AnnaJack glanced at Mark with disdain in his eyes and then scoffed and turned away.Immediately he walked away, Mark turned towards me with a scolding look“What are you doing, Anna?” “I should be asking you that question, Mark,” I interjected “What?” He asked, staring at me in confusion.“What do you want from me? Cause it seems just a few days ago you were telling me how we can never work, and today you’re here stalking me.”“I’m only trying to keep you safe, you can’t trust these people.”“And I can trust you?” I interjected with an unsettling look. I wasn’t sure why he was so adamant about telling me who I could or could not trust. Was there something he knew that I didn’t?I was still waiting for his response, but strangely, he could not answer. His expression shifted from a stern one to that of guilt.A few seconds passed and I shifted my gaze back to him, my focus stern and sharp. Pinching the bridge of my nose, I sighed and asked again, “How did you find me, Mark?
AnnaThe car ride back to my apartment was more uncomfortable than I thought it would be.Jack was quiet and even though we had a small, casual conversation, I wasn’t exactly sure what had changed his mood from a few minutes ago.Tilting my head to the side, I gazed out the beautiful skyline of Delroy, replaying everything that had led me to this point, trying to take my mind off Mark.The tension was high when Jack met Mark. I suddenly regretted putting them both in that situation, because the entire time, Mark looked like he was going to kill Jack. Which wasn’t good.You’d think having two men fight over you would be such a thrilling thing, but in that moment, all I wanted was to not be caught in the middle of it.Still, I couldn’t help but wonder why Mark was acting so threatened and jealous. Did he not mean what he said about Mia? Did he finally realize that he didn’t want to be with her anymore and then broke up?Maybe I was a bit too harsh on him. I knew he meant well, but
MarkI’d spent the entire morning holed up in my room, rewatching this video over and over again. The short confrontation I had with Anna a couple of nights ago had been on my mind since I woke up. Even if I wanted to ignore it, I couldn’t. It seemed someone had secretly taken a video of us that night and now every major media handle was talking about it. Once again, my outburst was costing me my reputation. However, I didn’t care much about that. Watching that night over and over again, I realized how insensitive and disrespectful I’d been. She wasn’t my property, but I sure made it seem so. No wonder she quit on me.I was hoping she’d come around to tender her resignation the morning after. It would give me a chance to properly apologize for being such an asshole, but she never did.Heaving a deep sigh, I tossed my iPad away and sat on the bed, wishing I could take back that day.How did it go so wrong? After the conversation with my mother, I was convinced I wanted to be with Ann
Mark Sure enough, as the door opened, a man with deep brown hair tied in a man bun and a grey bespoke suit walked in. Immediately I saw him, my brows creased in anger and a sudden rage ran through me. This was the last person I’d expected to see, “What are you doing here?” He looked at me with a content gaze and smiled, “I’m sure you know why I’m here, Mark. We have a mutual interest and her protection is of importance to us.” “Jack is it?” I started, unable to conceal my disdain towards him. The mere sight of him was aggravating considering he was the same jerk that Mark chose to go with. “Her protection isn’t any of your business, if you want to do Ms. Brookes a favor, you’ll crawl back to whatever hole you dug your way out of,” I replied firmly. “See, that’s where you’re wrong,” he chuckled. “You don’t get to decide who Anna chooses to have around. I can see she respects you and doesn’t want to end things badly with you, that’s the only reason why I’m here, to talk some se
MarkShaking his head, Jack turned and headed for the door. “Think it over.”That was the last thing he said before I slammed the door behind him. It felt good. To me, Jack was nothing more than just a manipulative prick who for all we knew could be one of the people after Anna. He couldn’t be trusted. If I was going to relocate to Europe for some time, I had to keep tabs on him.I was now certain of what I wanted - a future full of life, and with Anna. I wouldn’t allow anything to happen to her, even if that meant protecting her from her decisions and this thing with Jack that was clearly a mistake.Pissed off about Jack knowing about my relocation, I figured there was only one person who he could have learned that from. I picked up my phone and dialed her number. Every second that it rang, I became angrier until finally, she answered, and her voice caught me off guard. “Mark, I didn’t think you’d be calling so soon…” she said, her voice squeaky and nervous.“What Mia? Surprised tha
MarkI paced around trying to figure out who could have informed Jack about Europe. If it wasn’t Mia, then who could it have been? Jonathan had just broken the news to me recently, and I doubted he’d told anyone at the company yet. So how did Jack find out? I pondered heavily but every time I was close to a lead, the pieces just didn’t fall into place. None of this made sense. After trying futilely, I gave up. The only thing on my mind at that moment was meeting Anna and patching up things before I had to travel.Grabbing my phone, I tried to call Eric again to check in on what he found, but before I did, my phone suddenly rang. It was my mother and I already knew what she was calling about.It’s safe to say the night Anna quit on me, I may have gone a bit overboard after I returned home. I was shocked by my father’s calmness. After the things I said to him and the rest of the family, I’d expected to be cut off, but strangely I wasn’t.I heaved a deep sigh and let the phone ring ti
AnnaA few days had passed and I was still having a difficult time getting over how I ended things with Mark. He may have been an annoying douchebag, but he had helped me in a time when no one else would. I couldn’t help but think he deserved a chance at an apology at least. Lately, I had been trying to keep myself more busy than usual, juggling activities from picking up my children from school to random meetings with Jack and online fashion design classes, and in doing so, realized that my life was pretty slow and I didn’t know what to do with all that free time.For the past eight years, I haven’t had enough time to myself, being in between jobs and trying to raise kids, I had to let go of some of my dreams, but now with this money, I could chase my dreams of being a beauty and fashion brand owner and still provide for my children.A couple of days ago, I registered for a fashion design class around Lake Placid, but the classes were not to start until a couple of weeks from now.S
Anna When I looked at the screen now, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed seeing it was Jack. I hadn’t talked to him lately and we were supposed to meet this weekend to meet with my family’s lawyer and legally reclaim my inheritance. “Hey Jack, how are things going?” I said as soon as I picked up the phone “Things are going pretty well. I just wanted to inform you that your family’s lawyer, Bryan Ferr has just arrived in Delroy and we should be meeting him tomorrow to go over your family’s properties and inheritance. I hope you remember the plan, right?” He asked with a serious tone. Nodding my head, I answered, “Yes, we can’t meet with The Circle’s council until there’s legal proof that you are indeed the heir of the Brooke family, which means I’ll have to completely claim my family’s inheritance and be ready to take up my position as the head of The Circle.” I repeated word to word, just like he had said them. “Anna, till we’re done with all of these, you have