“So what happened after?” Savannah asked amidst laughter and Payton hissed.It was early in the morning, a Sunday morning and if not for the change of environment, she would not know that she was married as there was no even difference.She had woken up quite early and Savannah’s call had come in almost immediately.So, she began to tell her what happened the previous day after she got home with King.“Hey, can you help me look into this guy further? I think he will be abusive or something,” she smacked her tongue, trying to not talk about the kiss.If it could even be termed as a kiss.He had abused her. That was not a kiss.Still, she did not want to tell that to Savannah.“Why? Did he hit you?!” She screamed.“He did not. He just… he could for an abuser,” she shrugged as she returned her toothpaste to its rack and then dabbed my mouth with a towel.“Payton, I don’t think he is that kind of person.”“What do you know?” I hissed.“There has never been any scandal about him! No one has
Payton knew that one of the best ways to not seem weak in front of the man was to always dress well. Of course, she was not dressing to please the man. She would never do that.She just wanted to maintain her elegance around him. She would never let him catch her unkempt.She wore a shimmery black material dress. The V-neck was a little deep, held up by two small spaghetti straps, but then there was also a drapey off-the-shoulder cap sleeve. She had actually worried that the dress would make her shoulders look huge as it was her first time wearing it, but with the pushup strapless bra she was wearing, she loved it. The material gathered below the bust then it loose fitting to the floor, with a slit that goes halfway up one thigh.“You are so beautiful, Ma’am,” Tiana commented as Payton looked at herself in the mirror again.“Thank you.”“But, are you going out after having breakfast?” Tiana asked again.“No, why?”Tiana stared down at her dress again and then shook her head.“Nothin
Payton knew that what offended her strongly was the fact that the man had brought another woman here, and to top it all, they did not mind being lovey-dovey around the house.So, why should she give up the jar of water for that woman?“Payton…” King gnashed his teeth like he was going to erupt and she gave him a sneering stare.When Payton did not budge or seem like she was going to leave the handle of the jar, he withdrew, patted Sasha’s back and asked if she would drink from the bottled water.“You know that I am sensitive to these things. I know it is sealed but I would prefer a purified water,” she said, feigning a tiny, pitiful tone as much as she could.Payton moved the jar over to her side, dropped her hand on it, and shook her head.“I will get you some,” he said, stood up, and hurried away.After he was out of sight, Payton chuckled at his stupidity and then lifted the jar to pour water into her glass cup.“Bitch.”Maybe her ear had heard wrong. Maybe…Because there was no wa
“Why did you do that?”“Can’t you talk without grabbing my arms? Does doing this make you a man or does it show how angry you are?” She frowned.King swallowed hard and then pushed her away.This woman has been bringing out this side of him that he did not know that he had.He has never hated someone as much as he hated her.Her arrogance. Her eyes. The way she talks. Everything!They annoy him.They rile him up!“Why did you do that?” He asked, trying to be as calm as he could.“What did I do?”“Why did you say that to Sasha?”“Ah…” Payton drawled, nodded her head, and then moved away from him.“Ah?” King raised his brows as he turned to look in the direction she was walking in.“I am asking you a question, Payton!” He snapped when she stopped by a table that was in the corner of her room and picked up a brush.Seemed like it was one of her brushes for painting.“You are here because of her?” She finally turned to look at him, pointing the brush at him.King walked over to her and sl
King stared at Dariel in annoyance as he would not stop laughing after what he told him.“So, she told you to stay away from each other because you might end up killing each other?” Dariel asked amidst laughter.“I hate her temerity so much! She is impudent and arrogant!” He snapped.“Is this coming from you, Thorn?” Dariel laughed and King smacked his tongue.“It is a mistake talking to you,” King nodded his head as he agreed to himself and Dariel asked again.“But…” he stopped laughing and furrowed his brows.“Why did she come to your place?” “Who?”“Sasha, of course. Why did she go there so early in the morning?”“She has missed me terribly, and I understand,” King nodded his head.“How the fuck did you earn your reputation with this sluggish mentality of yours?” Dariel asked.King frowned as he remembered what Payton had said to him the previous day.“How did you become a top billionaire with that brain?”She had asked him.Dariel asking him something similar was so annoying and h
“It’s time,” King swallowed hard as he looked around the room like he was going to find something else.“Time for?” Payton frowned.“Press conference,” he said and then turned to leave.Payton and Dariel exchanged glances and then shook their heads before they walked after him.After they got out of the office, King turned to look at Dariel and removed his hands from his pocket.“Have my office locked. No one should go in till I return. I am conducting a manual search in the office and I will be in attendance,” he said and turned to leave.“Alright,” Dariel nodded his head.As they entered the elevator in silence, Payton took her lower lips in her mouth as she saw him press the last floor. She folded her arms across her chest and then squinted her brows.“You mean… you could get bugged too? YOU?” She stretched her words like it was impossible for him to get bugged and he hissed at the tone.He did not answer, instead, he looked ahead as he pressed his lips tightly together.The last t
“Are you insane, Payton?!”King snapped the moment they entered the elevator after the press conference was over.Payton tilted her head, twitched her mouth upward, and then turned to look at King.“What are you saying?”“What is with those lies you were telling? We met two years ago? I chased you for two weeks?”“Oh?” Payton smiled and palmed her mouth gently.“Oh?” King raised his brows.“I thought it was a lying competition right there. I did not want to lose,” she blinked as she shook her head.King frowned and moved over to her and then, the elevator stopped but instead, he pressed the last floor button again and then covered the space between them.“Lying competition? I told you to keep shut and only watch!”“Why, though? If you can lie as you please, why can’t I? And… Max was my good friend which you were aware of too?” She scoffed and shook her head.Deep down, she was hurt that King had classified Max as that.She was still feeling guilty as she was.What if he saw the news?
“Another one?” King raised his brows as one of the men in charge removed another bugging device and then gave it to him.He swallowed hard and watched, it was the third one they were removing in the rooms aside from the first one they had gotten.“King,” he turned to look at Dariel who entered the room and then moved away from his spot.“Did you find anything?” He asked.Dariel nodded his head, moved over to King’s table, carried the laptop, and then returned to it.King watched as Dariel inserted the flash drive into the laptop and then waited till the video played.His brows furrowed as he watched the woman who looked around before she plastered the wall with the bugs and his eyes met with Dariel’s.“Is she not the cleaner?” Dariel asked as he stared at the screen again.King tilted his head unsurely and looked also. He had noticed the woman multiple times as she was always going around with buckets, mops, or whatever. Ah… she was the cleaner.“I think she is!” he snapped his finger