“Oh.” It’s a simple sound from her but the meaning behind it is clear. Her expression shifts and she picks at her food. I realize it’s because I mentioned her father. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought him up.” I apologize immediately but Leslie just shakes her head and gives me a right smile.
LESLIE'S POV“Leslie, I’m so sorry,” Travis' apology doesn’t make any sense when he has just told me the disaster that has happened. I stare back at him in a mixture of worry and confusion, waiting for an explanation that doesn’t come because his phone begins to blow up with calls and messages. He
I grab my purse, prepared to walk out of the office with Dianne but the door swings open before we can reach it and Travis walks in. My mouth drops open as I take him in. He looks dishevelled and nothing like the typical businessman I was with earlier that afternoon. His usually gelled hair is now
KIAN’S POVI heard about the fire in my uncle’s warehouse two days after it happened. Such a disaster would have made the news the instant it happened but with my uncle’s influence, it was kept under wraps and away from the news. It’s a typical business move to protect his company and I probably wo
“Take off your clothes. All of them.” I command. “Bossy, I like it.” She smirks and takes off everything until she stands before me naked. My eyes run over her naked body and I wait for the first spark of arousal that never comes. Instead, I picture someone else’s naked body. Leslie. I shake my he
KIAN’S POV “There he is!” My mother beams, going round the dinner table to meet my uncle halfway. She pulls him into a hug which he returns reluctantly, his arms enveloping my mother’s smaller frame. “I am so sorry about your warehouse, Travis.” My mother says after pulling away but my uncle merel
“Why not? People do it all that time. It’s just a baby mom, please stop making a big deal out of it.” That seems to enrage her even more as she looks at me like she’s considering smacking me on the head. “That is disrespectful to the innocent girl you knocked up, Kian and I am glad she isn’t here t
LESLIE'S POVThe design team general office is a mess today just like it has been in the past two days since the disaster happened. Voices rise above each other as several calls are getting made within seconds of each other. The office landline phones ring for barely a second, get answered and are
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—