Ashley swirled on the office chair, her mind elsewhere with her fingertips grazing around the keyboard. Her eyes sting with worry and fear. She's been anxious for the past few days, since the threat her uncle has laid but is trying so hard to mask it away so as not to give Rhys or Layla any impression.She couldn't risk their lives. Her thoughts come to a halt when the door slips open revealing Layla who looks as drained as a power source. She threw herself up o the office couch heaving out a deep breath, "Fuck! I am so exhausted." She whines with a sense of annoyance. Ashley lets out a chuckle blinking her thoughts away before getting up and settling down next to her best friend. "You lazy ass," Ashley says, smacking her on her feet.Layla whined, "What's your problem? Come in! This isn't fair" like a seven-year-old would.Trust Layla when it comes to acting childishly. "What's up?" Ashley asked with concern in her tune. "you usually aren't like this" Layla got up and set up b

She walked out of her office her limbs heavy as her heart. Ashley’s mind wandered what her uncle is up to now and why he is calling her at such short notice.Normally when he wants to speak to her, it’s mostly at home or somewhere more private than the office, but today it felt Different.What wrong did she do now?As though her life is not as already fucked up as it is now, he wants to spread more salts to her wound.She shakes her head off arriving at the door leading in to the CEO of the company’s office.Memories of how Ashley had joyful walked into her father’s office, how she’d meet him behind his chair with that smile plastered on his lips.Her heart winced at the thought, just like how life had snatched away her parents so did her uncle. He took every belonging of her father’s and marked it as his shamelessly.Ashley though her uncle was one that would stand by her and make the world seem less horrifying when her parents died.At first Freeman was nice and caring to her throug

“What?” Ashley’s speaks up snapping Rhys out of his faze. Rhys let them handcuff him knowing very well freeman was up to this. The threat he laid upon him the other day, he was putting it to action now.It’s clear that Freeman submits to Giovanni and that he is absolutely a nobody without the man yet he has the guts and audacity to go behind his back.Rhys had sorted it out him his head to use the Duo against themselves to archive what he wanted, that was the only way out of this. If he uses Giovanni’s rage and Freeman’s greed, they alone could brewing their downfall without even knowing.“Stand down Mrs Michelson, we’ll take it from here. Be rest assured that he’ll never under no condition every try to act funny with you. He’ll be felt with and the divorcé proceedings are already taking place” The policeman explains to Ashley.She shakes her head vigorously wanting to explain to him but he wasn’t given her the chance to.“No you don’t understand—“ he cut her off yet again.“We under

He sat in the prison cell rage and anger exerting from his demeanor. His chest raised up and down as his chiseled jawline clenched. Rhys held on to his temples as his mind wondered about the embarrassment Freeman had caused him. In his twenty-seven years of living no man has embarrassed him as much as Freeman has done for the past few days.His wands piled with blood his vision barely visible from the way he had left the policeman beat him and couldn’t do anything but watch. Rhys has never been as enraged as he is now. He couldn’t let this keep up with him.“Rhys listen up, Giovanni is on his way to the station any moment from now. I’m sure he’s here to bail you. Turns out the news didn’t reach him soon as your fucked up father-in-law has closed off all sources for the news to reach Giovanni” Lex explained.Rhys feast clenched as he listens to Lex speak. He did see Giovanni coming but he didn’t think it would take that long.“We’re trying as much as possible not to let your parents f

Ashely sat on the bed with her head buried in her palms crying heavenly, in fear and regret. If she thinks back to the reason she got into this whole mess she finds herself in, her heart quenches in pain.She should have never listened to Layla’s suggestion about taking Rhys a her pretend date. Her uncle wouldn’t have thrown her into getting married to Rhys in the first place.She couldn’t believe that Rhys wouldn’t stoop so low all cause of his burning taste for wealth, how on earth would he sell her off to Giovanni? The dirty disgusting despicable old man that has always been a sleeping nightmare.He has had eyes on her ever since Freeman introduced him as his friend. He was among the people that was a bit nice or extra nice but of course, he had an interior motive and when Ashley had denied him of his desire, he began to hinder.Ashley shivered at the sound of door her heart rate escalating she could feel the sound of it as she lifted her bloodshot eyes to the door.Seeing a slim c