Hope and revenge episode 19

HOPES AND REVENGE
EPISODE 19

***** WILLIAM’S POV

I stare at her. Could this be just a coincidence? Or not? I question myself.
I shake my head, willing the thoughts away.
No, I can’t be drawing conclusions like this.
I can’t add more to the list I alre-ady have of the reasons I hate her
I look at her and realise herl-ips are trembling, her eyes shut and hands clenched in ti-ght fists by her sides.
“Ma’am, you okay?”
I ask sitting up in the be-d.
She doesn’t respond.
She was visibly fighting another attack.
That’s a t©uçhy subject for her and I shouldn’t have asked at all.
It must be horrible to have nightmares and attacks over a night you can’t even remember.
“Alexa? You okay?”
I scoot closer to where she sat on the edge of the be-d ignoring the pain in my side.
She still doesn’t reply.
Her eyes are still shut ti-ghtly.
Again, without thinking, I reach out and hvg her sideways due to the position we were in.

Read – Alpha institution episode 17 – 20

I whisper calming words continuously into her ear trying to calm her down.
After a few seconds, she turns fully in my arms, hvgging me properly, ti-ghtly, applying pressure to my wound in the process.
I swallow a painful gr0@nand hvg her back,ru-bbing the back.
She breathes heavily into my che-st,I don’t say a word, holdimg on to me for dear life.
She’s so fragile I want to protect her not vice versa.
Several minutes later, and her face is still nuzzled in my n£¢k, her breathing slowing down now.
Only this time, her breathing is steady..
“Alexa?”
I call out softly.
Silence..
“Alexa?”
I call out again.
I sigh.
She must have fallen asleep.
Shifting on the be-d, I ease her slowly on the be-d and true enough, she was asleep.
With only a tiny sp©t on the be-d left, I squee-ze myself and l@ydown farther away but then her grip on the go-wn I wore ti-ght£ñs.
“plea-se don’t let go. Hold me”
she mumbles sleepily.
I sigh,wra-pping mybarms around her.
I can’t believe I’m actually going against all my rules for this woman.
Alexa scoots closer, resting her head on my che-st digging contentedly.
As much as I hate to admit, it felt good to cudd-le with her.
Involuntarily, me eyes never left her slee-ping form until sleep comes knocking on my door too and I drift.

**** ALICE POV

9:00AM

She sat in the dark room, her back leaning against the lazy chair while rocking back and forth with both her legs stretched out in front of her on a small table on which stood a bottle of beer and a plate of fries.
Weird combination, but it was all she could afford.
Cheap beer and local fries from a local restaurant.
Leaning forward, she pours herself more beer, chvgs it all down her throat in one go and then gr-abs three f!ngersof fries, di-ps it in the ketchup and pushes all into her mouth, chewing.
She sighs.
gr-abbing a few more fries, she gets up and heads into the small inner room of the tiny ap@rtment she was currently hiding in.
Glancing around a few times, her eyes finally lands on what she was searching for.
. Grinning, she picks up the brown envelope and rips it open.
She pu-lls out the do¢vments and re-ads throu-gh, her smile growing an inch wi-der with each word she re-ad.
Perfect.
She looks at the bottom and realises only Mr Dante’s signatures were on the do¢vments.
The other p@rts were blank, meaning Alexa hadn’t yet signed her p@rt.
Great! Just great! Now all she had to do was find herself a good lawyer, sign the blank p@rts and Boom! She’ll automatically have the power of attorney and only her signature will be required to cash out money any moment.
It felt so good to be rich again.
Alice sm-irks.

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He sat on the king sized be-d, still in his pyjamas,re-ading a newspaper.
The door to his be-droom suddenly bur-sts open and someone barges into the room.
He doesn’t bother to look up and find out who it was because if there was anyone else besides him, who knew he was alive and living in one of his secret mansions, it was Mr Dante.
His lawyer and friend.
Sighing, he closes the newspaper, folds it neatly,puts it down and lifts his head to stare into the blazing eyes of Mr Dante
“What now? Is there any problem?”
He asks.
“Of course. There’s not a problem!
The lawyer sneers sarcastically.
He frowns.
“Watch your language when you speak to me to me Dante! I’m your employer and you’re my employee”

“That’s where you’re wrong Henry! I’m your lawyer. And I can st©p working anytime I damn well plea-se without having to bother about you firing me. Besides all that, I was and still is your friend and I’ll tell you when you’re being stupid because right now, you’re not only being stupid but selfish too!”
Mr Dante yells.
Henry springs off his be-d glaring equally at him.
“Pray tell me, what happened for you to forget your manners and speak to me in such a disrespectful manner Dante? Pray tell me!”
“Your daughter was almost crushed to death yesterday. That’s what fv¢king happened Henry!”
He shouts, throwing his hands up in the air exasperatedly.
Henry’s eyes go wi-de as shock overcomes him.
Nevertheless, Mr Dante continues

“And here you are, resting peacefully in be-d, eating and drinking all the goodies there is on earth without a need to worry”
“You know I did it for her safety!”
Henry, finding his voice shouts back, defending himself albeit weakly.
“Oh bullsh*t Henry! Bull-fv¢king-sh*t! We both know the real reason you faked your death. It wasn’t to protect your daughter. You did it to protect yourself. Hell! I can’t even believe those twins are actually are your kids and you brou-ght them home as your step kids? Wow Henry! Just when I thought you couldn’t stoop any lower and you go pu-ll this trick!”
Mr Dante shakes his head in disgust.
Henry was quiet, refusing to defend himself.
Mr Dante continues

“Do you know how broken your daughter was when she found out the kids she thought were her step brothers were actually her blood brothers? And you know the most painful thing? It’s the fact that after hiding this secret for seventeen good years, she had to find out after your supposed ‘death’ during the battle for the inheritance. Yes Henry, your own children were fighting, re-ady to kill Alexa because of inheritance. If you knew those twins were so ambitious why didn’t you share the money fairly? Why let them take it out on Alexa?! Huh?”
“I had a good reason. Alexa is much more farsighted and wiser. She’ll be capable of running my companies well”
Henry answers
“For how long? For how long will she run your companies for you thinking you’re dead? Until she’s what? Thirty? Fifty? Sixty? And you’ll finally show up and be like ‘hey, I’m alive!’ Is that it?!”
Mr Dante growls, sarcasm dropping off his voice.
“Don’t say it that way Dante”
he sighs
“Then how the fv¢k do I say it? It’s been a whole year and you’re still in hiding. While all your enemies are out there chasing after Alexa. And now that, the Will has been re-ad, if word goes out that your nineteen year old daughter is now the sole owner of your entire properties and CEO of your companies, she’s going to be the main target. You just handed your daughter to the hungry lions on a silver platter Henry!”
Henry sighs again, looking conflicted
“No. They won’t hurt her. They can’t”
“Oh really? If they had almost succeeded In killing you in that hospital which resulted in you faking your death, do you think they’ll find it difficult to murder her too? She’s just Twenty
. She’s defenseless and she’s an easy target. With a f!nger she’ll be dead meat, you know how deadly your enemies are right?”
Silence.
Mr Dante laughs dryly.

“You don’t get it do you? You still don’t realise how many enemies you made? You still don’t realise that each and every one of them is after her? Well then let me refresh your memory oh dearest friend. Remember the man who gave you his life savings so you could start a business? Remember your very best friend, umm Scott? You both started the sh!pping company together with joint monies but what happened when you hit the jackpot? You ditched them and forgot to honor your promise. You took all the glory for yourself. And all those people who helped you become the Henry Wallace that you are today, you ditched them all and treated them like garbage when you bec@m£ powerful, forgetting every sacrifice each of them made to get you where you are today. All those people you used just to get to the t©p. You betrayed a lot of people Henry. You destroyed so many lives just to get to the t©p and now that, they’re angry and after you to get back their monies, you faked your death to escape thereby throwing your daughter into the lions den instead. You’re nothing but coward and a pathetic bastard who puts his safety first before his children. In fact as of this moment I quit! I quit being your lawyer because one day, you’ll end up ditching me too when I become of no use just like all those men and I refuse to be one of them. Just remember this Henry, if anything happens to your daughter, her blood will forever be on your head! You Coward!” He spits in fury and storms out, ban-ging the door behind him….

TBC

Viola 😯😯 so Henry Wallace is not dead hmm that explains the reason Alexa wasn’t allowed to see his corpse and remember that old man in his 50s disguised behind a tree at the funeral before scurrying off?