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He hadn't been expecting any of such calls...except for... "Chloe!" he quickly swiped up and adjusted a bit closer to the light of the bedside lamp.The appearance of her face knocked the sleep right out of his eyes. "Chloe," he called out her name with his deep morning voice, "It's almost three in the morning.""Well, the day has just begun here, and it's wonderful," she said, looking bright and happy in her morning clothes— clothes that he longed to take off and explore the wonders that lay beneath them. For some reason, he found her very appealing in morning clothes."I can see that from here, the sun is doing one heck of a job, reflecting your beauty. I wish I could've been there with you." Max said, quite regrettably, now he was stuck with nightmare fantasies of Debby which wouldn't stop coming at him until he had performed them in real time."Please, stop it, Max," Chloe said, giggling delightfully. She was still swept off her feet by Max, even at that stage of their relationshi
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"Just calm down a bit..." Gray said to Chloe from the other end of the line. "The worst thing you can do right now is to panic. Just calm down and tell me what it is.""Alright," Chloe said, breathing out a sigh that did very little to calm her down. "I will send you a short voice message shortly. You won't believe..." She still couldn't believe what her ears had heard. Her heart was almost failing her at that point.She quickly hung up and frantically went ahead to forward the voice message from Alejandro to him immediately. With nothing but sheer fright and uncertainty, she had her eyes on her screen till the message was marked as read.Her phone buzzed in her hands so suddenly that she nearly let go of it. But then, it wasn't Gray on the line. "Goodness... Max," she said as she contemplated picking up the call in the state that she was in at the moment. If she didn't pick, she would be giving him the notion that she was hiding something from him, and that would make him all the mor
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Ollie couldn't stay put, as the thought of phoning Hilda kept crawling back again and again. Her vague feelings for Anthony were growing into a clear fondness that she couldn't deny.Anthony had briefly gone to the restroom, leaving her all alone with her thoughts. She believed she had come too far with Anthony to turn back, though it had been just a few weeks they had been having a steady stream of conversation. But she was beginning to feel an attachment she deemed too dangerous to be true.She took out her phone and was still contemplating sending a text. Her second thoughts about it throbbed at her continually, but the thought of Helen's scowl at her made her desperate to reach out. But why would Hilda just offer to be of help? A question she'd never get to find out if she didn't get to her.Ollie let out a disheartened sigh. She was supposed to be enjoying the moment with Anthony without having to bother about his questionable family life. But could she?"Get it together, Ollie,"
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The exchanges of pleasantries between the reputable men and women at the huge board meeting meant victory at last for Max. He had won that phase of the bout with Kylian. He was sure that Kylian would have any words for him after the board meeting, and he was looking forward to shaking the hands of a sore loser.Max was upstanding, he had shaken Mr. Singh's hands. He loved the satisfactory look on his face. The pendulum was swinging helplessly in his favor, and he intended for it to stay that way for a whileHis eyes sought for Kylian in the midst of the crowd. He was soon unto him. Each step towards him was taken with a calculated measure of confidence."Kincaid," he called out, in a teasing manner, as he put out his hand for a handshake, ready to rub the victory in his face, knowing that Kylian would have to act cool because of the eyes on them. "Hope you enjoyed the presentation."Kylian left his hand hanging for a while, as he stared him in the eye for a few fleeting seconds."Come
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"Senorita..." Diego's voice irritated her in no small way. What devilish thoughts did he plan to execute on her at the moment? It felt like she had seen a reincarnation of the dreaded Alejandro in a younger and more vibrant body.Sofia was stifled by fright, and suppressed by tiredness. She was too tired to ask what he wanted with her. Each step he took to the cell made her heart throb frightfully. She wished to seek to shift further away from him but found herself up against a wall she wished that she could pass through."There's no reason to be afraid, senorita." Diego teased with a smile on his face. "I mean no harm."She couldn't bank on those words. She couldn't bank on anything that had to do with Alejandro. She was willing to take any chances with the man before her.Diego stood, right in front of the cell's door, his figure seemed huge and frightfully intimidating, from her perspective, squatting on the cold floor. He put his hands on the bars of the cell's door."I've come to
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"Yesterday's victory had been clinched," Max said, lying on his bed, in a video call with Chloe, "Wished we could be celebrating it together." He still cringed within, as he still withheld the collaboration with Kylian from her. He wasn't sure how long he could keep up with the lie, but he didn't know how she would feel upon hearing about it. The longer it tarried, the more tense it got, as the effect of the consequences amplified."Yeah...me too," Chloe said, from her end. She was taking a walk in the afternoon, through a dazzling scenery, at a park. She seemed to be escorted by a guide through the new grounds she found herself on."You know," Max said, sitting up in bed, "the sunlight just happens to make you prettier than you are, Chloe.""Don't you have anything better to do?" she teased as she continued walking."Luckily for me, the weekend is already here, I can watch your face all I want." Max grinned excitedly, as the early morning sun rays crept in through his window, signali
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Gray was cruising through the less busy streets. There was traffic but not as much as it would be on a working day, and that gave him the ease of navigating his way through the paths just as he had watched in the footage.He had begun his drive from the airport in the early hours of the morning, just to be sure that he didn't make any mistakes. His drive for perfection and accuracy had never been up like it was at the moment.He was on the verge of cracking it, but also on the verge of entering the part of the case that could possibly involve serious, physical risk. He needed not to be told to bring his firearm along. If his projections had been accurate, he was very liable to run into some sort of threats, which had to be resisted by force.Thoughts of the risky side of what he was about to do kept coming at him, but he paid them no mind. He had made up his mind to avoid physical confrontation as much as possible and only make a killing when it would be necessary. His main job was ju
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Sofia was still in doubt about what Diego's intentions were for him. Why was he suddenly nice to her? She had been too weary to question his initial kindness of letting her go and even feeding her, and giving her a place to sleep after all those nights on the hard cold floor of the cell where Alejandro had left her to languish.She was still on her bed, feeling sleepy. It was difficult for her to have any sort of rest, considering the circumstances of her release. She had feared that Diego could sneak into her room at any point in the night and probably take advantage of her in her tired state...but he didn't after all her hours of waiting. Now she was exhausted in the early morning hours.Sitting up in her bed, she wondered how long Diego was going to keep up with setting her free. Was he going to violate Alejandro's orders to keep her in captivity? Was her freedom going to be a short-lived experience of what could have been? She decided to take it all as it came. Her spirit had been
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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
