Chapter 1
Carla Simpson
POV
Hi I am Carla Simpson... I am 20 years old today so happy birthday to me... I am single and in no condition to change that, my past proves that... At age 13 my parents died in a plane crash, leaving me an orphan with a multimillion-dollar company which I would have to take over when I turn twenty which is today... I was taken in by my mother's little sister Nikita Brown and her husband Cole Brown.
They treated me as their own daughter since my aunt could not have kids, they adopted a son James Cameron Brown he was a baby when they adopted him in. His like a little brother to me. My aunt and uncle made me promise to not even tell my uncle Sam my dad's brother where I was studying or going to school
Today is my 20th birthday and I must take over the Simpson family company which was under my Uncle Sam Simpson control until I turn twenty. I had to learn how to run the company since age 13 I was never a child I had to learn to be an adult and take over a company.
The CO LAB Inc is one of the largest companies in the country we deal with clothing and jewelry designs and makeup, face care, lotions perfumes and we currently working on getting into interior design and a small part of the company works on property development mostly architectural designs to major property development companies, and banks. I am the new CEO starting today so all eyes will be on my today because today will be my first time heading a meeting, I have sat in on a couple but today I am sitting in the CEO chair, all I want to do is make my parents proud... I must meet with the board of directors and one of collaborators.
I may own a design company, but I was not that into wearing fashionable clothing I hate wearing make-up I have no idea how to apply any make-up, so I apply some eye shadow and eye liner and a nude lipstick from our last summer collection... I am wearing a red Shiv dress that reaches my knees and the dress happens to have an extremely low back so a wear a white peplum blazer over it. I curl my long light brown hair into beach waves... I may hate being fashionable, but I loved designing new and creative clothing pieces...
My fashion line is called silver storm, I hate being in the limelight, so I had created silver storm to design and make clothing without people knowing... I have been living my entire life in the shadows because since I was fourteen people have been trying to kill me, I have been living under an Alias called Mia Green my whole life until last year when I came back to the states... And I became Carla Simpson again...
As soon as I walk into the building, I am greeted buy my new assistant who is a lot older than I am she is about twenty-nine and she looks nervous, her large notepad is shaking in her trembling hands...
"Young Madam, I mean, sorry I'm nervous... President Simpson welcome."
I laugh. She is cute...
"You can call me Carla"
"I can't President Simpson... I am afraid of getting fired... I was told to only call you President Simpson"
I shake my head... I do not them threatening to fire people because they call me by my name... It is ridiculous...
"What's your name?" I ask her
"Urh my name is Rose Diaz"
"Well hello Miss Diaz. Can you lead me to the board room?"
"Oh, urh right the board meeting, right this way."
"Thank you, Miss Diaz,”
And she leads me to the boardroom to meet with the directors and shareholders
As soon as I walk into the board room, I see the hottest man on the planet he looks like a tall Greek God his hair is short and trimmed on the sides. He is wearing a navy suit that fits him exactly right you can see its expensive and also tailor made for him and a white shirt I'm in a complete daze for a complete minute.
Before he walks up to me and greets me damn, he is voice tickles me in all the right places.
"Good morning, President, Simpson, I'm Kyler Jacobs"
As I come to my senses, I see him reaching out he is hand, I reach out my hand as well and in a sexy but not so obvious sexy voice I reply
"Good morning, Mr. Jacobs. It is nice to meet you"
As I take, his hand his thumb moving a long my hand. And I immediately pull my hand away.
The meeting lasts for six hours I could barely concentrate with Mr. Jacobs looking at me throughout the meeting and most of the people here are trying to undermine me and treat me like a child like I did not get my business degree from Oxford University...
By the time we get out of the meeting I am exhausted and hungry I ask my assistant to get me something in the company's cafeteria. Just as I get into my office, I see mountain of paperwork that needs my signature and a bunch of contracts that needs my approval right Carla you can do this. You need to do this. You must make mom and dad proud. I try and give myself a little pep talk...
As I was going through the mountain of work my mind kept thinking about that damn Greek God. I had the honor of being in his presence how could I not be happy, how could I not think about how amazing he is, should I be happy? As I am going through the rest of the documents I dose off.
{Mr. Jacobs comes rushing into my office without knocking, he walks up to me in a swift manner Mr. Jacobs picks me up throws on the sofa in my office and starts kissing me everywhere. He rips off my dress, my dress ended up in two pieces he throws my dress across the room he then unhooks my bra throwing it across the room I watch it as it lands on the doorknob and my soaking wet panty gets thrown on the floor... He puts two fingers into me in a swift motion}
And just like that I hear knock on the door. Damn it was just a dream my assistant came to remind of a video conference. I got to say he would look good without a suit. I am thinking about undressing him. Carla snaps out of it.
The conference call lasted about 6 hours, mostly because they have no faith in a 20-year-old female running a million-dollar company... I got called little girl about five hundred times... All my ideas and pitches got turned down because "I have no experience and no idea what our clientele wants" which is bullshit... I am a woman and I know what woman want woman want clothing that is comfortable and stylish... I wanted to introduce lounge wear and sportswear... It would increase our sales and revenue, but I got completely undermined and made a fool of...
After the video conference I head to my apartment I needed an aspirin because I have a major headache dealing with assholes who believe woman should be at home cooking and cleaning... I needed to get Mr. Jacobs out of my head really bad... The man's perfection in an Armani suit... There is no way he will be interested in a twenty-year-old girl who is broken and damaged, and has major insecurities and major trust issues...
Chapter 2Kyler JacobsPOVHi, I am Kyler Jacobs the CEO of Ravia’s Corp I have been running the company since I was eighteen, that was 10 years ago I am twenty-eight right now... I took over from my dad when my mom got sick and my dad had to stay at home to take care of her, she is doing so much better now, they are forcing me to get married, but I cannot just get married to someone I feel nothing for. I need to be able to touch that person and hold them, but my condition does not allow me to touch woman with me getting sick...Today one of the company's we collaborate with is under new management, so I must attend since I own 20% of the shares in the company and, I have invested a lot into the company. I am not really interested in the meeting since I have heard a little girl is taking over. When I reach the company with my assistant, she is not there yet I am extremely annoyed at how unprofessional this woman is... I have been taken into the board room with the rest of the sharehol
Chapter 3Carla SimpsonPOVThe next day I had a meeting with the director of a mall, the company is looking into buying it and renovate it, it is one of the malls that sells our merchandise us owning the mall helps increase our revenue and helps take out the middleman. I am taking control of the negotiations today.My assistant Rose informed me that Mr. Jacobs will be joining us for the meeting. I do not know why but he does not need to be there I obviously do not need his help. I guess it is because he doesn't trust my negotiation skills.I noticed the car stopping. I realized we had arrived at the mall I noticed a red four door Ferrari parked right in front of us. The driver jumps out and opens the back door right behind the driver’s side and damn it is the Greek God again he is wearing a red suit and a black shirt he ties his suits buttons and straightens his sunglasses he starts walking this way no he is not.No, no, no. I am so not ready to face him yet. Damn he is in front of m
Chapter 4Kyler JacobsPOVBy the time I got home it was pretty late, I still had a video conference to attend in about 5 minutes, so I rushed to my study. By the time video conference was over it was 12amAfter the meeting I took a shower and went to bed.At 5 a.m. in the morning I get a phone call from my mom its way too early in the morning for her to find a wife for me. So, I put my phone on silent and go back to sleep. A half an hour later I feel someone staring at me I open my eyes my mom is staring at me oh it is just my mom staring at me, I close my eyes, wait what why is my mom in my house yet alone my room."Mom, why are you here at 5 in the morning?""I came to see my future daughter in law""Mom what daughter in law?"My mom hands me her phone and there's pictures of me and Carla it looks like we are kissing and hugging and there's a couple of us sitting at the coffee shop... I am amazed that I have been woken up for this... It is too early for this... I have to be up in a
Chapter 5Carla SimpsonPOVThis day was a mess, I went from not knowing this guy straight into dating Kyler, then thrown into being his fiancée. I could not believe it I was getting married next month. The icing on the cake was someone finding a girl that looked exactly like me. how could I forget the worst of them all, oh I know I seem to have forgotten about the most embarrassing of them all Kyler’s mom caught us in he is office.His mother who was supposed to be at home resting since she was sick, yet there she was in his office. She knew what we had down because our clothes were thrown all over his office. Could this day be any more dramatic and any more movie like? It reminds me of those Indian series on Zee world, where everything that can go wrong goes wrong. I pray my life does not get anymore dramatic than it already is.After I am done getting dressed, I make my way for Aaron’s office door so I could go to work since I have not been to the office yet for the day. I stop dea
Chapter 6Carla SimpsonPOVWhen I woke up, I could smell, disinfectant and hear beeping sound when I opened my eyes Kyler was next to me holding my hand, he had fallen asleep. in a chair with his head on my hand. I am scared of waking him, so I try my best to lay still, he looked exhausted, he looked like he needed his sleep. A few minutes later my aunt walks in with Nikita and the door opening, which wakes Kyler, when he opens, his eyes dart to the door and then his eyes land on me. He literally jumps for joy and starts kissing me forehead and starts hugging me. It is amazing how safe I feel with him how amazing I feel knowing he is there with me. I look around confused. Why was I in the hospital? The last thing I remember is going to the hotel? Why was I in the hospital and why did my stomach hurt as though I have been punched the gut."What happened, why am I in the hospital?" I ask KylerEveryone is looking at me weird. Just then Kyler gets a phone call and excuses himself he is
Chapter 7Nikita JonesPOVHi, I'm Nikita Jones 20 years old, I was adopted as a baby and grew up with my amazing parents Joy and Seth Jones when I was five, they had my sister Ella Jones. When I turned 18, I searched for my birth parents I found out they died in a plane crash, and it’s said that the entire family died so I gave up.Today on my way to the mall. Someone hit me from behind. When I woke up, I was in a hotel room, and a guy called Jack Black told me I was kidnapped because they mistook me for someone else. The person is my birth sister, and they were meaning to hurt my sister by extorting money from his boss. He also informed me that his boss ordered him to save me and to bring me to the hotel. My twin sister and his boss were on their way."What’s her name? My sister" I ask him"Carla Simpson that's her name. They on their way they should be here soon"I’ve always assumed she was in the plane with him when it went down. That’s interesting that she wasn’t there she was on
Chapter 8Kyler JacobsPOVSo today was the first day of Nikita Jones being Carla and a CEO of a million-dollar company and the crazy woman is already creating chaos, it is like she is daring people to put a hit out on her. She is already starting fires I cannot put out.This little girl is even more daring than Carla is and that is saying a lot. She reminds me so much of my older brother Kenny his got that same live on the edge attitude as she does. They share the same fire. The problem with that in our world meant you would probably get killed for stepping on someone powerful toes. People kill for so much less. The reason Kenny never wanted to work in an office he did not like the politics of it and the other reason is running from my mom, he would much rather than be shot at then face our mother. Lana Jacobs is a lot to deal with and the fact that her husband enables her fuels her so much more.Back to Nikita Jones. I feared what she will do next. I do not even know what she will d
Chapter 9Kyler JacobsPOVI ran so fast out of the room I thought I might break my ankle.When I got into my study, I took a deep breath going over my options I could only think of one so I wasted no time and called the only person who could reign in Lana Jacobs.I quickly phoned my grandfather"Hello Son" My grandfather answered in the third ring."Hello pa, how are you feeling?” I ask him“I am good Kyler. How is work?” he asks me “Work is great I actually called because I have a favor to ask you" I was going straight to the point."Anything for my favorite grandson?" he asks knowing he said that to all three of us. But we let him think we never knew. He loved making each one of us thinking we were special, so we let him."Pa, I need you to help me your daughter its driving me crazy, she moved into my house and invited the whole family to live here" I explained"Ky she's your mother and I know Lana can be a bit dramatic, she gets that from your grandmother, but you know it comes f