LESLIEâS POVI havenât even fully processed the realization when the mansion door opens and maids troop out with more of my belongings. They freeze the moment they see me and immediately avert their gazes but not before I see the guilt on their faces. It was clear even before I saw them that they we
When I made the decision to keep my motherâs last name and also to stop my father from announcing me as his heiress, I had no idea it was going to come back to bite me in the butt this way. Helplessness, that all too familiar feeling suddenly makes its grand appearance again and it takes so much wi
LESLIEâS POVTravis told me to stay put. Technically he only mentioned the hospital and the house, he said nothing about the company so it doesnât feel to me like a broken promise when I leave the hotel the next morning to go to work for the first time since my father got admitted to the hospital.
LESLIEâS POVâYou!âI swear I donât think, I just lunge forward, rage driving me. I donât get close enough to claw that stupid smile off his face because a big burly man steps in my way. I bounce off his rock-hard chest and it causes me to stagger backward, narrowly escaping a hard fall to the groun
LESLIE'S POVâTravisssss,â I call drunkenly, freeing myself from his hold so I can grab his cheeks, âItâs you.â âChrist, Leslie. Just how much did you drink?â He mutters with a silent curse. I let go of his cheeks so I can count my fingers, âFiveâĶ.no, six. Oh, itâs seven. Or was it eight?â I shrug
TRAVISâ POVItâs a dream come trueâto be kissed by the woman I have loved, unrequited, for seven years. Iâm no saint; Iâve always wondered what it would feel like to have those full pink lips on mine. Iâve always wondered what she would taste like and how smoothly her tongue would roll on mine. I h
KIANâS POVâWaterâĶâ That one word from a strained voice is the first sign of life Leslie has shown since I walked in here fifteen hours ago and it instantly jerks me out of my worried-stricken state. I grab the bottle of water that I kept on the bedside table for this expected moment, uncap it and
KIANâS POV âDid you just say Mike?â I ask her, still paused by the door. It might not even be who I think it is but the sound of that name sends a rush of memories forward. I had gone through high school and college without friends. Everyone just wanted to be close because of the benefits they co
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 skinâblack, sleeveless, simple but elegant. It wasnât over-the-top, but it hugged me in all the right places. Still, I felt uncertain. âDo 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 skinâblack, sleeveless, simple but elegant. It wasnât over-the-top, but it hugged me in all the right places. Still, I felt uncertain. âDo I look like
CHAPTER 105 [Erasing Him] ~SOPHIE~ Iâd 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. Iâd 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 didnât trust him. He didnât 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 wasnât cold. It wasnât the temperature that made me trembleâit 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 Billionaireâs 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 didnât 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. Iâd 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 hadnât taken more than two sips, but I tossed it into the nearest trash can like it had personally offended me. Coming here was a mistakeâagain. I shouldnât have let my fatherâs excited words or Travisâ i
AUTHORâS NOTE ð Hi, everyone. I know. I have done the unforgivableâleaving 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 didnât intend to but I was in a terrible place last monthâmentallyâ