Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Seven Annabelle pov I stood up to check who it was that drove into my compound. I was feeling more energized than tired as I had said when I got up to check who it was. I didn't recognize the car but I knew that for the security to allow the person into the house, he or she must be someone they knew. I walked out to the front entrance of the house and stood watching when I saw Henry walk out of the car. “Ughhh…” I turned and went back in. “I shouldn't behave like that, I shouldn't.” I wore a weird smile because Nana and Johnson saw the way I reacted after realizing it was Henry. I had to correct that so they wouldn't think there was something going wrong between the both of us because truly we weren't fighting. I was just not having the way Henry had been behaving. I turned back to look at him and said, “What a pleasant surprise. You should have told me you were coming. What brought you here this early?” I asked. He carried with him two boxes of
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty Eight Annabelle pov I had had enough of condoning Henry's behavior and I didn't care about the looks on his face. His flags were beginning to yell, “Red!!!” and I wasn't going to ignore them. “Why is he trying to make me do things I do not want to do? Fine, he's a nice person and he wants what's best for me but he can't make decisions for me. I make the decisions of my life, not him. The earlier he learns that, the better it would be for our friendship.” I said as I walked around my room with my tea in my hand. “He even dared to tell me that I can't live my life without him and he's the reason why I am what I am. No! Never! I decided to come back and build my empire. I made the decision that I wanted a change in my life. I did! I made a decision that despite the hate I felt from people, the rumors and the shame I was going to do something worthwhile for myself. I made the decision! I did.” I was very furious the more I reminisced on what Henry sai
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty NineAnnabelle pov I heard my message notification from my phone and rushed to check if it was Travis who had responded to the message I had sent. “Sure. Will pick you up at nine.” It read. I jumped up for joy when I read his response to the notification. I was elated. I went to check my wardrobe for nice gowns. “This should look good on me,” I placed a dress on my chest and went to look at it in the mirror. “Nah, not this.” It didn't suit the purpose of the hangout.It was then I realized that Brooklyn was the saving grace in my life with how she always helped me to find what was best for me to wear on different occasions.“I think I will just throw on a small top and joggers. It's late already. I wouldn't want to get cold by the freezing breeze outside.” After several selections and dumping of clothes on my bed, I finally decided to stick with something more fitting for the night.I showered and I didn't know that I had spent a lot of time singing i
Chapter One Hundred and ThirtyAnnabelle pov The young girls kept yelling my name as they came after us. We could hear them saying to their cameras. “You won't believe who we met today in the mall. The great, Annabelle. Guess who she's here with? Her ex-husband!”I felt so bad because they were taking videos of us from behind, though they didn't get a shot at my face but I felt anyone who saw the video could be able to tell that it was Travis and me.“Should we run?” Travis asked me because he was also tired of the young girls following after us. Travis wasn't shy of people's cameras. He was always attacked with a camera and never cared about what people were going to lash him about. But he knew I cared at least to an extent about what people might say and that was a delicate matter that I didn't want any of the press interfering in.“Yes!” I said in haste then thought again, “But, what if they run after us?”“Don't worry about that. All I need you to do is to keep running towards wh
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty OneAnnabelle pov Travis and I stopped at the ice cream section close to the game station and got two stick-wrap ice-creams. I opened mine while Travis paid for the two of us. “Yummy! It tastes so good!” I looked at Travis and said, “Thank you!”He walked up to me after paying, opened his too and licked it.We met five people at the station playing the same game I wanted to play. Travis and I looked at ourselves to know if we would still play the game or if we would leave.“Don't worry, we should still be able to play the game and get home in time.” Travis encouraged me to play the game because within me I was discouraged to play, considering the time we had lost.I thought about the time it would take Travis to get home after he dropped me off at home and how Samantha would yell at him when he got home so late.I held his hand so he could follow after me because I knew if I just said it, he would not agree with me. “Let's get going. We will play some
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty TwoAnnabelle pov I sighed because I knew what I was avoiding was about to happen and I wasn't ready to have any unhealthy or strenuous conversation that morning. It was going to affect the energy I wanted to have towards everyone.He could see me through the glass because I didn't take my tinted vehicle so I had to wind down my car window for him.“Good morning.” I forced a smile at him and said.He looked at me for a while and scanned the inside of my car. It was always messy inside my car but I instructed the cleaners to clean the car last night and wash the body also. “I see you're doing a lot of healthy things without me asking you to do them.” He said in an annoying manner. “I need to get down,” I said firmly so he could give me space to walk out of my car. I wanted to show him that not only was I keeping my car clean, I consciously wore a bossy suit. Henry opened the door for me and I got down from the car like a lady boss. The look on his fa
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Three Annabelle_ “Such audacity!” I sat down on my chair and said after I walked Henry out of my office. “How dare he speak to me in that manner.” I was pissed off by Henry. More than being pissed off, I was tired of the drama around the whole situation. I wished I had not gotten engaged to him because it was clear to me that I was in love with Travis. I placed my head on the table and thought, “Dad must not hear that I have been hanging out with Travis, he will be very angry, truly. I don't think I can do anything with how I feel about Travis at this point. It's more real and I liked him more than I am supposed to. But Dad can never take him in as a son-in-law. What am I going to do?” I kept thinking and asking myself about the several things that were happening and what I could do about them to make things turn out better. “I should just speak to Brook about this. But Brooklyn doesn't like Travis too. What if she doesn't understand what I mean whe
Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Four Annabelle _ I couldn't understand why Henry was aware of all I was doing and never told me for once that he had access to my personal computer. It was very wrong and I was displeased to know that. “Thank you for letting me know all this. I will make sure I fish out who is behind this and no one will know that you helped me with this. Thank you.” I said to my secretary. She stood up and walked out of my office, leaving the field behind. I looked at the file again and prayed that it wasn't Henry that was behind framing Travis. “I mean, he has every reason to do that to him so why wouldn't he? But no, Henry is not that desperate. He doesn't need to do such a thing just to get at Travis. He knows how much trouble it would cost me and even my dad because we had investors for that organization too.” I didn't know what to think and what to not think but I knew something was odd about how Henry had been acting and it was more odd that he had access