Emma's POVStella was too shattered to argue. I saw her face and could say that she was regretting every single decision that she had made so far.“Stella.” When she stood there unmoving for quite some time, Beta Alvin reminded her that they should really go now.The woman did not even lift her eyes to look at me or my kids, she just walked out of the house. Was that it?Stella was the only reason why Draven told me he could never love or accept me.Was the biggest obstacle which threatened my happy marriage with him, dissolving away just like that? It all seemed like a big joke to me.I heard the car engine start outside and turned back to head upstairs.“Emma?” Draven called out, “Is everything alright?”“Yes.” I replied and dashed my way upstairs.If this was a few years ago, I would have been thrilled that Stella was finally out. I would be here, dreaming about finally having a chance with Draven. But now, I have no such thoughts. The marriage that I shared with Draven was long
Emma's POVEarly in the morning, the very next day, I woke up and packed my stuff. The Alpha did not return to the room last night and kept himself locked in his study room. I did not go to check on him, I did not want to. It's been seven years since I walked out of the marriage, we both were battling for divorce but my silly, stupid heart was still unable to accept that he never wanted me. I was just making a joke of myself at this point.I was munching down on breakfast when the Alpha came downstairs. He asked, “You are going back to work?”“Yes.” I gulped down the toast along with some orange juice and said, “I am running late.”“So you want me to drive you to your workplace?” He asked and I shook my head, “No no. I booked a cab already.”“What about Ashel and Asher?”“Shit. I forgot about them.” In my defense, I have been getting ready on my own for the past few days to the office since the kids were with Draven. It was not entirely my fault that I forgot to wake them up and get
Emma's POV “Job offer?” I asked.Draven nodded and said, “I want to hire you as Ashel and Asher's nanny.”“Nanny?”“Yeah.” He said, “It's a win-win. You stay with them and take care of them and I will pay you for it.”I didn't know how to react to this. I asked, “What about after we divorce and I take away the kids?”“We can think about it later.” He said in a sharp tone, “You can start your work as a nanny now and we will figure it out later.”I smiled and said, “I understand what you are trying to do. I appreciate your good intentions but I enjoy my work and I am not looking for a career change.”“Hmm. Are you sure?”“Yes.” “Okay.” The man replied before saying, “I still want you to think about it. If you are interested, you can always ring me.”“Sure.” My cab was here so I had to leave. I kissed my kids goodbye and boarded the cab which took me straight to the hospital.Before leaving, I did one final check-up on Draven to determine that he was fine. I went to Doctor James's of
Emma's POVI narrated them the whole story and the initial excitement they had about this guy faded away drastically. Sonia was the first one to put down her foot, “This is scary. This man sounds like he has stalked you a lot. There is no other way he would know about you in such great detail. Emma, don’t unblock this man.”I nodded, “My son had the same thoughts, he said this man could be dangerous. That is why he made me block him in the first place.”While all of them agreed to this, Merely had some more perspective to add to this, “But, what if he is simply looking out for you.”Sonia rolled her eyes and dragged, “Merely, are you serious right now?”“No, no. Think about it.” The girl said, “We don't know if he was intentionally stalking her but even if he was, he never harmed her. Instead, he helped her out. Emma could have really lost Asher if not for that guy helping her with the link.”“What are you insinuating? He is looking out for her?”“Yeah, like some guardian angel.”Soni
Emma's POVThe three of us sat there staring at the food and the roses, there was no name again other than the signature of ‘X’. Merely was the first one to speak up, “So, are you going to eat it?”“Are you crazy? She can’t. What if it is poisoned?” Sonia debated.“Poisoned? Seriously?” I looked at her, causing her to shrug, “What? I just can’t trust this guy.”“Gosh, what is with you and your trust issues?” Merely frowned at her raining down criticism. She seemed to have a soft spot for this guy, she was a hopeless romantic so I am not surprised.Sonia said, “It is because I live in the real world and not in some dark romance novel.”“What is wrong with dark romance? Won't you be happy if a guy does cute stuff like this for you?”“I would appreciate the cute stuff like this but I should at least know him. This… this is insane.”Merely pouted and said, “Hmph! No matter what you say, I am not changing my mind. This is cute!”Sonia was about to say something but her pager buzzed, Doctor
Emma's POV“I don't want you to misunderstand anything, Emma.” His tone suddenly turned serious as if he was making a very important point. My expression froze too and cleared my throat, “I am not misunderstanding, sir. I will not speak of what I saw.”“Good.” He finally loosened his composure and said, “How was your day?”“It was good.” He nodded but then his eyes fell on the bouquets that were kept on the floor beside me. His expression turned serious again as he asked, “What is that?”“These?” I took a nonchalant gaze at them and said, “Those were sent to me by some guy. It's nothing serious.”“A guy?” He walked past me and picked up the flowers. He ripped out the message card from one of the bouquets and read it out, “Skipped lunch… pasta… Blocked? What the heck? Emma, what even is this?”I could not understand why he was so upset suddenly but since he asked me, I explained everything to him. The man listened to everything in silence, even though his face was getting progressively
Ducian's POVIt was not a very regular day at work for me. Emma was coming back to the hospital after serving the Alpha for three whole days. I never thought that I would say this about a woman but I missed her. I was not very sure about the Alpha's intentions either.The last I heard the rumors, Draven and Emma were getting a divorce. Things were nasty between them but something seemed to have changed. Judging by the way Emma just wanted to run away from the responsibility despite being the most professional out of us all, she seemed to hate being near the Alpha but he kept insisting.As a man, I could say that his intentions did not seem very stable regarding Emma.I don't know what was going on between them and I did not have any right to comment on it but some part of me was jealous. I was jealous of how the Alpha was able to dictate all this and make her listen to him like a puppet. I did not want to share Emma with anyone! She was not even mine but I was very possessive of her.
Ducian's POVMy brain froze and I did not know what to say. And what was with the weird expression on her face? Is she thinking that I am some womanizer, meeting women at my office?I did not want both of us to stare at each other awkwardly. If I could, I would just go back in time and stop myself from meeting Romona in the hospital. But since I could not because of scientific limitations, I chose to break the ice and asked, “Emma, what are you doing here?”She immediately replied, “Doctor James, I swear to you I did not mean to eavesdrop.”She was not even looking into my eyes.Great, now she doesn't even want to see me, is she that disgusted?I panicked and immediately explained, “No, it's okay. There is nothing going on between me and her. She is just a family friend.”“Oh.” Her reply was bland and uninteresting. It was as if she wasn't even willing to listen to me, let alone believe my words.I panicked more!Was this the end of me and her? It did not even start yet and she was end