EMILYWe contacted Alexandro first thing in the morning, telling him I was fine and he shouldn’t try to find me. They wouldn’t even guess I was with Sarah so I knew they were on a long way in the opposite direction of finding me.Sarah and I agreed to go see her dad this morning and while she seemed excited about it, I was internally praying we didn’t bump into Amelia. I did not want to see her. I hoped I never did too.Sarah changed into three different dresses before she threw her hands in the air in defeat. “I don’t know what to wear.” She cried.“You’re good at choosing clothes. Just pick anything.” I shrugged.“The thing is, my dad, loves sexy dresses, heels, and those sorts, but they’re not my thing, and we're going to a beach, I fear I might embarrass myself. But there’s also a higher chance of him agreeing straight away if he loved my dress and-.”“Wait.” I just had to stop her, she just said something that was very much foreign to my ears. “You’re going there to ask for his p
EMILY“This is freaky!” Sarah exclaimed. Yeah, enough to freak her out. It was bad enough that we walked into people having sex but it was worse when one was a mother we shared while the second party was her father.“I need to delete the last two minutes from my memory,” I cried. “I think I saw your dad’s ass. And I didn’t even see his face.” I cried.“They are together?” Sarah’s face was still plain with shock as we sat on the balcony.“I doubt, I think he’s trying to win her back, he wouldn’t buy her diamonds if it were just to get an orgasm.” I shrugged.“You’re crude. I’m serious, this can’t be happening.” I shook her head but I doubt if her thought was about deleting the memory of the sight we just saw.I couldn’t feel whatever was going on in her head because our situation was different. Although we shared a mother, we had different fathers and for her, it was her mother and father involved.The sight of Amelia and Sarah’s dad's tangled limb was enough to snuff any goodwill I ha
EMILYI thought I’d be happy that Sarah had finally gotten her senses and would stop loving her father blindly, but as I saw the look on her face the moment the realization hit her, I felt like a bitch.I just broke a family and disbanded a team. Sarah had been on her father’s side all her life and now she was going to be alone. I wasn’t her teammate yet. Although we started on the right foot now no one knows tomorrow. We might never become very close.And now she was alone, all thanks to me. Would it have been better to let her be delusional? Delusion is the solution. No. delusion was delusion. It was only less painful.I was no different from Alexandro.“Let’s get out of here.” Sarah didn’t wait for me to answer before she stood up and walked away.“My diamonds.” Amelia cried but Sarah didn’t look back. I followed her out.Sarah took giant strides and I had to run to catch up with her. We met in the elevator. “Maybe you should talk it out with your dad. Don’t let Amelia influence yo
EMILY“Where have you been?” I murmured sweetly, sounding like I missed him when in truth it had been him searching for me.Alexandro slipped a possessive hand around my waist and faced Portia. “You should know not to cross your boundary.” And with that, we walked toward Nina.“Emily!” Nina shrieked as she sighted me, “Have I ever offended you? You just disappeared.” She scolded but her eyes were light. I wondered if it was real.Bella had made me skeptical about even people who acted nice.I played along, trying not to show my doubt and being as sincere as I could be. I kissed both of her cheeks and whispered into her ears, “Honeymoon phase.”Maybe because I was so close to her, she saw her eyes flicker, and her next words were carefully picked, “Should we expect a baby soon?” Nina asked sweetly.I didn’t know why I was so sure but I knew. She knew about my baby. I willed myself not to show my pain and moved back to stand beside Alexandro before I replied to her. I needed his support
EMILYSomeone pushed Portia off me with so much force that she screamed.I struggled to come pull my head out of the water, forcing the water I had swallowed out of my stomach and trying to clear my lungs.I looked up to see Amelia holding Portia down and pulling her out of the water. The woman was dumped. Wasn’t it me she should be helping?I walked offshore with unsteady legs. What just happened?Amelia held Portia down, her fingers tangled in Portia’s hair as she stared at me with disgust. “You’re pretty but too weak. This tiny thing would never have taken Sarah down so easily.”“And you have mood swings.” I retorted. She insulted Sarah yesterday, saying she wished Sarah was more like me and now she insulted me that Sarah was stronger. I didn’t take any offense in it though. While she was wrong about Sarah being unable to attract a man, she was right about the fact that I wasn’t as strong as Sarah.Portia groaned, trying to wringle out of Amelia’s hold but Amelia held fast. She did
ALEXANDRO“Emily! Emily!” I shook her but she didn’t wake up.She was fighting in her sleep, struggling and sweating but didn’t come awake. It seemed like shaking her forcefully wasn’t working so I cradled her into my arms, squeezed her into a hug, willing her to stop trembling. Thankfully it worked. She didn’t wake up but she slept more peacefully, I didn’t want to let go of her.Sarah sighed in relief as we both saw that Emily was calm. I wondered why Emily had chosen to ask for her help instead of listening to me. The girl lived in one of the numerous cramped apartments in Paris and from the background check I did on her, she was nobody.Sarah caressed Emily’s hair even while I held Emily and murmured, “I shouldn’t have taught her to swim. She got too comfortable in the water.”The action was too intimate, I didn’t like it. “Who are you? Why did Emily come to you?” I shot at her. I’d have slapped her hand away from Emily’s hair but the action seemed to soon Emily so I let her be. “
EMILY“Portia won’t talk. We’re sure she was sent but she won’t talk.” Alexandro said.It was bad that she wouldn’t talk because it meant someone wanted me dead and that person was roaming freely, but that wasn’t what was bothering me. Although they were related.A note came again. It was a picture of me on the beach, quite normal, but it came with a note.The unkillable Emily Fitz.“Did you confirm Alisha’s words? About being sent to get me by Anthony? Can you do that for me?” I asked and Alexandro frowned. “I have a feeling she lied, or someone probably used the name, or we can check with her if she saw his face or something.”“Did something happen?” Alexandro asked. I couldn’t tell him.“No, just a hunch.” I lied. He looked at me with disbelieving eyes but said nothing.We were at his Condo, the one he had taken me when I fainted. I had gone back to Sarah’s place but I still came here when I needed to talk to Alexandro.Sarah’s dad had tried to reach her twice and both times all he
EMILY“What’s in this Emily?” Alexandro asked again. I could see he was angry with me.I didn’t tell him. He asked and I had intentionally kept it away from him. I hadn’t trusted him to take care of it. But it wasn’t because I didn’t trust him, it was because I was ashamed. I hated that someone knew me so well and I couldn’t voice the fact that I was being watched.At first, I felt safe in Paris but it seemed like the person had found his way here too. Watching me.“I’m being stalked.” I voiced, making it sound ordinary.“Sexually,” Amelia added and I shot her a look saying shut up.Alexandro froze for a second, then the next he was tearing the envelope open, his face ashen as the pictures fell to the floor along with the letter.I squeezed my eyes shut as he started at the letters, I couldn’t bear to see the look of disgust on his face.Alexandro calmly tucked the pictures back into the envelope and turned to Amelia. “Who is it?” He asked.Amelia looked at him in disbelief, “I want m