“Come back to your seat,” He ordered once more and Crystal buried her head in her palms, she let out a frustrated sigh before walking back towards him, she sat on the farthest sofa away from him.“Will you then tell me why you suddenly start to care so much?” She asked curiously but received no answer from him; he picked up his phone and was scrolling through it like she wasn’t there. “Are you going to ignore me?”“Crystal just sit quietly, eat, and leave when you are done.” He advised without breaking eye contact from his phone. “As for the reason why I am doing this, I already told you, it would be a problem if you died as my wife. You might not know this, but I have a huge sense of responsibility, I like all my things in good condition.” She was about to say something when they heard a knock on the door, and almost immediately Laurie came in with some boxes, she was surprised to see Crystal in Kayden’s office, she usually never visits the office during work hours, Crystal had a
CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN Crystal stuffed her mouth with the last piece of chicken in the bowl; she could feel bile rising up in her throat. She held it in swallowing the chicken even without chewing it properly. Kayden noticed it; she was struggling to eat the food, is it because she wanted to leave? Or what?“Just a piece of advice that you may not need, but can you slow down a little bit.” He said and she suddenly she heaved; she got up and ran across the room towards the bathroom in his office. She knelt closer to the toilet bowl and threw up into it. “I told you to slow down.” She heaved again, throwing out every single thing she had eaten, what was going on with her?“I think we need to go back to the hospital for you to take some tests, there might be something wrong with you.”He advised leaning against the door frame, she heaved again but nothing came out, she was covered in sweat. “I won’t need that, I am fine.” She whispered, as she pushed the flusher and got up, she walked
"Mrs. Smith!”Crystal stopped in her tracks; she turned back to Laurie who seemed to have been following her for quite sometimes now. She had been hearing the voice in the distance, but she was too deep in thoughts to realize they were calling for her. Crystal had an unsure look on her face as Laurie walked towards her; she wondered why Laurie was calling her. “Mrs. Smith.” Her breathing was labored, she bent slightly to hold her knees, and her chest was heaving dangerously. “Laurie, are you okay?”She asked her eyes narrowing in concern, “I am sorry I didn’t notice you were calling me.”“No, its okay, you have been so absent minded recently.” She said as she straightened her back. “Are you okay?” “Yes, I am, is anything the problem?” She asked curiously as she proceeded to walk back towards her office, Laurie looked out vacantly to be sure no one was in sight, it has been two days since the incident in Kayden’s office and ever since then she hadn’t gotten the opportunity to tal
“Mr. Smith, I would like to speak to you.” Kayden looked up from the computer screen and his eyes narrowed from the irritation, he just didn’t like to see Paige, she was even more unbearable than Crystal. “And what are you doing here? Where is Laurie?” “Hum... She wasn’t outside so I thought I could just talk to you really quick.” She said with an idiotic smile plastered on her face; she was too cheerful for his liking; she was the complete opposite of Crystal. He was glad, she didn’t have Paige’s personality, and he might have died from the cringe already. “It is about Crystal and I am standing here, as a representative of the entire design team.” He withheld his finger and fall back to support his back into the seat; now he was fully interested in the news she brought. “What is it? There is only little I can do about her.” “We got our paycheck for the month today.” She announced again with another heavy smile and Kayden fought the urge to roll his eyes. “We noticed there is
“Is that you, Father?” Crystal asked and the man paused slightly before turning towards her direction. From the way he narrowed his eyes, she could tell he doesn’t recognize her. “Who are you?” He asked cautiously and her eyebrows raised immediately, he had forgotten her, but had it been that long? Yes, it has… after all it had been twelve years already, twelve years has passed since he woke up one morning and left them, never to return. “You don’t recognize me anymore? Father?” She asked again, discerning that he might just be his lookalike and not her real father, she was about to tell him she made a mistake when he snapped his fingers. “I think—” “Cassandra?” His eyes softens and he smiled. “Look how tall you are now, the last time I saw you, you were about like this.” He gestured with his hands; he was smiling but she could feel the force in his smile; everything about his energy was forced, she wasn’t sure maybe he knew who she was from the start and he was just pretendi
Crystal woke up in a good mood, she rarely woke up feeling like she was the queen of sunshine, but it was different today even though she had a terrible night. She sat up in bed and clipped her toenails first since she had never modeled shoes before; she was starting to feel conscious about her toes, she wanted everything to be in perfect order. She heard a knock on the door and she froze for a while, she glanced at the time, it was just some minutes past six am the morning; it would probably be Petra or Sheryl; they had a habit of waking up early to worry her, she picked her clipped nails in her hands and walked towards the door. She opened the door, but instead of being met by Petra or Sheryl, her eyes met with Kayden’s silver eyes. The soft glow of light filtering through the half-opened door cast an illumination on his form, highlighting the chiseled contours of his body. His broad shoulders and well-defined chest were bare and bathed in the golden light. The soft fab
“Jake you won’t believe this.” Martinez shouted running towards Jake with his phone in his hands, Jake pushed himself up from the couch he was laid. “You need to see this.” “What are you shouting for?” Jake said with a slight frown on his face, he was hoping to get some sleep; he was unable to get some rest during the previous night, as he couldn’t stop thinking about Crystal. She had gotten even more beautiful than she was four years ago; he was unable to sleep knowing full well she was in the embrace of another man... It was hard to admit it but he was jealous. She had no right to be happy after everything she had done to him; it would be unfair if she lived so happily with her husband while he suffers miserably.“I want to take some rest.” “Its crystal,” He said handing him the phone, Jake sat up properly and collected the phone from Martinez; and scrolled through the pictures on Hi-Tweet and it was indeed Crystal. “There are a lot of her pictures trending on the inter
The continuous beeping of some sort of machine woke Crystal up, and as soon as she opened her eyes; they absorb the bright white lights of the room. She shut her eyes slightly, wincing in pain, she opened them again and noticed that she seemed to be in a hospital, the pungent smell of drugs made her even more sick than she already is. She groaned the only thing she felt in her body was pain; a body ripping pain She groaned as she tried to get up, when I felt something heavy against her neck and one of her leg was casted and hanged in the air. She hissed in frustration, when she noticed she was handicap.What the hell happened? Yes, she received an anonymous text that told her to come to the rooftop and she was pushed down the stairs. She could not even move her head to the side that was when she noticed that there was a heavy cast around her neck. Suddenly, the door opened and Kayden came in his brow furrowed in a long frown, he looked in her direction with an irri