“The twins know about Zeke.”Ramon stated, as Elena walked him to the car and she stopped walking.“How did you know?”She asked and turned to look at him.“They asked if I knew Zeke.”“And what did you say?”Ramon swallowed before he shook his head and smiled, “I don’t know him.”He watched as Elena switched into panic mode for about thirty seconds before he moved over to her and then dropped his hand on her shoulder.“What are you worried about?”“They have never talked about him, and now…” she exhaled and slapped her forehead.“All of a sudden, they wanna know him.”“They are just kids.”“They don’t even act like one, Nathan especially!” Ramon laughed at her words and then nodded his head. He could testify to that fact.“They would soon get over it. You said they are resuming school tomorrow, then, they will stop talking about him before you know it,” he tried to calm her by caressing her shoulder gently but she shook her head.“Are you really talking as though you don’t know them
As soon as Zeke entered the office and saw the man with Elena, his facial expression turned cold and he hissed out unconsciously.Both raising their heads to look at him, they returned to what they were doing for a while before Elena raised her head to look at him again.“Were you a timekeeper in college?” She glanced at the time.“You can’t blame a man who only knows how to be punctual and accurate,” he entered fully, strolled the chair, and then settled on the empty seat opposite Ramon.Ramon did not also show his displeasure in seeing the man. It was so evident that he hated that he was around Elena again.“Or maybe he was killed in his past life for being overly late or something,” he shrugged his shoulders off rather sarcastically.“You think that is funny?” Zeke raised his brows with a straight expression at the stupid ‘joke’ the man had just made.“Is it not?”“You need help if you laugh at something like that,” he shook his head and adjusted his tie.“That should be the other
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