AUTHOR’S POVJeremy glanced outside the window for a brief second. It was already late but he couldn’t put off his computer. He could feel it in his bones that he was close to finding the link that Elle wanted to connect Victoria to in the case. His computer glow was the only source of light in the now dark room. He rubbed his eyes with one hand to clear the blurriness that had started to set in while the other moved the mouse as he traced lines of transactions and supposed buried data.A moan from Sophie dragged his attention towards her sleeping form on the couch. He had told her multiple times to go to her room and sleep but she had been stubborn, claiming she wanted to help but fell asleep less than twenty minutes after his offer. The living room was quiet as he liked it which allowed him to work seamlessly and more efficiently without the distraction. Just as Jeremy scrolled through the current document, his mouse hovered over something. Jeremy’s brows furrowed “What the hell
ELLEI was exhausted but I wasn’t about to stop digging. Beside me, Sophie and Malone went through the endless documents we had printed out while Jeremy typed away furiously on his laptop. I didn’t expect Malone to be useful but he was. He was better than I expected and you would think he was a lawyer in the making. “Okay,” Jeremy announced, sliding his laptop around to face me. “We’ve been through over two hundred files, invoices, budget approvals, and internal memos from your time at the mall division.”“And?” I leaned forward, heart pounding.Jeremy rubbed his eyes and sighed. “Some of the transactions are completely legit, and some are just too perfect. The kind of paper trail someone would build if they were trying too hard to make it all look clean.”“There is a pattern alright” Sophie groaned. Her eyes had eye bags under them and I felt bad for making them stay up to help but they wouldn’t budge when I asked them to take a break.Malone pushed some documents to me “It started
ELLEI haven’t left the house in days. Three? More? I’ve lost count. All I could do was think and my thinking hadn’t proven to be useful so far.Maybe I should have felt better, hiding from the chaos that unfolded outside but I didn’t. Every minute I spent inside the house felt like the walls were closing in on me. Or maybe it was just the silence. Theon was busy trying to fix whatever mess the news was causing. The aftermath was worse than I expected. Even though I was at home, I still didn’t feel safe. Sure, the media could not camp outside the house because of Theon but they were outside my office building, waiting for me to show up. I would have. To show them that I wasn’t scared or hiding but Theon made me promise not to leave the house for now. My phone on the other hand felt like a punishment. It buzzed endlessly with articles, opinions and slanders and the backlash was bad. The same people who foamed at the mouth with every public appearance I made were pointing fingers a
AUTHOR’S POVJeremy could barely concentrate. It was his first class of the day, yet it felt like the tenth. He wanted to go home. In a hurry to get to his class this morning, he had left his phone at home so he couldn’t even use it to distract himself during the class. When the bell rang, signalling the end of the class, Jeremy, like the other students bolted for the door. He wasn’t the only one who found the class extremely boring.When Jeremy exited the class, his eyes caught his boyfriend leaning against the wall across the entrance. Girls giggled excitedly while pointing at the football player who had eyes on him. His heart skipped a beat as he dragged his legs until he was standing in front of Malone.“Hey” Jeremy muttered with a smile and that was all he could say as Malone pulled him in for a kiss.Malone’s hand wrapped around his waist, squeezing softly while another cupped the back of his head to deepen the kiss.The sounds of cheering, surprised gasps and squeals had Jer
THEONI stepped into the boardroom with a blank expression and headed straight for the head table, not paying mind to any pleasantries the board members threw my way. The men and women in the room shuffled awkwardly. They could see the rage on my face despite the calm and that was what I needed. I watched as they shuffled awkwardly while avoiding my eyes. My gaze landed on my uncles. I knew they wouldn’t miss an opportunity to be here, knowing the topic of discussion was someone they both hated. They both wore arrogant expressions, looking as annoyingly smug as usual but not for long. I didn’t sit. I didn’t need to. My hands found the table and I leaned forward, my weight on my hand as my voice boomed across the hall.“I would like to know who the fuck authorised my wife’s suspension without my approval?”The room flinched. Some shifted awkwardly in their seats, some even found random things interesting except my uncles. Charles smiled and leaned back with his hands folded in fro
ELLE Everywhere stilled the moment those words escaped Sophie’s mouth. She realised it a second too late as Theon turned to me with narrowed eyes. “Again?” he asked “What do you mean by again? Has this happened before?” He asked Sophie. “Uhm...” Sophie was panicking as she stumbled back a few steps, flustered and overwhelmed at the same time “I... what I meant was that it’s like Deja vu. You’ll think the way the media is attacking her that it had happened before” She rambled, but even the reply was not helping because it had no attachment to what she said earlier. Theon’s brows furrowed further. He could see the lie in her sorry attempt at a cover-up up so I decided to step in before Sophie entangled herself further. “It’s nothing, Theon” I stepped in with a calm and cool voice “She was talking about something that happened when I was just starting out. I worked under someone then” “And?” Theon asked, but he still didn’t believe my excuses. “There was this jealous co-work