Semua Bab Beyond The Veil : Bab 11 - Bab 16

Chapter 12— The Jaxon Hawthorne Way   The private jet touched down at Narita International Airport, Tokyo just after dusk, but Jaxon wasn’t met with the usual relief that came with escaping the chaos of New York.  The weather mirrored his mood. Invigorating sharpness and cold. He looked down at the coat in his hand. He might be too angry to even need it for warm-up. He didn’t regret leaving Kallista by the curb. Regret was for the weak. What gnawed at him was the chaos he’d left behind—the tabloids would surely be having a field day already and he tried to shut his last image of his bride’s distraught face when he left her by the curb. The image had carried him through his flight.  Fourteen hours was long enough, but spending most of those hours thinking about what he would do with the woman he had left behind with no plan for her. The w

Chapter 14 — Totally Fooled Meanwhile back at the Hawthorne estate hours before the text: It didn't take a genius to know that her new maid—add that this felt weird to say—disliked her. For some reason. It wasn't like she could walk up to her and ask what her problem with her was. That was so not her style. She was always one to talk back but never the one to start the altercation. Marie appeared from one end of the massive walk-in closet to the large mirror Kallista had been staring back at.  “How about this one?” She asked, her eyes taking in her new mistress's body language. Kallista stared blankly at the dress. It was a plain blue dress with even plainer white pearl beads along the neck. If anything, she was going to look like an abandoned mannequin walking around the estate, especially after that dinner from hell.

Chapter 16— Dark ZanderSeated comfortably in the Hawthorne family estate main garden Delia had shown her, a few days later, in a deep blue colored boyfriend Jean and a tank top that had come with a tag, a very expensive tag among the expensive tagged clothes she had gotten. Now she was sitting in clothes she knew she would never have bought in her right senses. Her pay at Brio’s had been good but not good enough. It covered the payment for her rent and other things she felt were important but splurging on herself was something she only engaged in at Christmas because of the discounts.It was sad but it was her reality. She flipped the pages of the book she had been pretending to read for the last hour. She didn't get how someone could read under such intense concentration of sunlight. Those ladies on her Pinterest board she spent hours on when she wasn't busy had deceived her.She slammed the book shut with an exaggerated sigh. She was going to die of heatstroke if she kept this up.