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I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD Chapter twenty seven: You are playing with fire
Even though she was pretending with Clarissa she was going to make it real just to prove to her father that he couldn't control her. What the hell is with the caveman attitude, Evangel thought angrily as she made her way towards the living room. Her entrance caused everyone to look in her direction. Clarissa saw the anger and sadness in her best friend's eyes and immediately went to her. " Hey, are you alright? " she asked tenderly as she came to a stop before Evangel. The tight control she was holding onto her emotions was slipping and Evangel didn't want to break down in front of Trent and her cousin. " Can we leave, " she whispered her voice heavy with emotions she was barely keeping at bay. Clarissa's clenched at the pain and weariness in her best friend's voice. What happened with her father? She wanted to pull her best friend into her arms but knew that is not what Evangel wanted right now. She decided to do as she requested. " Wait here let me get our purse, " she tol
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD Chapter twenty eight: Your father is in the hospital
The next day found Evangel sitting at their small kitchen table lost in thought with a cup of coffee in her hand. She was still in her nightwear, a long grey T-shirt that fell just before her knees. The cup was held up with her two hands, one leg up the kitchen chair, a vacant look in her eyes while she stared off the distance. The morning was a little chilly but inside the house was kept by the heater. Evangel troubles thoughts swam around the events of last night. And what had her mind so troubled wasn't the horrible encounter with her father and him acting like a male chauvinist. No, there is just one thought she can't do away with no matter how much she desires it. The kiss. She hadn't been able to put it out of her mind. Last night when they came home Clarissa had acted as if nothing happened. She had wanted to talk about it. I mean that hadn't been part of the plan. She wanted to know how her best friend felt about the kiss and to apologize if necessary. She has always be
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD Chapter twenty nine: I am going to marry Trent
Most of the day was spent finalizing things in the hospital, making arrangements for the surgery to go on and signing all the papers that needed signing before her father can be taking to the hospital. Amidst all these Evangel could feel Trent's sharp presence in the room like a strong perfume scent that refuses to go away. After her little talk with her father she had not been able to look him in the face. A fact that is a problem in itself seeing she will soon be getting married to him. Something Evangel wishes in her very heart that she could forget or be a nightmare she has the luxury of waking up from, but she has given her dad her word so this is now her reality. Trent's presence hasn't been all bad, he had given her the comfort she needed to put things in order for her father. If not for his presence she didn't know how she would have carried on. " Are you alright? " Evangel looked up at Trent and forced a smile that didn't reach her eyes. She lifted her coffee to her lip
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD How do I look ?
" How do I look? "Evangel twirled around for her best friend stretched out on her kings size bed with her attention on the phone in her hand. She just finished getting dressed for her dad's birthday partyHer father turned sixty today and was throwing a huge ass party to commensurate the occasion.Her father was a wealthy business man known very well in the city. His party will be swimming with all the who is who in the city and as his only heir Evangel knows so many eyes is going to be on her so she has to look her best.Clarissa strengthened up and turned to look at her, allowing her eyes to journey over her best friend's form.She started from the caramel silky curls adorning her head, flat aristocratic forehead, perfect carved brows, dazzling pale blue eyes sparkling with dancing stars, long swan neck bearing a silver necklace, a teardrop pendant, her slim trim figure slipped into a gorgeous, plain purple dinner gown with a teasing slit to the mid-thigh revealing a long pale smoot
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD No it can't be!
" How are you and Mrs. Castro? " she asked as she is lead through the familiar long well-illuminated corridor leading to the ballroom in the left wing where the party is being held." She is alright, and will be greatly pleased if you can come around and see her, " Mr. Castro replied with a happy glint in his eyes. Happy to see the woman who is like a daughter to him after such a long while." Will do that soon, " Evangel promised with a smile.She followed as the elderly man lead the way towards the east wing of her father's house, away from the main living quarters, where the ballroom is located.As they drew closer to the room, the sound of laughter, boisterous chatter, and sweet cool music drifted up to her, telling her that the party was already in full swing.Just before the brass door barring the ballroom, Castro stopped and turned to look at the beautiful woman in front of him." Your dad is going to be pleased to see you, he has missed you so much, "Castro said to her casting
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD I am his legitimate son
Trenton sat comfortably in his office, a calm and collected look on his well-sculpted handsome fair features watching his brother pace a storm in his office.His brother had an angry bear look on his face and looked as if he was on the verge of murder and the target him.Although he has always delighted in needling Chase feathers, today he was not in a good mood and his pacing wasn't helping matters. " Wearing out my tiles is not going to magically poof us out of this mess, you know, " Trent said, getting fed up with the oscillating movement that was making him slightly dizzy.His bad mood this money was because he just found out he has been duped. He couldn't believe his stupidity if he wasn't living it. Chase Wade paused like a braked train and whirled on his brother, the veins on his forehead pulsating to the gravity of the ire tearing his insides apart.He was so angry that he could blow a fuse." You are the reason we are in this mess and you sit there looking like a damn king on
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD I will help you on one condition
He found the cigarette and put one stick to his lip and used his golden lighter to light it. A gift from his dad on his eighteenth birthday. Trent pulled forcefully on the burning stick trying to calm his mind down to think.Chase was right about the mess being his and he will be damned if he let the bastard have the last laugh. He was going to save their company no matter what it will cost him. He will use some of the cash in his trust fund to offset some of the dept. It wasn't much but it is a start. It took Trent five sticks for him to calm down and have a clear head to actually think.A thought occured to him which he quickly disregarded because it felt humiliating to go to their greatest rival Castle and Castle and ask him to save their company. No he better think of another plan. Trent turned around on his executive seat trying to come up with an idea that can help him raise hundred million dollars without resorting to robbing a bank or going to their rivals for help, but no
I CAN'T MARRY THIS BASTARD Is something wrong ?
His health has never been part of the things that worry Steven Clark because he has always been as healthy as a horse. He has always felt invisible when it came to diseases as he has never had anything as common as a cough. His mother never took him to the hospital once in his life. But he was brutally reminded of his mortality a few months ago when he had a heart attack. It was no news that he was a workaholic, which worsened when his beloved wife died. They have been married for thirty years when an accident took her away from him. A hit and run. Steven had been very devasted at the death of the only woman he loved and had poured everything he had into his work. Carolyn his wife had been the only one who had been able to put the brakes on his workaholic tendencies but once she passed nothing was holding him back. He had a rude wake-up call when during breakfast, eight months ago he had slumped scaring the shit out of his butler who had found him. His daughter who had just be
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