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Chapter Seventy-Eight: How The World Works
Vince took a long look at the funeral table, and Mr Lance’s smiling face haunted his conscience. The memory of the moment surged in his mind. Without any doubt, the bullet was meant for him. Vince should have been the one on the funeral table picture; that alone broke his heart.He trotted away from the table and moved towards the right end of the funeral table where a pale looking woman sat with a little boy on her lap. The boy looked up as soon as Vince approached. He looked so sour, not only because his father had died in Vince’s stead but because three hefty men had rushed behind Vince immediately.Since the incident, the security company had doubled security around Vince. Three hefty men had replaced the initial setting of only Lance walking by his side. Four other men were added to follow him in disguise. All investigations on the incident hadn’t yielded any tangible results, hence the excessive security.“Hi little man,” Vince said as he bent down to the boy’s eye level.“Hi,”
Chapter Seventy-Seven: To Kill A Finn
“Congratulations, Mr Finn.”Vince walked out of the building feeling emotionally drained. He had pretentiously smiled with many people, and he didn’t need any more eyes on him. Everyone in the room had praised him for his huge accomplishments in such a short time after he took over Peak Hills.He made toward the car and sure enough, Lance was right behind him. They didn’t exchange any words because the other man could read through Vince’s emotions. He had been occasionally holding his phone and staring longingly at it since the previous day when Amber informed him about her pregnancy and who was responsible.Just a phone call to Jake Darius would have cleared up the whole misunderstanding, he thought to himself, but his instinct had been kicking against it. They had almost gotten to the car when he turned around to face Lance, who had worn a neutral expression all along.“You know what I am thinking, right?” Vince said with a knowing glance.“I would have advised you against it if I
Chapter Seventy-Six: Bald Truth
Vince swirled around, almost losing his balance. Despite suspecting Amber of being pregnant for a while, he hadn’t expected she could have the effrontery to lie against him.“What do you mean?” he shot at her angrily.Amber was glad. At least, she had gotten his attention back. She took two steps towards him and Lance tried to block her again, but Vince stopped him. His eyes remained glued to hers, but Amber wasn’t intimidated at all.She had nothing to lose after all, she thought miserably.“I said I am carrying Vince Finn’s child,” Amber retorted.Vince let out a disbelieving laugh. “And you expect me to buy that when I haven’t slept with you in years?”“I slept with a man I knew as Vince Finn. We had a one night thing and now, his baby is growing in me.”It dawned quickly on Vince. He had been betrayed without even knowing. Jake Darius had slept with his ex-wife, Amber, and he kept that piece of information to himself before he left.“Congratulations,” Vince said and turned to leav
Chapter Seventy-Five: Shameful Return
Another dead end. Amber thought miserably as she walked out of another law firm.Contrary to what she had thought, she wasn’t much of a hotcake in her field. She quickly walked towards her car while her feet hurt greatly from standing in heels for quite a while. She dropped her resume, which she had stacked up, on the passenger seat.Amber held her hand to her mouth and let out a frustrated sigh. Her eyes dropped down to her slightly protruded stomach, which was starting to get more difficult to hide. Her mother, Maria, had been fuming all week about having an abortion before it became impossible, but Amber rejected it, stating her health concerns.She had been contemplating giving up the child for adoption after birth, but her worry lay solely on her survival till she birthed the child. She had been overanalyzing her current situation. Every firm she had been interviewed by, had their reservations about her, especially the fact that all the experience she had gathered was from Peak
Chapter Seventy-Four: Bloom From The Dark
“Place your order, sir.” A brunette attendant said to Vince politely. He gave her a soft smile as he turned his attention back to her. He had been so lost in his thought process. The words of the six-year-old boy who was sitting at the next table beside his mother had triggered a childhood memory in him. “Mum, please, I want another scoop of ice cream.” “George, no. Don’t embarrass me here. No more ice cream. I have exhausted my wallet already.” The little boy didn’t cry. He patted his mum’s hand softly. “It is fine, mum. We can buy another time.” It is fine, mum. We can buy another time. The words echoed in Vince’s head, a mirror of the exact same thing he had said to his mother when he was eight years old at a local café close to their home back then. Vince knew he hadn’t really suffered hard as a child. His mother had worked her ass out to ensure that, but yet, they never had enough, so he had to pretend to be okay with less. “Your order, sir.” This time, the atte
Chapter Seventy-Three: Was It Love?
“Miss Reed, your résumé says you worked at Peak Hills up until recently,” the bald man questioned.“That is correct,” Amber responded enthusiastically.The man gave her a piercing stare through his huge glass lens. He kept shaking his head as he read through her résumé and, at last, he looked up and focused his attention on her again.“Well, quite impressive…”“Thank you, sir. I promise…” Amber started with a huge smile on her face, which faltered as soon as the man continued talking.“But, I heard the new management of Peak Hills made some reformations recently and some people were laid off which—”“With all due respect, I wasn’t laid off. I resigned on my own. There is a huge difference there if you will agree with me,” Amber said sharply.She almost forgot she was in an interview session. The old man was starting to sound irritable, but she was willing to endure. After all, she hadn’t had any interviews in ages before this one.“My apologies if I upset you with my questions, Miss R
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