Chapter 10

Caden gritted his teeth and pulled George away from Emily. "I don't think Anna would want you hugging another man's wife," Caden reprimanded.

The thought of Anna gives George an unsettling feeling in his stomach. She has been outrightly avoiding him since he told her he saw her a few days ago in New York.

She complained about him not trusting her and has been snubbing him since then.

"Are you worried about Anna, or are you jealous?" George smirked, masking his worry.

"I highly doubt that," Emily chuckled. "It's nice to meet you, Mr. Finn," Emily said to George.

"Oh please, call me George, Mr. Finn is too formal, " George replied, and Emily smiled.

"Alright," Emily replied.

"Why are you here?" Caden asked.

"Representing my father," George said through his teeth. It's like he was spitting venom from his mouth.

"That's new," Caden replied.

"Listen Emily, Caden is a lot of things so if he treats you unfairly, you can come to me and we would give him a befitting punishment together," George said, his demure completely changing as he put his arm around Emily's shoulders.

"He has already done a lot of things. We may as well kill him if we want to punish him," Emily chuckled.

"I see.... Tomorrow by 10?" George asked, feigning a serious expression and Emily burst into laughter, but she quickly held her mouth in order not to attract attention.

George was really ready to kill Caden?

Caden frowned hard when he saw Emily trying to control her laugh, and George was smiling widely too. He glared at George, who winked.

Caden removed George's hand and pushed him away before hugging Emily to himself.

"Go away," Caden said to George, who raised his hand in surrender.

"Don't forget the plan, Emily." George winked at Emily and walked away.

Emily laughed again, resting her head on Caden's shoulders because he pulled her to him so close she could enter him.

Caden likes how close she was to him, but Emily was still trying to stifle her laugh to realize how close she was to Caden.

When she finally realized she tried to free herself from his grip but he held her.

"Don't move. We are supposed to be married," Caden whispered.

"I don't care, you're supposed to stay away from me, that was that agreement," Emily replied.

"I don't like that agreement anymore. It's null now," Caden declared.

"You can't just say that because you don't like it anymore Caden, let go of me," Emily frowned.

"No... You don't seem to have a problem when George holds you, " Caden replied.

"Are you seriously jealous? We are only married on paper, " Emily said.

"We're still married though," Caden shrugged. His grip on Emily tightened, and she sighed.

Caden is very stubborn. She knows there's absolutely nothing she would do to make him let go of her.

Throughout the entire evening, Emily was glued to Caden's side like a magnet, he didn't let her out of his sight and only a single thread was keeping Emily away from murdering Caden during that time.

She really wished George would come help her kill Caden for real.

Emily couldn't help but notice that Nathan didn't attend this party. It was only natural since he was on the headlines for having a secret girlfriend.

When Emily and Caden got back home, Emily wasted no time running into her room to stay away from Caden's vicinity.

Caden chuckled at her attitude. He found it funny that she actually thought she could run from him.

Emily changed into something comfortable and slumped on her bed.

It was Sunday tomorrow, meaning she got to stay at home.

She normally enjoys Sundays as it was a very free day, but a free day with Caden in this house was hell to Emily.

"We would worry about tomorrow when it comes," Emily muttered to herself and drifted to sleep.

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{NEXT DAY~MADISON'S APARTMENT~10AM}

Madison heard a knock on her door, and she frowned. She was sure no one would visit her, and her neighbors wouldn’t even talk to her.

She dragged herself to the door and when she opened it she saw a man in a neat suit and she blinked.

"I think you're in the wrong apartment," Madison said immediately.

"Madison Shaw?" The man asked, and Madison nodded. "My boss would like to speak with you," the man said again.

"I swear I didn't do anything wrong," Madison quickly said in terror.

"Just come with me, it won't take long," the man said sternly. He didn't look like there was room for refusals.

"Let me pick up my phone, wait a moment," Madison said and went to take her phone. She quickly shot a text to Emily.

Madison: SOS, I may die in 30 minutes

Madison walked out of the apartment building with the man, and her hands were trembling when they finally got outside.

There was a familiar black car waiting outside, and the man ushered for her to enter.

'Oh God, forgive me, my sins.' Madison prayed within her before entering the car.

She was surprised to meet Nathan Pierce in the car, and she blinked rapidly.

"Nathan Pierce?!" She screamed but quickly covered her mouth.

Nathan brought out a tab and played a video for Madison to see, Madison's eyes went to the tab.

It was a video of her in his parking lot, hiding behind a car. She was with her phone as he walked into the parking lot with a lady.

"You almost put my sister in danger." Nathan frowned at Madison as he stopped the video and focused on Madison.

"I'm sorry," Madison quickly said.

It would be stupid to argue with him inside his car where he could just kill her, and no one would know she was even gone.

"Sorry won't change what you have done, though her face didn't appear on the pictures you took, other Media houses would want more information, and my sister would be in danger," Nathan glared.

Sister?

So, no secret lover?

Madison thought she heard wrong the first time he said sister, but he said it again, so it's definitely not her ears.

"Your sister?" Madison asked. "She's your sister? But there's no information that states, Nathan Pierce has a sister, " Madison blinked.

"And that's how it should be, but you're about to ruin it," Nathan replied.

"I'm really sorry," Madison said. "My friend was in need of this, and I just wanted to help her out, i didn't mean any harm," Madison apologized.

"It doesn't matter what your intentions were. You're going to fix this," Nathan said.

"How? I can't erase people's memories, " Madison said, and when Nathan glared, she quickly sealed her lips.

"My sister has black straight hair such as yourself and she kinda has your body shape, since you paparazzi are interested in a secret lover then you'll get one but that secret lover would be you Miss Shaw" Nathan said and Madison's eyes widened.

"No... No... No... It's not possible. People won't believe that, " Madison quickly interjected.

"Then make it believable, isn't that what you people do?" Nathan raised an eyebrow, and Madison shook her head in refusal. "You do that, or I won't be responsible for what happens to you," Nathan threatened calmly, and Madison felt like dying.

"You're not giving me a choice, are you?" she said in defeat, but Nathan remained quiet, and Madison sighed.

"This is all Emily's fault," Madison muttered. "Alright, I would do what you want," Madison said to Nathan.

"Good, I would be releasing an official statement tomorrow and don't tell anyone about this, you may leave" Nathan replied and Madison sighed before getting down from the car, it drove away and Madison walked back to her apartment.

"This is all Emily's fault," she said again.

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{RESTAURANT~4PM}

Emily walked into the scanty restaurant, and when she sighted Madison, she quickly walked towards her and sat opposite Madison.

"I came as fast as my legs could carry me when I saw your message. What's wrong?" Emily quickly said, and Madison sighed.

She deleted the first text she sent to Emily and sent her another text to meet her at this restaurant, saying it was urgent.

"There's something very important I need to tell you, and you have to promise not to tell a soul about it even if you're dying," Madison said seriously, and Emily blinked.

Why is Madison being so serious, what could possibly be the problem.

"Depends on what you're telling me, we are journalist Madison," Emily replied.

"Emily!!" Madison complained.

"Okay... Okay.. okay... I promise, " Emily said in surrender.

"I'm really serious here, I'm risking my life telling you this," Madison frowned.

"This is really serious," Emily replied. "What's going on Madison, you're scaring me now," Emily asked.

Madison sighed again before telling Emily everything that happened with Nathan and how she is now in huge trouble.

"And it's all your fault, I wanted to help you," Madison concluded.

"Please tell me you're making this up," Emily said in disbelief.

"Do I look like someone who would make something like this up?" Madison asked, and Emily stared blankly at her. "Okay... Maybe I would but am serious here, Tomorrow I would be revealed as Nathan's secret lover because of you, " Madison complained.

"Shît got complicated in a fast," Emily sighed.

"What are we going to do?" Madison asked.

"Nothing, we are going to do nothing about this because there's nothing we can do about it," Emily answered.

"I'm in trouble, I'm really scared, Ems. I do the gossiping. People don't gossip about me," Madison complained.

"There would be a lot of gossiping Madison, you better be prepared," Emily said, and Madison held her head in frustration.

"This is all your fault," she said again