Chapter 14 You Die Today

The next day, Caroline woke up, went to the bathroom, got

ready for work, and went to the kitchen. “Good morning Mrs. Spence,” Caroline greeted

with a smile. “Good morning Miss King. Breakfast is served in the dining room.”

Mrs. Spence spoke. Caroline walked to the dining room and sat on her seat, to

her surprise Liam was not there. “Where is he?” She wondered

            Caroline

was enjoying her breakfast when Liam entered the room. He sat in his seat

without saying a word. To break the silence, Caroline decided to ask him about Miller

Inc. “Why did you buy Sofia’s family’s company?” Liam ignored her question and

continued to read the news on his iPad. “Answer me, Liam!” Liam looked at her

and said, “it’s called doing business.” Caroline gave him a glare. Caroline got

pissed at him for ruining her plans and for just being an *** about it. She

stood up from the chair grabbed her purse and left for work.

            Caroline was

sitting on her chair as Joseph informed her about Christopher’s case. “Mr. Davis

has paid his fines and he is under probation. His investigation was quick

because of all the information we anonymously provided.” Caroline nodded,

“thank you.”  Joseph nodded and left her

office.  Caroline exhaled. “This is all

Liam’s fault. If he hadn’t bought Miller Inc. Christopher would be in a huge

mess right now.”

            Caroline

continued with her work until it was time to meet Mr. Li Fonti. Caroline left

her office with Joseph. They arrived at Mr. Li Fonti’s company. In the meeting

room, they were talking about the publishing company. Mr. Li Fonti agreed to

sell his publishing company to Caroline at a fair price.

            After the

meeting, Caroline and Joseph went to the publishing company. Caroline liked the

way the company was run, she only wanted to make some small changes. One of

them being the name of the company. She would change it to C&K Publishing. Caroline

went to have lunch at Roxy’s restaurant. After lunch, she went back to her

office.

            In her

office, Caroline was looking through some files when she started getting

notifications on her phone. She kept getting messages from the Newser app. Caroline

opened the application and she her followers kept going up every second. “What

is going on?” She wondered, “I haven’t posted anything. Why am I getting

all these followers?” She checked the followers.

            At the top

of the list were her best friends, Sebastian, and Persephone. After them, she

did not recognize anyone else in her followers. She kept scrolling until she

found an account that caught her attention. The account was verified. She

clicked on the account and found it that Harry Williams started following her.

            By him

following her, she started to get more followers. She then got a call from Persephone.

“Hey Care, I’m free later. Wanna go to the mall?” Caroline answered, “yes! We have

not gone to the mall in a long while. I’ll pick you up at six.” Persephone

laughed with Caroline’s excitement. “Okay, see you then.” Caroline ended her

call with Persephone and resumed her work.

            At half

past five, Caroline finished her work. She grabbed her purse and went to her

car. She did not call her chauffeur today because she wanted to drive. She

picked Persephone up at her work and they went to a famous mall. Caroline and Persephone

walked hand in hand while looking around the mall. They entered a store that

caught their attention. They were looking around the store when the manager of

the store walked up to them. “Caroline King.”

            Caroline

and Persephone turned to look at the woman. “How dare you just walk in here after

what you did to my brother in law?” Persephone stepped closer to Caroline and

whispered, “do you know her? Who is she?” Caroline spoke in a clear voice,

“Sara Miller, Sofia’s older sister.” Caroline stopped glaring the woman in

front of her.

             Caroline decided to ignore her and started

looking at clothes again. Persephone did the same thing. This made Sara

furious. She walked over to Caroline and grabbed her arm. “If you don’t leave

this store right now, I will call security to drag you out,” Sara threatened.

Caroline shook her hand off and turned to face her. “And who are you to talk to

me like that?” The two women staring intensely at each other caught the

attention of some customers and employees.

            Sofia was

passing by the store when she saw that more people were gathering around. She

became curious to see what was going on in her store. She went inside and saw Sara

trying to kick Caroline out. She went up to them and asked, “how dare you come

into my store?” Caroline was baffled. “Your store?” Caroline asked. “Yes, this

is my store and you need to get out. Now!”

            Sofia

bought the store when she with the money her dad gave her on her twentieth birthday.

Sofia never told Caroline she had a store. She did not want Caroline to buy a store

at the same mall and become her rival. Sofia was confident that her store will

not succeed if that happened. Sofia always knew Caroline’s desire to grow, her

ambition. She felt intimidated by how Caroline soared her own empire from

nothing.

            Caroline

looked at Persephone and said, “let’s go somewhere else. I don’t think this

store has any good clothes anyways.” Sofia glared at Caroline as she made her

way towards the entrance. Caroline sneered as she passed by Sofia. Sofia got

infuriated with Caroline’s nasty stare. She walked behind Caroline as she

opened the lid from the iced coffee she held in her hand. “This is for the

humiliation you made me feel at the jewelry exhibition…” Caroline knew what she

was trying to do.

            Caroline turned

around, grabbed her wrist, and took the drink from hand. Without letting go of

Sofia, Caroline poured the drink on her head. Caroline poured the entire cold

drink with ice cubes on Sofia’s head. Sofia raised her hand and slapped Caroline.

Caroline placed her hand on her cheek where Sofia left the red mark from the hard

slap and threatened, “you die today.” Persephone walked over to Sofia and

slapped her. “Don’t you dare touch my best friend ever again.” Sofia was infuriated.

She tried to slap her back when Caroline grabbed her wrist. “Don’t you dare lay

a finger on her.” Sofia exclaimed, “let go of me bitch!” This got more

attention from customers.

            Sara walked

over to them and took Sofia from Caroline’s grip. After that, they broke into a

fight. The onlookers were filming the whole thing. The fight kept catching

people’s attention. More and more people were walking over to see the fight. To

break the fight, one of the employees from the store decided to call security.

            When

security arrived, they separated the four women who were fighting. “You will

pay for what you have done, Caroline,” Sofia threatened. “Wait officer, she

threatened me. Why don’t you take her instead? This is so unfair.” Caroline glanced

at Sofia disdainfully and then looked at the office with a pitiful expression. One

officer took Caroline away and another one took Sofia.

            “We are

going to send you to the police station.” Another officer also grabbed

Persephone and Sara. The onlookers started posting the photos and videos they

took on Newser. Caroline’s fight was already trending.

            Marcus

opened the Newser app from his phone and found the video of the fight trending

on Newser. He saw that the woman in the video resembled like his boss’ wife. After

looking at other videos and photos Marcus was certain that it was indeed

Caroline. He knocked on the door of the CEO’s office and then went inside. He

went over to Liam’s desk and showed the news to Liam.

            In the

police station, Caroline was sitting in a cell with Persephone and on a

separate cell were Sara and Sofia. Caroline first thought of calling Liam to

bail them out. She then thought of his hot temper and decided that it would be

a bad idea to call him. She then though of calling Sebastian to bail them out.

Yes, her best friend would always be there to her rescue. Then a police officer

opened the cell and said, “you can go now.” Caroline was delighted but confused

at the same time. “Who bailed me out?” Was it Liam? No, it can’t be.

Unless…”

            When Caroline

walked out, she saw the familiar Rolls Royce parked outside. She instantly

grabbed Persephone’s arm. “Sephie, can I stay at your apartment tonight?” Caroline

begged Persephone slightly tugging on the sleeve of her shirt, almost making

her shirt reveal more than what it is supposed to. Caroline did not want to go

with Liam tonight. Sometimes he acted out of impulse because of his hot temper

and she bet he would be pissed at her for making a scene at the mall because of

Sara and Sofa. Persephone wondered the reason for Caroline to get all worked up

like that. “She is often fearless. Quite rare for her to be getting worked

up like that.”

             A man got off the luxurious car. “Miss King, the

boss wants you to get in the car.” Caroline shook her head. “No, I’ll accompany

my friend.” Marcus cleared his throat and said, “Miss King, I have a arranged a

car for your friend.” Caroline decided to walk to the car.

            Once he saw

her near, Liam rolled down the window. Caroline leaned down to the window. “You

can go now.  I will stay with my friend

tonight.” Liam coldly replied, “get in the car.” Caroline looked back at

Persephone.

            Persephone was

able to get a peek inside the car. “Caroline.” The man’s cold voice made Persephone

shiver. She concluded that the man inside the car was Caroline’s husband. She

was not able to get a good look, since it was dark inside the car. Caroline opened

the door and reluctantly got on the car and closed the door. The cold air from

the air conditioning made her shiver. She sat close to the door. Seeing

Caroline get on the car like that, Persephone felt bad for Caroline. “She

had to marry that man because of her father.”

             “Miss, wait here for a moment. The car will

arrive soon.” Marcus’ voice interrupted Persephone’s thoughts. “Okay, thank you,”

Persephone politely responded. She would ask Caroline about her husband next

time they met. Marcus got on the car and drove away.

            In the car,

Caroline did not want to say anything, but she had to break the awkward silence

somehow, “how did you know where I was?” Liam continued to look forward. “You

are all over the internet.”

            “Shit!

This is bad. This could ruin my image,” Caroline thought after Liam told

her how he found her. Caroline looked at Liam and spoke faintly, “thank

you for bailing me and Persephone out.” Liam’s cold expression faded into a

small smile. Caroline turned to look out the window again. Marcus looked over

the rear-view mirror. He exhaled of relief. He is scared of his boss. Seeing

his faint smile relieved him.

            When they

arrived, Liam got out of the car first. Caroline had been lost looking out the

window. She did not even realize they had arrived. “You also need me to carry

you out?” Liam’s words made Caroline open the door in an instant.

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