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Chapter 38: The Offer
Sunlight crept across the wide bedroom floor and over the large bed where Anna laid under the duvet. She stirred, eyes fluttering open slowly to the bedside drawer next to her. It felt unfamiliar. Usually, she was used to waking up to the distant traffic outside her apartment, the neighbor’s television blasting through the walls, the sound of the fan above her bed but instead, all she could hear was silence. Her brows drew together as her eyes slowly opened. For a moment she did not move. Her mind felt foggy and a slight migraine crawled it way too her head and her eyes. Where is she? This is definitely not her house. What happened then? How did she get here? Anna shifted and her bare skin brushed against the fabric.She had no clothes on.Her heart lurched violently in her chest as she yanked the duvet up to see she was naked. ‘What the hell?’ She panicked. Why is she naked in some random room? She pulled the duvet closer around herself, sitting up abruptly as her eyes scanned
Chapter 37: The Girl Called Anna
Karl pushed open the door to the hotel room as quietly as he could. The last thing he wanted was for him to wake her up. The door swung open and he stepped inside quietly, his eyes adjusting to the dim light filtering through the curtains. His eyes searched the small sitting area, he could have dropped it on the couch or even on the bed. He searched the room but there was no sign of his phone. Karl ran his fingers through his hair, where the hell is it? He walked deeper into the room and stopped to see Anna, sitting on the edge of the bed, her hair tousled from sleep, her cheeks flushed clearly from the shots she had earlier. Her eyes met his, searching his face for something he couldn't really put a finger on. “Hey.” He said quietly. “Just came for my phone. Didn't mean to wake you.” Anna said nothing but she took a step closer to him, eyes fixed on his face with something he couldn't quite pin point. “Anna?” “This has to be a dream.” She mumbled, he could barely make out t
Chapter 36: Drunk Anna
An Hour Prior. Karl sat back on the couch of his loft, staring at the sunset through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Usually, his evenings are quiet but some specimen of a human being decided that would change tonight. Zach leaned against the countertop behind him, arms folded and a sly grin tugging at the corners of his mouth. “You’re not seriously going to sit here all night, are you?”Karl didn’t respond immediately. His eyes followed the sun. He had barely left his apartment since returning, and the thought of leaving and walking into a crowded, loud club seemed almost absurd.Zach dropped into the chair opposite him. “Come on, we used to do this back then.” Karl nodded, “Yes. But I didn't have a target on my back back then.” Zach winched, “Are you sure?" He wasn't exactly the most likeable person back then. At least because he stood for what was right but in the world of lobbyists, that is not a good look. “I don’t need to go out,” Karl said finally, his voice calm.”It's m
Chaoter 35: No Different From The Devil
Anna did not expect the slap.The sound of it cracked through the office before she even fully processed what had happened. Her head jerked to the side as pain flared across her cheek. For a moment the room spun slightly and she tasted copper at the back of her mouth where her teeth had cut into the inside of her lip.She stood frozen where she was, one hand slowly rising to touch the burning skin of her face.Across the desk, Melody was still standing with her arm half-lowered and her eyes as cold as ever.“How dare you?!” Melody said.Anna blinked, trying to steady herself. Her thoughts struggled to catch up with the situation. Only minutes earlier she had been called into the office without explanation and then she got hit. Across the room, Caden stood behind Melody, hands to his pocket as his gaze remained fixed on Anna. She had always thought Caden would do anything Melody asked but she'd been wrong. He was pretending to be tameable. Melody turned slightly toward him. “You we
Chapter 34: The Real Caden
Anna arrived at the office earlier than usual that Monday morning. The building had not yet filled with employees and visitors that normally crowded the halls by midmorning. She could barely sleep during the weekend, not after the strange events of the previous week. She had paid the hospital a visit and they don't seem to know he had sorted her brother's hospital bill either which makes it even more strange.That was more than a million dollars and someone had just made payments like it was nothing. How could she sleep? As soon as Monday rolled around the corner, she had made her way down to the office earlier than usual, she needed a distraction. She placed her bag on her desk and switched on her computer, the familiar glow of the screen illuminating the workspace she had grown used to over the past three years. Melody’s schedule had been full this week.A business lunch with investors, a meeting with a marketing firm, two calls with international partners, and an evening charity
Chapter 33: Why Melody.
Karl stood near the long table that sat in the center of the living area, his attention fixed on the large monitor Zach had connected to his laptop. The glow from the screen washed across the room, illuminating the three men gathered around it while the rest of the loft remained dim. Reed stood a few steps behind Karl with his hands behind his back and faced a void of expression as usual. He had asked Maxwell to allow him the honour of serving Karl again after years of the young master's disappearance. Luckily, the old man had agreed. Why he did remains a mystery to both Karl and Reed. Zach sat in front of the laptop with one leg stretched out under the table and the other bouncing slightly as his fingers moved across the keyboard. Several windows filled the screen; security footage, timestamps, and small digital maps that marked the location of different cameras inside and outside the ballroom where the attack had happened.Karl had decided to look deeper into the attack, someth
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