THE ARAGON'S VILLA

Just an hour drive away from Evelyn's work place, situated there is the Aragon's Villa. A beautiful and well decorated house, from the environs even a blind man could tell how expensive it is. A water fountain is placed in the middle of the villa. The gates well guarded inside out, there were men all clothed in black moving up and down with riffle guns, pacing and guarding each entrance that even a fallen pin won't go unnoticed by them. And this is where the Aragons resides.

Edmund Aragon the founder of Aragon's holdings is an old man with grey hair and beards, he is sighted sitting with his family in their living room. His wife and only son were with him along with his trusted guards and acquaintances. He began telling them what next they needed to do in order to gain more wealth.

"The company I started has been regnant under my power and influence for years, and as you all know my son has been following my footsteps. With his help we recently conquered the Zhou's empire that has been competitive. So he is very much ready to take charge as the CEO in Aragon's holdings. We are a very strong and ruthless group, we do not take no for an answer. Just like we wiped out the Mills, Cyphers, the Zhous and so many others, we are an undefeatable group and that will continue for centuries. Since our competitors are becoming less competitive, then the world will soon be ours. We are the Aragons after all. I count on all of you here in this meeting to help my son in dominating the world. No one can bring us down."

"You have our undying loyalty." Everyone present in the meeting chorused

"I expect nothing less, more wins cheers"

"Che...ee..rr..ss" they chorused

An hour later the meeting was adjourned.

Wendy Aragon kisses her son and said,

"Oh my cute baby boy, congratulations on your succession and promotion son. You did good conquering the Zhou's years ago, they were a pain to our company. Even at a young age, you conquered that great empire and now it is ours. Sleep well honey, tomorrow you get to sit on your new seat in a very spacious office"

"Come on mom, don't tease me too much you and dad just relax and I will make you two proud."

"Oh honey, I know you will. I better go meet your dad, I have been gone for too long, you know how he can be. Goodnight son... *kisses*"

Wendy kisses her son goodnight and left

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Eric Aragon is a fine young man, a quite dashing one if I say so myself. He is the only son and heir. He has two sisters an elder one named Camilla now married and a younger one named Riley. We'll talk about them later.

His blue eyes are captivating and not just that, he is very tall and would make a perfect husband as the ladies in his company would say but they keep their voices low so as not to be heard, cause it could cost them their jobs.

Eric has a domineering and cold personality that when he walks into a place, everyone around gets cold feet. He has that power to make everyone around him shudder. He is a very rude and spoilt child, what do you expect from an over pampered only son and heir from an affluent family?

It's his first day as CEO in his new company in Ohio branch in USA.

He woke up, got dressed and went down from his room for breakfast.

Miss Betty whom was Eric's nanny came to the dining holding a tray with his breakfast, and placed it on the table.

"Morning Betty" Eric greeted the older woman

"Morning hon, your parents told me to tell you they left for Japan and this means you are in charge. Miss Wendy didn't want to disturb your sleep that's why they left without waking you up, you know how they are, always traveling."

Eric sighs and says

"Yeah am used to it, they always leave me to deal with new companies."

"Come on Eric, they are your parents they want the best for you son. Now eat up, its your first day in the company as the CEO am sure you will do just fine, like you've always done" Betty said

"You are the best Betty you know that" Eric replied

"Now eat up boy, your guards and driver are ready"

Eric ate his breakfast and went outside, a limousine was waiting for him, he sighs feeling frustrated and walked back inside and called out to Miss Betty

"Betty, why is a limousine outside? Why not an SUV or Lamborghini? You know very much how I hate limos"

"Eric those were your father's orders, you know how dictating he can be. He may be on his way to Japan cuddling his wife, but that doesn't mean his eyes aren't here. He knows and sees everything. You don't want to get on his bad side on your first day as CEO do you? Come on now be an obedient child for once and stop nagging, love you"

"Ugh!!" Eric grunts and left for the company.

As soon as he stepped his feet through the door way, a female employee mistakenly spilled half of her coffee if not all of it on Eric.

What happened next was unfathomable, before the guards could get to the spot, Eric landed a hot slap on the poor lady that she fell to the ground.

"How dare you, you filthy thing get out of my sight. You are fired. Why are there incompetent fools in this company? Good heavens"

He walked into the elevator to his new office and everyone who saw him quickly bowed and ran away from his presence, so that they will not get on his bad side.

He went into his office, took off his suit that was stained earlier and relaxed on a chair then took a deep breath.

'Why is everything set to piss me off today?' He thought.

While he was yet thinking, there was a knock on the door.

"Who on earth is that?" Eric barked

A lady with a long blonde hair walked in with some files Eric almost snapped.

"And what on earth are you doing?"

"Your files sir" The lady replied while sweating profusely

"Drop it and get out of my sight you ugly thing" Eric yelled

"She dropped the files and ran out. Before he could say another word, she was out of sight.

Eric sighed and went on with his daily activities as a CEO of a new company.

"Eve you better take a breather, this is becoming too much for you to bear" Britney said while holding on to Evelyn at the restaurant due to her feeling a little bit, wussy.

"Britney, its just a little headache, nothing more. I can still manage just fine." Evelyn replied

She then went to the counter picked up a tray of coffee to serve one of her regular customers and as she was about to hand out the coffee, she fainted.

She opened her eyes slowly and couldn't recognize where she was. She slowly asked with a low voice,

"Where am I?"

A doctor replied

"You are in a hospital, a man brought you here"

"What happened?"

"You passed out, but its nothing to worry about. You are in safe hands"

"Thank you doc"

"I am Kennedy just call me Ken, and you are?" He asked smiling

"Evelyn... Evelyn Morse" Eve replied smiling back.

While they were getting acquainted, Lee came in worried.

"Eve, thank goodness you are okay. Oh what would I do if something bad happened to you?" He said hugging her affectionately.

The Doctor ken was about to leave when Lee stopped him with a question.

"Doc, is she going to be okay, is there anything wrong?"

"She is fine, she just needs rest, and lots of it."

"Thanks Doc." Lee said

He then left them to themselves.

"Eve what happened to you? If not for Britney I wouldn't have known you were in a hospital"

"I am so sorry Lee, for making you worried. Wait are those tears? Oh my! I didn't mean to... Come here." They both hugged each other

After some minutes Lee decided to go get dinner for both of them since he will be spending the night in the hospital with her.

LEE'S POV

When I was on my way to get groceries, my phone vibrated and I saw that Britney was calling, so I picked up reluctantly. But what I heard got me running, I entered my car as quickly as possible and drove to the hospital. On getting there and seeing her with drips all around her, brought back painful memories. I just couldn't bear to see her in such state. She is the closest person I have left in this world, after the Aragons desecrated my home. I can't and won't lose her, can't lose the one person I have left in this world, not this time.

EVELYN'S POV

Seeing Lee like that really hurts my feelings, never thought he'd get scared. He has always been like a pillar, my strong pillar. But seeing him that way made me sad, I have always known he has great affection for me. But with him being this frantic, shows he loves me and doesn't want to lose me. I am really sorry I made him tear up. I would try my hardest so that it doesn't happen again.

While she was in her thoughts, the door to her ward opened. It was Kennedy, he came back in to check on her.

"Hey, someone is feeling better now, I can see that. But take my advice as a doctor to a patient. Don't work too hard, this happened only because of stress. It is because your body has been overly stressed out for a long time, that is why you ended up here. Please Evelyn, take very good care of yourself okay?"

"I will, thanks Ken."

"Sure, get some rest. By tomorrow you can go home and remember do not exert yourself"

With that said he turned to leave, then Lee showed up with dinner and was quite surprised to see the doctor again in her ward.

"Doc, is everything okay? Did something happen?" Lee asked with all seriousness

"Not really, she is fine. Goodnight" he smiled and left.

"Hey Eve, what did he say to you?"

"Nothing just that I needed to rest" Eve replied him

"I just don't like that Doc, he looks at you differently" Lee grumbled

"Quit being jealous and serve me food, I am starving" Eve queried while rolling her eyes.

So they ate and teased each other for a while, he then left to his car to bring a change of cloth for Evelyn, so that they can leave the hospital as soon as possible. Being in such a space makes him feel uncomfortable.

~~~~~~

After a week of rest, Evelyn decided to resume her awful job hoping she gets to meet her prey soon. She woke up, took her bath and made noodles for breakfast, and then she was ready to get to her place of work.

Evelyn arrived at the restaurant early so as to escape Mrs Anders wrath,

"Speaking of the devil" Evelyn muttered to herself

"Hey you, you look quite agile for a weak girl. You have a lot to do don't just stand there, get to work." Mrs Anders yelled immediately she set her eyes on Evelyn.

"Good to see you too, Mrs Anders" Eve replied

As her shift was almost over, she received a text from Lee saying he will be picking her up when she was done for the day, that they needed to go somewhere really important tonight.

She kept looking at the clock so that she gets off work.

'Lee sounded desperate' She thought.

At long last its 9:30PM, she took her bag and went outside the building, as expected Lee was waiting for her and they drove off to an old building (hideout) where all their evidence are kept. Evidence and every detail there is to know about their enemies and where each of them could be found were plastered on the four corners of the wall.

Lee told Eve about the news he received, that the Aragon's are not very far from them, and that his source told him they recently traveled to Japan, leaving their son in the States to stay in charge of the company here in Ohio. So they began taking measures and steps, drawing up plans on how to get back on them that evening.

Lee swore to get Eric killed and make him pay for his crimes, while Evelyn vowed to take all their assets away from them and set them(The Aragon's buildings) ablaze like they did her family's years ago.

Since it was already late, they decided to spend the night there.

Lee flashed back to seven years ago, when some men invaded his home, and killed his dad. Then one of the men from the attackers caught up with him as he ran, gagged him and took him away. This man was assigned with the job of killing him but after seeing Lee, he decided to have a change of heart and saved his life instead. He told him to run and never to show up in front of these people. On that dreadful night, the only face he could recall seeing since everyone else was masked up was Eric's, the leader of the troop.

While holding on to Evelyn tightly who was sleeping peacefully, in his arms he whispers.

"I'll never let anyone hurt you, no one can take you away from me, you are the only one I have left" Evelyn subconsciously snuggled more into Lee's arms after a while Lee drifted to sleep as well.

'Evelyn is a hardworking girl. She always makes the customers happy even though I have been somewhat rude to her, I do value her part in this restaurant. She works day and night relentlessly unlike the others.'

Mrs Anders thought while in her office staring down at Evelyn through her window as she works diligently.

'I better increase her pay before she finds work elsewhere.'

She picked up the phone (landline) and called for Evelyn into her office.

"Good afternoon ma'am" Evelyn greeted as she walked into her office.

"Have a seat" Mrs Anders beckoned

So she sat down feeling nervous because the last time she was in this office was when she newly applied for the job and over the years, she never had to enter in there. But here she was in the very place she never thought she'll be.

Confusion was written all over her face.

"Take a breather dear" Mrs Anders said after noticing how confused and nervous she was.

"Okay ma'am" Evelyn replied taking a deep breath.

"The reason I called you here Evelyn, is because you have been doing a great job as a full timer here in this establishment. So as an act of benevolence on my part, you will be rewarded. Your pay will be increased and you will be promoted as my assistant. But that doesn't mean you won't be working like you used to, the only difference is you will no longer be serving coffee, your useless friend will handle that. Your new job is, you will be a receptionist all through the day instead, that is all you can leave now."

Evelyn's POV

While I was busy giving out coffee to the customers and taking orders, the landline rang and I was taken aback for a moment because that particular one doesn't ring for any reason. So I picked up, what I heard was shocking. Mrs Anders wanted me in her office. I immediately dropped the phone and headed for her office, feeling nervous.

I walked into her office, hoping and praying that she doesn't fire me because this is the only place I have planned to take my revenge and if I lose my job it will take a whole lot of time if not years before I can be this close to Aragon's holdings.

But it turns out my plans were far from failing, its even the very thing I have always wanted since I applied for a job here, which is being a receptionist full time. That way, I can see all the rich bastards that works for the Aragons. Who knows one of these days I might even get to meet the heir of Aragon's holdings himself.

Rumor has it that he comes to one of the suites in the VIP session during the day, while I work as a receptionist at night.

"Wow Mrs Anders, thank you so much I appreciate your generous gesture. I promise to make sure I work even more than I used to" I replied

"Okay enough, off you go" she said

I got out of her office feeling great, can't wait to break the news to Lee later.

While changing into official wears to continue her job as a receptionist, Britney came into the dressing room and said

"I heard our dear Mrs Anders called you into her office, that's strange. What was that all about?"

"Oh love, I have been promoted and I won't be serving coffees anymore. Will be a receptionist full time" Evelyn said happily

"Oh my! Congratulations I will miss you down here. Who will I gossip about her with now?" Britney whined like some ten year old, and they both laughed and left the changing room for their various duties for the day.

Evelyn's joy knows no bound, she was grinning nonstop.

She was somewhat convinced that the heavens are in support of her mission.

~~~~

"How on earth could they hire incompetent people in this company just to stress me out. And who in their right mind hired an ugly and worthless fool as my secretary? I simply told her to get me coffee and what did she do? She added cream, doesn't she know am allergic to it? Get her fired and put Elvis as my secretary right this instant, if I get even a glimpse of that girl, I swear I will kill her. I need to get our of here I feel stuffed, I need some fresh air and when I get back, those incompetent fools had better be out of here or else you will be next"

His manager got to that instantly so as not to lose his job as well.

With that said, Eric stormed out of his office and left the building his guards went after him.

After entering the car, he told the driver to take him to the place he goes usually to cool off.

The driver known to be Cole took him to Mrs Anders restaurant. He came down from his car, guards ran to open the door for him in other to avoid what happened few days back from repeating itself. He went inside and he was led by the driver to the exclusive(VIP) session. As he approached the VIP session, he saw an angel in human form smiling to welcome him, he just stopped on his tracks and kept looking at her.

ERIC'S POV

I couldn't believe my eyes as I walked into the VIP session, what I saw was not of this fold, she was like from another planet different from everyone I have ever seen. Her beauty radiating I haven't seen such beauty. What I heard next made my heart beat hard and fast in my chest, hers was the most angelic voice I have ever heard. Also her smile could raise a dead man back to life. Her angelic voice brought me back to reality and then I recalled, I was here to chill. So I maintained my cold expression and assumed she wasn't there and was led by the guards to my suite. A well decorated and conducive place where I could steam off. So I sat and asked for a cup of coffee, I needed to calm down a little bit before I go nuts.

EVELYN'S POV

While receiving visitors into the suites, heard some cleaners murmuring amongst themselves and I overheard one telling her fellow colleague

"The heir of the Aragon's wealth is in town"

"Are you serious?"

"Yes I am"

"Oh I wish I could just touch is pants or even his shoe lace"

"You bet girl, he is so handsome"

Hearing this I kept my fingers crossed, hoping he comes in here some day soon.

Hours later, I saw guards trooping into the VIP session lo and behold, it's none other than Eric Aragon the one I have been waiting for. Am quite good at hiding and controlling my emotions and feelings, cause I felt the urge to kill him right there. But being rash isn't the best thing to do at the moment, so I bowed and then smiled the best way I know how. I then looked up only to see him staring at me, I knew right then and there, that he was deeply affected by my appearance.

Thank heavens, I won't need to put in much efforts in seducing him, he just stood there staring at me until I greeted again.

"Welcome sir"

I then handed the key of the executive suite to one of his men and they all left.

As much as I am hellbent on taking my revenge, I need him alive, and since I could see that I have an effect on him, that's one point for me. So I better calm down my nerves, keep it all in and just blend in.

It was at this moment she was truly convinced that the heavens had her back in this mission of hers .

'But come to think of it, he is quite cute. No way what on earth has gotten over me?

I better not allow my eyes get the better of me.'

So she went on with her job for the rest of the day.