This chapter isn't the best since I am a little sick, so I apologise. I didn't want to go the day without dropping something, so I forced myself to write this. Please don't be angry with the quality.
AUTHOR’S POVJeremy checked his time. It was barely 1pm and he couldn’t wait to go home. He had told his sister he didn’t need to go to Uni. He was fine sitting behind a computer screen and finding information and bad guys for her, but Ellie wouldn’t hear it.She wanted him educated and getting a job. Sometimes she would joke about him taking over her investment firm, but he made it clear he didn’t want anything to do with managing a business and that was how he ended up reading computer technology which he could manage. “Hi, Jeremy” People greeted as he walked down the hallways of the University. Jeremy could say he was pretty popular since people always greeted him or wanted to shake his hands and pretend they were cool anytime he walked past. “Hey” He greeted back as he strolled out of the building with practice ease, his signature boyish smile which drew more attraction. Jeremy was like any other boy his age, he loved fashion and loved wearing good clothes and his sister was mo
AUTHOR’S POV Amanda eyed her phone with irritation and mild fear. It was the fourth time the stupid thing had vibrated for the fourth time in less than ten minutes, and she didn’t need to turn the phone over to know who was calling. The phone stopped and picked up again almost immediately and Amanda felt like ripping her hair out from frustration. She turned the phone over and saw the screen flashing with the same dreaded name. Evil bitch. The name she had used to save the woman who gave birth to her. That woman didn’t deserve to be given the title of a mother. “Why is she still calling?” Amanda muttered angrily, “I already told her I would let her know when I had the money. Did I tell them to bury their nose and ass so deep into debt?” She silenced the call again, but she knew it was useless. It didn’t matter how many times she declined their calls, they would call again, alternating between her father and mother phones. There was one time they called with a strange number a
ELLEEliza’s laughter rang through the garden as she scrambled away from my tickling fingers. We had set up a small picnic in the middle of the garden with the blanket on the grass and a basket with all her favourite food.“You are not playing fair, Ellie” she pointed an accusing but short finger at me as a pout framed her face after she recovered from the tickles. I raised both hand innocently as a chuckle escaped my lips “But I am a villain. Bad people don’t play fair”She giggled and threw herself at me “I guess so” she flashed me a bigger smile “but I won this time since you cheated” “Nope” I shook my head “I won fair and square. There were no rules” Eliza huffed and plopped down beside me. She reached for her juice and took a bit sip before handing the cup back to me. I groaned as she wrapped her sticky hands around me then giggled mischievously because she knew she had just stained my dress. “You little brat” I laughed “I thought you were a princess? Princesses don’t cheat”
ELLEA tired yawn left my lips as I stepped out of the bathroom, with the steam from my hot shower escaping into the room before I closed the door. I pulled the towel I had draped over my head out of my face and stopped in my tracks when I came faced with a surprise sight that I should be used to by now. Theon was in my bed again. He didn’t wait for an invitation or ask like he usually does. He was just splayed comfortably on my bed like it was the most natural thing in the world. He had one arm behind his head, shirtless, his legs crossed while he scrolled through his phone with a bored expression on his face. “Seriously?” I asked with a narrowed gaze and an irritated expression on my face “Do you want to explain what you are doing in my bed?”He looked up at me with a lazy smile on his lips and shrugged “I thought we’ve gone past me needing a reason to get into your bed?” “No, we didn’t besides it was a one time thing” I argued. “It’s happened too many times for it to be a on
ELLE I was waiting for the private investigator to get me more information on Amanda and Isla, but so far, he has not given me anything noteworthy. I hoped that meant she wasn’t planning anything more but that would be a wistful thinking. I knew she had not backed down since it was obvious that she was hell bent on defeating me. I had to admit that she scared me a little. It was one of the reasons I had avoided going to the house to see Milo. I moved Jeremy and Milo from the house they were at before since Theon had followed me once. I couldn’t take the risk if he decided to go back to see Milo even though Eliza was here now. Also, I couldn’t risk Amanda getting her hands on something that would hurt me. I would never risk exposing Milo’s existence to her. I didn’t even want to imagine what she would do when she finds out that I had such a weakness. Sophie entered my office and shut the door behind her. “We’ve been here a lot lately.” “I know” I closed my laptop with a
THEONI once again disappeared into my grandfather’s study, which was now my own. Since it was buried deep inside the estate’s mansion, it became very silent in the evenings, allowing me to bury myself in thoughts. My fingers tightened around the whiskey glass in my hand as I stood by the window, looking out into the compound of the estate that was getting dark. My jaw clenched as I remembered dinner earlier and Eleanor’s demand. Her voice replayed in my head like an irritating echo, and I couldn’t stop it. “I want to manage the mall chain. I know you gave it to Elle, but she already has her hands full with the Microfinance bank, the hotel shares you gifted her, her investment firm, and she has no child to give them to”Those were the exact words she spoke. She had grown audacious, and the moves she took made me mad. I know children were never in the contract, but that line rubbed me the wrong way. It felt like she was accusing Elle of not being able to have a child. Mocking her e
ELLE I don’t even know why I keep making efforts to eat at the big dining hall when it was always quiet, even though everyone was present. It was another boring morning breakfast, and everyone looked like they had better things to do than to sit here and pretend we wanted to eat together like a normal family. My eyes were on Amanda. She looked better today, less nervous, and I was worrying my brain to think why. She must have found a solution, and I somehow suspected that I wouldn’t like it. Theon was on his tablet, reviewing documents and was yet to touch the plate of food in front of him and I knew he was going to leave for work without touching the food. Victoria, on the other hand, sipped her tea quietly. I wasn’t comfortable with how quiet she had gotten since I took the mall from her. I knew she was brewing something, and that was why I had someone following her. I wouldn’t let her take me unaware. My attention was dragged back to Amanda. She was on her phone, and the
ELLE I knew the moment Amanda found out that Diamond had been arrested. If it wasn’t the scream I heard from her room yesterday, then it was the way her bloodshot eyes kept watching everyone like she was expecting them to call her out for something. She was scared. She was making mistakes. She was unravelling. It was amusing to watch her fight not to show how much the plan she thought she had in control spiralled. Jeremy showed me the news yesterday. Though the pictures were blurred, I knew it was Diamond and Lara. After all, we sent those pictures to the police and the media. I also instructed the private investigator to watch her always. I told him to make sure nothing she does escapes him. I wasn’t doing this just for evidence, but for my own safety. If Amanda could kill someone, then I wasn’t going to take any chances with her. I needed to be extremely careful, like Jeremy had insisted. I sat in the living room, pretending to be scrolling through my phone while she sa
AUTHOR’S POV The pressure on Amanda was mounting. She could not sleep, her eyes were aching, and she had a constant headache that wouldn’t go away. She felt like a trapped animal and the house she had done so many things to enter now felt like a cage. She was drowning with anxiety from it all. She jumped when her phone started to ring, and her breathing picked up when she saw it was an unknown number. At first, she didn’t want to answer the call for fear it was going to be her parents calling to ask for the money but something at the back of her mind ask what if it was Diamond calling to tell her he got out of prison and everything was now okay. With that in mind, she snatched the phone from the table and answered it immediately. “Hello?” she whispered uncertainly, her heart pounding in her chest. “Amanda,” Diamond growled on the other end of the line. “Diamond?” Her heart leapt when she heard his voice and she was started to believe that maybe everything would be fine no