“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 alrI 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
I’m now alone with the lady who just entered earlier and the man who saved my life. Honestly, I’m thankful that the crowd is now gone, but I can’t still help but feel awkward being in the same room with the person whom I just met, but did a lot of things to me that I am now indebted to him.“T-Thank you for s-saving m-me!” I stuttered in a raspy voice, so I cleared my throat to hide my embarrassment .The guy who found me in the woods, bowed his head in response which made me confused. Why is he bowing his head to me like I’m a royalty?I was about to tell him that he doesn’t need to be so formal and bow his head to me when I owe him my life when the old woman who first entered in my room spoke.“I”m Amelia Sullivan. It was my butler who saw you in the woods.” She told me in a nice sweet voice that sounded like a lullaby.It explains why he’s being so formal with me and wearing a suit and an e
She is one of Warren's top investors and we met several occasions before, but it was too long ago. She wasn’t this old when I had met her.I was probably high school back then when Warren gave me a tour of their company. that is why I didn't recognize her immediately. Sullivan Co. is a large profiting company. It was so successful that it would be absurd to sell it to someone but she did. For a week the media was filled with news about her company."Why did you sell Sullivan Co.?" I can't help but ask what all people had been asking her because she never answered the question."Because I have no family to give it to when I die,” she answered."What do you mean you have no family?""It happened long ago Bella but the wound it caused my heart never healed. You know I was once married," she chuckled and I was surprised at her revelation. Everyone thought she grew old single."I married Richard Sullivan and he was the real owner of the company.
“Bella is that you?” Alyssa hugged me when she saw me at their doorstep. I just got released from the hospital yesterday, after another month of staying conscious in the hospital.Although, I was fine the doctor didn’t let me leave because of my babies. I had to take drugs that were dangerous to my babies and I’m having twins. They have to closely monitor me and my pregnancy to avoid complications.Even though the doctor had given me the permission to leave, he strictly told me that I can't tire myself out and eat healthy foods to keep me and my baby's health up.If the doctor had allowed me to leave sooner, I would directly go back to Alyssa and her father to repay them because of what they did to me. I promised myself that I will repay them once I had the chance to. Not just because they were nice to me, but also because they were the actual first people who cared for me even if I was just a stranger to them.I welomed her hug and said,
My transition from being Bella Laurent to Bella Price was too fast and I wasn't even been able to get used to it until I had to go on with another name again, Stella Sullivan.I won't just have to change my name, but I also have to wear a new identity and hide who I really am, especially from Ivy.I'm supposed to become Stella Sullivan, Amelia Sullivan's secret daughter that she hid from the public to ensure my safety because of what happened to his husband.It wasn't just that, Amelia hired lawyers to make it appear that I'm really his biological daughter.She also hired writers who would write and fake a story about my background and a reason for Amelia's controversial move in her company to make everything straight and avoid mistakes.Amelia is rich and was famous for the news that she sold her husband's family company despite of it's potential growth and increasing profits.The paparazzi will surely fill the media with information about us, once the