A COLD HEARTED CEO IS OBSESSED WITH ME - CHAPTER 61&62
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(Monsters)
They parted the kiss and hugged again. Ares sighed and finally paid attention to the other people.
He saw Carson and recognized him from the sketch.
“This is the same man who shot at us at the award event” Ares said and pointed at him.
He wanted to challenge Carson but Brittany held him back. She explained to him that she already knew about it. She told him who Carson was and how he saved her life.
“I’ll let you off the hook this time because she demanded it but the next time you try anything against my family. You’ll spend the rest of your life rotting in jail” Ares thr_@tened.
Carson nodded from where he stood and entered his car. Elaine entered as well and the car drove off.
“Let’s go” Ares smiled at Brittany and pecked her forehead.
****
Danica’s house>>
Carson arrived at her place while Elaine stayed back in the car.
“Hey Dan” Carson smiled a bit and tried kissing her but she dodged.
“Are you okay?” Carson asked and brought his hands close to her face but she stepped away from him. “Love, what’s wrong?”
“I’m going to ask you these questions and I want sincere answers” Danica said and folded her hands under her B??@Å¡?s.
“Okay”
“Are you an assassin? Were you the same person who shot at Brittany and her husband? It was the same night you returned in a bad state, right?” Danica asked, tears were stinging her eyes and her shoulders trembling.
Carson bit his tongue hard but knew he couldn’t lie.
“Yes, I am an assassin and I tried ki||ing Brittany not just once but twice. I didn’t know she was your friend” Carson tried explaining himself but the next thing was a hard smack that made his face go sideways.
“You lied to me, I asked you what you did for a living and you told me that you do some business but nothing illegal, you lied to me about what happened that night…you had so many chances to tell” Danica yelled with tears dropping from her eyes.
“Dan…I’m sorry” Carson apologized. ” I couldn’t risk telling you and putting your life in danger.
” My life was in danger, the second you stepped into my life. When you came after me, made me fall in love with you. My life was in danger but do you know the most painful part… It was Felix who told me” Danica said, spilling the beans.
“Felix??? Have you been talking to him?”
“Oh shut up!, I’m not a liar or traitor like you. He sent me a message and I didn’t believe it at first but then I decided to stop being blinded by love and think. It made sense to me” Danica grinned awkwardly but one could see the pain in her eyes.
“Danica, stay away from him.”
“You’re no better than him, you’re a murderer, a criminal who is supposed to be spending his life time in that goddamn prison where innocent people pay for your crimes!” She cried.
“I don’t expect less judgment from you but Danica, I love you” Carson said in a pleading manner, he tried touching her arm but she moved away.
“If you loved me, you would have told me from the beginning.” Danica said and shook her head.
“I can’t leave you alone especially with that imbecile lurking around you”
“I can protect myself, I’ve filed a restraining order against him and the security of the estate has been changed and tightened. You had to call me before entering didn’t you?”
After speaking, she looked him dead in the eyes and said again.
“Carson. If you really love me like you claim. I want you to walk out this door like the first time you ever came but this time. Don’t ever come back” Danica said while pointing at the door.
Carson gasped, he couldn’t believe that she just broke with him. She didn’t even give him a chance to explain himself.
Carson forced a smile on his lips and sighed; “Have a good life, Danica.”
He left there without saying anything else even Danica was shocked and more hurt.
Carson walked towards Elaine who was standing by the car.
“What happened?” Elaine asked.
Carson began breathing heavily, the tears he had been fighting back, broke loose and poured like rain.
“Car.” Elaine’s heart hurts, seeing him cry.
“She broke up with me, she didn’t even give me a chance,” Carson cried.
Elaine took a few steps closer to him and hugged him really tight.
“It’s okay, she doesn’t deserve you.”
****
Heather’s mansion>>
“Where are you coming from?” Heather asked Tricia.
She had been discharged from the hospital.
She blocked Tricia’s path.
“I asked you a question” Heather frowned at her.
“What gives you the right to ask me that? I spent days in the hospital and you never called for once. Even people who I didn’t know from school called me. You didn’t care, so you aren’t entitled to question me, at the end of the day. I’m an adult, ” Tricia said while glaring at her.
Heather was stunned by her words.
“How dare you!” She raised her hand to slap Tricia but the latter caught her hand.
Heather gasped in shock.
“Try hitting me again and I won’t hesitate in disfiguring your face. You’ve crossed your limits enough.” Tricia frowned and threw down her hand.
“This is the house, our parents left for us and I’ll come and go whenever I feel like it” Tricia uttered and went to her room.
Heather looked at her hand in shock.
(3 months later)
***
Paris> Disneyland.
Brittany and Ares left California, a day after that night.
They had been in Paris since then. Presently, they were sitting on a ferris wheel.
“This will be so scary and fun” Brittany chuckled and held Ares’ hand.
“Yeah, it’s more scary when you have a stomach ache” Ares pouted his lips and touched his aching belly.
“I thought you said that it stopped aching” Brittany asked and reached for his stomach.
“Yeah, it stopped for a while, now it’s aching again.” Ares complained and closed his eyes in a little bit of pain.
“Sorry,”
“Thanks, little Bee.” Ares sighed.
“We will visit the hospital after this, okay?” Brittany said, caringly.
Ares nodded and raised her hand up to kiss it.
Brittany blushed, her ears and fingers turned red.
The ferris wheel started moving but they weren’t the only ones from California on it. Strangely, Kayden was on the same ferris wheel, watching them.
****
Stefan drove to his burnt house to check the reconstruction and surprisingly he met Heather there.
Ares had made Heather’s life hell, she had lost everything. Though Ares would have loved to take the car to the cops but he and Brittany had to leave the country.
Heather was wearing a cheap dress, Ares had used his connections to make her lose almost everything except her parents’ house.
She thought Stefan would pay her any attention but he walked past her.
“Stef.” Heather called and rushed to his front.
“Stefan, please listen to me” Heather pleaded with tears forming in her eyes. She was now some poor wrench.
She had lost connections with David, everything had gone bad for her.
“What do you want?” Stefan frowned at her.
“Stefan, forgive me” Heather sobbed.
“Heather, you already look pathetic. Please leave this place” Stefan ordered.
“No”
Heather circled her hands around his neck and kissed his lips forcefully. He tried pushing her away but she clung into him like a koala.
Stefan yanked her hands from his neck and pushed her away.
He noticed a pair of eyes on him and he turned to see Tricia staring at them from a cab window with tears in her eyes.
TBC…