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CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE.Shannelle's phone kept buzzing on the table during breakfast but she did not answer the call because it was her mother on the line. She had been calling none-stop and scolding Shannelle for not leaving the mansion to go and live with them in the new house their father had bought.Shannelle did not want to leave the mansion. Despite the fact that she did have the best relationship with her brother, she loved him and she loved being by his side. Also, the weekly allowance he gave her was something she did not want to miss. He had already made it clear to her that if she left the house, he would no longer be responsible for her, hence no hundreds of thousands of dollars every week for her. She couldn't afford to lose all of that."And why aren't you answering your phone?" Jamal asked when the phone rang for too long."Because it's mum, she keeps forcing me to go live with her and father which I don't want to!" She cried."So why don't you want to? Aren't they your
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR.Shannelle grumbled all the way to her agency. She had a photo shoot that morning which required her to smile a lot, but she had no idea how she was going to get through it because her mood was already ruined.If her mother showed up at the mansion that evening and caused a scene, she was going to be very furious at her. She couldn't leave the mansion, she just could not leave."Danielle!" She called in surprised the moment she walked into her private dressing room at the agency. Danielle was seated on the couch in the sitting area, patiently waiting for her.The two girls hugged themselves and sat down to discuss."Goodness, why are you here this early?" Shannelle asked in shock and Danielle shrugged. "I wanted to see you. The receptionist told me you always come in by seven am so I decided to wait. How are you doing?" Danielle asked, flashing her a fake smile and Shannelle frowned."I'm not doing fine at all, mum is driving me nuts!" She cried and Danielle looke
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE.Jamal looked at the photo of his sister's birth certificate in his phone and smiled. She was turning twenty-five in a few months and he knew it was about time he got her married.He was getting wary of the guys she was going out with. Three times, she had tried to break his rule, attempting to sleep with different men, but thanks to his guards and spies who were always alert, they contacted him and he was able to stop. He was positive that one day, she would succeed in doing what she wanted to do and that would ruin his plans of getting her a good husband.He had this friend of his whim he met in fifth grade. They schooled together until high school and separated when that friend of his had to go abroad to meet his mother and continue college. Before leaving, the guy had begged him to look over Shannelle for him because he loved her and he wanted to come back and marry her once he was done with med school and Jamal promised to do so even though he never discussed
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX."Why would anyone choose to live at the top of such a tall building?" Shannelle complained with a frown. She was in an elevator with Danielle, heading to the top floor of the building."That's where his penthouse is located." Danielle replied, referring to Henry."He lives in a penthouse?" Shannelle asked surprised and Danielle nodded in agreement. "Does he own it?'"Uh-huh!""Impressive!" She pouted. She knew the guy wasn't prolly half as rich as her elder brother, but from how Danielle had described him, he was well to do and she was comfortable with that fact.When they finally arrived at the top floor, Danielle took her to a door where she rang the bell and stepped back, waiting for it to be opened."I'm friggin' nervous right now." Cried Shannelle and Danielle waved her off."You don't have to be, Henry is a really cool guy. Relax.""If you say so." Shannelle smiled.Soon, the door swung open, revealing a very tall shirtless guy, who smiled down at them."Dani
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN.Shannelle was taken straight home, while Henry was taken to prison on Jamal’s orders. He told Adele about what happened and she pleaded to come along with him to the prison to see Henry and he accepted.On their way to prison to see Henry, Jamal was driving the car attentively. He usually took that task, namely driving his highness, extremely seriously, that particular day he was calmer than his usual self, as if he was thinking about something of much importance.The whole atmosphere was rather tense and Jamal felt uncomfortable, but she understood him. Her ex-boyfriend tried to rape his sister, he had every right to be furious."Are we allowed to see Henry? I don't know how procedures go in jail, but we're not his relatives nor hisattorney, it must be very hard to get an approval, isn't it?" Asked Adele and coldly nodded.Adele didn’t know if he was saying; “Yes, they will be allowed" or “Yes, it’s hard to be allowed”, but she chose to stay quiet.He didn’t
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT.After Henry was dragged out of the room, Jamal and Adele were left inside along with the guards and with the silence.The air was so heavy and tight between her and Jamal that the guards who stood like statues all around the place did not dare utter a word. In fact they were longpass the duration they were allowed to stay inside thatroom, but no one dared to say a thing.As for Adele, she was just sitting calmly on her chair, thinking about how she should react to what she had just heard.Not only had she found out that her main rival was the brain behind all that charade, but also that her current husband was probably the reason behind her separation from her previous boyfriend.She calmly turned to Jamal who was still standing behind her and she just sighed when she noticed he was already looking at her with a pale face.She immediately decided not to overreact. Jamal man was already on the verge of forgetting how to breathe.Jamal was very much into hi
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CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE.Adele left straight to their Grandmother's room to talk to her. All what Jamal just told her a while ago was taking a toll on her and she didn’t know what to think or do.Everything had been planned from the start without her knowledge and her Grandmother whom she trusted very much had been an accomplice."Grandma, is it true?" She asked the moment she opened the door and saw her grandmother lying on the bed."Adele." Grandma Devon called as she quickly stepped down from the bed and walked over to Adele who had now closed the door and was standing at the center of the bedroom. "Why are you in tears, what happened?" Grandma Devon panicked and Adele kept looking at her in awe.She had known everything.From coming back home, to getting a job, the mysterious phone which she had encouraged her to use when she hesitated and then the sudden marriage. Jamal had been the brain behind all of that and she had known, but she decided to hide it from her."Why?" Adele as more
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CHAPTER NINETY.“Baby.” Jamal called once he stepped into the bedroom and didn’t find Adele in it. He closed the door behind and walked over to the bathroom to look for her and there she was, trying to run the bath to prolly take her bath.“Baby.” He called again and she turned to look at him. The stern look she had in her eyes a while ago was gone and all he saw was her beautiful ocean blue eyes that were sparkling. “Hmmm” she answered and Jamal walked over to where she was standing.“I didn’t do all those things for myself. I did it for you and I and even though things turned out to be pretty rough, all I wanted was the best for you, for us. Because I was in love with you. I still am.”“You always get everything you want, don’t you?” She asked with a blank look.“I always want very few things, Adele, that’s why I do all I can to get them. I’m sorry.”“It’s okay.”Her response shocked him.“Really?” He asked in surprise and she nodded with a smile.“I mean, it has happened and you w
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