MAXI stood by the bathroom door listening to Jade as she spoke on the phone with Phyna.What she didn't know was that while she was slipping a phone into his pocket, I had caught her but pretended as though I saw nothing.Jade had broken my trust time and again and there was so much I ought to do to make her pay, but I was exhausted.I wished she could listen to me and let us work things out. In the end, they were our children and she was the woman I loved. She just had to earn back my trust and not stab me in the back again, then everything would be fine.I knocked on the door while she was still speaking and called her name, "Jade!"She immediately stopped speaking and soon opened the door. I could see fear in her eyes, like a child who had almost been caught, stealing.The emotions in her eyes switched in no time and she began to smile, "Hey, Max. You woke up?"I scoffed, "Seriously? Jade, please stop.""Stop what?" She asked, feigning surprise.I sighed and walked back to the bed
After walking out on Max, Jade decided to go home and get her luggage since it had been agreed that she could move into the house. The words Max had spoken to her kept ringing in her head and she didn't know why they made her feel very upset. When she got to her house, she packed her stuff before coming back to Max's house. She had thought he would leave and return to work, so she would be able to spend time with the children, but then she saw him in the living room, apparently waiting for her. Ignoring him, she walked past him with her luggage but he asked, "Do you need help unpacking? Don't forget, you're going to be staying in my room." "I'm sure they are other rooms in this house," she immediately replied. "I'd like to move into one of those rooms if you don't mind." Max got up and smiled, "Well, I mind and that's why I don't see that happening. Afterall we had an agreement. If you're going to be living in this house, you'll stay in my room. If you do not want that, I won't
Max received a picture of Jade dragging Henry into a guest house. He slid through the other pictures of Henry's face and his heart boiled with rage. "Who could this guy be?" He wondered. The face looked familiar, but he could not remember where he met him since he had seen too many people in his lifetime. He quickly forwarded the picture to one of his contacts and asked him to give him all information he could find about the man in the picture. A few minutes later, he got the information and his eyes widened in surprise. He instantly remembered that Henry was the man Jade once told him about. When she had come to his life, pregnant and told him about the story of her boyfriend who betrayed her, he had briefly looked into her background to confirm her story and then he got to see Henry's picture and plenty of other pictures they had when they were in high school. Seeing the same pictures that had been sent to him, he balled his fist in anger and got up, "Jade! So even up u
JADESeeing that there was no use fighting with Max over Henry whom I loathed, I sighed, "Fine! You win, Max." He furrowed his brows in confusion and I continued, "I am going to explain myself to you even though you do not deserve it." I walked back to the living room and down on the couch. He followed behind me and sat down as well, waiting for me to speak. "Yes, I met up with my ex, Henry. I'm not comfortable with you referring to him as my first love. Yes, he was. But I'd rather you just called him my ex." "I'm still waiting for you to go ahead and tell me why you got all dressed up and made yourself look sexy just to go and meet with him in a private house," he replied. "Isn't it obvious? I did it for revenge," I told him. "Revenge?" He was surprised. I rolled my eyes, "Yes, Max, revenge. Have you forgotten that most of what I suffered was because of Henry? When he was dying, I sold my body to you, just to get money for his treatment, but what happened? I never got a d
JADE I stared at my two princes lying in their cribs and my eyes brimmed with tears. They were just a little above one but I still had to leave them every night because I had to work. However, this was not the reason why I had tears in my eyes. Phyna was sick and needed me by his side but I could not stay. Ever since I ran away one year ago with Phyna and Ella, life had been very difficult. I had to conceal my appearance whenever I went out and I only did odd night jobs. The possibility of being caught by the men working for Max and his father was high if I moved around during the day. So, I lived in hiding, in the slums. It was not the life I planned for my children but given my circumstances, there was nothing else I could do. At first, I lived in a shared apartment with a middle-aged woman who had three daughters and we took turns looking after each other's children at night since we both worked. However, after eight months, she moved out and I couldn't keep up with th
JADE But what was I going to do? "You know, you could come with us to Paris," Angel told me. "Mason and I are not going right away. You can make plans and save up. Even if there's no one else besides you, you have me and I promise that no matter what happens, we will survive together in Paris." This time, I seriously considered Angel's words and said, "Okay. I will make plans." It was easier said than done. I was jobless and almost penniless. I spent the night thinking and finally made up my mind; I was going to do the kind of job I hated. I had gotten many opportunities before but refused to take them. Linda, a girl I worked with before had told me, "You have the body and looks for this job. What you will earn from one client in a day will be better than what you will make running night shifts in six months." I had turned down Linda's advice to become an escort for quick money because I did not want to find myself at the mercy of any man. However, that no longer seemed
JADEI stood in front of Max Anderson's door and my heart raced uncontrollably. I had many times imagined how special my first time would be with the love of my life, Henry, but now I was about to sell it away.I summoned up the courage I needed and knocked on the door."Come in," a voice replied from inside.I pushed the door and it opened. I walked into the room and saw Max Anderson sitting on the bed with a towel around his waist and empty bottles of wine on the table beside his bed. There had been so many scandals surrounding him but he never seemed to care about them. His most prominent name was 'man whore' and I detested people like him but there I was, in his room, in the club where I worked, ready to give myself to him."I was told you are a virgin," he said without sparing me a glance, as his gaze remained fixed on his phone.I nodded, "Yes I am.He laughed and finally looked at me, scrutinizing me from my head to my toes, "I'm not going to be fooled twice. Hold on, I'll have
JADEWhen I opened my eyes in the morning, I felt sore down there. Last night, Max had gone on and on until I passed out. My head ached and my body felt weak but I knew I had to get the money from Max to the doctors.I got up, put on my clothes, and looked around the room but there was no sign of Max Anderson. Ignoring the pain in my body, I rushed into the bathroom but he wasn't there.I became alarmed, thinking he had left without giving me the money but then I spotted a cheque slip on the table beside the bed. A hundred thousand dollars was written on it along with his signature but there was no name and date on it. I heaved a sigh of relief and quickly left with the cheque slip. When I arrived at the hospital, Henry's mom was by his bedside sitting dejectedly."I got the money," I said, giving the cheque to her.She took it from me and stared at it in shock, "A hundred thousand! Max Anderson? How did you get him to give you this cheque?""I got a job working for him," I replied.