Warren didn't expect his parents to be patiently waiting for him in the living room with bright smiles on their faces.
Of course they knew he had arrived, his employees might have informed them of his arrival. Besides, they knew he would be coming home this day."Oh, son," his mother greeted him and gave him a tight hug. She's smiling and looked like she's near on her tears. However, this didn't make Warren to hesitate in what he's about to tell them."How was the trip?" She asked him and sat on the chair she was sitting on when Warren caught her attention"I asked the bank for any transactions you might had in France and we saw nothing. You spent not even a penny," Wilson stated and gave him a stern stare, demanding for an answer.Yes, Warren didn't use his card or savings in the bank for their expenses in France. He paid everything in cash because he knew his father would see everything if he brought his card with him. He would find out that he's buying foIvy’s POVMy whole body weakened, and I crashed down on the floor, trembling. My tears streamed endlessly when Warren left. I couldn’t believe that this happened on the day when we were supposed to get married.I waited for five years and I loved him before Bella. He’s supposed to be mine. HE’S MINE. But that bitch took him from me.With trembling arms, I raised my hand and wiped the tears from my face. Carefully, I stood up and walked to my bedroom where my phone is.I sniffed as I dialed the numbers. “Gemma, the wedding is over. Everything is over!” I sobbed hysterically and sat on the edge of my bed.“What happened?” Gemma asked loudly on the phone.“He knew... He knew everything that happened,” I cried out. “He just came here after his trip in France and he told me that he knows everything. He threatened me before he left. He said not to show my face to him or his family ever again.&r
"He just gave up that easily," I thought to myself and fell flat on my bed. I felt hot tears threatening to come out of the edge of my eyes.Dad has clear intentions towards mom and us. His motives are clear. He only wants to be a part of us and to take responsibility for every mistake that he did. We cannot stop just like that. Not when everything we want is within our reach. A simple conversation is the only thing they need to fix everything. A simple conversation to make things right.I carefully went out of my bed, making sure not to make even the smallest noise.I twisted the door open carefully and closed it back before tiptoeing down the stairs. I started looking for the keys inside the plant box that was placed in the living room. I know that sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night is dangerous, especially for a small kid like me. However, I had to do something. Charles is already giving up and everything we worked hard for is going down the drain
Jerome’s POVIt’s 11:48 in the evening and instead of being at home or hitting girls in the club, we are stuck in the car staring at the mansion where the kid we are supposed to kidnap lives.The leaves of the trees and the darkness of the night covered us from sight. No one will notice and hold us suspicious here, especially that we are the only people outside.Braden and I came here to take a look at their house and to see if it’s possible to sneak inside it and take the children by force without making much commotion.Our boss’s commands were simple. We need to bring her the kids as soon as possible.We had been monitoring their house and movements for two days. We know where they study, what time they go and off to school, but none of them were helpful in our plans.The twins listen to the adults well. They don’t go out of school and they sit next to the school’s security guard while waiting for their aunt to fetc
Charles is a sleepyhead, and it's always hard to rouse him up. He never wakes up at the first time I shout his name in the morning and yet hearing my voice was enough to wake him up today."Yes, it's me," I told him sweetly, and sat on the edge of his bed. I rubbed his hair softly and smiled at him."Your not sick anymore?" He asked. This time, his eyes are now fully opened."No, I'm okay now."My brows knitted together when he coughed deeply. "Are you okay?" I asked him worriedly and placed the back of my hand on his forehead. "Charles, you're having a fever!" I exclaimed.Charles sniffed. "I feel cold." He tucked his blanket closer to his body, shaking."It's okay, you'll get well soon. You just need to take some medicine." I smiled at him.I looked at Charlie's bed, hoping to see her, but I was surprised when I found it empty."Where's Charlie?" I asked Charles."I don't know, I just woke up," he said in a weak voice.Thinking tha
I held and kissed the back of Charles’s hand as I watch his chest rise and fall in every breath he makes. With Drew’s help, we were able to rush him to the hospital and had the doctors check him on time. They took different tests on him to see the cause of his nosebleed and why he fainted.This is the first time he became this seriously sick. I thought he just had a normal cold and I was so worried when he fainted right in front of me.He looks so weak with the IV attached to him. We were still waiting for the test results and I hope it wasn’t that serious. I can’t afford to worry about the two of them in the same time. Charles needs to get better as soon as possible so I can focus on looking for my daughter.Lisa was left in the house to talk to the police and report my daughter missing. While Drew has been making phone calls for me talking to my secretaries, the important people that I am scheduled to meet and informing other people about wha
I gasped in fear and my hand instinctly covered my mouth in shock when I recognized the men who kidnapped my daughter. Tears pooled out of my eyes as I saw how they harshly handled her and at how frightened Charlie was.Jerome carried her like she was nothing all I could see in my daughter’s face was fear. Fear for her life.I still remember their names, Jerome and Braden. How could I forget the name of the person whom I had nightmares of trying to catch me in the dark, taunting me, trying to kill me.I knew what it felt to to feel small, to feel helpless in front of a dangerous person that you don’t know. It isn’t them that makes you feel scared, but the uncertainty of what they might do to you and what can happen to you and the people that you love.Charlie is just four years old, she needs me. She can’t be alone feeling all that.“My baby,” I murmured in tears.I felt Warren’s hand around me, caressing my sho
Ivy’s POV“Ugh! She looks exactly like her mother,” Gemma said in distaste as she plopped down on the couch beside me.I watched as she rolled her eyes and stare at Bella’s daughter with pure loathing. I don’t know why she hated Bella so much. She’s not her sister, but still they grew up together in the same house. How could she hate a person this much that she hated seeing her happy and well and couldn’t stand to look at the face of her daughter just because she looks like her.“Should we wait until she wakes up or should we wake her now?” She asked me, her attention now fully focused on me.I averted my gaze and looked at Charlie. She’s tied on a chair, that is too big for her. Her feet is dangling and tied and her head is placed on her left shoulder as she sleeps deeply. She will surely have a neck strain when she wakes up.“Are you sure that we did the right thing?” I asked her with
Ivy’s POVMy anger flared up at her insults. This little devil thinks that I’m a joke? Who is she to call me that when she knows nothing at all. “You don’t know me and you don’t know where I’m coming from. All of this wouldn’t happen if your mother didn’t betray me and snaked herself into Warren’s life.”“My mother can do anything she wants, but it’s always up to my father if he would like her or not. Don’t blame everything to someone. He just doesn’t like you for some reasons.”“No!” I yelled, interrupting her. “Warren could have loved me and we could have been married with our own children if Bella is out of the picture. Bella is a liar. She lied and fooled me and I just did the same thing to her.”*********10 years ago“Please Bella come on. You don’t have to do anything, you just have to sit next to me so I can watch him pra
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