This free chapter is dedicated to Reuben OgbonnayaThank you for your consistent reading and reviews.I really do appreciate it.***The pain throbbing inside Adrian was not visible in his expression. Yet it festered like an unrelenting cancer. That night, he found it hard to sleep as he checked the details he got over and over again.Maybe this Dahlia was linked to his aunt somehow.Yet despite the bleary eyes gotten from a sleepless night, Adrian couldn’t find any useful similarity as dawn painted the sky in its glorious hues. The only similarity was that this Dahlia had changed her name from Sue Robert to Dahlia Kingston.Adrian only knew Dahlia had changed her name. He had no idea what she changed it to. The fear he had been trying to tamp down reared its head again.What if…something had happened to her?What if he was already too late?He succeeded in dismissing the impossible thought. Yet the simmering anger stayed ripe in him.He directed it firmly at the original cause.

“Yeah, let's go with that.”Adrian barely looked winded as he wiped the sweat from his arms. “Roll out the upgrade today. Add the twenty per cent off skin purchase for fifteen days. I want more people familiar with our site before Ascension launch.”“Yes, sir,” Edward said as he closed the file in his hand.He tucked it back into his suitcase and turned to leave.If he thought Adrian was uncharacteristically running late today, he kept the thought to himself.After all, that was the first time the chairman didn't head out early.Earlier, Edward had noticed something dangerous in Adrian's eyes.The look of a predator preparing to strike. If Edward wasn't trained in corporate survival, he might have started confessing his sins the moment Adrian looked at him. Edward was almost out the door when Adrian's voice reached him.“I won't be coming in today. I have things to handle.”“Yes, sir,” Edward responded swiftly. “Do you want me to tell your manager?”“Don't worry. I will tell him,”

Dressed in a silver gown with a ruffled neckline, Seraphina still couldn't believe Adrian had chosen that day. Oh, she had been expecting his call since he agreed. Helena had oh-so-subtly hinted it all week. Vivian snickering that it was all just a lie. Meanwhile, Seraphina already had the document prepared.She just didn't expect it would be that day.The day all hell broke loose on the Cross family.Seraphina was on her way to GLENCo that morning when she heard her father's mocking tone from the living room.“That pompous bloke always prided himself on his impeccable status that had never suffered any scandal. Seems the sun rose in the west today. What a show!”His belly-rumbling laughter followed. Helena responded with something Seraphina didn't bother listening to as she stepped out of the house.She had heard the low thrum of the TV too and wondered whose downfall her father was celebrating this time.Beneath her father's carefree façade, bitterness had been growing over the