Liam jumped up from his bed when he heard Scarlett screaming. She was lying with her back on the bed, face up and her eyes were open which meant that she was not having a nightmare.“What's wrong with you? Are you trying to bring the whole place down?” Liam asked her, his voice still groggy from sleep. He could not remember when he last slept all through the night or even dreamt while at it but he did so last night. Scarlett just had to disrupt his sleep when the dream he was having was getting to the good part.Scarlett turned her head to the side to stare at him and her eyes widened even more when she saw that he was the one beside her.“What's wrong with me? Are you serious right now?” she asked incredulously, “What in heaven's name am I doing here and with you in bed with me?”Liam could already see the wheels rolling in her head and panic setting in especially when she looked down and saw that she was not wearing the clothes she wore to work yesterday.“Calm down, little cat” he
Again, Liam was waiting for her at the parking lot in the exact position he had been in when she walked out of her office yesterday.“Where did you send my driver to again?” Scarlett asked, her voice was cold and she refused to meet his eyes.“I did not send your driver anywhere. I was not the one that sent him away yesterday”“And you expect e to believe you?” he was a fucking lair and his action last night proved it. He had promised that he would take her home and she believed him but he didn’t. She had tried not to think about it all day because she felt stupid for believing him.“Why don't you try and call him, see if he would pick up or if his number will go through? Don't forget to call your bodyguard while at it” Liam folded his legs at the ankle and slouched back against the hood of his car.“I dismissed the bodyguard from working me with long ago,” Scarlett said as she turned away to fish for her phone in her purse to call the driver for the umpteenth time today.“You dismiss
“And you know this, how?”“I do not only know this. I know so many other things that you don’t”“Hmm,” he had never mentioned Alex's family before but he was doing so now. Maybe he was correct about them not wanting her to return to Alex's white house but would they really go to the extent of telling the men at the estate gate not to let her in no matter what? How were they related to Caleb and Rogan's disappearance? “Alright, I’m listening, tell me then”“I thought you were tired already”Scarlett scoffed, “What? You want me to beg you?” “I would have told you some minutes ago if you had asked but you didn’t” Liam shrugged.“Whatever” She was not going to beg him. She would try to reach Alex and talk to him about it. She would just sleep in a hotel tonight. She did not know if Liam was lying or telling the truth about the security at the gate but she wouldn't try her luck tonight. Especially not when she closed late from work.Scarlett made to walk around Liam to exit the parking lo
Scarlett could not find anything to complain about. Liam got her everything she would need for the night. He even got her toiletries.“At least I won't have to smell like you tomorrow. It would be such a good thing” she murmured as she received the toiletries from her and walked to the bathroom. He heard her loud and clear but said nothing.Scarlett could not understand why he was still standing when she got out of the bathroom but it was none of her business. She had taken her sweet time to bathe hoping that he would grow tired. All she craved for any time she saw him was to make him angry, maybe he would leave her then.She needed to be rid of him before her child’s birth. Liam would know immediately that it was his child. He would smell his bloodline and she couldn't have that. He would know that she has been keeping it a secret from him. She did not want to get into trouble with him and Olivia again and she did not want her child to be caught up in any mess.“Tell me what you know
Scarlett felt her chest tighten and dread curl in the pit of her stomach at Liam's words. Alex's family must know by now that the child in her stomach was not Alex's even if Liam was unaware, so why would they still want to forcefully remove her child from her and sell her off?Were humans so evil?She shouldn't be surprised because in Olivia's attempt to make sure Liam gets rid of her, she did not think twice before throwing herself off the stairs and in the process, killed her baby. Becoming Luna was Scarlett's dream, but she would never kill her child to secure the position.She might have wanted to have her baby aborted at first because it belonged to Liam, but she had not been thinking straight that day. Thank the moon goddess for directing Alex her way and making me push her to see reasons why she needed to keep her baby despite having issues with the father. She would have lived all her life in regret had she had her baby aborted.“Did this heiress tell Alex that she was pregna
“We should put aside our past grievances for now. We need to make sure that both you and the baby are safe”.Scarlett shrugged, “Okay” “You will write your resignation letter and submit it tomorrow. Pack your things and leave”. “I'm not going to stop working” how was she going to survive then? She won't be able to find another job in the city like the one at Alex's hotel. How was her and her baby going to survive if she did not work? Her savings will surely run out after she rents them a house, and buys basic necessities and groceries for a few months. “You will, Scarlett. I already agreed with them that you will stop working before Alex gets back from where it is that he went”. “You did what?” Scarlett sneered at him. “You had no right. It wasn't your choice to make that decision.” Did he think he was her lord or something? This man was just so infuriating. “I picked the best option, or would it have been better to allow them to take you away and rip you and
“The answer is no, right? You will still go to him, after all, he is the father of your child.”Scarlett rolled her eyes at his tone, “Please, what did you expect? That I will be so grateful that you want to help me and run off with you? Do you think I'm like you, who is heartless and can quickly move on without second thoughts? I never forced you to make any deal on my behalf”. She owes Alex so much and as much as she wanted to escape into the night so that no harm will come to her child, she knew that she would live forever wallowing in guilt. Scarlett was correct about him being heartless, but that was in the past, before he rejected her and everything came crashing down on him. After he let himself loose, after he found her again, he began to feel another emotion apart from the anger and hate that he allowed himself to feel, that he was used to. As much as he liked the fact that he could now feel multiple emotions, he sometimes wished that he was the old Liam. He would have yan
“You keep surprising me each time we meet. You really want to talk out here?” Mandy asked as she pushed her shades from her eyes to her head, placed her bag on the table and dropped on the seat opposite Scarlett. Scarlett's eyes darted around the place. They were seated in the middle of the hotel, it was lunchtime and the place was packed with people. She did not even take a private room. She shrugged, “I'm one of the managers, I can stay anywhere I want” “Not after today if what I heard is correct” Mandy folded her arms across her chest “I see that news travels fast” today was her last day at work. She submitted her resignation letter today, she would be leaving after she was done speaking with Mandy. “I'm really curious why you asked me to come here. I haven't gotten all day. I have a job, unlike some people” "Ok. I need my things'' “Things? What things?” “My stuff at your bothers white house” “Oh? Go get them, who is stopping you?” “Well, I can't. Not after your parents