Sandra quickly covered up and ran into her room while Jude threw his head back and laughed. Now he understood why Colby had asked him to come.In his opinion, Sandra didn't seem like someone who was attacked. As he looked around her house, he suspected that she had thrashed it herself and it got him thinking.She had called Colby to come and she told him she was scared which meant that Colby was the person she wanted to see. With the seductive way in which she was dressed, he suspected that she had planned to seduce Colby and Colby might have been aware of her intentions, but why had he referred to her as his family?Sandra ran into her room, wore proper clothes, and came out. She pointed her finger at Jude and warned, "if you don't leave right now I'm going to call the cops and I'm going to tell them that you are a thief who is harassing me in my home."Jude laughed and took out his badge, showing it to Sandra, he said, "I'm so sorry to disappoint you, ma'am but I'm a cop, I came her
Colby and Tanya left their food unfinished and quickly rushed to the accident scene. When they got there, they found Mr. David lying on the ground with a few people surrounding him. He wasn't unconscious when Colby and Tanya arrived, much to their relief. Colby and the driver he had hired for Tanya quickly helped him into her car and drove him to the hospital.He lost consciousness before they arrived at the hospital. Seeing his condition, Tanya became gripped with fear and began to cry.She could not begin to imagine what would have happened if Colby had been the one in the car. If she had gone with him in his car or allowed him to drive himself to the restaurant, he may have been the one in David's place or his condition might have been worse. When Colby saw the way Tanya was crying, he hugged her and said comfortingly, "Mr. David is going to be fine. Don't worry too much about him, he is getting the best treatment right now."Tanya stared at him with her tear-streaked face, "I kn
The investigator said, "Okay, Mr. Tanner. Let's start with business deals that went wrong, especially recent ones. I will also need the names of people who you have sacked in the past, arrested, or sent to prison.The moment Tanya heard the officer, she said, "Tyrone and Drew. They are still in jail and may want to kill you so they can walk free."Colby shook his head, "they don't have the balls to do that.""let me worry about that," the investigator said. Just give me all the names you can think of and I will look at what they have been up to."Colby replied, "I seldom fire my workers because I only employ the best. In the past few years, I've fired about three people and I wonder if they would be bold enough to make an attempt on my life."The investigator smiled, "you never can tell, Mr. Tanner. You'd be shocked by what most people are capable of."Colby gave the investigator a total of twelve names and he left after assuring him that he would get back to him in three days.After
The investigator asked Tanya, "do you know him?"Tanya stared at Colby wondering if it was okay for her to speak and he told her it was okay. She proceeded to tell the investigator how she lost her memory and ended up dating Derek. What surprised her the most was that Derek had been so heartbroken when she broke up with him.Staring at Colby, she asked, "why would Derek be so upset that I broke up with him if he was still dating Sheila? I don't understand.""Perhaps there was something he wanted from you," the investigator replied. "Derek may have realized that you liked him and tried to get close to you for selfish reasons. From what you have said, he was lying to you all throughout so, what do you think he wanted?"Tanya thought for a while, "I'm not sure. I wouldn't say what he wanted from me was sex because he never really tried to put pressure on me. If that was his end game, it would have been his priority. From the conversations we had, Derek wanted something permanent.He even
The private investigator came into the house and they all exchanged pleasantries. After that, he went straight to the point and said, "I was able to put the listening device on Shelia and stayed around until I got the information I wanted. As usual, Derek arrived and they spent time discussing a lot of things. I've trimmed out the boring parts and I know that their conversation will interest you."He played the audio from his phone and in it, Sheila could be heard saying, "I told you not to bring up this Colby Tanner issue again but you are bent on it, Derek. The boyfriend I got who works in Colby's control room was released yesterday along with others and he did not rat us out so let's just cut our losses and forget about this."Derek said, "no Sheila, I've put all my hope on inheriting Colby's wealth when he's gone. I've told you that Tanya is easy to manipulate so how can we let go of such a good opportunity? The first plan was a near success, it was just bad that Colby wasn't the
Tanya stared at the luggage in front of her in surprise, "is this the only bag I will be taking with me on our trip?" "Yes, it is," Colby replied. "it's just two days, baby and you were so indecisive about what to take with you so I did some shopping, and trust me, everything you need for this trip is right inside this bag."Tanya smiled, "how can you be so sure? What if there's something you forgot to include?""That is not possible," Colby replied confidently. "listen to me, baby girl, I've been to the Bahamas before and so I can say that everything you need is in there. We should get going now, our pilot has been waiting for so long."Tanya thought for a while and finally said, "Okay, I'm choosing to trust you but if you fail me, you will not hear the last of it."Colby laughed before leading the way out of the house. He opened the door of the car for Tanya and said, "this way, ma'am."Tanya took the passenger seat and said, "thank you, sir."They soon arrived at the hangar and as
Colby pulled Tanya closer to his body and hugged her, "I'm so sorry about everything you suffered in the past, Tanya. I contributed to the sufferings you and your grandma faced back then and for that, I am truly sorry."Tanya stared at him in surprise, "what are you talking about?"Colby hesitated because he was afraid of Tanya's reaction but he did not want them to hide things from each other. He believed that they were at a stage where they could trust each other completely so, after what seemed like an eternity, he said, "back when you and your granny were thrown out of the house, I arranged for it to happen because I wanted you to come running to me. I was desperate and what I did was wrong. I have no excuse for it. "Tanya's eyes widened as tears rolled down get cheeks. She got up and ran towards the toilet while Colby ran after her. She closed the door on him before he could get to her and cried her heart out while inside.She recalled how her granny had cried that day and how sh
Colby and Tanya had lunch in their bedroom inside the yacht. After that, they sat on the bed and sorted out the pictures Tanya had taken and picked the ones that were good enough to be posted on Instagram.Tanya made sure she tagged her cousin, Matt in the post and kept staring at her phone to see if he would react to the pictures.She got some likes and comments from people she didn't even know and thanked them for their kind words. Matt finally reacted with surprise emojis while Tanya screamed in excitement.He messaged her privately and asked, "are you really in the Bahamas?""Yes," Tanya replied. "I'm currently in a yacht and it's so beautiful. I know how much you like this place, perhaps on my next visit, I'll bring you and aunt Maria with me so you can enjoy yourselves as well."When he read Tanya's words, Matt quickly recalled what his mum had said to Tanya years ago and said, "forget it Tanya. I know my mum was horrible to you and I haven't forgotten, don't worry, I will make
Colby had just arrived at the scene when he saw Sandra push Tanya into the lake. He screamed, "no," and ran out of his car as he ran toward the lake.Sandra stared at him in shock, unable to believe that Colby had caught her in the act. Colby dived into the lake without any hesitation.Meanwhile, Sandra heard sirens blaring and knew that the police had arrived. She did not believe that Colby would send her to jail because he had made a promise to her late sister.However, she was afraid that if the police arrested her there, her face would be all over the news. She decided to run but at that moment, the police officers surrounded her and pointed their guns at her. Colby took Tanya out of the lake and laid her on her back. She had lost consciousness already but he quickly untied her hands, freed her mouth, and applied compressions on her chest until she inhaled and coughed out water from both her nose and mouth.As she stared at Colby, Tanya began to cry. Colby looked at Sandra who had
Sandra quickly pulled Tanya's body out from under the bed and carried her out of the room. She left through the back door and Colby knew that she had come in through the back gate. Someone must have opened it for her.He sent the important parts of the footage to Henry and sent him Sandra's pictures, address, phone number and every other information he felt would be useful to Henry.The police chief quickly sent some officers to Sandra's house and began trying to track her location using her phone number and satellite. Colby paced up and down restlessly as he waited for Henry to get back to him.He tried calling Sandra's number so many times but could not get through to her. He regretted leaving Tanya all by herself. He should have been there with her or gotten her a bodyguard at least. If anything happened to Tanya, he would never be able to forgive himself.Their wedding was already twenty minutes behind schedule and calls were coming in but Colby ignored them because he wasn't in t
In the days leading up to Colby's wedding with Tanya, he spent most of his time working in the office while Tanya spent most of her time trying to catch up in college.This was because Colby had promised her that they were going on a one week trip for their honeymoon. Tanya had no idea where he was taking her since he had insisted that it was a surprise but, she was excited all the same and hoped that the experience would be similar to the one she enjoyed in the Bahamas.In a twinkle of an eye, the day finally arrived. Maria had tried using different numbers to call Tanya and when she did not succeed, she sent her husband to convince Tanya to let him stand in as her father and give her away since they were the only relatives she had left.However, Tanya said, "Colby Tanner is both my father and my mother so do not burden yourself with trying to take on that role. When I need someone to step in, Colby will be there. "After she hung up, her uncle angrily complained to Matt, asking him
"I said yes to the love of my life." Tanya wrote before posting her pictures with Colby on her social media account.Ever since Colby proposed to her, Tanya had felt as though she was living a dream. A few times she had asked Colby to pinch her to confirm to herself that she wasn't dreaming.Her weekend vacation with Colby in the Bahamas had given her some of the sweetest moments of her life. They went swimming together, ate breakfast at the luxurious paradise hotel, and gazed at the stars together at night. She had so many pictures of the brief time they spent and she had almost cried when Colby reminded her that it was time to go back home.He assured her that they would visit again but she knew it wasn't going to be the same. After taking almost two days to pick out some lovely pictures and asking for Colby's opinion, she finally posted the pictures that showed when Colby went on his knees and proposed to her, when they were dancing on the yacht, having breakfast at the paradise ho
Tanya frowned at Colby, "who was it that said, 'everything you need has been packed by me' and yet ended up bringing along only bikinis and swimsuits?"Colby chuckled, "did you really not see your other clothes in the room?"Tanya rolled her eyes while Colby smiled and held her hand as he said, "come with me."He took her back into the room and straight to the closet. Tanya was surprised because she had not noticed the closet before, probably because it did not look like one on the outside. Colby opened it and showed her three different gowns, two pairs of jeans, and two shirts.Tanya covered her face and laughed while Colby said, "I put them here while you were sleeping to make it easier for you. I also left you enough hints about having a surprise for you tonight. I was hoping that you would come out dressed in one of these sexy gowns. Who would have thought that you would come out wearing a swimsuit?""I made a mistake," Tanya replied. "I should have checked properly. I will get dr
Colby and Tanya had lunch in their bedroom inside the yacht. After that, they sat on the bed and sorted out the pictures Tanya had taken and picked the ones that were good enough to be posted on Instagram.Tanya made sure she tagged her cousin, Matt in the post and kept staring at her phone to see if he would react to the pictures.She got some likes and comments from people she didn't even know and thanked them for their kind words. Matt finally reacted with surprise emojis while Tanya screamed in excitement.He messaged her privately and asked, "are you really in the Bahamas?""Yes," Tanya replied. "I'm currently in a yacht and it's so beautiful. I know how much you like this place, perhaps on my next visit, I'll bring you and aunt Maria with me so you can enjoy yourselves as well."When he read Tanya's words, Matt quickly recalled what his mum had said to Tanya years ago and said, "forget it Tanya. I know my mum was horrible to you and I haven't forgotten, don't worry, I will make
Colby pulled Tanya closer to his body and hugged her, "I'm so sorry about everything you suffered in the past, Tanya. I contributed to the sufferings you and your grandma faced back then and for that, I am truly sorry."Tanya stared at him in surprise, "what are you talking about?"Colby hesitated because he was afraid of Tanya's reaction but he did not want them to hide things from each other. He believed that they were at a stage where they could trust each other completely so, after what seemed like an eternity, he said, "back when you and your granny were thrown out of the house, I arranged for it to happen because I wanted you to come running to me. I was desperate and what I did was wrong. I have no excuse for it. "Tanya's eyes widened as tears rolled down get cheeks. She got up and ran towards the toilet while Colby ran after her. She closed the door on him before he could get to her and cried her heart out while inside.She recalled how her granny had cried that day and how sh
Tanya stared at the luggage in front of her in surprise, "is this the only bag I will be taking with me on our trip?" "Yes, it is," Colby replied. "it's just two days, baby and you were so indecisive about what to take with you so I did some shopping, and trust me, everything you need for this trip is right inside this bag."Tanya smiled, "how can you be so sure? What if there's something you forgot to include?""That is not possible," Colby replied confidently. "listen to me, baby girl, I've been to the Bahamas before and so I can say that everything you need is in there. We should get going now, our pilot has been waiting for so long."Tanya thought for a while and finally said, "Okay, I'm choosing to trust you but if you fail me, you will not hear the last of it."Colby laughed before leading the way out of the house. He opened the door of the car for Tanya and said, "this way, ma'am."Tanya took the passenger seat and said, "thank you, sir."They soon arrived at the hangar and as
The private investigator came into the house and they all exchanged pleasantries. After that, he went straight to the point and said, "I was able to put the listening device on Shelia and stayed around until I got the information I wanted. As usual, Derek arrived and they spent time discussing a lot of things. I've trimmed out the boring parts and I know that their conversation will interest you."He played the audio from his phone and in it, Sheila could be heard saying, "I told you not to bring up this Colby Tanner issue again but you are bent on it, Derek. The boyfriend I got who works in Colby's control room was released yesterday along with others and he did not rat us out so let's just cut our losses and forget about this."Derek said, "no Sheila, I've put all my hope on inheriting Colby's wealth when he's gone. I've told you that Tanya is easy to manipulate so how can we let go of such a good opportunity? The first plan was a near success, it was just bad that Colby wasn't the