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GAIA There was a problem. I didn't know how exactly I was going to find out the truth. Also, I needed to get my phone back from Javon. I had called my phone and sure enough, he had picked it up immediately. He had seen the pictures on my phone and he wanted to meet up with me. I'd ask him to just drop the phone in the house or just mail it to me but he refused, saying that he wanted to speak to me about something. There was nothing to say to him. The kid wasn't his. After all, he had killed the only one that was. Regarding the court case, I was going to start with Sergeant Clay and speak to him. He’s the one who started everything so I would want to speak to him first. He was in a meeting right now, so I had to wait, and then my phone rang. Well, Javon's phone actually. “Hello? Who's this?” “Miss Everly, is this you?” My shoulders relaxed a little. “Yes, it is. Good day, Mr Quinten.” I heard him sigh heavily. “I’ve been trying to get to you until my se
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GAIAI wanted to meet up with Javon in an open place but then the sight of seeing the opposing lawyer in a court case with the culprit wasn't exactly the way I wanted to start my career. So we ended up meeting in his car. “I just need my phone, Javon. That's all. There's nothing to speak to you about.”He brought the phone out and handed it to me. “Are you sure there isn't?”I brought out his phone and the screen lit up. It was a picture of me he had used as his screensaver. I didn't want to pay attention to it because I was sure he had done it on purpose. After all, he wanted to mess with my head. “There isn't, Javon. What do you want to hear? That he's yours? Don't be ridiculous.”“Then who's child is he, Gaia? Who? I know you didn't get remarried, I know you didn't cheat on me so who's child is he?”I hadn't planned out what to tell him because I didn't think he would be finding out this early so there was nothing to fear. “Javon, what if I say he's yours? What do you think wi
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GAIAI did believe Javon. I was reasonable. Even though I hated him, I also hated injustice and lies and that was what I was seeing right now. He had been set up somehow and I was going to find out how. Time was running out. Right now, I have just six days left to find out the truth in time for the trial. And I was nowhere close to getting proof. “What are you going to wear?”I looked at Bella as she stood in the kitchen..“What are you talking about? Wear to where?”She stopped cooking and turned around to look at me. “Seriously? The gala is tonight!”Shit! The gala! How on earth could I have forgotten that? “It completely slipped my mind, Bella. I'm so screwed.”She walked away and stood at the bottom of the stairs. “Juan! Come down for breakfast!” Then she walked back to me. “You’re not screwed. There's still time. It's just eight am. I have a person for things like this, so I'll call the makeup artist and hairstylist to be here while we go shopping, and when we get back,
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GAIABella had asked if Mr Quinten would be picking me up but I had no idea. I would have liked to think that, but we hadn't spoken about it earlier, so I had no idea. So I asked Evan to drive me there. It wasn't my first time attending a gala or a social event of this kind but I was nervous. My phone rang while I was in the car. It was Mr Quinten. “Where are you, Miss Everly?” ”Oh um, in my car on my way to the event. Are you there yet?”Was I late? I could have sworn that he said seven pm. “No, you're not late.” Did I say that out loud? “You’re just in the wrong car. I should be the one driving you to that event. How do you think it will look if we show up in different cars ?”It wasn't my fault he didn't say anything about picking me up. I felt like I was being scolded. “Where are you right now?”I looked outside the window. “We’re close to the venue, but not exactly there yet. Are you close?”“Tell your driver to stop. I'll make my way to you.”He ended the call before I c
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GAIAHe led me down a flight of stairs with my hand in his and everything in me recoiled at his touch and I just wanted to remove my hand from his and just run away. But I decided to be calm and just wait for the right moment. He led me to a group of men who were laughing loudly. Almost everyone in this circle had white hair, was pot-bellied, and had a woman on his arm. I kept telling myself not to mistakenly blurt out something because of my anger. “Gentlemen, the kid has arrived.”They all turned to look at him, and I watched him shrink in front of them. He looked so stiff. “Good evening, gentlemen. I'm delighted to have been invited to dine with you.” Nobody said anything and they noticed they all looked to one man for a response. The man stepped forward, clutching a wine chute in one hand. “Jacob, you made it.” He shook Mr Quinten's hand firmly, not letting his eyes waver for a moment. The air was intense. He walked back to where he was standing before. “Gentlemen, this
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GAIA I came out of the room first, looking around to make sure that no one saw me. When I made sure, I ran, forgetting that I was supposed to be coming from the toilet so I made my way back to the toilet so it would look like I was coming from there. As I entered the toilet, there was no one there so I quickly washed my hands and cleaned the stain off the dress. Thankfully, it was a black dress, so the stain wouldn't show,, but I had to make it believable. As I stood there, I thought about what Javon and I had spoken about and it made me think about what we had planned to do. The door to one of the stalls opened and out walked the woman in the vomit dress. What were the odds? No one said anything as we washed our hands and we locked eyes in the mirror several times. Why was she looking at me like that? Either way, it was none of my concern. I grabbed my purse to walk out and that's when I heard her voice. “You know you're divorced right?”At first, it didn't sound like she wa
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GAIAA couple of minutes before….“Why did you call me up here? Don't you know someone might see us?” I scolded Javon.”I'm sorry. I just knew I couldn't speak to you in person or on the phone and I needed to tell you something.”Well, I need to tell you something as well. “That makes two of us. Sit.”Knowing that he was innocent changed things because I now felt like I was the reason this case went this far. But now wasn't the time for regrets. I would fix this. “Who did you come here with?”“Jacob.”He didn't have any expression at first, but then he raised an eyebrow, indicating that he didn't know who I was talking about. “Jacob Quinten. Your step-brother.”His realization took a minute and he suddenly looked away when it clicked. “Jacob. How did you meet him? Are you guys now dating?*I scrunched my face. “What? No! No way in hell.”I would rather remain single than date that asshole. It was very obvious he wasn't trained to treat women because if he was, then he would know
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GAIAEvan dropped a file on my table and I looked up from my laptop. “What is this?”Without waiting for him to answer, I picked up the file and brought out its contents. They were pictures. Pictures of Jacob and Mr. Upperman talking. “Those were taken last night. Jacob's life is riding on this and that is probably why he's being very jittery. If this plan doesn't work, they'll kill him and apparently, he signed some agreement to state this. He's collected money from Upperman for this and it has to work.”It's no wonder Jacob was going too hard and making my life hell. Well, I wasn't the one who signed that contract.The next group of pictures was of Jacob with Sergeant Clay. I knew it! I knew Clay had someone behind him and from the way he was behaving when Jacob walked into the building that day, I should have known there was something. But I wasn't prepared for the next picture. It was a picture of Clay being shot, right in the head. “What the hell happened?” I asked Evan.“J
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THIRD PERSON POVHe left Alpha Dimitri's house in anger, storming back to the car and getting in. He wasn't exactly angry that the Alpha didn't take his daughter as a wife. He had been hoping for it too because he knew the Alpha had a wife already and no responsible man would marry two women just months apart. So he was grateful for that at least. But he was still mad about the fact that his daughter was pregnant. Nothing could change that. But another thing that wouldn't change was the fact that his daughter was going to be the other woman and that child would never be the heir. That was something he couldn't allow. He had a reputation to uphold and he wouldn't let this situation mess that up. Since Alpha Dimitri couldn't marry his daughter, then he had to do something he didn't want to. He didn't believe in abortion and he didn't ever think that he would ask his princess to do a thing like this but right now, he didn't have a choice. He couldn't let such a thing happen and me
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EDEN I knew from the moment she came from the stairs that something was wrong. From the way she walked to the way she spoke to Roman, I could tell that something was different. Off. Then she looked at me as Roman walked away. Then I confirmed. “Why are you here?”She looked shocked that I had recognised her because her eyes widened.But she knew that there was no need to deny it. “Is it you or is it her?"“It’s me, she's having problems coming out. What are you doing here?" She seemed to relax when she figured out that it was me and she chuckled and fell back on the chair behind her. “So it's you. It's about time we had a discussion. Have a seat."“Don't act like we're friends all of a sudden. What are you doing in my house? And what are you doing in Quinn's body? Where is she?!” What the hell did she do with Quinn?“You might want to reduce your voice. We don't want any of the maids or guards hearing anything about this. Have a seat and then we can talk.” I let out a heavy
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LUCIAN At this point, I was being forced what I originally didn't want to. Find out who the mole is. There was no way I would know who told Golden Blade King that we were coming because basically everyone was there that night. All the guards, all the maid and the elders knew so how would I be able to single one person out? “A test.” I looked at Kira as she stood over me while I thought. “What did you say?”“A test, Lucian. You can spread some silly rumor and then watch who leaves the pack. Before, we didn't know that there was a spy but now that we do, we'll be on the look out.”That seemed like it would make sense. I should definitely try that. “What should I say?”“Let's do something outrageous. Let's say the prince has returned with some other kids and they're going to tell us what happened and even take us back to where they were being held.”That made sense and sounded like it would work. “Fine then, you can get on that. I don't know how you want to make it seem natural th
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EVELYN I watched her as she walked away, not knowing what exactly to say. My head cleared and I just stood there, replaying her words in my head. Had I heard right? She was behind the attack. Tears gathered in my eyes and I wondered if I should go after her and ask her to explain herself. Why did she have to go that far just to get back at me? Why did she have to do that? If she wanted to kill me, she could have just come up to me and done it without having to put Nathan's life at risk. What if something had happened to him? What if Lucian hadn't come there in time and I had no place to go? Tears fell from my eyes and I slowly made my way upstairs to my room. I wanted to be alone for now, training could wait. If anyone should ask me why I was crying, I wouldn't know what to tell them so it was best that I just went to my room. As I climbed the stairs, I bumped into someone again. What the hell was with me and bumping into people today?Since my head was bent down as I didn't
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The sun was coming down when Wayne came out of the building. He'd had a long day and he couldn't wait to get home and lie in his bed. He just wanted to rest after the events of the past week. “Mr Wayne!”“Mr Wayne! Look here! Do you have anything to say concerning the rumors?!” “Are you truly married?"“What is your wife like?” There was a swarm of reporters outside his building and any sleep that Wayne was feeling before was long gone. They were bombarding him with questions and his bodyguards had to come to his aid by pushing them away from him so they wouldn't hurt him. “One question at a time. Calm down.” He finally managed to calm them down and listen to them. “Mr Wayne, what do you have to say about the rumors that you're married?” Wayne sighed. He knew it was going to come out sooner or later. He just wished it would have happened on a day when he wasn't so tired. “I’m happy to assure you that they're all rumors. I'm still a bachelor and I haven't ever been married in
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LUCIANKira started working immediately on the information we had. Now, I knew that the only reason why River took Nathan was because he wanted his delusion of a family to be complete. Beneath the picture of River, Nathan had began drawing the picture of someone. The face wasn't complete, probably because he ran out of time but he wrote the word “spy” in very small letters. Kira was she knew who noticed it and showed it to me. I have such a smart boy. So now I know that he spy motion wasn't a goose chase. Nathan knows who the person is or else, he wont have written that. “The pictures have been circulated around the pack. Soon, we'll have news about their girl and who's child she is. In the mean time, more gifts arrived.”I'd spent the last few days, visiting all the kids that had been returned to their parents. Since I wasn't there for them when they were taken, the least I could do was to see them when they were returned. I knew if Eve was here, that's what she'd do. “Lucian,
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ROMANI didn't go anywhere today. I wanted to spend the day with my kids, just being with them and playing with them. School was back in session and it felt good that they came back home to me. Since it was just me for now, I didn't have a choice but to look after every aspect of their life even down to little details. Quinn says I should let the maids handle it but I can't. I can't leave my kids to other people to take care of them. I felt the responsibility to be there for them when they needed me. I didn't have anyone to take care of me. My father didn't exactly give two shits when it came to me and I didn't want a life like that for my kids. I wanted them to know that their father thought about them and loved them. My kids were the only reason I did everything I did, they were the reason I worked hard to be a better man.. I wanted to show them just how much I cared about them. As for Eden, I don't even know what to do about it. I didn't know what to say about her and I didn't
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ALPHA DIMITRIShe had fallen asleep at some point during the night. After I'd pulled her closer to me, I could feel her body temsedd and even though I told her to relax, I could still hear her rapid breathing.I'd quietly gotten out of bed so as not to wake her up and to disappear before she did. Just as I was done dressing up, there was a knock on the door and I cursed underneath my breath, wondering who the hell that could be and what they could want. Luckily, Ally didn't wake up and I rushed to the door to stop the person from knocking again. “What?!” I spat. It was a maid and she moved back a bit at my tone. “Good morning, Alpha. My apologies for the disturbance but there's someone here to see you."“At this time?” It wasn't even eight in the morning “Who the hell could it be?" “It’s Princess Violet.”What? Violet? After the warning I'd given her yesterday? She still had the guts to ahoe her face here? That woman had some guys. “Tell her that I'm busy. I can't see her righ
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EVELYN I watched her as she walked away, not knowing what exactly to say. My head cleared and I just stood there, replaying her words in my head. Had I heard right? She was behind the attack. Tears gathered in my eyes and I wondered if I should go after her and ask her to explain herself. Why did she have to go that far just to get back at me? Why did she have to do that? If she wanted to kill me, she could have just come up to me and done it without having to put Nathan's life at risk. What if something had happened to him? What if Lucian hadn't come there in time and I had no place to go? Tears fell from my eyes and I slowly made my way upstairs to my room. I wanted to be alone for now, training could wait. If anyone should ask me why I was crying, I wouldn't know what to tell them so it was best that I just went to my room. As I climbed the stairs, I bumped into someone again. What the hell was with me and bumping into people today?Since my head was bent down as I didn't
