Lucio“Leandro took out twenty million dollars from his bank account today.” Harold, a good friend and my secretary for four decades, informed me as he furiously strutted into my office.“You should have listened to me when I advised you to freeze his bank account and block Leandro's access to your wealth. He fled, and he's still using your money.” He downed a pile of papers and photographs in front. My eyes were stock-still at a woman that my grandson was captioned with.I snagged it from the table to take a closer look. A victorious smile painted my lips once I got a confirmation.“What is this woman's relationship to Leandro?” I queried Harold. He peered at the photograph.“We're still running a background check on her. That gold digger should be the least of our concerns.”“Gold-digger?”“Sir, Leandro stole a whopping three hundred million dollars. Not only did he make a fool out of you, he's still shamelessly spending your money.” I laughed out loud, bringing bafflement to his fa
Irina The blaring of my phone from a call from Eve woke me up the day after the longest night in my life.“It's two in the afternoon. You're still asleep?” Eve asked. Murmurs of pain left my mouth as I sat on the bed. Silence fell on me and my best friend.“He went rough with you last night?”“Alonzo has the stamina of a beast,” I absent-mindedly share with her. Eve chortled noisily, and I gnawed inside my cheeks, regretting what I had just done.“I'm going to invite you to check out the new supplier of flowers in the hotel, but because I'm a sweet and considerate friend, I'll let you off today.”“I'll come. There's nothing for me to do here, so I'll join you.” I notified her, yet I heard nothing from her, but an end tone.“I'll be home late, Irina. I decided not to wake you up. You need sleep because you need energy later.” There was a winking emoji at the end of Alonzo's note.“Is he insinuating in this letter that we'll fuck again tonight?” I said to myself. My cheeks flushed in r
Alonzo “Eve, ouch. Go easy, will you? It hurts!” Irina whined and occluded Eve's hand which was about to press the cotton buds with an ointment on the wind on her lips. Irina glanced at me. She tried to smile, but I remained passive. She cast her eyes back to Eve and damp the cold compress on her cheeks.“That will surely leave a bruise on your face. It won't go away for days,” I stated what's already known.“I'm calling Ryujin. We're filing an assault case against your father.” Irina motioned to her friend to stop treating her wound and let her speak.“I'll ready a bath for you. You need one. Lavender scented candle will help you relax.”“Thanks, Eve.” We watched Eve walk into her room in silence. Once the door closed, Irina nailed her blue orbs to me.“Don't. I'll let it off. We're still working on acquiring more shares for me to be back at Hayes Hotels. A lawsuit to my father will do nothing, but exhaust us.”“It won't wear me out. I'll be the one to preside over it. I just want y
Warren“Is it true that by the end of the week, Hayes Resort and Hotel Chains will file for bankruptcy?” A reporter asked through a phone call. I gripped my telephone and kept calm, even when what I wanted to do was shout at him to fuck off.“We're experiencing a minor turbulence within the company. Hayes Resort and Hotel Chains has been here since the 1900s. We're far from bankruptcy,” I commented. I carefully placed the telephone down.Hera and Esmeray broke the door open.“News outlets are doing their reports about our bankruptcy. They knew that Lucio Sterling pulled out his investment from the company and the other investors were doing it too, Warren!”Esmeray pounded her feet towards me, breaking down like a fucking toddler.“We're broke? Is it true? Dad, you promised me that you'll give and let me live a good life! I would rather die than live a peasant life---”“Go and fucking kill yourself!” I blurted out that shut her up.“Mommy!” She sobbed harder. Hera babied her, stroking
Irina “Mrs. Waldorf?” The receptionist maundered anxiously. “We have a situation here in the lobby. Ms. Eve attempted to make your father leave earlier, he did, and yet he's back again and causing us a ruckus.” “Ha?”“Ms. Eve went out for a meeting away from the hotel's premises, and given his status we'll be in serious trouble if we ask the security to drag Mr. Warren Hayes out of the building.” Puffing exasperatedly, I grabbed my cardigan from the ottoman at the end of my bed and headed to the lobby. “Don't you know who I am? How dare you lowly life treat me like I'm a trespasser? If I wanted to, I could buy this hotel and fire you all! I can trash you out of the hotel industry, and you'll be in filth!” The skin and muscles on my face twisted up in embarrassment. “The company and you are in the midst of bankruptcy. Where will you get the money to acquire the hotel? Or are your words nothing, but empty threats like your promises?” “Irina!” Warren forgot about the hotel staff
IrinaLater that night, I couldn't put out of sight a smile on my lips after I got off my phone with my lawyer and secretary. I shoved myself to the master's bedroom and absentmindedly moved and snooped around until my ear picked up the sprinkling sound of the shower in the bathroom.“Guess what!” I chattered excitedly. He just got out of the shower, proud of his naked glory. I stood stock-still at my spot and my eyes moved down. I gulped and dumped my gaze somewhere more appropriate as desire and ardor gushed up on my cheeks.“I-I-I.” Shit! What do I tell him? He was in the bathroom. I heard the shower! I knew he was bathing, and I went for it. “You want to join me? I was about to call for you.” Alonzo completed. “Yeah? Is that okay? My shower head isn't working,” I lied. We both know that it's not the truth. Alonzo sauntered to me. He pulled up my blouse. His mouth landed on my neck after he leaned in to unclasp my bra and free my boobs from it. “You flew from Napa Valley to mee
Irina“Irina!” Warren whispered aggressively in my ear while I was losing it. Everyone's take and opinion on the scandal was engulfing my sanity. “What the heck was that?” “I don't know. It's not me. Daddy, believe me. That's an edited video,” I explained to him in a whisper, while I persistently peered at the directors in my peripheral vision. “You can ask him. We can give him a call and Mr. Herrera will tell you the truth---” My legs wobbled and my hope disintegrated. I sought and collected myself. “It doesn't matter what I tell you. You're not going to believe me anyway.” Warren tossed me his sharpened gaze. He clutched my arm and I couldn't even whine in pain. “And you kept wondering why I never trust you? It's because you always do this. You do things that will put you in trouble and pin it to Emery, to Hera, to me---you pin it to everyone but yourself.” My feet regressed from him and resentment spread through my entirety. “I'd never be accountable for things that I didn't
Irina I lost the chance to blabber my gut feeling behind the mastermind of the sex scandal as a light banging interrupted up. I pulled myself up and properly perched myself on the chair across the couch from where we were earlier. “Dr. Waldorf, it's almost time for your rounds, and then we'll get ready for Mr. Smith's surgery in an hour.” The woman was scrolling her eyes at the clipboard as she said this. She flipped back the pages and wrapped it around her arm afterward. “A moment, please. I'll be right behind you.” Alonzo plastered her eyes on me and upon feeling it, I stopped playing busy to meet his warm gazes. “It's a busy day. I wish I could cancel those to be with you, but my patients need me.” Alonzo sauntered towards me and hunched over to get to my lips. “That's the third time that you kissed me within an hour, smitten much?” I teased him, yet my lips pouted automatically once he leaned over. Alonzo slipped back to his straight stance and laughed. “For someone who enj