Cassandra was just done preparing some cake and cookies as per his preference. She tasted a cookie to check and got pleased with the taste.Not sweet at all but yummy. Sometimes, she wondered how come a little child hated sweets with such a passion!When chocolates, ice-creams, candies, different types of sweet cookies are the things children seemed to love generally,Ryan was a bright exception in this case.Well, he just liked ice cream among all of these but for other sweet things, he had a big fat No.Smilingly Cassandra shook her head at her thought and was placing the cookies in a box when the doorbell rang. She knew it was them only and walked to answer it.She opened the door to reveal Elaine standing there with Ryan holding her finger and Tom, their pet was standing in the row."Cassie!" Ryan squealed in joy and when he saw his nanny bending and opening her arms for him, he literally jumped to her."How's your outing, honey?""Good." Ryan answered smilingly and Cassandra nodd
It was early in the evening. Elaine, Cassandra and Sienna, Cassandra's friend were decorating the living room with all colourful things. Most of them were of moon and star-shaped things and balloons. Ryan was jumping around happily seeing all these.Cassandra and Elaine were astonished to see Ryan not minding Sienna touching him and talking to him as Ryan didn’t get along with strangers easily.Knowing the reason behind their shocked faces, Sienna spoke up smilingly, "Well, that’s my charm." making Elaine smile back to her whereas Cassandra rolled her eyes.When they were done with the arrangement and all, Cassandra placed the cake on the middle of the coffee table that she baked herself. Though a cake couldn't be but sweet, she made it otherwise with the thought that the birthday boy had to like the cake no matter what.When Cassandra set the candles on the cake, Ryan blew them off while clapping himself being all excited. After wishing him, when Elaine reached to his mouth with a pi
After getting into the room, Ryan laid flat on his stomach as he opened a random page from the book, Damien brought him. After staring at the moon there for a while, he pulled back and turned to Cassandra, "Cassie, who is he?"Cassandra was thinking about what must have happened between Elaine and Ryan's father. She had asked Elaine but she never talked about him. Not even his name. She didn't even know if Elaine was married or just a single parent. She didn’t push her into this much seeing her fallen face every time she asked. Something might have gone wrong between them but then what could be it? She couldn’t just get this.Elaine was a nice girl and Ryan was nothing but a sweetheart.. Then?Well, his father might not have known about Ryan as when she met Elaine, Ryan wasn't even born and she had never seen him visit them before. And when she saw Damien treating Elaine and Ryan with nothing but sincerity, she couldn’t help try playing a cupid.Ryan's voice pulled her out of her thoug
The next day when Elaine entered the office and barely settled on her seat, Rivan, the PA of the CEO made an appearance there."Elaine, sir is expecting you with your team." With his words delivered, Rivan was about to leave but Elaine stopped him, "Rivan, what is happening?"She had met with the CEO very few times because he only called heads of departments in his office and no other employees. If he called for them, then it meant something unusual was waiting for them. He was polite but very rigid at times. The staff generally got scared of the way he talked. Because he talked in a very serious tone and that tone explicated that whatever he said or ordered was an ultimatum and it wasn't going to be changed anyway.Rivan replied, "I am not sure. Be quick, okay?"Elaine turned to the other members of the marketing department and spoke up, "Well, as you all heard already, Sir is calling. Let's go."Elaine, one of her team members was already beside her as she uttered in a whisper, "Are
Sam stood at the entrance of the gym, eyes wandering to find Cannon. When he got the sight of Cannon working on the punching bag, he reached there with long strides.He thought Cannon had already given up getting Elaine's rude behavior and thought of knocking some sense into him, "What's wrong with you, Cannon? What are you doing? After whatever you have done to Elaine, how can you expect her to forgive you this easily? You can't give up. Think about.."Cannon held the punching bag and gave Sam a disbelieving look, "Who told you I am giving up? I am not."Sam let out a sigh being relieved but confessed anyway, "Thank god. You came back here without me just after talking to Elaine. So I thought.. Anyways, aren't you angry with Elaine?"Cannon sat on the floor, "No. Elaine isn't wrong in her place, Sam. After making her go through all this, I can't expect her to forgive me easily. I know it."Sam nodded at him as he sat beside him, "I tried to convince her but.."Cannon nodded thoughtfu
Hearing the sound of the doorbell at this time of night, Elaine knew it was Cannon there, behind the door as no one else visited her this time. But she didn't get herself to answer it. She was still angry at him for showing up at her work place and making her work on his project. She just looked beside her. Ryan was peacefully sleeping snuggling to her.A sweet smile was lingering on his lips. Smiling back, she kissed on his forehead only to get Ryan showing little dimples on his cheek as his smile broadened which was enough to vanish the smile from Elaine's face.Elaine tossed on the bed being restless when Ryan did the same turning to other side after a while.Though she was happy a little earlier with Cassandra for not answering the door, now it got bothering her.Elaine checked the time. It was 10 minutes past 10. Half an hour passed already but there wasn't a sound of doorbell ringing again.He must have left by now. Elaine thought to herself but got out of the warmth of the comf
It was still dark outside when Sam woke up from sleep feeling thirsty. Sleepily, he made his way to the kitchen to satisfy his thirst.After getting done when he was about to go back to his room, his eyes caught the sight of Cannon. He was sitting on the couch in the living room. His head rested against it and his eyes were closed.Being confused, he walked to him. Sam was totally awakened when he reached Cannon. Even in sleep, Cannon looked sad. Last night he didn't get back to the penthouse with Sam.Sam could feel nothing resolved between Elaine and Cannon seeing Cannon's face. He hesitated for a moment to call him thinking him asleep.Proving him wrong, Cannon opened his eyes the next moment and sat straight. Seeing him standing there, he spoke up softly, "Why are you awake now?" He looked nothing like waking up from sleep or something.Sam sat beside him and ignoring his question, he asked him, "What happened?"Cannon kept silent for a long time but Sam remained persistent. Findi
"I love you, Mrs. Elaine Henderson."Double of these three words. They were like daggers flying to her chest.Three words that Elaine had longed to hear from Cannon back then. That he loved her and acknowledged her as his wife. Two things, he never did. Not even in his facade. But now that he finally said them, these words had lost all their meaning to her. And she wasn't sure if he was even serious or he was just saying all these without meaning it.Elaine wondered. Was saying 'I love you' to someone whom you didn't really love that easy? Would anyone do it just to get.."Elaine?" Cannon softly uttered her name pulling her out of her thoughts as he stared at her, realizing how emotionally raw and vulnerable he felt at that moment."I thought people get to be called like that after getting married or before that and here for me, it's happening after getting divorced only. Should I be happy for this?""Elaine, please. We aren't divorced. We are..""Right. We aren't divorced. Because fo