"Ow amazing!" Her eyes held glint of excitement, she had seen it, her favourite of all time. A shiny Teddy wall. She sprung off immediately towards it.
"Gosh she really is Isa, but what was Dave saying." Austin hissed. How could he not recognized her when they were all friends. Bella grabbed a huge Pinky teddy along with the twinkling wallpapers. She was sure to have a marvellous sleep now. "Is that okay?" Austin asked and she nodded rapidly, these decors were her typical decors back home. Exactly as she wanted them. Austin does other shoppings for her without letting her know and they went back. When she got to her room, she began placing the decorations in their right places, but not without bliss in her eyes. Austin watched her in amusement. Everything about her was screaming Isa. But then, how could she not know it was him or even recognize Dave a bit.. they really must have changed alot, but then.. He went in a daze, until his phone came bickering at his ears. "Yes father." He muttered. "Son, I'm on the flight now, talk to you soon." "Yes father," "And take care of your wife." Smile crept to his face. "Yes father." Then a message suddenly popped up on his phone. "Boss, you need to come to the office now, there's an emergency stakeholder meeting." Without spending anymore seconds. Austin sprung off from the apartment in his BMW maybach. Bella who was speechless at the sudden run off, continued arranging her room and then suddenly slumped on the bed. "What sort of life is this though.. ran away from home and ended up with a cute stranger, trapped in his web now. How's Dad even taking this?? Gosh I don't even want to think about it." She covered her ears with her two hands. "This is choking!" Her breath hitched, she suddenly held on her chest, she couldn't take in enough air anymore as she kept banging on her chest. She had suffered panic attack since she was little and now, she couldn't believe it was here again. She staggered downstairs while breathing huskily. Bella knew she could really die if she doesn't do something. "Who's there?" She managed to voiced, but there was no one. She wasn't going to let herself die like this. Her stepmother would really have the final win if she allowed it. "Who's here!" she screamed weakly again but there was no one to her amusement. She dragged her foot, till she got out of the estate. Her breath sprung up the more, she couldn't take it anymore and she fell on her knees. Her pupil was on the verge of dilating now, but she dreadly held on for dear life, until a familiar face approached her. As though her soul had found solace in him, she gave in to darkness and fell completely to the floor. "Bella!" he screamed as he immediately held her on the floor. "Stay with me Bella." His shaky voice echoed but she was gone now. He swiftly grabbed her off the floor. "Bella!" He couldn't stop screaming in frights as he held her to his car. He drove recklessly down to the hospital with his mind shattered in several pieces. It was a good news he found her, but then on the verge of death. He paced up and down outside the hospital ward. "She's stable now, you can go see her." The doctor pronounced making him jerked forward immediately. When he got in, he figured she was tensed on seeing him as sweat began tickling down her forehead. Then tears suddenly dropped from a side of her eyes. She couldn't believe her father whom she had ran away from, was the one standing beside her bed now. How did she get here? she tried to shook her head but nothing was moving. Her body was stiffed, her leg wasn't moving, not even her eyes were blinking properly, nothing was okay. But then hearing and seeing clearly? She was dreadly frustrated inside. "{I need to get out of here!}" she tried to move but got utterly disappointed again, She was practically a vegetable. She suddenly paused, listening to whose voice was approaching. Her forehead creased, she got more tensed when she figured it was her stepmother's. "Luck on our side Henry, we need to get her married as soon as possible." "She's sick Sarah!" her father yelled surprisingly. Bella couldn't believe it, he had never stood up for her. "That's the point, we can't have her run away again, and you know we need this marriage Henry! we need to be in connection with the Kingston group." "Not while she's sick. Yes I agreed to your suggestion back then on getting her married to that lousy thing, but I never thought she disliked him so much to run away from her wedding. I nearly lost my daughter Sarah." Bella gasped on the bed. She knew it was her stepmother's plan to get her married for business all along, but today her father confirmed it for her. Where as some angers were now developing in her guts, she was also relieved to found out her father still cared for her so much. Not until she heard them again. "Audrey has just reported that the company sales has dropped by 10%, are you still sure you don't want this marriage?" He was silent, getting Bella frightened on the bed, Gosh. At this point she wished for miracle, if her father got silent like this, then he was going to have a second thoughts. She needed to run off, her fright intensified when he finally spoke. "How do you intend to do that." He asked with a heavy sigh. Bella knew this was going to happen, she had always known her father to be highly business minded, he could even sell himself for his company. "Now, you're in your right sense Henry." "Leave everything to me." She muttered confidently leaving her jerking on the bed. "Sarah, a wedding is needed, how are you going to do that?" "I said to leave everything to me, I'll be right back." She cat walked away beaming with all the excitement there was."Yes! Yes!" The rest of them voiced. "Mr Esme, from this minutes onward, you are no longer a part of MTECH, your shares will be transferred to you along with a compensation. Who else has something to say and with a reason?" The shareholders began staring at each other in shock, they never knew it would get to this extent. "Anyone has anything to say before I proceed!" Austin yelled, raw anger sprinting from his breath. They all shook their head while Mr Esme stood up to his side. He went on his knee immediately. "No, you can't do this to me, I've been with you since you started, you can't just kick me out like that." "Is that why you became so greedy and want to take everything from me?" "You need to see through my reasons, I meant no harm." Esme begged. "Was I not a CEO of grandfather's company before I built this company? Haven't I brought this company to Excell so many times? Isn't MTECH among the first top company in this country? You think I'm a fool and don't
'Do I have to tell anyone?' She contemplated within herself. Bella realised, her life would be at great risk if anyone gets to know her whereabouts. Her stepmother could come after her, Ethan, or even Austin. Hence she stood up silently and began picking some clothes into her box. Just then, a call came up at her phone. She looked back almost immediately, thinking it was Jasmine already calling back. But then, it was an unknown number. She picked it up anyways, Her heart began thumbling fast as she listened. She threw away the phone on her bed and ran out in so much speed. Tears welling up in her eyes. On reaching the street, she hopped into a taxi immediately. Her Father was the only family she had left. If anything should happen to him, she would be really left completely alone in this world. She couldn't control her emotions now as she burst into pulls of tears inside the taxi. When they got to the hospital, she came down, paid the taxi and sprung off into
When she looked at the screen, it had no caller ID Who could it be? Bella slowly picked it up and placed it on her ear. Sealing her lips from saying a word first. Then a weeping voice came through. "Is that you? Isa?" The voice muttered, in a shaky tone. Bella removed the phone from her ear. She looked at the screen again and placed it back. "Isa, is that you?" The voice weeped once again. This was the same name Austin had always called her. Who else knew about her past? Why calling her old line from many years ago? Who could it be? The questions lingered in her mind. "Who.. who.." Bella tried to speak, but the callers voice came again. "It's Jasmine, Where have you been?" She muttered, her voice still shaky, doubt lingering in her voice as though she wasn't sure yet. "Jasmine?" Who was Jasmine to Bella. She couldn't fanthom anything. Then her other phone began ringing. Her heart almost jumping out of her chest when she saw the caller Why was he ca
Bella's hand tightened on her bag as she watched him passed by.His eyes focused to his front. She wrenched her gaze away from him and it landed on Dave.He had an apologetic look on his face as he came closer."I can get you where to stay, Bella." Dave muttered.Bella had dread in her eyes, she hated this guy standing before her so much now and she couldn't even hide it. "How dare you speak to me after what you did.""I'm sorry Bella, Austin is not actually who you think he is, I needed you to stay away from him as well."She scoffed painfully."You, that guy, and the scheming lady, you've done enough. I don't want to see you anywhere close to me in this life or any other again." She muttered and stopped a coming taxi. She hopped in weakly and left to her father's residence. But then, as she got to the gate, there was Ann and Sarah waiting for her with a paper, Sarah held out the paper on sighting her."You have to sign this first to get access." Sarah muttered, coldness laced at
Next morning, Austin woke up to a severe headache, he winced in pain holding up his head, And trying to remember everything from yesterday, then it came crumbling down his head. Someone had picked him up from the bar last night, and who could that be? Then few minutes she was on top of him, was she drunk as well?? Anger suddenly developed at his guts. Then he recalled he had sent her away before anything could happened. Austin Richard was the most handsome richest heir ever existed, but he wasn't someone to ever womanise. He believed in settling with whom he loved and that was Isa, the only woman he had adored all his life and waited for. Hissing once more, he sluggishly stood up from the bed still palming his head. When he checked the time, it was already past 9 and he dashed off to his bathroom to wash up. He came out in a robe and a dripping hair which he was drying with a white towel. He was doing that and began going downstairs, Austin suddenly haulted in his
He took back his phone immediately, staring down at the screen, there was no name. Then he picked it up. "Who the f*ck are you to distract my.." The bartender swiftly retrieved the phone from his hand. "He's drunk, can you come get him? I'll text you the address now." He hung up and began sending message. Just then Ann showed up almost immediately. "Isa?? I told you.. look at my Isa, I knew it! She has always been the one.. wait.. why do you smell different..?" he drunk talked as Ann took him, his hand on her shoulder. 'I smell different?? Have they been that closed??' Ann thought getting angry at everything. Just few hours back, she was done making a ganished noodles, the only thing she could prepare and had set the table, but Austin did not seem to be coming back home, hence she looked up for his contact and dialed immediately only for someone to tell her he was drunk, she sprung up as soon as she got the address and rushed down. But then he was calling her Isa, which
He hopped into his car and drove off immediately, unconsciously leaving Ann in his house.****Bella's eyes already got swollen from crying so much. She laid down helplessly and began dozing off slowly when a voice suddenly jolted her up, a voice she was so familiar with."How are you enjoying here little witch??" It was her stepmother.Bella's pupil dilated. She stood up slowly..."Please get me out of here, I didn't do it." She muttered, her eyes held desperation, she was already going into nervous breakdown, everything was sinking deeply and affecting her, she was loosing it."Please get me out!" Bella yelled."You deserve where you are right now, you can rott in hell." Sarah muttered and she shuddered."No! get me out! Where's dad, did he know I'm here?? Please get me out!" She pleaded but all Sarah did was smirked."Please!" She begged one more time, hope lingering in her eyes.Sarah shooked her head."There's only one way to get you out." She muttered and Bella sprung more clos
She kept looking back, but nothing changed, nobody came to her rescue until they shoved her inside their car.She accepted her fate, she was going to sleep in a cell for something she knew nothing about.In as much as Austin almost had tears in his eyes, there was anger, uncertainty, betrayal of trust in his heart.How could his Isa had stooped so low, she could've asked him if she needed money.He fumed and dashed away in his car.He knew she was going to be miserable in there, but he cared less at this moment.-------------When he got to his apartment, he was met with silence, his eyes unconsciously darted around, his jaw clenched into a thin line and his fingers tightened.Back then when his grandfather suggested going abroad for his studies, he refused blantantly cos of Isa, but they had him on a sleeping dose and had him transported against his wish. When he got there and had no other choice, he began his studies and couldn't wait to round up. On the day of his graduation, he wa
She sprung up to Mrs Beth. "He's about to sign now, he said I must take wine for him to sign." Mrs Beth gave her a disgusting look. "Austin?" She muttered but Austin's cold look at her send shivers down her spine. And even Dave had stoic expression on his face. "Since you're here, I think I should take my leave now." She muttered going towards Austin, but Mrs Beth was quick to give her a resounding slap. Not again! And what has she done now? "How dare you!" Mrs Beth fumed confusing her the more. "Son, I told you she is nothing but a gold digger, you chosed not to believe me, I hope you're seeing it now, that's what all this rechead bast*ds does!" She snorted then walked up to the man and retrieved the documents. "See it for yourself!" She threw at Austin who now had a fierce look along with painful glints in his eyes. "Can you explain this?." He pointed the documents at Bella, his voice as cold as an ice, it made her shuddered. He had never spoken to her like this sin