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
“The word must have spread.” Someone on my team, a young blonde woman called Renee, breaks the silence on the table since we got here. I stare at my food, having had a taste and feeling nothing but blandness that makes me lose my appetite.“How the hell did it get out? Only the people on our team kn
LESLIE’S POVTwo more days pass and nothing has changed. The flicker of hope Travis had brought to me danced and burned brightly when I sent my first email. Now, three-hundred-and-something emails later, it barely makes a spark. Travis was right and it took me sending all those emails and getting
KIAN’S POVTonight is one of those nights that I wish this arrangement with Beverly never happened. One of those nights I wish I could go straight home instead of having to stay with Beverly for over three hours. I started checking the time the minute I got here and hell, it’s been moving so slow,
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