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"Kylian?" His mother's voice came with an unexplainable pain in his temple. He was too tired to tell her to stop calling his name that loudly. It took him a while to realize that he was lying in a hospital bed. His mother's face was a bit blurry at first before he could see every detail clearly."Mom?" He barely got out a whisper. He slowly recalled all the events that had led to him being there at that time. Slowly and painfully, he recalled his shameful trip and fall, in front of all of New York. "How'd I get here?""Some girl at the scene of the fall was able to call the ambulance to come get you. The fall was really severe, you had a concussion, Kylian."Maya...he thought if she could have been the one that had called the ambulance to come get him. Or had she left him for dead? No...he doubted that."How are you feeling?" His mother asked with concern and worry."My head hurts, real bad..." And my heart too. He wished he could say that out loud, but was just too weak. He didn't k
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The news of Francis being alive had kept Emma on her toes ever since. Just when she had been relieved that he was out of the picture for good, he resiliently popped back into it. He just wouldn't be cropped out that easily."I'm here to see Detective Francis Burke," she said to the nurse at the receptionist, clutching the bouquet of flowers dearly as she put up the demeanor of a compassionate visitor."And you are?" The aged nurse looked up from her desk through her round-rimmed spectacles with a rather prolonged suspicious gaze."Emma..." She said, "his girlfriend." She knew they wouldn't let just anybody see a detective. "I have waited long enough to see him, could you please let me?" She felt disgusted by the extent to which she had to abase herself.The nurse looked at her for some seconds, analyzing her and the situation, scanning for any hints of falsehood. Then a mischievous smile suddenly came on her face."Room sixty-two," she said, giving her a card, "don't try anything too
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"Chloe, just hear me out," Max could feel himself trembling inside out as the moment had come sooner and more unexpectedly than he had expected it to come."I'm listening," she clearly didn't look like one who was. She looked like one who was waiting to catch him by his words, and that fierce look on her face made him even more tense."It happened over the weekend—""Oh... I see why you were so keen on having me go before you. So you can have all the room to have your little weekend squabble.""You know that's so not true. Something really did come up at work." Max said trying to hold her hand in a bid to give her some level of assurance which she wasn't willing to take as she pulled her hand away from him."What is true? I don't even know anymore," she raised her hands in a confused feat of rage. "Who's she?" Max exhaled heavy pressure-filled air as he was about to drop the bombshell, "She's Debby...my ex." He bowed his head low in regret. That moment was bound to come, and all he c
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“Hey,” Maya said. There was something about her gaze through those glasses that Kylian just found somewhat amazing.“Hey,” Kylian replied, his eyes sought for his mother so he could see her facial expression. He knew it was an odd moment, him meeting with the woman who had put him at the risk of losing half his possessions to Emma.“I guess I will have to leave you both to yourselves for a while.” Mrs. Kincaid said as she was about to slip out of the room. “I’d like to go get something to eat.” She gave Kylian a cognitive wink as she left. He felt some relief at that.“How are you doing, Kylian?” Maya said, taking the seat where his mother had sat.“Well…I couldn’t sit up and talk two days ago,” he said, “look at me now— sitting and talking.”“That’s great to hear,” Maya said putting her hand on his, “I’m really sorry that you had to go through all this at once. Must be really hard on you.”“You don’t have to be sorry. I owe you an apology, for not letting you know the truth about who
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“Damn it, Chloe!” Three tedious weeks had gone by and Max hadn’t been able to get through to Chloe. She wasn’t willing to hear anything he had to say, he felt totally excommunicated— a sentence which he believed that he had completely deserved. He had expected her to at least pick up the phone this time to give him some glimmer of hope.Nothing else made sense in his days and nights anymore since she’d thrown that ring at him. It felt like he had his entire world thrown at him with it. He had nothing else to look forward to after dreadfully long hours at work. All his plans of marital bliss were about going down the drain, but he wasn’t going to give up without a fight. He would prove it somehow to Chloe, but for the time being he had to take care of business.“Mr. West,” Mr. Singh’s smile was wide and brilliant. “Thank you for coming over on such short notice.”Max had to put on his best smile as he reached out for a handshake. He remembered that he also still kept the secret of his
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“That slut…” Mrs. Kincaid was cut short as her seething emotions wouldn’t let her complete her words. “That slut…has really got the nerve, pulling off this one on us. Is there anything that can be done, Harry?”“We might still have a chance with the case if we can get anything more incriminating that can be used against her,” Harry said, turning slowly in his chair, with a slightly worried look on his face. “Of which I believe we are yet to find.”Kylian was silent throughout the meeting in the attorney’s office. All the talking made his bandaged temple hurt. It dawned on him how desperate Emma was to ruin him and how unprepared he was for the battle. He constantly weighed what he had to gain and what he stood to lose and questioned if all the wear and tear was worth it.“She has us right where she wants us,” he hated watching his mother tear herself apart because of the entire case. He wished she could buy into his idea of just letting go, but then, he thought it better to stay quiet
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“I’ll have to call you back, Chloe.” Ollie had hung up before she knew it.“Oh…” Chloe said. She hadn’t expected to hear such a thrilling story of what had gone down the day before.Chloe put her phone on the kitchen table and glanced up at the ceiling and down. What the heck am I doing? She was clueless about what to do with the long weekend— an awfully long weekend without Max.She had been too pained for the past couple of weeks to realize that she missed him. The feelings of hurt had subsided and now she felt the all-too-familiar feeling of loneliness and boredom haunting her in her house— which Max had helped her get. Everything around her just seemed to remind her lonely broken heart of him.Repeatedly, all through the past two weeks, she had told herself that she would consider moving out but had been too caught up in work to even make a phone call. Besides that, the thought of moving for the third time in a year deterred her. The excuses kept going on and on till she’d wake up
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Chloe looked on, watching the video expectantly. She was already wishing that could salvage the situation and probably save their relationship.“What do you want?” Max said in a serious, angry tone she had never seen him display towards her.The brunette lady he was seated with in the video had such a deceptive beauty which made her feel almost intimidated. Her lecherous-looking lips glowed with her lipstick. She could understand why Max had been tempted in the first place, although it was inexcusable. She disliked the fact that her face was all she would be seeing throughout the footage.“I just wanted to see you, Maxy,” she said. Chloe felt like shoving those words back down her throat. She appeared like she was trying to allure with every single move she made. And it was irritating.“Could you just cut the bullshit out, and tell me what you really want?” Max sounded impatient and a bit uneasy.“I’ve told you already,” she said, “all I want is you, Max. Nothing else.” She put her ha
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Chloe pushed the doorbell of the door where she once lived. It felt like ages she’d been at Emma’s doorstep. The number of calls and the text messages she had gotten at the wedding made it feel like it had been really something urgent.She’d had her doubts about making that visit. The last time she remembered, Emma had wanted her downfall so badly that she had gone to the extent of allying with dangerous criminals, even putting herself in danger in the process.After a while of waiting, she pushed the doorbell yet again. She heard some footsteps trotting steadily in her direction. She held her breath in anticipation as she couldn’t tell why she had been called out there.“Chloe,” Emma said, “You’re here.” She hadn’t expected to see her after all.“Yeah, I’m here.” Chloe’s eyes ran a quick subtle scan through her. Her wandering eyes were caught by the little bump in her belly. She was shocked as she hadn’t been told that part of the story. Max…come on. He had sadly left out that import
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“I look stupid!” Ollie exclaimed in a mild tone of disappointment as she looked in the mirror one more time. “I look like a total goof.”“No, Ollie, you don’t,” Chloe protested as it had taken her and the costumier a considerable amount of time and energy to get her in that. “You look elegant.”Chloe looked over at the other girls on the bridal train as they silently complained about Ollie being way too vocal about her own complaints. And her dress too.“Elegant? Are you kidding me right now?” Ollie seemed like she’d never be satisfied, even though she was just a few minutes from walking down the aisle.“I’m not. Besides they’ve put in their best to give you the best, so it’s best that you just…” Chloe was out of words as she walked up to Ollie from behind, her tone becoming more and more hushed as he advanced. “Give them your best reaction. The dress is just perfect, Ollie.”The glistening white wedding gown had a very elegant flay. Maybe just too elegant to the point it puffed proud
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Emma was getting uncomfortable in her seat. How had Kylian gotten his hands on all that? It was probably Francis, but how had he gotten to Francis?Her attorney was totally unprepared for that sudden twist in the case. It had been a walkover up until then. That woman’s testimony had them all dumbfounded— she, her mother, and her attorney. They were all thrown in disarray.“Emma, when did this happen?” Her mother, Amelia questioned from behind in a whisper. She had no answer that could appease her mother’s curiosity without implicating her as well. Her lips seemed to shut off their own accord.She knew she was about to face cruel music which she hadn’t rehearsed its dance steps. The look on Kylian’s face when he said, “It’s over,” almost made her lose it in front of the judge. She would be giving herself away before the case was over if she hadn’t gotten her act together.“You could have told me about this,” her attorney whispered faintly in a way that meant that she was really in big
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"Don’t worry,” Kylian’s attorney told him not to do the one thing that his mind had been doing subconsciously since he’d set foot in the courtroom. “You’ll be fine.”“Sure I will,” he said, trying not to discourage his attorney before the grueling duel began. Either way, he wouldn’t be that much of a mess. Worst case scenario, he’d have to see Emma at their board meetings.“Kylian,” his mother called out from behind in a whisper. “Keep your composure out there, our fifty percent depends on it.”“Thank you, Mom, you’re doing such a great job at easing me of the pressure of the moment. Very commendable.” He said, harshly sarcastic.“Thank you, Kylian. Just don’t fuck this up for us.”He was a bit taken aback to hear his mom say the ‘f-word’ in public. “It’s really sad you called me just to tell me this.”“Now’s not the time to get in your feelings, young man. Go out there and get our family’s legacy. That’s all the pep talk you need.”As much as he hated it, she was right. He inhaled de
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Max had his shades on as he walked through the construction site on the hot sunny afternoon.“The long-awaited upward progress has finally begun.” Mr. Singh mused as he was almost following all of Max’s footsteps throughout the site.“Isn’t it lovely?” Max replied with a smile. “Feels like we started just yesterday.” He was glad that it had been all running smoothly despite him being occupied with all the many personal challenges that he somehow managed to see himself come out on top.“It sure does.” Mr. Singh seemed like he had a default positive response for everything he had to say. It had Max wondering if he’d ever get to see Mr. Singh mad, even just once. He itched to see that moment, except that it didn’t have to be on the job that he was doing for him.Max believed that it was all because of the remarkable presentation that he had put forth. He strongly believed that it was still speaking for him up until then. He hadn’t questioned his moves and followed him with blind trust. H
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Ollie picked up her phone and dialed frantically, “Did you hear about Alejandro on the news?” The report on the news seemed untrue, and she assumed that Chloe hadn’t seen it yet. “Alejandro has been arrested on numerous charges?”“Yeah, I heard,” Chloe said, unalarmed like they hadn’t lost one of their biggest potential partners after they had set quite a huge part of their budget plans around him and his cash, especially. “He’s been arrested.”“You know what that means?” Ollie still believed that she wasn’t getting the full scope of the impact of that news in particular. “What’s going to become of our plans and all?”It took Chloe quite some time to get a sigh out from her end of the line. “Well, we are going to figure something out, Ollie.”What? She meant to ask but swallowed it in as she sought a much better response but she couldn’t find any other, that forced her to say it out anyway, but more softly and politely that didn’t make it seem like Chloe had said something unreasonabl
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“It’s on the news, Chloe,” Max stared at the TV screen in wild wonder, calling out to Chloe who came running, “They finally got him.”“Businessman known as Alejandro Navarro has been finally apprehended by the forces on charges of illegal drug trades, manslaughter, sex trafficking…” the TV presenter went on and on with his many dirty deeds.“Damn, he’s got quite a lot going for him at the moment.” Max remarked as he reclined on the couch, “Good thing they got him. There could’ve been trouble if they didn’t.”“Yeah,” Chloe said looking on in anticipation, “Nothing on Diego yet?”“Wait for it.”“Alongside the underground drug lord, the notorious gangster, Diego Gutierrez was also found in the building. After much resistance and shots fired, the swat team was able to break in and apprehend the two men and a few other survivors from the heated exchange. Two hostages were found in the basement of the building, a male and a female, suspected to be victims of his trafficking crimes…” The pre
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It was the D-Day of the raid. Gray couldn’t deny how nervous he was, but he had to what had to be done. His heartbeat surged forcefully with each stop and turn of the vehicle.Most of all, he hoped the resistance they had predicted would what they’d be faced with. He’d heard stories of how vicious the Mexicans could be, and he didn’t want the mission to be a continuation of that tale.“Alright,” he finally got the courage to speak up amid the men in the large trunk of the van, he was about to attempt to make them not feel what he was feeling. He took out the large tablet that had the blueprint of the building.“The operation is simple.” He didn’t believe it was, but he had to say it anyway. “First, we surround all possible exits of the villa, which include the main gate, the back gate, and one other hidden gate on the Eastern side of the fence…”“Second, we ask Alejandro and his men to come out peaceably. If they don’t, which they most probably wouldn’t, we first hit them hard with so
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Kylian tapped on the door, hoping that he’d somehow made it to the right door, following Maya’s directions to her place.The block of flats had way more homes than it appeared to have while viewing it from the outside. One could easily get lost in there. It had him wondering how the inhabitants kept from mistaking another door for theirs.He tapped yet again. He heard some faint footsteps approaching the door and expected to see Maya’s dazzling face. He could hear hands working desperately at the lock and that made him brim with anticipation.Finally, he thought, till the door opened for him to see a tall macho man with overgrown beards and tattoos scattered all over his body. The shock from seeing the stranger made him almost unable to speak. He had heavy rock music pounding in his apartment.“Can I help you mate?” his deep voice could make anybody’s knees buckle with frightful intimidation.“Sorry…I came to the wrong door,” Kylian broke out in an uncoordinated stutter, “I was lookin
