Tom knew it was a set-up. Immediately, he saw Joseph cut in when Dave was talking, although he was not sure if Dave was part of the plan, but one thing was sure, Joseph had a hand in this mess he had found himself. The crazy aspect was that there is no way to prove it was ruined by someone and provide evidence. He was going crazy at every tick of the clock. “I think you should calm down, Mr. Dave Lin and let’s cool down to solve this”, he pleaded, but Dave would not have it. He was scarily furious, and his French accent took over. The more he was pleaded to, the more he was getting angrier and seeing this, Tom concluded that it would be best to reschedule a meeting instead of wasting all day pleading with him and calm him down on camera. He succeeded in calming him down at some point and told him, “Mr. Dave Lin, I promise you that we will sort this out, so let’s have a talk tomorrow instead of fighting like this”, making him cool down a bit. “Even if we have a meeting tomorrow, do no
Tom was still trying hard to persuade Dave Lin about the clothes when one of the staff ran in to inform him of what was going on with Amber on the TV. “Put the TV on”, he commanded with worries laced in his eyes. He had warned everyone never to tell her, but she ended up finding out on TV, a live broadcast at that. Everyone in the conference room turned to watch her speech with them and saw how the interviewer asked her about the ripped clothes incident. She hesitated for a bit before replying with a confused face but comported herself to answer the sudden question. “I am surprised that you heard about the ripped clothes incident. That is incredible, but there is nothing much to the ripped cloth. It must have come as a shock to the public, and it’s understandable because it was a decision we took without consulting the designer or giving the public notice. The clothes were sent to us just a few days before the exhibition and the designer himself confirmed that he would not be presen
FEW DAYS EARLIER Immediately, the employee, Joseph’s secretary, came to threaten to leave his presence. She thought about the offer, and it was honestly tempting, but thinking about how Amber pleaded with her before leaving to make sure everything went well, gave her some money and had always been a good colleague to her, she decided to forfeit the money she was promised and called Amber to inform her of what was going. “I can’t believe he’s going this far to ruin his hard work”, Amber, who couldn’t believe what she had just heard, remarked in shock. She was grateful that the employee considered telling her instead of just going ahead to do what she was told to do. She went silent for some minutes, trying to think of a plan, but couldn’t find one. “Send a picture of the clothes to me, I want to confirm something” she asked, and a few minutes later, it dropped on her phone. She had suspicions about the fabric being fake when she first got the clothes but wanted to confirm it once ag
Lawrence asked Amber out on a tour date with her the next day, and she readily agreed. She had promised to tour around Paris after her schedule and she was glad that he was offering to be the tour guide. She threw on washed jeans and a black dotted blouse, and a pair of black sneakers to match. “Wow! You look completely different from what I saw yesterday”, he complimented her when she got out of the hotel and she smiled. On getting into the car, she asked “How exactly am I different from yesterday?” she wanted to get the context behind the compliment in order to give the right expression. “Hmm… how should I put it? Yesterday was more of a femmie fatale, but today, you are giving the girlfriend vibe”, he responded, making her blush hard. He was absolutely right after all, she had dressed corporately for all her meetings and now that she suddenly switched style, it was normal for him to marvel at the drastic change because she looked a bit smaller and cute. “I guess it’s because I w
Charles and Joseph met up at their usual joint where Joseph was downing alcohol uncontrollably. He was furious about the mess that backfired on him. He didn’t have the slightest doubt that his plan would fall through. He was confident. “You should take it easy, you can always strategize again and shoot another shot. You will get sick if you down alcohol like that”, Charles warned, but he only responded with silence. “This is why I say you are pathetic sometimes, you let your emotion get the best of you. You should remain cool-headed all the time”, Charles lashed at him and removed the alcohol bottle from his front. “Then what am I supposed to do? Laugh like a crazy being? Cry? Or whine? I can only take the anger out on the alcohol, so return my bottle!” he roared at Charles, who wasn’t even moved a bit. “If you get drunk this night, you will wake up with a blissful head-splitting headache tomorrow and the loss will still be there to stick its tongue right at you, in the face. Instead
Although she had talked to her mother and confirmed that she was fine, sleep left her eyes for the night. She kept thinking about who could be responsible for the incident that had happened to her mom, but couldn’t pinpoint anyone. She finally had to rule it out as a coincidence when Josie’s call came through. “Hello Amber, is something going on with you? Someone is going around gathering information about you from the secretary forum. They said they are your old classmates, but it seemed suspicious because they could easily contact you at Shellhouse. I just wanted to inform you in case something is indeed wrong”, she revealed, and it dawned on her that there was no way the incident was a coincidence, someone was surely involved but who exactly it was is the puzzle she couldn’t put together. *** Amber’s mother was still confused about Tom’s presence but was more confused when he revealed himself to be her boss from work. He had always heard her talk about her boss once in a while, b
Eddy had always tried to talk to Emily after the incident with Amber, but for some reason he didn’t know, she was avoiding him. She rarely picks up his calls and even when she does, and he asks to meet up, she will come up with an excuse that she’s busy or has classes to attend. He hated how he was hanging between them because Emily had always been loud about how she couldn’t wait for him to break up with Amber, so she could have him for herself. Now that her wish had been granted, she didn’t want to talk to him anymore and that was provoking him already. He finally got the news that she was staying with Jessica and decided to go there to look for her. Thankfully, he met her on her way out, but she tried to avoid him. He rushed after her and yelled “Why are you avoiding me, Emily?” grabbing her, but she just shook his hand away. “What do you mean by avoiding you? I never did such a thing”, she replied, but he scoffed at her obvious lie. “If you are not avoiding me, then why did you
After Amber broke up with Eddy and took up Tom’s offer, she was really invested in arts that she went to public libraries, art exhibitions, museums and other art-related events in order to fit into the art world by gaining knowledge and experience, but little did she know Eddy was stalking her. He wondered why she suddenly became invested in things like that, but when he couldn’t find any answer to his question after tailing her for a few days, he finally planned to give up. He had ignited his car’s engine that afternoon when she came out of the house and got into Tom’s car on the other side of the street. “What is he doing here? Why is she getting into his car?”, he murmured, and instantly followed them when they took off. They never took it into account that they might be followed and just went their own way to the hidden house. He followed them down to the house and saw them as they giggled lovingly on their way in. He waited there till the time they finally came out at night and
Ever since Joseph became the president, he had been a big menace to the company. All of his decisions affected the company negatively, which led to the investors grumbling and so much loss occurred. When Chairman Holland couldn’t contain his disappointment and worry, he started to nag Joseph, who got angry at his nagging and when it became unbearable for him, he had him put on house arrest where he cut off his connections to everyone. He began his move to become the chairman and everything was set in place with the help of Charles. On the day of his announcement, he walked briskly into the company with the will he forced the Chairman to sign a few days ago, naming him as the next chairman by transferring all his shares to him. The meeting was ongoing when Tom marched in with the police, to their surprise. No one was expecting him to show up in that place and at that time. Eddy was also brought along to identify and confirm Joseph as the one who told him to hire a man who messed with
Over the months, Tom’s condition was increasing as he became vibrant and cheerful, unlike when the accident had just occurred. He enjoyed listening to stories of the past from his mother, so he knew some information about himself, and they were enough to know who he was. After seeing Amber in his articles over and over, she caught her attention and wondered who she was, but his mother only told him that she was his secretary without including the relationship they had because she was still angry about how she left abruptly. Anita had gone shopping that fateful day and one pretty lady shifted for her to tender her goods first even though she was not obligated to and in the process of thanking her, she saw that it was who she never expected. The shopping basket fell from Amber’s hand at the sight of Tom’s mother, but she was quickly helped by the stores employees who ran to gather the scattered goods. Anita wanted to ignore her, but she didn’t hesitate to tell her side of the story wh
Joseph called Charles, who had been released on bail out, for a party to celebrate his new position, and they laughed about Tom, who thought he was smart but ended up losing everything. Before the inauguration, Charles had learned that it was Tom who helped Joy break away from him, therefore making him and his father lose face in front of Chairman Kim. He was so furious about that and Joseph happened to call him at that time that Tom was on the verge of taking everything away from him. Charles and Joseph resolved to the option of causing him an accident on the inauguration day while making him feel he had the upper hand during the preparations. Joseph also pressured Eddy to make sure he blackmailed Amber to get rid of her from his side so that their plans would be perfect. Eddy was the one that provided them with the man whom they paid to mess with Tom’s car and everything went according to their plans without any hitch or trace to them. “Yo! I haven’t felt this elated in a while”,
Even though the video was doing so many things for her, she still tried to keep her cool and smiled at Tom, who was waiting to take her home. That very day, he decided to take her on a dinner date, which further complicated things for her because she was eager to get home before her anxiousness burst out in front of Tom. Throughout the dinner, he was laughing and smiling more than usual, maybe because he was anticipating the inauguration day, and she tried her best to match his smile while trying hard not to pick on the food in front of her. After a walk to the restroom, she decided to push the thoughts aside and just enjoy the time with him because there was a probability she would be resigning and fleeing to save his face on that day. He had worked hard for that day, and she wouldn’t allow her own past to ruin it for him. Since they have just a little time before the inauguration, she will have to use them wisely. She pressured him to go on dates with her every day, buy her things
At the sound of her mother’s footsteps approaching her room to check up on her, they split apart and bounced to the edge of the room where they both put on their clothes, and they took off in a flash. She placed the pictorial magazine on her dressing table in his hands as he pushed him into the chair and her mother came in at that instant. “You should open the door if you are inside instead of making me go through the stress of passcode. Why do you keep stressing me?” her mother ranted, and immediately her eyes landed on Tom, her lips folded themselves. She was not expecting to see anyone at home with her not to talk of Tom, because she knew they had been in an argument for weeks. Her feet retracted themselves as she went back to the door as quickly as she had come. “You said you won’t be coming until tomorrow, why are you here?”, Amber slammed her, and she had no choice but to stop and answer that the doctor attended to her quickly, so she just thought about coming home instead of
They both got into the car, and they rode for the first few minutes in silence before she tried sparking a conversation between them. “Wow! Did something change in your car? Something looks unfamiliar”, she said, but he only kept his face on the road in silence. “Is it the scent? The seat’s leather or the color of the belts? Something is weird. Has it been that long I got into your car?”, she blabbered, but as much as he wanted to give a response, he held himself back. She knew her tricks to make him talk were not working on him. It was then she realized the extent of the damage she had caused by her hard-headedness. She didn’t even give him any room for explanation, kept on assuming and believing things on her own accord. He also didn’t even make the effort to explain things which he didn’t blame him for because, at that moment, he had requested her trust which she failed in giving to him. The rest of the drive was in silence, and he finally pulled in front of her house after a tw
Even though Mr. Joe offered to drive her back. She declined flatly and told him she would find her way home. She ordered a taxi back home and the thoughts of how Tom could do something drastic at someone’s wedding overflowed her brain. As much as she wanted to laugh so hard at his priceless reaction when his karma came back to bite his ass, the despair the bride must be feeling wouldn’t allow her laugh as much as she wanted. For some reason, she knew within her that Tom only forced her to come, so she could witness the scenario as a payback for what happened back then at the company, but she was still not happy with him. His methods and approach were wrong to her. Nothing could justify the wickedness he had portrayed by ruining someone else’s wedding just for revenge. Time flew by, and she didn’t even know when the taxi would get to her house. The driver had to alert her that they were already at their destination before she jerked out of her deep thoughts. After making payment, she
Charles’ father, who is Chairman Henry, Chairman Holland Steve and Chairman Kim, who is Joy’s father, all gathered at Chairman Kim’s house to discuss the way further in both their politics and also the marriage that would take place between Charles and Joy, their children. The trio had been the first to start their various businesses in Chicago and had a very tight friendship as they grew up over the years. They all have their own successful and thriving businesses, which made them the top three richest in Chicago. They all planned to get their children married to each other in order to strengthen their bonds and also solidify their shares in the economy. Chairman Henry, who was planning to run for the mayor of Chicago, wanted the marriage to be held before the contest season so the support of the two families merging would be helpful in his mayoral race, so they decided to talk together and conclude on a date since the children had already agreed to get married and were already enga
That very day, Charles and Joseph were having that conversation. Tom had gone back to the kitchen to get himself some water when he heard them discussing Amber and what happened at the company. He wanted to burst in and punch Charles hard, but he restrained himself and thought this would be a perfect way to break his wings that he had been planning to get by getting married to a powerful family like Joy’s. He made sure to record everything that he had said without them knowing before moving back to his room. He had been thinking about how to use it since then and didn’t know until he remembered the wedding coming up. The thought of releasing it on their wedding day crept into his mind, but he also thought about how it would ruin the day of Joy, who is the bride. Kicking against the idea, he hid the recording in his safe at home until one fateful day he had to meet with one of the investors at a golf course. The investor received a call and took a twenty-minute excuse before leaving