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Ellie I could really use a break and a change of scenery. ever since I’ve come back home it has been one thing after another . I don’t know if I can take it anymore . My own body was fighting me this morning . I couldn’t get up early like I usually did and I woke up with Max already out of bed. I was feeling a tad bit tired but I didn’t feel sick .I had fallen asleep in Max’s arms and it was different because we didn’t sleep with each other,. We had an evening of pillow talk without the lovemaking . Max’s ex girlfriend who married his teammate had pulled a number on him in terms of his romantic side .
I didn’t get why Max second guessed everything he did to me or for me to make me happy . It was evident in his behaviour and the way he acted around me . Something was amiss and I knew he knew that I was on
Chapter 71MaxProtecting Ellie and our unborn baby has always been my first priority . This morning after I reassured here that she is my one and only , we both got disturbed by our phones and as predicted the night before we were going to make the Sunday papers . I thought it would be in a good way and I was wrong. Ellie had always kept her private life private and she had no problems with regards to my popularity. She doesn’t get jealous when a fan wants to take a picture or a selfie . She would even be kind enough to take the picture for the person asking , and even get me to follow them . The fan would automatically think that we are friends and there is nothing serious going on between us. I love Ellie and the thought of being followed by someone; who already thinks that we are in a relationship and has an unhealthy fixation on me is scary . I have dealt with that before , in my previous relationship. Betty was ratchet enough to chase them
Chapter 72EllieI don’t like my privacy being invaded, at the end of the day when everyone has read all they need to know about you , you feel exposed unfairly and hard done by , by the people you thought were actually your friends . Even my ex had something to say about my relationship with max . I knew that me being in a relationship with Max was going to be the talk of the town .Not because we were an interracial couple , the backlash from haters I can take and I can fight back diplomatically . Max didn’t have a lot of money but that meant nothing to me , I knew I had more than him and that included his sponsorship payouts combined with the money he just made from working with Aaron’s sports company . I had my own company and the work I had done over the years was starting to pay off in a major way .Maxwell’s recent fall from grace wasn’t highlighted which meant that he coul
Chapter 73MaxI have everything I could ever want and now I am getting distracted . I never once thought that I would be in the position I was in at the moment , and now someone wants to take away the good thing I have going on with my family and the woman I love and have loved for a long time .I am happy that the world now knows about me and Ellie . She deserves super star status , but with privacy and her boundaries should be respected .I didn’t want to leave Blake alone in case he had a secondary episode . Once my brother was done and headed for the home office where Ellie was , I went to go finish breakfast and I actually wanted to spend a weekend indoor s , so I needed to make sure that lunch and supper were sorted out so I could spend some more time with two of my favourite people at the moment .I am also happy that Blake and Ellie ha
Chapter 74One week laterSong :Birdy Rhodes – let it goEllieI have had a lot of life changing decisions to make , and one of them has been moving from the town that I have called home for the longest of times and moving down to the coast. There has been a lot going in my life and this week has been the most trying week for me. When Maxwell answered the call from his agent he didn’t expect him to tell him what he told him. I didn’t trust Jimmy because he had a reputation and that reputation was a bad one . The only reason Sam sent me the Article was to give me a heads up and alert me that; Jimmy is back and given what happened the last time with Max I was not sure that I wanted him anywhere around Maxwell.Part of me was happy that he was fast getting back to his former life , the other part of me was a bit iffy that; he would go back to his old ways once the money started rollin
Chapter 75MaxI am programmed to screw up anything good that I have . On Sunday Morning after my quick trip to the mall , I found Blake and Ellie having breakfast, I had left my phone on the kitchen counter and I usually don’t mind Ellie looking at my phone , answering it, or looking through it . She trusts me and I need to show her that I trust her back … There should be no secrets between us and I am a man of many secrets. Before Jimmy called Ellie had asked me if I was thinking of going back to professional football?;My answer to her was that; I didn’t know what she was talking about, I was going to sign the contract that Aaron had sent me via email and I was thinking of putting pen to paper until Jimmy called me . He somehow manipulated me into believing that I would be working under my wife and I would be seen as less of a man . He somehow found out about Aaron hiring me and he made a counter offer .Truth be to
Chapter 76EllieI hate the fact that I have to drive past the Stone Corp building , on my way home. I was headed for my apartment and two motor bikes had passed me . It was already dark and I wasn’t far from home . When the robot turned red and stayed red for a little longer than it should I started feeling unsettled . Something was going to happen and I had a sinister feeling that; I was being stopped for a reason . I started taking deep breaths trying to calm myself down .I was also still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Max ; wasn't talking to me and it cut so deep that Paul a complete stranger to Max knew what was going on with him. If he had already signed the contract at Stone where would that leave Arron and Michelangelo ? Part of me also felt what he did was so selfish because he was helping out the Aaron who had a bad run with his previous company because it was c
Chapter 77MaxI think I'm cursed . Today was supposed to be the day I finally pop the question to Ellie in front of our friends and family . It just dawned on me that today was the day she was supposed to get married to Dexter .I think the universe is telling me to choose another date because ba whole lot of things have just happened preventing me from getting down on one knee and telling the world that I have my eyes on one girl and one girl only ... My girlfriend who didn't even make it to dinner and now I just found out that she is in an ambulance with my sister .Of all the good things that could have happened to me today , my sister gets involved in a drive by shooting and miraculously the person I wanted to speak to tonight and explain myself to was there when it happened and I couldn't be more thankful
Chapter 78EllieI hate hospitals , I think I've always hated them . My older brother died in one and it was an unfair death . I don't want to re-live that day . It happened right in front of my eye I couldn't bring my self to forget the day . My brother was playing street soccer with his friends . It was always a safe neighborhood and on that day in particular it was a public holiday and everyone was having a great day until a drunk driver drove into him . I was pretending to be a reporter when the unthinkable happened. I was reporting on the soccer game with a friend and I was pretending to be reporting live and talking to someone in an imaginary studio.The accident was so bad that they had to rush him to hospital , when he came out of the Operation room he was fine . Hell we even talked about what we wanted to be when we grew up. I didn't know what I wanted to do then but I t