Blake

After everything that had happened in the last three years, there was finally a silver lining in the cloud.

Blake couldn't believe he forgot about the 1% shares that his mother had left behind. He was naive to think that he would get back everything back by just showing up.

He have to give it to Jason and Eva though, they do know how to play a dirty game.

He went from being Shelton's number 1 most eligible bachelor to being Shelton's City broke billionaire.

He heard the occasional whispers when he entered a restaurant or a boutique and worse of them all —when he went to the golf club so he just stopped going there all together.

You might be wandering how did a billionaire suddenly go broke, did he somehow loose it by gambling? It would have been better if Blake actually did but that's not the case.

“If he's broke so why is he still a billionaire you may wonder”.

Well the Warmwood name makes it that even though Blake was broke, he would always remain a billionaire.

He might not be at the helm or at the forefront of things—he might not be in control but just being a Warmwood made him a billionaire.

Besides he still had assets in his name worth millions that still generated income for him that made it that he didn't totally become dead broke.

The whole broke billionaire concept was something that came up in the upper class as a way to ridicule the once most powerful man in the upper class.

And so the title broke billionaire is more of a satire than reality.

Blake had been sitting in the bar for a while. He came to Lakewood to investigate his 1%.

It took a while before he finally found clues as to where the shares were hidden.

Blake couldn't help but commend his mother, she did good hiding the shares.

Who would have thought that the 1% was sitting pretty in the hands of young waitress in Lakewood?

He had been investigating her for years and it is very obvious that she was unaware of what she had. Just that 1% share was worth one billion dollars.

Blake had Tony his most trusted aid infiltrate her circle.

Initially he wanted Tony to date her but he was in a committed relationship and Blake couldn't do that to him. It would have been too much to ask of him.

From what Blake had found out about Stephanie, she was the type to love hard but he couldn't but feels sorry for her very bad taste in men.

From his investigations, the two guys she had previously dated were jerks and then she went ahead and still fell for another trash.

Initially Blake wasn't concerned about her love life and all he cared about was his “stuff in her hands”.

He couldn't care less if she fell in love with a knight or a monk and he always just thought she was stupid for the kind of men she chose.

It was obvious she desperately need someone to love her and that explained why she fell for anyone that showed her a bit of affection.

Blake couldn't blame her though, he understood how it felt like to crave love and be vulnerable around the one you loved.

He had been there—done that and got terribly burned. Now He was living with one weak kidney.

***

Sitting in a corner and watching the whole drama play out, Blake was initially bored.

He knew Alex Cohen was a narcissist and his friend Steve Cain was a knucklehead, he seriously didn't know how Tony was able to survive being friends with them and he really did wish he would knock some sense into those guys.

Club Seven was one of his investments and so hewas quite shocked when one of his Intel told him Alex had booked the upstairs boot to celebrate his engagement.

Blake initially thought he was getting engaged to Stephanie and felt sorry for her because her dearly beloved had been shagging his colleague for quite some time and she obviously had no clue.

He was quite surprised when he heard Alex had actually proposed to barbie doll Christine and not Stephanie.

He thought he was going to go ahead and marry Stephanie and keep Christine as a side piece—but if there's anything he had learned about barbie dolls, they never like to play second fiddle to anyone.

They always had to be the main deal. He would know because he was once engaged to one.

Now Blake had a special hatred for doll like women, especially the barbie kind.

Things got interesting when Jennifer Pierce, Stephanie's best friend showed up.

He had investigated her in the beginning and all he could say was that she's one interesting woman.

When she called Spikes to get Intel on Alex, Blake told him to forward the address to her and came over to the club to see what she was going to do with the information he graciously gave her.

What Blake didn't expect was to see Stephanie come in just a few minutes after her friend walked in.

From her demeanour, it was obvious Jenny didn't know that Steph had secretly followed her. And she came right on time to hear those dimwits release foolishness.

For a moment, Blake was transported back in time to when he had a similar experience and heard some things that altered his life forever.

He saw the pain in her eyes and her tears stung his heart.

He had expected her to run away and breakdown like he did and was prepared to tell Tony to be on standby to comfort her.

Nothing went as Blake imagined—he saw her walk up to an unsuspecting Alex and delivered a hot slap freshly baked from the oven.

Men! That had to hurt because even from his position in the corner, he could feel the slap.

And he couldn't lie, he was quite impressed.

Who would have thought that those delicate looking hands could deliver such a slap?

Waiting tables did help build arm strength it seemed.

Anyways Blake thought the slap was all she would do, but boy was he wrong!

The show got even better.

She totally tore Alex to the bones.

She gave him lessons in what Blake liked to call "How to Destroy a Man's Ego 101" and she totally ate it up.

Blake almost choked on his water when I heard her say "I might not be good in bed but you aren't great either—I've had better.

You need to take some lessons or sooner or later Missy over there will get herself a new toy".

Men!

Talk about mortal Kombat finishing.

Blake was trying to catch his breath and then he saw Jenny walk up and deliver her own strike which he was sure would definitely send Alex to the ER.

Honestly, she did deserve a raise. She wasn't aware, but Blake owned the tattoo parlor she works at night and she was also on his payroll as a secret hacker.

Tony was too gentlemanly to give anyone a blow but Jenny was definitely not womanly enough not to and Blake was glad. It was such a delightful show to watch and was worth every bit of his time.

As soon as the ladies left, Missy over there like Stephanie called her rushed over to her man's side to look at his nose— she began ranting about how she was going to sue Stephanie for intentional harm and all that bullshit forgetting that she was the third wheel in the relationship.

At least Alex was wise enough to get her to drop the topic and convince her it wasn't necessary.

He wasn't completely a moron in the end. And even if he is, Blake was going to make sure that charge never saw the light of day.

The law firm that Christine was so proud of, and the fool Alex worked so hard to enter actually belonged to Blake and daddy dearest was just a font.

Blake actually owned most of the major establishments in Lakewood.

He may be the Broke Billionaire of Shelton City, but he was the Silent Billionaire of Lakewood.

As he stepped out of the club, he saw Stephanie crouched down by the corner and Jenny comforting her.

It really took a lot to pull off what she did in there and it was only natural to breakdown afterwards.

“Blake do you want to make an appearance in front of her now? It's been three years you know.”

"No Tony, not now. Not when she's this vulnerable.

I will give her time to collect herself. I have a feeling that it's a new dawn for her and a new Stephanie has just emerged”.

“But not to worry—I will be coming out of the dark soon. The real game is about to begin. For now let's go.”