💐THE
💐 PLAYBOY’S
NEW MISSTRESS 💐
💔Her vengeful soul 💔
✍️✍️CHAPTER FORTY TWO. 4️⃣2️⃣
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GENRE: Romance, Fantasy, &Drama
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Settlings: California, United States. 21st century
💐A choice to make💐
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Ella tossed and turned on her bed when a nightmare made her jot up from bed immediately. She has been having nightmares about Maxwell, and her hallucinations didn’t stop either.
She left the bed and took her insomnia pills. She have never taken pills for insomnia before she can’t help it these days, after Maxwell appeared to her mysterious scaring life out of her, she couldn’t sleep well, she kept seeing him in her head and in her dreams that she had to start taking pills.
She went to the bathroom to freshen up thinking of the possibility of everything. Mr. Josh couldn’t find a concrete explanation to the video clip she sent him; just when he thought she was insane, she was glad to prove him wrong but she couldn’t understand the possibilities herself.
She left home later and went to the company, heading straight to the CEO’s office, she entered the office that was occupied by Mr. Josh and a sly smile formed in her lips.
“Very soon, Ella, you’ll get it all soon enough,” she thought, and remembered how she lost everything.
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FLASHBACK to tears ago***
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Ella’s backpack fell off her hand as she watched the news of her family’s bankruptcy. She was aware that her parents were struggling financially, but she never expected it to come to that.
“What’s going on here?” she grumbled and tears flowed freely down her face.
The main door opened and her parents emerged in.
“Dad… mum… what’s going on?”
“Ella…” her mother broke down in tears, and embraced her.
“Mum, what’s going on? Tell me the news is a lie,” she cried.
“This is all Davis (Violet’s father) fault,” her father grumbled, and emerged the stairs.
“Mum, what’s he talking about? How is uncle Davis involved? Uncle Davis is a good person, he can never abandon us,”
“You know nothing Ella, never say this to your father’s face. We’ve hit rock bottom, Ella, we’ve fall down completely and it’s all those Holt’s doing,” her mother said, but Ella couldn’t stop shaking her head.
“No, mum, that’s not true, that can be true,”
“That’s the truth Ella! Our family fell because of those Holt, you must never have anything to do with them again!” her mother yelled, and tears flowed freely down her face in disbelief.
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FLASHBACK ENDS***
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Ella sniffed in gently trying to hide back her tears but she failed.
“It was all thier fault, it was all the Holts fault that the Blake family fell, and now, I am going to take everything, I’ll make sure to take everything and restore back the Blakes glory,” she muttered in determination when she heard footsteps approaching.
She wiped off her tears as Mr. Josh emerged the office.
“Miss Blake?”
“Oh, Mr. Josh, good morning,”
“Why’re you here this early? You should’ve called me,”
“Yeah, I should, but it was urgent,”
“Urgent? Did you see Mr. Martin again?”
“What do we do about it, Mr. Josh? Maxwell won’t stop appearing and we can’t even figure out the reason!” she shouted.
“Miss Blake, I believe you need a change of environment,”
“Yes, not just a change of environment, but an entire change of everything,” with that, she left.
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Charles and Violet paid their attention to Jayden to Jayden to hear about the photographer.
“Why’re you both focused at me?” Jayden lashed.
“Hey! Just get to it. You’d be slow if you feign ignorance now!” Charles fired back.
“Are you not going to say anything about the photographer?” Violet asked.
“He’s a close friend of mine, and that’s it, there is nothing to say,” Jayden said.
“Where can we find him?” Charles asked.
“I don’t know,” he muttered.
“He said he was your close friend!” Charles snapped.
“Yes, but he shut down his studio a year ago, and I haven’t seen him since then,”
“Why’d he shut down his studio?” Violet asked.
“I don’t know,”
“You said you were friends!” Charles blurted.
“But I couldn’t communicate with him, because… you’re the only one, you and Carolyn are the only ones who can see me,” Jayden grumbled, and they instantly understood.
“I’m sorry…” Violet slurred.
“I’ll look around, I’ll try to find him. Jordan is a good person, if he has anything, he would’ve submit it to the police,”
“But he went AWOL during that period,” Charles point out.
“It could be a mere coincidence,” Jayden said.
“Can you help just confirm the possibility? He could’ve held back for a reason, or his life might be in danger because of it. Ella can’t be underestimated,” Violet said, and the men nodded in agreement.
“I’ll try to look for him,” he muttered, and Violet smiled.
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Charles and Violet engage in a random conversation after Jayden left before Violet divert the conversation to him, contemplating on his fight might plotting for him.
Violet possessed Carolyn’s body and summoned Mr. Feng over.
“What’s the worst he can get?” Carolyn/Violet asked, and Mr. Feng let out a sigh.
“I was waiting to be certain before sharing this with you, sir. I heard from an insider, that the chairman is planning to send you to the gallery,” Mr. Feng said.
“What’s the gallery?” Charles asked, and they both looked at him.
“Charles, are you sure you want to work?” Violet teased.
“What? Is it a working slogan? Let’s divert to lame man language,” he said, and they both chuckled.
“Sir, I was referring to the art gallery,” Mr. Feng said.
“Oh… so the group has an art gallery. What’s wrong with the gallery?”
“Goodness Charles, will you be quiet if you don’t even know what he is talking about!” Violet snapped.
“Hey! Why are you getting angry?” Charles snapped back, and Mr. Feng cleared his throat out loud.
“Mr. Feng, what’s the gallery about?” Violet asked.
“The group are planing ro abandon the gallery, it’s the least profitable in the group that,”
“So they plan on sending Charles and shut it down with him as the director,” Violet said, already understanding the story.
“What? We must stop that. I won’t accept it!” Charles shouted.
“Then what will you accept?” Violet asked, and they both looked at her.
“What… I never thought of that,” he grumbled.
“Then we have to accept whatever they present,” Violet said.
“What? You want me to accept that and fall together with the failing company?”
“Miss… I don’t know, but this is not a good idea. If the gallery fails when Mr. Charles is the director, it will give a very low rating. The other shareholders will never trust him, and it will be difficult for him to reclaim back his shares,”
“Why is dad going through this length to berate me?” Charles grumbled.
“Even if it’s not the gallery, do you think Charles can manage anything?”
“What do you mean by that?!” Charles snapped.
“Even if he can’t manage anything properly, we shouldn’t accept this trap,” Mr. Feng said.
“No, we should,”
“What? Have you lost your mind?” Charles shouted.
“May I ask your reason?” Mr. Feng asked.
“Because it’s easier to raise a failing company than improve a rising one. No one will pay attention to the failing business, they will all believe that it’s going to fail either way,” Violet said
“So, you that I’m better off in a failing business that will fail either way?!”
“No, I believe that’s the best. What will happen if you successfully save the galley from failing?” Violet asked.
“Then he will have the shareholders support… and, but this is really a risky move if you will ask me,” Mr. Feng said.
“Life is all about taking risk. Everyone take a risk at some point, some fail and some succeed,”
“Gosh, this is really a bad suggestion, I’ll pass,”
“You’ll still fail either way, Charles. If your father wants you to fail, you will either you run the HQ or the gallery, you will fail,” Violet said, and they men looked at her Im shock.
“So what’s the point in all these? If I’m going to fail anyways, why bother?!”
“That’s why taking a risk is the best. They all believe the gallery will fail, they won’t pay attention to it, so we just have to prove them wrong,” Violet said, and Mr. Feng inhaled deeply.
“I agree with you… but..” Mr. Feng shuddered.
“There is no buts, you can’t have a better suggestion,” Violet said.
“Are you sure we can save it?” Charles asked, and Violet let out a sigh.
“That’s why I called it risk,”
“Why’re you making me sound so simple?!” Charles snapped.
“Because we already took a bigger risk. Working with ghosts, and… Maxwell is in the basement, is there a bigger risk?”
“Oh… you might be right after all but this is just too much, I can’t lose, I can’t fail,” Charles whined.
“Who am I?”
“You, you’re, you’re Violet Holt, my mistress,” he said, and she smiled while Mr. Feng shook his head.
“Sir, we have to think about this? This is really risky. The galley is one of the old company owned by the group, it’s not even the Harrison’s property. The chairman is trying to pin the downfall of his failed company on you,” Mr. Feng said, and they both looked at him.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s for dad or not, all his shares are mine anyways,” Charles said.
“If there could be a way to save a failed company, then I believe we can do a good job in running a successful one. Let’s think about this carefully,” Mr. Feng said.
“Vee…” Charles called.
“There are two choices, Charles, now the ball is in your court. I’ll always support you either way,” she assured, and he inhaled deeply, confused on what to do.
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Charles tossed and turned on his bed, he couldn’t get the thoughts of everything Mr. Feng and Violet said out of his mind contemplating on the best choice.
Violet had a point and Mr. Feng was equally right, the thoughts of everything disturbed him until Jayden appeared in the room driving him out of his thoughts.
“Jayden,” he called, and sat up immediately.
“You’re right, I think Jordan might know something,” Jayden muttered.
“Really? Did you find him? Did you asked him?”
“I couldn’t ask him, and I found him, but he is not in town, he is hiding,” Jayden said.
“Why is he hiding?” Charles said, and Jayden shook his head.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
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