The doorbell again rang. Cassandra tried to get up as she spoke, "Should I answer it?""No. I am going." Elaine spoke and made her way to the door with the intention to make Cannon leave from the gate itself.She opened the door, "Why don’t you just.." but stopped mid-sentence when the person at the door came to her sight. Both of them stay paused for a moment."Mom, look. They killed the monster." Ryan jumped in his place drawing their attention to him.Elaine glanced back at her after a moment and said, "Hina. You?" sounding pleasantly surprised. Hina glared at her in response. She walked past her to face Ryan and stood at a few steps' distance from him. Ryan gave her a look of curiosity written on his face.Elaine walked to her and said to Ryan, "Baby, say hello to my friend." earning another glare from Hina. But she didn’t bother that. She was busy mentally praying for Ryan to behave well with Hina. Happening of otherwise was the last thing, she wanted to happen now.Ryan stared a

There was no way Cannon would be trapped in the little mess she created. He had enough power and resources to get free from this in no moment. Elaine thought as she waited for the call to be answered. "Hello?"A deep male voice got into her hearing and she spoke up slowly, "Hello, Sir. It's Elaine here.""Elaine, who?"She explained, "I met you two days ago and complained about a man who was stalking me and you gave me your card.""Oh, yeah. I remember. What's the problem? Is there anyone else bothering you?" hearing him, she immediately answered, "No. Sorry for disturbing you but I wanted to ask about the person I complained. He is released already, right?""No. He is still in lock-up. You don't need to worry about that."Hearing him, her eyes widened as Elaine whispered, "What!""Yes. No one came for him yet.""Which police station? Can you text me the address?" she stuttered."Okay." He cut off the line.She got paused in her seat, nothing going through her mind..She just didn't

The entire place looked empty. Not only that it was decorated with thousands of flowers.Shrugging, she turned to Cannon, "Which table?"Cannon lead the way and stopping at a table, he pulled out a chair for her. Elaine thought of settling on the other chair but at last listened to him. Cannon sat across her chair. He was about to say something when Elaine interrupted. "Why isn’t anyone else here?""I booked the entire restaurant." Cannon spoke up with a smiling face.Elaine spoke up getting irritated, "Who is your client that you went this far to book the entire restaurant when just a table would have been enough?""I never said about meeting any client.""But you said you have a lunch engagement and..""Yeah and by that I meant you." words were barely out of Cannon's mouth before Elaine shot back, "Then I am done here."She was about to get up but stopped hearing Cannon."I love you, Elaine. Give me a chance to show you my heart." Cannon pleaded interrupting her thought of leaving.

As Cannon said, he didn’t leave. Flower bouquets were always at her desk waiting for her before she reached there too much for Elaine's irritation. Though there were no initials left with that, Elaine knew it was from Cannon.He tried to talk to her as well but every time, Elaine ignored him.Elaine was fazed and bewildered. In just a few days, Cannon managed to shake her whole existence.If anything, his cheesy and sugary nature got her even angrier on him. His past behaviour wasn’t something that could be erased from her mind with all this. The hurt she observed on Cannon’s face, every time she taunted him or rejected him, started an inner turmoil in her, especially when he did not react to her any action and deal with her patiently. It wasn’t something, she anticipated. Elaine could feel Cannon was always trying to hide the hurt that was caused due to her tantrums with a forced, sad smile. She tried to ignore that, but damn her stupid heart.Though she couldn't fully believe him

It was late in the afternoon. Elaine was discussing something with her team members. And when the discussion came to an end, the team members walked to their respective works, Zarah and Mack were still with Elaine when Mack poked Zarah and spoke up in a teasing tone, "Hey, what happened? You seemed to be dumped by someone." Though Zarah knew Mack didn't mean to hurt her but she was hurt because it was the truth by her heart. She wasn’t dumped but she felt that way and she was jealous of her. Mack stood up as well when his phone rang but turned to Zarah before leaving, "Hey, listen. I didn’t want to hurt you, okay? I was just joking. I am sorry." Zarah forced a smile and nodded at him. When Mack was out of their sight, Elaine turned to her, "Zarah, what happened? You indeed seem to be lost in deep thought." Zarah got closer to Elaine, "You know I was thinking about Mr. Henderson." Elaine stared at Zarah not getting what to say. This wasn’t something she expected to hear from her a