Harry POV
As soon as we get to bed, Alice falls asleep fast. That’s a good thing. I need to talk to my P.I. and try and get all this shit sorted. I can’t wait any longer for Rita to come back. Soon Henry will ask for mummy, and I don’t want to lie to my son. What’s the point in being a billionaire if I can’t use my money and connections to find Rita.
I get up and make myself a cup of coffee because I know this will be a long night on my phone and laptop. I sit at the desk that is in the corner of the room and open my laptop. I keep the light to a minimum, so I don’t wake Alice.
As soon as I open it, I start to receive video calls from different apps. I firstly answer my P.A. and sort out some business before I manage to handle anything else. Devin has been texting and trying to help, but I know he is busy with his new life, and I don’t want to drag him down with me.
I open my emails to
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Karen POV It’s been more than twenty-four hours since the interview, and I haven’t heard anything from Rita or Harry. I throw the empty glass of whiskey against the wall smashing it into small tiny pieces. Who the fuck do they think they are to ignore me like this? “Karen, baby, calm down”, - D says, and I give him a side glance. He is starting to annoy me. He is too easy to manipulate, but he is not the smartest of the bunch. Yes, he is a doctor, which gives me access to many things I need, but he is starting to annoy me. “Piss off”, - I say, walking away from him when he tries to stroke my arm. I walk into the bedroom, and my phone starts ringing, and that’s music to my ears. “Hello”, - I answer softly. “We need to talk” - I hear Harry’s voice on the other side, and it makes my stomach turn as it wakes all the butterflie
Harry POV After talking to Dev and Alice about Karen, I decided to meet up with her. I need to try and find out what she knows. I need to use my charm and get her talking. I hate to do this, and Alice wasn’t pleased, but I assured her that nothing would happen. I just need to make sure that she is telling me everything she knows. I start pacing around while Alice sits next to Dev on the settee. They both look at me as if I have all the answers to all of our problems. I got Karen’s number from my mother in law that swears she’s on my side and wants her daughter and grandchild back. I still don’t believe her but here goes nothing. I press the call button, and I keep my eyes on Alice’s while she gives me a little nod taking her teacup to her mouth. “Hello”, - I hear Karen say and automatically, my stomach twists in disgust. I make a face, and I can see both Dev and Alice biting their tongues, so they don’t laugh. “We need to talk
Alice POV I come back from the kitchen with two mugs full of coffee, and I place them both at the coffee table while Devin laughs about something on tv; he’s watching some reality tv crap. He’s distracted watching it while I count the minutes until Harry is home and back in my arms. I can’t shake this horrible feeling in my stomach about him meeting Karen. I know she’s got something up her sleeve, and I am scared about it. I am actually scared for Harry’s safety. It’s been a couple of hours since Harry left, and all of a sudden, Dev’s phone starts to go mental with messages. He puts his mug down on the coffee table while he sits foreword on the settee, and I can see the panic in his face and how he is hiding his screen from me. And then I receive a g****e alert. I have one with Harry’s name. So whenever something about him comes up online, I am notified. I grab my phone when the third notificat
Devin POV Harry hasn’t left for more than a couple of hours when my phone starts to go insane with messages and alerts on his name. FUCK I put down the coffee mug, and I start to get tense. What the fuck are you doing dude? I receive photos of his publicist saying paparazzi have been following Harry and got photos of him kissing another woman. His publicist had no clue what to do because that woman is not Alice and definitely not his wife. Alice grabs her phone, and before she can see the fucking pictures, I grab it and stand up, throwing it against the wall, smashing it into a thousand little pieces. She screams at me, but I honestly don’t give a fuck. I don’t want her to see this before I make it disappear. I don’t know what Harry is thinking, but whatever it is, it's fucked up, and Alice doesn’t deserve this. Especially with that bitch. Alice grabs my phone for a plot second and fall
Harry POV “Where is she?” - I ask, trying to keep my cool. And how the fuck does she know about the pregnancy? I thought Rita didn’t tell anyone. Fuck. Karen really has Rita. “She’s somewhere safe for now, but if you don’t do as I say, she won’t be”, - Karen says, showing me a smile. I nod my head slightly. “This is how we are doing this, I have reporters outside waiting for us, we will walk out holding hands, and you will kiss me, you will kiss me as if your life depended on it because your wife’s life does” - Karen says, and I can’t help but think about Alice. I am going to lose Alice, and I can’t lose her. But I can’t let this maniac hurt Rita and the baby. “Fine”, - I say, and she smiles, holding my hand on top of the table. I move it, and she gives me a stern look. “Then you will take me to your hotel in Waterloo, and you will have mind-blowing sex with me”, - Karen says “There’s no way in hell I will ever
Alice POV I must’ve fallen asleep because when I open my eyes I am in the middle of a really comfortable bed. It is massive and the light is threatening to pass through the blinds, I move and I feel a fluffy blanket on top of me and I pull it up to my chest and I grab it tightly. It smells of Devin. Slowly I open my eyes again and I can’t really remember where I am. I look around but there’s not enough light to actually see where I am. I sit on the bed and I am hit by everything that happened yesterday. The story is repeating itself. I get up and I notice a bathroom attached to the bedroom. I go in and get myself sorted. Theres a new toothbrush and toothpaste for me in the sink that I grab and take care of. I look at myself in the mirror and I can barely recognise myself. I look pale and my eyes and face are puffy and red from the crying. I take a deep breath and look away. There’s some clothes
Harry POV “This is what you wanted, me, now you have me bitch”, - I say, ramming into her ass while she cries, trying to lift her body from the piano. Unfortunately, she starts to moan with time and moves one hand to caress her pussy, but I smack it off. Karen moans out loud while I spank her ass raw. It is so bright red that she will struggle to walk or sit for a few days. I can’t focus on what I am doing. I keep ramming into her while she moans and cries at the same time as my hand meets her flash on another strong smack. Karen’s ass contracts around my cock, showing me she is finding her release, and like that, she might leave me alone. I get out of her, and she falls on her knees, panting for air while I look around, trying to put the pieces together. I hope this was worth it, and I hope she gives me Rita back. “You didn’t come”, - she says, looking at me and trying to get a hold of my cock. I shove her hands away, and she frowns.
Devin POV I hold Alice’s hand and I can’t help but smile at her touch, it's soft and warm, I get why that idiot likes her so much. Alice pulls her hand away and I look down in embarrassment. I should behave. We keep walking towards the stables and once we get there two of my keepers are there and I go talk to them at the same time I approach my horse’s stall. They are all mine but Rebel was my first horse. He is like my baby and we have an amazing connection that is difficult to explain to people that don’t have horses. Rebel pokes his head out and I can’t help but smile stroking his head and kissing him, “how have you been mate? I missed you”, I whisper while I stroke him. “Do you ride?”, I ask Alice and she shakes her head. I nod mine and immediately I start to get all the equipment I need for Rebel. I notice Alice walking around and patting some of the horses and stopping in front of Pegasus stall, h
Abbey POV “MUM, MUUUUUUUM” I scream from the top of my lungs, and I can hear her running up the stairs with dad following her. “What happened? Are you hurt?” she says, almost breathless, as she opens my bedroom door. Dad stops right behind her with his hand on his chest, trying to catch his breath. “You’re getting old, dad”, I say jokingly, and he gives me a stern look that breaks as soon as I offer him one of my biggest smiles. “What happened?” Dad asks, “Why were you screaming the house down?” he keeps asks as they both take a couple of steps into my room. “I got into Oxford University”, I say, and mum starts to cry immediately as dad walks to me with open arms, and I hug him tightly. “Oh baby, I am so proud of you”, dad says, kissing the top of my head. He is a lot taller than me; I am just a little bit taller than mum, a couple of inches, but that still makes dad tower over me. “Mum?” I let out, and she hug
Harry POV It’s been a couple of months since Alice chose that dick over me. Rita suggested we worked on our marriage because she was willing to let the past be in the past and forget about everything that happened between us if I could work on our marriage because of our children now that Karen and Alice are out of the way. We have been doing couple’s therapy, and I have to say that it is actually helping me heal from the fact that Alice chose Devin over me and is helping me to see that Rita is the best option for me. She wants the same things as me, has the same values, and wants our children to have a happy family. My relationship with my parents changed for the best since they helped Rita hide from Karen, keeping her and my son safe. We are having another boy, we haven’t decided on the name yet, but we are working on it. I want Harrison, but Rita doesn’t want another name starting with H. We have to sort it out. We sold the flat an
Devin POV “Devin, come here please”, Francisca says and I walk towards her from my improvised desk in the front room. She has the design for the house for me to approve, we go through everything and I ask her to change some small things, like the window features, and to keep the balcony exactly the same way it is right now, I have my morning coffee outside every day now and I actually enjoy it. I can understand why Alice used to do it. I have asked her to get someone to make the maze disappear as it is a difficult place for me, I used to love it when I bought it, and the first time I took Alice in there, we shared our first kiss, she got lost and when I found her she hugged me and kissed me, but then, it was in front of the maze that she chose him over me, she decided that he was more important than I was. I walk back to my desk and I hear a lot
Devin POV It’s been three days since the Gala and I am back at the cottage, I am having an architect to come and check everything out to do some remodelling of the house, I need a bigger and more comfortable work space and I definitely need it quieter. The staff in this house have no sense of keeping to themselves and leaving my life out of their business. Maybe after the meeting I’ll just go for a trail ride and try and clear my head. I haven’t been able to focus on work for the life of me. All I keep thinking is Alice, and how she might be back in his arms and I am here moping around. I shake my head and I walk back into the house and into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee when the doorbell rings, slowly I walk to the door sipping my coffee and I open it. The architect is waiting for me with a smile on her face, Francisca, she is Portuguese an
Harry POV As soon as Alice left Devin walks out of the room and I grab his arm tightly. He looks me in the eyes and I don’t recognise my best friend anymore, he looks like a stranger looking at me, he looks more confident and more independent. Not that that is a bad thing, it’s just different from the Devin I am used to. Devin always kept his head down after all his drug addiction, he has a man slut but he kept himself in the dark from everything else. “Leave her alone, she is mine”, I tell Devin and he shoves my hand away from his arm placing both his hands in his pockets again. “She will be the one to decide if she wants me to leave her alone, the day Alice tells me to go, ill go, but if she doesn’t I am sticking around until she tells me to give up”, Devin tells me and anger builds up in me. Devin approaches me and whispers in my ear “I know you let her fall on purpose”, Devin says and I take one step back looking him deep in his eyes, he
Alice POV The police wants to ask me some questions, obviously Harry doesn’t want to leave me alone but the police insists, they need to get our testimonies separately, they want to hear both sides of what happened and they want to see if the stories match, They say they’ve heard Devin already and they have given us a few minutes because of the traumatic side of things for me. Harry says he is not leaving my side and that they can ask us both questions at the same time, I know they are just doing their job but I have to say I like the idea of not being alone with anyone I don’t know right now. The police starts asking me questions as in, how did Karen take me upstairs to the roof terrace. I said she cornered me in the bathroom when I wasn’t expecting her and she said Devin and Harry were fighting up there all because of me. I look at Harry and once more his face is unfazed, as if nothing ever shocked him, he learned to hide his true emotions
Harry POV Alice leaves to walk into the bathroom and I see that Devin is getting ready to follow her, no, not on my watch, he needs to stay away from her, he’s done more damage than good, I need him far away from Alice, I walk to him holding on to his arm and telling him to stay away from her, and for the first time he faces me telling me to let go of him and that I am making her unhappy. What the hell does he know about happiness? All he has is failed relationships because of his little obsession with me. Devin calls me self centred and if we weren’t on such a public place I would’ve shown him how wrong he is, how all I want is Alice’s happiness by my side, all I want is to hear her laugh and see her smile again, see her eyes shining when she smiles and looks at me, see her biting her lips when I approach her and take her in my arms. “Where is she?”, I ask as I get inside the bathroom and I can’t see her anywh
Devin POV I haven’t gone back to London in over a month, I changed my phone number and I have been conducting my meetings from the cottage, I sold my flat and all my properties in London, I couldn’t bare the idea of going back. I have been keeping in touch with Rita’s mum and she updates me about Henry, he is my godson after all. I stopped reading the news and I am keeping to myself. I know Rita is still gone and I know that Harry is probably panicking. I have been taking care of my horses and of my mental health, I stopped drinking and went back to my meetings, I need to keep focused, my will to do drugs was too strong and I can’t cave, I’ve almost lost everything once and I can’t do it again. Once more Harry got everything he’s ever wanted and I was left with nothing. I roll to my side on the bed and I keep reminding me that we were younger back then, Harry couldn’t have done it on purpose. I
Alice POV I have been back in London for over a month, and I have to say I am not happy, or I am not as happy as I thought I would be. I thought that after our conversation, things would’ve gone back to normal, but they didn’t. Harry is distant, and I don’t like his touch anymore. In fact, we haven’t had sex since we came back to London. I am starting to notice small things about him that are making my skin crawl. Harry forgave me for sleeping with Devin, but I can’t say I forgave him for sleeping with Karen. I understand his reason for doing it, I know he is worried, and I know how much he is struggling with Rita’s disappearance, especially with Henry asking about her constantly. I know he is worried about the child Rita is carrying, I know, and I am worried too, but I think he went too far like; he enjoys the challenges like he enjoys when someone tries to control his decisions, and he does it to pro