/Grey’s POV/ “Can I talk to you for a few seconds?” I speak up, gesturing at Kyle after leaving everyone to jubilate for a while. “As long as you people talking means that I get take my bestie inside, then you guys will be joining us later, then I am super cool with that,” she tables her condition while I stop to process what she is saying especially because Kyle keeps acting like he doesn’t know that I just want to get rid of the talkative blonde so that we can talk in private. “Whatever sails your boat,” I reply to her because I will subscribe to anything just to get her off my track. “I like that…” she says sending me an exaggerated wink while shaking her body back and forth. “I know that we are going to get along so well,” she says as she moves from my side and goes away from the window. “What the hell man?” I mouth to Kyle as soon as Miss Blonde’s attention is focused on talking to my little crush. “Calm down man! I got this,” he assures me, and I hiss because he is ac
/Valeri’s POV/ I waited for my bestie to come up with an excuse that would stop me from going to the Remington’s mansion which happens to be my worst nightmare at the moment, and the next minute she showed up with Grey’s smoking hot best friend. I was still trying to process why she came in person instead of getting back to me like we agreed on the phone then I saw how she was all over Grey acting like a crazy fan girl to obviously annoy him. While still on the topic of annoying my husband, I found out that the idea that she wanted to come up with was a double date between Grey, me, her, and Kyle.Even though I was dying out of embarrassment, I had to act cool about the whole situation while praying deep down that she won’t irritate Grey any further than she was already doing because I knew that I will be the one to suffer the consequences of her actions. Thankfully, Grey was not in the mood to act like the egoistic and self-centered person that he always is because he just allow
|Grey’s POV| I blink back in shock to process everything that Kyle just said to me and the only logical explanation behind his action is that he abandoned me just to have fun with his latest catch and it is extremely annoying. Kyle is the president of the Playboy’s Association in this city, and as much as he takes spreading his payboy gospel seriously, he puts me second to none, so I just don’t get why he put that blonde above me. “Did I overreact by any chance?” I stop to ask myself. “Well…. I guess Kyle is right and we can take the night off from worrying about this whole revenge thing,” I try to convince myself as I get out of the car. On getting out of the car, I saw the driver standing outside, so I beckon for him to come closer. “You sent for me sir,” he says as soon as he approaches me. “I am going inside for a party, but I don’t know how long the party is going to last, so just be on standby so that if I need to go home before daybreak, I won’t have to start looking for
|Valeri’s POV| “Water…water,” I mutter half asleep as the thirst sensation and oral dryness at the back of my throat become unbearable for me but no one is answering me. “Vee…..please get me water,” I plead because my head is seriously pounding, so I just want to drink water and go back to sleep to see if sleeping a little bit more will help to relieve my headache. “Here you go,” a male voice that is completely different from that of my bestie’s voice offers and the alarm in my head goes off as I swiftly flutter my eyes open to see who it is, forgetting the throbbing pain in my head. “Ouch…” I wince in pain. “You had a little too much to drink last night, so I asked the kitchen to prepare a hangover soup for you and it should be here in no time,” he informs and on hearing that, my eyes start to dart back and forth around the room to take in my environment. Hold up… Wait a minute… “How did I leave the party venue yesterday night?” “Most importantly, why am I in the Remington ma
|VALERI’S POV| I stay in bed pondering on what to do with myself and my life now that everything is progressing fast. I won’t say that I didn’t see this coming, I know that a lot of things that I experienced in my past life are bound to happen again especially because I have lived that life before, but I was hoping to keep stalling because I was looking for the best way to deal with the situation, but I don’t think I have that luxury of time anymore especially when Grey took laws into his hands and brought me all the way here without permission. No matter what I need to do in this life, one thing that I am very sure of is that the history of me living in the same house with Grey Remington’s legal wife and having them play me for a fool can not repeat itself, but the question now is how can I get Maddison Remington out of this house especially when she is hiding under the identity of Grey’s first cousin? “Will look unreasonable if I bring up the issue in front of Grey?” “Most impor
|VALERI’s POV| After spending the whole day waiting for Grey to reply to my message so that I could get over the over-familiarity/ me trying to tolerate the two-faced bitch who has been trying to get into my good graces by showing me around the house, giving me movie recommendations for kick-ass heroines and even going as far as watching the movie with me instead of giving me breathing space and leaving me alone. I didn’t know how to react around her, especially when I could see through her façade of niceness, so I had to put her to good use by asking her to recommend movies for me because I am still new to this scheming and manipulation lifestyle. She instead on watching the movie with me because she claimed that getting into my personal space to understand my likes and dislikes will help us know each other better which is entirely new to me because the longest conversations that we had in a day, in comparison with my past life because I was occupied with sucking up to my family an
|VALERI’S POV| Instead of saying anything in reply to the question that I just asked, the line suddenly goes dead on my bestie's side before my phone starts to vibrate on my ear, and on checking my phone to see what the fuss is about, I get a request of Vee asking me to switch the facetime audio to a facetime video. “Why did you suddenly switch the call?” I question Vee as soon as I accept the call request. “Because I wanted you to say whatever you had to say to my face,” she answers and I wait for her to say something in reply to what I previously asked her. “You asked me to work for you?” she interrogates me with a raised eyebrow. “I know that the fact that you are still yet you gain your foothold in the modeling industry as an upcoming model and content creator doesn’t mean that I should limit you to my father's company, or have you put your eggs in one basket, but more than me wanting you to work as a model in my father's company, I need you to work for me because in a place l
|GREY’S POV| As if dealing with a drunk wife the whole night was not enough, my first wife came to the room to ally with my ‘little crush’ this morning right in front of me, using the identity of my first cousin and that is rather Unsettling because I have thought of various reason why Maddison will want to be friends with someone like Valeri especially when both of them look so incompatible but the only logical explanation that I can find is that Maddison just wants to make things hard for me even though I already warned her to stay out of my business. “Not today Satan,” I muttered as I walked out of the room because I had a lot of stuff to take care of, especially concerning Maddison’s father who is now on my radar so I couldn’t add Madison’s silly stunt to what I had on my plate. I have been busy with Kyle the whole day trying to figure out how we are going to start putting the people that we bought over at Donald’s Couture to work because I want to take over Donald’s property
|GREY’S POV|My day started with a series of impromptu meetings and I just had to be on the ground even though Kyle offered to attend the meetings because I have a problem of making sure that I get things done by myself, and towards the end of the meeting, Kyle had to book Valeri and me another flight because we missed our flight already.The flight was quite interesting at first because it was quite interesting to watch Valeri make a fool of herself but she eventually slept and I just ended up going through the magazines that were provided on the plane.When I got bored, I slept for a while and woke up a few minutes before the plane landed, so I woke Valeri up so that we could finish the offboarding formalities.Immediately after we finished our offboarding formalities, I turned on my phone to talk to Kylee who confirmed the dinner reservation that he scheduled in advance with the CEO of Tobias International Holdings, so I dropped Valeri off at the hotel and came all the way here so
|VALERI’S POV|With the help of the PNEUMIA app, I am able to access the important reservations that Grey booked in advance for us via the link he sent, and on checking into the chic hotel in the heart of the city, my heart starts pounding with the thrill of what is to come ahead of me.“Wow, this place is amazing!”“Can’t wait to unpack and call Vee,” I mutter as I drop my things and I start to fish out for my phone in my bag.“Hey, mama…” I speak up as soon as the call connects, but Vee’s end of the call is quiet.“Before you eat my ears out, you need to know that I called you as soon as I got into my room,” I explain almost immediately, only for the phone to start vibrating on my ear.“Hey babes,” Vee says, waiving me as soon as I pick up the video call.“If you are all dressed to go out, we can always talk later,” I suggest.“It’s not a big deal,” she waves.“More so, my date won’t be here until the next ten minutes, so we have enough time to catch up,” she says.“I have only been
|VALERI’S POV|The last few hours have been a roller coaster of stress, with Grey Remington showing up at the Clinton baking company to pick me up for shopping.I was completely taken aback by the fact that he knew where to find me, uncomfortable with his pretentious act of acting like the perfect husband to me, and suffocated with being choked by his attention because I didn’t ask for any of it, but he won’t let me be, and I just had to deal with it because there was no valid excuse I could tender as a valid escape reason.I knew that the whole motive behind the shopping and unnecessary attention was to give the impression that he loved and appreciated me which worked quite well in my past life, but I found it extremely disgusting in this life.I tried to shoo him away from me but he claimed he wanted to keep me company while I packed, so I had no choice but to tolerate him.I eventually got the perfect escape to pretend to be asleep after Grey stepped out of my room to attend a Zoom
|VALERI’S POV|“Having lunch,” she answers.“Lunch?” I question and she nods.“I thought you said that waiting for our enemies to make moves won’t cut it for us, so we need to start taking laws into our hands before we are forced to lay down all our trump cards on the table,” I remind her because I am expecting her to keep the energy that she started with going.“Yea… I know that,” she answers as she ignites the vehicle.“I was just mad that you were avoiding being intimate with Grey Remington and from the little interaction that I have, I know that Grey Remington is a very smart person, so there was no way he wouldn’t start suspecting especially when you avoid something as important as you guys’ honeymoon and he will start paying unnecessary attention to his moves which is not what we want at all,” she explains with her eyes burning with determination while her hand is animated as she talks instead of the hands being on the steering wheel.“We have leverage over Grey with the knowled
|Valeri’s POV| “What the fuck just happened?” I ask as I blink back in shock realizing that Vee just walked out on me when we are in the middle of an argument. “Did Vee and I just fight over this whole revenge thing?” “What did I do wrong to make our misunderstanding escalate in a matter of seconds?” “Was I the problem?” “I stop to ask myself a series of questions as I replay the events that just happened in my head,” “What is the way forward for me now?” “Should I just ignore the fact that my bestie and I are at odds and just focus on the issue at hand?” I bombard myself with a series of questions. “You know what?” I say to myself. “I will just ignore whatever Vee and I have going on between us and focus on the honeymoon shenanigan since she asked me to do what pleases me,” I hiss angrily as I try to go back to my work. I try to focus on my work but I can’t seem to concentrate because that is exactly what happens to me when I am fighting with my bestie, I can’t
|Valeri’s POV| I stay in the same position that I have been since Grey's message came in, reading and re-reading the message over and over again because I can’t seem to wrap my head around why I am getting such a text from him. “Valeri, let’s make unforgettable memories together by going on a honeymoon trip together this Thursday,” he sent. “I have called your secretary to clear your schedule from this afternoon so that you can have enough time to pack your things because you deserve a trip like this and more,” I read again. I have been suppressing the urge to call Vee to get her ass up here since I got the message, but I know that she is busy with her first photo shoot with Donald’s Couture, and if it was just our company that was involved, I would have dragged her out and made her reschedule the shoot for another time, but we are a collaborating with other brands. Also, this first shoot is kind of huge for Vivian because today is just day three of her working in Donald’s
|GREY’S POV| “Hey, I am talking to you,” I suddenly see Kyle in front of me snapping his finger in front of me. “How can I help you?” I question him. “How can you help me?” he scoffs. “Every single time I talked to you, you have been absent-minded, making me repeat myself countless times and you seriously think there is nothing wrong with that?” he argues “What is it this time,” I question him. “It was understandable that you were able to see not motivated to work on Monday because we went through a lot last week, but this is Wednesday and you still had the same attitude you had on Monday,” he complains “What attitude did I have?” I ask Him. “You keep on zoning out,” he complains bitterly. “I have not been zoning out, I have just been critically thinking about something,” I correct him. “What is so important that is making the mighty Grey Remington’s brow take a worried curve?” he inquires, taking his seat in front of me, with worry lacing his voice. “It is not somethi
/Valeri’s POV/ “After an extremely chaotic get-ready with me on a Monday morning, I am finally at work so let's get right into what we have to do today,” I try to motivate myself as I step out of the elevator and make my way to my office. “Hey babes,” Vee sneaks up on me, putting her arms around me. “You are looking really beautiful and radiant this morning,” she complements and I smile. “Thank you babes……you also look very beautiful and radiant,” I compliment her, playing with her cheeks as we both burst out laughing. “So how is everybody on your end, and how did your talk with Grey go?” she inquires, and I look around to be sure that no one heard us. “You completely forgot to give me a heads up,” she grumbles. “Shhhh…..there are eyes and ears everywhere in this office and the last thing I want is for gossip to start flying around just because my spoiled sister and her minions think they know what is going on in my life,” I caution her, as I drag her into my office. “Now that
|GREY’S POV| As if dealing with a drunk wife the whole night was not enough, my first wife came to the room to ally with my ‘little crush’ this morning right in front of me, using the identity of my first cousin and that is rather Unsettling because I have thought of various reason why Maddison will want to be friends with someone like Valeri especially when both of them look so incompatible but the only logical explanation that I can find is that Maddison just wants to make things hard for me even though I already warned her to stay out of my business. “Not today Satan,” I muttered as I walked out of the room because I had a lot of stuff to take care of, especially concerning Maddison’s father who is now on my radar so I couldn’t add Madison’s silly stunt to what I had on my plate. I have been busy with Kyle the whole day trying to figure out how we are going to start putting the people that we bought over at Donald’s Couture to work because I want to take over Donald’s property