"What do you mean Who am I? I'm your boss, Miss Carter." Leone replied.Josey had just blurted out a question that had been bothering her thoughts for a while now and he decided to answer her after several minutes of silence."No. I don't know why I believe you're much more than that. I mean, did you see the way that stupid clown of a doctor was cowering in fear when he saw you. It's like he saw a ghost! Wait! Don't tell me you're dead? " Josey said turning to Leone as he raised a brow to her petite figure."I'm not dead, Miss Carter. Let's go get the drugs. "" Well, you can just wait for me. I want to check up on Gabby. The doctor did say it wasn't that serious. " Josey replied walking away from Leone and towards the ward Gabby had been admitted into. "Okay! Guess I'll see you later?" Leone said wondering if Josey could even hear him anymore.Josey first peeked into Gabby's ward through the small glass in the wooden door. Then, she pushed the door open and walked into the ward and
"Why the hell are you pacing back and forth like you're in some marching contest? " Josey turned her head sharply to the direction of the voice she just heard at the end of the hallway." What are you doing here? I mean, where were you?""I'm the boss. You don't get to ask me that question. Did the Doctor say anything else. Why were you so tense? ""No the Doctor didn't say anything. I was only looking for you. I got confused cause you took the prescriptions and I didn't know if you had run away. " Josey explained.Leone stared at her for a while as if hurt that she couldn't trust him. He slowly thrust his hands into the pockets of his trousers and started walking down the hallway to where Josey stood." I could have run away but I'm not a coward and definitely not at the expense of someone's life. Where's your friend? Is she okay? "" Yeah. She's good. She's regained consciousness but still looks a little drained. I was talking to her few minutes ago. "" I know that. I was waiting
*GABBY'S POV*It's been a week since my Dad went into coma.Yeah sure, I was out of the hospital but we were still worried about him.Worried about him and the contract he signed to sell me out. We've purposely missed Rossi's calls a good number of times because we didn't know what to tell him.Sometime this week, he's gonna come to our house to ask questions and we were waiting.Well, I was the only one waiting. Once again, my mum was out."Gabbyyyyyyy!" I was supposed to be sitting in solitude in my room watching Tiktok on my phone and this loud human had to come running through my front door."Hey Josey, what's up?" I said putting my phone down on my bed."Even your neighbors can head the excitement in my voice. Like didn't you hear the way I yelled my best friend's name? And here's you, acting so cold with me. You're supposed to yell, dumbass!" Josey said as she flopped on my bed, fanning herself with her hands.Was the weather hot or was she doing this act to show me she thinks
*LEONE'S POV*At least someone I trusted was gonna handle the business deals this evening while I go out to handle deals of my own.The news I just heard had pissed me off.I picked up my phone and dialed Alfred,"Alfred. Meet me outside my office in 10." I ordered and ended the call. I needed to confirm what had just breezed past my ears.I picked up my coat from behind my chair and put it on.How long would it take Alfred to get here?It's been like what? 15 seconds?For some reason, I was getting frustrated just waiting there. Normally, ten minutes are not enough for me to do anything.Right now, two minutes is enough to strangle Alfred for wasting my ten minutes. Sounds reasonable, right?"Sir? Your attendant is here?" My Secretary said peeping in through the door.She probably knocked but I didn't hear her due to the way I was loudly stomping my feet and tapping my fingers on the table."Good!" I said sharply and picked myself up from the chair that was already getting too hot fo
"Wait, what do you mean? You want me to commit murder. You want to get rid of the girl? I know we're businessmen, Leone but we're definitely not murderers. I won't do this. I can't do it! " Alfred declared as he attempted to leave the car." Get back in here!" I grabbed his wrists and forced him back down." Who said anything about murder?" I asked confused." You just did. You said we'll have to take the girl away.""I did say that but I didn't mean murder!" I replied laughing.Alfred's face was already so pale just thinking about murder."So you want us to kidnap her then? I'm not in for that either, you know.""Why does your mind create such negativity for you? Listen, I am a businessman and not a criminal. I can do almost anything for my company but definitely not murder. I'm not that bad and definitely not monstrous." I explained."Okay, so what do you plan to do now?""Well, by taking her away, I meant that someone else will marry her and not Martini. And this person will marry
*AUTHOR'S POV*Josey had just flagged down a cab when she heard her phone ring.She ignored it and got into the cab, as she gave the driver directions on where she wanted to go.Right now, she just wanted to go home and sleep like none of this ever happened.She had no idea why her boss always thought so highly of himself or why he always felt the need to put others down and act all high and lofty. Did he really think money was the solution to everything?If it was, then her friend wouldn't be in the mess she's in.She took out her phone to see whose call she had missed."Speak of the Devil!" She hissed and called back."Where did you keep your phone?" Leone asked the moment he picked up."In my bag." "I wanted to ask you something but I forgot. Could you come back to the office right now?"Not even please? Seriously? Sheesh!"I'm sorry Sir. I'm already on my way home and we've gone quite a distance. As it is, I'm really tired and stressed out and I just want to sleep." Josey said ho
Standing there dumbstruck, Gabby could only slowly lift her head from the sole of his shoes to the hair on his head.Her mind had just begun to register the tiniest details of his face when she heard him speak again. More like yell, waving his hands over her face as if attempting to pull her out of a trance,"Hello! Can you hear me? Why are you glaring at me like that? Is that how you welcome visitors? I'm here to see Miss Carter. She gave me this address. Are you the maid or something? Please call her.""I'm sorry I was staring. I wasn't expecting anyone. You said you're Josey's boss, right?""Was I not audible enough the first time? All these servants! Call her already." Leone scoffed."You have a cellphone, right? You'd have to call her yourself. I'm not doing you any favors." Gabby said leaving the door open and walking back to the living room.She picked the remote up again and started scrolling through the channels like she was doing before.However, the TV in front of her was j
*GABBY'S POV*"So? What do you think of my boss? He's hot right?" Josey asked grinning like a Cheshire cat the moment Leone has walked out the door."He could still be out there, you know and maybe hear us perfectly?" I asked showing caution."Who cares? That dude already knows how hot he is. Our only job is to ogle cause we have no choice."Typical Josey throwing caution to the wind."What if he's with someone? Like dating someone?""Sweetie, if he was, I don't think he'll come here to ask for your hand in marriage.""Okay, hol'up. He didn't ask for my hand in marriage. He was ready to sign a marriage alliance with me so his company doesn't get ruined. Men marry because of love but in my case, I'm just a deal to both parties. In the end, my life will be miserable no matter who I get married to. Not like I have a choice.""Yeah. But look on the brights side though! You may not receive any love from Leone but it's way better to tell people your husband is rich and hot than for people t