Kyle tried his best not to get distracted as he maneuvered the stirring wheel. However, he lost control of himself when his mobile phone began ringing. That's when he also realized that a huge truck was coming on his way. SCREECH--! He was lucky that he stepped on the brake just in time before he collided with a container van which he almost bumped into when his eyes darted on his phone screen. Seeing that he received a call from an unfamiliar number just a couple of minutes after he left the building, he panicked for a moment. However, since he was determined to meet Anton Stanford even if it drove Ashley mad, he collected himself quickly and answered his ringing mobile phone. "Kyle Ashton, speaking?" He uttered in a cold voice. While waiting for the person on the other end to speak, bids of sweat trickled down his forehead followed by his thudding chest. No matter how much he tried to sound cool, his hands betrayed him as they trembled in nervousness. "This is Anton Stanford s
Usually, Anton wouldn't show any signs of indulgence towards the woman in front of him. However, since the truth about Athena being alive because of her, he decided to let go of his hatred and look the other way. For his sister's sake, he was willing to be in good terms with her but it seems to him that she was hiding something from him which completely made him curious about her.Upon their family doctor's arrival, he went out and waited.Checking up on her didn't take long. The doctor came out after spending few minutes and he had a questioning look in his face as he strode towards him.”Mr. Stanford,” The doctor had just opened his mouth to tell his findings abot his patient but Anton hurriedly interrupted him.”How is she? Is it serious?” He sounds anxious as he asked.The doctor had serve Stanford family for decades. He was familiar to each family members' reaction everytime they approaches him to ask about his patient. In addition to that, he was able to treat this young man's
The warm sun rays penetrated through the curtain gaps causing Ashley to stir up from her slumber. A slight grunt escaped her throat before she unconsciously covered her face, blocking the warm blinding light while blinking several times to clear her blurry sight. Seconds later, she finally had a clearer view. She yawned and squirmed under the sheets. After sleeping for a couple of hours, she felt lighter and much better. The pain all over her body had subsided compared to the previous day. Her bones and joints seemed fine now and to assure herself that she recuperated enough, she began stretching. Since her specialty was based on keyboards, her concern was first focused on her hands, more specifically on her fingers therefore she tried to wriggle them and she's relieved to know that all of them have gone back to their original flexibility. The swelling of the skin has dissipated. She then stretched out her limbs, followed by her arms only to find out that there was still a tube c
Ashley swallowed, caught off guard by the sudden interruption but when she darted her gaze to Megan she found her smiling professionally toward the source of the voice as she spoke."You misheard me, ma'am. I was telling the patient to cooperate with us for her rapid recovery so that she wouldn't bother your master any more."The woman stared at them suspiciously.Ashley seconded timidly to convince the latter. "Yes, that's what she meant."She heaved a huge sigh, silently thankful that it wasn't him.'So where was he?' Ashley thought, glancing around but she found no signs of his presence so she gathered herself together and focused on whoever was in front of her.While the two had their conversation, she silently studied the unknown woman from the corner of her eyes.Based on her entire appearance, Ashley concluded that she might be one of those members of the Stanford household who held the same position as the butler and Anton sent her in his place to deal with her. Realizing this
Brenda stared at her phone in a daze for a long time. She was utterly dumbfounded."What did I hear just now?" She grumbled unconsciously. "Did he say... Athena's best friend?" She was trying to digest Anton's angry words in the back of her head and moments later, her eyes widened and her lips trembled upon realizing something."Was that woman... The one that..." Her words were left undone as she ran out of the building in haste to search for her.Earlier, before coming over, the head butler had specifically told her. "There's someone at Young Master's apartment unit. You must go there and deal with the situation as you see fit." The instruction clearly played in her mind as she frantically eyed the parking lot. The entire Stanford household had known Brenda's fondness for Pamela and how protective she was when it came to Anton that's why she assumed that her help was urgently needed to deal with some sort of thing like that. It never occurred to her that what she did was the tota
It was around noon when Ashley arrived at her apartment.After paying for the taxi, she staggered into the unit and since she felt somewhat dizzy, she directed herself to the wide couch and slumped her exhausted body to rest.She drifted off to sleep for a couple of hours and when she opened her eyes, it was already dark. She stretched out her arms and limbs before she stood up and went to the kitchen to find something to eat. However, as she opened her refrigerator, she became speechless.There was nothing but a few bottled water piled neatly inside the fridge. It was then that she recalled, she hadn't been home for a couple of days that's why the shelves were all empty. She resigned and thought that the bottle of water would do at least so she took one, twisted the cap, and gulped the entire content before she resumed resting in her bedroom.The next day, she was woken up by the constant vibrations of her mobile phone. Her eyes snapped wide open as she searched around for the gadget
The female mechanical voice on the other end felt like salt in his wounds, leaving him speechless as he fought the urge to curse under the presence of the young lawyer for he didn't want to show how chaotic he was deep inside.'She erased her tracks quickly,' he thought sullenly as he mulled over everything repeatedly.Starting from their brief encounters in the past and so on. Everything that had happened between them recently has brought them to this very moment.It took him quite a while before he finally understood her motive for agreeing to his demand. After all, she had told him about this fact before she signed her name into the paper but he never believed her then. Not until now that she took this situation as an opportunity to sever ties with him completely.'How ridiculous!' He sneered but as soon as his mind flashed of the times their being together, his heart began to race for some unknown reason. There's no way that she would help him for no reason unless she...Anton's l
Andrey's face fell and his heart sank right there and then. He was an inch closer to obtaining the information he desperately wanted to have but he was being shut off by an unknown caller. Whoever was that, he had cursed that person a million times before he exited Anton's office. As he ascended the elevator, he made a mental note to tail him in the next couple of days to obtain more information he needed to complete the puzzle forming inside his head. He couldn't let Cassandra down and waste her trust in him. With that in mind, he clenched his fists determined to do something.Meanwhile, back to Anton's office... "Hey!" He sounded enthusiastic as he answered the call. "You finally remember that you still had a friend waiting, huh!" "We're coming back in a couple of days..." The voice on the other end responded joyfully. It was none other than Terrence Adams who had called him in such a peculiar moment. Anton breathed a sigh of relief. If not for his calling, he would have turned