“Thank you, my love” I force a smile on my face. “I’m going to prepare dinner. Finish up so you can take a shower” Leaving the box of clothes, I head to the kitchen. I still wasn’t sure what to do about the clothes. I didn’t want anything from Rowan. If we’re being honest, this is the first I’ve ev
Today I wasn’t in the best of moods. Mainly because Noah was still mad at me for kicking Rowan out. I thought I had covered things up well. It turns out that he could see past my bullshit.At times like this, I wish that we hadn’t pretended in front of Noah. I know that we thought we were protecting
“Ava..,”I cut him off. I don’t want to hear a thing from his damn mouth.“Every time you took Emma’s side, every time you treated me like trash. Every fucking time you laughed when Rowan tore my heart to pieces because I hurt you precious sister, did you consider me you family? What about the times
“Wake up!”I groan, but I don’t open my eyes. The voice sounded so far away and I thought that I was dreaming because how else would the voice sound so familiar?“Ava, wake the fuck up!”This time I open my eyes. The voice sounded too real to be a dream. Also, why the hell would I dream of her?My v
“And you don’t have to open your mouth and talk. Can you just shut the fuck up?”I continue to struggle on my chair. Hoping to loosen the ropes. There was no way I was going to stay here with her the entire time. Something ugly was bound to happen between us.“There is nothing like a good cat fight
Rowan. “Are you going to brood forever?” Gabe asks in annoyance. I don’t pay him any attention. Just continue staring at the amber liquid in my glass, contemplating how things went downhill with Ava so fast. I’m not naïve enough to think that she was acting irrationally. She was acting like a nor
The only reason our company was still standing was because we were as powerful as the Howell's. Their pulling out and getting their loyal investors to do the same hadn’t affected us that much. I wasn’t foolish enough to think it would end there. They may not have been able to destroy our company, b
“You can’t be serious” Emma asks as shell shocked as I was. I felt my heart beating wildly. Panic fisted my chest, making it hard for me to breathe. If I had thought that Ronny or Reaper, whatever the fuck he goes by, kidnapping us was bad, I was wrong because what he planned was way worse. “Oh, I