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EMBERLYNN’S POV“To a new era”, Luca says as he raises his glass, I smile and raise mine, Aria though takes her time, if she wasn’t in grief I will think she wasn’t happy with this whole wedding but that wasn’t possible, when she showed up suddenly I asked her what she thought about getting married to Luca again and though she took ages to reply it was the same reply.“I think you should marry him, he feels like a good man, to me”, she had said and rushed me to leave the house as she didn’t want to be there for long.I understood her but for me, I didn’t want to lose that last bond there.I look at her from my seat, I'm seated beside Luca while she is seated opposite us, I wish she will look at me so I can signal her with my eyes, it’s my wedding not my father’s funeral, finally she lifts her glasses with a smile and we clink our glasses together and drink.The waiter comCHAPTER 46LUCA’S POVI put my phone down after putting the call across to Aria, I sit in my car waiting for her to emerge.Once she comes out I open the passenger’s door for her by leaning in, once she is in I take off.“Was that drama necessary?” she finally breaks the silence.“It’s been long that I was inside you princess”, I say, dropping my right hand on her laps, since the cloth is flay there’s no protection from my hand so I slip it in and fill her wetness through the lace panties she has on, I drag my hands down her sex and she whimpers clamping her legs together.“Tell me all this is mine, tell me you're wet for me”, I say digging my fingers into her thighs, she whimpers more and tries to rub herself against my hand for friction, “tell me” I insist.“All yours, it’s all yours”, she stammers out.I smile and
CHAPTER 47ARIA’S POVLuca is currently speeding down to the Smith’s mansion.As soon as the record ended, I was off Luca’s body setting my clothes so I look a little bit presentable, we already sprayed the car and let the windows down.“She should have listened when I said she should come to my house, now we are hurrying down town in a totally different area just because of her stubbornness, for all we know she may be dead already”, he complains hitting his hands on the steering.“Should I call 911?” I ask, I keep squeezing my clothes, I'm nervous as hell, it would be a new kind of low if my best friend died while I was fucking her husband in his car, not to mention on their wedding day, no that was a total low”.“Yes you should, it would do no good getting there with no help”, Luca says.I immediately pick my phone grateful to have something doing, at least I would stop thi
CHAPTER 48LUCA’S POV“Well there was a fire but we all had to rush down here because a rich pregnant woman decided to be stupid, I mean you are pregnant and consuming gin like water, how much more foolishness can a human being have”, The uniform man says and I almost want to hit him, aside the fact that he’s puffing his smoke at me, he isn’t making any sense.“Let me understand what you're on about, you all had to come here because of a pregnant woman and not the woman who stays here?” I ask, the man puffs out more smoke, damn he should know he’s walking on a very thin line with his protruding belly.“Aren’t you getting me? So we were at the office and then this emergency call came in, really frantic, woman said she was Kelly and her friend was bleeding at the Smith’s mansion, we all had to run down here because well someone died here few months ago and another person in blood, it mad the
CHAPTER 49EMBERLYNN’S POVI stretch and realize I'm cold, I try to pull the covers up my chin and I realize something is holding my hands down, I open my eyes and look down, I gasp and sit up when I see I sincerely have a hand on mine, I regret the action as my whole body protests, my head bangs and my eyes turn me, and I have the urge to throw up.“I’m sure one of the advice the doctor gave was for you to rest and be calm”, I hear and realize its Luca’s voice.When I feel my body settled a bit I look at him and see him sitting on a stool close to the bed, “This room is pretty beautiful, didn’t know there was such in here”, he says again and I look round.This was my dad’s room and there’s practically nothing overly beautiful about it, it was painted in ash, and even the drapes were black, giving the room a dark ambiance whenever, if you got in here, every time would be night for you.
CHAPTER 50AUTHORESS’S POVIf a needle fell right now on the floors of the Smith’s mansion everyone would have heard it like a speaker was put on the floor close to the needle.After all Kelly who was a nobody in every manner of speaking just called the CEO of Gold and Smith, a worldwide dynasty “mad”, well she didn’t call, she asked to be sincere but still it was an insult, one Emberlynn was not going to let side, especially as she had mini demons by her side, another fact she didn’t know.“What did you just say?” Luca asks feigning anger, he smiles inwardly, the opportunity to throw Kelly out of the house and Emberlynn’s life just presented itself, if he didn’t successfully make sure she was out she could pose a huge problem in the transfer of authority and ownership.“What did you hear?” Kelly replies looking straight at Emberlynn.“Everybody out”, Luca says using a v
CHAPTER 51LUCA’S POVI pace the office for the nth time, it’s been four weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes and 7 seconds, oh wait 8 seconds now I say as I check my stop watch.Yes it’s been that long since Emberlynn started the process of transfer and for me it’s not taking forever, a freaking eternity is what it was taking.I rub my hand on my head and resume my pacing, this was William’s office but since the day the idea was presented at the table of the board I had started making changes.Thoroughly Kelly had been transferred to accounting to do whatever but Aria was back as my secretary because she was very good at her job and why not?Emberlynn surprisingly didn’t take Kelly’s words about the sex issue between Aria and I seriously, she even gave her blessings when I asked her whether she will be cool with the secretary thing.I lift my hands and check the watch on my wrist once again, its been over 2
CHAPTER 52ARIA’S POV“It’s getting late, what’s your plan?” I ask as I step into William’s office, oops, I meant Luca’s office.He doesn’t raise his head from whatever it is that has his attention over there, “Come look”, he says and I continue to advance towards his table.I finally reach and I join him to look at the documents on the table.“You're that happy?” I ask smiling as I see what it is that has his attention.“Yes baby, I'm that happy and I don’t feel like sitting down for dinner with a pregnant woman, let’s go to the club and blow drink to our heart’s content, let’s go be happy”, he says putting his hands out for me, I take it and he guides me around his desk, when I'm finally before him he pulls and I fall on his laps.“You know I can’t say no to you”, I say and he smiles big as if I gave him the best news ever
CHAPTER 53EMBERLYNN’S POI bring my wrist to my face and check the time again, its 6 already“Okay, everything should be set for the dinner by now, anything still cooking by now isn’t for this dinner”, I say as I walk into the kitchenThe chef I hired smiles at me and opens up whatever he is cooking over the fire, but it’s on really high heat“We’re all done, and if I dare say so myself but this is delicious, one of my best work yet your husband will enjoy it ma’am”, he says with a smile“Keep going that way and I might keep you for myself”, I say moving closer to the wonderful aroma emitting from whatever he has cooking“And I would love to stay but you know if an artist doesn’t feel at home he doesn’t produce his best work”, he says and I shake my headFrom Luca to Aria to even Kelly, all said this place wasn’t homely, well Aria d
CHAPTER 70 – FINAL CHAPTEREMBERLYNN’S POVI stare at the ongoing construction work, the bulldozer music to my ears.It took me a lot of packing up and crying to be able to finally make up my mind about breaking down the Smith mansion.“You look peaceful even in this chaos”, Williams shouts so his voice can come up above the bulldozer he comes to stand beside me.“Dr. Williams Sims”, I shout in return as I turn to face him.“Finally you get to call me Williams”, he says with a smile.“Well you should understand, I wasn’t ready to have another Williams”, I say and he smiles and tucks me into his side.He is that protective, had been right from the moment he told me I was his younger sister.Okay I know you all are confused, so when I was admitted in the hospital, the period I lost my baby, I learnt that Dr. Williams Sims was a product of dad and mum, dad wa
CHAPTER 69ARIA’S POVI fume as I leave the town house, so they didn’t come here, if they weren’t here then they were at the mansion.I had gone to the market place as instructed and Aleysa had been the lead in making fun of me, pissed I had turned back to interrupt whatever plans they had.I get into one of Luca’s car and I take off in the direction of the mansion, I hope it wasn’t a dinner date, I really will hate that Luca made the effort, if it was sex I could understand he was a man and if there was a way to manipulate a wife who loved you, sex was a sure option.I get to the mansion in record time and I see the car packed, I breathe a sigh of relief as I take the front steps, I get to the front door and I push the heavy door open, once I get in my eyes jam with the bodies sprawled on the floor and I scream.I turn around and run forgetting there are steps there, I take out my phone as I climb down the firs
CHAPTER 68LUCA’S POV“You handled that well”, I say after the meeting and Emberlynn smiles.“I guess I trust you so much, I didn’t feel like that was the truth”, she says packing up her bags.“Going somewhere?” I ask“Yes, to the house, I've exhausted the strength for today, it was surprisingly hectic, lots to resolve, very disappointing as I have someone here”, she says and I ignore her jab at me, I give her a smile instead.“Should I rub your feet? Or I could go further up, do that stuff you love with my tongue”, I say wiggling my eyebrow.“Did we used to have lots of sex?” she asks with a full grin.“Of course we did, that is exactly how our little one was formed so early in our marriage”, I say mirroring her grin.I guess sucking up to her a second time wouldn’t be hard, I just had to make sure she doesn&rsquo
CHAPTER 67LUCA’S POVThe atmosphere in this office has never been this tensed, everyone is trying so hard not to say the wrong thing and the meeting hasn’t even started.Kelly and Aria stood behind Mrs. Marilyn and I respectively but Emberlynn insisted they got small chairs to sit, that the meeting will be a long one, so they had both gone to get chairs while Emb looked through some files.it will be stupid to deny that the office looked good on her, she was a boss, something I didn’t recognize before now, but it was true that getting this from her again was going to be tricky.Not only did she enjoy it, she didn’t trust me, I felt it from her right from the hospital and now it was like she was clearing up my people, so the only other option is that I hired the wrong people which still falls back on me.“Do I have something on my face?” she asks breaking my line of thought.“No”, I answer
CHAPTER 66ARIA’S POVShe’s firing me I think, just like that, after all the work I put in, she wants to dispose of me so she will beside Luca and enjoy all his successes, no I think as the words she said replays in my head.“My first decision as the CEO would be to fire Aria, I got dozens of report, you skip work, come late and most times it’s a temp that does your work, I'm not comfortable with that energy, I'm doing a sweep, and I think you should be first to go, thank you for your services, you can do as much as typing your letter, right?” she had said it so casually, with no emotion, as if I didn’t matter, could this be blamed on her memory?Someone doesn’t grow so cold over some loss of memory.“That’s your best friend Emberlynn”, I hear Luca defend me and try to reason with her.She replies him coldly too, her answer is like I'm her property who must conform since I was her best friend.
CHAPTER 65LUCA’S POV“What time are we showing up today?” Aria says from beside me, we had woken up several times in the night going at each other like animals so we slept in real late, the only reason our phones were not blowing up was because I had it off since yesterday as promised and now it was 10, I wasn’t sure I wanted to switch it on after all.“Should we just leave the work today?” I say going to the bathroom, I was hungry for a shower.“We don’t have that liberty, we are in war and we can always use Emb being in the hospital as a reason for going late but definitely not as one for not showing up”, she says making a good point.“Fine, I’ll shower first, don’t put on the phones till we are done bathing and even dressed, I don’t want to have to rush”, I say stepping into the scalding water, I pick up soap and lather my body.I didn’t think I will have t
CHAPTER 64EMBERLYNN’S POV“Whatever you put in that drip is good, I feel stronger” I say as soon as Dr. Sims comes for his morning rounds.He smiles and nods, “Was it the drug in the drip or the fact that you know you're not guilty of the nasty stuff your friend threw at you”, he says.I shrug, “Whatever it is, it’s giving me joy and strength, so I'm grateful”He nods and smiles.I return his smile, I had woken up from my drug induced sleep and found him sitting beside my bed, he said my husband left and so did Aria.He apologized for their attitude and I argued that there was no need, he told me all my husband told him and relieved me of the guilt I felt and then I slept a more rewarding sleep, now I was wide awake and ready to be discharged.“Are you sure you want to leave here? I mean now you get to see your friend unhindered, she might throw worse things your way”, he says.
CHAPTER 63LUCA’S POV“What did you do?” I ask as soon as I locate Aria, when I finally got to the hospital I kept calling her to find out what that call meant but she hadn’t picked up, so I had gone into Emb’s room just to meet utter chaos, they had asked me to excuse them as she was back in code red.I had wanted more explanation but no one was willing to explain so I started hunting for Aria, and after a whole thirty minutes or more I find her on the rooftop.“What do you mean?” she says in a calm controlled voice that I'm not buying even a bit.“I mean I walked into the room of a woman I left utterly healthy few hours ago and she’s suddenly in code red, as far as I know you were the last to see her”, I say imitating her calmness when inside me was a boiling rage.I wanted to be done with this whole mess and just enjoy but even that seems like it’s not possible.“She fou
CHAPTER 62EMBERLYNN’S POVI finally wake up from a restless sleep to see a nurse hovering over me, checking on the wires connected.“Hi”, she says when she sees I'm awake.“You're not Sandy”, I say and realize that sounded rude, “Sorry, I'm getting used to being without memory and I sort of got used to Sandy”, I say apologizing.She looks at me with kind eyes laced with a bit of pity.“Dr. Sims also thought it might be a bit hard for you waking up to a different face but Sandy is on call in the main emergency ward and I needed to check you out of the emergency, your accommodations have been upgraded as you're stable now”, she says making a joke about it.“Instead of transferring me, can’t I go home yet, my husband will want that too”, I say.“You think?”, she asks looking thoughtful and I nod, “Well let me have a bit of a talk with Dr. Sims and I wil