His tone ensured that there was no room for argument. You either agreed or agreed.“Yes, Mr. Wood,” she stammers, fear etched in her face at the blatant threat.“Now, go back to work. We don’t pay you to come to work to make friends in the hopes of getting favors.”Her cheeks turn pink in embarrassm
Chapter 45“It’s been decided, Sierra and I are now best friends,” Lilly says as she walks into the kitchen where I was having my coffee while our cook prepared breakfast.It is Saturday, so I didn’t have work and she didn’t have school. Today we could just chill, lazy around and just relax. After t
“Isn’t that the girl Noah hates?” Gabriel asks with a raised eyebrow,I’m surprised by his question, so I ask one of my own “You know about her?”“Yes, I remember Noah had once invited everyone except her to his birthday party. Ava didn’t like that at all, and it had caused a huge fight between them
“Yes, dad,” Lilly answers with a sweet smile, before her focus goes back to her books.“Alright then, I’ll see you in a couple of hours.”“Pamper yourself, Harper. You can even go to the spa if you want to,” Gabriel calls behind me.I just wave him off, before stepping into the elevator. Minutes lat
Mother and Travis, on the other hand, treated me like shit for years. You see where I am coming from? Almost a decade of putting up with them treating me like I was nothing. Which is easier to forgive? A couple of months of being treated like shit or years?”She pauses takes a deep breath, the conti
I was a nervous wreck. Everything inside me screamed, and I didn’t know how to calm myself down.“How do I look?” I ask the three women who were on video chat with me.It’s funny how I just clicked with them. I had never had girlfriends before, but Ava, Letty and Connie were quickly becoming my girl
I want Lilly to fall in love. Deeply and overhead in love with someone someday. I hate that Liam died, and I still miss him, but if we had stayed married, I would have destroyed Lilly’s image of marriage and love.But aren’t you doing the same thing right now? You entered into a contract marriage af
“Then what do you want? Because you are honestly confusing me here,” I tell him honestly.“You. I want you, Harper.”I pull my hand from his and straighten in my chair, while looking at him suspiciously.“You have to realize just how unbelievable you sound right now. You didn’t want me back then. Yo