The mention of the will had Chase bristling with sudden anger. He hated the fact that his father had so easily resigned himself to the idea of being killed off by cancer.“That is not important right now.” He gritted out. “What is important is that you get your surgery and come out healthy again!”Richard furrowed his eyebrows. “What is wrong with you, Chase? You are usually the practical one. Getting my things in order, including my will, is the practical thing to do at this point. No one knows what the outcome of the surgery will be.”“We are fighters. That is what got us this high in the food chain.” Chase countered. “You have to fight this. You already have state-of-the-art hospital equipment, genius doctors and skilled surgeons at your service. All that’s left is your will to fight. Do you really want to leave, like mom did?”Richard sighed deeply. “Son. You have Eleanor.”Chase’s expression visibly darkened at the mention of that woman. “If you trust Eleanor so much, why have
The man was in serious pain, and that pain bled into his voice as he exclaimed,“My wrist is broken! Please! Please, let me go!”His pride and over bloated ego had all evaporated in Chase’s presence. Sweat trickled down the side of his face, as he tried to loosen his inflamed wrist from Chase’s grip.“What was that you called her?” Chase snarled in rage, “Who the fuck are you to lay your filthy hand on her?!”The manager dashed out of a door to see what the noise was all about, and his jaw dropped to the ground in alarm and shock when he saw Chase. He hurried over, apologizes spilling out of his mouth like a waterfall.He had not even bothered to ask what was going on.“Mr. Axford! I’m deeply sorry—”Chase was barely even listening. All of his dark attention was strained on the man. He roughly flung his hand away, earning a pained howl from the man who was now clutching his hand desperately.“Where the fuck is your business card?” Chase demanded, barely keeping his rage contained.Mac
Mackenzie knew that Jeffrey had an arsenal of hotshot lawyers at his disposal, along with his cunning, scheming bitch of a mother. It would cost them nothing to tweak the law a little bit to come for her kids.Wealthy people are scary.The Axfords are scarier.She was helpless against them. Broke, trying so hard to make ends meet, she could barely afford a good lawyer if it came to that. In the best case scenario, she would be only to get shared custody of her kids… with Jeffrey.The mere thought was a nightmare.Her poor, innocent babies would become mere tools in the hands of Eleanor and Jeffrey. Then again, the truth of her infidelity would come to light in front of the entire world. Not many things about the Axfords go unnoticed by the press, so the scandal of her having kids for her husband’s stepbrother, while still married… was going to mess up her reputation.Everyone would see her as an infidel. Mackenzie didn’t have the heart to endure that kind of public judgement.At this
The news sounded like a gunshot in Mackenzie’s ears. Her eyebrows slanted. “What?”Tears poured down Charlotte’s face, “I’m so scared and helpless right now, Mackenzie! I just got the call and there’s absolutely nothing I can do to help the situation. She’s going to die unless she gets medical attention in the next hour! I can’t even call Uncle Maverick cos his number isn’t going through!”That was right. Uncle Maverick had gone out of the city for a short trip. He would have been able to resolve the matter if he were here.Mackenzie felt her heart start to pound in genuine worry and panic. Mrs. Weston, Charlotte’s mom was just like her own mother. The thought of her dying was terrifying.“We have to do something about this immediately!” Mackenzie’s voice shook with fear as she straightened back up.Her mind was racing with thoughts on what she could do, when she immediately thought of Chase. Yes. At this point, he was the only one that could save Mrs. Weston from dying.Her hands fum
When Chase makes her completely his, no man would have even a shred of audacity to look in her general direction the wrong way. He would fucking gauge the eyes out of anyone that dared.His thoughts suddenly strayed back to Mackenzie’s friends, and he remembered “Uncle” Maverick. Something just didn’t sit right about that man with him.“Is that guy, Maverick, your Uncle?” He asked.Mackenzie looked up at him. “Uh, no.” She let out a tiny smile. “We just call him that out of habit.”Chase didn’t like the fact that she smiled just at the mere mention of him. Jealousy reared its head in his mind. He asked again, “Why would you three call him that out of habit, though?”“Well, he and Charlotte are actually cousins. But he’s older that us by a big gap, so he was always the protective figure when we girls were little kids. So we just started calling him that. Till today, he’s still very protective of us.”Chase blinked, unimpressed.Protective? He wouldn’t mind if that guy was protective ov
In the next three days, Charlotte spent most of her time in the hospital with her mother who has a successful surgery and has been stabilized. She was still hospitalized for further supervision.Meanwhile, Chase was in his office, with a pile of paperwork on the large, executive desk in front of him. Yet all he could think of was the fact that Mackenzie had accepted his offer, finally. When she said it earlier, when asking for his help to save her friend’s mother, he had thought it was just her panic and desperation talking.But, after Mrs. Weston was out of surgery and safe, Mackenzie still told him that she would work for him. Of course, he was only able to help Charlotte’s situation because of Mackenzie, but he didn’t do it to force or blackmail her into working for him.But, she had finally given a positive answer anyway, and he gladly took the opportunity. It was what he had been dying to hear all this time, but when she finally did, she began to avoid him.For the past two days
West was thoroughly dumbfounded, staring through the glass door at Mackenzie standing right in front of it. He could barely even believe his own eyes. He had just been talking about her, and she is suddenly standing there!He glanced at Chase, who was staring at Mackenzie as well, and looked back at her, mouth dropping. The wheels in his head were spinning and clicking as he tried to fit the puzzle pieces all together.Mackenzie swallowed, pressing her hands against her skirt in a bid to remain calm and collected. Of course, she was shocked to see West in here so soon. In the car ride on the way here, she had known she would meet a lot of people who knew her from her marriage with Jeffrey.Including West. So she had mentally prepared to face him, but she never expected it to be so soon. In Chase’s office of all places. Her eyes slid to Chase, and he motioned for her to come in.The security guard pushed the glass open, ushering her inside. When she stepped through, he closed the door,
After Mackenzie had her tea and followed Nora for a tour around the building, Selene came crashing into Chase’s office. She was livid after seeing the article with the leaked picture of Chase and Mackenzie. Like the rest of the world, Selene was in shock.“Chase!”Chase looked away from the laptop, with a look in his eyes that showed all he considered her as, was a nuisance.“What is this picture I’m seeing everywhere, Chase?! What were you doing with her?? Mackenzie?” She spat that name like it was synonymous with trash.“How dare you let people see you with that lowlife? How can you humiliate me like this, publicly showing yourself with a low class bitch?! How can you drag my reputation in the mud?!”Her voice was echoing all through the office, green eyes livid with fury and Chase stared at her carefully. It did not seem like even Selene knew what was going on. That meant he might have to rule her out from his suspect list.He reached forward to press a button on his desk, which a