Cael strode purposefully up to the mansion door and pressed the doorbell. The faint sound of the bell filtered out from under the massive door. The door was freakishly heavy, a fact he knew too well considering how much time he'd spent in this very house over the years.Armani's house had become something of a second home for him. Their fathers were very close friends and business partners and so naturally, they'd grown as friends, siblings even. He knew every nook of this place as well as he knew the back of his hand.How many hours had they spent running around the house, sometimes just the two of them and sometimes with other childhood friends?Only a few seconds passed before the door began opening slowly. Cael added his weight and pushed the door open. The door was still quite heavy, unnecessarily heavy, in his opinion but it didn't feel as heavy as it did when he was younger.Sadly, for the man revealed in the doorway when the door finally opened all the way, it had become incre

Mikayla smiled patiently at the elderly woman across the table from her. She was awkwardly bent over the table to see what the woman was so excitedly showing her on her phone."And this was little Tommy's graduation just last week. Except he's not so little anymore if he's already going to college, right?" She laughed. Mikayla laughed too, "Yeah, he's not so little anymore.""I would have invited you to the ceremony except we haven't seen each other since my last checkup last month. It would have been lovely to have you there," Mrs Durall, the elderly patient, said.Mikayla smiled politely while thinking that she would never have gone even if invited. Even though she knew quite a bit about the family already, it was because Mrs Durall couldn't ever stop talking about them.At every checkup, she took her time to bring Mikayla up to speed on the going-ons of her large family. Mikayla didn't actually know any one of them herself. And judging from those pictures, it was a family affair.

Mikayla stopped in her tracks. "Did you just say Armani Granger?" She asked."Yep," Anna said happily, oblivious to her friend's discomfort.Mikayla's mind raced a mile a second. This information changed everything. She'd spent all day and all night trying to think of business-related reasons for the emergency meeting but she hadn't thought of personal ones.She'd had little interactions with most of the investors in recent time apart from Mrs Smith who was a sweetheart and would have informed Mikayla about this if she were involved. Because of that, she'd completely left out the fundraiser as a possible catalyst. Only Cael and her knew what happened at the event but it was Armani's party, so it wasn't impossible to think that she might know too.She suddenly remembered that Cael had been with Armani before he came to her. He only approached her after Armani went up the stage to give her speech. Had she inadvertently slept with an investor's boyfriend? Mikayla face-palmed. Enough pe

Mikayla was trapped under Cael's massive body. She couldn't trust herself in this position. Looking up at him, it was all she could do to not reach up and pull his face down to hers.She looked around wildly, hoping that someone would appear to rescue her. She tried to escape from between his arms but his grip was firm. There was no chance for escape. She swallowed."How did you find me?" She muttered."How indeed," he said. "It didn't take much to find you. First off, you were at Armani's event. There was a list of attendees. Also, I have the resources to trace you to any corner of the earth if I want to. But most importantly, just like Cinderella, you left me a very nice glass slipper."Mikayla frowned. What was that supposed to mean? What glass slipper did he leave him?Cael reached into his pocket and pulled out something. Because of her blasted curiosity, she didn't immediately make a run for it the moment his hand came down. Plus, where would she go anyway?.The elevator would t

Mikayla was not in a good mood. She was grumpy, she was irritated and she was angry. She leaned heavily on her horn. "Get out of the darn way!" She yelled.The man in the car in front of her flipped her the finger but sped up a little. Mikayla chucked at her own outburst. She was hardly a confrontational person. She never got got into arguments or screaming matches on the road with strangers.But she was already so tightly strung that any little thing was ticking her off. The man driving slowly in front of her. The light that turned red just one car before her.The teenagers who had their song on too loud, blasting from their speakers. How they hadn't gone deaf yet, she didn't know.Why was Mikayla in a mood? Because she was on her way to join Anna at the spa. That night, she'd called to Anna, stopping her before she got to the door with the intention to come clean. She'd opened her mouth to tell Anna what was really going on but no sound issued from her between her lips."What is