"I knew at that very point that I had fallen into a trap that will be mighty hard to get out from."Raees cocked her head to the side slightly, sighing softly as she listens to Reid's story."What happened after that? What happened to Yvette? Did you manage to get her..." Raees's questions are cut short by the loud ringing of her phone. She raises it up and checks the caller ID. "It's Daniel calling, looks like sometime has passed. If there's anything, at least we know who killed Richard now."Reid manages a nod. "Pick it up?"She raises the phone to her eye level and presses the green button, then places the call on loud speaker so Reid would also hear what Daniel has to say."Have you seen the news? Do you still want the company that is in ruins? It has no insurance pay off so don't think about that."Raees rolls her eyes, "I still want it, burnt or not. I think you've forgotten that you're not in place to give options right now? Don't overstep your boundaries, or I will reject your
"Oh shit... Oh shit... Oh shit..." Were all of the sub coherent words and thoughts that Reid could possibly think and mutter.Right there in the middle of the road, he turns his car around, going against the flow of the traffic in a bid to get to that exit, the same one that led to Adralle, the same one Benjamin had taken.Why had he trusted them so blindly? He literally just let them use his ignorance to take a woman... A woman that had trusted him enough to leave her door open while strangers stood outside.She must be scared out of her mind, possibly screaming out of her head and fighting to be released... Or could Ben have sedated her or something? Neither of all of these assumptions had felt good at the time, and even presently while Reid narrated the story to his girlfriend, Raees, it still doesn't feel good to say, to express the panic he had felt at that moment.It had seemed like the moment would never end but as soon as he pulled into the exit, he sped up the car and within
On his drive back home that fateful evening, he had a ton of things on his mind.And of course, the one at the highest top is the side mission that has just being handed down to him by the man he wants as an investor. He practically just hinted that he is fully capable to sponsor the whole thing, but just as long as Reid helps him convince his woman, not necessarily to come back to him but to at least find out why he had called off the wedding.For a man who’s currently in a relationship, he knows so damn well that if she walked out on him on the day of the wedding, it won’t be a pretty scene, so while he can, if he can, he’d love to offer his help…And that was exactly what Reid did.On getting home that night though, he met his girlfriend at the time, pulling a suitcase behind her, right at the stairs of the house.“Gabriella? Where are you going?” He asks her puzzledly, looking at her pull the same suitcase she had pulled in with her just three months before.The Mexican-American w
“Reid? Did you receive the call from boss earlier?”He barely glances up, nodding. “I did, and he is your boss, not mine.”Before he knows it, he is yanked up his chair and plastered with his back against the wall, “You do not talk to us like that, and I am a middleman, not a servant between you two, so you do not have the right to speak so low to us.”Reid Flanagan scoffs, “Who came in here calling me by my first name? I am not Reid to you, and I make sure to give mutual respects to whoever deserves it.”The tall, bulky man hoists him up a meter further but Reid does not break his eye contact, both of them staring daggers at one another, before he sets him down, not so gently.Reid looks him right in the eye, and proceeds to slap him across the face. “If you respect your boss so much, you will not do such to someone he plans to work with.” Without glancing back, Reid walks back to same chair he had been sitting in earlier, “How can I help you?”The other man’s cheeks are inflamed wit
*REID*Adralle.You know how in a person’s life, there are a quadrillion turning points? How there are times and moments you have done what you should not have done?Adralle is one of those times… the name smells of danger, and now it’s turned up in something pretty close, not directly, but close nevertheless, to me.It is absolutely no coincidence…As Raees stares at me puzzledly, my fists clench in my pocket because now it dawns on me.He’s always had a thing for women belonging to other people, that was his kink? And he was so good at it that he would always manage to take even the most loyal woman from her man, use her and then dump her like all they ‘had’ did not happen.He was evil, but at the time, I knew no less, and helped him in one of his acquisitions…When I learnt about it, and tried to change it, the deed was already done, and the aftermath had not been good, and for five rigorous years, I have heard nothing about him, not like I actually care anyway, but where it has man
*DANIEL*“Are you done over there?” I ask her, peeping out of my own vantage point.Preparing the documents for an handover is already being worked on, and it’s a pretty easy work, what is taking so long now is my plan.They can only take a company that remains from me, there is no company without one existing anymore, and that works for me.It’s either nothing for them and everything for me, or nothing for either of us, and even going as far as doing this, will certainly harm my reputation but what remains to be done is not just important but also necessary.Cecelia comes out of the small side of the wall, nodding. “Done, no one will suspect any wrong involvements.”I nod, helping her out of the wedge. “Let’s go then.” I coax softly, my voice lighter than it ought to be. “We sent everyone home earlier right?”Cecelia nods, wiping her hands off on her black denim trouser. “The contract and all of that is in the car, we’re the only ones here.”“Let’s go then. Let’s see how they handle m