“You mean that you want me to take over your father’s company? That's a really hard thing to do,” Elias stood up from the couch just as she told him what she had forgotten to tell him the previous day. She had told him how much her father had begged her to take over his company but she refused because she doesn't have any interest in business whatsoever and so Edward begged her to help him talk to Elias if he would take over his company since she was married to him. Well, she had to agree and here they were today. “Okay, why don't you want it? It's a pretty nice company.”“What? I don't know anything about business. How am I going to do it?”He sat back down on the couch and patted her hair. “You can learn business, can't you? It's not easy to run three companies at the same time, you know. I'll have to be busy as hell.”“I'm not doing it. If you can't then I'll go tell him you can't. He can give it to anyone he pleases.”“Really? You won't care if he gives it out to someone else wh
“Yes don. I understand.” He laid back on his bed as the line went off and threw his phone to the other side of the bed. Damn, Elias. Just when he thought that he would finally have a rest after going on a mission for days and chasing a certain someone who doesn’t want to see his face. Elias sure has bad timing. How could he make this mission now? “Urgg,” he groaned. His life was just so hard. He had been trying so hard to chase a woman and now this? Everything about his life is hard. His thoughts deviated to think of the woman that has been filling his thoughts for years now. Genevieve. Goddamn her. She doesn’t even let him sleep without invading his thoughts. All he ever thought about these days was Genevieve. He thinks about her like a fucking teenager. Suddenly he heard a knock on his main door and his eyes rolled. Who was it now? This was the reason he said his life was hard. Problems upon problems and disturbances every time. He felt that he shouldn’t answer the person on the d
Elias opened the door and walked into the room from the bathroom while rubbing a towel on his hair to make it dry quickly. Madeline was on the bed with her phone in her hands and she raised her face when she saw him, her eyes trailing him from up to down and her hand left her phone. “Why are you looking at me so intensely? You're not asleep yet.” He asked, wearing his night pants and getting into the other side of the bed. He placed his hands under his chest and turned his eyes to Madeline waiting for an answer to his question. “I was just staring. After all, you saw me with sane eyes, didn't you? That only means that you were staring too and that's the truth.”“Well, I couldn't help but stare at my wife who was looking at me too intensely.”“When will I resume my job?” Madeline suddenly asked. “What?”“It's been a week plus already since you stopped me from work. Isn't it time I resume? I have so many things to do there. Besides, I'm bored. I've been in this house for the past wee
*Next day*Entering the parking lot of his company, Edward Crayon got into his car and ordered his driver to drive the car to his home while he stared at the daily newspaper to see what was happening in the country. A lot has been happening and he didn't even know, clearly because of this past month’s incident. It has been rough on him these days but he was trying to put up with his struggles and act normal as if nothing happened. He flipped the pages of the newspaper as the driver drove smoothly to his mansion. The thought of his mansion made him frown. The once jovial and filled mansion was now empty and felt like a haunted house. At times that was what he fees. He feels like he was staying in a haunted house and the ghost there would chase him to death and never lets him have peace. Sometimes, he thinks that it was Madeline’s mother. She died in the house and he could only get curious and thought that she became a ghost who wants to harm him and make him live a miserable life beca
“Where do you think you are going?” Edward froze as he heard the cold voice from behind. He could run no further and before he knew it, he felt something cold on his temple, and his heart skipped. Who was the man and why was he placing a gun on his head? He fearfully turned his head to face the person while raising his hands and he gasped. It wasn't just one person, there were three standing behind him with their faces covered with a black arm robber mask leaving only their eyes, nose, and mouth visible to Edward. He swallowed and asked. “Who are you guys? What do you want from me?”Without saying a word, the men used their hands to signal him to move. He decided to act stubbornly and not move from his position but the glares they gave him were frightening. “Just do as we say if you don't want today to be your death day. Move, now,” the first man warned. Edward stood still and kept his strong facade while staring at the men, eyeballs to eyeballs without blinking. “I won't move un
“I guess that should shut you up, old man. Don’t fucking talk in my ears. I hate it,” the second man said and as if placing a cello tape on his mouth wasn’t enough, they tied his hands also and sat straight on the seat. His eyes turned back to the road and ignored Edward who was struggling with himself and trying to get the rope out of his hands and the cello tape out of his mouth. Cruel people they were but they don’t care. This old man was starting to get on their nerves and if it wasn’t that they wanted to get him to the destination safely, they would have hit him until he couldn’t say his name again.They drove past many streets and perhaps little towns and Edward wondered where exactly they were taking him to. If these men don't want money what then do they want? To kill him? He got shivers in his spine as he thought of that possibility. Were they going to throw his body into a river where no one would find his body and where the fishes there would feast on him? What were they goi
Edward felt like strangling the boy to death. If he feels pain anywhere like his neck or shoulder? Ridiculous question. His neck hurts like hell and whenever he makes a move, it drags him backward and the pain is almost unbearable. These cruel people wouldn't tell him what they want and they wouldn't let him go either. Who exactly were they? “You… I'm surely going to hang you to death if I come out of this place. I promise,” he threatened.“Can't wait. Well, that's if you come out of here alive.” The man folded his hands on his chest and gave a menacing look at Edward. Surely he wasn't going to come out alive after they were done with him. “Who sent you to kidnap me, huh, bastard?” Right! If these men don't want money, that only means that someone sent them to get him but who was that person? Who was the bastard who dared to kidnap him and bring him into this damn smelly place that reeks of cigars and drinks? He would surely break their legs if he gets out of this place in one piece
“Elias Johan?” He slowly muttered causing the man before him to smile although because of his mask, his smile wasn’t known to Edward. He pulled the mask away from his face and again stared at him watching his eyes pop out for a second time and gasped loudly for breath. This was a bit of fun. “Ethan Davis,” he gasped. This wasn’t making any sense at all. It makes no sense to him and he couldn’t stop staring at the man. No sense at all. How was this possible? While masked, the man before him was Elias Johan but without his mask, he was Ethan Davis. What was this? Is this two-identity stuff or what? Now it became clear to him one of the reasons Elias always wears his mask wherever he is going and whenever they meet. Ethan Davis was Elias's biggest rival in the business world and the two families ruled the business world. Now it was a shock to Edward that both Ethan Davis and Elias Johan were the same person. He used his other identity to reach the top of the business world and became
She searched Elias’s eyes for truth but found nothing. She doesn't know if to believe him or not. “Is she alright, doctor?” Elias asked. “Ahh, yes. Everything is fine.” The doctors decided to leave the couple alone and walked out of the hospital room. “Stop crying okay? Adalyn is alright.”“I'll stop crying.”“I'll bring her to you, hmm? Don't cry anymore.”He cleaned her tears before getting off the bed and walking to the other side of the room where little Adalyn lay with her eyes closed. She was obviously asleep. He carried her carefully in his arms and brought her to Madeline who readied her hands to carry her baby as tears of joy filled her eyes. “You’ll fall sick if you keep crying like this sweetheart.” Before she could take the baby from him, he retracted his hands. “Elias, give me my baby,” she whined. She was so eager to carry her baby in her arms knowing that she was fine and everything would return to normal. “Not until you stop crying. Clean your tears and I'll give
They all stopped at the realization that a cliff was right behind Anny and one step from her and she would be gone along with the little baby girl in her arms. Madeline almost fainted at the sight in front of her. She could feel her tears flowing freely and her eyes closing on her. If Genevieve wasn't holding her right now, she would have dropped on her knees as her legs were weak. “Anny please, don't do this,” she begged. Anny swallowed. Behind her was a cliff. She might die if she makes one wrong move. The thing is that, whether she gives them the can't or not, she was going to die. If she gives them the baby, Elias surely won't let her be. He was going to make her life a living hell for daring to kidnap his half day old baby. If she didn't give them the baby, she was also going to die as her feet were at the end of the cliff. One move and she was gone. She wasn't going to die alone. If at all she does here, this baby was dying before her. They must feel pain for their baby and re
“If you move any further, then I won't hesitate to shoot you,” Elias warned. He watched as the woman stood still as he pointed his gun at her while moving slowly closer to her. Abruptly, she turned the situation around and placed her hands on the child's neck while staring at Elias causing his eyes to widen. “Move any further and I will not hesitate to kill you daughter,” she warned. The child was crying very loudly by now and Elias stopped at her warning. Abby laughed at that. Now he would know who was the boss here. She was holding his crying daughter and that made her the one with the upper hand. Any move of his now, she was going to throw the baby to a side and while their focus was on the baby, she would run away. At least to save herself.“Who are you and what do you want?” Elias asked. “I guess you can’t recognize me. Look deeply. Stare at me for minutes and you would know who I am. I was really so close to you guys. Look, come on.”Elias’s mouth fell open as he did as she
The imposter ran with all her might away from the hospital when she saw that she was found out and Elias’s guards were coming after her. She ran with all strength in her. If she passed the road, they were going to get hold of her. Worst, the road was kind of secluded that day and cabs were not passing through the road. How was she going to get away from the guards who were almost getting to her? Her legs took her into the bush and she clutched the head of the baby to her chest and ran into the bush that has thick trees and roughy. Her feet moved quickly as she was desperate to get away from the men on her trail. “This damn baby. I should just strangle it to death,” she muttered as she kept on running. “But if I do, I’ll remain broke and won’t make any money. But with this baby, I’ll make a lot of money and pay for my plastic surgery.”Suddenly, she stopped and pulled her wig and face mask that was making her uncomfortable and her eyes hardened. The lady’s head was bald with no inch
“Okay, that's good. Talk to him and call me later.”Elias finished his call and slipped his phone into his pocket before walking back into the hospital room. His eyes scanned the room for the nurse who just came in and he frowned. Where the hell was she? The tray she brought in was there lying on the side of the bed and the nurse was not in the room. These nurses these days were surely lazy. Feeling something off in the room, his footstep accelerated as he walked to the baby’s crib and his eyes widened in shock. “Goodness! Fuck.”He immediately opened the door of the room and asked. “Did the nurse come out?” “No boss, is something wrong?”“Fuck! The baby is missing.” Their eyes widened as they heard what the boss said and immediately, they ran to the room and one of the guards called for backup. “Search every nook and cranny of the room.” Sweat broke out on Elias’s skin as he ran his hands through his hair. How exactly did this happen under his watch? There was no way that he cou
“Adalyn Johan,” the grandfather muttered. The focus of the family was solely on the baby that they didn't notice when Madeline fell asleep after watching them banter about her baby. “Grandfather already fell in love with the baby, I'm sure in years, Adalyn would be running around him.”“That's true. See how carefully he is carrying her.”“Adalyn is so cute that father can't help but love her.”“Grandfather is now a great-grandfather.”The people in the room remarked on the care with which the grandfather held the little girl. He held her like a trophy. A special trophy. He resisted the urge to thank the mother of the baby for giving them such a cute bundle of joy. Adalyn Johan was a bundle of joy that brought the whole family together and ended the animosity between them. Her birth was a blessing. He made a mental note to thank the mother of the baby after this ends. He was going to thank her and ask for forgiveness for his wrongdoings. The baby passed from the grandfather to Elias’
“Date of birth, November 16, 2022. 4:18 pm,” the doctor declared. “Wahhhhhhh, the baby’s cries were the only noise in the room as the nurses cleaned him a little before placing the baby on the chest of the new mother who patted her back and bend her head to stare at her before turning to look at Elias who was smiling at her. Their eyes gave many expressions as they smiled at each other while staring at the baby who had stopped crying. Elias stared at the baby on Madeline’s chest and his heart filled with indescribable emotions. Their princess was here. Their own baby. The baby who they were going to give all their love and affection to. Their very own firstborn. The nurses came to Madeline’s side and took the baby from her to go wash and dress him up. “You did well, sweetheart,” Elias whispered into her ears and cleaned the drop of sweat from her forehead before. He could see that she was tired but still wanted to hold her baby and feed her before succumbing to darkness. “Our bab
“Isn’t it time yet? It’s been hours already,” Madeline cried as she rolled her hips on the big pregnancy ball that helps with childbirth. It’s been a month already and her water broke some hours back when she was sleeping. Elias was the one who noticed it and asked her so they rushed to the hospital. But here they were, fourteen hours already in the hospital but the doctor was still saying that it wasn’t time for her to start labor yet and she still has to wait for a few more contractions. She has been having contractions for fourteen hours now and the doctor still tells her that. The cramps and pains were making her almost go crazy. “Just some more contractions ma’am. It’s not yet time,” the attending nurse answered. Few more? That was what they have been saying for hours now. And this stubborn baby refuses to start coming out. Just as she was about to lash out at the nurse, she saw Elias coming towards her with a can of water in his hands. “Here, have some sweetheart,” he opened
“Want me to show you the gift I got for you?” Elias asked, walking Madeline out of the house, her eyes tied with a white cloth. Their guests were gone already and just the two of them in the condo. Elias held her hands and guided her steps as she couldn't see. “Where are you taking me?”“You'll see.”He guided her to the open garden at the back of the house and stopped. “Ready to see your gift?” “Stop wasting time already and show me the gift.” Her curiosity was top-notch right now and she so much wanted to see what exactly he got her that was different from the others that he had to bring her somewhere apart from inside the house to display. She was so curious to see what it was. “Okay then, are you sure you're ready?”“Elias... I am. Open my eyes already.”“If you say so.” His hands moved to her eyes and removed the white cloth. “That's your gift.”Her eyes widened as she stood frozen on the spot and stared at her gift. Goodness. This was what Elias got? Her mouth opened agape