I stormed out of the cafe, ready to speed back to the hospital, away from all of these despicable humans and back to Grace.About a dozen feet away from the car, I heard heavy footsteps rapidly pounding after me. They caught up to me and their hands dropped on my shoulder."Sydney, wait. Calm down."I rolled my eyes, of course it was him. No other person there had the arrogance to not let me walk out of their presence or hardheaded enough to still follow and tell me to calm the fuck down!I shook off his hand on my shoulder and continued to match forward. He caught up to me and grabbed my shoulder again. "Come on!" He gritted his teeth, "Alright then, let me take you home. You're too emotional to drive now."Emotional! I scoffed and roughly shrugged off his hands again. I looked at the car in determination. Just a few more steps and I'd be in that car and driving off away from this bastard."Sydney, you shouldn't drive when you're this angry? It's dangerous."I still ignored him. Why

With a sigh of resignation, I boarded another taxi and headed for the Torres mansion. I knew it was where Grandma Doris would be. The mansion was more her own than Rose's.But since Grandma Doris was barely around, her vivacious nature would not allow her stay stuck in a place; she didn't allow her age or responsibilities to clip her wings, the mansion was solely left in Rose's care since Mark didn't stay at the mansion, leaving Rose the opportunity to wad around the place bullying and commanding others - her best traits.As I entered the compound of the Torres mansion, right in the garage of the mansion was the car I left at Milli bar yesterday. It was probably driven over by Mark. Good, then I can just go with it when I'm leaving here.My mind was still occupied with the prospect of seeing Grandma and what she might have to say when I was pulled out of my thoughts by Grandma's shrill voice."Sydney!" Her voice might be weak but her body definitely wasn't. I watched, a mixture of hap

As expected and as it should be, I wasn't the only one who was surprised. An expression of shock fleetingly coursed through Mark's face, betraying the calm demeanor he had since been portraying.Rose's shock was loud; she couldn't contain it so she flared up. "What the actual hell!" She erupted, jerking up from her sitting position. "Are you seriously giving her shares?"Doris sized her up before calmly replying, "Yes, Rose, I am seriously giving her shares.""Why?! Doris? Why?" Then she turned to me, her face was already red with anger, "You bitch!" She glared and even as each of those curse words tumbled out of her mouth, her voice trembled, "How dare you take my son's share! What did you say to grandma to make her give you the shares that belong to my son?"I just stared at her indifferently, my eyes lingered, perusing the contours of her hard angry gaze. This woman never gets tired, does she? Even a demented fool will be able to tell that no one could ever influence any decision t

Reflexively, my lips curled into a smile as I saw him, through the glass walls of the bureau, alight from his car and sauntered toward the entrance of the Civil Affairs Bureau.I arrived here about five minutes ago and I had half expected that I would have to wait for quite a long time before he would get here. But here he was waltzing into the bureau just like we agreed.He spotted me quite fast. Then he turned and walked toward me."Well, hello."He nodded and stuffed his hands into his pockets, "Hey.""I didn't expect you to be this early," I said as I got on my feet, hanging my bag on my shoulder.His shoulders didn't move more than an inch as he shrugged slightly, "I told you I was gonna be here at the time you stated. I gave you my word, I wasn't about to go back on them."I raised my eyebrows, unable to stop myself from grinning. To be honest, I was impressed. Was this Doris influence?"Okay, let's go." I told him and led the way to the office of the judge.My smile widened eac

After ensuring that Richie had been taken away, I called a mini meeting with all of the employees and gave a stern warning to all of them. If they knew they weren't ready to work then they had better turn in their resignation letters. Since I wasn't stuck in a marriage anymore, the era where there was no strict and consistent supervision was now history. Then I instructed the HR team to start to carry out the recruitment process from within the company for the most suitable person to occupy Richie's position.After the meeting, I rushed to the hospital. It was finally the day Grace would get discharged. Finally, she would get out of that uncomfortable hospital bed.On my way out, I met with the head of security and instructed him to still keep the place tightly secure. Who knows how many of Bran's type Richie had?I drove to the hospital, getting some groceries and veggies on the way so that I would make some home cooked meals for Grace. She has had enough of those hospital meals. She