room, "honey?! William is here." She yelled towards the staircase informing her husband, Micheal that William had just arrived."I'm well, mother." William responded to her as he took a seat. "How are you all doing?" "Well, ever since we heard the news about Catherine, it hasn't been going well at all. We were getting ready to head over to the hospital. Are you just returning from there?""Er..." William brushed his hand through his hair nervously, "No, but I'll head over there after work.""Okay, then that's fine William. I suppose you're also here to talk about the deal we had a few weeks ago?" Micheal asked."Yeah, now you brought it up, I wanted us to talk about it. I never got a response from you.""Mmm... I went through the contract and studied every detail.""Okay?" William's curiosity free at every word that came from micheal's mouth. If Micheal
William got to the room and saw Catherine in the bathroom, struggling to breath while starring at her reflection in the mirror. Her face was soaked with tears and she gripped her hands tightly to the sink. William's presence startled her and she moved backwards, "do... Don't come near me." Her voice broke as she spoke, tears uncontrollably rolled down her cheeks."Babe, calm down." William started."Don't come near me " she burst into tears and covered her face with her arms. William stole the opportunity and embraced her in a warm hug. She cried bitterly on his shoulders. William instantly felt remorse for her. He rubbed her back gently and kissed her forehead as she hit him on his chest out of pain."Why would you like to me!" She muffled." Babe, just ... Let me explain at least."" This is exactly what I was avoiding, I didn't want any of this to happen. I don't ever want to have any entanglement with Vanessa, now look, look at this?! So what now? She'll start living with us, we
Catherine woke up and turned to the other side of the bed but William was out of sight. She immediately grabbed the closest piece of clothe next to her, and headed downstairs. On her way down, she could person the aroma coming from the kitchen. When she got down, she finally saw William standing shirtless by the gas cooker. He looked over his shoulder and saw Catherine, standing by the door and drooling over him while in his t-shirt. "Good morning babe." He said as he continued cooking. .Catherine was kicked out of her head by the sound of his voice. She approached him, "Good morning." She said as he hugged him from behind, putting her entire body weight on him. "What are you cooking?""Breakfast?""That's not your job?" She chuckled."I know, I wanted to do it, specially for you. You deserve to see and taste how good my food is." He said with smirk. " I wanted to get you breakfast in bed but since you're already up, we can have it at the table." William's said as he grabbed the pla
Michelle stepped out of the police station, stunned, angry and disappointed all at the same time. She immediately placed a call across to William to make her complaints, "Hello?""How are you doing mother?" William spoke through his speaker having nothing other than expecting his mother was calling to know his well being and Catherine's in mind."I'm leaving the station now." Michelle couldn't hide the disappointment in her tone."The police station? What happened?" William's asked paying his full attention to her."Joel invited me for a meeting." She said as she got into her car, "I got there only to find out that somehow all of a sudden, Vanessa has nothing to do with the case.""Had nothing to do with the case? Wait I thought she's the prime suspect? How come now she has nothing to do with the case?"Michelle put her car in reverse, "I don't know how it happened but with all the results Joel showed me she had nothing to do with the case at all."William scoffed, " How's that even p
Catherine and William had just moved into their new mansion. The task wasn't stressful at all especially since it was already furnished and everything was already made available to them. William ran his arm around her shoulder while she leaned against him, as they both stood and admired how far they had come. "So all this, belongs to us?" "Yes darling." William responded to her, beaming her a smile. " Our kids will sit and play in the living room and we'll dwim together most nights in that pool at the back. We'll drive together in the car, Babe, we have so many memories to make." He continued. He then kissed her on the forehead and rubbed her shoulder. "So what now?" "We'll call mom and dad to let them know we've successfully moved in, then we can go on to living." " Can I, invite Felice over?" " Yes of course Honey, it's your house too." He responded. William moved away to let his parents know that they were done with the moving in process while Catherine moved to the
~ 5 days later ~The car drove into the Bentley mansion and cornered at the water fountain. William's got out of the car and went to the door for his wife Catherine. He held her hand as she got donw from the vehicle. As the driver and bodyguard was helping them get their luggage out of the car Catherine and William made their way inside the house, " Honey?! They're here!" Michelle yelled towards the staircase, immediately she envelope Catherine in a warm hug and then William, " How was the flight back?" She asked with so much excitement.Before they could respond, Bradley came running down. " Welcome, both of you." He said with a grin" How was it?" He probed.William shit Catherine a smiled and gripped onto her hands gently, "it was the best experience yet.""Wow! This is amazing news.. come come, have a seat, Gertrude is preparing lunch for you two." Catherine sat beside William and rested her head on his shoulders. "I'm so glad the trip was successful, Catherine dear, have you let
"Well, Sir..." Joel cleared his throat. I heard no idea that the culprit we're searching for is the same person who slaughtered a person in your city, this means we should probably join forces yo catch who ever it is."" So what are you saying Joel? You have any leads? Let's see."Joel instantly sat up straight in his seat, " Sir, can you please let me know what you know about the case?" He pulled a folder out of his lower drawer and placed it on his desk. The information embedded in that folder was information on Catherine's case. The same case which Mrs Bentley warned Joel to keep private."Sir, do you have a name? Or something, an identity maybe?"" No, we don't have any of that." Damien gently rubbed his jaw. " What do you have there though?"Joel considered the fact that damien in fact was a good officer, and the case being confidential didn't completely mean that damien couldn't help them crack it. It was possible that he could actually help them resolve the case, this was the
It might piss me you off though, but... whatever happened between you and Vanessa?" " We broke up... I broke up with her." William responded without hesitation. "Vanessa shouldn't be someone you should be worrying about. Plus we've had this conversation before." William spoke calmly. He turned to Catherine, gently tucking a part of her hair to the back of her ear, "I made sure to get rid of anything that could get in between us, I told you, don't worry about any of that." " Oh... Okay...I'm sorry but a few nights ago I just overheard your mom talking about her with you ... Over the phone, I just thought you two were still talking to e ah other that's all." " Wait, you heard my mom and I talking about Vanessa?" Immediately, William's mind wondered back to when he had a conversation concerning Vanessa being responsible for Catherine's accident but as a suspect. From the way Catherine sounded, she did hear them talking about Vanessa but she didn't hear what exactly they were talking a
William's cold parted lips landed on Catherine's thin lips, he pulled her in closer by the waist and she gripped on his shirt tightly. She shit her eyes and let his tongue dance with her. Her heart was racing and she could barely catch her breathe.In Catherine's head, she could not describe how she felt. Jolts of electricity travelled down her spine in currents each time William's hands caressed her side. He made her want more than just his lips when he tilted his head and traveled to her neck. Goosebumps appeared all over her body, she could feel her body vibrating in excitement. Her eyes were shut tight, her mind was void. "Are you okay?" William asked as he continued planting hickeys on Catherine's neck but all he got was a very soft light moan that escaped her lips.William felt her grip on his shoulders tighten she he lifted her by her inner thighs and took her to the bed. In that moment, they shared eye contact. "Are you okay?" William asked again when he noticed how hard it wa
" Ten thousand dollars doesn't sound so bad. You'll have to make payments befo--"" You mean installments," Zayne interrupted. " I want you to do something about it, stat."" Okay then, in this case how about you make the first installment then I'll head over there immediately." Damien and Vanessa watched Zayne type away on his phone, after a minute, he turned his phone screen to Damien who took a glance of the payment receipt. "The job is done." Damien assured."I and Vanessa will be on our way now." Zayne said as he stood up, taking a hold of Vanessa's hand.As they exited the the station, they were welcomed by the sound of blaring car horns, and murmuring sounds of people on the street. Zayne crossed his hand in his long brown French coat, as they made their way to the car. The breeze of the air blew through their hair and faces. Vanessa, with her hand, covered the side of her face as the slowly walked across the parking lot. Vanessa started, "So what now?"Zayne pulled his keys