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
LESLIE’S POV I’ve never been able to handle things with Kian. And I can’t pick out a particular point in time that it began. However, there are several moments from the past that I remember vividly. Moments I wish I can forget because of how painful they are but that I have never been able to. Mo
I left the office as soon as I got permission from him. But I didn’t go to the house immediately. I made several stops to do some shopping. Okay, a lot of shopping because I got home with a dozen bags full of groceries and accessories to design the house. My plan is a small romantic dinner in the
CHAPTER 106 [A Rebound] ~SOPHIE~ I stared at my reflection in the mirror, tilting my head to the left, then the right. My dress fit like a second skin—black, sleeveless, simple but elegant. It wasn’t over-the-top, but it hugged me in all the right places. Still, I felt uncertain. “Do I look l
CHAPTER 106 [A Rebound] ~SOPHIE~ I stared at my reflection in the mirror, tilting my head to the left, then the right. My dress fit like a second skin—black, sleeveless, simple but elegant. It wasn’t over-the-top, but it hugged me in all the right places. Still, I felt uncertain. “Do I look like
CHAPTER 105 [Erasing Him] ~SOPHIE~ I’d made up my mind to erase Travis totally. In my thoughts, in my future and even in my memories if I could help it. I had decided, and now, I was beginning the painful process of erasing him. The first conversation I had that morning was with my father. I’d ti
CHAPTER 104 [ Another lost kid] ~ELAINE~ (8) I kept my gaze locked on the food, my hands gripping the edge of the blanket wrapped around me. My stomach twisted painfully, but the fear in my chest held my body in place. I didn't trust it. I didn’t trust him. He didn’t look like he was trying to
CHAPTER 103 [The Lesser Evil ] ~ELAINE~ (7) I curled up tighter on my bed, pulling the covers around my frail body even though I wasn’t cold. It wasn’t the temperature that made me tremble—it was the growling in my stomach and the pounding in my head. Hunger had a way of distorting everything, e
CHAPTER 102 [No String and a Billionaire’s Name] ~SEBASTIAN~ (3) The moment I stepped into the house, silence greeted me like a sneer to the face. No voices, no footsteps, no Sophie playing the dutiful daughter as I ordered her to do. Just silence and the faint creak of floorboards as I shut the
CHAPTER 101 ~TRAVIS~ I didn’t know what it was or what to call it exactly; that feeling that curled in my chest the moment Sophie looked at me like a stranger and walked away with an actual one. But whatever it was, it was familiar. I’d felt it before on the very night she ended things. That
CHAPTER 99 [You Heard The Lady ] ~SOPHIE~ The can of juice in my hand was already warm. I hadn’t taken more than two sips, but I tossed it into the nearest trash can like it had personally offended me. Coming here was a mistake—again. I shouldn’t have let my father’s excited words or Travis’ i
AUTHOR’S NOTE 📝 Hi, everyone. I know. I have done the unforgivable—leaving without a word and not updating for a long period of time. I sincerely apologize to everyone of you who has dedicated your time to reading my book. I didn’t intend to but I was in a terrible place last month—mentally—