"Sorry," Bryson apologized. "It is fine," Dede said feeling excited about getting a kiss from her crush."What happened?" Bryson asked trying to start a conversation to take away the awkwardness from his actions."I was in the living room and heard a knock. I thought it was Alex. So I answered and saw a man in a mask. Everything happened too fast. I felt a sharp pain in my neck and everything went dark," Dede narrated and Bryson sat down on the chair next to the bed.While Dede was talking, Bryson involuntarily held her hand in his and his eyes caught the bruises around the wrist. "When I woke up. I was tied up to a bed and had to fight Mr Brian Jackson. I am glad I wore jeans," Dede said and recalled she was topless.Dede pulled the pillow from behind her head and covered her face with it making Bryson frown. Bryson tried to take the pillow off her face but she held on to it."What happened?" Bryson asked"I know I was found nude again," Dede said in a muffled voice but Bryson heard

After exiting the penthouse, Melissa got into her car and asked the driver to take her to her brother's home. "So this girl has managed to snatch Bryson away from me," Melissa thought. "Let's see how long that relationship will last," she thought while sitting in the car's back seat. Her phone rang and seeing who was calling, she frowned. She answered the call anyway. "Why are you calling me," Melissa asked angrily. "I just miss you. Can I see you tonight?" the man asked. "No, I have things to take care of," Melissa said. "You want to sleep in the cold bed alone rather than spend a pleasurable moment with me? Bryson would not touch you and you know it," the man said and started telling Melissa what he would do to her in bed. Melissa listened to him close her eyes and crossed her legs getting aroused. She let out a moan drawing the driver's attention to her. "Ma'am, are you alright?" the driver asked snapping Melissa out of her moment. "What!" Melissa said to the driver l

The night passed and Bryson didn't come home.In the morning, Dede woke up from her sleep by the sound of her alarm. Her face looked puffy and her eyes were swollen from crying herself to sleep. She dragged herself out of bed to the bathroom. After taking a shower she dressed up ready for the office. She slept in her room so she didn't know Bryson was still not back. Dede stepped out of her room with no appetite for food. She went out the front door and down to the garage. In the garage, she saw a space between the parked cars. Bryson always has his cars lined up. Even though she had not paid attention to the number of cars Bryson owned, the space between the parked cars was something she didn't expect to see. Alex came downstairs a few minutes later with a frown on his face."Go back upstairs. The boss is not around," Alex said with a deep frown."Is it a break for the company?" Dede asked with no expression."You work directly with the boss. What will you be doing in his absence?" Al

Bryson left the penthouse for the hospital after his mother invited him over. What convinced him to leave the penthouse was the fact that his mother told him, Melissa had an accident after coming to the penthouse. Seeing his mother at the hospital, and her having nothing important to tell him, he decided to leave the hospital. On his way back to the penthouse, just a 5 km drive away from the hospital, a vehicle crashed into his vehicle. The driver of the vehicle died on the spot and so did the guard sitting next to Bryson. He took most of the impact shielding Bryson. The guard in the co-driver seat, upon seeing what had happened shot himself. He knew what the Adams family would do to him for his failure to protect Bryson. The vehicle Bryson was in had one side mangled. The driver of the other vehicle that crashed into Bryson's vehicle fled the scene before the police and an ambulance arrived at the scene. Bryson was the only one found to be alive after they cut the car to get him out.

It was fifteen minutes to midnight and Bryson opened his eyes again. He scanned the room and was happy to see Dede sitting on the sofa. No Melisssa, no Janet. They were the two people he didn't want to see as he felt his mother's support for Melissa. "Dede," he called out to her softly and Dede's attention was drawn to Bryson.She was dosing off but hearing Bryson's voice in the quietness of the night she forced her eyes open. "Please come," Bryson said softly, staring at Dede looking at him from the sofa where she sat. Dede stood up from the sofa and walked towards Bryson's bed. She pulled the chair next to the bed closer and sat on it. "How are you?" Bryson asked and Dede was surprised. He had a terrible accident which almost claimed his life and he was rather asking her how she was doing. Shouldn't she be the one asking him that question? She replied to his question anyway. "I am fine. How are you?" Dede asked with genuine concern. "I am good now that you are here. I didn