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" Hey, um call me back when you get this voice message," Anika said after her call went through to voice mail. She had been trying to reach Aryan for the past two weeks, yet he was unreachable which made her worried.

Had he gone back home with his wife? He would have said something before he left. Where could he be? she asked herself pacing up and down the living room.

" Your boy toy suddenly grew the balls to leave your sorry ass, didn't he?" Malayah asked from the top of the stairs smoking a cigar.

" Excuse me?"

" Don't play dumb Anika, we all know you are cheating on daddy dearest," she tsked walking towards her room without waiting for a response from Anika. Malayah was starting to be a thorn in Anika's flesh and she was beginning to hate it. At the moment, she was worried about Aryan and not Malayah's nonsense.

~~

" Kendrick doesn't want to see you, get out," Syd said as soon as Sage entered the office.

" Hi or hello will do Syd," she replied with sass walking toward the table.