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 thaI 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
Like a pathetic and stupid person that I was, I still continued to hope that Warren will soon see me as a woman, that he would get used to Bella and would realize that I am much better than her.Bella is a kind person, I always knew that and I value our friendship. I also don’t want to break what we have just because we fell in love with the same man. Besides, I know that Bella can love Warren all she wants and I could do that too, but in the end, Warren will have to choose who to marry.We were just high school students and I believed, I had convinced myself to believe that what they had will stay in high school and once their paths started to seperate, they will too. However fate is cruel to me.We graduated high school, we graduated college, they fought, they break and yet time only made them sure that they were made for each other.I was there when Bella cried on my shoulder because the two of them fought. I was the one that Warren reached out to, to as
"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
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
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