CHAPTER 26CHRIS“So chief, what do you want to do? If you really hate this guy, I say we leak it, viral style, all the major blogs across all the major social media platforms, he won’t be able to get rid of it all at once.” Chester smiles as his words echo in my ear.The man loves chaos a little too much, thank goodness he’s on my payroll.“I think you should just blackmail him instead, he’s a powerful elite in the society and a scandal like this could ruin not just him but also a lot of others as well and if they find out who’s behind it, they’ll come for you” Bella who has been quiet since our little sexcapade in her office finally says something.I pace back and forth in my office, thinking of the best line of action.The man had knowingly intimidated me twice, I know he had bad blood with my dad but I chose to be a businessman and still do deals with him.He did the first time and I let him go, it’s all fair and square and then he did it the second time around, knowing fully well
CHAPTER 27NICOLEI know I have to be very careful about my meeting with Chester, I had slipped him my card that day with the inscription, “Call me, I have a job for you” written on it.Even though he promised me client confidentiality, I still didn’t want Chris to know what I am up to and Chester’s services were really expensive but I need to get the info.This is the second time we are going to be meeting now. For some reason, he likes to meet in the most popular, most public places which I find intriguing considering his profession is private investigation.“Ma’am your suspicions were correct but we do not have concrete proof yet” Chester said.He was telling me about George and Claire’s relationship but all he was saying was what I already knew, they weren’t exactly discreet about it.“I need concrete evidence Chester, something big enough to create a scandal, something I can blackmail them with.” I said tapping my fingers on the table.“What if you create it?” Chester replied, si
CHAPTER 28NICOLE“Bella, so it’s true? You got married and abandoned your family?” The woman asked with sadness, clearly honing her voice.“Who are you?” Chris asks the woman, quite taken aback by her tone and choice of words.I was trying to process what was going on, this woman clearly knows Bella and I didn’t know her. In her diary, Bella had only mentioned her father as her family and this woman was claiming to be Bella’s family.“Who am I? Bella, do you want to tell him who I am?” Her voice came again in the same tone.“I’m sorry but I don't recognize you” I replied sternly.I already told Chris that I had no family so even though I know this woman may be Bella’s relative, I couldn’t say otherwise, I’d have to find a way to meet her and probably explain things to her.What do I even want to explain to her? That Bella is dead and her body is possessed?Chris signals his bodyguard to take her out of the premises but the woman protests “wait, wait, wait” She brings out her phone
CHAPTER 29CHRISI don’t know what exactly Bella has against the Reyes’s, the look on her face right now shows she is angry and irritated at the public proposal of Mason to Claire.She even had Chester investigating the latter, when she contacted him, he let me know but I told him to spare me the information, it was between them both.When Nicole was alive, Chester had found out her husband and personal assistant were sleeping together so I’m not surprised they are getting married after her demise but it was Nicole I needed information on and I got nothing dirty on the woman.“Let’s go home Babe, I don’t feel too good” Bella’s voice broke me out of my reverie Even though I could tell her countenance only shifted when Mason proposed to Claire, I didn’t want to ask her why it affected her so much.I remember the first day I introduced her to Mason at Nicole’s funeral. She froze and couldn’t even look him in the eye and afterwards, she was crying so much.I even asked Chester to look
CHAPTER 30NICOLEI freeze at the sight of both of them, flipping in my mind whether to fake happiness that she’s here or to keep up my lie that we had a big fight and remain indifferent towards her.The three of us stood there in awkward silence for a few seconds before the woman spoke.“Bella, your husband is a nice man, he has been taking care of me” she turns to look at Chris and puts a small smile on her face.Has been taking care of her? That means Chris has been in touch with her all this while and he didn’t tell me.I hope she hasn’t said a lot of things about me that I myself do not even know about, most of my childhood memories I told Chris were those of myself, the few vague things I told him about Bella were from her diaries.“He has?” I finally reply, opting to put on a smile to show my relief rather than keep up my supposed anger.Chris notices my apprehension and knows he has some answering to do, so he says “I’ll leave you both to it, I’ll let you know when I’m leaving
NICOLE“Manchester? I thought you grew up in Soho Bella” Chris paused and asked me, looking surprised.Before I can think of something to say, Aunt Alice replies again “oh it must be the amnesia, she only moved to London five years ago” making things even worse.“Amnesia? What amnesia?” Chris asked again, looking even more surprised.Luckily his phone rings that instant and he excuses himself to take the call, I could hear him screaming at someone on the phone and when he returned, he looked worried.“You guys carry on without me, I have to go” He said and grabbed his jacket off the chair.“What is it? What happened?” I ask him.“Two of our warehouses with over a billion pounds worth of goods were simultaneously burnt down” He replied.“I’m coming with you, " I reply, putting my phone in my purse and standing up.“No, you stay behind with your aunt and finish dinner.” Chis says and starts to walk away.“I’m sure Aunt Alice can manage,” I reply and follow behind him.We drove for abou
CHAPTER 32NICOLELenon fits are a female bespoke clothing brand and after Esther sent our proposal, they got back in touch with us and we followed up effectively, culminating in two other meetings and today we’ll find out if we get the deal or not.Esther, John and I are all seated in the beautiful lush office of Mrs Lenon, the CEO of Lenon fits.I’m convinced the woman has a borderline obsession with pink, her office chair is pink, the edges of her table are pink, the pens and pen holder are pink, the index papers and complimentary cards on the table are also pink.The window blinds are pink, the couches in the lounge area are also pink even her office cabinet was pink.I wasn’t surprised when she came in wearing a pink blouse and a white skirt on pink heels carrying a pink bag.“Sorry for keeping you waiting, my other meeting went longer than expected” she apologized as she took her seat.“That’s absolutely fine Mrs Lenon” John answered for the group.She brings out her iPad, scrib
CHAPTER 33CHRISI haven’t really been able to rest since the attack on my company on many fronts, first my warehouse and then my servers.Someone is messing with me and I need to find out who and teach them a lesson, the cops are beating around the bush, with no tangible information on the perpetrators.My software engineers do not also have a reasonable explanation as to why a software security system I spent millions of dollars on was easily breached and our database wiped clean.Thank God for the backup server or else we would have been toast but now all our client information, important files and documents, confidential information between us and our clients are flying in the wind and the people I pay millions of pounds to annually cannot seem to find a way to remedy the situation.“You need to get to the roots of this, I don’t care what you do, do you understand me?” I berate my team of software engineers.“We’re trying our best sir, it’s not as easy as you think?” The lead engi