Night time...."Boss," Arnold greeted Antonio who just walked into the study. "You seem exhausted.""Try dealing with a brat like that," Antonio murmured with a scoff. "You've got something for me?" Antonio fell on his seat, sighing in exhaustion and relief."Yes boss. We just found her phone a few hours ago. It was still unlocked and she had many messages and calls not replied. It was her sister," he said, handing over the phone."When you found it, it wasn't unlocked?" Antonio asked, expressing a bit of shock. 'This only means Lauren didn't cover her tracks,' he thought, rubbing his temples. 'This means her actions weren't well planned. It's almost as though she wanted to be done with Andrea quickly. If that is the case, why did she put her through that much hardship? What were your real intentions Lauren,' Antonio thought, troubled, yet with an unfazed expression."No need to be disturbed about that sir. I already dealt with the situation. Apparently, the lady has a course to be an
Robles Construction Company...'Today is the meeting with the partners. Antonio should be here soon. I haven't heard from him since. I bet he's still upset,' Lauren thought, fidgeting with her fingers nervously. She looked to the package on her desk. It was a box of cookies. 'Gifting him this as an apology seemed like a good idea when I was making them. He'll definitely see me as pathetic for that. Even the fifty thousand dollar watch I had saved for his birthday would be even worse. What do I do? Just apologize?' she thought and began sulking. She was still baffled by his reaction. 'Who on Earth is Andrea' was the question eating her up.Snapping Lauren from her thoughts was a call from Wanda. "What the heck do you mean by he's not coming today? There's a board meeting in a few hours. Is he unwell? I bet that filthy woman in his house must have infected him with something," Lauren spat out."Quite the contrary. He's fine health wise but he's staying to take care of the Miss," Wanda s
Evening...."Wanda, I really need to step out for a bit. I won't cause you any trouble. I'm tired of being locked up," Andrea pleaded."I wouldn't want to get into trouble with the boss...""But you won't. I'll stay out of his sight. I won't try to run away. Now I know that he isn't really trying to kill me. I assure you, Wanda, that I'll be very good and I'll stay out of trouble. He won't know.""He's gonna kno...""He won't know," she pleaded with her iconic puppy eyes.Her pleadings yielded great results. Wanda allowed her to follow her out and led her to the back yard. She served her with some juice and cookies and left to attend to her duties. Andrea sat with her feet in the pool while she enjoyed her snacks.About an hour later....Andrea overhead Antonio's voice approaching and hid. She really didn't care what he would say to her but she certainly didn't want Wanda in trouble. She tried to avoid him as she made her way for the stairs to avoid attention. Suddenly, a familiar fem
"Huh? JJ? Jeremy? That's your reason for accusing me of being a slut? You know what? I don't owe you any explanation but I'll tell you regardless since you clearly didn't know that a guy and a girl can be FRIENDS without screwing each other. Just 'cause you do it, doesn't mean everyone else does. Long story short, Jayden Jeremiah Knight of the Cavaleiro Corporation is my friend.""Oh plea....""I don't care if you believe me or not but you, of all the people in the world, have no right to judge someone's morals. You are right. I may be alone because yes, I have a family but I don't. Nevertheless, that's none of your business because even if I was on the streets, I surely would pick that to being here with you!" She said through gritted teeth and stormed off to the bathroom.***Bronx..."Hey fam!" Jake announced after barging excitedly into the house with a bag pack hanging over his right shoulder. The enthusiasm was reciprocated only by Bingo, their bearded collie. He jumped off the
My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a knock on the door. I opened it up with a remote I normally keep on the desk when in the office. A maid, who's name I couldn't care less about, appeared from behind. "Mr. Ro...""Why didn't you call? Where's Wanda?""I...I did call but didn't get any response. That's why I came right here. Wanda...""What do you want?""D-Detective.....""Let him in," I instructed, cutting her sentence at a word. In that moment, a notification popped up on my computer screen. 'ALERT! There is an attempt to breach into the Robles Corp system.'"What the...""Mr. An...""Someone's trying to hack our system," I informed with slightly squinted eyes and a chuckle, honestly perplexed at the thought of a human being with any thinking capacity trying to cyber attack me. Not to sound so narcissistic but a cyber attack is probably the worst method for an attack on me since I'm quite the tech genius myself."Who on Earth would try that on you? Do you suspect Rachel?" Don
Robles Corp..."We're unable to track the hacker. He gave back control over the system so...""So what?! Find her location!" Lauren fumed. Confusion was clear on all their faces."Her? You know who's behind it?" Newton, the head of the technical department asked. "If that's the case, she's really good, really really good. She covered her tracks so well. We might be on this all-night long...or even longer.""WE DON'T HAVE ALL THAT TIME SO WORK FASTER!"***"Godfather?""Rachel, that woman keeps appearing on my raider. Antonio is suspected to be in a secret relationship...""Godfather, it's definitely not true. You said it yourself earlier. Besides, he...""Shut up and let me speak!" the Godfather blazed over the phone call in his evidently edited hoarse voice. "I don't care whether it's true or not. Find out who she is and get me that information ASAP! She might be useful in the downfall of Antonio Leonardo Robles.""O-Okay Go..." she was unable to complete her statement when he hung up
"Sweetie, if Antonio hated you, you wouldn't be in his room. You would have been locked up in the basement no matter how severe your injuries must have been. He never let people come into his room. Honestly! At a point, it was so intense that, he personally took care of its cleaning, only permitting me to help him out. That, however, had to come to an end since the gentleman was often too occupied. Yet, even till date...or at least until you came into the picture....only a trusted few, hand picked by yours truly....had been authorized to attend to his room with me. That was until you came around. Now, he has given up his bed...I mean his BED...for you....""Wanda, don't say things like that....""But it's the truth Andrea. From what I know, he even beat up one of the guards who had you kidnapped and he was so so close to hitting Lauren....""Then don't say it like that. He just probably feels guilty. No, no, no, that would just mean he has a conscience and he certainly doesn't. It must
Lauren spent the night in the office, seeing to it that the technical department located the hacker as soon as possible. It then dawned on her to contact Antonio to make sure he knew she was doing her duty and would be giving him the good news soon. Hundred percent was an understatement of her certainty that Rachel was responsible. 'The best thing would be to present the grand gift of her location with undeniable evidence and gain Antonio's acceptance once again. I should at least let him know I'm aware and working on it.'She left the department and went to her office to make the call. Unfortunately, the confidence with which she announced the soon identification of the location was blown into bits by Antonio."I didn't hear from you last night, neither did I hear from the team after the breach. Forget about it. I've already located the hacker myself and I'll deal with the situation on my own," he said in his hoarse iconic nonchalant tone."I-I'll tell the men to get the warehouse re