Chapter 74
One week later
Song :Birdy Rhodes – let it go
Ellie
I 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
Chapter 79MaxI'm not superhuman ; although I'd like but to believe that sometimes I am and I have the gift of the gab so I can be very convincing . My super powers are however Limited because ; I couldn't overturn my girlfriend's decision to give me a taste of my own medicine. I don't like speaking or voicing my feelings out let alone my plans . I am always in constant fear that something might go wrong and everything might be turned on it's head .Everything was turned on it's head and as predicted ; I was dealing with a failed attempt to get Elie to marry me and my sister was hurt while she was with her boyfriend , who I didn't like but after seeing them together this whole week , I understood why my sister loved Tau Taylor Stone he hasn't left her side , he has been open and caring and he has been showing my sister a whole lot of love and affection. I still don't like Paul but his broth
Chapter 80EllieI have gone ten years without Maxwell before and it tore me apart to know that he believed some rumours a clique spread about me and Samuel who I was trying to protect back then because he was my friend, and he didn't deserve to go through hell because he had been through enough trauma already ; about coming out to his parents and family.I've always accepted him the way he was in actual fact I've accepted anyone I've ever loved the way they were . I meet you at your place of need, and at the moment I think the decision I took to take a break from Maxwell, was called for . I had valid reasons and I needed to get my facts straight before I went on the attack . I didn't want to tell him how I truly felt about his actions and then have him flip the odds in his favour and make it seem like it was my fault for him to do what he did .If Dexter was a very good lawyer... Then Maxwell is a master ma
Chapter 81MaxWhat my sister did was very sneaky and I don’t like it one bit . She called Ellie b cause she thought that it was necessary for me to take action because I was such an over thinker; fix the mess I made because I was walking around like a wounded animal that hurt itself and was refusing to get help. So in her head; she is like a vet that found me and she is trying to fix me so that I can walk or run again .I have always been a stubborn man ,and I have always , more often than not lived with regret for not acting sooner . I respect Ellie because she had always been able to call me out on my bad behavior , she’s always believed that I can be good and do good. I knew she was the right person to ask, to do the interview and get it to the right people . Part of me was also thankful that I kept AM sports because Ellie’s company was now part of the Luca conglomerate of businesses and if I needed any sort of help with regards
Chapter 82Ellie I don’t like it when my friends are attacked or bullied. I have always protected the people that I have loved and I have a way of indirectly with people who attack people who are weaker than them . I’ve always kept my circle small and I have only let people who prove themselves by word and deed into my circle and I know for a fact that; if I ever get into trouble , or need some protection, the same people I have been protecting will protect me . That’s if they know what’s going on because over the years I have learned that the tattle tale sign of someone who wants to control you and abuse you; is to isolate you from the people you love and care about you .Dexter was the biggest lesson I have ever had to learn and the scars I have are nothing compared to what he had put me through when we were in a relationship with each other . He was jealous of my friendship with Sam and when he found out about my other friends , he isol