Two hours. I sat outside of Elijah's office for two hours. My back was starting to ache from sitting down for too long and not moving a muscle. I sat there like a statue, glancing at Elijah's door once in a while.His assistant, bless her heart, is a very nice woman, who called Elijah three more times to let him know I was still waiting for him. Yet, he never gave her a reply.She stared at me with pity. She would open her lips to say something, but would eventually shake her head and go back to her work. When it was time for her to take her lunch break, she offered to bring me anything, but I shook my head.I assumed Elijah would be out for lunch, but I was wrong.I understood that he wasn't having a meeting when I saw no one walking in or out of his office.He's really refusing to let me in."Ella?" I heard Cane's voice and I looked to side as he stepped out of the Elevator."What are you doing here?" He asked as he looked down at me."I brought Elijah lunch." I signed and watch
I sat in the warm garden with the lunch box on my lap.I looked in to the lunch box with a frown. The food I'd packed for Elijah was cold. The rice had formed a solid shape of the lunch box, and the deep fried vegetables were soggy.Letting out a sigh, I pulled a spoon out of the pink bag and started digging in. I didn't have a meal after I woke up this morning, and I didn't want the food to go to waste. So, I decided to eat it myself.The heat from the sun was hotter today, forcing me to take my white scarf off.I let out a sigh before I stared fanning myself with my right hand."Why are you eating that?" Cilvia asked as she stepped out of the mansion and walked over to me.I shrugged my shoulder.Cilvia let out a soft sigh as she sat down next to me on the circular seat."You're really not going to tell me what happened today?" She asked, carefully watching me take a bite from the soggy vegetables.I glanced at Cilvia and saw that she was looking at me with curiosity.Letting out
Elijah Smith...I sat behind my desk in my office, pretending to work.I pretended like the woman sitting outside of my office didn't bother me.But it was bothering me.I looked towards the closed sheds of the window."How long are you going to keep this up?" Cane asked without looking up from his phone."How long has it been now, four day? The least you can do is tell her to stop coming to the company." He added.Cane was right.It's been four days since Ella started bring lunch for me, and it's been four days since I refused to let her in.Letting out a sigh, I leaned back in to my chair.After Cane, Dante and I found the listening device in the circular pendant necklace, I couldn't force myself to face her.I had no idea how I was going to deal with this thing, so staying as far away from her as possible until I figured it out was the best option I could find.But Ella wasn't making it easy on me.She came to the company every single day with a pink bag in her hand, claiming
Ella Smith...I rushed towards the elevator and pressed the last button that would lead me to the bottom floor.I looked down at my phone and pulled Cilvia's number out. I thought about sending her a text asking if she could pick me up and drive me to the Williamson's Mansion. But I stopped myself.Cilvia has been doing me a big favour by driving me to and from Elijah's mansion. She would wait near by the company until I told her that I was ready to leave.This morning, Cilvia mentioned that she had somewhere else to go, and that she would come after two hours to get me.Cilvia told me that she would come to pick me up in two hours, but If Elijah lets me in to his office, she told me to text her not to come.This was not apart of our arrangement.I didn't want to disturb her.Letting out a sigh, I dropped my arms to my side and waited for the elevator to open.Once the doors opened, I rushed out of the elevator and walked out of Elijah's company through the front entrance.The pl
"Ella?" Elizabeth called out.She stood up straight without picking the kitchen knife off of the floor.She stepped around the kitchen counter, and I walked past the door and stepped in to the kitchen."What are you doing here?" She asked in a soft tone, but her eyes were sharp, probably wondering if I'd listened in to her conversation.Her question made me frown a bit."I came to see Grandpa. You told me he was hurt." I signed.Elizabeth let out a nervous laugh."Oh, you didn't have to come over this quick." She replied.Her tone sounded very different from the text she shot at me earlier.She accused me of abandoning my family, for goodness sake."You seemed to have misunderstood me." I signed.Elizabeth slightly narrowed her eyes at me."Yes. Grandpa was really hurt. He gave us a huge scare. Of course we were upset that you chose not to visit." She mumbled."I really didn't know about it until you texted me earlier." I signed.Elizabeth didn't want to hear my reasons. She just look
I angrily moved the brush across the canvas, painting some random lines as I hoped to see a different image in it in order to save a good canvas from going to waste."What's got you this angry?" I heard Cilvia's voice, and I turned my head around to look at her over my right shoulder."You never sent me a text, so I assumed you were still waiting for Elijah. What happened today?" She asked.Letting out a sigh, I shrugged both of my shoulders and turned back to the canvas."So, Elijah didn't let you in again?" She asked, to which I shook my head.Cilvia walked closer to me and watched as I painted."Don't worry. He'll come around soon enough." Cilvia commented.My hand stopped moving at her words. Would it matter if he comes around after taking all of his time to hurt me with his silence and ignorance?I dropped my paint brush in to the tall cup with water filled half way in it, and walked over to the chair by the window.I pulled out my notebook and pen from my small handbag before I
Elijah Smith...I stood in front of the window of my study, staring out in to the magnificent garden with a glass of liquor in my right hand.I was beating myself up for stupidly believing that Ella had anything to do with the listening device in the pendant necklace she gave me.Sure, I might have taken it off of her hands, but Ella took it from Albert. She was a carrier without even knowing it. Heck, she was the one Albert wanted to wear the pendant so he would be able to listen in when she is around me, but she did him a big favour by giving it to me. Of course, she had no idea what she was doing. All she wanted to do was keep her father's last gift for her alive, and I ended up taking my anger out on her.I let out a sigh as I ran my left hand down my face."You drink too much." I heard Cilvia's voice as she walked in to my study.Of course, everytime I tell her not to come here, she does the absolute opposite."How many times do I have to tell you to stop bothering me?" I ask
Ella Smith...I looked at my reflection through the full length mirror. Cilvia wasn't messing around when she said she wanted to dress me up for tonight's dinner party.She went all out to find a beautiful dress and heels that matched my outfit.The dress was black, and it had golden veins stretching from the bottom to the top. It had a long cut from the bottom right up to my right tie. It showed a lot of skin.Both of the shoulders were low, showing off even more skin. The slightly low cut showed a little cleavage.It was an overall beautiful dress. The one thing I really hated about it was that my neck was exposed.I looked at my neck with narrowed eyes. If Cilvia thought she would send me out there with my neck exposed like this, then she is wrong. I will sneak in to Elijah's room and get a scarf before the dinner party starts.Yes, that's a plan.Cilvia came and stood next to me. She had both of her hands behind her back as she looked at my reflection."You don't look happy." S
I felt kisses all over my face.What a great way to wake up in the morning.I pealed my eyes open and glanced at my husband with a smile stretching my lips.Ah, the gorgeous smile on his face made me want to faint. I reached up and tapped my pointing finger on my lips, making Elijah chuckle.He leaned down to press his lips against mine, giving me a sweet good morning kiss."Good morning." He said after he pulled away."Good morning." I whispered in a very small voice.The smile that spread across his face was proof of how right my decision was to go through with the surgery Doctor Morgan recommended.Six months after our beautiful baby girls Violet and Rose had been born, I had decided that it was time for me to go through with the voice box treatment.As always, Elijah was super supportive, as were everyone else in the mansion.Doctor Morgan helped me with the preparations for the surgery while the doctor who would perform it flew in just for my treatment.The old doctor warned me th
I sat tense in the back seat of the car. Elijah had his arms around me as our driver drove us to the court house.Two and a half hours had passed since I helped my husband with his necktie, and the two of us left our mansion.We did eat out just like Elijah had promised we would. I was able to force myself to relax as I was sharing breakfast with my wonderful and attentive husband, but the second I realized that it was time for us to go to the court house, I started getting nervous again.Eating such a large portion of sweet pancakes and a full glass of milk might have been a big mistake because I felt like I was going to throw up.The feeling in my chest almost felt like I was on a scary ride at the amusement park that was shooting me up to the sky before I plummeted down to the ground and then back up to repeat the same process over and over again.It was a very sickening feeling, hence, the need to throw up."Just keep holding on to me, Love. I'm here for you." Elijah said, forcing
Ella Smith...I gently moved both of my hands over my belly, looking at the many flowers in the garden.I had a feeling of dread at the pit of my stomach at the thought of the events that are meant to take place on the very next day.It's been almost a month since Julia came to this mansion to speak to me, and ask to me drop the charges against Elizabeth. At that time, I had no idea what those charged against my twin sister were on the account of how distant and distraught I was for those days.Seeing my mother was extremely hard for me. And listening to her was ten times harder. When Elijah first told me that she was here and that he was having her sent away, something deep inside of me wanted to see her. Somehow, I just knew it would be the last time I would ever see my mother.I wanted to hear her out, not just to close a chapter in my life. There was a dumb hope in my chest that was telling me that my mother was here to apologize and maybe try to mend things. It was stupid
"Send that woman away." I ordered the new gate guard before I hung up the phone.I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose. Ella never told me to do anything to her mother, so I wasn't sure how to approach this yet. Should I have Julia meet the same fate as her favorite daughter, or should I have her forced away from the city?With how deep in the ground the Williamson's name was, it wouldn't be that hard to deal with the very last Williamson left in this town.I heard a knock on my door, and I instantly knew it was Ella, on the accounts of how my door was open and Ella would knock to get my attention, while the rest would just call out to get my attention.I looked up and watched as she slowly walked in. I noticed her bump seemed slightly bigger than last week. She's growing every single day.I offered her my hand, which she took the second she was near me. "Who was that?" She signed once she settled on my lap. "You heard me?" I asked, to which she nodded her head. "Both
I stopped the car in front of the widely opened front door. The sky was starting to light up as it was close, or maybe even past five in the morning. I didn't even bother to cut the engine before I pushed the door open and stumbled out of the driver's seat.I ran to the front door and rushed into the hall.I had to stop at how metallic the air smelled. Bodies laid in front of me, some being moved by our men.Kevin was the first one who caught my eyes."What the heck happened here?" I yelled at him. "Elijah..." He called out, ready to explain why there were bodies in and out of the house. But I stopped him, understanding that I couldn't care less about the dead people."Where is my wife?" I quickly asked. In the split second Kevin remained silent, unimaginable thoughts started invading my mind. In that small second, it felt like my life had flashed before my eyes.Kevin sighed."She's in the hall to the dining room. She refused to leave. She's been there for a few hours now." Kevin
Elijah Smith...It was a blood bath.Starting from the point we discovered one of our men dead in the surveillance room, up to the point we fought our way out of the mansion, we were bathing with blood.My shoulder was killing me. I caught the bullet when we first came across the men in the surveillance room, and it was making fighting for our life ten tines harder than it needed to be.The entire Viper mansion was ringing with gun shots. I was concerned for Cane and Connor, as they were the closest to Elliot.Once we killed our way out of the mansion and back into the nasty exit, they stopped following us, which was why we had to get to the car fast so we would be able to return to the mansion to help the twins and the Vipers.All Victor wanted us to do was get his daughter out of the mansion in case he wanted to burn it down, his words, not mine.And we did just that. After taking the girl to our car, we left her there with the getaway driver and the man who was following us before
Ella Smith...Pain exploded on my shoulder. I instinctively dropped to the ground and reached out for my left shoulder.The bullet had grazed me, but it still forced tears to my eyes.I heard Detective Kevin cuss before he shot towards the direction the bullet came from.His gun only had two rounds left, and the second it stopped firing, he stood up to cover me with his body.More shots were fired, and I was afraid the detective might have taken them for me. But one looked over my shoulder, and I saw that the shots fired were coming from the stairs, and Dalinda was the one who had the gun in her hands this time."Get out of there." She called out as Milton rushed past her to help Detective Kevin and I to move to the stairs."Miles." The detective called out before he started running back to the sitting room.The split second we were all distracted, Elizabeth shot at us again.All of us dropped to the floor. Blood spilled down the stairs, and my eyes widened as I looked up to se
Elijah Smith...Cane decided to stay in the surveillance room to keep an eye on everyone, especially Connor and Elliot.I left two men with him and left the surveillance room with Dante and one other man, and we decided to go to the rotting rooms to find Victor's daughter. I shot him a text to let him know that our group was the closest to his daughter and that we were about to help her out, that was so he would be able to focuse on the real task at hand."You really believe this marriage will work?" I whispered to Dante as we started making our way through the halls."It better work. You two are expecting a kid now." Dante replied, forcing me to roll my eyes. "You know damn well whose marriage I'm talking about." I hissed at him."Trust me, Elijah. It will work." Dante finally replied before we came to a stop at a cornor.I looked down at my phone when a low buzz came from it and saw that there was a text from Cane."Two armed men coming your way." Was what Cane sent me.I showe
I didn't want to take my time to think about what I was going to do. I didn't want my hesitation to cost the kid his life.I quickly dropped my eyes to my phone."Miles is goig to the stirs." I wrote down with utmost speed, making spelling errors I couldn't care to check. It didn't matter if my spelling was wrong in the text. All that mattered was that the detective understood what I was trying to say.I looked at the box showing that sitting room. A small light came from the corner, and I could tell that it was the light from the detectives phone. I could see panic on his face when the light gave away his expression.He quickly sent me a text."Stop him." I didn't hesitate for another second.I looked up at the monitor to see where little Miles was. The second I saw that he was getting closer to the hall turning to the stairs, I rushed to the door. Shoving my phone back into my pants, I fumbled with the locks and pulled the door open before I ran to the door of the room.I rushed