Tales Of Love

Next morning, Aurora received a message that Larry Tom wanted to see her privately.

She got into her car and drove to the military barracks. When she got there, she sat in the waiting room and Larry Tom came to meet her.

Only a few days have passed with Larry Tom in the cell. But he looked pale and his eye sockets seemed deep.

Aurora simply stared at him with irritation. Larry Tom took a seat opposite Aurora. He saw how unfriendly she stared at him.

He turned his face away. He had no option but to use the information he had on his fingertips to buy himself freedom.

Aurora has become a powerful woman. She’s not that poor girl from the orphanage anymore. She’s now the CEO of the largest group in St Petersburg. A group three times larger than the Diego group back at Florence City.

His wife had scolded him and called him several unpleasant names. She even threatened him with a divorce. Rather than lose his family, he would strike a deal with Aurora.Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“Have you Suddenly lost your ability to talk?” Aurora blurted out. How can he sit before her and look away without saying a word? Who does he think he is?

Larry Tom snapped back from his wandering thoughts. He looked at Aurora and then bowed his head.

“Sorry Miss Aurora, I know you already guessed that I worked for Miss Eve to frame you. I have evidence that can help in apprehending her and her mother. And if you want to bring down the entire Diego group I have chips in my hand that will readily help” Larry Tom declared.

He sat relaxed with his back to the chair and his legs stretched. ” I can offer them to you in exchange for something else” he concluded and looked at Aurora.

Aurora squinted. She stared at him with a penetrating look. “What do you want in exchange?”

“Freedom!” Larry Tom blurted out the word. He doesn’t want anything else besides his freedom.

Aurora gave a sneer ” what qualifications do you have to bargain with me Larry Tom? I own your life now, or have you forgotten, that I paid the price for murdering you? You have no rights to strike a deal with me”.

Aurora was right. She went to jail because she murdered him Supposedly. If she decides to harm him or even kill him, she could do it and get away with it.

After all this is not Florence City where her family name is not known but there in St Petersburg where the name Rowan commands respect. But she was going to take the bull by its horn.

“Fine. Then finish me up. Kill me for real and make my wife a widow and my kids fatherless. I detest my present condition.

But I can assure you that you will never be able to find flaws with Eve Diego. You will see the one who made your life miserable and you can’t take your revenge on her simply because you have no evidence” Larry Tom said annoyingly. She doesn’t know the bulk of information he has and yet she doesn’t want to compromise.

“You know your wife was going to be a widow and your kids fatherless? Why didn’t you think about my mother, that she would lose her daughter and my brother would lose his sister when you framed me?” Aurora asked and hit her fist on the table between them.

“I am sorry Miss Aurora for everything I did to you. But think about what I said ” Larry Tom lowered his voice. He felt a rush of guilt run through his mind at Aurora’s words. He wondered why his conscience was so blank when he was committing the atrocity.

Aurora hesitated. She needs the evidence he had on his hands but she cannot give him that freedom he seeks. She wants to see him Suffer worse fate than she did when she was in prison.

“I will not free you, but I’ll give you only one option…”

Aurora concluded with Larry Tom and told him he would be released soon.

The pictures of Aurora were on the news. The internet was filled with various congratulatory messages to the youngest female CEO.

Various CEO and presidents of the company under Starlight holdings all broadcasted their best wishes to the new CEO and hoped they will experience more partnership with the Starlight holdings in the nearest future.

Aurora saw the news and the various messages. She told her assistant Wale Jones to reply to the ones that needed a reply.

Aurora instructed her assistant to drive her to the company. When Aurora got to the company, she was Surprised to see a red carpet immediately brought and spread on the floor from where the car alighted to the elevator.

She stepped out with a poker face and saw a crowd gathered with a giant painting of herself with the words ‘welcome CEO Rowan. We love you’ written below the painting.

Her eyes only rested on the painting briefly before Turning herself to the direction of the elevator.

Aurora was led to her office. It was Such a magnificent office. When she sat on the CEO’s swivel Chair, she remembered Santiago again.

If it was Santiago who sat on this chair, he would be domineering. She was going to adapt Santiago’s method of leadership.

The office was large with a lounge attached. It’s well furnished with a picture of herself on the table.

While Aurora was busy doing what she should do as it was her first day in office, a certain individual was holding her picture in his own office.

Kushner Nick kissed the picture and swore to have Aurora. If she would agree to be his girlfriend, he would discard his numerous girlfriends and stay faithful to her. But if she played ‘difficult to get’, he would use his usual method.

He had a wiry smile on his lips.