Chapter 36

Jacob can’t bring himself to believe that a well-organised event such as his launch party can go to hell just like that, but the truth is that it does and he is a witness to it.

And it’s all because of that nuisance of a duo that's Mia and Andrew, he thinks, balling his fingers into a fist in anger. He doesn't know how but those two have suddenly become his nemeses; and they've turned everything horrible for him at every turn.

To be honest, Jacob will never have been able to predict even in his worst moments that Mia will become so much of a thorn in his side, especially in light of the helpless and vulnerable nature he saw in her on their first encounter. Then she was young, malleable, easy to control for the purposes he wanted of her.

Unfortunately, she has grown a little too quickly for him to control, and his lack of foresight at what she can, and have become is the reason why he's now bearing the pain in his heart; her little stunt at t