I sighed, "I never got over them, I never got comfort, never got closure, I was carrying this invincible pain that no one could see. I started things up, got a scholarship to go to college, got multiple jobs, graduated well, and got a good job. I loved my job; I was so good at it. It made me think less about my sad life and focus more on building the company. And that's what I did. Until I lost it, I started slipping into depression again, Kathy could see it all over me. And to top it all up, the day I lost my job was my parents death anniversary, so it was a lot. I went to their graves after I got my resignation letter, and I cried my heart out; I cursed them, and I cried that I missed them. I was alone in this world, and nothing made sense to me anymore; I didn't even see the use of living because what was I living for? I gave myself more than enough time to grieve. When I was done crying, I went to the club that day, and that was when I met you..", I slowly slipped into th
LAURA**I threw away what seemed to be the remains of the 7th cigarette I had lit today."That was your mistake, not mine".Those words Luther said to me still echoed in my head. I have been a fool all my life. All I've ever done was beg for love from someone who never wanted me.I knew it, I knew he did but I couldn't bring myself to believing it, now it was all clear, very very clear.Luther's father had given Ivy the position of the Cowper's father heiress whether or not she decides to stay with him, she was now officially part of the family; a family that I played on role in building from scratch.A one night stand just walked in and stole everything from me.I cursed and poured myself another glass of alcohol.Obsession is a cruel thing, it truly is."Rough night?", my mother asked coming behind me.I rolled my eyes, I am not ready for any of this, at all."If you're here to convince me that I shouldn't give up on Danger then please leave", I said calmly.She was part of the fa
IVY * * Laura was sitting in Luther's office when I walked in, I sighed, here we go again. She turned to me and smiled, "Hello, Ivy," she said in a tone I'd never heard her use. I looked at Luther; he looked back at me; we had the same look on our faces; What the fuck?? "Uhm... Hello", I said. "You look pale; pregnancy is a bitch, huh?" she asked again. I looked at Luther again, "Uhhh... yeah". "What's going on?", I asked. "Laura said she wanted to see you", Luther said finding it hard to believe himself. He had a gun on his table, so I'm guessing he doesn't trust her to be genuine and he's ready if she tries anything funny. "See me?", I asked. The last time we spoke, I said a lot of things to her that I do low-key regret, so I know she has nothing good to tell me. "Well, we never actually got to know each other well, and all, so I thought we could do some girly stuff while at it, maybe go shopping or something. " Luther laughed. Yeah, girly stuff like st
"You know this would have been a lot better if Ben wasn't hawking around us", Laura groaned."So you can kill Ivy and hide her dead body and let Don kill me? No way", he stated.She rolled her eyes, "Anyway, how do you like this Chanel bag?" she asked, handing me this ginger-colored bag.It fit my hair color perfectly."It's beautiful", I stated.Oh, and it's also $10,000. Yeah, I'll pass."Good let's add this to the cart and head home", she said.I paused, "Let's be for real here; what are you playing at? Why are you doing all this? The last time we spoke, you looked like you were going to kill me, and now, all of a sudden, you want to be nice to me?"."Exactly; the last time we spoke, things went ba,d, okay? And you're going to be my boss soon, God knows the things you could do to me, I'm trying to not let you think about all of that ", she said."You're still obsessed with Luther; how could you just be okay with it all of a sudden?"It's a silly crush; I'll get over it with time; a
Someone had been ringing the doorbell for a long time now, and no one answered it, so I went to check it out myself. It was a delivery guy. "Hi", I said. "Good day, ma'am; we're to deliver this to an Ivy Cowper?". My cheeks flared, he didn't just call me that, did he? "That will be me", I said. "Okay, it came in from Mr. Luther Cowper; please sign this here", he said, handing me a pen. Luther? Why is Luther sending me something when he can just get it here himself? I signed it anyway and took the box from him, thanked him, and went back inside. I dropped the box on the couch. What if it wasn't from Luther? What if it was from Laura and it was a bomb or something?? No, Laura wouldn't go that far to kill me, at least not yet. Or so I think. I opened the box and paused in surprise. It was a dress, a green dress, a very, very pretty green dress. I have no idea how he knew he knew my favorite color, but this was so pretty, and it had a pair of silver heels to match it. The
IVY * * I smiled. No I was blushing!! "A helicopter?", I asked smiling. "Yeahh, you scared of height?", he asked. No it's just... I... I've never been in one before ". "Good, there's a first time for everything ", he said. "I... I'm sorry what is going on?", I asked nervous as fuck. "Where's going on a date on a Helicopter, what else?". "Why?", I asked calmly. He shrugged. "We should get to know each other better, right?" I nodded slowly... right. "Good", he stretched out his hands. I took it and he walked me to the helicopter. It was so loud when we get closer. He gave Ben and sign and he responded and then left. He helped me up and we got in. "Wait are you the one flying this?", I yelled because I could barely hear my voice. ,He nodded. Okay I shouldn't be worried?? I mean should I? "Do you even know how to fly it?", I asked genuinely worried.He chuckled."Yes Ivy", he said strapping a belt on me and him."Now just sit back and relax", he said.Relax? hell no
Ivy **This was the Luther I met that night at the party, and the best part is that he's not drunk, there are no people around to say it's pretence, it's just the two of us so I know this is real."Living in an orphanage was kinda a bit fun if we're being honest. I had like 99 other siblings. We got to share everything together, from food to clothes and all.But then as time went on the people I was close to got adopted and for some reason, I was never picked"."They're all crazy not to pick you , I'd literally pick you in a room filled with kids, literally ", he said munching down on his pork chops.I smiled a little, he's been saying things to make me smile a lot tonight.Like he is so sweet and caring.I could never imagine him being like this to me, I've pinched myself like three times already and it's actually real."Okay so I want to ask, what was your relationship with Laura before I got into the picture? be honest".He shrugged, "Wasn't anything serious ", he said."With the
"So I heard you Went on a date with Danger last weekend", Laura stated. I could swear she's been wanting to talk about it the very moment she saw me. "Yeah", I said moving over to the other side of the boutique so she wouldn't talk about it again. But she followed. "Helicopter date huh?, that's cute", she chirped in again. "Yeah it was ". "I mean it's cute but I would never became like, I'm supper scared of heights", she said again. Bitch I don't care. "Oh ... okay" "Yeah, so did you have fun?". "Yeah I did", I said picking a by green lacy dress that looked so gorgeous. "Oh Danger doesn't like that color, I wore it one time and he said I looked like a twig", she said laughing. "Oh really? because that's kinda the color of the dress I wore to the date last week, which he got for me ", I stated. Laura looked shocked, she tried to maintain composure. "Oh... oh wow", she tried not to scoff, "That's, that's so surprising, I could have sworn he called me a twig when I wore som
IVY**I opened my door and saw Luther, I rolled my eyes and started heading inside."I know you hate me and I'm a terrible person", he said following me inside."You are", I replied."And I'm so sorry Ivy"."You are",I said again."I promise this is never ever ever going to happen again. Laura had an accident and things have been so shitty and -"."Luther it's okay, I get it, how's she doing?", I asked not wanting to talk about the fact that he straight up ghosted me for 3 weeks.again.He sighed, "It's bad, she's lost a good chunk of her memory"."Well, at least she's okay.""No she's not, that's the thing I wanted to talk to you in person about it. Laura doesn't remember you, at all, she doesn't even know who you are, she doesn't remember that Owen is dead, lot's of things. Meaning she doesn't know we're in a relationship, she thinks I'm still with her".Okay my heart did giggle a little when he said we were in a relationship but focus!"Wait, what?"."You know Laura and I just re
LUTHER ***I had just settled down from my trip from Paris when I got a call from Laura's mother. She was in tears.Laura had an accident."She said she wanted to go take a shower, I told her to come down when she's done and have dinner. I waited for her for hours, I got really worried I went to check up on her thinking maybe she had fallen asleep or something. Only to get into the bathroom and find her on the floor in her own blood. She had blacked out. I think she slipped and fell, she hit the back of her head, the doctors are saying it's going to be a miracle if she makes it alive.... She's all I have, all I have".I had to get on the plane immediately to go to Miami. I was so scared.I just finally made peace with Laura and now this? God what is happening.Family meeting had to hold.Laura was unconscious for 2 weeks straight. Her mother seemed so broken and sad , I've never seen her so emotional before.Clearly I understand why, she loves Laura, truly they were all they had.
LAURA. * * Paris was over. I realized that I hadn't gotten over Luther, I probably never will. But I can't force love, his heart is with someone else and I just have to accept it. After all of this I'm going to go back to London, or Brazil. Away from all of this, start a new life there And maybe get to fall in love with someone, maybe even start a family. The thought of it made me warm inside. The feeling of new beginning, the realization that you are finally free to be whoever you want to be, that feeling is divine. So divine. I got to my house and opened the door. I immediately heard a gun click and I froze.i turned on the light. Martins was standing there with a gun pointed at me. My mother was smoking, none of them looked like they wanted to play. "W... what is going on". "Happy new years Laura", my mother said. "Uhm.. ha.. happy... happy new years mom ", I said. "Come inside, it's your house ", she said and I did slowly. I closed the door. "So, how'd you spend your
LAURA ***I got a call from Luther yesterday, he wanted us to go to Paris together, which was odd because he's never asked for something like that unless it was work, and I heard he was dropping everything off completely so I don't think he'd want to do anything like that.Regardless I agreed because I needed to get away from My mother and Martins and every other drama happening right now."So, are you going to tell me why you paid for an all expense paid trip for me to Paris or what? and I know that you're not trying to get me back, because that would be very stupid to think of" I said eating my stake.Yes I'm a vegetarian, but recently, I've been eating everything I see to stay alive because I've been becoming skinny.We were in this five star restaurant for dinner."Well if we're being honest I actually wanted to go with Ivy".I rolled my eyes, "Of course, I'm the second choice "."No you're not, you're not I promise, I figured it'll be a perfect time for us to meet up and talk
The past 19 days have been... weird. No drama, no hired assassin trying to kill me, no drama from two brothers, no crazy ex girlfriend coming after my life or trying to protect me from stuffs I have absolutely no idea about, it's just being so peaceful. Which is weird because my life has always been about drama, so don't get my wrong when k say this but I'm scared as fuck Martins, I've tried contacting him 600 times and he didn't answer.I just this he needs space to process everything. The truth is I will always be grateful to him for everything. And I don't even think this is all about me, it's about this grudge he has for Luther, and maybe one day I'm going to have to settle them together. Luther.. he left that night and told me he'll be in touch, but he hasn't. No surprises there lol. I've been thinking of the worse situations possible, like for example I just blew off Martins to be with him and he just ghosted me, or found another woman, or was rethinking the whole thing, se
"You guys please I think that's enough", I said."No Ivy please stay out of this, I think we need to have this conversation once and for all", Luther said walking up to Martins."Why the fuck do you hate me so much Martins? give me one reason? a good reason, and a better damn reason, just one solid reason why you despise me so much", Luther asked."Why won't I? do you know what it means living in your shadow? no one even knows I exist, nobody regards shit about me, everyone puts you first. I have nobody Luther, nobody, no family, not even one person to call mine. Our mother died and -""And I fucken took you in! I did. I treated you like my own blood but of course my father never wanted anything to do with you so you were thrown out and that is not my fault Martins!"."You stood there and watched your own blood get thrown out for being from another father?"."Martins! I was 12, what did you expect me to do? I was a child for damn sake. Oh my God, were you expecting me to fight my fath
"You... you love me?", I asked."I thought that was so obvious, I mean even my enemies know you're my weakness and my strength at the same time so... of course I do, I love you so much.I mean I gave my entire life to be with you and I'll do it again and again and again because I love you ".I swallowed hard."I don't... I don't know what to say Luther...I don't ".He held my hands."Okay, let me ask you something, if I wasn't this person... Don Danger, if I was just Luther would you love me?"."Of course ", I whispered."Then stop seeing me as that person, I'm Luther, just Luther, have you ever wondered why you're the only human in the world that doesn't call me Don Danger? because I'm not that person when I'm with you, I feel so free and myself.... you're the best thing that has ever happened to me in years and yes I promised myself, I promised you that I'll leave you alone but I can't... I just can't Ivy, I can't let you be alone, I can't "."What if this doesn't work out? what if
IVY *Amber's calls to check up on me every single day, he has gotten more security around my house and they follow me everywhere. He has assured me that I have nothing to be afraid of, and for some reason I believed him.I had no idea what was going on and I couldn't trust anyone, not even the ones that tell me to trust them. I can only trust my family because I know they want what's best for me.I'm so grateful to God I found Amber, I don't know what I would have done without him.It was Saturday evening and I was making some lasagna when one of the security informed me that I had a guest."Who is it?".Because I'm definitely not expecting to meet anyone today."It's Don Danger Madam".Oh shit Luther.I sighed."Let him in", I said and grabbed my knife.Few seconds later, he came in to the kitchen.He relaxed on the door and smiled at me."I love how you're so security conscious now, it's cute", he said."Well I don't trust anyone so...""And why do you think I'd hurt you? clearly
LAURA**My room door flew open and Martins sister barged in."Are you out of your fucken mind?", I yelled dropping my gun that I was ready to use on her"I'm supposed to be asking you that question, why are you working with my brother to take down Luther and put Ivy's life in danger, do you have any idea the kind of risk you're taking?", she asked.Trust me princess, I know how crazy it sounds.But I can't let you know I do."That's your brothers idea and none of mine"."Laura, clearly you have to be smarter than this, bringing Owen down is possible, very easy, but not Luther, not him!"."I'm just heading to his instructions princess, so go and lay your complains on him"."Gosh, you have no idea what you're doing, come with me!", she yelled pulling me out of the bed and dragging me downstairs."Bitch what the fuck?".She ignored me and pulled me downstairs.My mother and Martins were there.Disgusting."I need three of you to please listen to me. You are making the biggest mistake o