LESLIE'S POVI open the door and Cole stands there, a smug look on his face. “Cole? What are you doing here?” Cole ignores my question and steps close to me with barely an inch separating us and then he smirks. “I knew it! Your eyes are red and puffy. You cried!” I scowl at his childish antics,
KIAN’S POVI’m falling deep into a dark abyss. It seems endless, taking forever to let the darkness swallow me whole. I’m reaching out but there’s no one to pull me up and nothing to hold on to. Just when I am about to get swallowed into the abyss, I jerk awake. It’s the same dream, again. I am at
KIAN'S POVI give it a few seconds before I follow, making sure I am also not being followed and once I’m sure we’re alone in the area, I walk into the restroom and trap him before he can get an understanding of what’s going on. He sights me through the mirror in front of one of the basins and spi
KIAN’S POV*THREE YEARS AGO* (Same timeline as Leslie’s journal entries)Where did it all go wrong? I’ll start this way; there is only a thin line between wealth and poverty and everyday, we toe that line never knowing when we might fall in or out of one. When either of that happens, the number of
The legal fees and penalties mounted, and I had no choice but to pay them. I finally managed to clear the company's name after three months but it left a devastating effect on the company, straining both the company’s finances and my personal one by extension. News of the company’s legal issues wit
LESLIE’S POVI only visit the company when it is absolutely necessary and that doesn’t even happen very often. Cole has tried and failed many times to get me to visit and stay even for a few hours and so his surprise when he sees me walk into his office isn’t unexpected. “Am I dreaming?” He says, r
LESLIE’S POV Cole’s car weaves through the traffic and I don’t take my eyes off it, not even for a second. I’ve been following the car for about ten minutes, not sure where it’s headed but determined to see it to the end. Cole is everything but impulsive. He never does anything without thinking a
KIAN’S POV Something stood out about the Faceless brand and no, it wasn’t the fact there wasn’t any other business willing to buy my bankrupt company or the fact that I had no choice but to settle for anything at that point. No, it wasn’t any of that. It was the designs. I had stumbled upon the b
CHAPTER 99 ~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 that he had been
CHAPTER 98 ~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 was bolting out
CHAPTER 97 ~JUSTIN~ I’ve never been anyone’s first choice. Never. No matter how hard I tried, Jac always had the spotlight. He was the golden boy, the prodigy, the one with all the medals and accolades. Meanwhile, I was the kid bringing home crayon sketches and piano recitals that no one car
CHAPTER 96 ~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, wordlessly staring at ea
CHAPTER 95 [ Punching Bag ] ~ELAINE~ (6) The moment I slipped through the gates and caught sight of my father’s car parked neatly in the driveway, dread curled deep in the pit of my stomach. I stopped dead in my tracks, my pulse quickening. They were home. They were never supposed to be hom
CHAPTER 94 [ The One Who Needs Saving ] ~SOPHIE~ I didn’t even blink when the words fell out of Justin’s mouth like he'd been holding them in for years. I just sat there, watching him like he had told me the most obvious thing in the world. If I felt remotely surprised, it was simply because I
CHAPTER 93 [ I’m Gay ] ~SOPHIE~ My scream echoed down the street, loud enough to wake the dead or at least give someone a mild heart attack. But the hand gripping my shoulder was barely even settled before instinct took over. I spun around, grabbing the wrist tightly and twisting it with all the
CHAPTER 92 [ Little Contradictions ] ~SOPHIE~ The faint neon lights from the cinema flickered on and off as I stood by the curb, watching the stream of people moving in and out of the building. I couldn’t remember the last time I watched a movie—couldn’t even remember the last time I did somethi
CHAPTER 91 [ The Man I thought I knew ] ~SOPHIE~ He said no. I never imagined that would be his answer. I sat there, stunned into silence, blinking at him like I hadn't heard him right. His fingers were still wrapped around my wrist, firm and unyielding as if he could anchor me to him by sheer