"So there's an accomplice in this case..." Ashton mutters, taking a big drink out of his glass.Forrest nods. "Anyway, I have done my part. It's a pity she died though. How was she related to you all?""She was my ex fiancee, don't worry, I was the one who called the marriage off. And to my wife, she was her enemy and to Liam, she was a colleague. She managed to get under each and every one's skin."Doctor Forrest chuckles. "Not nice to speak ill of the dead but I understand what you mean. It's sad to say but she probably got under someone's skin and that person did this to her. Although it was probably an accident and then panic dumped her where she really died." Forrest finishes his drink and stands up, clearing his throat gently.Ashton stands up as well. "You've been an enormous help Doctor Forrest.""Please just call me Kyle and it is my pleasure to have being a help so such a person as yourself."Ashton grins. "Still the lobbyist I see."Kyle shrugs and laughs. "I can't seem to
Richard suddenly has a flashback. He had seen Arielle at the club that night and remembered speaking to her but about what, he doesn't remember. How had he paid for his drinks?How had he woken up in that motel?There must have been someone else there who can tell him everything or at least, some fragments of what really happened that night. Without following her gaze that's fixed on something behind him, he knows she staring at the money on the table.Richard keeps on fidgeting and asking himself the same question over and over again. Did I tell Arielle he had two billion dollars?Because if he did, he needs to repair his door soon, and very very soon so he grabs his phone right in her presence and calls the company that repaired it for him in previous times and makes an appointment for the next one hour.She can't possibly get anything done within the next hour.While on Arielle's end, she's still furiously thinking on how she will lay her hands on that money and get the hell out
Ashton pulls out a chair for Ivy to sit in before he walks around and sits opposite her.A woman in her seemingly mid forties approaches them. "Welcome to Dahee. What would you like to have?"The duo peruse the menu and think quietly.Ivy speaks first. "I would like some Udon noodles and Tteobokki." Ivy smiles while the woman chuckles. "Your accent is quite heavy on the words, they are pronounced as Udon and Tteobokki. It's quite simple but I'm native Korean so it's probably easier for me."Ivy laughs lightly. "I'll keep the pronunciations in mind."Ashton raises his head next. "Make the tteobokki a large one, then a medium sized donkatsu with cold noodles."She chuckles again. "Coming right up sir and ma'am."As soon as she leaves, Ivy chuckles lightly. "Even I can tell you didn't pronounce that other food correctly.""Donkatsu?"Ivy laughs. "Yeah, that one but that does not matter right now. We have things to share to one another and it's both pointing at one thing, Tiara's murder.
After a long day at work, hours after Ashton and Ivy had met for lunch.Ivy receives a phone call from Ashton. "Hello?""Hello darling, I'm downstairs. We can leave when you're ready."Ivy smiles. She's tired, too tired to drive. "I'll be right down. I'm exhausted and would appreciate the drive."Few minutes later, Ivy meets Ashton downstairs and gets into the car. She smiles tenderly. "Thank you for picking me up. Without you, I would have just taken a taxi to the hospital.""That's why I'm your husband. Let's go."They drive down to Axis Hospital and go in, taking the elevator to Veronica's room where she's walking around, laughing aloud, along with Damien who's teaching her to do some sort of dance."Is this supposed to be so hard? I can't just get it."They stop for a moment to acknowledge the couples presence. "Welcome.""Thank you. What are you both up to?" Ivy asks as she places her bag on the bed and sits, watching them as Ashton also takes a seat beside her."He's teaching me
It doesn't take a long time for the police, along with the help from Ivy and Ashton to begin their hunt for Arielle but strangely, she's nowhere to be found.For a whole two days, after an APB has been put out for her, she has been seen by nobody around.There is no way she could have possibly known ahead that they were coming for her so why? If she really had no skeleton in her cupboard, she would not have had any reason to run but if course, she knows that she is deeply involved in Tiara's death and the anger of her now forty eight million followers follow her everywhere, even though, Arielle herself now has twenty two thousand followers, all of them coming to curse her posts.Arielle on the other hand, is nowhere to be found.There is a bang on Richard's door. He frowns as he rolls off the bed, grumbling.Since he's jobless, he makes it a point to just stay in and sleep all day and at night, he makes a long party ride around town, visiting a ton of clubs and ending at motels with w
Anita makes her way into Ivy's office and bows slightly in greeting. "Hi Ivy. I have letters from the post office today. I don't even know if it's a post office, it was just delivered.""Letters?" Ivy chuckles "They still do letters?""I'm just as surprised as you are." Anita laughs as she places the single small brown envelope on her table and exits.Ivy looks at the letter and picks it up, she tears it open and brings out the neatly folded white paper inside. She opens it and reads the contents...And with every sentence she reads, her smile fades slowly until all she has on is a grim scowl on her face. She grabs her jacket, phone and keys. She stops at Anita's. "I'm going out. Can't say if I'll be back today. If I'm not back by two pm, then I won't be coming back at all. About that deal we're working on, you can tell them we'll do the audit on a condition. I'll let them know my condition during the meeting tomorrow."Anita nods and waves as she leaves.Ivy takes the elevator downs
"Your fighting and strength only arouses me... Ivy Wright."The sheer shamelessness of the man in calling her full name, along with get husband's last name, giving it away that he knows she is a married woman scares Ivy even further but she stops fighting him and lets her arm go limp in his hand so she won't give him any satisfaction.*"Do you really think this product you're showing me right now is worthy of the market? Do you even know how brutal sellinf anything is?" Ashton starts, as soon as the lights of the room return and the projector goes off.The man who presented the slideshow stands stock still by the projector, listening to Ashton. "Even if it is a good idea which I agree with actually, do you think your forms of marketing are going to be sufficient enough to sell this product? Because..." He's momentarily distracted by the vibrations of his phone and then it lights up with a message. "Excuse me." He checks the phone and sees a message from Ivy.Without any other word a
As soon as they get home, Ashton walks right behind Ivy into the house where he meets her in a chair, her eyes slightly red. "I'm sorry." She whispers to him and he pulls her into a big hug."You don't have to be sorry about anything. You did nothing wrong.""He told me to come alone that if I didn't, he would have killed you in the meeting that you were and I remembered you telling me you had a meeting so I believed him. I just wanted to have a trace of where I went that's why I sent the text message. I'm sorry I made you his target now."Ashton chuckles lightly and wipes her eyes. "Come on, I was already on his radar before he met you, he probably chose to meet you because you're my wife and maybe meeting you would have broke you into giving up the fact that I was the one who beat Roger up. Well, I robbed the opportunity for Roger to say it right from his mouth, we won this round so you do not need to be sorry about anything."Ivy manages a small smile through her tears."I should b