Drew stood up, he just finished eating his bread and I could tell that he’s still hungry, like the both of us.
“I’ll clean the car today so I can’t bring you to work,” Drew told Alyssa and she nodded in response.“I’ll help clean the car.” I volunteered since it was I who turned the car seat muddy.“I’ll do it myself you should rest.”“I’m fine, it’s the least that I can do.” I tried to insist.“Nah, no need. I can do it myself.” He said and left, leaving me no room for argument.“I’m sorry,” I replied and he just waved his hands“Don’t you have plans for today?” Alyssa asked, when his father left us alone inside.“Yeah, I’ll try looking for a job,” I answered.“You can borrow my clothes for now,” she told me knowing that I have nothing except the clothes that I was wearing“I’m sorry Ms. Price but you’re not applicable for the job.” A woman in her mid-forties that had probably worked there since she graduated college told me. She looked at me under her long glasses with scrutiny like I was a joke. She just read my resume and looked at me up and down then told me that I’m not applicable for the job without even asking me questions.“Your resume is great. You have the perfect skills and personality for the job. You also graduated as a Cumlaude in your college degree and surprisingly you also quitted a wonderful job after 2 years of working as Calvin Miller’s secretary.” she sarcastically said and paused. She’s waiting for her words and the information to sink into my brain to see why exactly I’m not applicable for the job. “You graduated college four years ago Ms. Miller, and it’s been two years since you quitted your job. We have a lot of fresh graduate applicants here that al
"Bella give these orders to table 8." Alyssa handed me a tray with their orders on it and did what she said.Since I wasn’t accepted in any job I had no choice but to work as a waitress in a restaurant where Alyssa works.With her help, she was able to talk to her boss and give me a job without undergoing any interviews and hide the fact that I’m pregnant. She was also able to persuade her to always have the same shifts as me since their working shifts change every week.I’ve been working as a waitress here for only three days and Alyssa is always there to watch out for me and help me with everything. She kind of reminds me of Ivy. Ivy would always defend me from the bullies while I teach or help her with our lessons.Today, we were tasked to go to work at seven and go home after the busy hour which is lunch. It’s the time when we most have customers in the entire day.My stomach growled but I had to wait at the end of our shift befor
My body went cold after hearing her words. I know Ivy, she won’t say something that she wouldn’t do."Please Ivy! I really need the job. I promise I'll leave you alone. You know that I'm pregnant Ivy, with Warren's child. If you won't do this for me then do this for the baby," I pleaded."Do you want to keep your job?" Gemma asked and there was a glint in her eyes. I know she’s up to something but I don’t care what it is as long as I’ll still have my job so I nodded."Then kneel before us," Gemma ordered.I know that she’s cruel, but I never thought that she would go in this length.She knows how much I hated showing I am weak. I even turned back too much pride just for pleading to her in public. I also know that she’s trying to provoke me to do something I'll regret that may end me in jail but I won’t let that happen now that someone is relying on me.Swallowing my pride I slowly bent my knees and kneeled
“Are you okay?” Alyssa asked me for the millionth time today.“Yeah, I’m fine,” I gave her the same answer earlier which made her eyebrows shoot upwards.“You’ve been quiet the whole day,” she remarked.It’s Sunday and the restaurant she works for is always closed on this day of the week. Since what Ivy told me yesterday bothered me, I decided to stay with her instead of looking for a job. Drew doesn’t do day-offs so he’s out there looking for passengers and driving them off to their destination.“I’m just worried that I won’t be able to look for a job.” I liedShe sighed and grabbed my arm, “You’re not going to be a burden for us if that’s what you’re worried about. It’s okay to have no job until you have your labor. It will also be the best for your baby.”Whatever Alyssa tells me, I’m still a burden to them. They are alr
I woke up, still feeling dizzy because I was drugged. I looked around, but I can’t see anything except for the light passing through the black bag that is over my head. My hands were tied behind my back and my feet were tied at each stool of the chair. A cloth was between my teeth and tied at the back of my head refraining me from shouting for help. I moved my body and tested the strength of restraints put on me, but I was tied tightly.I flinched and closed my eyes when someone removed the bag over my head. I slowly opened my eyes, blinking to adjust at the brightness of the room and saw that I was in the middle of what seems to be a bedroom of an abandoned room or old house. There was a light bulb hanging above me on a wire and a bare stained mattress at the corner of the room. The man continued and removed the cloth from my mouth."Hi, Bella!" Ivy waved her hand and smiled at me. She had someone with her, a man that I've never seen before.“What are you
Panting I struggled to walk and ignored the fact that he already knew where I was. Ivy and Bella watched me as I tried my best to get away from them. I could hear Bella and Ivy’s laugh behind my back and all I could think of doing is to do my best to get away from them."We will give you a ten-second head start and after that, we will bring you back," Ivy shouted, wanting to prolong my miseryand laugh at my expense."One!" Bella and Ivy shouted in unison."Two!" I winced as I did my best to run away from them."Three!" I looked back and saw that what I did, didn’t do much and only made me go in just a few inches away from them."Four!" I tried to think about my baby and why I should not give up."Five!" Their laughs grew harder as they watch me limp and wince in pain."Six!" Tears slowly started to fall out of my eyes. I can't bear the pain, humiliation, and anger anymore."Seven!" They shouted louder getting excited to take me aga
"Who are my parents?" I managed to ask Gemma."Why? Are you going to look for them?" Gemma smirked, "You would never find them, Bella. I doubt you'll ever find them. You were just a baby when they took you. How could they recognize that it’s you?”"You ruined my life!" I shouted. They took everything away from me and now they want to take away my child."No Bella, you ruined our lives and now we will ruin yours," Gemma answered.Haven’t they done enough already? What did I ever do to deserve all this?"Forget about the surgery. We will force her to have a miscarriage." Ivy said and went near me."No! Please don't," I begged and stepped backwards from her, until I'm at the edge of the cliff.Ivy lunged and grabbed my hair making me lurch forward and land at my wounded leg making me scream in pain. Gemma watched as Ivy grabbed my hair. She even lit a cigarette and smoked in front of us. She really don’t care about anything tha
I groaned and tried to move my body. I feel light-headed and exhausted and my eyelids feel so heavy. Everything around me was strangely quiet and all I could hear was the continuous electronic beep.I tried to move even though I feel weak like a block of cement was on top of me. I fluttered my eyes open and was blinded by the shining light making me blink multiple times to let my eyes adjust.Everything I saw was white. White walls, white sheets and I'm even wearing white.Am I dead? Is this heaven?I sat up in daze and realized that I'm actually in a hospital when I noticed a lot of things attached to my body.It turns out that the beeping sound that I was hearing was coming from the heart rate monitor beside me. I initially thought it was just me.I looked around to see if there was anyone besides me. The room is huge, but I’m alone in it. There were two couches at the side of the room with a coffee table in the middle, a single bed is also plac
It was one of our lucky guesses. Somehow, we guessed that this might be written in the contract. We all know what Ivy wants. It’s marrying Warren and Gemma obviously wants money. She wants nothing more than money. I know that since we were little.So, to take some precautionary measures, Warren transferred all that he owns to my name.That’s also how I found out about Warren losing everything he mostly has at the day when we met again at the hospital after our trip to France. I found out that prior to going to the hospital to see Charles; he went first to their family house to sign papers to transfer his properties and to sign away his right as the only son of his parents.There was not much that he has to transfer to my name. So now he actually owned nothing.Blood drained from Ivy’s face as she realized it’s over. We defeated her and there’s nothing for her to do because Gemma is now gone to help her and she will be in prison, so s
"Defendant Ivy Sutton is filed with charges of documentary falsification, felon in possession of firearm, kidnapping, grand theft, attempted murder and aiding and abetting wanted criminals.""Attempted murder? How?" the defense asked after hearing the charges against his defendant."It was the incident five years ago, I believe. They attempted to force the victim into abortion, but ended up nearly killing her and doing nothing to save her."I don't know if this man really has no idea about this, but I'm sure he has to have known everything before he entered this court. I'm sure Ivy had told him everything. How else is he going to defend her if he knows nothing at all?Ivy might have hired the best and most heartless criminal defense attorney at all that only cared about her money, but Warren also hired the best that there is to handle the case that we are pressing against her. What she did is a serious crime and there's no way she can leave unscathed. All I want
Warren just came out of surgery and I don't know how I did it, but even though in my distraught state, I was able to comfort the twins about the fact that their father is in surgery."It's a simple surgery, that's what the doctor said so no need to worry much," I told them and both of them were able to be with each other with smile on their faces as I wait for Warren's surgery to end in the waiting room."Warren, I'm sorry," I whispered to him as he sleeps on his bed. He's probably still under the effects of morphine.I know for a fact that Gemma wants to shoot me from the start, but Warren blocked his body from the bullet's path to save me.Ivy was stupid to trust Gemma, she didn't know that she was just using her so she can destroy my life for whatever reason.Watching Warren unconscious and weak without any certainties of when he will wake up made me realize how dumb I was for telling him that it wasn't easy.That it isn't easy for me to live with hi
Warren slumped on the couch and held his head between his hands when the call ended. He looked lost after the conversation, while I looked more stricken and worried on what's going to happen.Warren stood up, dialed something in his phone and waited for someone to answer his call. "Hello, I just had a call in this number, can you please track it for me?" He paused, waiting for the person at the end of the line to answer. "Thank you so much," Warren said before ending the call."What did they say?" I asked him."The call was done in a payphone," Warren answered me with a troubled expression.These guys they hired are smart, one of the reasons why the FBI are still searching for them."I can't wait anymore, Warren. My daughter is out there with Ivy, Gemma and wanted criminals. It's lunch time, Warren, but my daughter hasn't even eaten breakfast and drank water since she's kidnapped," I told Warren pleadingly."Mom, don't worry. You're stressing yourself t
Bella’s POV“The results came in and everything is fine. All his vital signs were clear and he just needed to rest. It appears that the cause of all of this was too much stress and nothing really serious.” The doctor smiled at us, giving us a great news.“Oh thank God!” A tear escaped my eye because of happiness.I held Charles’s hand tight and gave him a light kiss on his hand. Charles was hospitalized, he fainted and his nose bled because of me. He was stressed because he was worried too much about me. It reminded me of what Warren’s parents had told me that I was responsible for all these that had happened.When the doctor and the nurses had left, I started crying beside Charles. I don’t want to cry, but the tears just spilled out. “You should have said something. You should have talked to me,”I croaked. I’m supposed to scold him and teach him a lesson, but how could I if the tears flowed out of
Warren’s POV“Didn’t I tell you to leave?!” I hissed at my parents after securing the door behind me.“We are not going to leave until you let us see our grandson!” Dad roared back at me, making me feel more angry.“You have no shame in being here,” I spoke roughly, keeping my voice down, knowing that Bella can hear our conversation inside the room if we raised our voice.I can’t believe they have the guts to rush here to shout at Bella and tell her that she’s the worst mother that there is. Bella is a great mother. I can never imagine a woman raise up twins so perfectly after having a divorce. She never wants all this to happen, and I know she’s going through a lot of things right now. How could they barge here and blame Bella for everything.I never hated my parents the way I hated them now.Today, I was supposed to go to our family house to settle the company ownership with my parent&r
Gemma’s POV“You understand now, huh?!” Ivy yelled at the poor girl, her eyes wide with contempt. “I did all that because of your mother. She’s the reason why I turned into this so you have no right to call me things because you don’t know me!” Charlie flinched at her seat and I could only smile behind them, trying to suppress my laugh.I never thought that Ivy is even this stupid. How can’t she see everything? How can’t she hear the words coming out of her mouth? She brought all this to herself and yet she’s blaming her actions to Bella.She was the reason why Bella and Warren got close to each other, the reason why Bella thought she was fine with her marrying Warren. She accepted my offer that’s why we were here. How can’t she not see the reason why we are here?Was I so good of an actress that she couldn’t see that I’m only using her and lying straight to her face or is she jus
Ivy’s POVThat’s how it all started, the betrayal, the edited photographs, the kidnapping, all the hideous crimes I committed. It started with a promise that Gemma gave me. A hope that she will give me the life that I always wanted in exchange for my cooperation and money.I should have said no, I should have ran away from her at the mention of the word “mafia”. Perhaps I was being desperate. I was afraid of living a life where I lost. So, I grabbed the opportunity when she handed it.Even though I’ve agreed to help Gemma in her plans to ruin Bella’s life a day just after her marriage, our plans started rolling two years in their marriage.Gemma thought that waiting for two years will be the right time to ruin their relationship. Study says that most married couples feel burnouts in two years of marriage, so we waited patiently for that.The fact that Bella and Warren have no children and are not expecting one made it easy
"Ivy?" Warren asked questioningly. I turned around and saw him come out of his penthouse confused.I pocketed my phone behind my jeans and looked at him nervously.We have been texting regarding the wedding that is happening tomorrow. I texted him and told him to come out of his house because I'm here on his front door."I thought you were joking. How long have you been here?" He asked me with a smile. I didn't answer him. "You should come inside, it's so cold out here.""No," I declined politely. "I won't be long. I just came here to ask you a question and I want to see you answer personally."Warren inserted his hands into his pocket and nodded his head, shaking his hair. "Sure, go ahead." He looked like he was feeling cold, but I couldn't feel anything."I just want to remind you that you are marrying my bestfriend.""I know that.""I'm not here to tell you what you already know. I'm here to tell you that if you had hurt her in any way, I w