EMELIAI never thought I'd say this but I hate my fucking job right now, I hate it. I miss choreographing for the elite dancers, I'm handed with the new dancers who are vying to be the next rumor. The club is falling apart without a Rumor in sight and Caelum has his head too far up his ass to see it's affecting my career and his income too. If it weren't Cinnamon, and Trixie the club might as well have been closed by now.The sex acts are still very popular but not so much when the dancers come into the mix, I mean Cinnamon is good on her own but the moment we try to pair her with a substitute to do Rumor's parts it all goes down hill. The chemistry Cinnamon and Rumor had is unmatched, or maybe it was simply Rumor, she was brutally trained to have chemistry with everyone. You could put her in a room with a dummy doll and still see the explicit, raw chemistry.I'm on the verge of quitting my job at Fantasy Elite, but the knight's sex club isn't much better. With Caelum preoccupied with
AURORAIf there's one thing piece learned over the last few years, it's that when things stop to go my way, they sure do take a turn for sure. Right now could be a perfect example, a less painful example to say the least. Not only have I lost the lingerie competition, but I've also got a rumor saying I plagiarize my lingerie since I purchase other peoples already made plain lingerie then customize and to top it off, the next three days won't be kind to me, I just know it.However, two things went right. For starters, Arabella got accepted into one of the most reputable schools in the country. Her first one was just as good but this one is better, more disciplinary and it natures high achievers. She gets to start Monday, and that itself is enough to be happy with but I also have my daughter back, my sweet little doll. She's been extra clingy since she returned, I've considered putting her in therapy but she doesn't show any signs of trauma except the throwing of her plate when she does
SCARLETTI'm at the end of my rope with thinking. I'm honestly, running out of ideas to recoup my marriage to it's previous state. As if it wasn't enough that Caelum and Cassian manipulated and threatened Estelle into giving Aurora the child, he's ignoring me more so lately.Estelle gave back nearly every cent I gave her because she thinks the child's wellbeing is most important and she was an absent mother. I've been relying on the competition to bring her some distress but she nearly won that too, but I made sure she lost. Xenastra is salty she supported a losing brand but she deserves it, for not keeping her cousin under damn control.Caelum, is the biggest of my current problems, he won't help me, help us recoup our marriage. I know for a fact that this is the last month he will be with the stripper and soon, we'll go back to our lives. I'm ready for it, I truly am. I'm committed to him and giving him everything he ever asked for, only now, he doesn't want or seem to in the near f
EMELIAThe anticipated moment is here, party moment. As Disney tunes burst through my dance studio where the children's portion of Halloween is being held, I can't help but smile a little more. I wasn't planning on hosting a kids Halloween party but I realized most of my associates have children, and so do my siblings. Grace helped me plan the party, while Aurora, Deborah and Sienna dedicated their hearts to making the children's party memorable. The kids get to go trick or treating around the block with supervision of one grown-up per four kids or a slightly older child. “Emelia, hi.” Estelle calls out once again, for the sixth time since she arrived which is one too many times than I would like to associate with her. “Yes, how can I help you Estelle?”“I came to check in on the children and Layla wasn't happy to see me.” she signs to her costume. The cheerleader costume she has on now stained with chocolate. “I need to clean up.”“Err, sure. You know the bathroom I showed you earl
CAELUMHangovers the night after Halloween are next level for me, my head feels like shit, heavy shit. My eyes flicker open, falling shut every time I try to study my surroundings. Turning to my side I groan in annoyance, my eyes feel nearly as heavy as my head. My weary eyes flicker open, as I prop myself up, that's when I note some things, one I'm not alone and two, I'm naked. My nakedness doesn't startle me but when I see Scarlett next to me. She must be drunk to, but- my mind takes a pause, backtracking what I just saw.Naked, Scarlett.Scarlett? naked? Shit! No, no.I messed up, I must have really fucked up last night. My God, Aurora is not going to like this. How the hell did I end up with Scarlett? I remember being so drunk after the after-party at Eva's home and Cassian or was it Bishop telling me we had to leave. I can't discern who it was but that's not an issue right now, the issue is that I slept with Scarlett. No, no, I couldn't have, maybe she's naked because she was ver
CASSIANI'm waiting in the car outside Caelum's house with the company driver when he rushes to the car, hardly dressed and nervous. My gaze falls from his shirtless chest to the pants and gucci slides on his feet. “We have a policy about dress code.” I tell him.“I know.” he sighs, “Just give me a minute and ill be down.”“Are you doing alright?” I scan him, this isn't like him. He would have hit me with some banter after my comment on dress code.He nods, running his hand through his hair. “No, I did something. Something I don't consciously reckon but.. Umm, I'll tell you in the car.” he tells, stepping back. “five minutes!” he yells, looking over his shoulder as he enters the house once more.His behavior this morning is not like him but I put a pin on it for now, I have my suspicions, it could only either work or Aurora. Those are the only things that ever stress Caelum out, aside from those two? Nothing phases him to a state of mental disorientation. I shift my attention back to
AURORAThe fourth box of yellow roses I've received today is sitting on my coffee table, staring at me, taunting me, and honestly, the scent is becoming nauseating to me. I can't stand to look at the damn flowers, Caelum thinks he's trying to do right with them but he's merely reminding me of the problem I won't face. I cried when he left my apartment and after I was done, I thought back to it. He says he cheated but no he didn't, if anything he cheats on Scarlett with me and yet I'm infuriated.At least I've gotten a break today, he said he had some work to do and I've not heard from him since morning but the flowers keep on coming, and well, at least they come with chocolates. Olivia and I are binge watching her favorite series, while Layla plays with Everleah in her room.“Try this one,” Olivia extends her hand, offering me a piece of chocolate. “It tastes like those blue cheap drinks we used to pretend were hard liquor.”I take the chocolate and nod, spitting it out after tasting
EMELIA AGE EIGHTEENI have one job, teach the beginner dancer. And two rules, one; see nothing, hear nothing even if I've seen it and number two; don't get subjective with the girls. Yet somehow, I manage to break the rules and go out of my job inscription. My brother's friend Ryker found me this job, maybe that's why I never get in trouble for wandering in places I'm not to be in or worse, getting friendly with the girls.There's a new girl here, I'm used to them having new girls but something about this one worries me a lot. I was on tour with some dancers up until two weeks ago, that's when I noticed her. I was told she's been here for five months now, and they've not been able to break her in. They're extensively training and torturing her in bdsm, she's easily become a favorite for masochistic men. Not only because she cries and protests, but because she's pretty, very pretty. Even with the bruises and dry tangled up hair you can tell she's beautiful.She wasn't thrown into my cl
CAELUMThere was a time when I was desperately pleading with Scarlett for a baby, and now that there's light of us having one? I'm not thrilled, I want to be thrilled, I want to be happy about it but I can't find one fatherly bone in my body to help me. Possibly its the wrong timing that hasn't sat with me but I'm having a hard time connecting with Scarlett on the news. Still, I have to consider her feelings, I shouldn't have reacted as irrational as I did because at the end of the day it takes two to make a baby.We made that baby, regardless of how drunk I was, it's time to face up to my actions. I was going to divorce her but now, I'm not sure what to do but I do know that I can't let another man raise my child and I don't want Aurora to further suffer.I'm drunk, and high as a kite, craving more because what I already took isn't doing the job, making me forget. My phone lights up with yet another message from Aurora, she's ecstatic planning for her store opening. I've given her a
CASSIANI've spent the last week with my fiancé and her family, as annoying as she is, we've got some common ground. She's not my ideal choice for a bribe but close enough, she'll have to do. My choice in a woman is near to Caelum's choice but less fiery, the kind of fire that Aurora exudes would scorch me a little bit. I've been in contact with Aurora throughout my trip, and her near death experience that rattled Caelum appears to have done the same to her too.I had ordered a few beers and texted my party people about the party I would be holding at my place tonight, to celebrate my return from my short trip but if I'm being entirely honest, it's to celebrate the misery that has not yet befallen me as I prepare for my marriage. Emelia and Aurora said they were not coming because they would be enjoying a night out in the city by themselves. Those two have formed what Ryker, Bishop, Caelum, and I had built the moment we met and it comes just as effortlessly. It's pure, my fiance will
EMELIANAI park my car outside a familiar neighborhood, I've been to it during my high school days I must say there's been major improvements made. I used to have a boyfriend that lived here and now I don't even remember his house. The feeling of nostalgia hits, but I ignore it and focus on my phone, checking the red dot until I see my location close in on a gated household. The gate is open, so I hurry inside, sure to close it behind me.Gianna called me an hour ago, she sounded hysterical and I couldn't catch what she said was happening so I decided to drive to her, using the tracker on her phone. She knows about it, which is why she insisted that I go and get her, minus her providing me with an address. I assume she just had an argument with one of her spoiled friends and now she wants her big sister to get her. This is nothing new there but it's usually Sienna's craft not mine. Hell, I'm just glad to be called.Knocking on the door, I wait for someone to open it for me but I get n
SCARLETTI've waited up for Caelum all night, he didn't respond to any of my text messages or calls, and eventually I couldn't get through to him. My parents are beyond mad at the way he stormed out, Mom was worried it could have been a family emergency so she called Caelum's mom and she said, according to her knowledge nothing alarming had transpired.It's seven in the morning, I have a magazine shoot at exactly 9 a.m and I'd be dammed if I breached the contract because my husband went MIA on me, again. Eva will be coming to pick me up, she already texted me to say she's on her way.I'm ready, trying to hide the bugs I have under my eyes from waiting up all night for Caelum to show up. I had spent the entire day decorating this room to surprise him, and now I want everything in this room gone, I don't want it taunting me to recall what I thought last night would be like vs what it actually went like. I'm about to open my bedroom door when it opens, the door slamming into me.“Fuck.”
CAELUMMy heart is racing, I just saw her this morning. How is she not okay? She was fine when I left her yesterday, ecstatic even. I'm speeding through traffic to get to her but I fear I might be too late. Bella called an ambulance to her apartment right before she called me. When I declined her call, she texted me saying Aurora wasn't feeling well, and from there, the messages got worse, alarming. I couldn't sit in that restaurant any longer, I wanted to get to her. Bella is no longer answering my calls, and I'm still far from Aurora's apartment. With Bella not responding to my messages, I fear the worst has happened and if so, I hardly believe in miracles but if anything happens to Aurora, God better perform one or get two for the calling of one. I don't know how it is that I stayed sane without Aurora, but I can't do it twice. I've had year's of therapy to get over Aurora, until I realized it wouldn't work and quit, I'm not ready for an eternity of therapy to cope with never bee
SCARLETTMy parents are in our city, and Caelum, and I to be having dinner with them, and after that Caelum is taking my mom to see her favorite opera while my father and I go to a twenty-four hour running amusement park. It's tradition, one we don't break but now, as I stare down at my phone it would seem like I've seen the last of this tradition.“Scarlett,” my mother calls out from across the table, her voice startling me.My phone slips out of my hand and drops to the floor beside me. My gaze instantly jerks up to meet my mother, “Sorry.” I blurt out, proceeding to pick my phone up.“Honey,” my mother squeezes my fathers hand but I know she's addressing me because her gaze doesn't leave mine. “Where is Caelum?”And there it is, I can't make up any more excuses for him, I don't know what lies to form for them. Caelum has been putting off dinner with my parents for the longest time now, and it's not like him. Caelum is punctual with his schedule but lately, his schedule means nothin
**************Fifteen minutes after Caelum rudely ended our call, Cassian's driver arrived to pick me up. I insisted on driving behind him because after whatever nonsense Caelum is wasting my time on, I will need to pick up three more little girls then go back to my parents house for Paulina. Cassian's driver left me ten minutes ago, he led me to a newly constructed yet famous shopping complex. I'm familiar enough with the place to know that his family owns a jewelry store here, one run by his other sister, Sienna. I've seen no sign of Cassian, despite seeing his BMW in the parking lot there's nothing else suggesting his presence. I've left him four unanswered messages and I'm just about pissed off by his temerity. Stymied, I fetch my phone and open his contact card, calling him one time before I follow through with my already made decision to leave this place. The phone rings and just when I thing it's going to die out, in the very second, he picks up. “Hey pretty girl.” I can a
AURORA“Paulina sweetie, did you get your backpack into the car?” I ask, seeing her run past me. Paulina, Everleah and Layla have a girls day party at my house tomorrow and to start, I'm having a sleepover for them tonight. I had to invite Layla's sister too because I want to grow up around her siblings seeing as I'm not planning on giving her any, perhaps I could adopt in a few years but right now, just Layla is fine.Paulina doesn't respond but a few seconds later she runs back, “Auntie?”“Did you put all your things in the car sweetie?”“Yes,” she nods. “I'll go double check to see if I didn't forget my fluffy bunny.“Okay, hurry up because we have to pick up Everleah too, and Sapphire.”“Aurora!” my mother yells from the kitchen, she's been confined to it for the last hour. I was starting to think she was simply avoiding me, and I would have thought it if she didn't order Chinese takeout specifically for me.Entering the kitchen, I see my mother in her apron, with prints of white
CAELUMThe hospital chose to keep me under observation under mom's request. I stayed to ease her worries, if not I would be back to work, or tinkering weak for Aurora's attention.“I love you.” I whisper to her, watching her sleep on the bed. It's been two days, I get minor headaches and my arm right hurts, I've been told to not overwork it but it's my favorite of late, I am both left and right handed but my right touched Aurora better. She came over as soon as she dropped Layla off at school, we had been talking nearly all night so I know she hardly slept. Looking at her now I feel contend, like I have my old Aurora back.The bed was swapped out for a bigger one by the physician because every time Aurora walks in, I want her laying next to me. The door to hospital room opens, revealing my sister on the other end, with a bouquet of flowers. “Hey,” she faintly smile, walking past me to set the flowers in a vase. “From mom.” she tells me, her gaze shifting to Aurora on the bed. I see a