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Own by
An Overbearing billionaire
: Racheal Dennis.
Chapter 24
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Debby’s POV
Thun-derstorm cl@ps… lightening strikes… dark clouds moves in great speed… as if they angry soldiers marching into the battlefield.. re-ady to fight to the death to protect their country.
Everyone runs around… finding shelters to hide away from the heavy downpour about to take place… But not this little girl.
She clings onto a dress… pu-lling on the dress…her eyes red and swollen.. but it didn’t st©p the continuous tears running down her cheeks… she keeps muttering coherently.
My eyes followed her hands clinging onto the dress… and they land on a silhouette… it seems like its behind.
Though it’s dark everywhere but a blinding light flash across my eyes and I couldn’t find its face.
I turn back to the little girl… and listen to what she’s muttering coherently.
“Mama.. mama.. mama.. don’t go.. mama.. mama..” she cries.
But the silhouette moves fas-ter than before and tries removing her hand from the dress.
The girl falls down but the silhouette figure still didn’t st©p… dragging the girl along the ground with her.
“Mama.. mama..”
I reach out and tried to gr-ab the figure.. to st©p it from dragging the girl but I only catch empty air.
I stared helplessly at the girl.. right then it began… it starts raining heavily but the girl didn’t give up.
She continues clinging onto the dress and crying so ha-rd .
Though she is shaking from the cold, she still didn’t let go until she pas-sed out.
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Writer’s POV
Andre woke up as he felt Debby’s death grip on him… He turns on the be-dside lamp and notice she’s turning uncomfortably… like she’s having a bad dream.
He shakes her gently, trying to wake her up but she doesn’t wakes up.
Then he noticed she’s shaking as if she’s catching a cold… her arms wra-pped around his ba-re b©dy felt h0t.
He checked her temperature with his palm and quic-kly withdrew his hand.
Checking the time from his phone… It’s just 3am.
She mutters un-der her breath weakly and he listened closely to catch the words.
“Mama.. mama.. mama.. mama…”
Andre wipes the lone tear running down her cheek.
He wanted to comfort her but that isn’t something he’s good at… all he knew was yelling orders at people.. not comforting them.
Not knowing what to do, he reaches for his phone and dialed his Mom’s number.
He waited for a while, after few rings she picks up.
“Hello?” c@m£ her sleepy voice.
“Mom… there’s trouble!” Andre said and that fully woke his Mom.
“Andre? Trouble?!” Shuffling sounds are heard. “It’s 3am.. what’s troubling you at 3am?” She asked.
Andre struggles and manage to sit up, resting his back against the headboard.
“It’s Debby… she’s h0t and shaking… I don’t know what happened”
“She’s h0t? Is she awake?”
“No.. I tried waking her up but couldn’t”
“She must be having a fever… go make some Chinese chicken soup for her” she told him.
Andre nods but remember she can’t see him.
“Ok, mom” he st©ps when he remembers something very important. “But… I don’t know how to make it”
He’s also got bad cooking skills.. he couldn’t even eat the food prepared by himself.
“Don’t worry, I’ll s£nd you instructions!” Then she hangs up.
Andre gently unwra-ps Debby’s arms from him and ti-ptoe put of the room.
He head straight for the kitchen… halfway there, his phone beeps and he quic-kly checked it.
He sighs when he saw the instructions s£nt to him. He arrived at the kitchen and takes out a whole chicken… brings out all the ingredients nee-ded.
But what to do first, he doesn’t know… He simply stands in the middle of the kitchen with his hands placed on his w@!st.
Looking at the ingredients is alre-ady giving him a headache… He sighs heavily and shakes his head.
After long contemplating, he decided to boil water and takes a glas-s of warm water back to his room.
When he gets back to the room, Debby’s alre-ady awake and sitting at a corner in the room… hvgging her knees, with tear stain on her cheeks.
Thun-derstorm suddenly cl@ps from nowhere and she screamed loudly and hvgs her knees more ti-ghtly.
Andre frowns and wonder if this was actually the fearless Debby he knew… He placed the glas-s of water on the nightstand and rushed towards her.
“Angel… are you ok?” He asked.
A cold wind b!ows the curtains in the window and Debby shivers… Andre quic-kly rushed to the window and shuts it.
“Mama… Mama… Mama” she mutters.
Andre carries her back to the be-d and reach for the water.
“Here.. have some warm water, Angel”
He puts the glas-s in her mouth and tries to get her to have a sip but she simply moved her head and the water pours on him.
“$h!t!” He curse.
He tries to get up and change but Debby’s grip on him is too ti-ght.
“Andre… Andre…” Andre heard her called weakly.
He takes a de-ep breath and decide to stay in be-d with her… He covers her with blanket and hvgs her to himself.
“Andre… stay..” she mutters.
“I’m here, Angel, I’m right here don’t be scared!” He comforts her.
Slowly she calms down and falls back to sleep… Andre notice she’s asleep and k!sses her on the forehead.
He watches her for a while and soon fell asleep too.
Chapter 25
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Debby’s pov
The next day…!
Today’s sunday but Andre’s gone to his company to complete some works… while I’m at Anna’s… sitting on a sofa with my legs crossed.
A plate of sliced apples on my l@p… Anna sits opposite me apply some kind of cream on her hands.
“So… you said you had that dream last night?” She asked.
“Yeah.. I mean, it’s being so long since I dreamt of her… why did I have to dream about her again now?”
I pinned my fork on a slice of apple and chews on it slowly.
“Maybe you c@m£ across someone recently and it triggered your memory of her!”
I frown and shake my head… I c@m£ across someone?! I haven’t met with any strange woman recently.
“I don’t think so, Anna… That can’t be it, I don’t remember coming across anyone recently”
“Then I don’t know why you dreamt of her… But did Andre ask you about it this morning?”
“No”.
We both went throu-gh our normal routine like nothing had happened….also, he didn’t give me any weird glances.
Anna nods thoughtfully.
“Andre is wise and considerate… He knows you wouldn’t want to talk about it, so, he let you be… I guess he’s waiting for you to tell him about it whenever you’re re-ady”
She might be right.
“You know, Debby… if I were you, I’d have long st©p looking for her, after all she didn’t cared about you!”
“But it doesn’t change the fact that she’s still my mother… besides, I just want to know the real reason she left, also to let her know I’m doing fine since these years”
Anna st©ps ru-bbing her hands and looks at me.
“Debs, she was heartless and doesn’t deserves your efforts looking for her!”
I sighed de-eply and decided to change the t©pic… talking about her makes me sad and I don’t wanna be sad now.
“So, Anna tomorrow’s Monday.. how are you going with the designs?”
“Right, you just reminded me… I’m done with the designs and I’ve hand them over to CHIC!”
CHIC is the company’s name… The company we have contract with.
“That’s great!”
“Yeah.. but it’s a couple’s design”
“Couple’s design?”
“Yep. You and Lucas will have to come out together… with your arms locked together like a couple”
Me and Lucas…. thankfully, Andre doesn’t have to see this or hell is gonna break loose.
My phone beep and I checked… it’s a text from Andre.
*Hi, Angel..my trip is tomorrow, don’t wait up cause I might come home late tonight!*
Even though he said I shouldn’t wait up, I’ll still wait up for him.. like seriously, I’m beginning to grow on him.
“Who’s that?” Anna asked.
“It’s Andre”
“Oh!”
I’m suddenly craving for ice cream…I sprint up from the sofa and snatch my jacket from the armrest.
“Where are you going?”
“To get some ice cream!” I replied.
“Wait, I’m coming with you, I nee-d ice cream too!”
She rushed towards her room to get changed…I guess.
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“But Anna, your design look ridiculous!” I mocked Anna as I swipe throu-gh the ph0tos of the design on her phone.
We’ve got our ice creams and we’re exiting the ice cream parlour.
She scoffed.
“You know nothing about fashion!”
She tries to snatch her phone from me but we ended up bu-mping into a woman and spilled our ice cream all over her.
I raised my head to apologise but was left dumbfounded….she looks twenty but a closer look you’ll realize she’s in her forties.
“I’m sorry, ma’am, we were careless and….”
She pas-sed me a smile.
“It’s fine dear…I wasn’t paying attention to where I was going too” she said calmly.
I smiled back at her. “My friend and I are really sorry for staining your clothes….”
“It’s fine….”
Just then a familiar voice cuts her off.
“Mom, let’s go”
Diego?! I gr@bb£d Anna’s hand and smiled apologetically at her.
“Sorry, ma’am but we really have to go!”
I pu-ll-ed Anna with me and ran in the opposite direction…I don’t want Diego to start processing his love to me in public.
“Debby….” I pu-ll-ed my cheek. “Why did we run away.. I thought I heard Diego’s voice, you didn’t let me say hi to him!”
“Maybe next time, when it’s just the two of you”
“Whatever! Let’s go home!” She pu-lls me towards the exit.
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Writer’s POV
An unknown hospital…!
On a hospital be-d lies a woman… a drip fixed in her hand… oxygen mask on her nose… and a heart monitor next to her be-d, beeping slowly.
Lucas walks in with a basket of fruits and placed it on the table… He pu-lls out a chair and sits next to her.
He gently takes her free hand in his and squee-ze it gently… He shuts his eyes and su-cks in some air.
“Mom… take your time to recu-perate.. leave other things for me… I promise, I’ll find the person behind all this… I’ll find who made our family suffer and make them pay dearly for it!” He promised her.
His eyes held determination… anger… hatred… pain!
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Debby’s POV
The next morning….Trip day!
I sat on our be-d sulking…my chin rests on my hands.
“Angel, help me with my tie plea-se” Andre tells me.
I scoffed and turned to the be-d, my stomach lying flat and my legs dancing in the air.
I reach for my earpiece on the nightstand and blast my favorite song of all time…*Side to side.. by Ariana Grande*
Turning the volume to the fullest and begin singing along… with my eyes closed.
Suddenly, the music st©pped and my eyes snaps open… Andre held my phone in his hand with a gloating sm-irk on.
I glared at him and stretch out my hand.
“Hand it over now!” I commands.
“No!” I narrowed my eyes. “Help me with my tie first!”
“No, unless you let me see you off to the airport!”
He sighs and turned back to the mirror… He does his tie himself.
“Angel… try to un-derstand, I really want you to see me off but if I do, I might find it ha-rd to leave you behind”
I rolled my eyes. This is the argument we’ve been having since morning.
“Fine! I won’t see you off!”
“So, I’ll be gone for five days… try to spend some time with Mom and don’t stay out late…. ”
“Andre, I get it… I’ll be just fine”
He turns to me and pu-lls me up, he rest his head on mine and closed his eyes.
“plea-se take care of yourself for me!”
“I will”
Just then his phone rings and reaches for it from his back pocket…. It’s Phoebe calling.
“Phoebe!”
I rolled my eyes, what a great way to answer his phone.
“I’ll be right there!” Then he hangs up. “It’s time, plea-se, Angel don’t….. “.
“I know!” I held his face and pe-cks hisl-ips “Safe trip!”
I gesture towards his briefcase and he reached for it… I got off the be-d and pushed him outside, then I slammed the door shut.
“Angel?!” He growls from outside.
“Go on, or you’ll miss your flight”
There’s a moment of silence. “Alright, I’ll call you when I take off!” He said and walks away.
I sighed and fall on my be-d. Now it’s just me alone in this big mansion.
Ugh, I’ll be so bored to death… maybe I should call Anna over.
*Hey! Anna, come over to Andre’s.. I’m bored!*
I s£nt her a quic-k text. My stomach growls and I cling on it… I’d better go check what Natalie is cooking.
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Writer’s POV
At the airport…!
“Mr Knight, this way plea-se” Phoebe leads Andre to his pri-vate jet.
Andre halts abruptly when he sees Olivia inside….great anger build up inside him, he balled his fist and clenched his jaw.
He turns to Phoebe and glares at her.
“What is she doing here?!” He grits out angrily.
“I.. I.. don’t know, Mr Knight” she stutters out.
“You’re the only one that knows the d@t£ and time of my dep@rture… How come she knows it too?!” He hissed.
Olivia gets up and catwalk towards them…. She puts on a flir-tatious smile.
“Hello… Andre!” She tries to link their arms but Andre caught her hand and twists it.
“What are you doing here?!” He growled in her face.
She tries to snatch her hand but couldn’t as Andre has it in a very ti-ght grip.
“I’m obviously here to fly to spain with you” she said.
Andre look around with a de-ep frown.
“This is my pri-vate jet!” Andre reminds her.
“I know” she replied.
“Good! Get out!”
He lets go of her hand and walk past her to a seat next to the window…. Olivia rolled her eyes and rushed to him.
She sits next to him and fli-ps her hair… wi-nks at him.
“You know, spain will be fun with me accompanying you…. ”
“Leave now before you’ll regret it!”
“I have missed you… you miss me too, right?”
“Olivia fv¢king leave!!”
Right now, Andre is ba-rely controlling his anger.
“Why do you want me to leave so bad?”
“Because I hate you!” He snaps at her.
Olivia chuckles lightly and shake her head.
“You don’t hate me, you just miss our good days…. you know, I can remind you”
“Get out or….. ”
Olivia interrupts him as she crash herl-ips on his… Andre quic-kly pushed her off him and she lands bu-tt on the floor.
In fit of anger, Andre sl@ps her harshly on her face.. not caring where his palm lands.
“Ow!” Olivia wince and covers her left eye.
“You don’t wanna leave? Fine! I’ll leave!”
Andre kicks her and walk past her… He meets Phoebe outside and growled at her.
“Get me the next flight and I don’t want to Olivia!”
“Yes, Mr Knight!”
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Meanwhile, Olivia gets up with a sm-irk and turns to the man behind her.
“Did you capture that moment?”
“Yes”
“Good!” Her sm-irk grows wi-der.
Let’s see how strong Debby Ryan can be!
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Debby’s pov
Andre’s mansion…!
I gr0@nloudly and turn off the TV… Andre just left and I’m alre-ady bored.
Just then the doorbell rang and I quic-kly rushed to the door… I flung it open and I fell in Anna’s arms.
“Oh, my darling.. you’re finally here!” I exaggerate.
“Drama queen” she pushes me aside and walks in like she own the mansion.
“Woah! Debs.. Andre brou-ght you to heaven yet you’re blaspheming him!”
Really?! Heaven?!
“Why not try be in my shoes”
She scoff.
“If I’m in your shoes… enjoying this luxury, I wouldn’t mind if Andre is a little bit cray-cray!”
She falls on a sofa and tossed her handbag on the table… she kicked off her shoes and they fell on different directionShe falls on a sofa and tossed her handbag on the table… she kicked off her shoes and they fell on different directions.
“Hey! Don’t break anything!” I scolded her.
“Your b©yfri£ndis a billionaire, breaking a table won’t cost him a thing”
Yeah, Andre is a billionaire but that mean my friends and I will destroy his properties…. right?
“Anyway… thanks for coming, you can spend two or three days with me and enjoy some of this luxury with me!”
She quic-kly sat up with a very bright smile.
“Really?! You mean I can stay with you in this mansion?!” She asked enthusiastically.
“Yeah”
“Yay!!” She jumps throwing her hands in the air. “We’re gonna…..”
My phone beep and I tune Anna off…. I guess it’s Andre calling to let me know he’s about to take off.
But surprisingly it’s a…. ph0to?
I opened it and my heart st©pped…. I fall back
tbc