"Keenan?"Between relief and shock, Dianne and Nicolas spontaneously moved their bodies away as soon as the door was opened. It turned out to be Keenan Marteen.The pair quickly familiarised themselves even though it was too late. They were sure Keenan had seen what they had just done. But, what the hell, Nicolas was sure Keenan would understand even though this was beyond their professional demeanor. As for Dianne, the girl is very scared right now. This is the first time Keenan has caught her and Nicolas as lovers.As soon as she got a glare from Keenan, there was only one thing on Dianne's mind at the moment. Go and avoid that man for as long as possible. Because Dianne was sure that after this Keenan would demand a long explanation to her.-o0O0o-As Keenan was walking down the corridor to Nicolas' office, he heard a faint sound from behind a closed door. Out of curiosity, he approached the door and put his ear to the door. How surprised he was to hear the clear sound of two peopl
Nicolas received a message from Detective Arron that the man had found some suspicious alibi evidence from some people Nicolas knew. Therefore, Nicolas asked Detective Arron to come again to his house to submit a direct and more detailed report. Detective Arron is a detective that Nicolas hired to help him investigate.Nicolas is Detective Arron's client. Detective Arron is a private detective that Nicolas rent. Nicolas is the CEO.Nicolas has a client who has been framed by someone, so he decided to check some alibi evidence of those people. After discovering that the alibi evidence was fake, he realized that he must find the real culprit that terrorized him.He knew that it was a matter of urgency to find the culprit. He has a sharp mind, a strong sense of responsibility, and a strong sense of justice.Nicolas wanted to check all the alibi evidence for himself, but he had no time to do so. His company is in danger, and so do himself, and he was on his way to find out who was trying
"Keenan is the perfect suspect. I found out that his departure to France was later than the schedule set by the company," Detective Arron told Nicolas (CEO).The two of them were still sitting on the first floor of Nicolas' luxurious penthouse."What do you mean, it's ridiculous that Keenan is the suspect!" Nicolas frowned, the man who had been the CEO for many years seemed very surprised that Keenan was included in the list of suspects."Perhaps you have seen your company's activity report, that at the time you received the terror while giving the speech that made you calm down in the villa, you had a business trip to France scheduled and Keenan was the one who replaced you," Detective Arron explained what he knew."That's right, I did read it in the company's daily report," nodded Nicolas of course he didn't remember that moment because his memory in the last few years still hadn't returned. But the man had no idea what the connection between Keenan's business trip and the accident
"First of all, do you know Nicolas Gauthier? The CEO of Buenos Solar Company."Detective Arron frowned briefly upon hearing the question. He was very surprised that the FBI was suddenly asking him about his client.Seeing Arron's confused face made Ressler smile a little, it seemed that the man already knew even if Arron hadn't answered him. "You must know him, right?" said the man.Inevitably, Arron nodded. "Yes, I know him professionally." He hesitated, not entirely sure how much he should reveal to these FBI agents, for whatever reason.But if they were looking for clues, he thought it would be best to be honest. "He was my client. I am currently handling a case of his attempted murder."Ressler smiled again at the explanation from the man who had undergone the same military training as him some twelve years ago. "So, did you find any clues?" he asked.Hearing that made Arron wrinkle his nose, he wondered even more why these people seemed to want to make him vocalize something abou
Nicolas sighed and placed his coffee cup on the wooden surface of his desk. "You want me to tell you what happened?"Detective Arron nodded his head. "Yes, it will help us to put it together. We need all the pieces before we can go any further in solving this case. Besides, once the FBI arrives, we'll have to be thorough and follow up on every angle. Especially since we don't know what they're looking for.""If you say so," Nicolas said hesitantly. "So, first of all, I arrived at his house. My colleague, Lieutenant Gwen Miller, drove me there. When I knocked on the front door, Keenan himself opened the door, but he said he didn't see anyone.""What did he say?" Detective Arron pressed."Not much. Just that someone came to visit him today.""Did she say who?""No, but judging by the way she acted and reacted to my questions, I assumed that it was an outsider. According to her, no one has visited her in recent times.""How many visitors came earlier? Was it more than one person?""It co
"I thought you were going to take me home," said Nicolas after he had climbed into the passenger seat of the car parked in front of the office. "Aren't you forgetting something?"Ressler turned towards him and smiled. "Not a thing." A second later, however, he realized that he hadn't answered the question and cleared his throat slightly. "Well, actually, there is something I forgot to do," he confessed.Nicolas raised his eyebrows and waited for his explanation."It's more complicated than I expected, and there's still a lot I don't know, but..." Ressler looked thoughtful for a brief moment before continuing. "I want to talk to you about my mother.""My mother? What about her?""Why did she suddenly decide to move?"Nicolas shook his head. "I don't know. I'm sorry. She never mentioned to me that she wanted to leave.""Did she ever say anything about wanting to visit you or asking you questions about what had happened that day when you came home to find your mother dead?""I don't reme
Dianne left for the office with Nicolas this morning, but as usual the girl got off at the bus stop near the office building because she didn't want anyone to see her and Nicolas the CEO together on a morning like this. She didn't know why people thought it was so scandalous, but she'd been working at the company since last year, and had never been more than a few minutes in private with the man before. He worked closely with his employees but always kept to himself. The only person who ever really saw him around was one of the managers, a middle aged woman named Annabelle. Everyone else seemed just fine not seeing him. Even though he was usually surrounded by a small retinue of assistants. But today, even Annabelle seemed to be avoiding him - well, not avoiding him exactly… Dianne wasn't sure what she meant exactly. But Dianne knew that they had avoided each other. It made her nervous because of how she felt about it all and yet, if Annabelle was uncomfortable then maybe Nic would no
But it was enough. For the most part, they both loved their jobs and each other, despite having little social interactions beyond work.They had no idea how much they really cared about each other until they started knowing each other, but now that it was true, there was nobody else that either of them would rather have in their lives.Nicolas still worked as the CEO, but he wasn't at all interested in it now. He wanted to remember his last memory. It was all he could talk about lately and, though Dianne never understood the appeal, she knew he want it.Dianne just wants if he finds something he enjoyed in his life. She loved him more than he deserved anyway. They shared many memories together, and they spent hours playing video games on Saturday mornings.Dianne knew that there was no real need for him to keep working, and that was why she'd suggested he move into one of their guest rooms. He'd turned her down, of course, but she figured that if he didn' want to move in, then at leas
"Where is Dianne? Why my lovely girl hasn’t shown up yet?"Nicolas glanced at the watch on his wrist as it was already 10 AM. They were supposed to be at the conference center where Nicolas was giving his speech about the new project he had signed with the partner company.However, the girl, his secretary and lover, had not yet appeared. He had to hug Dianne first in order to achieve composure during the ceremonial speech and ribbon-cutting later."Come on, Dianne. He said he was just fixing a stuck zipper on his skirt," Nicolas grumbles, smoothing the tie around his neck. In the near future, Nicolas would not be appointing his new deputy or assistant as Keenan's replacement. He would leave the position vacant for the time being.The CEO received several surprised looks from employees in front of the lift on the same floor, as everyone knew that Nicolas was supposed to be in the conference center.In reply to the astonished look and respectful greeting, Nicolas just nodded formally. A
"All this time I had forgotten that moment, without realizing, I had made a mistake and just forgot about it. Even though my mistake was about Keenan's sister's life," Nicolas continued. "To be honest, until Keenan mentioned his sister's name, I didn't really remember, but I finally remembered that during my college internship, I had reported an individual who leaked the data of the company where we were both interning.""Did that happen before you started your current company?" asked Dianne, showing that she was paying full attention to Nicolas' confession.Nicolas nodded. "Long before that, when I was far from mature. I reported that person, who was one of Keenan's sisters, even though that woman had begged me not to report her and to repent.""Hmm, I see." Dianne nodded.Nicolas pulled his head away from Dianne's shoulder out of pity for the girl to support his heavy back for so long. Instead, Nicolas hugged Dianne's body to seek warmth from his girl. "I didn't even care about that
Now, Dianne knows what really happened to this father and son, Andreas and Nicolas. Fate was too cruel to them. Too many things have made Nicolas as cold-hearted as he is now, but in the midst of his cold heart, Dianne will be the only warmth for him.By Nicolas, he no longer cares if Andreas is his biological father, the man is just like a parasite to him. It was enough for him to endure the man in silence and that's why no one in the public knew Nicolas' family secrets in the past including his extended family.Nicolas manages to make himself known as a single man, which is just a cover for his image, a cover for the various wounds he has been hiding. Finally, Dianne will know all that through the past that Nicolas will tell her later."Now, let my girl go!" shouted Nicolas with a strong growl. He knew that talking to Andreas wouldn't solve the problem at all. But what could he do, he didn't know what else to do."My brother is being held captive, Nicolas!" exclaimed Dianne in betwe
Seeing that things were getting out of control, Nicolas finally confessed. This situation shows that he can no longer hide this secret."What Laura and Tania said is true, Ma... Pa," Nicolas said softly. It was useless to deny everything, the evidence was so strong, and he also didn't want to continue this lie anymore."Nicolas... what do you mean, child?" Mrs. Bianca pressed her chest in pain. It hurt to hear this confession from her son."In the past, Georgia and Andreas were in a relationship. They were dating and Georgia got pregnant," Nicolas explains. "I was so sorry and couldn't bear to see Georgia's downfall. I finally agreed to marry Georgia to protect her dignity. At first, I just felt sorry for her and wanted to help her, but then my feelings for her grew and now I really love her very much."Georgia who was sitting next to Nicolas could only look down to hide her tears. She couldn't bear all this, her heart was so broken because finally the old wound was reopened, even now
BREAK!!"SHUT UP!" Andreas kicked the table because he didn't want to hear any more of that nonsense from Keenan. "Now give me the tape!" he scolded in a threatening tone.Keenan, who was not at all intimidated, smiled and shrugged his shoulders. Of course, the purpose of coming here was to give the recording to Andreas."I can guess what will happen," Keenan grinned to himself as he waited for the audio recording of the conversation between him and Georgia to be sent to Andreas' mobile phone. "Surely after this Andreas will be furious with Georgia. And... their household will be even more fractured, shattered into pieces," he mused.Andreas now had the tape. His face was still as red as the tie he was wearing. He struggled to control his emotions in order to protect his dignity in front of Keenan."Has the recording been sent completely?" Keenan wanted to make sure.Andreas was silent, his breathing was ragged and he didn't know what action he would take with this footage."You'd bet
After praising her for being such a genius, Keenan immediately grabbed his car keys and intended to come visit Georgia at her office.In his usual black car, Keenan drove to the location where Georgia was now.As soon as he arrived at the restaurant that was only a hundred kilometers away from the parking lot of Georgia's office, Keenan immediately entered and cast his eyes over the rows of tables in the restaurant.Her eyes immediately caught Georgia's figure sitting by the window. Alone and looking pensive. In natural style, Keenan pretended to be surprised when he met Georgia and sat in front of her."Well, what a coincidence that you're here, Georgia," he grinned, placing his car keys on the table. "Are you alone?"Georgia nodded. "Are you alone? What are you doing here?" Georgia wondered. She thought Keenan's office was far enough away that there was no way he would have traveled that far for lunch to this restaurant."Ah, I had a lunch appointment with a friend, but it turns out
Since then, Andreas' attitude has slowly changed and he has become cold towards Georgia. For the past few days, the two of them have been communicating less and less. On the one hand, Andreas is busy with his work and so is Georgia whose career is getting smoother and better.However, Georgia certainly felt the change in her man. The few times she tried to engage Andreas in conversation, he would pull away and say that he was tired and worn out.There was a nagging feeling in Georgia's mind that Andreas was still angry with her."I already apologized," Georgia thought in a sad tone as she sat pensively in the room. "I even begged by prostrating myself in front of him, was that not enough?" Slowly, Georgia's tears welled up in her eyes.He turned his head towards the bathroom whose door was closed. The man had taken a shower immediately after waking up in the morning. Normally Andreas would ask Georgia to prepare his clothes for going out but it had been over a week since he had asked
Mrs. Bianca and Dianne chatted until it was getting late. The sun had moved from the top of the head to the western horizon. Mrs. Bianca went into the house first as her knees began to ache when evening came.Dianne, who was just about to enter the house, saw Nicolas' car entering their yard. Suddenly, a smile appeared on her lips because her man was home.Dianne took Nicolas straight up to the room and let him clean up first. Meanwhile, Dianne brought the remaining pieces of fruit into the room for her man to eat."How was work?" asked the woman who wanted to know what Nicolas had been doing at the office all day."As usual." Nicolas dried his hair, the man had just finished showering and his body now felt very fresh. "Ah, yes. But there's something I want to tell you." He remembered as he rubbed the white towel on his head.The man glanced at Dianne who was sitting on the bed while Nicolas was inside the sink room which could be seen from the direction of the bed."What's the story
"Stop messing with my life, Father!" shouted Nicolas in frustration. He had no idea that he, Dianne, and Andreas could be in such a heartbreaking moment.What man wouldn't have a dilemma when the girl he loved was being held captive by his father? Truly, this was Nicolas' worst nightmare in his entire life.Andreas grinned while showing his row of yellow teeth, to be honest, the man had never considered Nicolas as his son, but rather his financial source all along. That way, he could continue to capitalize on this ill-fated relationship."If you want to blame me, then wouldn't you rather blame the universe for having you born as my flesh and blood!" grinned Andreas, tightening his hold on Dianne.Nicolas shook his head. "This time I've had enough! You think I can't put you in jail just because a bastard like you is my father?" he snarled."You know nothing about my past, you should respect me!" added Andreas, not to be outdone."You think I don't know what your past is like to have me