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GAIAKnowing how today was going to go got me shivering. My hands and feet were cold and my palms were sweaty. I could barely get any sleep at night because of how shaky I was. Was I sure I could do this? There was something in me that made me doubt but I just had to kill it because I couldn't back out now. As I walked in, the first person I saw was Jacob and Mark and some of the other men filling out one seat. They were here to make sure things went according to plan. As if that was not enough, the media had been called in. I was sure that was the work of Upperman. He had asked that the media should cover the case so that the news of Javon being arrested for theft would be broadcast immediately. Javon's lawyers were already here and I wanted this to be the final straw. The final day. Being that Clay was dead would be to my advantage but I didn't know how to bring that in yet. Perhaps I could wait a bit and let it be an element of surprise. His lawyers opened today's argument.
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GAIA“That can't be a coincidence, can it?”Judge Clearwater spoke up. “I request for a thirty-minute recess.”At this point, he was now a suspect, and he didn't exactly have the time to say anything, so the jury was in charge now. “A thirty minute is granted, within which time Judge Clearwater would be held in custody along with his other accomplices while another judge is brought in to handle the case.”That should be good. They wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. As Jacob was being dragged away, he tried to speak to me. “You think you've won? I'll get you back for this! I'll get you!”His other friends were too stunned to say a word and they took all of them outside. Javon crossed the room to meet me. “That was good right?”“Yes, it was but we have to wait for the jury and the new judge to say something. Hopefully, the new judge won't be on Upperman’s payroll again.” That was my fear. What if he was working with one of them again? “I need some fresh air.” I wal
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GAIAThey'd all been arrested. Jacob, Mark Upperman, and the rest. Everyone is involved in this case. I still couldn't believe I was able to pull off this case because the chances of being covered up were very high. After all, these men were rich. Very rich and at the end of the day, I might be the one who gets into trouble for trying to speak up. Knowing the American justice system, I feared that I might go down to try to find out the truth.The case gained more publicity than it was supposed to and that was exactly what they didn't want. Now, it was on every major news outlet and it would only be so long before they would be taken to court. It has also given me publicity. I was now the lawyer who saved Javon Quinten from going to jail. Since the media's knowledge of marriage five years ago was limited to them, I was just a lawyer. Back then, we were still really young, and my parents didn't think that exposing us to the press would be good for our marriage and its building, so
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GAIA I stepped out onto the marble pavement, my heart thudding loudly in my chest with my jittery hand holding the umbrella over my head. I remembered that my father had come to meet me a few weeks before, saying that I didn't have a lot of time left. Of course, I didn't listen to him and I'd even forgotten that I'd seen him because of how busy he was. Even if I wasn't busy, I doubted that I would have wanted to see him or speak to him either way. My father was dying and I didn't know how to feel about that.The fact that I didn't exactly have an award-winning relationship with him just made things worse. I didn't want to be anywhere close to him or my mother. Being back in this house after all these years made my feet cold. Despite the rain, I could still feel it numbing up because of how my brain had been trained to react when I was in this house. The first thing I noticed was that the house was quiet, and I wasn't seeing maids and guards moving around the house. The house wa
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GAIA“Why didn't you ask for help from your friends? Surely, someone was willing to help out?”She scoffed and at first, it sounded like she was coughing but I could see the way her lips turned up in a bitter smirk. “Those hypocrites? They all ran away from us when things went south. Some of them even came here to harass your father and I about the money we were owing them and your father got arrested on multiple occasions because of it. We could get any help.”“Is that why you had to let all the servants go?”She nodded. My mother was raised in money so she wasn't brought up to know how to do my house chores. She was disowned though, for marrying my father who was broke at the time. I wasn't even surprised to hear this. It was obvious those people were here for the money and as soon as things went bad, they showed their real colors. But it was a very unfair thing to do. Some of them had been family friends for years and they had been long time friends of my father. Or so he thoug
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GAIAWe sat outside on one of those benches that people usually sat on when their loved one was in the hospital when they had not heard a single piece of good news, and they were on the verge of giving up. As I clutched the bottle of water in my hand and sat in silence beside him, I looked at the passing cars and suddenly felt sleepy. “I tried to help-”“I know, my mother told me. She told me everything you did. I should thank you but I don't think the words would come out of my mouth.”He nodded. “That’s fine.”There was honestly nothing to say to him. Just because he was innocent in that case didn't mean we were suddenly friends and I would suddenly forgive him for everything.At the end of the day, it still didn't change what he did, and nothing ever will, so we were still back to square one. I stood up and held my bag in my hand. “I need to go check on my parents.”He held me back just like I knew he would and stood up. “Gaia, I don't know if you have the time but I need t
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GAIAIt took a whole lot for me to get back on my feet. The publicity the case gained shook my business in good ways and bad. First off, it gave us more market and I could see that if things went well enough, we just might be making even more profit this year. We got more investors from places we had never heard of before. Now, the bad news was that it was going to go down in history that my company had once been involved in a scandal like this. That wasn't exactly the kind of reputation I wanted but right now, there was nothing I could do about it. I was happy about the height that my company has attained in the past month since the case was settled. I'd asked my lawyers to keep me in the loop about what happened with Jacob and the rest. They deserved to stay in jail and rot for the rest of their lives and I will make sure that happens. They won't get away from trying to do this to me. Now that things were back to normal for me, I was still trying to get the one thing that I wan
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GAIAI opened the door and entered his room, the light from the candles illuminating his dark room. Bella turned on the lights and we began to sing happy birthday to him. He was fully awake now, a small smile on his face even though it was very obvious that he was confused about what was going on. Bella and I finished singing that song and dropped the cake on his lap to make a wish. ”Blow out your candles and make a wish!”As he closed his eyes and put his hands together, I watched my little baby that I'd given birth to a few years back as he was already such a grown boy. My Juan was six already and it didn't feel real. It was like time was taking him away from me and I wanted him back. “Happy birthday, my lovely boy. I'm so proud to be your mother and I love you so much, you have no idea. You're the best thing I've ever done and I hope your days are filled with laughter and you never have to cry. I love you, Juan.”I pulled him in for a hug and I didn't even know that there were
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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
