Elaine wasn't back yet when Cassandra got back home with Ryan. She was busy in her work in office. It was late in the evening when she got back. She was pleasantly listening to Ryan's ranting about his time at the park.Cassandra tried to make up a story when she heard Ryan talking to Elaine about his new good friend and Elaine gave her a questioning look.But by the end of Ryan's ranting, Elaine didn’t pay much attention to that new friend of his, seeing her so happy son.As she was tired working all day, keeping eyes glued to the laptop screen to plan the marketing strategy, she called it a day earlier than usual.Ryan slept peacefully beside her but Elaine got awaken up at some point of the night dreaming about her elevator time with Cannon.His phone calls, texts and words from earlier kept distracting her that's the reason she took time to complete her work and thus she came back home late today.She couldn’t allow her to get into his words. Sincere or not, Cannon was late for it.
The Next dayIn the morning after getting Ryan to freshen up, Elaine took him to the dining table to get him breakfast. Cassandra joined them there after a few minutes. Elaine again tried to remind Cassandra but she cut her off, "It won't happen again."Nodding at her and she turned to Ryan who was still taking his cereal while ranting about something. Elaine spoke up softly as she went near him, "Ryan, Mom is leaving, baby. I will try to come back early. Now, don't stress out Cassie. Be good. okay?"Ryan looked at her and smiled sweetly, "I am a good boy.""Of course, you are. You are my son." Elaine said as she kissed his cheek, "Bye, baby."As she made her way out, Ryan waved at her, "Bye bye, Mom."Smilingly, she waved back and nodded at Cassandra as she got out of the house.Completing Cannon's project as early as possible was her only goal now. But just after she settled down and barely opened her laptop to start her work, Rivan reached there."Elaine, Sir is calling you." He s
Elaine moved her gaze to Cannon only to find him staring at her already. He looked calm. Elaine lowly whispered to him, "You can still stop all this if you promise that you won't bother me anymore.""No." Cannon shook his head in negative, "I told you I am not going anywhere leaving you two.""Are you crazy? I can send you behind bars in a few minutes.""If that's what you wish, do it. But I am not leaving." Cannon replied, his voice solemn."Excuse me. Is there any problem here?" The cop asked noticing the crowd.The man who called the cop spoke up, "Yes, sir. This man was harrasing this young lady."The cop narrowed his eyes and took an overall glance at Cannon and Elaine before speaking up, "Is this true?"Infuriated, Elaine wanted to show Cannon that she was not going to fall for his fake acting anymore. And she wasn't going to be easy on him after trying to get Ryan in his drama."Yes, Sir." She answered the cop. "This guy is stalking me and my son for several days." She pointed a
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
Elaine spoke up breaking the silence after few moments, "How is your Mother, Hina?""She died two years back." Hina replied sadly."I am sorry. I didn’t know."Hina was enraged at once, "If you have cared, you would have tried to contact me, Elaine. So don’t bother about me. You weren't there when I needed my friend the most. I did nothing but sticking to you since I knew you but you cut me off so easily from your life like I mean nothing to you.""It’s not true, Hina. My life was always messed up and you had always been trying to clean it up for me. I just thought you also have your life and I.. I.." Elaine stuttered at last and tears started rolling down from her eyes, "I know what I did was wrong but it seemed the only right thing to me that moment. I am sorry."Ryan stood near Elaine, convinced that he was the reason behind his mother's tears, "Mom, I am sorry. I won't run." and got near Tom, "Tom, sit. Don’t run, okay? Mom is sad."As much as Hina wanted to ignore Elaine's nonsen
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
As Elaine left, Sam walked near Cannon, "Let's go now."Cannon slid in his car only after seeing Elaine getting in a taxi. Leaning against his seat, he closed his eyes. Sam spoke up, "Cannon, let's leave from here. Maybe Elaine..""No, Sam. I am not going anywhere. I will try till my last breath if it takes to get Elaine to believe me."Sam thought Cannon must have forgotten about his meeting with Hamlet in all this. Trying to get Elaine back to him was way far safe than the meeting. Though he wasn’t sure anymore after Seeing Cannon like this but still, Hamlet had profound hatred for Cannon.Proving him wrong, Cannon spoke up, "The meeting with Hamlet, you won’t go with me. I will handle it alone."Sam stopped the car with a jerk, "No way you are going alone. Get that clear. And here, I was thinking you forgot about that."Smiling sadly to him, he again shifted to his earlier position, "No, Sam. I promised some people, gave them some hope. I can't go back on my words."Sam still tried
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.