FAYEThe sun filtering through the window roused me from sleep the next morning. Rolling onto my back, I stretched, then winced at the various aches and pains making themselves known. The night before came rushing back to me and I sprang up to a sitting position, eyes shut as mortification rolled through me.No, no no!I hadn't done that, maybe it had just been a dream.Sometimes I had dreams like that. In fact, Nathan's stupid face had tormented me continuously in my sleep over the years. This was just one of those very vivid dreams.My eyes snapped open as I searched my room for any signs someone had been in here, heart pounding like a deer being hunted. Nothing.No sign of him.No sign he'd even been here. Except for my body. It felt different. I felt different.The aches and just a little feeling of soreness told a different story.I got out of bed and realized I was in my birthday suit.Which was weird cause I was certain I'd gone to bed in my PJs. I went to the bathroom a
FAYEAll around me, jewels glittered, dancing under the bright lights of the ballroom. Millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds and every other gemstone imaginable were draped around the necks of women who’d never had to work a day in their lives.I'd grown used to distinguishing those ones from women like Yvonne, and then myself. It wasn't a secret in this tedious high class society that I was some child Maximus had out of wedlock, with some woman. Some of them gave me looks but mostly curious ones. They knew better than to be anything but cautious and respectful around me. Lifting a glass of champagne that wasn’t worth the two-thousand-dollar-a-bottle price tag to my lips, I let my gaze travel the room, searching for my date for the evening. He'd been back to check on me like he'd promised, and then we'd both gone into work together, promising to meet up later.And now here we were, at the outstanding employee award ceremony for the Crist holdings.We all had to attend of course.
NATHANI left the Eclipse pack estate feeling a deep satisfaction I hadn't felt in forever.How could one night with her make everything better, different?I'd heard her heart race and I'd felt her soft silky skin against mine. And her moans. They'd been music to my ears. A balm to my aching soul. That last thought made me pause.What the hell was wrong with me?A little bit of sex and I was all up in the clouds?I grinned, feeling the lunacy fully take over me. This wasn't just some sex. It'd been fucking amazing and I couldn't wait to do it again.But I wouldn't get ahead of myself.That little minx had been having a fight with Axel by the time I'd been in her house.She probably thought I'd snuck in after their row. I'd been there way before that. On her balcony, just waiting for the hovering dick head Axel to leave.To think that weasel hung around her so much made me feel the need to hit something. Preferably said weasel. He'd be taken care of. After I'd handled my own faili
NATHANIf he wanted to rob me, he really should have tried harder to hide what he'd stolen.I stared at the wide open space, with the cartons of the smart watches stacked at one end.Over a thousand small cartons, they were at least stacked neatly. I turned to Daniel. "How'd you find it?""With my savvy skills and expertise of course." He said with a wide grin. Someone's spirits were high again. "Come on, Daniel.""Had a police friend of mine track the two men we caught on camera through the system. One of them has been in for something before. It wasn't too hard to find him and get him to revealed where our stolen tech was."The workers trooped past me, carrying the boxes and loading them into the trucks outside. He wasn't nearly as smart as he thought he was, hiding them close to me so I wouldn't think to look here."Where's the thief? Did you get the second one?""Yes. Eventually we found him too.""Anything about why they robbed us?""They insist it's because they wanted to sel
FAYEHeart racing and pulse thumping, I went through the flood of reporters as Axel pushed through them, trying to get me to the car. The reporters pushed at us, mercilessly trying to get at me, shoving cameras and mics in my face. Yelling questions at me. Demanding that I explain my disappearance. Every single one of their questions was about Nathan. They threw the questions in my face, suggesting that it'd be better I address them now, instead of running. Like I was afraid of them or something. The two wolves by my right waded through them, creating a path for us. Damn Nathan for doing this!The award ceremony hadn't even been over when the reporters had spread the word to the rest of the freaking city. Throngs had gathered outside and it had been apparent I had to leave early. Axel had called the car around and we'd hurried out, but they had beat us to the car. They were still shouting after me, calling out some questions that I couldn't make out.As I got into the passen
NATHANThere was a wide grin on my face when I saw the newspapers at work the next day.The picture of both of us standing closely together at the award ceremony is absolutely clear. Captured the tension between us in a way that made us look intimate. The story underneath the picture was about Faye, her disappearance and the link between the growth and continual success of Crist holdings and Carver Tech. It was not a far-fetched idea for people to think that I was at that party because I was in talks with the board members of Crist holdings for a partnership. There was already a boost in sales and my company's shares were back up again. I picked up a second paper, just to find the same picture of us from a different angle on the very first page. 'Power couple or Power struggle?'I had to give it to them. Their headlines were superb. The newstory was on Faye. There were speculations about where she'd been for the last five years and why she was not currently by my side, being my
FAYEPapers were strewn about in front of me on the round table. The serious faces of the council elders stared back at me, waiting for an answer to their question."What was my plan to salvage the situation?" They had asked. They wanted to know what I wanted to say to the press, and how I was going to address the situation basically. Cause this was affecting the pack in a negative way. And if left for too long would damage the companies reputation and that of my late father as well.All things I could not allow to happen. I stared them in their eyes one after the other, letting them see that I was resolute and unshaken by the media harassment.I had a plan."I'm going to have a press conference. As of what I will tell them, I plan on revealing that I am Maximus Crists only daughter. I'm going to explain the fact that I've been away for the five years to complete my education. I'm back now and it was necessary that I take over the family business.""And your husband?" Brenda asked
FAYEI had a full schedule today and I planned on executing everything on the list before the day was over.I put a call into my driver and went outside to wait for him to bring the car around. I'd dressed down today, hoping that I would somehow look like the girl that Patrice had loved and cared for.I hoped she didn't turn me away. The car stopped a few feet away and I made my way to it, pulling the door open to enter when I heard someone call my name.I shut the car door and turned around to find Yvonne watching me. Damn. I'd hoped to leave without hee seeing mw. I wasn't heading into the office today and i knew she would undoubtedly have questions when she found out I was absent at work. Now she'd know I'd gone somewhere else. And she'd be right to think it was somewhere i had considered more important than work.Problem was when she finally asked, like i knew she would, i wouldn't have any answers for her. She can't find out what i and Axel have been up to. I smiled and wal