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Twenty Six
"I am honestly surprised, Drake," his father who was beaming with happiness said. "I thought you were still on your disappointing playboy path."
"Oh, please," Drake laughed as it seemed like he had loosened up a bit. "With Anna by my side, I wouldn't dare to look elsewhere."
"That's understandable." The hearty chuckle from his father filled the living room which had one sofa, a furnace, and a TV as the only occupants in the room.
Anna kept sending murderous looks towards Drake who didn't look in any way bothered by the fact that he just told his father that she was his fiancee. He didn't even look at her at all.
What was he aiming at, anyway, she thought.
Did he really have a plan of his towards her? Did he find out who she was?
Anna's head kept circling questions as she followed Drake and his father further into the exquisite building.
The older Blunt looked back to face Anna.
"Anna, right?"
"Yes, sir." She
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Drake couldn’t tell what was going on at first. In fact, he thought she was trying to rebuke him for the sudden introduction to his father.But when his eyes sighted the blood that stained her top, just around the upper abdomen area, he got rid of his anger towards his family and held on to her dearly.“Anna,” he called, his eyes full of fright. As he cupped her cheek, he heard a loud rustle from a distance. It would have been a delight to go after the person running away but the woman in his arms was not allowed to die.“Is anyone there?” he shouted and got no response in return.Drake sprung into action. Gently carrying her in his arms, bridal style, he rushed past the pool and towards the front of the building where Damon happened to be having a smoke.His brother’s eyes bulged with fear as he sighted the woman who looked so limp in Drake’s hold.Before the younger man could give orders, his broth
His Vengeful Secretary Twenty Eight
Anna was surprised, she wouldn't lie.She never saw Drake as a man who would find it easy to fall on his knees, but she wouldn't deny the fact that seeing him that way made her feel a little better about the entire situation.He deserved to be dried in the sun for days, his knees not leaving the scorched ground. He deserved that much.But there was something else. Anna couldn't deny that fact.He was holding back a certain truth and taking all the blame for her sister's death.As Anna's darting eyes traveled to the entrance once more, she said, "Your apology doesn't work in this situation.""But," she could hear the sadness in his voice, "I can't give you anything else right now.""I want to know who killed my sister." Anna's head shifted abruptly in his direction and his gaze fell instantly. "You can't give me that?" she asked, her brows twitching as she studied the expression on his face.His hands on his laps for
His Vengeful Secretary Twenty Nine
“Can we trust her?” Alex asked Drake whose footsteps led him away from the entrance to the room as he tore his eyes from the image of Anna hugging her father dearly.“No. But we have no choice. I have no choice,” Drake replied, his entire being trying to ignore the pain within him that Anna Hendrick’s words caused him.“Are you really going to tell her everything? You haven’t even found it in you to tell me what happened that day.”As Drake increased his steps, his head finally found the strength to feel angry about the entire situation. Because of what happened back then, he had to hear Anna rain those words on him.Those hurtful, painful words.He knew she did it to get some load off her chest but the person she was dumping it all was not exactly as strong as he seemed. He had his battles he has been trying to fight, it was not certain he could hold on for so long.“Drake?”
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"We have footages from the neighbours and-""How did you get that?" Alex interrupted Josh and the purple-haired man wore a dagger-like look for a second. "We are still trying to persuade the neighbours on our end and-""Maybe you asked them in a really stupid way." Josh placed a foot against the table where papers upon papers were kept and he bent a little, his elbow resting on his knee. "I bet you waved money in their faces.""How dare you suggest that?" Anna's head swerved in Alex's direction, she never thought she could see him look so irritated."Well, given-""Enough, both of you," Anna sternly said and the men shifted their hard glares to some object in the room. "Alex, don't question where and how Josh and I get our information, that's none of your business. Your business is using the information we give you to your advantage. Josh, watch the words that come out of your mouth.""But-""Continue with your talk, Josh."The
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“You are late.” The grumpy voice of the old man reached Drake’s ears as he walked into his office. As he approached his seat, he noticed that the room was brighter than usual.The old man must have ordered someone to lift all the window blinds, Drake thought.And then, he thought that it would be wise for him to keep his anger at the man at bay and not erupt violently just because the man touched his window blinds and introduced an immense amount of illumination.As he had his seat, Drake got engaged ina very fierce eyelockwith his grandfather. Drake could tell why the old man was there andhe prepared himself to make sure the man didn’t get a chanceto ride over him. He can threaten him all he wants, Drake was going to make sure his grandfather doesn’t have his way.“The gang has denied the annulment of the contract. Why?”Drake’s brows slightly raised, his fingers gently tappin
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Before she put it down, Anna took one more look at the threatening text, the last text her sister got. She had finally made up her mind to let Josh know about that particular finding, but at that moment, she felt so attached to the device.Perhaps she felt that letting Josh know about Darcy’s phone would severe the emotional connection to her sister she had been having ever since the device fell into her grasp. Perhaps, she was afraid to let it go because she did not want to feel the same way she did when she learned that her sister was dead.“Anna?” Her father called from the entrance. “You are going to be late for work.”Anna signed and threw the phone into the black midi-sized bag she had in her grasp to complement her formal yet chic look- a penciled red skirt into which a grey turtleneck was tucked. She stood taller than her father as she turned and approached him and that was thanks to the boot heels.“I don&rsquo
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"What are you doing?" Anna asked Drake who strutted into the room, his working laptop in his hold, his shirt untucked in a rather sexy way."I'm coming to work in my office?"Anna sat up with a frown on her face. "I thought you gave me your office to use.""It has been two days, Anna." Drake stopped in front of her. His eyes darted across the paperwork she laid out on the small desk in front of the couch. "I need my office now. And I am sure you are fine now.""Are you insinuating that I'm lying about the pains I feel from being shot with a bullet meant for you?""Your guilt-tripping won't work on me this time, Anna Hendrick. I'm pretty much immune to your doe eyes now.""I don't have doe eyes, Mr. Blunt.""Yeah, right." He dropped his laptop and bent to gather the files on the table. As he arranged them, Anna watched him with a certain amount of seriousness.For the past two days, he was hell-bent on taking care of her.
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Drake felt like something tangible was removed from his entire being as he heard what his friend just said. He definitely wasn’t prepared for that result.He was so confident that he was his father’s son. Never could he have thought that he would come to view his mother as a woman who possibly cheated on his father. Such thought wouldn’t have come to him if not for his grandfather’s words the other day.He lost his mother at a young age but he remembered a lot about her and there was no way he would have thought that she had him for another man.“Drake?” He heard Alex call him and, with a small forced smile on his lips, he glanced at Anna who was looking surprisingly concerned, then, he locked eyes with his friend.“I guess my grandfather was right,” Drake said as he rubbed his palms together to aid him hide his true emotions at that point.“Drake, this doesn’t mean you have been living a
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