“Why did you do that?”“Can’t you talk without grabbing my arms? Does doing this make you a man or does it show how angry you are?” She frowned.King swallowed hard and then pushed her away.This woman has been bringing out this side of him that he did not know that he had.He has never hated someone as much as he hated her.Her arrogance. Her eyes. The way she talks. Everything!They annoy him.They rile him up!“Why did you do that?” He asked, trying to be as calm as he could.“What did I do?”“Why did you say that to Sasha?”“Ah…” Payton drawled, nodded her head, and then moved away from him.“Ah?” King raised his brows as he turned to look in the direction she was walking in.“I am asking you a question, Payton!” He snapped when she stopped by a table that was in the corner of her room and picked up a brush.Seemed like it was one of her brushes for painting.“You are here because of her?” She finally turned to look at him, pointing the brush at him.King walked over to her and sl
King stared at Dariel in annoyance as he would not stop laughing after what he told him.“So, she told you to stay away from each other because you might end up killing each other?” Dariel asked amidst laughter.“I hate her temerity so much! She is impudent and arrogant!” He snapped.“Is this coming from you, Thorn?” Dariel laughed and King smacked his tongue.“It is a mistake talking to you,” King nodded his head as he agreed to himself and Dariel asked again.“But…” he stopped laughing and furrowed his brows.“Why did she come to your place?” “Who?”“Sasha, of course. Why did she go there so early in the morning?”“She has missed me terribly, and I understand,” King nodded his head.“How the fuck did you earn your reputation with this sluggish mentality of yours?” Dariel asked.King frowned as he remembered what Payton had said to him the previous day.“How did you become a top billionaire with that brain?”She had asked him.Dariel asking him something similar was so annoying and h
“It’s time,” King swallowed hard as he looked around the room like he was going to find something else.“Time for?” Payton frowned.“Press conference,” he said and then turned to leave.Payton and Dariel exchanged glances and then shook their heads before they walked after him.After they got out of the office, King turned to look at Dariel and removed his hands from his pocket.“Have my office locked. No one should go in till I return. I am conducting a manual search in the office and I will be in attendance,” he said and turned to leave.“Alright,” Dariel nodded his head.As they entered the elevator in silence, Payton took her lower lips in her mouth as she saw him press the last floor. She folded her arms across her chest and then squinted her brows.“You mean… you could get bugged too? YOU?” She stretched her words like it was impossible for him to get bugged and he hissed at the tone.He did not answer, instead, he looked ahead as he pressed his lips tightly together.The last t
“Are you insane, Payton?!”King snapped the moment they entered the elevator after the press conference was over.Payton tilted her head, twitched her mouth upward, and then turned to look at King.“What are you saying?”“What is with those lies you were telling? We met two years ago? I chased you for two weeks?”“Oh?” Payton smiled and palmed her mouth gently.“Oh?” King raised his brows.“I thought it was a lying competition right there. I did not want to lose,” she blinked as she shook her head.King frowned and moved over to her and then, the elevator stopped but instead, he pressed the last floor button again and then covered the space between them.“Lying competition? I told you to keep shut and only watch!”“Why, though? If you can lie as you please, why can’t I? And… Max was my good friend which you were aware of too?” She scoffed and shook her head.Deep down, she was hurt that King had classified Max as that.She was still feeling guilty as she was.What if he saw the news?
“Another one?” King raised his brows as one of the men in charge removed another bugging device and then gave it to him.He swallowed hard and watched, it was the third one they were removing in the rooms aside from the first one they had gotten.“King,” he turned to look at Dariel who entered the room and then moved away from his spot.“Did you find anything?” He asked.Dariel nodded his head, moved over to King’s table, carried the laptop, and then returned to it.King watched as Dariel inserted the flash drive into the laptop and then waited till the video played.His brows furrowed as he watched the woman who looked around before she plastered the wall with the bugs and his eyes met with Dariel’s.“Is she not the cleaner?” Dariel asked as he stared at the screen again.King tilted his head unsurely and looked also. He had noticed the woman multiple times as she was always going around with buckets, mops, or whatever. Ah… she was the cleaner.“I think she is!” he snapped his finger
“The cops are on their way,” Dariel said to King who finally stepped out of the house too.“Fuck!” King hissed and slapped his forehead.“Why did she have to die?” He questioned while he pointed his index finger at the door.Dariel pressed his lips together and shook his head. This was the least they were expecting.Meeting the woman in her own pool of blood was the last thing they were expecting to see.“I was only going to ask why she did it and who put her up to it,” King lamented again.“Did they kill her because of that?” Dariel asked.King shook his head and then pressed his lips together.All he would have done even if the woman had refused to tell him was threaten her. Not kill her.Whoever was behind this would probably not sit still while they got blown easily, he knew that much.—They waited a bit longer for the cops and when they did, King and Darien moved over to the side while the policemen rushed in.“Mr. Thorn!”King turned to look in the direction of the man who call
When it was time for dinner, Payton did not get out of her room and only lay in her bed till it was very late in the night.Tiana was worried about her but Payton did not say anything and only said that she was tired and nothing more.Earlier, a bit after King had his dinner, he had sent Tiana and then asked her why Payton did not have dinner.Tiana told him she did not know why either and later, King called his investigator to look into what Payton did after she left his company in the afternoon.…Payton rolled on her back and then sat up lazily.“Are you okay?” Tiana moved over to her.“Did I worry you? I’m sorry,” she said and stared at the wall clock.“It is past nine, you should have retired to your quarter,” Payton said as she stooped up.“No, not when you are like this,” Tiana shook her head.“Or did the boss offend you?” “King?” Payton furrowed her brows and stood up.“That man will be the last person to put me in this mood,” she burst into laughter.“Then…”Payton smacked h
King did not know what offended him more. Maybe it was him catching the woman from falling or the woman not pulling away from him and resting comfortably in his chest.How the hell did even catch her?!He pushed her away from himself rather roughly and watched as she struggled to balance herself.“If you know you can’t handle yourself, I don’t know why you drank then.”Maybe he knew…He had gotten the report that she had visited her father’s house after she left work and coincidentally, Max was there.King did not know what happened there but he knew that whatever might have happened had caused her to not have dinner and then get herself drunk this way.Did she get to talk to her ex?He hated that she was still in touch with that man and he wanted for nothing than to force word out of her mouth.“You met Max today, what did you talk about?” He asked.Payton raised her head to look at him while she staggered and then burst into tears.“He… he did not even look at me.”King pulled his b