The Blind CEO

“Jade, come back now. It’s getting dark.” “Alright, alright. Give me a moment.”Jade ended the call—the signal was weak anyway, and she could barely make out what her friend was saying. She slipped her phone into her backpack and started making her way down the same trail she had used to climb up. She had come to gather herbs that only grew in that part of the mountain.She hadn’t realized how far she’d wandered. Now, the darkness was creeping in quickly—hence the call. Still, she wasn’t worried; she knew the trail like the back of her hand.She was already near her bicycle when she suddenly heard the screech of tires, followed by a loud crash. The dark surroundings briefly lit up from the impact.Jade froze. Then, snapping out of her shock, she sprinted toward the source of the sound.What she found was a sports car engulfed in flames. The air stank of burning rubber and metal.Jade's stomach turned. No one could survive that. Jade was about to turn around and call for help when sh

“Mr. Frost, the woman’s name is Jade Collins. She’s a single mother to her three-year-old daughter, Zia Collins. There’s no father listed on the birth certificate. She’s been here for a year now, working in the Administrative Department,” Ryan reported, handing over a file.Zane took the file from his assistant but didn’t open it.Instead, he dismissed Ryan with a nod and walked toward the floor-to-ceiling windows of his office. He gazed outside, but his eyes weren’t truly seeing anything.He was lost—trapped—in his thoughts.Five years ago, he had opened his eyes for the first time after his surgery, filled with the desperate hope that the first face he would see would be Jay’s.But she wasn’t there.No one was.Only the doctor and the nurse had been in the room, smiling and congratulating him for the successful operation, unaware that the person he longed to see the most had vanished.He asked them about Jay.Zane was only told that a young lady, always wearing a mask, accompanied h

Zane was battling a storm of emotions within.Did he still need paperwork to prove that the woman seated as far away from him as she possibly could was Jay?Her voice… She was Jay.Did she really think he wouldn’t recognize her? Or did she forget that once, when he was blind, all that made him familiar to her was her voice? That her voice was the only thing that separated her from literally everything else, and thus it was etched in his very soul.Her voice, even when mixed with other voices in the background, would stand out. That’s how familiar she sounded to him.“Did you need something from me?” he asked.And he didn’t miss how she flinched at such a simple question. It only confirmed to him further that Jade was Jay.She was the girl who had taken care of him for a whole year. The girl who kept teasing him that he would have to pay her back for all her expenses.She was the girl who promised she would be there when he opened his eyes again — only to break that promise and disappe