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ARELLI. I had always been in love with Lucas. From the first time I met him when Dad and I came over to Edenport City to check Dad's investments, Lucas had always been my first love. I had already made a vow to become his wife in this lifetime. Even if he didn’t know anything about the vow. My goal in life was to become his wife, nothing more, nothing less. For years, I had begged Dad to arrange my marriage to Lucas. Since he was Lucas’s father’s childhood friend, I thought it would be easier to make my dreams come true. All Steven Hart had to do was order his son to marry me. But boy was I wrong. As it turned out, Steven Hart loved Lucas so much that he wasn’t able to force Lucas to marry me. He wanted his son to have his right of choice, so even though he had mentioned our marriage to Lucas, as long as Lucas didn’t agree, there wasn’t going to be a wedding.It was three years ago when an opportunity to marry Lucas presented itself. He left the country and asked Dad to help h

SOPHIA. A few days passed, and I forgot all about Arelli Bennett. Lucas and I were going for my antenatal appointment at the hospital. I had been feeling tired lately, and I didn’t have much of an appetite, so I had lost a little weight. Lucas was worried because he had tried to get me to eat different types of food, but I couldn’t keep anything down. Lucas tightened his hold on my hand as we walked through the hallway, heading to the doctor’s office. I let out a chuckle, glancing at our intertwined hands. “Relax… one would think you’re the one who is pregnant. How come you're more anxious than I am?” “I’m worried sick. I need to find out why you can’t eat proper food. You’re carrying three babies, you need all the nutrients you can get,” he said. “I’m also excited to see our triplets again.”“They haven’t changed much. Only a month has passed since you saw them, remember?” I replied. "I still want to see them. We only have a few weeks to our wedding, I want to see them before w

SOPHIA. “How bad is it?” I asked Carla when I arrived at work the next day. We were in my office where Carla was briefing me about what I had missed when I took the day off the previous day for my hospital appointment. A new investment had suddenly joined the market yesterday and immediately started poaching our investors. I found it strange that they began to go after our investors the moment they launched their company. It was only after Lucas told me it was Arelli Bennett’s doing that I understood what was going on. This was personal. She was probably trying to use money and power to intimidate me, but that wasn’t going to work on me. If she was picking a fight, it was gonna be a losing battle for her. I didn’t start the investment company to let anyone trample on it just because they thought they ruled the world. “It’s really bad. As it stands, our investment company has been pushed back from its initial progress. L&A investment company is rising every minute that passes,” C

ARELLI. I threw my head back in laughter as I watched the interview. “Jax, have you seen this? This woman is the perfect pawn I could ever find,” I said, my lips curling into a wicked smirk. Jax nodded. “You’re right, Miss. Violet Miller is doing her job well.” I continued to watch the interview as Violet said whatever I asked her to. A few days ago, she went to the hospital to have an abortion. She was ruthless. Who gets rid of their unborn child without hesitation just like that?However, her resolve to destroy Sophia no matter what she lost in the process was what made me like her. She was going to do all the dirty work while I waited in the background for Lucas to finally be mine. Jax’s phone buzzed in his pocket, and he excused himself to answer the call. “Miss Bennett, there’s a response from the Adams Group. Sophia Adams plans to hold a press conference this evening. If she has a way to deal with her company’s crisis, she might manage to flip this to her favour,” Jax repo

ARELLI. The press conference ended, and I watched with hatred as Sophia left the podium, the sound of applause from the crowd sending a flare of irritation through me. That fucking bitch!!!How dare she humiliate me like this? Everyone knew L&A was my company; her discrediting of Violet meant she had discredited me, too! Aargh! This was so infuriating!I clenched my fists, my acrylic nails digging into my palms so hard, if they were sharp like claws, they would have cut through my skin, drawing blood. After leaving the media page that was streaming the press conference, I opened my contact list and called the representative from Pablo Investments. How did they end up partnering with that bitch? Our alliance was supposed to be the dagger that would kill Sophia's company for good. “What the hell happened? I thought we made a deal that you would make an alliance with us?” I questioned through gritted teeth the moment Jose Fernandez answered the call. “Oh, that? I was about to call