Randall stood there, transfixed at the spot. His heart lurched forward. What did Amy Johnson know that was powerful enough to ruin his chances of being with her? Had she heard something she shouldn't have heard?He wasn't sure. He'd been very careful. Standing there before her like a prisoner that was about to receive his sentence, he tried to hold his true emotions but they'd still shown on his face somehow.He was confused and surprised at the same time. Amy Johnson soon put him out of his misery."I feel like I've been dumb the whole time," she began. This can't be good, Randall thought to himself."I mean, I should have seen the signs. Every time we met, it was because you wanted to find out one thing or the other from me. Like that's literally all we do during our meetings. It got me thinking. Did it mean that if I had no information to trade with you, we'd never get to see?"Randall was not sure he was following where she was headed, but he listened patiently. She was yet to hi
Emily had always hated to be at Dally Villa. Other than the first time she'd been there, she'd never really enjoyed her visits there since then because of the fact that her therapy sessions with Jason and the shrink were held there.Every time she came to Dally Villa, she was one step closer to being caught and that was something she did not even want to imagine.But today, however, Dally Villa seemed like an escape route for her from all the chaos that had been going on in her life. First, she'd found out that Charlotte was pregnant for Edmund. Next, the news of SkyNet continuing to drown despite all her attempts to keep it afloat ruined her day.She needed some time away from her life and from reality. Jason had been more than elated when he received the call from her, informing him of her visit. He'd told her that he would close from work soon just to come be with her but Emily was not sure she wanted that. She wanted to be alone with her thoughts by the poolside. And that's exact
Detective Camille Adams doubled her footsteps as she neared the elevator. She took it all up to the fifth floor of the building where the technical department was located.About sixty seconds ago, she'd received a call from the new technical crew member, Charlie Rodrigues informing her of the discovery he'd just made. It changed everything.She hoped with everything in her that Charlie was right. Because if he was, then there was still hope that this could still be sorted out. She was running out of breath when she finally reached the monitoring room.Charlie was seated there, a knowing smile on his face. She'd come to hate that smile so much. And he always had it on every time they met in the hallway or at the driveway or anywhere else they bumped into each other.It gave her the impression that he knew something she didn't know. It further buttressed her incompetence. Despite the fact that it would look as if she didn't know what she was doing if Charlie eventually sorted things out
After being dull and lackadaisical with work for the past couple of days, Emily was surprised when Edmund suddenly came back to himself one day at the close of work and told her that she was going home with him to fix some things that he'd noticed were off-course.Apparently, he'd taken a look at some of the account books and the proposals that were sent from where deals were supposed to be signed and had noticed major discrepancies in them.That had pushed me back into his senses. The next thing she knew, he was yelling at everyone and asking that everything be made right.They'd set out for his mansion at about 7 pm. Emily reckoned that she'd be working overtime for two hours maximum. She hadn't mentioned to Edmund that she had other things to take care of but she hoped that two hours was more than enough time for them to patch things up and rest for the night.When they got to his mansion, Edmund set her up at his home office while he went away for some minutes. Emily got to work a
Hot tears burned her cheeks as they rolled and fell all the way down to her neck. Emily was so broken that for a moment, she contemplated calling Mia to cancel her appointment with her and Dre.Then, she thought better of it and decided that she wasn't going to cancel their appointment. She would meet with Dre and talk things out once and for all tonight. And as for Edmund, she wasn't going to do any favors anymore for him from now on.She took a cab to Blitz and Glamor Square, one of the most beautiful parks in the city where they were supposed to meet. When she got there, she called Mia who informed her that she was on her way.Satisfied with her response, Emily put a call across to Dre. She never answered, but she was rest assured that she would soon be there, she gave up and took a seat by one of the benches in the park.The night was bustling with the cries of the nocturnal creatures that surrounded the park. Lovers were littered to her left and her right. The whole park was infe
Detective Camille Adams was pacing through the room like she often did when she was worried or afraid that something wouldn't work out as planned or wouldn't work out at all. Tonight, they were going to pop into a few tattoo shops as undercover detectives and ask a few questions. Earlier, she'd had a hard time picking her companion. Both candidates that had presented themselves for the job were very good and it was difficult to choose between them. Charlie Rodrigues wanted to join them because according to him, he'd discovered what had turned out to be the turning point in the investigation plus he believed he would be the best person to recognize that tattoo once they saw it in real life. Detective Adams did not think that was a good enough reason for him to want to join them there. She knew the tattoo well herself and if they ever saw it in real life, she didn't need any help in spotting it. Her partner, Detective Jackson Cooper, on the other hand, argued that when they finally c
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.