YOU ARE ‘LOW’Ramon scoffed and then adjusted his crumpled shirt and stood up straight before the man who also adjusted his shirt.“What do you want from Elena? It’s been six fucking years. Why are you lurking around her!”“I see that she has told you everything about me,” Zeke nodded his head.“Which is why I agree to the fact that you are indeed a devil incarnate.”“I like that,” Zeke nodded his head and pointed his index finger at the man. “You are smart.”“I am not here to toy with you. Back off from Elena!” He snapped as he watched Zeke walk to the washing hand basin.“You do not get to tell me what to do,” Zeke opened the tap and then rinsed his hands.“Back off from her. She is mine.”Zeke turned off the tap, grabbed a tissue, and then turned to face Ramon, his brows snapped together.“Is she a toy?” he asked as he dabbed his hands with the tissue paper.“What?”“Is she a toy that you could own?”“Do I look like I care?”“If you want her, earn her. Is that not how it sh
“What do you mean by you don’t want to attend the ball event?” Elena ignored and leaned comfortably in the cushioned chair as her parents dropped their eyes on her after Aria asked.“You don’t wanna answer?”“Oh, come on, Aria. Do I need to be there?” She frowned.“Of course! Many affluent business tycoons will be in attendance! You should be there to represent your company too,” Aria said.“There is no need for that.”“You might not know, but the event is really not about balling or partying, okay? It is about being exposed to new people who could help you and your company in return. You don’t understand the whole game?”Still, Elena remained unmoved as she stared at the blank space.It’s been five days since she received the invitation parcel and she had said nothing to her family because she believed that she would not be going.Ariana suddenly talking about it tonight was surely not what she wanted.“Besides, it will change people’s perspective about you!”“Which is?”“You know e
“Yes, room 303. Alright.”After Aria dropped the call, she hurried to the other room where Elena was, leaving the make-up artists in the room.“She’s almost here.”“Okay,” Elena nodded her head as she stared at herself in the mirror again.“I can’t believe we’re getting ready in a hotel room when we have a house. A mansion!” Elena smacked her tongue and turned her head to look at Aria.“If she comes to the house and meets the twins, what will you say? Will you say they are your kids?”“You said you are not hiding them,” Ariana frowned.“I am not.”“It seems to me like you are.”Elena swallowed and exhaled before she shook her head.“If she meets them now, she will know they are her brother’s children, which makes her their aunt. I don’t want them attached to each other. Not yet, at least.”“You said you liked Chloe. At least, she is the only person in that family that you liked so much.”“And?”“It does not matter if she meets them, does it?”“She could tell her family!” Elena snappe
When Elena said he had never said a word to her all through the three years she was married to their family, she meant it, literally. She was not exaggerating.Jeremy was neutral about her. He was apathetic in everything that concerned her and not to lie, she had never bothered about him.In fact, she could say that he took after his mother.Brenda was quite uninterested in her too. All she cared about was her son having a wife which would boost his reputation and he got one.Whether they loved each other or not was the least of her concerns.Maybe what Elena was grateful all through her marriage was that she didn’t have trouble with her in-laws like she had thought she would.Maybe she would have run away a long time even before the three years if the Russo were unnecessarily bad to her.But then again, if they really liked her and showed that they were on her side, maybe what happened might never have.She blamed no one, them especially.She did not even care about them!But staring
His hands in his pockets, Zeke’s lips tugged into a soft smile as he sighted Elena from where he stood and a sigh of relief escaped his lips.He ignored the people who turned to pay him respect and then some who stopped dancing just to acknowledge him and then walked gently to Elena.The woman looked like heaven. He does not know what heaven looks like but he was sure that she could pass for one.She was very beautiful. Maybe too much, in fact.She glowed effortlessly under the light, her eyes reflecting the chandeliers’ sparkle and amplifying the room's sense of opulence.“Elena,” he called her name softly as he stopped in front of her, not minding the people who were looking at him, and somehow, in this extravagant ballroom, it seemed as if the world outside was fading away and all that was left is the magic of the moment—— The music, and the enchantment of her beauty.“Elena, you…” he started, about to say when suddenly, someone got in between them and his face hardened at the sudd
Elena took another glance at her sister who kept her head turned out of the window throughout half their journey home and she let out a soft sigh.She reached out to her, dropped her hand on her hand, and then waited for her sister to pay attention to her which she did almost immediately.“Are you good?” She asked her.Ariana let out a long exhale before she answered “Sure.”“Are you still thinking about… uhm… Zeke?” “That man?” Ariana frowned in disgust and adjusted in her seat.“I am thinking about the man I danced with at the ballroom!” She defended like it was some big deal to be thinking about Zeke. “Who?”“You know that handsome man I was dancing with?” She asked, hope flashed through her eyes.“Who? I did not take a look at his face at all!”“Oh, sister!”“Why? Did he do something wrong?”“Of course!” Ariana exclaimed.“Really? What is that?!” Elena sat up.“He took my heart!”A short silence fell in the car after Ariana said and they both burst into laughter.“Excuse me?”“T
Chloe paced to and fro in her room while she kept her eyes glued to her phone, looking up things on the internet in order to clear her doubts.“But… I am so certain of what I saw,” she soliloquized as she took her index finger in her mouth. About a couple of hours ago while she had dressed Elena up, she noticed a scar on her belly. Under her belly to be precise.She had looked up all the surgery marks that could leave such scars but none of it looked like it till she searched for a cesarean section.Chloe was torn.Only people who had given birth through cesarean section could have such a scar but why did Elena have it?When she noticed it, she dropped her finger on it gently and tried to caress it before Elena slapped her hand away rather sensitively and turned away from her.“I can do this myself,” she had said before snatching the dress from her.It was because she acted unbothered about the scar by not asking what it was and by not looking curious that she left it be and let her
“Now, talk.”The moment the car entered Zeke’s perimeter and the car pulled into a garage, he had said.Jeremy ignored him till the car stopped moving and then sat upright, opened the door, and then turned his head to look at his brother.“In the car? At least, have some respect for me,” he rolled his eyes and then got down from the car.“God, your house!” He exclaimed as he strolled to the building while Zeke walked past him.“Do you not think it is quite embarrassing that as your brother, I have not been here before? You have never allowed me.”“It is still a surprise that you think I see you as my brother, Jeremy,” Zeke smacked his tongue and then walked away.“Why should I not see you like that? We are brothers. Our mother birthed us, from the same womb, separate years, though.”Zeke turned around, dropped his eyes on Jeremy, and dipped his hand in his pocket, “You are NOT my brother.”“Okay, okay, I hear you,” he waved his hand at him and then watched as the man walked ahead of h