Ethan strolled through the open-plan office and commanded attention as he entered the first floor, while exuding an air of confidence and allure as a radiant smile played upon his lips. Every inch of his perfectly tailored suit hugged his muscular frame, as his polished black leather shoes glided effortlessly across the floor to every worker's attention. The atmosphere seemed to illuminate with extreme surprise and silent gasps from around, because of the positive energy emanating from him, as conversations hushed while he made his way into the elevator. The buzz of chattering workers gradually subsided around, all of them with an aim to quickly get to their office and get work started. They were all astounded. They had never seen their boss like that in a very long time, in a mood that was a direct contrast to the demeanor he always had whenever he came in. Everytime, he was always aloof, and his eyes were always dark and impassive. Even Jesse could not help but notice that Ethan
A heavy unease settled upon Ethan ever since realizing that something was wrong somewhere, as a sense of restlessness consumed him in fear that Ava was oblivious to what he had just discovered. He paced back and forth in his room as he called her phone repeatedly so that he could talk to her about it, with his thoughts racing and colliding in his head and mind. The mere possibility of harm befalling Ava and the kids because of someone's actions sent shivers down his spine, as his imagination conjured images of the worst-case scenarios that could be attached to the stalker's obsessive behavior. 'The person could be stalking her real life too.' he feared. With each passing moment into the cold nights, his worries intensified because she was not answering her calls and text messages. He had to curb the urge to pick up his car keys and drive to her house that instant, and was unable to sleep the entire night till the next morning. Ethan didn't take the long minutes that he spent in fr
"Hi……." Cassey flashed a smile as she made her way inside Ava's office, grinning ear to ear while tip-toeing like she was trying to avoid being heard by someone as she shut the door. "Oh, Cassey," Ava looked a bit startled when she saw her enter, as she tried to take her seat and organize herself while drawing in a few gasps of breath. She was nervous, or maybe tense. "I came as soon as I saw your visitor leave," Cassey said to her as she took her seat, trying hard not to smile at Ava, whose face was turning red already. "Oh, yeah. That's……" Ava's words suddenly became incoherent as she tried to find the right things to say. "The air here seems to be more concentrated than the last few minutes," Cassey pointed out as her nose sniffed the air in the room like a puppy, while Ava tugged her lips into her mouth in guilt, hoping Cassey would not dwell too much on what she saw. She had sprayed a redundant amount of fragrance spray to suppress whatever smell her and Ethan's quick makeou
Ava sat in the long corridors of the operating room with her fingers anxiously tapping against her trembling knees, as the weight of worry pressed down on her chest like some kind of bad news would pop right before her and ruin everything. As much as she didn't want to be connected to Anna ever again in her life, she could never wish that she would die after meeting yet another unfortunate situation. After she went missing, it had everyone in charge of her looking around for her everywhere in the hospital, and in every place that the cameras caught her going to. It was amidst the hubbub and tension all of them had, that they realized the most shocking moment when an emergency patient was brought in by the paramedics about minutes later. It was Anna and she was heavily injured, unconscious, and in a terrible state which even put more fear in the nurses and doctors of what could have gone wrong. According to eyewitnesses, she was hit by a car that was on high speed when she staggered t
"Oh, mother. You are here," Ava cried out the moment she saw Jordyn walk gorgeously into the hospital ward from where she was sitting down tiredly, as she stood up to go and hug her immediately.In the early hours of the morning when Anna was still in surgery, she rushed back home to take her bath and dress up in another cloth, while pondering on what she would do with the new information she had just stumbled upon. She checked on the kids to see that they were doing fine too, and dropped a note for them with Beatrice which contained the details of her apology to them for not spending their weekend morning with them.She knew her kids had been good on their own and had been so strong with the change their life had taken after moving to New York, and she was always so sorry every time she felt like something else was taking the time that she was supposed to be spending with them. But she realized that her life was too hectic than the one she had in Singapore, before she moved to New Y
"I cannot believe we will meet here. I mean what are the chances? I have been thinking of you lately, and here you are, boom before me," Ava smiled brightly as she took her seat before Jace. They met coincidentally when she was sitting alone, while Jordyn went to talk to the doctor if they could transfer Anna out of their hospital. It was a surprise to meet him in a place like that, and she agreed to a talk at the gourmet dining of the hospital since it had been long since they last spoke. She dropped a message for Jordyn that she ran into him too, and would spend some time with him till she came back. "You thought of me?" He asked her incredulously while smiling with his eyes shining brightly. His face aligned perfectly with his chiseled jawline, which gave him a more charming look than he usually was. "Of course, I did," Ava insisted with a chuckle, staring at her friend in disbelief at the fact that they were finally seeing each other after being separated for the longest time wi
After completing everything they wanted to do at the hospital, Ava and Jordyn left with an agreement that Jordyn would go to her house first for a rest, because she looked terribly exhausted from the journey and everything else. Ava drove her home in the car, and they were able to talk about the time they have missed in each other's life on their way back. She was also able to tell Jordyn about the perpetrator, the progression of involving the police and trying to get her arrested, which would make the case easier than expected. It took her quite a lot of convincing to do so that Jordyn could go home first for a rest, before coming to see her grandchildren that she had been missing so much. She stopped to buy some groceries on the way so that she would prepare lunch for Jordyn, and also bought some pain relievers from the pharmacy since Jordyn insisted that it was what she wanted. They both had lunch together after Ava was done fixing everything in the house, and she made Jordyn lay
"Now that you have checked that I am doing good, shall we proceed?" She said and directed him out of the room, shutting the door to the kids' room as silently as she could before calling after him, "Would you like dinner?" She asked casually, as she swallowed her saliva repeatedly. "Are you really asking me if I would like to eat?" Ethan asked her with great surprise etched upon his face, because it felt like something so surreal that she would care about his stomach or his well-being. Though he prepared something nice and ate with the kids already, he told her that he had not. Ava checked the pots in the kitchen to see if there was still food, and the cooker was shimmering with warm food because Beatrice had just prepared it less than an hour ago. She served some out for Ethan and arranged the desserts from her fridge, in the perfect way that she usually did for him in the past, and also served some for herself too before taking her seat across from him. Ethan was so grateful when