All Chapters of Sassy Orphan and The Twin CEOs : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Finally the day of their trip came. Tasha struggled, lugging a heavy suitcase behind her. She let out a sigh, her annoyance visible. "Seriously Chris, you are a billionaire. Why can't you just hire a potter or something to help with the laugage. We should be having an entourage", she complained. "I like to keep things simple", he replied. Tasha's gaze shifted to Valerie.“You carry this to the car”,Tasha ordered."Oh I'm sorry. I didn't realize l was your personal servant. Or personal slave?", Valerie objected, her palm on her waist. Tasha's face reddened as her mouth opened.“Let me take care of that sweetheart”, Chris interrupted, carrying the suitcase hiimself. “Goodbye, Valerie. We will be back in a week”, he said as he stood by the car.“And Valerie please, just please…take care of this house whilst l am away. Don’t let strangers in and make sure all doors and windows are locked bef….”.“Seriously Mr Malvins, I’m twenty five l know l should lock all doors and windows before goi

Chris had a bad feeling about everything. At first, for some time he thought he would embrace every chance he would possibly find to be away from Valerie, but after getting to know her, now that it would possibly happen he felt scared. He realized until then that saying goodbye to her would break his heart. It was about four as they went downstairs to Valerie’s room. Tasha barged in without knocking. She began opening Valerie’s bags, wardrobe to see if she could find the money.“Whoa, what is wrong with you?”, Valerie kept yelling as she kept wondering what Tasha was up to.“Mr Malvins, can you tell me what is going on here?”, she asked eager to know. Chris sighed and said, “My safe is empty and l left the money in there before leaving for the trip. Now its empty”.Valerie was surprised, hoping it wasn’t what she was thinking.“So what do l have to do with your little safe?”, she asked her eyes open wide.“Don’t call it little Valerie, that’s hurtful. There were millions in there”, he

“Please excuse us”, Chase politely asked his chef as soon as she had served them. He shifted his gaze to Valerie.“Valerie, I want to talk to you about something”, he stated as he sat comfortably on a rich, velvety, soft dining chair.“Chase , l know the inconvenience, I promise l will leave tomorrow”, she pleaded. Chase looked at her, taken aback.“Valerie…I was not going to ask you to leave”, he replied with a kind expression.“You weren’t?”, she whispered. He softly held her palm. “I know you are going through a tough and confusing time right now. Why don’t you stay here with me?”, he asked. She stuttered,“ I don’t know what to say”, she said.“Just say yes. You can stay for as long as you want”, he assured. She felt a lump form in her throat as her eyes welled up. “Thank you so much. That is so kind of you”, she said her voice barely a whisper.“I am glad I could help”, he said as he shrugged. “Now eat, lady!”, he said cheerfully. She looked at all the food in front of her, grille

"Chris?", Richey called. He remained frozen. He approached and shook him."Chris?", he called once more. He opened his eyes and blinked. He groaned as he tried to pull himself up from the ice cold floor. Richey helped him up and sat him on the cough. Confusion plastered all over his face, Chris blurted, "What time is it?".Richey looked at him, concerned. "Chris you can not keep doing this to yourself. Snap out of it!", he said. Chris didn't answer. His head was spinning from drinking two bottles of gin the whole night. He speculatively looked around the house and asked, "Where am I?". "You are in your own house. I dropped you here yesterday remember, and put you to bed", Richey said and sighed. Clearly, you continued drinking after l left", he said as he stood up and reached for the window. "It reeks to high heaven like a downtown bar in here".Chris, in uttermost confusion, slumped down and lay on his back. It wasn’t after several seconds that he vigorously turned his head to the fl

Five months had passed. Things settled down and everything seemed to fall into place for everyone. Chris got it together again and resumed work. Chase had resumed work three months prior. Chris’ wedding was around the corner and the air was electric with love_ and as the lilacs blossomed, so did Chase and Valerie.Valerie and Chase had been living together and they had become inseparable. Whatever love portion or enchantment he had used on her undoubtedly had an effect. Even she couldn’t resist his charms. She was head over heels in love with him. Chase claimed to be in love with her too. Valerie had never felt that way with anybody before and Chase as her first love, he was dearly special to her. She felt she had her knight in shining armour in him and he was immensely in love with her, that he would never look at another, again. There seemed to be burning passion between them, she was addicted to his smile, his cologne, his body, the same way he was addicted to her. Or maybe that is