Ivy motions the former detective to a seat while she settles on the couch facing every other one. Rand takes the seat offered him. "Wow, never in my years of living did I think I was going to get myself a desk job." He marvels as he looks around."You have my brother, Grant, to thank for that." Ivy chuckles and follows his gaze as it stays over everything. It's his job to be curious anyway so she won't stop him from being curious.He stops and returns his focus back to her. "Sorry, I got carried away.""It's completely fine and don't worry, you're not exactly here for a desk job, before I get into other things, let me give you a minor briefing of what your job is originally going to be."Rand nods and sits still."So, I assumed the role of CEO here less than a month ago and I have seen very bad things, things that have been considered normal. For example, I once saw a man smack a woman in the ass and walk away like it was completely normal... The former CEO of the company was pretty
Night seemed to have crawled that day, finally when it was sun down, everyone had to find their ways home, including Ashton and Ivy.As he does every other time, he comes to pick her up from work, never forgetting to be the perfect gentleman and open the door for her to seat before going round to sit in as well."How about we eat out? It's been a while since we had dinner in a breezy place?" Ashton asks, looking at her briefly.She nods excitedly and exhausted at the same time. "How about an outside place? I would love to sit under the stars and eat, I was so cooped up in my office, oh, and like I told you, I have a lot to tell you. Today was pretty interesting for me in a ton of ways.""I had a fun moment, or at least, a gossip worthy moment. I can't wait to share as well. Look over there, that looks like a good place doesn't it?"Ivy looks over at where he's pointing at and with the golden lights on inside, casting shadows on the outside and then the dim white lights outside, the pl
Ashton drops his wine glass and looks right at Ivy. "You're not kidding me right? It's not a prank?"Ivy shakes her head, her eyes dead serious. "Arielle gave me the information while begging for me to forgive and take her back."Ashton shakes his head. "Arielle did what? She came to your office and begged you to forgive her? So she can convince you to trust you, she told you that Yale was behind Tiara's murder?""That's basically it.""But, she lost her memory. How does she know that?""She told me she had been through hypnosis."Ashton scoffs. "She has lied about a lot before now, it won't make any difference if she is lying again."Ivy smiles. "Actually, this one is true."Ashton cocks his head to the side. "There's still something you're not telling me, what is it?"Ivy smiles. "You remember the detective who was in charge of Tiara's case? He resigned and I employed him. Turns out Hank Williams is his uncle."It's a lot of news for Ashton to digest all at once so he's very gratefu
As Grant walks into work the next day, he's joined by many of his crew men. He doesn't break his stride and continues walking. "What about the location I asked you to get for me yesterday?" He asks one of his younger subordinates without sparing him a glance."I was able to get it. I have the map location on your table already."He gives what looks like the ghost of a smile. "That's good. You're dismissed for the day."The man smiles at being given a day off and he very naturally leaves the men and women walking behind him without breaking the stride.The next person to fall beside him is also someone he's asked to do something already so he keeps checking in until he gets to the elevator.Here, he enters alone, his people bowing slightly till the elevator doors close and he's left alone.All of the sound in the air is the even hum of the elevator and his light breathing. All the time he ever has to himself at work is in the elevator and he has learnt to cherish it, so for these secon
Just like the day before, Arielle shows up at Ivy's office, using the best friend lie once again and gaining free access to free entrance to the office whenever she feels like it, and of course, it's Arielle, she feels entitled to everything.She walks right past Anita at the secretary station and opens the door to Ivy's office like it's hers, or like she had earned a right to it.Ivy clenches her fist and does a breathing exercise before speaking. "You're here early today."Arielle chuckles. "I know right? I could not stop thinking of you overnight. I was idle anyway so I decided to come say a long hi.""What do you mean by a long hi?""I mean, come to stay with you for a long time? If you don't mind that is. Afterall, I gave you such a piece of important information yesterday, so you can spend some time with me."Ivy notes her meaning but chooses to be dumb. "I have a meeting in about an hour so I'll be out in about thirty minutes. Sorry but you'll need to go some places else to say
In Grant's office, the manager of the employees in charge of the CCTV camera and watching it come to his office with a USB drive in his hands."I have the entire video from this morning here sir.""Well? Do I need to tell you what to do?""Not at all sir." He walks sheepishly to the TV in the middle of the room and connects his laptop computer with it, using a remote to guide the connection. At the end of the setting up, there are six boxes of videos on the screen, all of them the same time but different angles and places. "Done sir."Grant crosses his legs and watches the video intently, seeing the daily lives of his employees, a very large amount of them arriving with coffee cups in their hands, handbags and suitcases everywhere, black dresses... "Pause!"The manager snaps back to attention and presses the pause button. "Did you see something?""Take it back a few seconds, focus on Camera one, the one by the door exactly."The man follows instructions and it's only Camera one that's
Chapter 143After work that day, Raine drives her SUV home, in a better mood than she's been for weeks. Contented, happy and this massive amount of peace in her heart, she sings along to the song playing on the radio singing on top of her voice, drawing eyes from passengers and fellow drivers alike."...But I can't help falling in love with you..." It's worthy to note that Raine doesn't have the best singing voice but she belts out every line anyway. "Take my hands, take my whole life too... For t I can't help falling in love with you..." Few blocks from home, she hears a car horning behind her to go faster. "Do you want to fly?" She asks herself as she looks in the rear mirror. She catches glimpse of a somewhat familiar view entering into a tall apartment just some buildings away from her own home.The fear that she had lost comes banging on the door of her heart and inadvertently, she lets it in. Her hands on the wheel begins to tremble. She parks her car and looks at the apartment
"You're always writing in that small journal of yours. What's in there?" Her friend, Cale tries to grab the book from her but she dodges out of the way just in time. "Why are you so curious? Leave me alone."Cale furrows her brows and looks around, her eyes coming to land on the red head male, few trees away from them, sitting underneath one with his friends as they chat away, laughing from time to time. "Ah, it's him isn't it? You still have a crush on him?""What?" She turns beet red. "No I don't..."Cale cocks her head. "And I'm supposed to believe that when you're so red. You turn red when you're lying, you're a pinocchio in that sense."Davis bites her inner lips. "Is it that obvious?"Cale nods immensely. "Yes, totally. Very very obvious. You get as red as his hair whenever he's around. Then you start to scribble mysteriously into that book of yours. You better be careful, a lot of ladies already have their eyes on him."Davis rolls her eyes, her colour slowly returning to her