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CHAPTER 14“What do you mean there’s nothing you can do?” Catlyn was furious at her husband who was refusing to have Nancy fired. “She slapped your wife. Her son broke Cade’s fucking nose!”“Woman! I can’t do anything okay? Some real estate billionaire from Coral city just bought all my shares this morning, the offer was too irresistible to decline and it wasn’t just me, he bought all the fucking hotel shares and he immediately kicked us out of corporate. My hands are tied. Just let it go,” Her husband replied, happy to have sold his hotel shares for a huge profit.“What? Who?” Catlyn sought.“I don’t know..….I only met with his team but I think they mentioned Banks or something. This calls for celebration honey, just let this woman go, I’ll buy you a new Birkin, how about that?”Catlyn wasn’t pacified yet but she had no choice but to agree.*****Miles away in Coral city, Lloyd just got off the phone with Luke, happy that the first phase of his plan to bring Nancy back to Coral city w
CHAPTER 15Lloyd and Nancy agreed to let the kids stay the week since their school syllabus was very similar and they were in the same grade. Lloyd convinced Nancy to play along with the kids scheme and not to tell them that they knew they switched, so as not to break their little hearts that their brilliant plan barely lasted 48 hours before they were found out.Nancy told Emily and Diana who also played along and Lloyd informed Veronica who was elated to finally meet her other grandson.Lloyd’s father, Lucas, had just returned from his vacation on a cruise ship. He had been in the city for over a week but was spending some time with his mistress before returning to the family house.He knew and loved Lex dearly, so when Lloyd told him about Leo, he was equally excited.Lloyd brought Leo to his study to meet him the evening of the day he returned.“There’s my little champion,” Lucas said as he grabbed Leo and pulled him into a warm hug before kissing his forehead and tickling him.L
CHAPTER 16Nancy understood very well that Kaleb was still insecure because of Lloyd’s reappearance. He even said it just now himself. Sure, she was slowly starting to develop feelings for him but she didn’t know if she wanted to rush into a thing like marriage just yet.Honestly, the thought of committing herself wholly to a man like she did before with Lloyd still scared her. What if Kaleb changed after marriage? But she didn’t want to tell him outright.“Really? Proposing to me without a ring? I thought you were a romantic,” She said coyly, giving him a flirtatious smile.Kaleb's eyes snapped to her in pleasant surprise, he couldn’t believe she was already asking for a ring. He expected her to at least put up some resistance. Oh! He was greatly overjoyed.“Oh babe,” He took one of his hands off the steering wheel and placed it on Nancy’s thigh, caressing her inner thigh as he continued. “You know I’ll get you the biggest diamond ring in the world…..I just wanted to talk to you abou
CHAPTER 17Lloyd had been in the building since morning. It was the Friday he was supposed to bring Leo back to Brandon after school but he needed to come earlier to finish signing some paperwork for the hotel he just bought. His mother had insisted that she wanted to meet Nancy so after dropping him at the airport, he sent his private jet back to pick her and Leo after school that day.He had witnessed the whole drama between Nancy and Catlyn and he was greatly impressed by how she handled the situation. She had really changed. She really wasn’t the timid girl she used to be. His desire only grew more for the new strong and confident tigress she had become.“Lloyd?” Nancy queried when she saw him standing at the door.Mr. Patel was stunned. Who exactly was Nancy? First she knew the former owner's wife by first name and now she knew the new Boss too? He wondered if she was disguising her true identity.“Have a seat Miss Drew,” Lloyd said in his business tone, flashing Nancy a small smi
CHAPTER 18“It’s not that easy Lloyd. You broke me,” Nancy said as she tried to stifle her sobs. It was hard for her. Remembering everything that happened, leading to her escape just brought back too much pain. Pain that she had locked up deep inside her and forgotten and here the very cause of the pain was, urging her to dig it back up.“I know,” Lloyd gulped. “I know how much pain I must have put you through. I just want to make things right.”He knew? What exactly did he know? Did he know how many nights she cried? Did he know her own father disowned her because of him? Did he know the many sacrifices she made for him only for him to treat her like he did? No! He didn’t know anything.Nancy wiped her tears. “But that’s the thing Lloyd, you don’t know and things aren’t wrong for you to make them right. At least not for me.”“Nancy….” “No Lloyd, what you did,” She paused, trying to calm the raging inferno that was slowly burning inside her as she remembered his actions years ago.“Wh
CHAPTER 19While Nancy and Lloyd were having their moment, handling their issues, Kaleb had heard about the new ownership. He didn’t know who it was yet but he was on his way to his friend, Patel’s office to find out. It was his influence with Patel that helped Nancy secure her job in the hotel. He also brought a bouquet of lilies to apologize to Nancy for the other day.He called Patel on the phone when he got to the hotel and the man asked him to meet him at the bar. It was there that Patel told him everything that happened that morning and especially how surprised he was that the new boss and Nancy seemed to know each other. When Kaleb heard about the transfer, his fears only intensified. He was sweating and easily became restless. If Nancy agreed, that would be bad for him. Infact, it would be his end.The thought of Nancy and Lloyd being together in Patel’s office filled him with so much rage and jealousy. He found it so hard to control himself that he told Patel he wanted to us
CHAPTER 20***FLASHBACK***FOUR HOURS EARLIER“Our flight is being delayed due to bad weather conditions. Seems like we’ll be flying in later than expected,” Veronica said over the phone to Lloyd as he stepped out of the meeting with the management staff.There was a lot he didn’t know about the hospitality business but he understood finance and numbers and from the books of the hotel in the past years, they have been consistently turning in good profit margins so he was counting on duplicating their efforts here over at Coral city. It would seem that Nancy wasn’t the only staff that he would need to have transferred if the other franchise was to be successful.“Alright mom, just let me know when you’re finally able to fly,” Lloyd replied.He wanted to still talk to Nancy but he didn’t want to disturb her work. The restaurant had a lot of guests at the moment. When she told him they could be friends, his joy knew no bounds. He wound up hugging her so tight and the urge to kiss her wa
CHAPTER 21“Kaleb Trevor, where can I find him? I got a call from your hospital some minutes ago that he was brought here,” Nancy said to the nurse at the hotel reception.The whole drive to the hospital, she was in a panic. The last time she felt such fear and panic was when she was being chased by Lloyd after she went to give him Lex.“Kaleb Trevor…..” the nurse trailed, looking at her laptop for a while. “He’s been moved from the emergency ward. Take the elevator on your left to the third floor, room 12B.” “Thank you,” Nancy replied as she ran off.When Nancy saw the state Kaleb was in, her heart ran straight into the pit of her stomach. Her purse unconsciously slipped out of her hand as she clutched her chest and ran to his side with tears instantly running down her cheeks. Who could have done such a horrible thing to her beautiful Kaleb?He had a cast around his neck and his right eye was swollen shut. He had a huge cast on one of his hands. His fair face has turned red in so ma