LESLIE'S POVI am attacked by memories of the last time I was in Kian’s house. The pain, hurt and tears still feel fresh like it was just yesterday. I can still see myself dragging my heavy box through the rain, a broken woman who had nothing but the will to get away from the reality of her life bef
Kian coughs at the words, seemingly choking on his saliva when he attempts to swallow. Beverly’s eyes grow wide while my own reaction is silence that makes me freeze on the spot. Moving into Kian’s room? That isn’t part of the plan. Kian and I didn’t even share a room when we were married even thou
LESLIE’S POVSince I arrived at work during lunch break, I made use of the time to catch up on the work I missed since yesterday. I cleared off the thoughts of the new development between Kian and I and instead focused on making up for the lost hours of work. The members of my design team have all
KIAN’S POV For the first time since the divorce, my chest feels light. It started the second I got that call from Leslie this morning and now my mood has been uplifted just by the thought of being around her again for the next few days. I’ll admit, I didn’t expect things to go so well after Bever
“Oh, I didn’t come here for business. We can’t let personal matters come in between business now, can we?” I chuckle, genuinely amused. “Yeah right. Like you didn’t threaten to end a partnership that both the families began before the companies were handed over to anyone of us. All because of so
KIAN’S POV My uncle succeeded in ruining my mood for the entire day but I managed to pull through at work with the thought of seeing Leslie at home later tonight. I’ve never been excited to get off work. Not even when we were still married. It was even worse after the divorce since I had to go ho
LESLIE’S POV I’d planned to go home after work to pack a bag for the next two weeks I’ll be spending at Kian’s but that plan flew out the window after the argument with my father. I couldn’t go home because I wasn’t prepared to face him so I just made a stop at a small store instead to pick out a
LESLIE’S POV I take the short stairs of the front porch one small step after the other, the phone still hanging by my ear. My surprise is apparent and I may have even thought I was still dreaming. I walk towards him, still holding the phone to my ear. “Surprise?” He says into the phone while I
CHAPTER 64 [ Caged, Not Sheltered ] ~SOPHIE~ There were many questions; like how on earth she was in a place that was at least an hour's drive from her family’s mansion, and why she was chugging down cheap beer when I have only ever seen her enjoy the finest wine. The longer we stood there, wo
CHAPTER 63 [ Edge of Insanity ] ~SOPHIE~ In between the endless nightmares that were triggered by the events of the past week and waiting for Travis to reach out to me again, I had been pushed to the edge of insanity. I thought it couldn’t get any worse, but it did. It got worse. And now I
CHAPTER 62 [ Sugar Daddy ] ~SEBASTIAN~ (2) I’ll be damned if I have to suffer because my father was trying to correct his misdeeds. “Do you have a better plan?” My mother faced me squarely, an unimpressed look in her eyes. “Can’t we just ignore him? He’s too weak to do anything by himself any
CHAPTER 61 [ Daddy Dearest ] ~SEBASTIAN~ (1) “I am going to move into the estate with Sophie.” Daddy Dearest knew how to drop a bombshell—the kind that takes a while to recover from. It was also the kind that makes me wonder if all the drugs he’s been pumped full of in the past month have made
CHAPTER 60 [ The Hell for Bad Fathers ] ~SOPHIE~ I stared at him, convinced I’d misheard. “You want me to what?” My voice came out sharper than I intended, but I couldn’t help it. “Move back in,” my father repeated, his tone calm, as if he hadn’t just said something insane. Did he even hear
Hello, everyone! Adeola here… Although a new chapter will follow this note, please bear in mind that you would have to read the last five chapters ( which are 367-371 on the overall book, and 54-59 on Travis’ and Sophie’s book) to understand the chapter. Those last five chapters have been worked on
CHAPTER 59 [ For Lost Time ] ~SOPHIE~ I thought I was well prepared—that I could stand face to face with Sebastian and not feel like my heart was going to explode. But no amount of preparation changed that. My heart was still pounding as I stared at his smug face. I steadied myself despite that,
CHAPTER 58 [ Home So Soon ] ~SOPHIE~ The moment Sebastian disappeared down the street, a crushing silence fell over me, broken only by the unsteady rhythm of my breathing. My fingers twitched at my sides, my entire body locked in place as if moving would make the moment real, as if accepting tha
CHAPTER 57 [ A Masterpiece ] ~TRAVIS~ Returning to the city in the company of Elaine’s family was an exercise in patience—one that I had already run out of. Three days of forced pleasantries, insufferable small talk, and veiled attempts at control had drained what little tolerance I had left. I