LOGIN“Anyway,” Lilly drawls, stretching, “where were you headed just now?”“Breakfast.”“Oh good,” she claps her hands. “I’m starving, but we’re not going downstairs. We’ll just have our meal here.”I don’t argue. Just seeing Noah earlier feels like it drained every ounce of energy from my soul.After br
Sierra.“Uhm… hello?” I say, leaning back against the wall.The scene unfolding in front of me is eerily similar to yesterday except this time, Lilly is here. She’d told me before she left that she was heading to the meeting and would be back before I woke up so we could plan something to do.Appare
The words are right there on my tongue. Every reason why I would never, not in this lifetime, give her a chance... But then everything inside me freezes.I try to fight the thoughts. Try to bury them, to forget them, but they keep resurfacing like an unwanted fucking rash.My hand clenches. My heart
I clench my teeth, my hands fisting at my sides. My stare bores into her, but it does nothing to wipe the fucking smile off Juliett’s face. If anything, it only seems to encourage her because it widens.“If it isn’t the Ashthorne heiress,” Lilly drawls, folding her arms across her chest.Juliett’s s
The corridor outside my suite is quiet. It's designed to soothe but it does nothing to quiet the noise in my head.I head toward the elevator, my thoughts drifting where they shouldn’t. To Sierra.I don’t know why the twins asking about her unsettled me so much. Maybe because they’ve grown used to h
Noah.“Daddy,” Nova calls, “is Sierra with you?”I have a few minutes before the meeting, so I decide to call the twins since I couldn’t last night.Thanks to the time difference, it’s evening back home, which is perfect timing. The last thing I want is to mess with their sleep schedule.“Why do you
Ava I was dead on my feet and I wanted nothing more than to soak in a bathtub before going to sleep. We had been planning this banquet for weeks. At first I wasn’t supposed to come. It was supposed to be like always where Mary represented me. After my breakdown in the kitchen that day, I decided i
“She said that she wasn’t ready. That she wants to focus on school first. Why didn’t she want to marry me? Doesn’t she love me?” He asks, his voice full of hurt and pain. I didn’t know what to say. Part of me was glad she turned him down, while the other hurt on his behalf because I could see that
He also told me not to let my guard down. He said that just because the guy was dead, it didn’t mean that there wasn’t any more danger. “I know honey. It is a wonderful party and I will send you pictures.” I pause. “Your friends also told me to say hi to you” We used to go with Noah to the foundat
Rowan. I was getting ready for a banquet. It wasn’t something I wanted to do, but I had to go, none the less. The founder of the Hope Foundation was holding the banquet in thanksgiving and honor of all its donors. Given that I was one of its many donors, I was invited. “What is it, Brian? I’m busy






