“I promise this stays between us,” Rose assured, her eyes meeting Brody’s gaze with a deadly gaze of empathy.“It’s about his ex-wife Dianna,” Brody stuttered, his face contorted with a deadly twist of unease.“Okay?”“He—-he killed Dianna,” Brody uttered, his whole face a deadly mask of horror.“What?!” Rose exclaimed, her breath coming in a ragged gasp of terror. “How do you know this?”“Shush, don’t act like that,” Brody said, looking around as if someone might be watching even though they were in a moving vehicle.Rose went back into composure as she took a grip of the steering of the vehicle. Brody continued. “You might have noticed that my dad has two main concubines who flexes on whenever he wants to have fun or when he gets drunk with wine.”“Yes, yes. Of course, I noticed,” Rose nodded her head in remembrance as she recalled the moment when she was disgraced by Mr. Lawrence in the presence of his hookers after an altercation between herself and the two nonentities.“Well, th

Mr. Lawrence moved closer to Rose, his eyes gleaming with danger. “You know what? I have heard enough of your useless talks. You are going to go to Doubas tomorrow and you are going to start work as our accountant's manager. I will be monitoring your progress from time to time.”Mr. Lawrence turned back to leave angrily with the satisfaction that he had made his wishes known but then stopped as if something had clicked into his brain.“Oh, and let this be the last time we discuss this. I need you prepared for work in a dress that I will have my stylist send to you. You see, I have ambitions, very serious ambitions and I can’t afford to have these kinds of controversies in my home ruin those ambitions.”“You don’t want to know what I will do if you dare bring up these useless issues again,” Mr. Lawrence warned.Rose’s expression hardened with a deadly tightening of annoyance as she heard those words. The fact that Mr. Lawrence wanted her to dress the exact way he wanted made her much m

Rose fired up with strength exerted into her limbs and gave the messenger a big hit to his jaw. She made sure that the hit was so hard that she wouldn't have to do it twice.“What?! What the hell,” the messenger screamed, his hands grasping his jaw in a deadly grip of pain as he crumpled almost falling to the ground in an instant. Rose, even though she was the one who attacked, felt the pain deeply in her knuckles as she balled her fists to suppress the pain.“What did you do that for?” The messenger asked, still grasping his jaw as a pint of blood was pooling out of it.Rose stretched her neck towards the messenger’s face as if accessing the extent of the damage she had done. “Well, that should do.”“What? What do you mean?” the messenger asked, his face contorted with confusion.“That should be enough to prove that I overpowered you,” Rose uttered. “When he comes back you can tell him that we both got into a tussle but I was very violent and ended up sending you to the ground befor

Rose ignored the lady’s counsel again, her hands still trying out the buttons on the elevator.She was doomed. If she turned back, someone would definitely recognize her. She could feel that more people were already on the floor and the risk of her being discovered was getting higher. The veil she used to cover her head wouldn't be able to save her. Everyone knew Brody also - there was no way out!But, BOOM!The elevator sprang open, its shaft humming with a thrum of machinery.“Come on, get in,” she whispered to Brody.Rose and Brody got into the elevator. Rose’s eyes were closed as she tried to cope with the pressure. One more move and the elevator would lead them to the subway which was going to be their escape route.Rose hoped that they were not seen by the woman. She assumed that she must have been one of the hotel staff.But she was wrong.The hotel staff sprung up in a shout. “Raise the alarm, call the securities, there is a kidnapping situation.”Other staff members went up t

“Shush!” Rose whispered, connecting her finger to her lips. “Don't say that. Nothing would happen to me. I know that you are still hurt because of what happened to your mother and you think that it might happen again but that is why we are doing this. I want to protect you from the trauma of the past and keep you safe where you wouldn't have to experience such horrible things, okay?”Brody lowered his head at the hearing of Rose’s words. He wished that he could find it easy to believe her but something inside of him wouldn't stop pumping fear into his heart.Suddenly there was a slight sound from outside the elevator cabin.“Did you hear that?” Brody asked, his heart quickening with a thrum of fear. Rose scanned the surroundings of the elevator cabin. She could tell that the noise was from outside the elevator. “Shush!” she hushed Brody, putting her palm to his mouth slightly.Rose’s whole senses were heightened as she searched for the sound again and her heartbeat started to go bac