💐THE
💐 PLAYBOY’S
NEW MISSTRESS 💐
💔Her vengeful soul 💔
✍️✍️CHAPTER FORTY NINE.4️⃣9️⃣
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GENRE: Romance, Fantasy, &Drama
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Settlings: California, United States. 21st century
💐Catch me if you can💐
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Note: THIS CHAPTER IS UNEDITED SO KINDLY IGNORE TYPOS
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Charles did nothing at his office all day but chatter away with Mr. Feng who was trying to explain how things work at the gallery to him. He got fed up and decide to change the topic.
“Why does my father hates me this much?” he blurted, startling Mr. Feng.
“What? Sir? That’s so out of the blues,”
“I mean… I won’t be in this messed up situation if he doesn’t hates me. Gosh, like awning me to the failing gallery is not enough, there is limited staffs and… nothing better explains this,”
“I can’t bluntly say that your father hates you. You shouldn’t made assumptions,”
“So how best can yoy explain this? He only see me as a burden all my life when I’m his son, but Dylan, he didn’t even have to try too hard,”
“Sir, you can’t compare yourself to Mr. Dylan. While you’re away shaken by your ability to see the invisible, cuddling your pillow all day yearning for your mother, getting homeschooled and wasn’t diagnosed with any sort illness, Mr. Dylan was working hard to earn the chairman’s favor,”
“So, now it’s my fault!” he snapped.
“No, no. I never said so,@
“Come to think of it, even those days he never paid attention to me. I would have been locked away in a psychiatric hospital if not for you,”
“I believe everyone would’ve done the same expect me. I’m the only sane person who could be line all those stuffs,”
“Yeah, you’re right and that’s because you paid attention to me,”
“Sir, what are you really getting at?”
“It was always mum, it has always been her. Even when she was alive and when she left and has always been her. Why? Dad never paid attention to me but that wasn’t the case with Dylan,”
“Sir, I think I have explained that already. To put it simply, you were given to the chairman, but Mr. Dylan was chosen,” Mr. Feng said, and Charles looked at him.
“What does that mean?”
“Hun? What did I say?”
“Just say it. What you mean by that,”
“I mean… your mother gave birth to you so the chairman must accept you even if he doesn’t want to, and as for Mr. Dylan, he has a choice. He can either accept him or reject him but he chose to accept him,”
“Yeah, dad accepted Dylan wholeheartedly to form an alliance with NK chemicals that are way beneath us. That doesn’t make sense. Dad doesn’t even need NK chemicals to begin with,”
“Why are you suddenly curious about this, sir?”
“NK chemicals, I want you to find out the connection between my dad and them,”
“It’s simply because he married your stepmother,”
“I know. That’s why I want you to find their connection before marriage. If dad is willing to go through this length to make sure I won’t be involved in the company, it only means that he will make Dylan his heir. There should be a reason for him to Dylan,” he had, and Mr. Feng gasped.
“What are you assuming, sir?”
“Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I just got curious. There is nothing to do here anyways. The company will fall either I do anything or not, so let’s get busy with other things. These office talks are boring,”
“Geez… I can’t believe I almost thought that you’re trying to picture something. What am I even expecting from you?”
“What? What are you expecting from me? Did you just bluntly say there is nothing you can expect from me?! You just insulted me,”
“So be it,”
“So be it?!”
“I’ll get to the assignment, sir,”
“Gosh, Mr. Feng is really getting on my nerve these days. But what exactly did he wanted me to picture?” he grumbled.
“What you don’t want to admit,” he heard Violet said from behind.
“Vee, how long have you been there?”
“Long enough to understand your distress,”
“Where were you? Mr. Feng has almost bleed my ears from boring talks. Gosh,”
“Why are you trying this hard to convince yourself against your own assumptions?”
“What assumptions?” he blurted.
“That there might be a relation between your father and his in-laws even before he married your mother,”
“ I have lived all my life mocking Dylan with his status as a legal shlt, it will be a blow to my ego if drastically he becomes my half brother,”
“There seems to be more to every stories. The adults are really unbelievable,”
“Adults? Did you figure out something new,”
“Nothing important. As long as it can’t help me get rid of Ella, it’s not important,” she muttered, and he nodded in agreement.
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FEW WEEKS LATER…
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Ella was preoccupied at work; after everything that has happened so far, she made up her mind to only look at the positive side. Her parents might consider her revenge unnecessary, but she worked so hard to achieve everything she has, and decide to enjoy it. Instead, she took a suggestion from thier new investor to expand the company, with intention that she would return the Holts shares to Ivy after she make something big for herself with hopes that her parents would accept her after that.
She joined the new investor in a meeting to discuss the project when they released a bombshell.
“What? What did you just say?” she muttered.
“The residences were against the evaluation, which cost us a loss…” the man was saying, but she couldn’t hear everything he was saying, her mind traveled far thinking of the amount she lost to the investment.
“So, what now?! How will you take responsibility for this?” she snapped.
“Pardon?”
“You will have to take responsibility for this!”
“Miss Blake, it was a fair contract, and you signed it,”
“It is a fair contract and I signed it, is that all you’ve to say to compensate the loss?!”
“Ma’am, the prosecutors are here,” her secretary shouted, barging in.
“What Prosecutor?” Ella shouted, and the prosecutors stormed into her office.
“A tax evasion was issued for this company, we summoned you to the prosecutor’s office but you ignored our calls, so we’ve to come this way,” the prosecutor said.
“What tax evasion?!” she shouted.
“You’ve to come with us, ma’am,” with that, the prosecutors lead her away.
“Come my lawyer now!” she shouted as she was escorted out
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Ella was able to sort out the tax evasion charges when her lawyer arrived and she went straight to the detention centre to lash out at Mr. Josh.
“How could you?!” she shouted, and he chuckled.
“You’re not the right person to use those words, considering everything you’ve done so far,”
“Why did you ignore the tax evasion? Why didn’t you comply to begin with?”
“Because I know this would happen. That was my shield, to watch you suffer if you abandon me,”
“What?”
“You betrayed your best friend and tossed Maxwell away, so who am I?”
“Mr. Josh…”
“This is not the end yet, Ella. You will receive a notification from the bank as well, it’s past the overdue date for the loan repayment with interest. You don’t want to imagine the amount,”
“What loan?!” she yelled, and he chuckled.
“This is the beginning, Ella. Even if you roam freely with all your crimes, you will still suffer just as much as you could ever suffer in prison,”he said , and stood up to leave.
“You son of a bltch!” she cursed with clenched fist and he laughed out loud as he left.
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Maxwell was brought out for her later, and he clenched his fist upon seeing her.
“Hi, Maxwell,”
“Are you here to jeer me?”
“Do you think I’m here to visit? I came twice but you never came out. I was surprised that you agreed to see me today,”
“Because u thought that I should give you,” he said, and she looked at the note that mysteriously appeared with him.
📝*You must be baffled by everything happening to you, but there is no better explanation to it. I became a vengeful ghost and I won’t cross until you and Ella, and Mr. Josh pay for your crimes. There is judgment on earth, Max,*
“What’s this nonsense?” Ella snapped.
“The truth. It’s Violet, she is the one attacking us. She was the one who mysteriously got me out of jail mysteriously. She is working with that Charles guy and that lady from the other time. They won’t stop, Ella. They already got me, you’re next,”
“Are you even listening to yourself?”
“Believe it or not but that’s the only way to explain everything that happened to me. How do you think I mysteriously left jail and returned with all those evidence?”
“So, are you trying to tell me that you were possessed or something?”
“Yes, yes, that could be it. I might be possessed. Because…”
“Let’s assume it’s true, why are you telling me this?”
“So you would await your own judgment. You can’t go freely, Ella. Violet is coming for you as well,”
“I’m not a c0ward like you to believe this,” with that, she threw the paper at him and spun around to leave.
“I’m sure you’re on your toe as well. You should be as restless as I am,” having said that, he left.
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Ella returned to the office and her secretary rush to her to explain the bank issue to her. Although she expected it after everything Mr. Josh said, but she wasn’t expecting it to be that fast.
“Get out! Get out of here!” she shouted, and threw the documents at her secretary who ran out immediately, before she broke down in tears.
“Why? Why is this happening to me?” she cried, and remembered Maxwell’s words again.
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Few days later…
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Charles was able to restore all the Holts’ shares through his anonymous investor Sandra Kim after Ella lost everything, and he presented it to Violet.
“How…” Violet slurred in bewilderment.
“I didn’t tell you about it because I didn’t know how long it will take. Who knew that it wouldn’t take as long as I thought,”
“Charles…”
“I already summoned Ivy over, she will be the one to sign it. We already restore back everything you loss, now we just have to lock Ella behind bars,”
“But that is the most important part of it all,” they heard Ivy said joining them.
“Ivy,” they called.
“Ella might have lost everything but she is still out there roaming freely! The m0nster that kllled my sister is still pot there and you call this a win? Who cares about the company? Who cares about the shares? All I want if for that criminal to rot in prison forever!”
“We’re a step to it. Let’s appreciate this win. Mr. Marson already reviewed the documents, the moment you sign, everything will return back to i rightful place,”
“No. Nothing will return to its place as long as Ella is still roaming freely,”
“So what do you plan to do about that?”
“I’ll get Ella myself,”
“What?” Charles and Violet shouted, and she stormed out.
“What do we do Charles? What if she does something…” Violet stuttered.
“I’ll go after her,” Jayden said, and left.
“Relax, Vee, she can’t do anything,” Charles assured.
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They waited all night for Jayden to return with news on Ivy until he returned in the middle of the night. He appeared in Charles’s room.
“There is a problem,” Jayden said.
“What?” they both shouted, and a message beeped info Charles phone.
💬* Looking for Ivy? I heard you work with ghosts, find me if you can,* the message reads, and Charles looked at Violet in defeat.
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TO BE CONTINUED…
