"No, we didn't do anything," Ethan explained to the other person on the call. "Well, that's what I'm paying you to do, isn't it?" He yelled again and after that, I just tuned him out and focused my attention on the TV. The reporters were analyzing my relationship with Ethan, they were talking about how everything was nothing more than just a business ploy to merge our companies. I was not sure what right they had to sit there and bash us for our relationship which had nothing to do with them, whatever the reason might be for Ethan and I being together, it was not anyone's business and we didn't owe a single person any explanation whatsoever. "Hey, you." Ethan came to stand in front of me and snapped his fingers in my face, "Are you sure you didn't do or say anything to anyone? I know you're not the smartest person to deal with, you might have let it slip even without realizing." He was accusing me again of something which I had no idea of. "I didn't do or say anything to anyone E
Ethan was seething at the scene playing out in front of him. Here I was in my childhood home, with my stepbrother who may or may not be in love with me, his hands were wrapped around my waist and we were pressed together tightly. I knew the scene was misleading, but if Ethan had come up even a few seconds earlier, he would have seen what happened. He would have seen that, while I was trying to get away from Dad and take refuge in my room, I had accidentally slammed into Jake and to keep me from falling, Jake had wrapped his arms around my waist and held me up. I knew there was no way he would believe us now, especially me as any type of excuse or reason I tried to give him would only make me look guilty but I still had to try. Just as I was about to open my mouth and talk, Ethan's voice beat me to it, "Do you plan on going into him or he's going to let you go at some point, next year perhaps?" He asked me in a cold voice. I was confused at first because I had no idea what he was r
"Mum, calm down please, I can explain." Ethan started, trying to pacify his mum but she was in no mood to be calmed down. "I'm listening to you Ethan and you better have a damn good reason why your wife isn't sleeping in the same room with you and an even better one for why she sleeps in this place." She looked around my room with disgust. I guess seeing it now, the room was very bad. There was no furniture in the room, and the painting on the walls was faded already, and I usually slept on a worn-out mattress.Even the maids in this house had better places and better rooms to sleep in, how much more me? I was supposed to be Ethan's wife or so I thought. "What's going on here? I was hearing your voices from downstairs." Before we knew what was going on again, another voice joined us and this time it was Ethan's dad and Liam's wife who had joined us. "Let's all calm down first, I can offer a perfectly reasonable explanation for all you're seeing here." Ethan tried explaining himsel
Chapter Ten. FLASHBACK TO FIVE YEARS AGO. Ethan Robinson had just graduated from college and he couldn't be more ready to step into the real world and take on some real responsibilities. He was eager, he was passionate and he wanted to get his hands dirty, as he liked to say. His father had been promising him ownership of the company ever since his older brother made the decision not to take over, Ethan couldn't understand the reason behind his brother's decision, it was their family's legacy afterall, but all Liam told him was that he would understand later on. Liam was newly wedded and Ethan thought this was the reason why he had refused to accept the position, how could he chose to spend more time with his wife whom he was going to be with for the rest of their lives over carrying on a family's legacy? Ethan would never understand, at least not yet, but he was so certain he wasn't going to make the same mistakes his brother had made that rendered him at the mercy of another wo
Chapter Eleven. All the previous giddiness Ethan had been feeling left him immediately after his dad made the announcement he just did. What his dad had just indirectly said was that the weight of the company now rested on their shoulders. Whether they were going to make it out of this unscathed like his father had promised the rest of the employees was now up to them. Ethan found himself shrinking at the weight of this responsibility. Damien was just a mess as much as Ethan was at the moment, the only difference was that Ethan managed to compose himself well while Damien on the other hand was already freaking out. Sweat beads were forming on his forehead and he couldn't stop his hands from shaking, he quickly hid his hands inside his pocket to hide the obvious shaking of his hands. "Do you want us to come up with different pitches or do we all work together on a single pitch?" Lucy had turned to Mr. Robinson and asked him.Lucy wasn't phased by the news Mr Robinson had just spru
Present day. I stood up to get another round of coffee for everyone, to say it has been a long night was quite an understatement, it had been my longest night yet in a long time. I couldn't believe what my ears had just heard, Ethan had been through a lot, a whole lot to be honest. I didn't know what betrayal felt like but I knew betrayal from the people you held closest was the worst and it would hurt more than any other betrayal and they would leave the deepest scars. "Turns out, it was Damien that had intentionally planted Lucy in Ethan's life." Liam continued after I passed him another cup of coffee."He knew exactly the type of girl that would be capable of catching Ethan's attention and that Ethan would be attracted to her, so he took his time prepping her for the role, and judging from the outcome, she played her role quite well," Liam explained further to me. "But all for what?" I asked angrily.I was furious and all I wanted to do was meet this so-called Damien friend of
Chapter ThirteenTwo weeks!!That was how long I had been on my own, by myself in this gigantic and eerily quiet house. Two whole weeks, since I last heard, saw, or spoke to Ethan. At first, I thought he just needed time to be alone and blow off some steam, I knew how bothered he would feel about me coming into his private space.I had invaded his home at first, not by my own choice anyways, we had to remember that I was still a victim in all of this, but I had invaded his home nonetheless and now, I was invading his very personal space, his room.After the third day of complete silence from him, I knew he wasn't just blowing off steam again, this was becoming more serious and we had to do something about it, I became increasingly worried when I heard he hadn't been to work all those times as well. "I then had to call his parents as I didn't even have his contact, funny right?" I was his wife, yet I didn't even have his contact, not to talk of getting in touch with him.Anyways, af
I couldn't shake off that irking feeling at the back of my neck after I had left the lobby, something about what she had said was bugging me.I tried to imagine what else she could do to harm both Ethan and I and also the company at large and loads of different scenarios popped up in my head, none of which were favorable. I was still relaxed though, because I don't think she had filmed anything while we were in the lobby. That was one of the things I loved about this building, your privacy and security were granted. One couldn't film or snap pictures in here, they had their camera which they had installed and placed in strategic places and although I was sure the camera downstairs had captured Ethan constituting his nonsense, I was confident about the fact that those videos were not going to make it to the internet.Why, you ask? It's just simple, no one wanted to double cross the likes of Ethan and his family and if anyone dared to, they would face consequences beyond their imagina