Chapter 119CADENThe next morning, I woke up to see Lauren sitting on the bed as if she was waiting for me."Good morning." She greeted me with a smile when she saw that I was awake."Good morning babe. Did you sleep well?" I asked her with a smile and tried to kiss her but she turned her face away. She just nodded her head and handed me her phone.I rubbed my eyes and sat up properly on the bed and took her phone looking confused.I looked at her phone and pictures of Tessa and I in an intimate position. That wasn't all, there was also a video of Tessa showing the messy room of our clothes on the floor and herself in a towel."Did something happen between us?" I found myself asking no one in particular.I was dumbfounded.I turned to Lauren."This is not what happened okay? I can explain," I said but then I sighed. "There is nothing I have to say, I'm sorry." I apologized instead."Just tell me what happened because I believe you. I did feel bad after seeing these last night and it
Chapter 120CADENAfter taking the hot tea Lauren made, we both went upstairs.We both went to bed and when Lauren had fallen asleep, my phone beeped. I groaned tiredly.I didn't want to read the message but another beep came and I took my phone from the stand and sat up from the bed.I opened my message and I was surprised to see pictures and videos of Tessa and I in the hotel room.Just like the one Lauren had shown me.I called the number immediately and the person answered."You called immediately," Tessa's voice from the other side of the phone said mockingly."What was that about?" Was the first thing I said to her. I was literally fuming with anger."What do you think it is? It's a blackmail. Divorce your wife and come to me then I would delete them but if you don't agree, I would send it to the news station." Tessa stated."You must be out of your mind! What kind of delusional thoughts are those?" I almost yelled at her but I reduced my voice so I would not wake Lauren up and
Chapter 121CADEN“So, do you want the exhibition to go as planned or do you need some new changes or additional plan to add to it? We are almost at our finishing and after this, we are going to proceed to the last stage,” I said to Mr Lewis who I was going to do business with.“Yes we so need some slight changes. My team and I talked about it and reviewed it again base on the newest things happening and we decided to make some few readjustments.Hope that is okay with you?” Mr Lewis replied.I almost rolled my eyes. The last time we talked, I did tell him about this changes but he was adamant against it. If I didn’t say we should go over it one more time, what was going to happen?I sighed without saying anything.Chester gently nudged my arm and gave me a slight nod to remind that I haven’t replied Mr Lewis.I was still keeping him waiting.This changes that was going to be made will affect the planning team’s already done work.I sighed and nodded my head.Lewis was dad’s very good
Chapter 122TESSA I looked at the contract termination in front of me over and over again.Caden...no. The company just terminated my contract with them.I was sent the envelope today and since I arrived late, I got it late from the security.This felt like a dream. I never thought a day would come when Caden would not want me anymore for the company.I wanted the scandal about us to blow up but I failed as it did not work.Instead, the journalist that I gave the tip to was fired and he hasn’t been able to work in the entertainment industry again.He yelled and blamed me for ruining his life and career but I did not know what to do.Caden did warn me but I didn’t think he would carry out his threats.He also had all the pictures and video taken down and it didn’t even make the news headline.I did not not have to worry because I still had them in my phone.I saw another paper and when I took it out, I was surprised to see the content in it.Caden was suing me for defamation of charac
Chapter 123CHESTERI led the way as Tessa and Lily left. Just as we were about to enter the elevator, Lily slipped and I quickly caught her in my arms.We both stared intently at each other for a while, it was like a scene from a cliche romance drama."Uhm...sorry. Thank you," She said nervously and quickly stood up on her feet.She arranged her skirt properly and bent her head as if she could not stare at me."Yeah," I said and nodded my head. "What are you doing? Come in," Tessa said to Lily as she stopped the elevator from going closed."You go ahead, I'll stop here and head back to the office." I told them and left.I don't even know why I said I wanted to see them off when they didn't come here for business.I guess maybe it was because I was attracted to Lily.I didn't want to be judgemental yet that she is friends with Tessa. I wanted to hope that she will be different and that she would be a nice person too.I smiled as I went back to the office."Good thing happened?" Caden
Chapter 124CADENIt was a tiring week for both Lauren and I. Weekend came and Lauren looked more excited than I am."So, what do you think about changing your position in the company? You can't keep being a secretary when you clearly graduated from a prestigious university and read a nice course too. Don't you want to be the arts director?" I asked Lauren as we laid on the couch.I was sitting on the couch while Lauren was laying on it with her head on my thigh. We were watching an action movie but it just ended but her eyes were still fixed on the television."You don't have to worry about that, I'm not complaining being your secretary, am I? I'm really enjoying doing this work because I get to be in the same office with you and work side by side with you.I really am okay being your secretary," She said with a smile.I lifted her chin to look at me and bent over to her face and kissed her lips. She dug her fingers softly into my hair. It was supposed to be a light kiss but we ended
Chapter 125AIDEN"How is the collaboration going with Ace Enterprise going? Were you able to secure a contract with them?" Dad asked.I stood in front of his desk as he rolled on his swivel chair and clicked his pen.I sighed and almost rolled my eyes but I held myself from doing so or dad will get angry and start nitpicking at everything and that is the last thing I want."I'm still trying my best to convince them and increase the the contract to what they would like." I replied."So, you haven't been able to come to a conclusion yet? I gave you this project a month ago and there has not been any progress at all? I thought you would have been done with the crucial part and moved onto the project proper," Dad said.He looked disappointed."I will try my best, give me more time...sir." I stated calmly. I was almost pleading with him in a desperate tone but I wanted to still hold onto my pride."Caden would not take this much time if I were to hand over this project to him. Caden has a
Chapter 126LESLIEWhen we got to grandma's house, Caden's grandparents were happy to see us.His father and his brother, Aiden were also around.I greeted them, I greeted Aiden too but I tried my best to avoid him after that.He always had this look on his face whenever he stared at me and it made me uncomfortable. And Caden wasn't here with me.I was at the garden while the maids served dinner inside.I decided to look around the garden before I went inside.Just then, I heard footsteps behind me.I turned around swiftly and I came face to face Aiden.I made to leave but Aiden gripped me by my wrist."Let go! You're hurting me!" I snapped at him and removed my hand from his grip."You will have no choice but to come to me when I show you something about Caden. Your high shoulders that you carry about will go down," Aiden said with a taunting smirk."What are you talking about?" I asked him. I was starting to get curious."Come closer." He told me. I rolled my eyes and stood where I