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JACE'S POV“I said weaknesses not strengths!” I growled as I stood up and begin pacing the office that was now Kai's as Frank had been moved to another office. I was frustrated, and that was putting it lightly. Days after Victor had called me, I had been unable to reach him. It was like a one way device that he used to call. Kai had tracked down his location to one of the shell companies that he used but I couldn't go there as it would have been just a stupid move. And here was Kai telling me how Victor was almost impossible to beat, how if I didn't take time to think about everything Victor was going to ruin my company. There was no way I could go to law enforcement, there was already proof that he had the law enforcement agency in his back pocket and kept them on salaries. I couldn't use force, Victor already had lot of forces behind him, I'd be ruined before I made a dent on him. But then there was something else that was going to work but I needed to find the perfect time and pl
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CAILA'S POVIt was few hours to when the result of the competition was going to be announced and saying I was scared was me lying… I was nervous… scared… and had several emotions running through me all at once. Liam had lied to me. But in his words, “I knew you wouldn't have submitted your work if you knew it was going to be this big.” Yes, he had intentionally decided not to tell me that I had just submitted my work to a very big National competition that was going to be judged by lots of critics. But he wasn't wrong about me not submitting if I knew about it… and to think the announcement was going to be made on national TV. I was glad there weren't going to announce the last person though… I would have died from the embarrassment. “Come on, breathe,” Liam said to me when he saw the look in my eyes. I knew I had gone pale. This was why I hated competitions. But I was here to learn from the people that won. I was sitting on the sofa beside Liam in his office watching the announceme
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CAILA'S POV“Are you okay?” Liam asked We had decided to meet in his office and go through my mails and also create a draft for the way I was going to announce that he was my agent so things could pass through him before getting to me. The message I had gotten from Victor the previous day had shaken me up badly and I had postponed the meeting with Liam till the next day, but even then, I was having a hard time focusing. I have won the competition, I had gotten the money, I should be happy but I wasn't… the broadcast wasn't just aired in a few states in the US but also around the entire country and some other countries and Victor had gotten wind of it.“Yes, I'm okay. It's just overwhelming,” I lied to him. I couldn't tell him the real issue. He didn't look like he could help with that type of issue and I couldn't drag him into my personal problems. “Are you sure?” He asked, his eyes never leaving mine. “Yes, I've never being in this kind of situation before and it's driving me re
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CAILA'S POVI had tried to sleep but it was impossible because my brain just found a way to keep bringing up Victor's face. I had dreams about him laughing at my attempt to ignore him, taunting me.This was the first time in a very long time that I had been unable to sleep in twenty four hours. I had shut my eyes for a few seconds but then it just kept opening. I was tired but I couldn't find sleep.I had intentionally stayed hidden. I was either locked up in my room or locked up in the work space, intentionally hiding from Aria. And I had not seen Jace for a while and even though there was a part of me that wanted to see him, it was better he stayed away for now because I knew my face was going to betray me. It was going to tell him about everything that had been happening to me while he was away and my lips would follow.I checked the time and it was only a few minutes to five am, but I knew that sleep wasn't going to come. If I was going to sleep, I would have slept in the night. I
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CAILA'S POVIf I had felt tension before, it was nothing compared to the way I was feeling after Victor's text. I had lost a night of sleep again and every message I got seemed to cause a mini heart attack. He had sent the message at six pm the previous day and it was already five pm of the next day and I had not gotten any sign of what he had done. Was he toying with me? He was definitely toying with me. It was like he was watching me through a screen and enjoying my agitation. “You still seemed disturbed Caila,” Liam noted. He had been trying to take me out on a date for days but I kept postponing it. I had finally decided to go with him to the breakfast spot he had taken me to before. Everything smelled great but when I placed it in my mouth and tried to chew, it just tasted bland. I had lost my appetite. And even as I was with Liam, I was still distracted. I turned to look at him and saw the genuine concern on his face. He looked like he could just take my problems away if I ju
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CAILA'S POVJace came into my room later that night to ask me about what had caused the fight because Aria was not saying anything to him; then I told him to go ask her because she was the one that had brought the aggression to me.The next morning as early as 7am, I called Liam. My fingers had flown to my phone on their own accord and dialed his number. I had tried to cancel it when I realized how it could count as me disturbing him but it had gone through already. “Are you okay?” he asked immediately he picked the call. “I was wondering if I could meet you at your place? This house is annoying right now.” I said totally ignoring his question. “Like right now?” he asked and I could hear the surprise in his voice but it was expected. Call someone I had barely known for a month about visiting them before eight am? That was strange but I didn't want to be at the house.“Is it too early?” I asked, hoping that he didn't tell me no. The last place I wanted to be was here and I couldn't
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JACE'S POVFor days I had tried to have a quiet moment with Caila so I could know exactly what was going on with her but she was making it impossible. When I was free, she was either holed up in her room, or outside the house or locked up in her work space. The argument she had with her sister just made it worse. Aria's sudden distance was even more infuriating. We had made significant progress over the past few weeks, and I thought we were finally on the same page. But now, she seemed to be pulling away, leaving me frustrated and confused.Her new habit of leaving for work before dawn was particularly annoying. I'd wake up to go to her room and find her bed arranged like she had not slept in it, the only thing I was left with was the lingering smell of her perfume. She'd return home late, locking herself in her room without so much as a whispered greeting.The masquerade ball, which was just around the corner and we were going together and I had to find a way to be on the same page
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ARIA'S POVI had avoided Jace for a few days but I was annoyed that he had not even tried to reach out to me when he knew I was intentionally staying away from him. I had been thinking about how long it had been since we had been intimate and my heart clenched… he hadn't even kissed me for days. No kisses, no touches, nothing. Then there was Caila who was going behind our back to talk about our situation and the way she had tried to lie about it like I didn't know just to make it more infuriating.I was about to go for a lunch break when Rita rushed into my office. “Is everything alright?” I asked with raised brows. “I should be asking you that,” she said, looking for the remote and turning on the TV. “... Jace of Sharpe Tech might have to stand in court soon,” the reporter said and moved to another news. “Wait, what?!” I asked Rita as I got up. Why was Jace going to be standing in court? Rita motioned for me to sit down. “Do you remember the Darius issue Jace was involved in som
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THREE YEARS LATERSilent nightHoly night…… Was playing from the hidden speakers but the estate was anything but silent. The air outside was freezing cold with several inches of snow but the house was warm and cozy. The scent of pine from the Christmas trees and the sweet aroma of freshly baked gingerbread cookies filled the air. It was a perfect winter afternoon at the Sharpe estate. Bright twinkling lights surrounded the whole estate and snow was gently falling outside. Caila and Liam stood hand in hand at the entrance of the large room, looking at the scene before them. The warmth of the gathering reached them even from across the room, it was the sound of family chatter and laughter. Their son, Ronan, tugged at Caila's coat urging her to come with him."Momma, is Cacacia not ready yet?" he asked, his eyes wide with excitement which was amazing because had not seen her before. He had just heard his parents talk about her, telling him that he had a cousin.Caila smiled softly, b
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CAILA'S POVI was finally going out on a real date with Liam after he had asked me out. It was also the first time that we would be a couple in the eyes of the public and not go out on dates in private places. I didn't want to feel nervous, I actually had no reason to be nervous but I was probably because it felt too official. He was downstairs talking to Jace about things I didn't care about and I was just here, delaying. Even though Jace never wanted me to “rush” out of the house, I still needed to give him and Aria that privacy now that they were becoming serious. But as he said, he wasn't pushing me out so I still had time to think about it and make proper plans.Well… let's do it. I brushed my hands over the evening dress that I wore and stepped out into the sitting room were he was waiting. When he saw me, he stood up and his eyes immediately looked onto mine and a small smile spread across his face, the kind that made my stomach do flips. “Hey,” he greeted, walking toward me
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ARIA'S POVI loved Jace to the moon and back. I couldn't even imagine that there was a time when I hated him. He had also been very supportive of my plans. Soliel Vineyard was beginning to grow faster and the public assault on our image because of the video of Mr. Sleighman had stopped. He had also helped me in providing a means to help the people around the site of the company.Then he had stood in front of national TV to confirm how much he loved me. Now we were going to our first public event together. After the statement Jace had made in front of the court some days back, several investors had reached out to him to be a part of Sharpe Tech's success because he was now seen as trustworthy. The company's shares had also increased rapidly, and the clients they handled were now bigger and better than ever before because of this. So in less than a few weeks, Sharpe Tech was known as the greatest tech company in Europe.Seeing this as an achievement for his years of suffering and har
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JACE'S POVAfter several weeks of waiting, Caila and I had finally signed off on the divorce papers, the finalization of our one-year arranged marriage contract, and just to make it official, I and Aria had also signed it off.The weight of keeping my love for Aria away from public eyes had been heavy for so long, but now, with marriage officially over, there was a strange sense of relief I was having. One thing was clear though, it was the realization that the moment the door to that chapter closed, my love for Aria was just beginning.I couldn’t imagine my life without Aria, it was just going to be incomplete. In the last few months, she’d become an essential part of my world, I did not even notice it at first but she was like a light I couldn’t ignore. Now, I was committed to making up for the past, for all the time that I had treated her and her sister lightly, now I wanted to give her everything I could. Because she deserved everything good.But I wasn’t entirely free from my pas
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ARIA'S POV Now that everything was settling down and we were counting down to days to when we could finally take our relationship public, I and Jace were mostly indoors in each other's arms. I thought that my father's action was going to affect me for longer but it had not, and I knew it was as a result of Jace's consistent presence around me. I didn't have the spare time to think about Mr. Sleighman. Caila had Liam and she had been flashing the brightest of smiles and it was safe to say that she was okay.It was a Saturday morning and I was lying on Jace's chest and we had been like that since we woke up and Jace had not even complained. The only thing he did was place a kiss on my forehead, cheeks and lips from time to time. The change between this Jace and the one I met some months back was different, it was almost like there were two different people.“There has been a lot of change with you,” I said. “In what way exactly?” he asked.“The Jace I know wouldn't be lying on the b
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CAILA'S POVWhen Liam stopped by the road side and came to open my side of the car door I was shocked. He had said we were going on a date, so my mind couldn't process the reason why we were stopping in the woods. But he told me to trust him, then held my hand and led me down the path. It wasn't long before he stopped in front of a lake where a boat was waiting. He turned it on and drove us to a lake house that was at the center of the lake. I couldn’t stop the smile that spread across my face when Liam took my hand and led me inside the cozy lake house. It was just the two of us… no distractions, no noise, no one else, just us. It was the kind of privacy we both needed at that point. I loved the atmosphere of the place already. “Watch your steps before you fall into the lake. There are crocodiles waiting,” Liam cautioned. “What?!” I screamed as I ran away from the side of the lake house and towards him. The last thing I needed was to get eaten by a crocodile. But when I held on
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CAILA'S POVWe sat down in the dinning to eat breakfast together for the first time in a long while. It was two weeks after everything that happened. The men that Victor had dealings with were beginning to get caught and some of the victims of the trafficking were reconnecting back with their families. As I ate, I couldn't help but notice the tension in the air. Jace was eating slowly while Aria was flipping things around on her plate. She had been doing that since we began eating and I knew her too well to let it pass. “Do you want to keep doing that or do you want to tell me?” I asked her.“There's nothing really,” Aria mumbled. “Right!”“Okay, I didn't want to tell you about this earlier because I didn't want to affect our relationship again and I know how you Jace have been and...”“Just say it,”“Me and Jace have been having sex,” she replied. I stared at her, expecting her to continue to elaborate but it seemed like that was the only thing she wanted to say. For a moment, I
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ARIA'S POV“Yes, I did it,” My father said immediately as I narrated what Jace told us to him. The way he even said it, with an air of authority like he didn't do anything wrong. “You know when I saw you walk in, I thought that you have finally seen that no one else but me should be CEO. And then you come and start talking about an old issue?”Jace, who had been leaning on the wall, grunted with disgust. “You would never be CEO again, you don't deserve it,” Jace said. My father turned and stared angrily at Jace. “You think you can come into my home and...” my father started to say but I cut him off.“Why?” I asked calmly. I could already see that he was gone past redemption at this point but I needed to be sure that he had some reasons. Some good reason that I was too blind to see. “You'd never understand,” he replied. “You'd never understand how sacrifices work. When you have to give things you love just to get what you need.” he said sadly. “Sacrifices? Love?” I scoffed as I got
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CAILA'S POVI was happy when Victor was caught and sent to prison. It meant that my budding career was going to begin to progress more rapidly now that I had no one trying to bring me down. But then he had told me about how my father had decided to give me out to Victor Hayes. Victor Hayes! Someone that was known for human trafficking and other forms of violent crimes? It wasn't loud that Victor had been into all those things before but before agreeing to give me off like that, the least he would have done was to make sure he wasn't giving me to the wrong person. I was so pissed I didn't know how to react. Aria was quiet but I knew she was just as pissed off as I was. We wanted to go to his house immediately but Jace said we should go the next day when we were calmer, but I knew nothing was going to change even when we got calmer. Just then, my phone rang. The worry disappeared from my head for a second and my heart did a little flip when I saw that it was Liam. He had not called a
