NOLAN.
The car pulled to a stop in front of the luxurious hotel and suites where my fiancee was hosting her birthday party. Chloe, my fiance, loved to go all out for events and I was all for it. Although, I had disappointed her and told her that I wouldn't make it back in time for her birthday since I'd been out of town for a few days.
“Welcome, sir.” The receptionist behind the counter got on her feet to bow to me and I rolled my eyes. Taking a glance at my phone, I exhaled. Time passed quickly and I was in a terrible mood.
“I’m sure my assistant already made my reservation so skip the formalities and get to the point. I want the best room in this place with a magnificent view.” I told her and she started to type something into her laptop.
She looked up and glanced at me, a frightened look on her face. “I’m sorry, sir but the best room with the beautiful view is booked already. Do you…” she tried to say before I interrupted her.
“Are you denying my request?” I narrowed my eyes at her and she kept her mouth shut. I wished them that my assistant, Dan was around. He knew exactly what to do and how to deal with shit like this.
“I’m sorry, sir. I will switch you up to the room now.” She started to type quickly. After a few seconds, she opened a drawer desk and handed me the key card. “Enjoy your stay, sir.” She added as I made my way to the elevator.
The elevator took me up to the top floor and I located my room immediately. As soon as I got into the room, I slammed the door and dropped my suitcase on the bed in the room. With an annoyed scowl on my face, I placed an order for my favorite alcoholic wine and it was brought to me in a few minutes.
“You are a disgrace to me, Nolan. A disgrace! You couldn't even bag us the deal we have been aiming for in years. You are a big mess!”
My father's words from earlier filtered into my mind and my mood dampened even more. My father was a big man, the owner of the wealthiest empire in the world. He was well-respected and well-valued. I had done everything I knew to please him, to seek his favor yet he never failed to remind me of how much of a failure I was. Always comparing me to that illegitimate son of his, Bradon.
I poured myself a full glass of wine and gulped half of it. In less than thirty minutes, I was on my sixth glass of wine. My head was getting heavy and my sight blurry yet my ears perked up when the door to my room opened and someone sauntered in before slamming the door. I almost didn't recognize who it was because the room was dark.
I exhaled as I stared at the silhouette of my woman, Chloe. She had started to take off her clothes which made me rise from my seat. Chloe just knew exactly what to do to make my night better. She must have known that I was in a terrible mood.
“What are you doing?” I asked her even though I knew exactly what she was doing. I grabbed her arm and she tried to wiggle free as she replied to me. Pushing her against the door, I sniffed in her vanilla strawberry feminine scent. Chloe had never worn that perfume before but it did smell marvelous on her. I couldn't resist the urge to bite her cheeks so I did.
“Well, baby, strip for me.” I slapped her ass when she turned around to tell me to help with the zipper of her clothes. She seemed unwary as I was, stumbling and almost falling to the floor. She also looked a bit different, definitely more curvy.
After helping to get her out of her clothes, I wrapped my arms around her and her bouncy tits rubbed against me. I kissed her long and hard and she kissed back, rubbing her hands against my growing erection. And when I bent her over and fucked her, I allowed her to take away all the pain I had buried myself in while she piped and moaned for me, sending me high and beyond.
“Fuck!”
I groaned as I finished off with her and she collapsed on the bed. A smile lit up my face. I managed to clean up and clean her up too since she immediately fell asleep before getting into bed with her with my arms wrapped around her.
*****
“You WHORE!”
My eyes flew open at that very loud voice as I felt the bed shift under me. At first, I could barely make out anything since my vision was still blurry but after blinking a few times, I was able to figure out who was crashing stuff in my room and yelling and screaming altogether.
“Chloe, what the fuck?!” I screamed back as I got up on the bed, staring in shock as she grabbed the glass vase on the table in the room and smashed it on the floor. This also made me realize that I was not in my room in my house but in a hotel.
“You slept with her?! You fucking slept with her!” She screamed again, breathing heavily as she pointed at someone I didn't see.
With my face scrunched up in confusion, I finally turned to who she was pointing at and my eyes widened at the lady seated, no, scooted at the edge of the bed with the duvet wrapped around her to cover up.
It only took me a second to realize what had happened.
“Fuck!”
I screamed, my eyes widened in disbelief as I shot out from the bed. Chloe had stopped screaming but she was still breathing very heavily.
“What the fuck did you do to me? How did I end up with you?” I tried to search my mind for what must have happened but it came out blank. I couldn't remember a single thing.
Chloe rushed at her younger sister and pulled her hair making the girl I had barely bothered to learn her name scream out in pain, crying and pleading.
“I didn't know…This was a setup. I'm not sure what happened.” She was screaming and pleading with Chloe. The door pushed open again and Mrs. Clarkson rushed in with her phone to pull Chloe away from her sister while I stood there still trying to understand how I got myself into this situation.
“This is a mess, mum. This bitch seduced my man. She seduced him.” Chloe started to cry as she took the phone from her mom to talk to someone. She didn't look at me as she rushed out of the room.
“GET OUT!” The woman screamed at Chloe younger sister. She didn't need to be told twice though as she rushed out of the room as quickly as she could with the covers wrapped around her.
“Mrs. Clarkson, I give you my word, I don't understand how this happened.” I started to explain the situation. I was yet to fully understand myself to the older woman who had started to get red in the face from anger.
“Oh, I know. That slut seduced you!” She declared. Exhaling loudly, she started to pace around the room. “And now the news about your affair with her has spread all over the world.”
“Excuse ME?”
“Someone must have walked in on you two last night and saw you two. There's video footage of you and her together doing unimaginable things,” she looked like she was going to vomit. “Your reputation is at stake, Nolan.” She sounded sorry.
My phone started to ring while she walked out of the room probably to find her oldest daughter and console her. My head had started to bang heavily with everything that had gone down. I picked up my phone and realized that it was my parents calling. My father to be specific.
Swallowing, I answered the call because not answering was another disappointment.
“What have you done?” he screamed at me as soon as I answered the call.
“I don't understand how it happened, father. This was all a setup.” I tried to explain to him but he wouldn't hear it.
“Our reputation is at stake. The company's reputation is at stake. Our family's name is at stake. My phones are blowing up. The press is everywhere. Do you know what they are saying?” he snapped. I gulped and shook my head even though he couldn't see me.
“They are saying that, “Nolan Westbrook caught in a steamy moment with Noble Man's daughter, Alanna Clarkson, the sister to his fiancee, Chloe Clarkson.”
I rubbed my face. This was deep shit.
“You have to fix this, Nolan. Immediately.” My mother spoke up and I bit my lower lip from asking how cause I knew she had a plan. She always have a plan, “You are going to have to let Chloe go and marry her younger sister and then let the media spin a perfect romance love story for you two.” She announced.
I was fucked. So fucked.
ALANNA.I stared at the two pink lines on the pregnancy test strip I had and purchased from the store myself. This was the fifth one I was trying on myself and the results were the same thing.I was pregnant.As in, I was going to be a mother.My back hit the wall as I struggled to hold back my sob. I couldn't be pregnant. I couldn't have a child in this condition. I was practically living like a slave in this house, married to this man I was secretly in love with and hoping that he would at least love me back. Even if it was for a day.Yes, I was that desperate to make him love me. To love me the way I loved him because all I'd ever gotten from him back in return for my love toward him was nothing but attitude and hatred. My husband hates me.I stared at the pink lines again and started crying even more. Abortion shouldn't even cross my mind. I could lose my life in the process and I wasn't about to put myself through that. But at the same time, having a baby in a house where no one
NOLAN.FIVE YEARS LATER.“Sir,” I glanced up from my laptop toward the door where my assistant, Linda, stood. She had her hands folded behind her while she stared at me quietly.“Get my car ready. I'm leaving.” I instructed her, ignoring the smile that immediately appeared on her face. I didn't blame her though. I had kept her working past her working hours and I understood that she was tired.The past few weeks have been very hectic for me and even more, the company. This huge deal we'd been chasing after for a year now finally fell through and we were celebrating it off with a grand red carpet dinner event tonight. LUCA EMPIRE was the perfect collaborator and partner for WESTBROOK Limited, the company I was currently heading.My father finally gave up the seat for me and stepped down for me to take control. I thought I would finally get my life the way I wanted it but it's never been more miserable. Probably because occasionally, I would wonder about the blonde-haired silver-eyed w
ALANNA"The CEO of LUCA EMPIRE ALANNA CLARKSON"Fuck! That introduction felt so good.I waited five fucking years to see the look on their face. Coming back after five years of being away from the monsters I called family and the man I used to love, the father of my kids. Nolan!He had not changed one bit. He still had the darkest blue eyes I had ever seen. "Alanna," someone called out, it was a voice I recognized all too well, the man who gave birth to me but also the man who called me a "Disgrace""Mr. Clarkson," I replied, no way I was going to give him the liberty of hearing me call him father again. His eyes darkened, and their eyes all did, Nolan stood close to Chloe but his hands were no longer on her waist, they were inside his pocket as he stood in total awe. Chloe looked petrified, mortified like she had just seen a ghost. In a way she just did. We all stood, I still had a subtle smile on, I was enjoying every bit of the moment. I had waited five excruciating long ye
NOLANAlanna is driving me the fuck crazy. I mean, I am losing my fucking mind standing here before her. She has changed, she is different. She is no longer the girl I used to know before. "Oh please, I am going to get a fucking drink, since we all want to act like this is normal," Chloe declares and storms away. I wasn't going to go after her, I had had enough of her drama for one night, of course, she wasn't being overly dramatic this time. In fact, her reaction is justified, I am trying not to allow my "Active imagination" as Alanna said to Chloe fly, else I would have been reacting the exact way Chloe is. Ouch, Alanna, that was just stone-cold rude. But I am losing my mind, how did she go from the helpless girl I married to this sophisticated, elegant woman right here? Her eyes were still the brightest hazel green eyes I have ever gazed upon, her body was no longer slender, it was fully rounded, her breasts were more round now, her waist thinner and her butt firmer, and
ALANNAThe look on Nolan's face when I announced I had 40 percent shares of his company was priceless. "This bitch," I could see Chloe mouth out the curse, her face consumed with spite and rage. I couldn't care less about Chloe. When I reached out to other investors to acquire their shares, I kept it quiet, I didn't want to come back as a shareholder, I wanted to come back as a major one. I sauntered down the podium as applause came from every angle of the hall. I walked down to where Nolan stood, he was still dumbfounded. "As a major shareholder, I would be coming about the company often, I will require an office," I paused, Brad was scribbling down all my requests in a notepad while Nolan stared at me. Chloe was already drunk, staggering to stand on her stilettos, while my father held her for balance. "You know what, I will just have my assistant Angela email all that to you, this would include your accounts, your numbers, I want to see them all,"Nolan's eyes widened in di
NOLAN"That fucking bitch, who the fuck does she think she is coming back from the dead…." I tuned Chloe's voice out, she had been cursing and spitting all kinds of words since we left the banquet hall. I was a little bit tipsy, I regretted having that shot of alcohol. I had not drunk liquor since the night of the drunken sex with Alanna. But today, I was so angry and anxious at the same time. All kinds of emotions flooded my being with Alanna's return. At one point, I was kind of happy to see her, she looked so elegant and beautiful. A lot had changed about her, but when she decided to play dirty and go to my shareholders to obtain their shares, all I could feel was anger. I worked my ass off to get the company to where it is now, after my father almost ruined it, with debt and embezzling funds, and investors were pulling out. But here comes Alanna from nowhere, owing a major share of the company I sweat day in and out to keep afloat. "Are you even listening to me?" Chloe asked,
ALANNAI hate this fucking town, no wonder I left. Coming back to this town and being the headline for one week was not the sort of attention I wanted, especially when I still have a lot of secret hidden away in my closet. I got out of the car and there were reporters everywhere, "Ms. Alanna, do you plan on getting back together with your ex-husband?" the slender body reporter asked, I sighed, I wasn't going to grace them with any form of response. We kept strong toward the building as they kept asking questions. "Do you plan to take away your sister's husband?" another reporter asked. I rolled my eyes, all they want to know is that. “I hate reporters and their no sense of privacy,” Angela continued with her whining as we made our way up the elevator of the Westbrook empire. "You need to get used to it, now that we are in the spotlight, you need to learn to deal with them," I muttered as we got into the elevator and Angela pressed the button leading up to the third floor.
NOLANAlanna would be the death of me, Alanna drives me crazy, literally, I am going crazy just staring at her. Why did she come back? To make me pay for all I did to her? To make me suffer? To make me want her more than I have ever wanted her before? "So let us start with why over two billion dollars of funds are unaccounted for in your account," a smirk formed on her face. Alanna is evil, she is the she-devil, here to drag me to hell with her.Brad swallowed, this was no news to any of us, we all knew about the missing fund, it took selling my soul to the devil to keep the company afloat and by the devil, I mean Alanna, if not for the missing fund, we would have not been looking for more investors and we would have not partnered with LUCA empire which turns out to be Alanna’s company.“Ms. Alanna can we discuss this in the office maybe some other time?” Brad spoke out, coming to our rescue, I was still trying to find my words and pacing, this is the effect Alanna has on me, she t