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  “There's this look they get, you can see it on their face, they tilt their head to the side and have this weird half-smile. It's starting to get creepy.”

  “I've had to deal with the same thing, so many people keep asking me if I'm alright.”

  “Oh yeah, I'm sure all your model girlfriends are really the sympathetic type.”

  “You'd be surprised! But actually I'm not seeing anyone at the moment.”

  “That's something new, what's wrong with you? Has Casanova finally gotten bored of the chase?”

  “I'm just taking a break, trying something new. I thought maybe I'd look for something a little more serious, see what happens. But I don't know, I'm not sure I'm in the mood for anything right now anyway.”

  “Tell me about it,” Mark said, “I'm actually getting a little tired. It seems like I only seem to meet the same kinds of people whenever I go out. You might not realize this but I was actually jealous of what you and Steven had. To find that one person who makes you crazy, and to share your life with them. I was always envious of the two of you. I was in a whole different world. It's hard to find genuine people when everyone knows I'm a billionaire.”

  “You have more to offer than your money,” Melissa said.

  “But most people don't care about that. It's easy to meet new people and have some fun but to actually find that one person who is more special than anyone else? Even with all my money that's an impossible task, so right now I'm taking a break. Maybe something different will happen. I was actually thinking about trying some new things, do you want to take a cooking class with me?”

  “I can already cook.”

  “So you'll be a star, come on, it'll be a laugh, and it'll get you out of the house.”

  “Fine, I guess it wouldn't hurt to learn some new recipes,” she said, and made arrangements to meet him there the following night. As her break was over she went back into the front of the restaurant. It was a large room and in the evening they always dimmed the lights and lit candles to try and provide a soft, sophisticated atmosphere. There were only a handful of people in the restaurant, all of whom she knew.

  “Don't you just love nights like this? I could be home right now painting my nails,” Jess said, rolling her eyes. Jess was the one person who hadn't been treating Melissa any differently since she had returned, and although Jess could be blunt and too forthright at times, Melissa appreciated her friendship. They talked a little bit while their shifts wound down, and when it was finally over Melissa began the journey home again. The restaurant was just a short walk away from her apartment, and there were many times when she and Steven had walked back there together. Even now when she was walking alone it seemed that someone was there beside her.

  Then she heard a noise. She turned around and gasped. The night was dark. Streetlights lit up the sidewalk in spotlights, but in between there was only a black darkness, which she peered into. She gulped and continued walking, suddenly very conscious of her echoing footsteps. In the background she heard the smooth roar of a car as it sped along the road. The office buildings and other bars seemed quiet, and everything was deserted. Her eyes glanced furtively around her area but she could see nothing, and tried to pass it off as a small animal. Sometimes foxes came around to rummage through the bins and find scraps of food. But even so Melissa increased her pace to get back to the safety of her home. Without Steven to protect her she felt vulnerable. It had been a long time since she had been alone, and even when she had been out with the girls without Steven it had been a help to be able to tell guys that her boyfriend was in the army, and she knew that Steven wasn't going to let anything happen to her. But now her guardian angel had died, and the world seemed a much scarier place.

  Her hair raised on the back of her neck and she had the feeling that someone was watching her, yet whenever she turned around she could see nothing but shadows. She tried to tell herself that it was simply her mind playing tricks on her. She'd been through a lot, and there was nothing to be afraid of, yet there was a feeling in her gut that someone was out there, watching her, stalking her, waiting for the moment when they would strike and she could do nothing except let destiny run its course. She swallowed hard and covertly reached into her bag, cycling through her contacts until she reached Mark's number, ready to dial him in case anyone should approach.

  It was only a few more minutes until she reached her apartment. Once she was inside she could lock the doors and draw the curtains and shut the outside world away, making it disappear, but even then she was still without the man she loved and how was she ever going to feel safe again when she knew that all it would take was one moment to take a life? Melissa fixed her gaze straight ahead and didn't dare look at anything else, yet she heard another noise and twisted her neck. Then a lorry whizzed by, the juggernaut filled her field of vision, but the wide beams of the headlights lit up a figure. It remained motionless for a fleeting moment and all she could see was a silhouette, then it disappeared. Melissa screamed and ran to her apartment, gasping for breath as she shut the door behind her. She quickly drew the curtains, the image of that person playing on her mind, and whenever she closed her eyes she saw him in the headlights, a black void staring at her.

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  Chapter 1

  “Mama, what is going on?’’ little 8 year old Fiona Blackstone, a cute chocolate dark skinned and brown eyed girl whispered, while looking at her mother who looked to be in total distress.

  She also could not understand why her mother and father had quickly woken her up in the middle of the night and quickly snatched her up in a rush to get out of the house.

  They had not even let her take Mr. Cuddles, her little brown teddy bear and also one of her best friends. And now he must be lonely thinking she had abandoned him in her room.

  But why then had they brought her to this scary unfamiliar neighborhood, in front of some brick made house? And what had her dad gone inside there to do. As the strange questions rushed into her little head, her mother quickly spoke.

  ‘’Honey I want you to take this and keep it on you.’’ Sonia Blackstone, a beautiful light skinned woman and her loving mother then said softly while placing a red ruby heart pendant on her.

  Just as the little girl curiously placed her little hand on the pretty necklace which now lay on her little chest, her mother gently closed her hand around hers.

  ‘’Promise me honey, that you will always keep this with you. Never lose it.” her mother then said with a serious look on her face which meant business.

  ‘’I pinky promise, mama.’’ The little girl confidently said, hoping that would make her mother start smiling instead of looking so sad.

  ‘’Sonia, I have spoken with Edna and she will be well taken care of. Plus we better be quick as they are now close.’’ She then heard the deep voice of her father say as he came close to them. While she had her mother`s brown eyes, she had gotten her dark chocolate skin from her father Charles Blackstone.

  Her mother then bursts into tears, enveloping her into her arms and quickly releasing her to stand up.

  Her father then knelt before her and stared intensely at her with his serious dark teary eyes.

  ‘’Pumpkin, I want you to always remember that no matter what, we love you okay? And always be brave.’’ before the little girl could ask what was happening, her mother then pulled her father away while looking frantic.

  ‘’Charles lets go, they are coming!” her parents both now looking distraught then quickly kissed the little girl on the forehead and jumped into the car.

  They then left, leaving the little black girl staring after them as the car moved away, causing her to s
cream for them to come back!

  ‘’Mama, Papa don’t leave me here!’’ she shouted with tears now flooding her face, even as the car was now at a far distance and they could not even hear her.

  But the last thing she then spotted before closing her eyes in exhaustion and being carried away by her new care taker Edna, were large gigantic beasts.

  Beasts with yellow eyes and white sharp fangs, hidden in the shadows and heading in the same direction as that of her parents...

  “NOOOO!”

  Fiona then found herself almost letting out a scream because of the dream but quickly opened her eyes after feeling something cold splash upon her.

  “Fiona, Fiona! Are you awake?’’ she then heard a female voice shout, causing to quickly sit up on her bed, only to find herself dripping cold wet.

  ‘’Tracy! What the hell?’’ Fiona then said to her best friend and roommate, Tracy Thompson who was holding a bucket of water and looking guilty. They had been best friends since high school and even through college.

  ‘’Don’t blame me; this was the only way I could get you to wake up. It seems like you were stuck in that dream of yours where you usually wake up screaming.’’ Tracy then said to her, looking worried as Fiona had told her about this same dream she sometimes kept on having.

  ‘’Are you okay?’’ Tracy then continued upon seeing the sorrow which now filled Fiona`s face at the mention of that dream.

  ‘’Don’t worry Tracy, I will be fine.” Fiona then replied standing up and going to clean up in the bathroom.

  Her hand then quickly closed around the red ruby heart pendant on her chest as she stared at it through the bathroom mirror.

  She then realized that inside she was not okay as that dream was also a past memory which always reminded her of how her parents had left her at some orphanage to never come back.

  Heck as a child, whenever she got adopted, she caused problems for whatever family dared take her away from the orphanage until they returned her back.

  She was always a headstrong persevering child, hoping that if she stood or kept her eyes on the exact spot where her parents had left her at, they would one day come and get her only to be disappointed each time they didn’t.

  She grew out of it when teenage years came but instead decided to try to find them or any family she had, maybe aunties or something. But her searches yielding no results only proved the harsh reality of how she was alone in the world with no family or relatives.

  As for the beasts with the yellow eyes, to Fiona they could not have been real. Her counselor had even advised her that the beasts were just a figment of her child imagination but it still niggled her mind as to what where her parents running from?

  Then there was Edna, who passed away a long time ago before she could ask the lady about what they had talked about with her dad. And as for the ruby pendant, she always had it on her and had never taken it off. It was the only thing she had from her parents.

  And now after working part time jobs and paying for college and earning a degree, as a 22 year old, she was now struggling to find jobs. Luckily she had Tracy who was now working as a doctor and had offered to help Fiona with a place to stay as she tries to get employed.

  Right now, she could not even count how many job interviews she had gone to and was always getting rejected. Apparently nowadays it was now all about connections, people hiring their friends and relatives instead of giving the job to some stranger black girl named Fiona Blackstone with no family.

  But today, Fiona Blackstone had just had it! She was getting that Job and nothing or no one was going to stop her.

  Fiona then thought to herself after bathing as she stood in front of the mirror, putting on her power suit and tying her long raven black hair into a neat bun.

  But she felt a little conscious looking at her curvy hourglass body thinking why could she not have gotten the skinny model looking body that her best friend Tracy had?

  As Fiona entered the kitchen after packing the papers and everything she needed for the interview, she then saw her best friend Tracy sitting on one of the kitchen chairs while eating breakfast.

  She had also dressed and now wore her white coat on top and was getting ready to go to work. Although she and Tracy got along like sisters they were as different in appearance as Tracy was a colored of mixed race between a white mother and a black father and therefore had lighter skin.

  Where Tracy sat, there was also a piece of paper on the table she was looking at and Fiona knew it was the Job Ad for the interview to which she was going to.

  She had luckily found the piece of paper with the Ad in the nearby forest during a hike. And at that time, she had been depressed from not being able to find a job.

  So it had been the best surprise ever to see a piece of paper lying by the ground near a tree with a Job advert from one of the best successful companies in the city. For her it meant fate was in her favor and this job was going to be hers.

  ‘’Are you sure you are not wasting your time?’’ Tracy then said to her and read the part about how the CEO Mr. Ashwood of the famous Ashwood Enterprise was looking for a personal assistant and the gender of the applicants had to be males only. Fiona rolled her eyes at this.

  ‘’Tracy, I don’t really care about that, I’m going to go there to try my luck. Plus someone has to prove to him that females can also do a much better job at being personal assistants.’’ Fiona replied looking determined as a CV job mention of ever working at Ashwood Enterprise was just the opening she needed to be able to start getting better job offers.

  ‘’Do you think that maybe he is gay since he wants a male personal assistant?’’ Tracy then said curiously asking Fiona and she just shrugged as she did not know either why the CEO of Ashwood enterprise only wanted a male personal assistant.

  The only things Fiona knew was that he was a rich billionaire, owner of the company, 30 years old and a demanding boss. But she wanted the Job there as his company also paid its employees high salaries while being highly famous.

  ‘’But gosh I hope he is not gay, as I hear that he is sexy a hell in person and I once saw a picture of him in the magazine.’’ Tracy then continued looking like she wanted to fane herself from thinking of a hot male.

  ‘’I think you need to just go get laid.” Fiona then bluntly said to her friend in amusement causing Tracy to fake glare at her.

  ‘’Oh yeah? Says the 22 year old woman whose one and only serious boyfriend that she ever dated from high school turned out to be secretly gay .’’ Tracy then replied her.

  ‘’Tracy you awful person, have you ever thought that maybe that ideal traumatized me off from men forever?’’ Fiona then replied pretending to wipe away fake tears which had them both bursting in laughter.

  As for Fiona, to her it really was not Luke`s fault, her gay childhood best friend that she did not date often. As when she had dated Luke in high school, she already knew he was gay. They only pretended just to protect his secret. He finally came out though after graduating college.

  Fiona did not usually date as she had just not found the right man, the one who made her heart rate accelerate or caused butterflies to heat up in her stomach.

  ‘’Good luck then.” Tracy then replied wishing Fiona luck for her interview and hugging her as she got ready to leave.

  Fiona then got into a cab and drove to Ashwood enterprise.

  Chapter 2

  The cab then stopped in front of a gigantic glass building, with a huge billboard sign written Ashwood enterprise. As Fiona got out of the cab she was happy that the weather was only full of sunshine as she needed the mood booster.

  She then confidently entered into the building with her black heels and black power suit. She was surprised to see a female receptionist on the ground floor as she had come in excepting to see only males everywhere. Maybe the CEO was only sexists when it came to people who worked near him, Fiona then thought to herself.

  ‘’Hello miss, what can I help you with?’�
� the brown haired receptionists then said with a large friendly smile and Fiona immediately liked her.

  ‘’I’m here for an interview with Mr. Ashwood.’’ Fiona then replied causing the brown haired woman to pause and look at her in shock at the fact that she was a woman going to an interview which was only hiring males.

  Fiona almost laughed at the thought of how she had gotten the interview appointment. She had pretended to be male on her CV email application. The interviewee’s were just going to get the shock of their lives to know that Tiran was a female. She had not lied entirely as that was her middle name Fiona Tiran Blackstone.

  “Okay then, follow me and I will lead you to where the interviews are taking place.” The blonde receptionists then replied leading Fiona to the elevator. There she pressed the elevator button which led to the top floor of the building.

  It was really no surprise for Fiona as Mr. Ashwood was the CEO and owner of this successful company after all and got the top floor.

  The elevator door then opened signaling that they had arrived at the place of destination.

  At first Fiona stood there in the elevator looking and mesmerized by the expensive décor which covered the reception area to Mr. Ashwood`s office. She had never seen such an elegant place as this and felt as if everything in that room was worth more than her years rent.

  She then snapped out of it and quickly got out before the elevator door closed shut. She then met the other secretary for Mr. Ashwood a handsome brunette male who then led her to the waiting room and as she had expected it was only full of male applicants.