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~Laurel~

As soon as the meeting was over, I marched over to where Mr Lewis was seated.

"I can't believe you talked me into this and the worst part of it all was that I agreed to it. I just can't believe it."

"I'm sorry, Laurel, I really am."

"I don't accept apologies in my territory." A voice growled behind us. I whirled around and saw fierce blue eyes shooting dagger glares at my direction. "Neither should apologies be accepted or even mentioned in here."

I clicked my tongue. "And who the fuck are you?"

"Crude languages are also not accepted here, Hyde. I'm sure you have a husband to return home to, and that is if you're not fucking around with just anyone."

I clenched my jaw in anger. "Don't talk to me that way."

"Why? You think you're some hot shot celebrity? Or no." He lowered his eyes and raised them up to meet me again. "You think you've grown some guts just because you mingle with men like Cooper and Kingston."

"Don't you dare involve my friends in this."

"Then try as much as possible to exclude them from important matters like this." He turned to Mr Lewis. "Get back to work."

"Y..yes sire."

I can't believe this. I simply can't believe this. Who on was this man who thinks he could have just everything he wanted?

Clutching my purse tightly, I dashed out of the organization, used the elevator till I was out of the goddamned building. I had a life apart from this shit. The only reason why I stayed there and listened to his nonsense was because I invested so much in this. And this organization leaked to my company in some way or the other.

Leon saw me and quickly opened the door for me, I got into my car without even sparing a glance at LAGS. Everything we worked so hard for were about to crumble the ground and there was nothing we could do about it.

~

As soon as I entered into my apartment, I plopped down on a sofa and wiped my dampened cheeks.

"Mia, a drink please." I said to my invisible housekeeper, probably because she wasn't in sight.

In few minutes, Mia was standing in front of me, holding a small tray that had a glass of juice. I took it from the tray. "Thank you."

"So um, rough day huh?"

"Yea..." We heard the doorbell ring.

"Who's there?"

"It's me Katy."

I sighed and dropped the glass as Mia strode over to where the door was to open it. Kaitlyn walked in.

"Hey. Nice outfit you got there." She said, referring to flared yellow gown I was wearing.

"Is that your way to say I look awful right now?" I said as she took a seat close to me.

"You always look beautiful, Laurel. Always."

"Yeah thanks anyway...but I don't think I can match up to this beauty of yours." I beamed excitedly. "You're seriously glowing, Kaitlyn. You glow, always. What's the secret? Don't tell me it's only sex, love and food?"

She laughed. "Like you don't know."

"How's my favorite buddy doing?"

She sighed, took out her phone and tucked it back into her back. "He's fine. He's in school. I told Martha to inform me once he's back from school."

"Hmm."

"Is there a problem, Laurel because I think you're making that face."

I scrunched my face. "What face?"

"Wesley told me you normally make that face whenever something's wrong."

"Oh my God. He told you that?"

She rolled her eyes and grinned. "You're forgetting that I'm your best friend's wife and we don't hide things from each other."

"Good to know."

"So what's wrong, Laurel?"

I sighed then rubbed my eyes. "It's Kurt."

"Who's Kurt?"

Oh. So I didn't tell her his name. "It's Kurt Kenton."

"You mean the fath...."

"Don't say it, please Kaitlyn, just don't." I sat up straight and sipped my juice. "You have no idea how much I hate him right now. I hate him when he hurt me before and I hate him more now that he's managed to squeeze his way back into my life."

"What? I thought you said he lived in London?"

"Grew up in London. And yeah, for a while I thought he was in London. You know how uptight, men like him could be. Unfortunately, he's back here in America and guessed what?"

"The devil bought the organization I'm in partnership with."

"Organization? You're partnership with many organizations, be more specific."

"An organization called LAGS."

"LAGS. I've heard of it before. They have several branches in the country."

"Not only in the country, across the globe. And he bought the organization."

"You mean the whole organization, like the organization in a whole?"

"Yeah."

"Oh my God. You didn't tell me he was that rich.."

" He's a billionaire, Kaitlyn. And I think he must have grown more richer to purchase an organization worth billions of dollars."

"That means he's as rich as Wesley?"

"Wesley's the third most richest man in the world. I highly doubt that. Kurt's life is barely in the public. So we do not know for sure if he's richer than Wesley. But I doubt if he's as powerful and famous as Wesley."

"So what are you going to do now?"

"I can tell Wesley to..."

"No. You won't say a word about this to Wesley, Kaitlyn. If Wesley finds out about Kurt, he's going to haunt him till death. And I think Kurt is not the type to back down from a fight."

"So how we stop him from destroying the lives of people working for that organization?'

"He won't destroy their lives Kaitlyn. The thing is, I invested so much in that organization. The organization has my highest paid partnership. And I get money from it every year even though I don't work there. I get millions every year and I think Kurt is about to change all that." I rubbed my temple slightly. "I'm going to Paris next week. I can't afford to miss my shooting. And I might be staying in Paris throughout next week then probably during the weekends, I might be on the runway for Louis Vuitton. Then the following week, I'm back to shooting again."

"Christ. Are you that busy?"

I shrugged. "I'm used to it. And speaking of busy, I'm also having a meeting with Vogue. And I may or may not be modeling for LAGS as it is."

Kaitlyn sighed and shook her head. " Sorry to say this but your life is an epic mess as it is. So the only free time you get is only with Wesley Cooper and Liam Kingston?"

I nodded my head.

"Weird. Thank goodness I'm invisible."

"You do know you're the face of the public, sometimes?"

"Sometimes. Not always like you. So what are you going to do about Kurt?"

"I don't know yet. Thank God I don't work there. I won't be seeing his face for maybe another one month or so. He still has to run the K-Corps."

"K-Corps?"

"Yeah. World's biggest tech corporation. It has it's branches and ventures scattered all over the world. Sometimes, the chairman buys underdeveloped ventures and turns them to big tech conglomerates. They do their works in secret sometimes, probably because they make the biggest tech resources in the world, and they make billions from selling these resources and technology. He raised the organization when it was at the brink of falling and doubled the corporation's ability to make high tech. Plus his parents had to leave a pool of wealth to him at an early age so he still needs to manage it and makes sure the corporation keeps on growing."

Kaitlyn nodded. I could tell she was about to come up with a silly idea. "Does this um.. Kurt..is he bothering you?"

"Not bothering me, personally. He's messing with my endorsement in that organization and I..."

"Does he have a weakness? Like um.. something or someone he cherishes?"

"I'm not sure about that. All I know is that he hates the mere guts of women and even if he has, they wouldn't be in the spotlight. They're all top secrets."

"How about something then?"

"I'm not..." Suddenly a memory struck my mind. "Yeah! An allergy. Kurt has an allergy. He's allergic to dust mites. There was time we sneaked off to an abandoned ice house in London and he suddenly started coughing and his body and eyes started itching him. He was rushed to the hospital and that was when it came to the light that Kurt had that allergy and that it was generated from his father. So people around him tries to keep everywhere as spotless as possible and even kept him away from tech resources in their surroundings. That was then though. I don't know if he's gotten over it. Or if he--"

She had a sinister smirk on her face. "Don't hurt your head, Laurel. There's only one way to find out."

~

"Alright. That's good, give us another sight shattering pose, miss Hyde."

I posed for the camera again, making sure they capture the look that were burning in my eyes.

I still can't believe I've agreed to take a photo session with LAGS. Despite everything they've done and how they've made things different for me, I still agreed to their stupid photoshoot.

As soon as I was done, I walked into the changing room, picked up a napkin and wiped the sweat from my face. I stood in front of the mirror and was about to unzip my dress when my eyes caught someone's, watching me.

I immediately turned around and what I saw; no who I saw, nearly made air in my body puff out from my lungs.

"What on Earth are you doing here?" I said, trying so hard not to claw my nails into his goddamned flesh.

Kurt unfolded his arms and tucked them deep into his suit pants. "Trying to figure out what they see in you that made them put you on their cover."

I feigned a smirk. "Don't you think coming into a lady's changing room is a little bit too... sinister?"

"No I think it's completely fine. If you think about the dozens of men that stagger in here everyday and take advantage of this opportunity, don't you think it's a little bit too extreme?"

I curved my lips in a smirk. "Why do you care? Do you wanna fuck me too?"

"I would think having such affairs in my territory are considered pure insolence, lack of proper moral pertinence and that could tarnish the reputation of my organization."

"You've grown quite some guts. The Kurt I remember wasn't manned enough to do these type of things."

"It's Mr Kenton and don't you dare call me by my name. You are nothing to me. And as far as I could remember, I don't recall anyone named Laurel Hyde."

"Except you blocked out your own memory, you wouldn't feign lethologica. Think again."

"I said your name and its bearer doesn't ring a bell, Miss Hyde."

"Is that so?" I moved closer to him. "So you don't remember that naive eighteen years old girl, you took advantage of. The one you took advantage of her dignity and then dumped her like she was one of your many ragdoll? You don't remember? Because she sure do remember you vividly, Kurt Kenton. Your memories is like a knife plunged into her heart, twisting and twisting, and it won't stop until it's destroyed her completely."

He looked down at me. I was 5'11 inches tall, and now I was six feet obviously because of the heels I was wearing but still yet I looked so small standing in front of him. "For the last time, I'm telling you that I don't recall a whoring woman that lacked morals and the proper ethics, from my past."

His words were like the heat of a blazing furnace, burning into my skin. And before I knew it, tears welled up in my eyes.

"You think faking something like this would then make me see you from another different aspect? And then what? Be partners or if possible friends with you?" He rolled his eyes and then pinned them on me again. " You're devastatingly wrong, miss Hyde because no matter what you do or who you claim yourself to be, you wouldn't be where you are today if you weren't sleeping with influential men to get to the top. You are just as disgusting as they come." He said and took steps backwards till he was near the door. "Oh and please, try to look less slutty in my territory. In here, you're not an A-lister, you're merely an insignificant, inconsiquential and trivial liability. Try to look more like that." He walked out of the room.

I slumped down on the floor as I let the tears stream down my face. I had been given the most brutal insult of my life and I can't believe that it actually came from Kurt Kenton. That narcissistic bastard. Son of a bitch. Everything he just said made it even worse and I couldn't stop harboring more hatred for him. Kurt has become more worse than he ever was. And if he wasn't stopped, it wasn't only my life he's going to mess with, but thousands also. Conversing with him might have just prove that Kurt could be more powerful than I assumed him to be.

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