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Rich Love Thirteen
One week after the meeting, Jamie was halfway finished preparing everything she needed before leaving for Bhorma for a year. She finished all her pending work in the city and informed all her ongoing clients that she will be residing on the island of Bhorma.Work wasn’t going to be an issue because she’d been doing most of it long distance or from home. She handed over pending events to Perry to handle all the operational details on location.She had renewed her passport for another 5 years because it was required before she started working. She organized her bank accounts to automatically debited her account for all her monthly payments in Lancaster, and all other tedious details she didn’t really enjoy.“Ooh … do you think I’m doing the right thing? It already feels like a commitment and I’m starting to doubt if it’s even worth it?” she sighed.“Of course, it’s worth it, think of how many turtles you can save through this program and how much more you can do with the facilities he’s
Rich Love Fourteen
Being in a car like that reminded her of the days when she was married to Eduard. There was a set of alcoholic beverages, complete with crystal glasses, if she pushed out the middle compartment, she was sure she would find an ice dispenser.The screen in front of her was the internal cinema experience, the speakers planted in the corners of the interior would be the surround sound if she decided to watch a movie or listen to music of her choice.It’s always nice to enjoy luxury, she just didn’t enjoy the things that came along with it. Especially the fake people, with fake love, fake smiles, and leeches that posed as friends. Somehow, she understood Gabriel’s strange behavior and lack of trust. He too must’ve gone through a lot worse than she ever did.“Jamie?” a deep soothing voice came from the speakers and pulled her out of her daydream.She had been in the car for almost 20 minutes. “Gabriel?” she looked around, not sure what she was looking for. “Yes … I’m sorry to interrupt … h
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He threw himself on the tall chair across from her, she could smell a hint of his perfume.“Well … Jamie … as we discussed earlier, there are some papers I need you to sign,” he took out a folder from his drawer and pushed it toward her. “Since you will be working in my close circle, there will be a lot of information I need to keep to yourself in regards to my company, its operation, and of course my private information.”She took the folder and opened it, “By private information, are there any specifics?”He sighed, “Let’s just say … you are not allowed to talk about me, my company, and how it operates … even with Perry.”She skimmed through the agreement, “Hmm … Perry … so you have him checked too? What else do you know about me and Perry?”“Everything there is to know,” he answered simply with a faint smile. “I always check the backgrounds of everyone I will be working with, including the people they are closely associated with, no offense … information is a currency Jamie, that’s
Rich Love Sixteen
Get to know each other. What the hell did he mean by that? He practically had her whole life history printed out on paper and read them all overnight. He already knew more than she did, he knew about Eduard. What else could he possibly want to know more about? And what for?And that offer of fulfilling sexual needs? What the hell is wrong with that guy? Is it some kind of strategy to get her to bed without making it look like harassment? Not that she was even thinking about sleeping with him again at that point. As handsome as he was, Gabriel Love was as weird as it gets.Maybe all that money and power had gotten into his head for too long. She knew how controlling billionaires can get, she was raised by one, and married one too. And now she’s dealing with another one who was going to invest in her good cause. Her stomach clenched as she processed the thought of letting another billionaire control her life once more.“Fuck!” she muttered to herself. After all her roller coaster of run
Rich Love Seventeen
Eduard Payne loved marbles, his whole mansion was made of it. White pillars propped up the entire structure, and the painted ceiling gave the place an ancient greek nuance. He also liked gold, all of the door handles were plated in gold. Not Gabriel’s taste, he was more of a wood kind of person.Gabriel sat in Eduard’s private office, he insisted on holding the meeting at Eduard’s home so he was willing to wait for him to get home. It didn’t take long until he arrived. To be asked for a one-on-one meeting with Gabriel Love was a rare occasion one would miss.“Gabriel? What brings you out of your cave?” Eduard jokes.They shook hands, Eduard offered him a drink, and closed the door.“Thank you for meeting me on such short notice, I hope I wasn’t dragging you out from an important affair,” he was being polite.“Oh not at all … I was at The Q actually, didn’t expect you to choose my home for a meeting … what can I help you with?”They’re not friends, nor they knew each other on a persona
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It was the same routine as the first time. The same car, the same driver, and the same instructions were repeated to her before they left. She sat in the quiet interior of the dark car and wondered if Gabriel was watching her through the lens.They were 15 minutes on the road and there was no Gabriel. She was curious, “Gabriel?” she called. No answer. She hesitated. Maybe it was a one-time thing because it was her first time in the car when he called her. So she didn’t call again.Just when she got comfortable, “Yes, Jamie?” his deep voice greeted her.She felt a strange delight come over her, “Gabriel … you’re there?”“I’m here … I’m sorry I couldn’t come and pick you up today either, I just got back from a meeting.”“That’s okay … I was just … it felt awfully quiet in here.”“I know,” he said.Now that he was there, she lost thoughts of what she wanted to say to him. “Do you always do this to your future employees? Pick them up in a soundproof car, limit their visions and talk to th
Rich Love Nineteen
“Are those your parents?” she pointed to the painting of a lovely couple in their forties posed in their best clothes. Both were very good-looking, but Gabriel seemed to take upon his mother’s light brown eyes and her immaculate beauty.Harold glanced at her and then at Gabriel, he had never met anyone who dared to ask a personal question to Gabriel. He nodded at Harold to dismiss him.“Yes, those are my parents … they died not long after this portrait was made.”Harold lingered in the room, he was protective of his master who never spoke of his personal life with any of his guests.“That’ll be all, H., thank you,” Gabriel said.It was a sign for him to go, Gabriel can handle this.“What happened?” Jamie asked.“We were on a small aircraft going to a remote island my father just bought … we have done it hundreds of times before, my parents … they travel a lot in small aircraft because they like exploring remote areas … but that day … the plane crashed when it was about to take off.”T
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He was too clever, she thought. He always managed to lure her to the direction he wanted her to go and put her in a position where she couldn’t get out of. He had succeeded in getting her to sign all those agreements and now she was legally bound to oblige to the contract. It was like making a pact with the devil.She found herself in a spot where she will have to go through a series of health tests as part of her work agreement with his company and in the tests she had to be tested for a kidney match with the devil himself. Which was not against the law, but she can’t tell anyone about it.What if her kidney is a match? What then? Is he going to kill her? Make it look like an accident and get her kidney? No one is going to know about it. It would be a breach of contract if she backed out from the agreement.“Shit!” she rubbed her face with both hands, sitting in a cold hospital bed in a hospital gown. She told Perry it was just a regular check-up, a standard requirement to be part of
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Rich Love Fifty One
She started to understand why Gabriel was the way he was. All those confidentiality agreements, how he kept his private life tight shut from the public, why he was so paranoid about people knowing details about his life. From a single picture of his ‘pregnant date’ on a magazine spread, someone had already plotted to kidnap the unborn child. It was dangerous to be that rich. No wonder he was so isolated from the world and lost his trust in people. It took almost a month for his wound to heal and then they were back in Bhorma. She wanted to be with her turtles, collecting eggs, caring for her hatchlings, and releasing batch after batch of her babies. Most of all, she was ready to visit her baby’s grave. She left flowers on her tomb and wondered how different things would’ve been if her baby was with her at the time of her kidnapping. Bhorma became her second home because that’s where her baby was. “Do you remember what you said to me before you fainted in the car?” She brought up
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He woke up to find himself in the waiting room. He was tired from the adrenaline rush and fell asleep while he waited. Gerrick Finlay approached him, Gabriel’s lawyer had been the busiest man in the city after the incident. He briefed Perry on the urgency to keep all information under wraps. The case has been taken over by the police and everyone involved will be signed under a confidentiality agreement. Perry didn’t care about any of that, he just wanted to know what was going on with Jamie and Gabriel. “They’re okay … Gabriel had undergone surgery, he survived the critical phase … the bullet had been taken out of his body and given to the police for ballistic evidence … he’s still under anesthesia in the ICU and Jamie …” Gerrick smiled, “She insisted to stay in there with him … we had to get a special clearance for her to be there … she’s fine too.” Perry let out an exhale, “Thank you … I’ll just wait for her here.”********** Jamie sat on the chair beside his bed. The doctor ha
Rich Love Forty Nine
A shot was fired. It startled everyone outside. Melvin’s first reaction was to punch one of the guards in the face and took over his gun. The other man pulled his gun from the back of his pants but Melvin was too fast for him. He shot the second man in the leg and arm and took his gun too. A second gunshot was fired. Jamie went into the room, she got down on the floor to avoid a stray bullet. She looked for Gabriel, he was not far from the door, he was on the floor. She saw Eddie still with a gun in his hand, he too was on the floor near the armchair where she had sat. “Eddie! Did you shoot him?” was the first thing that came out of her mouth. “Gabriel!” she shouted in panic. His shirt and jacket were stained with quite a significant amount of blood, but he was conscious. He sat up and checked on his wound. His left abdomen was bleeding. “Are you fucking crazy? What the hell did you do?” she screamed at Eddie. “Come on we have to get you to the hospital,” she looped her arm around
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“Gabriel … what are you doing here?” she couldn’t figure out whether she was glad to see him or was she more nervous that he was in the room with Eddie holding a gun.Eddie grabbed her and wrapped his arm around her neck and he pointed the gun at her head. “Yeah, Asshole … what are you doing here?” He was calm, even though he too had a gun pointed at his head by one of Eddie’s men. “I believe we have an unfinished business, Eddie … I’m here to settle it … man to man,” he focused his attention on Eddie now. “Why don’t you just let her go so we can talk privately … I’m unarmed … those fine gentlemen have searched me … if you could tell him to leave us alone … I’m all yours,” he offered. Eddie scoffed, “You’re such a cocky son of a bitch … What makes you think you can come here and tell me what to do? I have the upper hand here … you see this gun?” he waved the gun and pointed it back to Jamie’s head. “I’m not afraid to use it … I can make a hole right through her head, right here, rig
Rich Love Forty Seven
She looked at the barrel of the gun in horror, she laid back on the chair and raised both hands in front of her. There was no way of telling what he was going to do next. If he was going to shoot her, all she could do was stall him while she figured out a way to escape her situation. “Eddie … please, calm down, can you just tell me what’s going on? I promise I will try my best to help you,” she said calmly. “You had your chance to help me when I first came to you, Jamie! But did you? Huh?” he stood up still pointing the gun at her. “I’m sorry … I’m sorry … I couldn’t help you then, there was no way I could’ve helped you then, I didn’t know anything about the tapes … but I will try and help you now … if you tell me what the problem is,” she crouched on the armchair looking away from the gun that was so close to her face. Eddie started to pace back and forth, swinging his gun every which way. “He promised not to leak my video … he lied!” he screamed at her. Oh my God, she muttered
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Jamie looked over her shoulder, the black car was there. After what Gabriel said, the car that gave her a sense of protection now felt like a threat. Her heart raced. “Are you sure they’re not your men?” “Men? There are multiple people inside? You can see them?” She started to pick up her pace as the car moved forward following her footsteps. “No … the windows are pitch black.” She glanced back at the car, “I think they know something’s up,” she said and ran faster. Her mind told her to run as fast as she could to a public area, but the commercial area is 5 minutes away. Then she heard a car door slam, and another, and another. Her earphones fell off from her running, she didn’t have time to put them back on. “They’re chasing me, Gabriel …” She tried to take a glimpse of the men who were running after her, but she didn’t recognize any of them. Three men in black suits and sunglasses were right on her tail. She looked around, there was no one else but her. Her constant looking
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“Do you think he really has a torture chamber in his basement? To be fair, I’ve never really explored his house, and it’s huge,” Jamie asked Perry when she was back home. Perry laughed it off, “Pfft … come one, Gabriel? My guess would be a dungeon where he keeps his Pegasus or a cave at best, you know … where he stores all his high tech shit for doomsday prepper.” They laughed. “But honestly, Perry … I don’t really know him that well, the times we spent together were amazing, but he never really opened up to me … it felt like he’s incapable of doing that, he didn’t stop me from leaving, even though I wanted him to, maybe he didn’t want me to stay … not really?” Perry leaned closer to her on the sofa, “It seems like he knows you better than you know him … you’re taking this break to figure yourself out and you should … I think Gabriel is a very intimidating figure because of who he is, it made you feel that distance, but everytime I see the two of you together, all I can see are tw
Rich Love Forty Four
Two weeks after her miscarriage, she packed her suitcase. She put in all her maternity clothes she bought in Bhorma, she was taking them home to keep in her closet. She couldn’t bear to look at them anymore, at least for a while. She leftt most of her summer outfit in the hotel’s wardrobe, she will be back in a month or so. She looked into the mirror after she showered, and really looked for the first time. Her breasts, they weren’t round anymore. Her belly was getting back into its normal size, but not quite yet. The small incision from the C-section was visible, it was almost completely healed. Stretch marks, like footprints of what had been in her swollen belly. Soon enough, her body will get back to the way it used to look, except for the stretch marks. She put on her robe, tied the knot and walked out from the bathroom. Gabriel was standing over her suitcases, he came in from the internal elevator. She wasn’t sure what he was doing there. “You’re leaving tomorrow?” his hands w
Rich Love Forty Three
It felt like all the lights in her world had been turned off, everything was dark. The baby blues hit hard. She curled up on her bed at the hotel for days. Everything hurts. Her soul ached and nothing can make her feel better. Her breasts were leaking milk, her whole body swollen, the wound from the C-section was painful but there was no baby. The worst thing was there was no explanation to why it had happened, one minute it was there, healthy and fine, the next it was gone. One minute they were planning to welcome a new person into their lives, the next was a funeral. She didn’t want to be there. She didn’t want to bury a tiny casket with her child in it. What was once growing inside her body was going to rot in the ground. Gabriel and Perry took care of the arrangement and said their goodbyes to tiny baby Kendall Patricia Love, the name they put on the tombstone. “Can you stay here for awhile? She needs the both of us here … and to tell you the truth, it’s hard for me too …” Ga
