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"Because it feels like I am being more than a nuisance to you."
Agnes pouted. "You are my family and not a nuisance. Believe me I'm so glad we had this discussion. You lightened up the atmosphere. I like your sense of humor, you are just so funny. I want you to always bear this in mind, you can never be a nuisance to me. The only reason why I am not sticking you to this chair is because my desk is pretty full and I have to round them all up. I have to get ready because I am certain that Ethan will be here any moment from now. We are going for shopping.
Eric stood up at once, "I would love to thank you for sparing your time for me and to also apologise, for the prank, earlier today.
"You have already explained to me what your motive was, so you do not have to apologise, I do not take offense at what you did at all."
Eric smiled and turned to leave.
"Hey," Whitney called out his name.
Eric quickly turned around, with too much expectations. "I want to ask you something."
" Go on." Eric said.
Are you married?"
" I would have been if I had met you on time. But I am not married. Do you have a sister?" he asked jokingly.
Agnes laughed." You are kidding right?"
Eric smiled." Of course I am. I will like to take my leave, it was nice chatting with you," he bowed.
Agnes smiled." I enjoyed the conversation, come around some other time, okay? You made my day."
" Okay have a nice day, goodbye," Eric said happily and left at once.
Whitney still had a smile on her face. "Ethan you are so lucky to have such a cousin like Eric. I wish I had one." she laughed. If only she had an idea that what she wished for was trouble.
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"Hello Mr. Ethan," a male voice said unruly. "Have you got news for me?" Ethan asked.
"Yeah," the voice said.
"A man just left her office," the voice added.
"Send me his photo," he said, using his other free hand to turn the steering.
"Alright sir. I will do that immediately," the voice said and ended the call. Not long after the call, Ethan received a message. He clicked on the message and saw the photo. Then he let out a laugh, "Eric you have got to be kidding me. First was my best friend and now my fiancee. Who will you go to next? My dad?" He said to himself, in between his laughter.
Ethan called the number of the person that sent the picture, again. "You still do confidential jobs right?"
"Of course sir, have I ever failed you?" the voice answered.
"Good. I have a job for you," Ethan said, still steering the wheel.
"I want you to spy on every movement that man makes. I do not care how many people you hire for the job, all I want you to do is watch him both day and night, understand? I want to know about his activities every single hour. Can you do it George?" Ethan asked in a strong tone.
"Certainly Mr. Ethan," the voice said steadily.
"What is his name, if I may ask?" He further inquired.
"His name is Eric Moore. He is currently living at Moore's Estate in the private road, close to the Hangar's private road but note that he works at the Moore's company, so most times that is where he goes to. You and your men shouldn't miss his movements.
"Moore? Is he your brother?" George diverted his inquisitivity.
Ethan frowned on the other end, "you should learn to mind your business and stop asking unnecessary questions," he warned in an alarming tone.
"I'm sorry for asking such a question," he apologized.
"Do you want me to cover this immediately?" George asked, inquisitively.
"Of course I do. That's the idea and let me make something clear, if you lose him, I will make you pay severely for a job recklessly done. Do your job well and be sure to get a nice payment of ten thousand dollars. Okay?"
"Leave it to me Mr Ethan, we won't lose him, I assure you."
"One more thing, make sure he doesn't find out that he is being watched. He is a very smart man and trust me if you are not careful, he will find out. So be alert."
"Alright thanks for this important notification."
"What is the main job, Mr Ethan? Are we to only spy on him?" George asked rigidly.
"Yes. I just want to know about his whereabouts. No more stupid questions," Ethan said in a bold voice. "Get to work. I believe you would not want to miss such a golden opportunity to get rich George."
George stood on his feet at once, "I would never think of that," he sneered.
"Goodbye sir," he said and immediately Ethan cut the call.
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Ethan parked at a spot.
Agnes was standing outside, patiently waiting for him. She finally caught a glimpse of him and smiled. Ethan walked to her and gave her a peck on her lips. "I'm sorry for keeping you waiting, darling. How was your day?"
Agnes smiled. "I don't mind waiting for you at all, as for my day it was so pleasant. I bumped into someone I didn't expect and from there, we started chatting. He's such a gentleman."
Hearing all those sweet compliments of his cousin, from her mouth made him feel jealous but he wasn't going to accept that he felt jealous at all.
"He is not what you think he is, Agnes."
Agnes stared at him in surprise, "who do you think I am talking about?" She asked expectantly.
Ethan quickly realized that he was about to give himself off. "I do not know but my point is that people don't appear to be what they really portray, so you had better be careful."
"I guess from the discussion we had today, he is a nice person, whose looks and wealth does not affect his personality," Agnes said in a strong tone.
"I see you like and trust that stranger a lot. Why not take off my ring and go marry your so - great stranger," Ethan suggested in anger and jealousy.
Ethan angrily walked into his car, Agnes followed behind me.
"Hey Ethan wait up, why are you getting so angry for nothing?" She asked.
Ethan didn't say anything to her, he climbed into his car, Agnes went to the other side of the car and quickly got in.
She leaned on him immediately and said, "I was only joking my love. I only wanted to see your reaction, you know today is April fool," she lied in order to coax him.
Ethan changed his reaction at once, he realized getting angry at her wouldn't solve anything.
"Alright I forgive you," Ethan said, pinching her cheek in a romantic way.
"So tell me the reason behind your happiness?" He added...