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NIRELLE"I...I...Ni..." Hearing Yvette stutter was a different kind of fulfilling feeling. She was no longer smug, and it was almost as if she was fighting so desperately for her life."Are you going to keep stuttering?" Enoch's tone was firm, and I was enjoying this almost too much."Wait, let them explain this," I say as if I were doing them a favour, and Cory leans in to listen. How was it that he knew nothing of all the atrocities that his father was carrying out for his sake? Yvette gives me a pleading look, but there is really nothing more, and I was not there to help her; I was there to make sure they would never think we were on the same side ever again."So my mother joined hands with you to kidnap my brother and me, and then you threw my father into a mental institution, claiming that he was crazy." I pause and take a look at him. His anger can't even be hidden as his nostrils flare at my mom. I had always thought they were on the same side forever, but now that I saw how he

LUCIEN Olivia James, who is now standing in my office, does not look like she came here for a business meeting. Her floor-length red dress and excessive makeup belonged to someone who was going to a cocktail party and not the board. The dress exposed enough cleavage; it was safe to say she did it to get some kind of attention. Her hair was done extravagantly. "Very lovely to make your acquaintance." She stretched her hand to me in a coy manner as she leaned forward, the table separating us. "The pleasure is all mine," I say, taking her hand. I try to take my hand out of hers, but she hangs onto it for a moment longer than necessary before I yank my hand out of hers forcefully. "Oh," she let out a small giggle as she pointed to the sofa behind her. "Shall we sit and discuss?" She asked, and I shook my head. "You are here for a business meeting, aren't you?" I ask for emphasis on the word 'business' so she does not lose track of herself and get lost in the moment. "Of course I am.

NIRELLEWalking through the mall, I feel eyes on me. I had been popular before, but this was an entirely new level. Everyone seemed to be staring so badly with their mouths in the ears of their friends, whispering away. The entourage of bodyguards with me did not make it any better with the way they moved in sync with me. I stop in the middle of the hall and hear various gasps around the hallways."Can you please reduce in size? I do not need..." I pause slightly, counting them with my eyes. "I do not need eight men to guide me to buy curtains and bedding."The one who seemed to be the head of the crew looked at me and then at his boys. He made a signal, and about four of them fell back. "I am sorry, Mrs Vexley, but I can't do more than that," he said."But I asked you to," I say, gritting my teeth tightly."Yes, you did, but Mr Vexley said..." I stop him from going further. If it was because of what Lucien said, then they weren't going to budge no matter what I said. I knew he might

NIRELLE"So how was work?" Theo began, and Lucien looked up at him. I wondered if he would act the same as he had before, being a mean jerk to me. I guess we all do fall for the bad boys once in our lives. I bit down on the fish I had shoved into my mouth without a word."You were there." Lucien's tone is cold, and it is almost as if he had become a different man from the man who was all over me in the room just a few minutes ago."I was, but I was over at my office, and you were at yours, so I would like to know...""It was fine," Lucien said in a dismissive tone."I heard Olivia James came over today. What did you talk about?" Zanea asked as he casually pushed his fork stuck on broccoli into his mouth. I watch Lucien's grip on the fork tighten and his back straighten as if he were under an instructor's watchful eyes. His eyes dimmed a bit, maybe not too much, but I saw it.With jaw tight and a voice sharp like a knife, he muttered. "I do not know.""You do not know? Did you not meet

NIRELLE"See what came in the mail."It is finally a Saturday since Lucien started working, and despite how crazy it has all been, I was grateful now that we were all able to lie back in the house. I was currently reading a book while swinging back and forth from the swing set in the garden, while Lucien was hunched over a laptop typing speedily. We both look up to Theo, who came to stand near Lucien, dropping the small envelope next to him."What is that?" Lucien asked, his eyes going back to the laptop screen."Your first formal event" Theo sounded like a high schooler who had gotten a response from his crush. "You both do not sound excited to hear that," he added when he realised we weren't as happy as he wanted us to be."What is the big deal?" I muttered because I had seen one too many of those kinds of parties happen around me. The one that my parents had thrown for me twice was not really my cup of tea."Right, what is the big deal?" Lucien echoed my thoughts and raised his hea