LOGINALEXANoelle and I had an appointment with Brent three days later.He sent a message that we needed to see at his office, and he included that Clara would be showing up with her lawyer, Grace.“That fast?” I asked Noelle.“I told you he was the best,” Noelle responded.She was driving us there and I nodded. I couldn’t deny that I was impressed, but I didn’t say anything about it to Noelle. However, I had two thoughts bothering my mind.“Do you think he has told Mark about this?” I asked Noelle worriedly.I already told Noelle about running into Mark at Gerald’s company, and she did try to talk me out of feeling a certain way about it or dwelling on it. It had been very difficult not to, but I had had to busy myself with the new idea that Shirley suggested, and that really helped.Noelle and I hadn’t talked about having her back to running my business with me again, and although neither of us had talked about it, we just allowed that part of the conversation to sleep.“I already told
MARKMr. Devon had been nothing short of the devil himself.All this time, and till the very moment that everything got revealed, Sydney Bowman had been working as the company’s accountant.Mr. Devon faked a firing letter, making my dad believe that he was truly fired. Meanwhile, Sydney Bowman had been out there stealing more money for himself and Mr. Devon and using it to build his business.“Would you be willing to come out and testify in court?” I had asked them.Even though they had already confessed to this, I still couldn’t use it against Mr. Devon or Sydney Bowman. They would have to agree to want to publicly testify against him for them to pay for what they had done.They had stared at each other after the question.“We will have to think about it, Mark,” Tom Hardy had been the first to speak.I was a little bit disappointed because I thought that they would jump at the offer.“You all said a while ago that you could not wait to see Devon Charles paying for what he did,” I tri
MARK“When your dad’s business picked up, he needed shareholders,” Tom Hardy explained.I sat there and listened to the men diligently.I had thought that it would only take a few minutes, but what I didn’t realize was that it would take longer than expected.There were so many things that had happened that I wasn’t even aware of, and to think that I had been in the dark for years…“We were working for him at the time, and we came together to form an agreement. Devon Charles was the lawyer, and so technically, he was the one who drafted everything,” he continued.“Your father trusted him way too much that he didn’t go through the legal documents that Devon prepared,” Glazer said.“And I don’t understand why he would trust someone so much that he wouldn’t even go through the document,” I said, shaken with astonishment.Something just kept feeling off.“It was impossible to make your father see differently, Mark,” Gerald said. “As long as it was being handled by Devon Charles, he didn’t
ALEXASeeing Mark Ronaldo after a really long time shook me to the core, more than I even expected.As I walked away from Gerald’s small company, my chest kept beating rapidly. I had thought that I wouldn’t be moved. Heck, I never even imagined that I would have to set my eyes on him again.Seeing him at Mona’s new gift store was hurtful but definitely not this much because I saw him from a distance, but seeing him so closely that if I had just stretched my hand, we would have touched.I had felt his nearness, his presence, his smell, and my entire body had been affected by it, and that made me even more frustrated.“Miss Alexa?” Shirley called.After leaving Gerald’s small company that he ran with his two friends, I had gone to my apartment where I was handling my business for now to meet Shirley so that I could finalize their business deal for the week.I wanted to get it over and done with so that I would be able to concentrate on the case with Clara before they would need my serv
MARKI was almost asking myself what Alexa was doing hanging around Gerald, but then I remembered immediately that she had gotten a contract with them.And Reyna told me a while ago that Alexa only had three clients left.Were they the ones?Alexa had a weak smile on her face as she walked out with Gerald, but the moment her eyes landed on me, the smile vanished.I rose to my feet.“Mark Ronaldo, what a surprise,” Gerald was the first to break the silence.It suddenly seemed as though everything in the world has come to a standstill.“I hope we are not in trouble,” he added.“Um, no, you are,” I managed to respond.Gerald noticed the tension between Alexa and I and he cleared his throat, and that alone was enough to bring us out of whatever daze we were in, or maybe it was just me because when I looked at Alexa, her eyes were full of rage and hatred.But then again, when hasn’t Alexa Silver looked at me that way?“I should be on my way, Gerald,” Alexa told him, her tone ice cold.I kn
MARKThe second court hearing went almost smoothly. Mr. Devon was good at defending himself, but Brent came fully prepared as well. It seemed like it was a real battle in the courtroom, and by the time the case was adjourned, I felt deeply relieved.“I really wish that this would be over sooner,” I told Brent as we got out of the courtroom.Mr. Devon’s wife and son seemed more devastated than the last time I saw them, and as advised by Brent, I tried to keep my eyes away from them. However, as soon as the court case was adjourned, they were quietly escorted out of the premises by Mr. Devon’s driver.“I would have loved to tell you that this would be over soon, but I cannot guarantee that,” Brent told me. I sighed deeply.The whole situation was taking its toll on me, especially as I couldn’t get the fact that Mr. Devon, a man my dad trusted completely and I also trusted, actually attempted to murder me out of my head.The thought of it still scared me.“As long as Mark is going to







