Read The Trap Of Ace [by Eva Zahan] Chapter 44 – A soft chuckle left him. “Of course, Rosebud. Nothing will happen to me. I’m just stating facts.”
“Then it’s a really absurd fact! And you’ll emotionally blackmail me to get me into your court now? Because that’s not happening!”
“I’m not blackmailing you. And what’s done is done. It’s not negotiable anymore.”
My lips pressed tight. “What if I run away with all your money?”
Another laugh. “You can take anything you want, baby. Everything is yours. Just make sure you also take me along. Because I can’t live without you.”
I could feel my cheeks and neck heating up again at his cheeky response. Now he was flirting with me?
Unbelievable man!
I wiggled out of his arms. “Whatever you say, I’ll make you take everything back from me. Or I will give it back to you!”
He quirked a brow. “It’s non reversal, Rosebud.”
“We’ll see!” Huffing, I turned around and walked away.
“Where are you going?”
His footsteps behind me reached my ears.
“At the meeting. With the responsibility you gave me, do I have any other choice?” I replied, without stopping at my track.
“Right. But what about my forgiveness? You didn’t still forgive me.”
“I said I’d consider. And you didn’t agree to my second punishment.”
He groaned. “Well, they were more like conditions. But yes, agreeing to them was a punishment to me.”
“As if you agreed to both of them!” I taunted. “So there won’t be any forgiveness!”
“Now that’s not fair, Rosebud. I agreed to one even though it was too much for me to do. And the second one wasn’t negotiable.” He continued to walk after me down the hallway outside of his cabin.
“It’s absolutely fair. The deal was for two conditions, and you only agreed to one.”
“I can still keep my men after you, you know?”
by his threat. He was bound by his
He stayed quiet.
Accepted defeat so
lips as I walked
go so easily. I’d give it back to him today or tomorrow. At least I
masculine groan was heard
What was that?
my shoulder,
set on
and flushed cheeks, I turned back my head and walked as fast as
That a****e!
I felt his eyes on me. On
Pervert!
***
strolled out from the conference room leaving Ace
at this time?” It
Achilles invested in my start up
I couldn’t let one thing slip right now, the one that was nagging in my head since the meeting
board members. Why don’t we hang at my cabin until he is free?” I needed to dig out
He nodded. “Sure!”
of my cabin, out of anyone’s earshot, I
do you know
from settling his a*s on the chair to look at me. Then finally seated,
and is a good man?
rolled my eyes. How
didn’t ask you his identity. I asked if you know more about
interest is shifting from him to his uncle? I know even
mouth twisted in disgust. “Shut the h**l up! I need some information about him to clear up some doubt of mine.
straightened. “Doubt?
Once I sort everything out, I’ll let you know. So please, help me
he’d spent a big chunk of years of his life in UK. His relationship with Achilles’s father wasn’t good. And due to some conflict, Achilles’s father sent him away to UK when he was quite young. And then only only returned
good and he was in the UK before he came back. But I didn’t know it was Ace’s
to Ace and his
do back then in the UK? A job
can say, he’s a millionaire there now with
degree after I left for NY, right? Did he stay at
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