PROLOGUEAudrey is crying on the couch while she covers her face with her hands. He is sitting right across her and watching her crying her heart out but he didn't care. Audrey pulls her head up to him with her tears wetting her cheeks."You promised me Audrey." He says firm.He isn't bothered about her tears, he is hard as a rock and he does not care about emotions anymore. He knows pretty damn well that she acts her way out of trouble and he's gotten a hold of it for years now. He's used to seeing Audrey getting what she wants and she knows she can't deceive him but at least she tried to. He knows she's spoiled. He knows too damn well that he needs to trim down those devilish long horns above her head and he can do it because he can manipulate her for he knows all her dirty secrets."I know I promised you!" She yells."But it's taking so long!" He yells back.She's scared. She knows he's capable of everything when he wants to do something. She knows damn well that he is willing to k
CHAPTER 1H U G OI could hold his face with my huge hand and his eyes looks so adorable as it were about to close. I wish he'd finally go to sleep. I've been carrying him for almost two hours now. My arms are aching and whenever I put him down on top of his little mattress, he ends up opening his eyes again. And whenever I sit down, he cries loud so basically I've been standing here to put him to sleep and he still isn't.I gently sway him around.Hum him some songs I know.Tap his little bum covered in his diapers.Then sway him a little bit more.I have so many papers needed to be read and to be signed but he's consuming all my time. The nannies can't even put him to sleep which ended him in massive loud cries. So I volunteered to put Alex to sleep and I ended up with my loads of work left undone.I gazed at the clock and it was already midnight. It's getting pretty late and I wonder where Audrey is. She said she was out to meet a friend and she's been out for too long.I reached f
CHAPTER 2HUGO"Are you fucking serious right now?!" She begins to yell a little louder.I slammed my laptop close as I respond, "I looked through the wedding photos that Ned sent me.""Oh yeah of course! You did! You actually did and you fucking literally zoomed into Miranda's face?!" She screams."Alex is sleeping." I grit my teeth."Fuck that baby. I don't care." She spits at me.I gaped in surprise at her words,. "Do you even hear yourself? You're the mother to that child!""I don't care about that now!” She screams at my face. “All that matters now is the fact that you are staring into Miranda’s photos?! I'm mad you!""Oh come on Audrey! You don’t have to make this a big deal when I should be the one who needs to be mad at you right now. You come home late as if you don’t have any responsibilities to your child. You went out drinking and you come here throwing a fit at me!?" I raged.She scoffs sarcastically, "That's not the point here Hugo!""It is Audrey! It fucking is." I rant
CHAPTER 3M I R A N D A"How was the honeymoon?" Aunt Jo asked.Landon and I were having dinner together with his entire family in a special restaurant where we reserved a VIP room for all of us. I was worried when I arrived because I know Charlotte is here and I still find it difficult to actually talk to her. She still scares me even though I know that she's learned to accept me for Landon."You've both been gone for one month. I bet the places you've been to were marvelous." Felicitè commented and smiled at me."It was. Purely fantastic, wasn't it love?" Landon asked me while he forks his steak into his month."Yes. I was completely in awe. Dubai got me pretty badly. Still haven't gotten over it that’s for sure." I commented with a smile."We should go and do shopping at Dubai together, Randy." Charlotte blurted.I could tell that aunt Jo and her husband were surprised and so did Landon. I quickly smiled at her, happily, and I was too joyful that she wanted to go to Dubai and do s
CHAPTER 4M I R A N D A"You knew about Ben?" I asked her.She nods, "Of course dear. When I saw Ben on TV, I knew he was little Hugo. They looked totally the same and I remember Hugo when he was Ben's age."I smiled at myself."Are you with Ben?" She asks with hope in her eyes."He's in New York. Landon didn't want Ben to get his tantrums while we're on vacation so we thought it was better to let him stay in New York with his aunt.""It's much safer too." Gladys agrees.I nodded, "Plus he needs to visit his pathologist as well. And do some of the rehab activities that are helping him through." I smiled at my answer."I felt bad I haven't visited you during those days. I'm sorry.""No need to be sorry. It's really okay." I muffled.We continued walking arm in arm-around the restaurant."Mum! Look who I bumped into." Gladys chimes.I felt relieved when I didn't see Hugo around the table. It was only her and Mrs. Anne. She gapes and stands on her feet while she welcomed me with her arms
CHAPTER 5M I R A N D ALandon and I were the last ones to leave among his family and we intended to stay behind. They left ahead of us and we decided to stay a little bit with the Saintclares to have a little chitchat. Although I wanted to leave since Hugo was around, Landon decided to stay as he ordered a cup of tea but I ordered nothing else since I was already too full.We talked about how our honeymoon turned out and I can't help but comment about it because I literally indeed enjoy it too much. I'm not intentionally making Hugo feel jealous of what I experienced with Landon because I literally had the best time of my life with everything I did that one whole month.We discussed more about Mrs. Anne’s health condition and how she has been having diet meals to maintain her body weight. We furthered talked about Gladys’ business and how she had changed after she started working on her own business. The conversation was overflowing and I enjoyed having the conversation with them alt
CHAPTER 6M I R A N D AI feel like I deprived him from everything that Hugo could offer him. I feel like Ben's imagination of a complete happy family will not be real because of me even though Landon can provide him with it, I know he still wishes that it’s with Hugo. I always end up blaming myself when Hugo can't give so much attention for Ben now."Mom?" Ben calls out my attention."Yes baby?" I answered as I push his hair off his face."When's daddy Hugo c-coming home?" He asks with his innocent eyes.I sigh inwardly.I don't have any idea Ben. It's been a week since I saw him in London and I don't know when he's going to visit you. I answered him mentally.I smiled. "Do you wanna give daddy Hugo a call?" I asked.Ben nods vigorously. "Can I?""Of course." I reached for my phone and searched for Hugo's number.I hit call.It was just ringing.I pressed my lips together and waited for Hugo to pick up his phone to answer me.H U G O My phone vibrates on top of the table which stops
CHAPTER 7M I R A N D A"Doing great Ben!" I hear Landon.I turned my attention to Landon and Ben who were trying to fly a kite. We were having a small barbecue party slash get together at our backyard. Vivian and Art were here, Leon and Scarlet came too since they were around town today while Paris and Zachary came all the way here to visit us.We were all making barbecues, Leon did most of the grilling while the ladies, set up the table. Zachary and Landon were playing with Ben and I think all of us are enjoying our day so far just relaxing.When it was time to eat, all of us settled down on the table and started eating together as soon as everything was ready. We talked about so many things that we could possibly think of. We tackled on how things were going with them while we were on our honeymoon. I heard Paris and Zachary were expecting another baby and we're all so happy for them. Scarlet just opened a new boutique and I heard she's designing her own clothing line. No wonder th