The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 98

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“Keith,” I called out to him but he didn’t stop. His eyes weren’t focused on me he was obviously thinking about something else. 

“Keith!” I got his attention. 

He blinked and his eyes snapped out of it. Was he tired from work or was it something else that was on his mind I wondered. 

“Sorry, are you okay?” he apologized and asked me. 

“Yeah you were being a bit rough,” I commented. 

“Im sorry I wasn’t paying attention,” he stated the obvious. 

“Keith are you alright?” I asked. I wasn’t aware of anything else that had happened aside from work. He usually informed me about anything that had happened. 

“You know you can tell when something is wrong, right?” I told him. Hopping he would 

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KEITH’S POV 

It was two days later after giving out the order that I got an update from my men about 

Jasmine. 

“She and the young master Anthony were spotted with Mr Carrington at a formal 1 racing event last Saturday and they were seen again at a restaurant afterwards,” the bodyguard informed me. 

“Is this it? No other sightings?” I asked surprised that this was all. 

“No, there aren’t any other public sightings we found, apart from the fact that Mr Carrington drops her off at the restaurant every day,” he went on. 

My eyes narrowed in confusion why would she continue working at the restaurant as a waitress if she was with him? That didn’t make any sense. 

A part of me was wondering if she had lied about being with him but then I realized that couldn’t be true. She had moved out of the house after all. The fact I couldn’t find out where she moved to most she was most likely because she was staying with him. 

Moving forward it will be difficult to meet with Jasmine now that I can’t just show up at 

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her house. 

Once the bodyguard was gone. I then turned to my desk. Among the Mountains of paperwork I had to do were Jasmine’s divorce papers in a corner of my desk and beside them the bank statements of her account which I had told Edwin to obtain for me. 

A sigh of frustration escaped my mouth as I picked up the statement reports. 

All of the bank statements checked out. It showed Jasmine received her allowance every month. And yet Jasmine claimed to have not received them. These were official statements from the bank. I found myself at a loss. 

Was Jasmine just lying to get my attention? But if so why would she proceed to find a lover? If her goal was to get my attention then why would she leave the house? Why did she deny her allowance in the first place and insist to work as a waitress? 

It still wasn’t making sense. What the hell was I missing? 

Where do I take this from here? I looked at the divorce papers once more. I couldn’t sign them unless I was sure, and yet Jasmine was demanding I sign the papers. I contemplated for a bit. 

“The maids are back does that mean we won’t be making dinner?” 

I remembered Anthony’s words to Jasmine that evening the first time I visited her home. I found very odd as if he was implying that they didn’t have any maids or servants before. 

Perhaps, I could try looking into to that next. Check on all her former servants and what they had to say. I could also check the logs of the their work schedules. 

I then brought a hand to my chin as I contemplated. I could also hear what Anthony had to say myself about their situation. Yes. In fact, I could kill two birds with one stone. I may have a hard time meeting with Jasmine from now on but Anthony, Anthony was my son after all. I had a right to see him whenever I felt like it. And wherever he is, she will follow. I thought of the pictures I had seen in her home of her and Anthony on various outings. 

I then heard a knock at my office door. I buzzed the door open for the person to enter and it was Edwin. 

“Chairman, the international representatives of the company have arrived,” Edwin informed me. 

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“Alright let me go down to them. 

Some of the managing directors of the company from had come from their respective countries to meet with me and discuss various developments that were being planned to be done to the hotels in those regions. We were going to discuss and finalise the projects and I would approved what I wanted. They had arrived on Wednesday after my confrontation with Jasmine and would be returning in two weeks time. 

Right now, I was going to have a short meeting with them over lunch and then planned to have a game of golf with them afterwards. Hopefully I would be done early in the evening so could go home. Aside from dealing with Jasmine, I had also been working late dealing with this. I felt I hadn’t seen Diana or Marco this whole time. 

I knew Diana and Marco had gone to a friend’s house for brunch today. 

I then fin 

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At the end of the day I managed to finish golfing that I could go home early. 

When I arrived home a little while after dinner. I went to my bedroom where I heard Diana in the bathroom. I changed out of my suit and wore something casual. Taking a seat in the seating area of the room I scanned through my phone. 

When she came out of the bathroom she jumped in surprise to see me. She came up to me as we greeted each other and then proceeded to kiss me 

“Not today Diana I’m a little tired,” I told her. 

I really wasn’t in the mood especially with everything else going on. However, what if Diana felt I was withdrawing from her? 

I felt i was in a difficult position. I didn’t want to jump to any conclusions especially since I hadn’t gathered much evidence to doubt her yet. 

As Diana was about to move away from me I grabbed her hand pulled her back to me and kissed her. 

I had to continue acting like my normal self until I found out the truth. I took her to the bed and continued from there. 

Is this how that Carrington boy held Jasmine? I wondered as I hovered over Diana thrusting in her. The image was unsettling to me. They lived in the same house and were lovers. I felt rage slowly build up inside me. 

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Why am I pissed off? It shouldn’t matter to me what they did. Our relationship had always been platonic and when we slept together it was always in a formal sense. So would it bother me. 

“Keith!” I then heard Diana scream at me pulling me out of my thoughts. It’s when I realized I hadn’t been focusing on her. 

“Diana, are you slight?” I asked her as she breathed out heavily a look of discomfort on 

her face. 

“You were being a bit rough,” she commented. 

“Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention,” I apologized. 

“Are you alright?” she asked me. 

“Yeah,” I replied. 

“You know you can tell if something is wrong right?” she told me. There was no way I could tell her I was thinking of Jasmine. 

“I know. I think it’s just the stress of work that’s on my mind,” I told her. Which was partially true. 

“Come,” I said to her then lay on the bed beside her. pulled her toward me embraced her to comfort her. A feeling came over once again. I hated the fact thati was keeping all these secrets from her. She didn’t about Jasmine filing for divorce first, she didn’t know about me meeting with Jasmine. I just wished I could solve this already. 

“You would tell me if you had something to say to me 

“Of course,” she replied. 

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JASMINES POV 

I was ecstatic! I had a job now! Louis was literally a lifesaver. 

Later that night, Louis handed me the file containing the contract and the details of the job. I read through it in my room after we’d all retired to our rooms. Trying to understand the general tasks I would be required to do. Each task seemed simple enough for me to do on it’s own but it’s the numbers of tasks added together that seemed hard to do. 

This everything Gatwick had to do? I asked myself in disbelief. Was I really going to be 

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able to handle all this? I wondered. Considering I would still have to learn some basic finance and management skills on top of everything else. 

Regardless, it’s not like I wasn’t up for a challenge. I signed the papers so I could give them to Louis the following day. We agreed I would accompany him to his office so he could show me around the office and explain my tasks to me. 

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