Rags to Stardom

As the events of the past couple of minutes replayed in Ethan’s mind, he suddenly felt like he was losing air. He had always believed Ariella was his soulmate and that they would grow old together but alas all that was a mirage. As Ethan contemplated on all that had recently befallen him, a glittering object caught his attention. As he drew closer, he realized it was a strange looking medallion that was lodged between a small rock by the roadside. Something strange happened as Ethan picked up the medallion, the rock mysteriously vanished.At that instant, Ethan's phone began to ring so he quickly kept the medallion in his pocket. As he reached for his phone to see who the caller was, his heart leapt. The caller id showed it was the hospital calling. Without hesitation, he picked up.As Ethan received the most devastating news of all from the hospital he immediately lost his composure, falling to the ground in tears. There was nothing more painful than the death of his mother. The hos

"Yes, sure. I'm starving myself.” Ethan's remark reminded him that he had not eaten anything since he left jail.He couldn't help laughing at what Loretta had just said. Loretta noticed it and asked, “What's making my hero laugh?” She asked sweetly. Ethan felt a bit flattered at her statement, “It's amazing that I did all the fighting and yet you are the one talking about hunger.”She bursted out in laughter. “I never knew you had such a great sense of humor, Ethan Banks.”Something in him enjoyed hearing her call his name and he joined in her laughter.As they entered the restaurant, a waitress hurriedly attended to them. Within minutes, she returned with their order. After she left, a well dressed man suddenly approached their table, “If it isn't Ethan Banks. What is a poor peasant like you doing in a place like this?” His tone was both condescending and insulting.It was none other than Raphael Thornton and like his name he had been a thorn in Ethan's flesh in highschool.Before E

The melodious jingle from Ethan's phone woke him up from sleep the following morning. As he peered at the caller id, he became furious, “Why is she calling me. What does she want now.”Still pissed that his sleep had been interrupted so early in the morning, he ignored the call as he struggled to go back to sleep.Ethan had left Lopez conglomerate with Loretta earlier in the day for the Lopez estate before he drove the Range Rover back to sunrise villa, so he was extremely tired.His phone rang out again, forcing him to pick the call in anger, “Ariella, what do you want? Why the hell are you bugging my phone?”Before she could respond, he ended the call abruptly. Ariella’s voice only brought back painful memories and Ethan wasn't sure he was ready to deal with all that just yet.But Ariella wasn't ready to give up as she kept calling over and over again, until Ethan couldn't take it anymore.“Yes! What do you want. You have ten seconds.” He spoke sternly.“Ethan, it’s Jake. He won't

The manager was taken aback by such a strong statement from such an ordinary looking man.Not wanting to jump into any conclusions, he approached Ethan carefully, “Such a strong statement should be backed up by proof, young man! Can I know who you are?”On hearing this, Joshua blurted out, “He’s a nobody. He’s the divorced live-in-son-in-law of the Gray's family. I even heard he recently got out of jail.”There were mocking comments from other customers in the store at that point.“So he was the useless son-in-law of the Gray’s family. He must have really been a burden to them.”“How did he get out of jail so quickly? Such a fellow should never have been let out in the first place!”Ethan ignored the comments as he responded to the manager’s question, “He is right, I'm not anyone important.”The manager furrowed his brows. Initially, he felt Ethan was someone important who was an expert in authentic fabrics but now it turns out that he was just a nobody that had just recently been fre

“And where do you think you are going to? You can't leave until we figure out where you got the money to purchase such an expensive outfit.” Andrew's response angered Ethan even more.“You have four seconds to get out of my way!” Ethan's voice thundered.Ethan's bold response shocked Andrew momentarily. In the past, Ethan would always cower at his presence but his demeanor now was the direct opposite, a behavior that somewhat terrified Andrew.But not wanting to back down in front of his entire family, he pushed away the doubts within him and continued with his condescending behavior.Andrew laughed scornfully, in a final attempt to convince himself that he was in charge of the situation. He was used to beating Ethan for no reason in the past and he had been looking forward to doing it again especially now that Ethan came with a really gorgeous woman.“If I show her what a wimp he is maybe she would consider leaving him for me,” he thought secretly in his heart.“Or wha…” Before Andre