Detective Adams was the first person to ask the most obvious question at the moment. It was pretty clear that just a few minutes ago, the man had been unwilling to help them even if he could. She was interested in knowing what changed his mind much more than she was in the price he was asking for."Nothing much," the man said in answer to her question. "I have the answers you seek and you seem pretty desperate for answers. Depending on how much you pay, I might just be willing to search my memories for some answers." He had a cynical smile on his face.Of course, Detective Adams thought. It was always about money for folks like these. After all, he needed money to do some of the illegal things he was involved in and Detective Adams assumed drugs were one of them.While she thought, the man introduced himself for the first time to them."I'm Didier Anjou, the manager here."Detective Adams wasn't surprised. She'd always had keen eyes that were capable of spotting things easily. She cou
The silence that hit her from the other end of the line was deafening. If Mia was distraught on hearing the news from her, she wondered how she would have felt if the news had reached her directly from Ronnie himself after the ambulance and the police reached out to him.She'd just come out from the shower and was putting on her night clothes when the call reached her. Ronnie was on the brink of suffering a mental breakdown when he described what had happened to her on the phone.According to him, her body had been taken to the morgue at St. Philip's Memorial Hospital. He was still there with the swarm of officers that had followed Dre's dead body from outside her house where it was found to the hospital."Are you sure?" Mia asked. "T—There has to be some kind of mistake. Dre's not dead!"It was a trauma response. Emily was well aware of how painful it must have been for Mia who was just learning about it and disbelief was the first response her brain could give to the shocking news.
Detective Camille Adams slumped into a seat and heaved a tired sigh. It'd been one hell of a week. First, they'd found out who Max Walker's assassin was but were yet to confirm what they'd been told when they were called upon to take up another case.Apparently, the chief had been so pleased with the progress they'd made so far that he decided to give such an important case to them. Detective Adams knew it was more of a case of credibility and skillfulness than anything else. That was why the chief had given them the case, even though they had their hands full already.There was something off from the very onset of this particular case. For one, the man they'd arrested had no semblance of a criminal, and yet, from what they'd learned at the crime scene from the man himself and a few neighbors who had opened up to them, he knew something about the poor lady's death.Unlike the other case that Detective Adams was handling which she'd wasted enough time on already, she had no intention
Emily stood still, eyes looking straight and her heart lurching forward. A shiver went through her. Was this the moment where he'd say that he no longer wanted her to work with him anymore?Not that it would have mattered much anyway. Already, she had plans of leaving the job especially now that things were about to get better at SkyNet. What if that wasn't it? Shock waves hit her, making her feel dizzy for a brief moment. She wavered but Edmund's hand caught her just in time to stop her from falling.He looked at her with concerned eyes."Are you okay?""Yes," she admitted. "What is it that you wanted to tell me?"Edmund heaved a controlled breath and held her face with both hands. Then, he traced smooth hands on it with his hands. His eyes levelled into hers and at that instant, he felt like he could read her entire life like a book.He had so much to say but he didn't trust himself or his words. What if he ended up saying what needed to be said as it was but not the way it made se
From the moment Edmund suggested that Emily and him ditch work for the day and go to his house, she'd known it was a bad idea. But it was hard to say no to Edmund of all people. Not when he'd just opened up about how he really felt to her.Emily was yet to fully process everything he'd said but to not look like a total idiot, she'd sucked it all up like an adult and tried to look like she had it all figured out.Wait, Edmund loves me? What about Charlotte? What about the baby? And what about the lies they'd cooked up for Edmund's parents earlier?Would they have to come out straight to Edmund's parents that it was a lie from the onset and that they were now serious with each other for real? There was no way that things could stay the same between herself and his parents if she did that. They'd see her as a freak and Edmund would be forbidden from being with her. It looked like they were going to hold on to the truth for a little while.Climbing into Edmund's new whip, a posh Rolls Ro
Edmund was wide awake at once. He sat up on the bed, cleared his throat and said seriously, "I know you have a lot of questions right now, Emily. And I promise you that I'm going to answer every one of them. But first, we have to focus on what's most important.""And what's that?""The fact that we love each other!" Edmund seemed overjoyed by the mere thought of it. "Can't you see it? I mean, all through my life, it's always been about making money, making my father proud and never making one mistake in my life. The one time when I decided to live outside of the rule books and just do what feels right for me, that's when I met and fell in love with you. If that isn't magical, then I don't know what is."Emily listened intently, not because she was still seeking after answers but because she wanted to hear Edmund's heart speaking. "I feel at home whenever I'm with you. What I feel is different, different so much that everything in my life feels way better than before. For someone who
She did not spare a second to think or blinked before she rushed back into her room, grabbed a coat and bolted out the door. Her rage was like a flood, engulfing her entire body and leaving no room for her to think about what she was about to do or how it made her look.Charlotte was not sure why she'd started the journey, whether it was purely out of anger or whether she'd been looking for an excuse to do this the entire time. But the wrong thing she was sure of was that she wasn't spending the night crying all alone. Spending it with a man that she was assured would give her many orgasms was a much better alternative. Her bulletproof Cadillac swept by Edmund's estate as she drove against the evening rush like this was some kind of date that she was hurrying to meet up with.Edmund was a monster. He couldn't even consider her condition and take his concubine elsewhere; neither could he even try to keep to the rule of fidelity that bound their marriage together.He rushed off into h
Randall Harrington had listened intently to Charlotte's genius plan and in the end, he thought it was nothing more than a wild and unthinkable attempt that would only end in failure."What?" He was speaking for the first time after allowing Charlotte successfully tell him all about her plans. "You can't be serious right now.""I am.""B—But I thought you were from money," he sputtered. "Why are you so bent on having some of Edmund's money if you have some family money yourself."Charlotte thought about the question. There was no easy way of answering it that didn't involve telling the truth on the spot."That's the problem. I don't have a lot of money remaining for myself. That's because my father cut me out of his will because of the wicked wife he married. And I'm looking at getting as much money as I can to serve as my retirement plan seeing that I wouldn't be able to work a second in my life even if I wanted to. Surely, you of all people understand where I'm coming from."Randall