ELLIOT’S POVI was back at my mansion, helping the triplets arrange their lunch bags. A better way to put it was that I was helping my kids arrange their lunch bags.It felt so liberating, so fulfilling, and so unreal that these beauties eventually turned out to be my children. I was so proud of how accurate my earlier permutations about the boys resembling me had turned out to be.It was morning, and they were getting prepared for school. Since Sophie's little health mishap, I have since moved the kids over to my place to live with me. I couldn't wait for her to recover and join us so we could live as one big happy family.Amelia, my sister, was also around. She walked into the kitchen while I was still thinking and stood next to me with a dissatisfied look on her face.“What's with that look?” I asked slightly, raising my head.“What's not there to look at?” She grimaced.“Why not bring these kids to the family house? Mum is eager to be with them, and she will get them the best nann
ELLIOT’S POV I continued to stare at my dad after I asked the question, and he let out a deep sigh."Who is the child's dad? Have you met him before? How did it happen?"I asked at the same time, almost as though his silence and his new thoughtful mannerisms had stirred up my curiosity even more.He finally cleared his throat and shook his head slightly."It's quite a long story."I shrugged and said."Well, I'm not too bored to listen.""Alright." He said calmly, adjusting himself on the couch."I think it was about 3 years before your mom had you. At the time, we had just moved the headquarters to the company’s current location. Life was set, and I had decided to source more investors for our budding corporation. I planned to travel around the world for like a few years, precisely 3 years, leaving your mom behind, who I had just engaged with, of course." He let out a small smile. Which was plainly not a happy smile, I could immediately tell that it had come from a deep place of pai
SOPHIE’S POVI woke up yet again to the strong smell of disinfectant. The ward I was in was very quiet and isolated since it was a private ward. I switched my eyelids on and off to brighten my vision. I glanced around like I was used to doing every morning since I came here, taking in the vision of the closed hospital walls that were schemed in ash and white. I will finally be out of this place tomorrow morning. I was so much better now, better enough to go back to my normal life. According to the doctor in charge of my case, I had only fainted from mild dehydration coupled with the stress and emotional rollercoasters the paternity saga took me through. Vasovagal syncope is what he called it. So I would have been billed for discharge so much earlier than tomorrow, but Elliot and I had agreed I would take the opportunity to rest and relax some more after all, no one was getting hurt.Personally, I had agreed to the bed rest because I wanted Elliot to use the opportunity to spend some
Elliot’s POVImmediately after I saw the message, I rushed out of the house, grateful for Sophie's understanding. I had already gotten to the garage when I realized I had grabbed the wrong keys; the one I was holding was for the Mercedes instead of my favorite Tesla, but there was no more time to go back.I shrugged and shouted at one of the security guards.“Open the gates.”Which he rushed to do while I jumped right into the Benz and swiftly turned on the ignition, marching my gas pedal as I propelled myself out like an arrow through the flung open gates.I raced at full speed through the freeway toward the company's direction and swung my steering wheel at every sharp corner I got to until I got to where I was going.A swarm of IT executives were already hanging around the hallway, waiting for me, by the time I arrived. They had received my message. I had ordered Gerald to put them all on standby before I left the house.This was why I liked Jacob's mode of operation. His investig
GENERAL POVOlivia sat on the balcony of her parent's house, lost in thoughts, as was typical of her these days. This was where she lived now. She had moved into the family house again a few days ago after she was sent out of her previous residence.Her former home in New Rochelle was provided by Harrington’s Group as an official residence. After she departed from the company, she was asked by the management to vacate the premises in 48 hours. She also realized that she could no longer withdraw from her bank accounts; every single one of them was placed on hold by the banks after the police interrogation of Kennedy, and the lab assistant revealed how much she gave him in exchange for the sample toothbrushes, money amounting to over five hundred thousand dollars.The Bursary and Finance department had in turn informed her that they would investigate her account, and if nothing fishy was detected, she would get it back. In her heart of hearts, she knew a lot of things were fishy, which
SOPHIE'S POVAunty Susan joined us in the rearrangements at the mansion.Even though it was only a few minutes to her departure now, she was busy helping the kids roll over their boxes into a corner neatly. She had arrived yesterday with tears streaming from both eyes. I was sobbing bitterly that she had only recently been informed about everything that had happened to me a few weeks ago. Her daughter had informed her after her arrival from her trip to Montgomery."Please forgive me, my dear daughter, and also my babies; please forgive Auntie." She said to the kids. She was embracing all of us at once when she arrived."You know how some of us old people are; we live in a different world entirely, with just a phone and hardly ever using the internet. How would I have known you were going through all that? You know me, I would have not thought twice about coming over to be with you all through that fight. I never knew you experienced all this suffering at the hands of people you call
GENERAL POVThe previous night was the longest night Isabella had ever had; she had woken up before her siblings the following morning, which was unusual. Her eyes were lazy, and her heart was anxious. She had spent most of her night thinking too much about the outing their dad had promised to take them on yesterday, willing the hands of time to run faster, afraid that their dad might pop out from the shadows anytime to announce a sudden change of plans.At some intervals, she would sigh impatiently and get up from the bed to stand at the center of their room and just stare vaguely at the wall clock. “Why are you so slow tonight?” she found herself whispering. She was acting this way probably because they had never gone on a family outing like this with their mom before, let alone doing it with both parents; this was the first of a kind for all of them.Before they even got to know who their dad was, it was something Isabella had always wished and daydreamed about secretly, particu
ELLIOT’S POVI stood, gazing into space with hands akimbo, after the call with Gerald."Fuck, so we lost the contract? Really? Not just to anyone, but to Xander, I can't believe it."I murmured in disbelief, feeling great disappointment at the administrative performance of those I left to just briefly take care of things in my absence, particularly at Hanks, who I initially thought was eligible enough to represent me."What a poor outing from a so-called senior executive board member—a department head, for that matter. Instead of giving his all to make a great first impression and earn my trust in his abilities, look at what he did. I'm never letting him handle such responsibility ever in the future."I took my hands off my waist and folded them as my mind continued to wander in thought. "Come to think of it, why should I even keep paying him when he can't do things properly? Why?"I blew out hot air from my mouth and wiped my forehead lightly; the wetness rubbed off on the back of m