LOGINWade's POV“Any news?” I asked while looking at the monitor. “What I ordered yesterday, have you found any lead?”Wayne was quiet before he sat across from me. He was carrying his tablet.“Nothing. All the footage from the surveillance system, wiped clean. As in zero data, like it never even existed.”I gasped. I closed my eyes for a moment.“So, in short, no one entered or whoever entered was so good that he left no trace?”“Exactly, master,” he answered. “But I saw a pattern. The breach method is the same as the one used by Sanders Chilton's group - your uncle. For now, he is still our primary lead.”I nodded silently, my tone of voice cold.“If that's the case... withdraw all of his assets.”“Master?”“I said withdraw everything,” I repeated, saying it slowly but with emphasis. “All stocks, all project connections under Chilton Group — freeze all of it. I want him off the map by sunrise.”Wayne hesitated.“Does that include your cousin too, master? The son of Sanders?”“Of course,”
Cecilia's POVI just stared at Wade's back as he walked out of the restaurant. Slowly. Like nothing happened. He didn't even look back at me. He didn't even spare me a glance.I don't know how many seconds I was silent. It was like the whole world suddenly froze and I was the only one left moving. Then it was like something suddenly exploded in my chest and that was the emotion I could no longer contain... extreme anger wrapped in extreme shame.“Unbelievable.” Soft at first, but every word that came out of my mouth felt like it had fire that burns. “Did he just walk out on me?”I held the wine glass in front of me. My heart was beating so hard it felt like it wanted to jump out._Crash!_ The glass hit the floor. The crystal shards exploded like music to my ears.Next I grabbed the plate. _Pak!_ The cutlery, I threw them too. Everything on the table, everything, I wanted to be gone and in an instant, it was like I wanted to erase this scene.I'm not the type of woman who just gets lef
Wade's POVAround seven in the evening, I went to the dinner appointment with Cecilia. The restaurant was quiet, dim, and obviously expensive. I didn't care about the price because I knew it was just pocket change for me. But I was restless being in this kind of place and yet with someone else. Lily wasn't the one with me, but another woman. I'm not used to it. I'm no longer used to changing women like I'm just changing clothes.Cecilia was already in the middle of the table when I arrived. She was wearing one of her favorite designer dresses. It was bright red, obviously thought through. She's all smiles, as if nothing's wrong between us.“Wade!” she quickly stood up to greet me. And when she got close to me she immediately clung to my arm. “You look tired. Work again?”“Something like that,” I answered coldly.I sat down. I gently removed her hand from my arm. I didn't even try to hide the impatience in my voice.“You’ve been so busy lately,” she said, still trying to be sweet. “We
WADE'S POV“Fuck!” I slammed the table hard. Papers scattered, the glass flew — but I didn't care. Not because I was hurt, but because I was so angry. My teeth were gritted because Lily left… because she was the first one to let go. And in my whole life, no one has ever done that to me.“She thinks she can just walk away from me?” Every word that came out of my mouth was like fire ready to burn anything in front of me. “She really thinks she can just decide when this ends?”I looked at the door. Hoping she would come back. I counted ten seconds but nothing, she didn't come back. Only silence reigned in my entire office.I looked at the table, at the mug she left behind, with a lipstick mark on the side. I approached it and stared at it. I touched the part with her lipstick mark on it. I remembered her lips. I never tasted lips like hers. Out of all the women I've had — only she has driven me this crazy, so I can't allow her to just leave me just like that.My laptop screen lit up. I s
LILY'S POVWade stopped in front of me and was so close I could almost feel the heat of his breath. I couldn't move. Everything he said was like thunder that echoed inside the room and with every word, the defenses I was desperately trying to build slowly crumbled.The plan is to make Wade want me and I have indeed succeeded. But why is it like this? Why am I still not at ease? It feels like my world stopped at what he said.“Wade…” I said almost in a whisper, still trying to break free from his hold. “You can't just decide that. You can't break your world just because of—”“Because of you?” he quickly cut in. “Lily, you're not some part of my life. You're the part I can't lose.”My chest rose with how fast my heart was beating. I didn't want to be a fool. I didn't want to believe him again. But when I looked at him, it felt like all the anger, fear, and love collided inside me.“Wade, please…” I said calmly. “We can't keep doing this. You don't own me.”He smiled, bitter but real.“I
LILY'S POVWhen I entered the office, Mr. Chilton was quiet and just looking at his laptop but I knew he noticed that my breathing was a little heavy.“Is everything okay?” he asked while still not taking his eyes off the screen.I paused for a moment before answering.“Yes, sir. Everything's fine.”But as I handed the files to his desk, I couldn't help but notice the depth in his gaze, like he wanted to ask more, but he held himself back. And me, I forced a smile, even though I knew I couldn't get what Cecilia said to me earlier out of my mind._“Wade belongs to me — only me.”_Technically, I have no right to be affected. But why is it that every time those words replay in my mind, I get more and more restless and more and more annoyed at that woman?Why am I getting angry? I don't feel anything for Wade except anger. And everything I'm showing him is just part of my plans. So I shouldn't soften. I can't risk everything I worked so hard for for many years.I looked at Wade again. He
Lily Russell's POV“To find the Y-intercept, you have to replace the variable x with zero. After the replacement, you can now solve for the Y-intercept. Here, the answer is (0,7). The final answer should be an ordered pair.”“Miss Russell, how about finding the X-intercept?” Zaid asked while starin
LILY RUSSELL'S POV“Bro, why is your hand bleeding? What happened?”“Don’t ask questions. Why are you awake so early anyway? Tell our cook to prepare my favorite dish. I’ll just go upstairs to shower and change.”“But Bro Wade, your hand…”I stopped making coffee when I heard his name. After gettin
LILY RUSSELL'S POV“DID SOMEONE SEND YOU TO KILL ME? TELL ME!”I could feel his anger just like how I feel the tip of my own knife on my neck. My breathing was also getting faster. I didn’t think he would catch me this quickly. No. He won’t find out about my plan if I don’t confess. I need to think
LILY RUSSELL'S POV I could feel eyes staring at me as I made my way to the seat beside Wade. Those eyes were screaming, “Who is that woman? Where the hell did she come from? Is she that wealthy?” Even so, I calmly approached where he was without even sparing him a glance. “Fifteen million pesos,”







