GAIA I don't know what Javon did but Jacob sent me a text message. “You’re lucky. I got what I wanted. Seems like that bastard brother of mine really loves you.”An hour later, I got a call from a strange number and it was Bella. I left the house immediately with Evan and went to pick her up. Seeing her in tears, I equally broke down because it was all my fault. “I’m so sorry. I'm so sorry I didn't listen to you. I'm a bad friend. I should have listened to you when you said that he might take you.”I had her taken to the hospital for a complete check up and they gave her an IV just in case. The door opened and Javon walked in. “Sorry I'm late. I was in a meeting.”I'd even forgotten to call him with everything that has happened so I'm sure that Evan was the one who did. “How’s she doing?” “The doctor said that there's nothing wrong. She wasn't harmed in any way but they what her to wake up before they request to do a rape kit.”He turned to me sharply. “A rape kit?”“Yeah, I
GAIAI stayed in the room while the doctors and the nurses did their thing. I couldn't beat to leave her again and from the tears in her eyes, she didn't want me to leave either. “The results would be ready soon.” I gave the doctor a small nod and thanked him as he walked out of the room. “Hey.” I sat beside her and held her hand lightly “How are you? How do you feel?” She didn't say anything. She just stared at me like I could see her thoughts, rather ready her thoughts. I wish I could though, so she won't have to speak. There were bruises on her lips and I don't even want to know how they got there. “What is it? Talk to me, I can hear you.”“I'm sorry. I should have known better.” Her quiet voice said. Hearing that apology from her broke my heart and I had to turn my head away from her as the tears poured out of my eyes. “Don’t say that. Don't say that, please. I should be the one saying that I should have known better. You told me, you warned me that he will come for you bu
THIRD PERSON POV Gaia sat in the only seat in the hospital room, staring at her friend's back. Bella hadn't been taking it well, and she didn't know what to do at all. Bella had her back turned to her, so Gaia couldn't tell if she was still awake, or sleeping because Bella had been in that position for a long time. While she was in the room waiting, the door was pushed open, and in came Evan. Gaia’s eyes widened as she quickly stood up from her seat and rushed towards him and pushed him out of the room. “No, no, no, you can't be here,” she whispered as she pushed him. Still confused, Evan went out of the room with the food in his hand. She hadn't expected him to return so early. She had expected that he'd at least take a little while , so that Bella could prepare herself. Eva frowned as he let himself get pushed back, and still tried to look past her, but the door slammed shut behind Gaia. “What's going on? Is everything okay?” he asked worriedly. He tried to push past her, b
JAVONMy head was pounding and I hadn't eaten anything good today. I'd been going from one conference room to the other. I had not sat in one place for more than five minutes. It was the end of the year and the departments needed to submit audits and reports. I wanted to close the company early this year but without them doing their jobs, I couldn't do it. As I closed my eyes, I heard footsteps behind me and I opened them to turn around. My mother stood above me with a scornful look on her face. Any time I saw her, she always had something to complain about. It was either about how I wasn't treating Stephie right or how Stephanie didn't like something that I did. She never had anything else to talk about. “What is it this time around?”I closed my eyes back and let her talk. “Javon, why would you bring that woman into this house? Why did you bring her here?”I sighed. “Dont tell me that what you're here to talk about. I brought her here because shes my wife and she needed my he
GaiaI stood there, watching Javon and his mom. They had finally noticed me after I had heard everything they had to say, and Javon had his eyes wide open, and his mom just stood there nonchalantly. Of course, he hadn't expected me to hear their conversation, but had he even planned to inform me about it?Or I was just going to be kept in the dark like an idiot?I sighed and walked past them, making my way up the stairs. I didn't have the energy to start an argument with him as I was tired from spending the day with Bella. I stomped up the stairs and opened my door and slammed it shut behind me. I slipped down on my bed, staring at the ground. Just then, a knock came to my door, and Javon pushed it open. He rushed towards me and stood beside me. “Gaia, please hear me out. It's not what you think. I can explain everything that happened, so you'd understand-,” Javon started, but I interrupted him. “I don't want to hear anything from you, Javon. I'm sick and tired of all these thi
GAIAI didn't have the strength. Not today, not ever, to fight Stephanie. Not because I couldnt fight her but because she wasn't worth my time or energy. But she thought she was. “What madness are you displaying now?”She chuckled. “I know you must have heard about my condition and that's why you're in such a sour mood.”Sour mood? Far from it. I was elated in a way because that meant that Javon could finally get off my back. “No, I don't care about your condition. As a matter of fact, congratulations. Now, you can take over from where I left off.”I saw her smile falter a bit. “I hate the fact that you were once his wife. You don't deserve to have been married to him.”If anything, he shouldn't have been married to me. But there was no use explaining anything to someone as dense as Stephanie. I'll just become as stupid as her. “I don't care what you think and I never will. One thing I do care about is you bringing yourself in my face. Let it never happen again. Even as a mistak
JAVON “What about the other thing we talked about, Evan?”He looked up at me, so out of it and in thought. “What did you say?”I knew he hadn't been listening to me and that's why I said something. “What’s wrong? Where's your head at today?” He stood up from his chair. “I have no idea. What did you say?”I could have easily repeated myself but I didn't. Evan wasn't normally like this so I knew something was wrong. “Forget that. What's got your mind in a twist?”As much as Evan used to be my bodyguard, he was still my friend. My closest friend and the one who knew me the most. “Is it Bella?” He looked at me, almost shocked that I called her name. “Of course you'd know about that.”I knew about everything. “I know you're in love with my wife's best friend. It's not like you were trying to hide it either.”“Yeah, well I was being subtle. Or at least, thought so. She's not doing so well. After what happened, I thought she'd recover in no time but from what I heard Gaia saying to
GAIAI've not been able to get any sleep in the past week. Juan had gotten very very sick and we had to rush him to the hospital. Apparently, it wasn't just allergies but then the doctors don't know what it is so I've just been there, waiting on them while they took his blood, urine, swear and every fluid that was in his body. I watched my son flinch in pain every time the needle pierced his skin and I could do nothing about it. “Ma’am, we would like to do a few more tests to determine what exactly is wrong with him.”That statement made me so mad. I had to drag the doctor out of the office. “Few more tests? Doctor, you've spent the last week taking blood from every part of his body. I don't think he can take anymore. He's already stretched to his limit. Do you want to break him?”“Ma’am, I can assure you that's not my intention. I'm just trying to do what's right for him. With the way he's sick, we can't just release him back to you and hope for the best. We need to determine wha
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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