Lahat ng Kabanata ng Mr Billionaire wants a bride: Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

TRISTAN“He will see you now.” The secretary said, as she gestured at me.I was so furious as I sat in the waiting room. I could tell exactly what they were doing now and it was pissing me off so much. The fact that I had never had to wait to see him before, but suddenly with everything going on he felt like this was the right time to exercise powers like this.Taking a deep breath, I stepped into the office and my grandfathers lawyer was sitting right there. He had a frown on his face as he looked at me.“I am not going to beat around the bush, Tristan.” He said, “You have to step down from Obsidian completely.”The words hit the room like a gunshot event though I was already expecting it. I stared across the desk at the man, sitting there with his gray hairs peeking out everywhere.“Say that again,” I said slowly, as if I had not heard him the first time.He didn’t hesitate or try to soften his words.“You need to voluntarily step back from Obsidian,” he repeated. “Effective immedia

TRISTAN“Get me everything you can find on Julian.”I said it the second the front door closed behind me, my voice sharp enough to cut through the night. The lock clicked into place, sealing the house and everything that had just happened inside it away from me. I didn’t look back. If I did, I might have gone right back in and put my fist through something that didn’t deserve it. They were still throbbing now from coming in contact with Julians face earlier.I walked down the steps slowly, my phone already pressed to my ear, and my jaw locked so tight it ached.On the other end of the line, there was silence at first.“That’s a broad request,” My private investigator finally said. His voice was cautious, as he no doubt couldn’t believe the request I had just made. “You know I’ve done work for both of you.”“I’m well aware of that,” I replied, not slowing my pace as I crossed the driveway. “But right now, I need you to do this one thing for me and I need it to be kept on a low.”There

“You really outdid yourself this time.”Julian smiled as the words slid through the phone. He absolutely adored this kind of praise, and the fact that it was coming from Violeta made it even more satisfying for him. He stood in the open-plan kitchen of his penthouse, jacket discarded over a chair and his sleeves rolled to his forearms.He had been smiling a lot for the past few days, as all of his plans were coming together perfectly. The media and the people were eating up everything perfectly, as they were tearing down both Tristan and Violetta. It was mostly affecting Tristan because he was the higher public figure. The fact that he had practically lost Obsidian was something that Julian relished in so much.“I’ll admit,” Violetta continued, her voice buoyant as she stood in her living room with a full smile on her face, “I had my doubts about all of this even after we spoke. I wasn’t sure you could pull everything together or even anything at all.”“So, you basically thought I was

TRISTAN“Sir, we have still not been able to find her,” my head of security said, as he came up to me in the car.The fact that over two days had now gone past and the whole news was still what was on everybodys lips.At this point, I had gotten a lot more than just worried. It had been two days since that interviewe aired and Seraphina had vanished without a trace, like she had never existed in the face place.“Thank you,” I said, as I tapped the steering wheel. “And you are sure you have checked all the hotels we can and flights as well.”“Yes sir,” he replied, “There has also been no credit card activity either. She is fully off the grid and a couple of my people think that she must have left the country by now.”“Interesting,” I said out loud, as I dismissed him with a flick of my wrist. “Just keep looking.”I had teams everywhere pulling favors and trying to lean on what little contracts I had left. I couldn’t shake the fact that something terrible may have happened to her and t

“Everything was finally falling into place.” Julian said it aloud to no one as he stood barefoot in his penthouse kitchen, looking out the window at the city which he would soon own. He watched it all with detached satisfaction, as a smile crept up on his face.Obsidian was wobbling right now and most importantly, Tristan’s perfect little world had cracked right down the middle. His informants had told him that Seraphina was gone and even though the media had turned a bit in a way that favoured Tristan, the whole thing was still messy and the board had panicked exactly the way Julian had known they would.The seeds of dissent had been sown and it wouldn’t take long now. He lifted the glass to his lips when his phone buzzed on the counter.It was a message from Tristan.Julian froze instantly, as he slowly set the glass down and picked up the phone, his jaw tightening instinctively as his fingers brushed the screen. His face still ached faintly when he pressed along his jawline, a dull