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Ultimate Love - A Quest for Lasting Happiness
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6 Chapters
Chapter 11 ELEVEN img
Chapter 12 TWELVE img
Chapter 13 THIRTEEN img
Chapter 14 FOURTEEN img
Chapter 15 FIFTEEN img
Chapter 16 SIXTEEN img
Chapter 17 SEVENTEEN img
Chapter 18 EIGHTEEN img
Chapter 19 NINETEEN img
Chapter 20 TWENTY img
Chapter 21 TWENTY ONE img
Chapter 22 TWENTY TWO img
Chapter 23 TWENTY THREE img
Chapter 24 TWENTY FOUR img
Chapter 25 TWENTY FIVE img
Chapter 26 TWENTY SIX img
Chapter 27 TWENTY SEVEN img
Chapter 28 TWENTY EIGHT img
Chapter 29 TWENTY NINE img
Chapter 30 THIRTY img
Chapter 31 THIRTY ONE img
Chapter 32 THIRTY TWO img
Chapter 33 THIRTY THREE img
Chapter 34 THIRTY FOUR img
Chapter 35 THIRTY FIVE img
Chapter 36 THIRTY SIX img
Chapter 37 THIRTY SEVEN img
Chapter 38 THIRTY EIGHT img
Chapter 39 THIRTY NINE img
Chapter 40 FORTY img
Chapter 41 FORTY ONE img
Chapter 42 FORTY TWO img
Chapter 43 FORTY THREE img
Chapter 44 FORTY FOUR img
Chapter 45 FORTY FIVE img
Chapter 46 FORTY SIX img
Chapter 47 FORTY SEVEN img
Chapter 48 FORTY EIGHT img
Chapter 49 FORTY NINE img
Chapter 50 FIFTY img
Chapter 51 FIFTY ONE img
Chapter 52 FIFTY TWO img
Chapter 53 FIFTY THREE img
Chapter 54 FIFTY FOUR img
Chapter 55 FIFTY FIVE img
Chapter 56 FIFTY SIX img
Chapter 57 FIFTY SEVEN img
Chapter 58 FIFTY EIGHT img
Chapter 59 FIFTY NINE img
Chapter 60 SIXTY img
Chapter 61 SIXTY ONE img
Chapter 62 SIXTY TWO img
Chapter 63 SIXTY THREE img
Chapter 64 SIXTY FOUR img
Chapter 65 SIXTY FIVE img
Chapter 66 SIXTY SIX img
Chapter 67 SIXTY SEVEN img
Chapter 68 SIXTY EIGHT img
Chapter 69 SIXTY NINE img
Chapter 70 SEVENTY img
Chapter 71 SEVENTY ONE img
Chapter 72 SEVENTY TWO img
Chapter 73 SEVENTY THREE img
Chapter 74 SEVENTY FOUR img
Chapter 75 SEVENTY FIVE img
Chapter 76 SEVENTY SIX img
Chapter 77 SEVENTY SEVEN img
Chapter 78 SEVENTY EIGHT img
Chapter 79 SEVENTY NINE img
Chapter 80 EIGHTY img
Chapter 81 EIGHTY ONE img
Chapter 82 EIGHTY TWO img
Chapter 83 EIGHTY THREE img
Chapter 84 EIGHTY FOUR img
Chapter 85 EIGHTY FIVE img
Chapter 86 EIGHTY SIX img
Chapter 87 EIGHTY SEVEN img
Chapter 88 EIGHTY EIGHT img
Chapter 89 EIGHTY NINE img
Chapter 90 NINETY img
Chapter 91 NINETY ONE img
Chapter 92 NINETY TWO img
Chapter 93 NINETY THREE img
Chapter 94 NINETY FOUR img
Chapter 95 NINETY FIVE img
Chapter 96 NINETY SIX img
Chapter 97 NINETY SEVEN img
Chapter 98 NINETY EIGHT img
Chapter 99 NINETY NINE img
Chapter 100 ONE HUNDRED img
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Chapter 6 SIX

"Good day sir." She had greeted him cordially, a pen and paper in her hand to write down what he would order. There was no answer to her greeting, and Chloe had glanced up at him to see if he was aware of her presence. He was looking straight at her with his smoky grey eyes, causing her to fidget uncomfortably under his gaze. In the end, he had asked her to choose something for him from the menu and she had done so, although reluctantly.

She met him again that weekend at the grocery store when she went to get some things and had tried to duck and avoid him, but he had not given her the chance to do. He sought her out in the section in which she was hiding, and began making chitchat. Chloe soon found that he was sort of interesting and so she continued talking with him, even giving him her number by the time they were parting ways. They began talking and he didn't waste time in asking her out. She also did not waste time accepting him. She was tired of being all alone, after all. Besides, at the time, she had liked Lucas a lot as he was quite charming and good-looking too. He became her boyfriend, the first serious one that she had ever had. Like everyone else, he was shocked to discover that she did not have anybody, no parents, no siblings, no one at all.

"How is that even possible?" He had asked incredulously when he found out, looking at her to see if she was pulling his legs. He himself had a large extended family of different uncles and aunties, but he only had a biological elder brother. However, Chloe did not even have any extended family, so he was surprised about that, as were the few other people whom she dared to tell about herself.

"I dunno." She had replied evasively and had steadfastly refused to talk about any of it. She did not like to talk about herself or the fact that she had been abandoned at birth. It wasn't as though she knew much about it herself anyway. The only thing she knew was that she had been found early one morning at a park and had been taken into the system. Nobody knew who had left her there and it was the people at the orphanage who had named her Chloe.

Although she had not been badly scarred by her early life experiences and was a cheerful person, Chloe mostly kept to herself and did not make friends. She had learned to be alone and depend on only herself at a tender age. The only people she really related with were her co-workers at the restaurant and then Lucas when he came into her life.

However, Chloe soon found out that Lucas was a very controlling person, and he wanted to make himself the center of her existence. He demanded to know her whereabouts at every time of the day and would call her incessantly until she answered her calls. Even worse was the fact that he now took it upon himself to seek her out in the restaurant if she happened not to pick his calls, and then embarrass her because of it. Chloe was the kind of person who valued her privacy a lot, and so, she did not care for this sort of behavior in the least. She had borne it at first because it hadn't been so bad, but in the past few months, his behavior was worsening, and she decided that it was high time she did something about it or things were going to get really ugly.

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By the time Chloe got home that evening, she was very tired and was just about ready for a hot shower, a hot dinner, and her bed in that order. Except that none of these was to be. She parked her car and walked up to her door wearily. She was tired, but it was a good kind of tired. Unlike her coworkers who always complained about being tired after a long shift, Chloe enjoyed her shifts very much. All the same, she was not a log of wood and was bound to get tired once in a while. It was her lifelong dream to own a restaurant one day. Despite Lucas's behavior, Mr. Robert had left her the usual generous tip and she had made a reasonable amount that evening. So, even though she was tired, she was still very happy. She put her key into the lock and was turning it to open the door when she realized that the light was on in her apartment.

"That's weird. I never leave the lights on." She thought to herself but did not bother too much about it, concluding in her mind that she had left it on today as she was running late. As soon as she stepped into the apartment, however, she gave a loud gasp and almost had a heart attack right there. Lucas was sitting on her sofa, looking very comfortable and at home. She noticed something else, and that was that he was as drunk as a skunk. Immediately he saw her, he got up and weaved drunkenly towards her with a stupid smile on his face. His hair was disheveled, and he was still wearing the same clothes that he had worn to the restaurant earlier in the day when he came to harass her.

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