KIAN’S POVLeslie backed down easier than I expected but I am grateful she doesn’t argue or see through my lie. She’s suspicious but that feeling is outweighed by the excitement of meeting with Andre. So without any more complaint, she walks into our room with me. ‘Our’ room is hardly a room. It’s
I scoff, holding myself back from screaming in her face that Andre is a bigger bastard than she thinks he is and he is doing this on purpose. “You don’t get it, he is doing this to mess with me!” Something snaps inside of her. I don’t hear it but it’s there in her eyes, in the way her pupils enlar
LESLIE'S POVUneasiness and excitement prickles my insides at the same time. The uneasy feeling started the moment I stepped into the car and it drove away from the hotel. I suddenly didn’t feel as confident as I felt when I was telling Kian off, nor did I feel so sure I could handle a one-on-one m
“Andre Sanders,” he introduces.I turn fully to him, gathering myself together and pushing out my best smile as I take his warm outstretched hand. “Leslie Jackson.” I notice how his eyebrows hike up at my name but I don’t quite understand why he reacted to it like that. “It’s nice to finally meet
KIAN’S POVShe almost saw me. Heck, I was certain she did and was already shitting bricks thinking about how exactly to explain why and how I’m here. But Andre—the bastard—snagged her attention and I relaxed. Though, not quite fully. I relaxed because she didn’t see me but I’m still as tense as ev
LESLIE’S POVAndre makes it so easy to relax around him.My nerves have calmed and the uneasy feeling is long gone. The dance had helped but it was mostly the small talk we exchanged while we danced. It was almost like he could sense that this was my first real meeting as a designer and tried to ma
Kian said he was an old friend, surely he must have told him about our relationship while setting up this meeting. But with the way Andre peers at me with interest, I can’t tell if he knows or not so I just answer the best way I can. “We used to be close.” As in we used to be married until he cheat
KIAN’S POVMy swing at Andre is fury induced—red hot fury that started off as anger until it climbed too high for me to control. My knuckles cracked painfully but the satisfaction of hearing Andre’s groan of pain makes me want to smash him in the face again. My first blow already sent him falling b
CHAPTER 66 [ In The Flesh ] ~TRAVIS~ They were still under the harsh glare of my headlights. While Justin didn’t exactly look his best, Sophie was…worse. An ugly sweater hung loosely over her upper frame, her hair was in a messy bun and was close to tumbling all over her face as she took Justin by
CHAPTER 65 [ The Real Deal ] ~TRAVIS~ The past week has been nothing short of exhausting. I had barely stepped foot into my office before I was bombarded with calls and meetings, my inbox flooded with contracts and reports that had piled up during the engagement trip. If it wasn’t work, it was
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,