Emily's POV.Life at London keeps getting better each day. I was treated with so much care and everyone contributed in any way they could to make sure that I remained healthy even when Adrian was out for meetings. I got along so well with the house workers. Over the short time I've stayed here, I could tell one unique thing about them, they cared for each other greatly, like a family, irrespective of their posts, and that I cherished so much. A loud rumbling of my stomach snapped me back to reality. I was starving. It was mid morning and the chefs were taking a rest from the morning meals, it was Adrian's rules following the fact that they all had their respective families too. He let them take short breaks between every work hour and returned afterwards. Yeah, such a charmer he is. They won't stop singing his praise. I had actually eaten to a pulp before Adrian left for work and also dappled on the numerous snacks and fruits that he makes me consume daily but being a pregnant
Liam's POV.It's been few weeks since I lost Emily.I haven't stopped grieving even for second. Every move I made had her thoughts rushing into my head, I had no control over it anymore. I have decided to live everyday as it comes.And it wasn't any easier living with the guilt of my intimacy with Nichole. I felt disgusted to the guts each time it crossed my mind. She was the last person I would ever share such intimate moment with. I couldn't believe how badly I wished it was Emily. She was all I craved.My thoughts was suddenly interrupted as my bedroom door flew open. I jerked up swiftly, eager to vent my anger on whoever it was. "Howdy boy," I suddenly heard my mom's voice as she poked her head through the door.I heaved out a deep sigh and relaxed back on the bed. I had thought it was Nichole.It was her new scheme to sneak into my house whenever she wanted. Lord knows she would have been taken away in a body bag if it had turned out to be her. "Mom, what are you doing he
Emily's POV. The pronounced noise outside the room had shaken me from my deep slumber. I couldn't quite decipher what the noise was all about. The early hours of the mornings here has always been serene. With a slight grumble, I pushed myself up from the bed and headed out of the room. Stepping down the stairs, I was taken aback by how crowded the entire space was. The entire house workers were present, scampering about. It suddenly occurred to me that it was finally the day for the ball. But then, all this for just a ball? Is this some kind of competition? Because certainly, someone doing all this is definitely out to surpass others, is it how it always is? I suddenly heard footsteps coming from the stairs and I looked up to see him climbing the stairs still clad in his night robe. "Emily, you are up already, thought you might need to sleep some more?" He smiled warmly at me. "I couldn't sleep anymore, the house is quite crowded today," I replied. "I'm sor
Emily's POV."Don't move," Adrian said to me, climbing down and rushed towards my side of the car.It has become his routine to always pull the car door for me even when it wasn't a special occasion. At this point, I was totally convinced that he was being charming towards me because he wanted anything in return, Adrian was generally a kind man and all the time, he spreads so much delightfulness to everyone close to him without even realizing it. It was one thing I admired about him.Most times, I couldn't help but compare him to Liam unconsciously. I wondered what would have become of my marriage if Liam was close to being as charming as he was. Could our marriage have worked out? Would I still be in New York right now? Would he have been excited that we are having a baby together? Would our marriage have been less terrible? I dreaded to have these thoughts most of the time, but I couldn't help it, the more I tried to push the thoughts out of my head, the more pronounced they bec
Emily's POV.It was Elisha.I swallowed hard as our gazes clashed. She had a smug smirk stretched across her face as she danced with an unknown man. "Are you okay?" Adrian's voice sounded through my head, I quickly snapped my gaze away from her."Yes, I am," I flashed him a warm smile. "Are you still bothered about what my mom said earlier? I told you to disregard that alright? She's all bark and no bite," "I'm not bothered about that, Adrian, I'm a little flushed with the number of influential people here," I lied. He pulled me closer to his body, while we moved slowly to the tune. "You are here as my date, Emily, that automatically makes you my woman, and as such influential, don't ever look down on yourself," Usually, I would have blushed sheepishly to his charming words and gestures, but right now, I was far from being moved by his words as my head was in turmoil.The little smirk on Elisha's face couldn't mean nothing. I could tell she was up to something. Adrian was right,
Emily's POV."Has anyone seen my phone?" A sudden cry broke out from the crowd and the voice belonged to no one else but Elisha. I stopped dead on the track as the shrieking tone of her voice hit me hard. Her phone was missing? And the ideal place to find it was the dance floor. "Ignore her, she's just throwing a tantrum," Adrian whispered to me.I tried so hard not to let my feet wobble as we made our way towards our table. Elisha was onto something and I could feel it, and somehow, I could tell her mischief has everything to do with me. Soon after she raised the alarm, everyone at the dance floor were slowly beginning to turn toward her, inquiring information that could help get to the phone quickly. "It was right with me few seconds ago," she continued to look around, faking to search around. "Well, you could use mine to dial your phone, you might have misplaced it somewhere close," one of the ladies around offered. I watched keenly as she took the lady's phone, punching
Emily's POV."I'm really sorry about this Emily, Elisha is insane," Adrian apologized for the umpteenth time as we walked towards the car.The ball ended a while ago and I couldn't be more glad. After the incident, the rest of the ball went on pretty well, though I couldn't find my comfort till it ended. I wanted to leave right away, I wanted to lock myself up in the room and exhaled an incredible amount of breath. She was really close to ruining my life.I literally saw my life flash before my eyes. I thought that was the end. I was going to be humiliated right before the influential folks at the ball. I wouldn't have stayed a day more in New York if that happened"It's not your fault Adrian, stop apologizing to me already," I groaned. It was getting annoying how he kept apologizing to me at every second that passed."I feel bad for not being able to protect you, despite my promise to do that," he replied. "There's nothing you could have done Adrian, Elisha had everything done s
Emily's POV. As I burst through the door, my heart skipped a beat at the sight of Adrian lying on the floor, his face drained of color. Panic took hold of me as I hurriedly ran to his side, my thoughts racing a mile a minute."Adrian!" He suddenly flickered his eyes open, staring weakly at me. "What happened?" I asked, my voice quivering with concern. "Are you okay?""I'm fine," he replied weakly, attempting to sit up. "I was just taking a short nap," "Nap? On the floor? Really?" I shook my head, my expression stern. "You are overworking yourself huh? what's going on?""It's nothing," he mumbled. "You passed out on the floor Adrian, it's not nothing," I scolded, leaning closer and gently helped him to his feet, guiding him to the bed. He protested feebly, but I was not having it. I covered him with the duvet, my hand lingering on his forehead as I checked for signs of a fever."I'm going to make you some soup," I said turning towards the door. "And then I'm calling the doctor
Aria's POV. I laid on my bed with my heart beating against my chest. I was confident while talking to Ryan, few minutes earlier because I didn't want him to spot my fear, if my plan will pull through then I needed to seal every trace of fear and nervousness in me.Twenty minutes had rolled by and no sign of Ryan, my eyelids were becoming heavy not because I was feeling sleepy, but because tears had no more room in my eyes as it slowly started rolling down my cheeks.He made his choice already, he chose Eleanor over me, despite the efforts I poured out in struggling to win him back, it all went down the drain, at the end of the day, I lost him, now I have no choice but to move on also, I have Jeremy anyway, this is my clue to finally give up.Suddenly, my door slowly cracked open and Ryan walked in."Ryan, you came!" I exclaimed, cleaning off my tears."Hey, what's wrong?" He asked noticing my tears."Nothing serious, these are tears of joy, I was just reminiscing a good memory," I li
Aria's POV. "I'm really happy for you Aria, you and Ryan finally get to stay away from each other, I'm so glad," Christie continued going on and on about it as we sat in the cafeteria."I know right? each of them now has their seperate partners, case settled, now I can finally stop getting worried about my best friend involving in such an act," Josh added.If only you know Josh."Arya make sure you are with Jeremy at all times, I know you said it didn't work the last time but now that Ryan has someone too, you both should occupy yourselve's with your respective partners and viola, everything will be okay and everyone will be happy," Christie adviced."Easier said than done," I mumbled under my breath."Aria, did you just said that? Wait, are you and Ryan still having something going on?" Christie blurted out.Geez! Did i say that out loud? "My goodness, Christie how could you even say a thing like that? Have you forgotten that Ryan and I aren't in good talking terms since I rejected
Aria's POV."Welcome J," I coed happily, hugging him tightly, and opened the door wide for him to step in."Babe, I'm nervous, what if your dad doesn't like me? What if I don't end up impressing him tonight? you know they already have have a bad impression of me from the last time," Jeremy suddenly blurted as we approached the dinning."Stop getting ideas Jeremy, no one is holding what happened against you anymore, they all now understand that it was a mistake okay? So don't panic? Just do you alright? Who wouldn't like you anyway? Have you met yourself, young man?" I sang the last part in a hoarse manly voice and we both bursted into laughter. "Thank you so much Aria, I really needed that," he smiled."Sure thing," I replied placing a quick kiss on his lips and then held his hand."C'mon, lets go," I dragged him towards the dinning.***We all sat around the dinning table munching our food in silence after exchanging pleasantries.Dad suddenly cleared his throat and looked up."Youn
Ryan's POV.Shit! Shit!! Shit!!!" I screamed repeatedly hitting the steering as we drove around the street, it wasn't Eleanor's closing time, I just needed to be out of the house that minute else I would compeletly loose it."How could she want to wear something like that for that jerk?" "Does she even know how she looked?""Like a freaking pornstar, a fucking pornstar!!! Damn it," I continued speaking to myself as I drove around.My mind couldn't erase the memory of her image, from her pretty innocent face, to her flawless thick smooth thighs, her juicy boobs and erect nipples faultlessly visible to my ogling eyes through the see through singlet, and her firm mouth watering ass perfectly encased in the tight skirt she wore. "She is mine, her body, her heart, all of her is fucking mine!!! I yelled, continuously hitting the steering."Are you okay man? A man in the car next to me shouted out to me."Fuck off!! I yelled back at him.Fuck moving on! I haven't moved on a single bit, why
Aria's POV.I woke up with a bright smile on my face reminiscing about the event of the previous night, I finally admitted my feelings for Ryan and also confessed it to him, though I got a rejection from him, but then again, I got a hug and God knows, its been like ages since we last hugged, Eleanor has been taking all the glory but its time to take back what is rightfully mine no matter what it takes.My plans were to kick off immediately and I was more than ready to swing into action.I grabbed my phone to check what time it is, 11 am."Gosh, how did I sleep this long?!It was a Saturday anyway, so I didn't have anything to worry about. Jumping off the bed, I ran all the way to the bathroom, did my usual morning routine and bounced out."Aria! Ryan, come out here now!!" I heard Dad's voice calling out to us and I quickly rushed out. "Morning mom, morning dad," Ryan and I chorused as we both stood in front of them."Morning babies, trust you slept well?" Mom asked and we both nodde
Aria's POV.I found my way to the kitchen only to meet Ryan already seated quietly on one of the kitchen chairs with a glass of milk in his hand.It's their time of the night, why isn't he with her?He suddenly looked up on hearing my footsteps."Aria, what are you doing still up by this time?" He asked."Just came to grab a glass of milk, I can't seem to get a good sleep," I shrugged."You are having one already, can't sleep too?" I asked walking towards the freezer and grabbed a cold jar of yoghurt and a glass."Nah, I just needed to cool off a bit before going back to bed," he replied and I muttered an 'oh'I had hoped he would say yes, then maybe I would have believed he couldn't sleep because he was thinking of me but he had utterly proved me wrong.We both sat there, sipping our yoghurt in silence."Uhm, I should go back to sleep now, goodnight," he suddenly blurted and stood up turning around to leave."Hey Ryan, can I talk to you for a minute?" I quickly stood up as well.He t
Aria's POV."Everyone come out! I have something to say to all of you!!! I screamed walking from each person's room to another knocking on their doors.Ryan was the first to come out of his room and of course in the company of Eleanor.She practically live with us now."Aria, whats going on? Why are you calling everyone out? Can't you see it's late?" He snapped."I'm sorry guys, I just can't keep it to myself anymore, it's really important that I talk to all of you," I replied."Well then, make it as fast and as simple as possible because some of us were in the middle of something," he said, winking seductively at eleanor."Ryan stop," she whispered staring down timidly. I rolled my eyes and looked away, deciding not to give them the reaction they needed from me. Instead, I wanted to get their attention this time. Almost immediately, our parent's room door creaked open and they walked out."Arya what's the matter?" Dad asked."Uhm, I want to talk to you guys about something really v
Aria’s POV. “Oh, Arya, you are pathetic," I cursed at myself as I stood in front of Ryan’s doorstep in the middle of the night eavesdropping to his love making session with Eleanor.One of the hidden talents I had discovered about myself ever since Ryan and Eleanor started dating, snooping around in the middle of the night when I was sure our parents were asleep only to lean on Ryan’s doorstep cursing and swearing in rage as they made love.Ryan wasn't particularly taking it easy on me, he brought Eleanor home every night and our parents weren't saying anything about it."If you aren't standing here right now, how would you know they are having sex?" My mind screamed at me."Yeah, right," I mumbled, dragging my heavy feet back to my room.*Next morning*I ran out of my room in a rush and almost fell to the floor as I collided with Eleanor."Hey, watch it!!!!" I yelled angrily, my eyes burning with rage."I'm sorry Aria, I didn't see you coming," Eleanor apologized."Eleanor, it's
Aria's POV.An extremely rough couple of weeks it has been for me.Ryan was still being nice to me and acting all ignorant about everything that had happened between us.He had went on with his usual big brother's duties to me except less flirtitious like he has always done, this time, he totally cared less about other guys hitting on me and making passes, he was totally okay with it.I was cool with every other thing but stopping his usual lips kiss was one thing I can't take, not when I was beginning to get used to it, on many occasions I have tried to initiate it, but he would carefully and politely avoid my lips and end up giving me a peck on the cheeks."Siblings don't kiss each other on the lips," he would always politely turn me down.And to finally crown his many tortures, Ryan has returned to being a chronic playboy, I haven't really taken time out to acknowledge how extremely faithful and committed he was when we had something going on, it was almost like no other girl exist