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"Alice." Her name leaves my lips as I hear her voice over the phone. "Did you miss me? Because I've missed you." Her cynical voice made my stomach twist as anger boiled inside of me."How dare you call me after everything you have done?" I ask her as I move away from the door so Autumn can't hear me."Where are you?" I asked her then heard her laugh on the other end of the line."You don't actually think I'm going to tell you where I am." No, I did not."Then what the hell do you want from me?" "I just wanted to ask how Autumn was, but I guess she didn't die since there was nothing in the papers. She really is God's favorite, all of my efforts were in vain. It seems she really is a woman of steel." Alice said with a mocking voice."You can't run forever, sooner or later the police are going to find you and I'll make sure you rot in hell." Not just her, but her mother as well."Such rough words, is that any way to talk to a friend, why don't I call you once you're more calm down." Ali
"Did you feel that, it did it again? It's the first time I felt it kick." Autumn said as amaised as I was."Yes, he or she is definitely playing football in there." I can't even begin to explain the mix of feeling within me right now. The happiness and joy of my child kicking inside of the woman who I love more than life itself. And that baby is not even in my arms yet but I already know I would kill anyone who would ever try to hurt it."Wait, do you think the baby can feel when we...? Autumn lifts her eyebrows and points between us. How would I know, this is the first time I was going to be a father. It just down on me that there is a shit ton of stuff that I don't know."No, I don't think so. Do you?" She is the mother, she should feel it."I don't know that. I never thought about it." Apparently, we are both undereducated in baby topics. "You know what, I'm gonna go out and buy us all the best books about babies and we can read them together. We"ll learn together." I say as I gent
I hold the note in my hands as I look around myself trying to see if anyone was there. But this had to be Alice. And before in the parking lot in New York, that had to be her too. There was no trace of her leaving the country because she never left. She was still here, lurking. And now she knows about the baby which makes her so much more dangerous. But she can't come close to Autumn, there is no way for her to enter the Cromwell mansion. It doesn't mean she's not going to try. "Where are you? Come out and face me!" I yell and an old woman comes out of her car looking at me like I was crazy. "Sorry." I say before getting in the car and driving away. The whole ride back to the Cromwells I spent looking into my rearview mirror trying to see if anyone was following me, I even took a few wrong turns before getting to the entrance where security opened the door for me. I got out of the car and saw Miguel coming from the back of the house. "Just who I needed to see, do you know where
"Oh my God, what did you do?" Autumn asked existed as she saw all the bags on her bed while I helped her with her pillows so she could lean back. "I told you I had a surprise for you." I said as I first handed her the flowers. "Thank you, they are lovely." Autumn smelled the flowers while I started taking out books from the bag. "How many did you get?" She asked as the pile in front of her only grew. "Apparently these are only the essentials, there's a lot of things to know about babies." And a little time to get prepared to welcome one. Autumn is already twenty-two weeks pregnant which if I'm right is almost half the way there. "And what is in these other bags?" She wanted to get up to look at it herself but I stopped her. "This is the surprise, I was walking by and I couldn't help myself and I got these..." I say as I take out a yellow onesie and the baby rattle as Autumn's face lights up and she takes it out of my hands. "This is so adorable, oh my God look at how small it is
A part of me tells me to enjoy it now and worry about it later, but I know Richard isn't going to like this wedding idea and I'd rather say it to him now in private than later when Autumn says it to everyone. So as I left the room as Autumn stayed reading while I went downstairs in hopes of finding him but Mrs.Hendrics told me he left. I'll just have to get him before dinner. I have to admit I also wasn't used to having this much free time on my hands. I've spent years working for my father and my clubs and it felt unnatural for me not to be immersed in numbers and contract deals. But being with Autumn is more fulfilling for sure, and learning about her pregnancy and the baby has really opened my eyes as to the changes she is experiencing. The hormones that were developing inside of her as if the amnesia wasn't enough. Nothing I do will ever compare to what she is doing in a day. I could do a page in Excel while she was out here forming arms and legs inside of her. And the amount o
"Are you sure you dont want to join me?" Autumn asked as I massaged her feet while she lay in the bathtub. "I have a hard time controlling myself as it is, besides I don't think your father would approve. He would rather have Mrs.Hendrics help you with your bath." The last thing I want is to disrespect him in his own house, especially not with Adam breathing down his neck for allowing me to stay here in the first place. "But that is ridiculous, it's not like you haven't seen me naked already, you had to put this baby inside of me somehow." Yes but that was before things went to hell, the things you don't remember. That is why all of this is hard for them to accept but they do it for Autumn's sake. And that is why I am scared to tell him about the wedding, they all see this as temporarily expecting her to remember and kick me out like she did last time before the accident. "I know, but we never did it under his roof." It's the best excuse I could find at this moment. "Ohh, and wher
"I dont know what were you thinking Domenic, but my answer is no." Richard said determinedly. "Give me a chance to explain, I wasn't expecting this either. Autumn was the one who suggested it." Nice, I was putting the blame on her. "You're telling me my daughter who up until a few weeks ago didn't want anything to do with you wants to marry you? She doesn't remember her life, she is in no state to make that kind of decision for herself." I don't know why was I upset by his reaction, I knew perfectly well that this was going to be his reaction. "It seems Adam was right, I shouldn't have allowed you to stay so close to Autumn." I have to fight the urge to roll my eyes at the mention of Adam's name. I'm not even surprised he didn't want me near Autumn so he could step in. "Autumn may not remember our past but she feels the same way she did before. It's not for nothing that she is so drawn to me. She said it herself, even widout the past she wants to have a future with me, and the baby
"But what does she have to do with Autumn since she hasn't even met her?" I ask, not understanding the situation. "Rachel doesn't need reasons to hate, she just does. And now my daughter represents the fixation of that hatred." That still doesn't explain anything about who that woman was. "I'm sorry Richard but I don't understand." There has to be something that she wants, she came here for a reason, at first I thought it was money but now it seems like so much more. "Rachel is my father's daughter, one he had out of wedlock with his secretary. He never gave her our name or our position in the society. She grew up away from us and over time she came to resent Eloise and me. After her mother died I offered her my help and my brotherly love but all she took was the money." Well I have to give it out for the Cromwell family, usually people don't get to hide a secret like that for so long. It comes out one way or another. The truth comes out whether we like it or not, and thank God it