“Clay honey tell me what you said was a joke?” “What are you doing here? Who told you about this?” I asked her angrily, “and what the hell are you wearing.” “I know about your grandmother’s fatal accident and death I am sorry.” “Girl who died?” Grandmother says angrily, I didn’t know if it was because she hated Hailee or because she hated being seen as a grave, but her voice had almost reminded me of all that scolding I got when I was a kid. “Oh... you are alive,” she said in shock, but the disappointment was certainly there in her voice, “I am happy grandmother is okay.” “You, follow me” I shout at Hailee, as I leave, I sense a bit of disappointment in Kaleah, she avoids my eyes. I halt in front of her before giving her a kiss on the forehead, let us make the right choices like father said, never give your wife a reason to feel jealous or inferior. Kaleah’s cute eyes with the gesture makes me happy, she seems to be the beautiful light at the murky world I have basked myself in.
“Uh... Cla...” I catch myself trying to call him by his first name, like I have the right, “Mr. Beckett, you are here,” I say sadly. He looks me in the eyes, I prepare to be scolded and screamed at, he gently touches my throbbing hot cheek. “Clay... that woman doesn’t” and the most shocking thing, Hailee seem to be more scared that I am, “I had my men to a background check you should know why she is marrying you, she is…” “You really disregard my warnings don’t you miss Leech?” Clayton says angrily, huh why is Hailee the one in trouble? Like she said they reconciled “Clay?” I called him confused, why is she on her knees, why is Hailee the one crying? “You are in trouble yourself Leah, how dare you let her touch your beautiful cheek huh, do you want to attain bruises so close to our wedding day” he gently scolds me, I feel scared, this feels too surreal, I cannot make sense of what is going on. “That woman is not who she tells you, even your own sister is deceiving you” Hailee sa
[Kaleah POV] “Good morning welcome to Bistro Bazaar, table for two?” A short, sweet lady welcomes us as we step inside the restaurant. “Yes, please,” Clayton replies, before we are shown to our table. As always for Beckets we get the exclusive table, I don’t complain anymore, Cyan didn’t go to expensive tables since I had always complained about money, when I sold paintings, all my money went to my father’s account, wait, I never even saw the money I got from my paintings, what did that man do with my money? “Are you okay?” “Oh…” Clayton brings me back to reality, but I now feel dazed. I had let my father keep all the money for all my paintings from when I was still a child, mother never saw this money as well, nor did he even use the money on anything as we still lived in a rundown apartment and had trouble paying for mother’s medical fees when she was pregnant. “It is nothing just reminiscing of the past,” I say, not entirely a lie. “Penny for your thoughts?” “It is just s
[Clayton POV] “So, Mr. Huxley what bring you here?” I asked antagonistically, I had allowed him in the house with a heavy heart, I know Kaleah probably wouldn’t want this man here. “Oh... son in law is very antagonistic hey,” he says making me cringe to my last bone, “I just came home from a business trip to find my two daughters not home,” “Wow,” Conan exclaimed, everyone knew the situation between Kaleah and her father, so his absurd excuse made even crazy Conan speechless. “Is that so, I didn’t see you during your wife’s funeral, so I assumed you didn’t really care for my fiancé,” he is embarrassed by my statement, “forgive me for not asking your permission to marry her.” My grandmother glares at me, I know he is a jerk, but I need to butter him up before I crush him, he will feel every pain he put Leah and Zoey through. “Oh… don’t worry Mr. Beckett everything is okay, as long as Kaleah and um… the little one is safe.” He doesn’t even know Zoey’s name this jerk, I want to pl
[Kaleah POV] I cannot understand why that man came back to my life, just a few weeks ago he snorted at my very existence and now he claims to love and care for us. ‘Knock-knock-knock’ “Who is it?” I shout softly, the Becketts must be really tired of my problems by now. “Your fiancé,” “Oh…” wait Clayton visiting my room? Why, “come in,” I say with a low tone. After father left last time, I stormed to my room and locked it. I cried my eyes out the whole night, Cyan took care of Zoey for me. “Hey…” he said softly, walking in. “Hi.” “Are you okay?” wow he came to my room this early to ask if I was, okay? “I am fine Clayton I was just overwhelmed last night that is all. You are getting ready for work?” I ask, he was dressed in his usual formal attire. “Not really, there is an urgent matter you and I have to sort out.” I can feel my mouth dry up, oh what, is he cancelling the marriage? Of course, this is the only way to clear his dirtied reputation. “Oh…” “This might be a bit
[Third person POV] He had thought he had done a good job leaving his dead wife after she gave him yet another girl, a useless girl. After hearing about her death, he thought good riddance another useless woman who can’t give him a single son. When he saw his daughter holding her sister that day, he had snorted at them, yes there was a time he loved her, the time where those paintings were selling like hot cakes and the money were enough to take his precious legal wife, Josephine, out on vacations. “What did she say?” Josephine asked her husband, “how much is for dowry?” He could not help but feel like a failure when he saw videos of her and Clayton Beckett on gossip sites, he had thought the heavens were given him a sign. “She chased me out, but worry not I will get the money,” he watches his wife pouting, they had been running low on money since both do not have a job at the moment. “You need to fix this Oren’s fees are very expensive we need our son to go to the best school. W
[Third person POV] Hailee had been pacing since she saw the news of Clayton getting married, it was unheard of, they said they would marry in a month. “Love I think it is time you give up, she is his wife now and you cannot do anything to her.” her father says, but Hailee’s reaction altogether made him nervous. “Are you insane, the is always divorce okay, ugh…..., I will have to crash that gathering they have tomorrow, then I would deal with her decisively.” Though she was warned enough times, for some reason she still felt like Clayton was still in love with her, thus she didn’t believe his retaliation would be that extreme. [Kaleah POV] Again, I have locked myself in the room after that embarrassing fall, I think I should stay here for a while. It seems to be busy outside since I woke up, it has been noisy. “Unlock this door Leah, we need to get your dress ready,” I hear Cyan outside the door, “open this door or I will talk to insane Conan to knock this door down.” I sigh be
[Third person POV]The next day the Beckett house was in full swing for the wedding being held that day.“Good morning,” Allie Beckett, wife to Clayton’s uncle had arrived first with her husband.“Mother, you made it,” Conan says hugging his parents.“You know we could not miss Clayton’s big day, and since you have not come home since we visited. we wanted to see our son.” Samuel says to his son, who was now nervously rubbing the back of his neck.“When are you getting married?” Conan’s mother asked rendering him into a corpse, Conan Beckett, getting married?“I will go greet the other guest,” he says before bolting, “you will not run away from your responsibility, you will get married.” His mother shouts at him as he runs.Conan continued to help Mrs. Dealers and her workers as the decorate for the wedding, the catering services had already started with making food for the few guests to come to the wedding.Meanwhile the girls and Aaron were getting ready for the wedding in their own
[Third person POV] “Father, I…. I am sorry I met my biological grandmother, and he told me about….” “Shut up Kaiden,” Zoey says angrily, “how dare you meet that man.” The boys were confused by Zoey and their father’s reaction, they felt a chill down their spine as their father glared at both of them. “Father?” Kaiden says, “I am sorry, I know you love mother, and her cheating is……” “Who is cheating?” their mother asks in a drowsy voice. “No one, go back to sleep I will discipline the boys,” their father says angrily. “Father, I think it is better to just tell them the truth,” Zoey says. “What truth? What are you talking about?” their mother asked. “Kaiden decided to meet Ellen Mule,” their father says in a growl. They had never felt so sacred, it was clear they knew about Ellen Mule and his family, it was clear they knew Kaiden was not a Beckett. But what hurt more was how their mother looked at them with fear, how tears started rolling down her eyes and how her legs gave o
[Third person POV] Kai was very uneasy, with the way Kaiden was acting, their parents probably had a good reason to not tell them about this. Well at least he hoped, he felt like his brother was making a premature decision with this. But Kai didn’t want to decide for Kaiden either, he didn’t even know how Kaiden was supposed to feel. Meanwhile the two women kept giggling as Kaiden was transferring money to them, it made Kai’s skin crawl because it felt like they were just using him. “Okay, now let us go rescue your father,” Crystal says happily, Kaiden frowned. “No, I will contact you soon, I need time to think,” Kaiden says making Kai heave a sigh of relief, at least he was not being reckless. “Oh… why is that?” Layla asked confused, “are you having second thoughts?” Kaiden looked at them deflated, he felt like these two women wanted to suck all his energy dry, he would have not mind helping free his father if everything didn’t seem too suspicious. “I want to think about it,
[Third person POV]Kaiden Beckett alre4ady known as the next CEO of Beckett Inc, and still with all the pressure the media and everyone has been putting on him since Zoey left for Italy instead of preparing to take over the company.It was clear who was going to be the CEO now, he was going to start an internship at his father’s company after the end of this year, before going to business school.Kai in the other hand was in the school basketball team, he was doing great, one would say he was the star of the team.He graduated high school valedictorian and his parents had been proud, Zoey couldn’t make it to the graduation, but she sent him a gift to commemorate his graduation.He started with the internship later that week, it was a bit challenging than he had hoped but he enjoyed every new lesson he learned.He decided to take a year working for his father before he goes to business school.One day he got a call from an anonymous number, he ignored the call many times but it just ke
[Third POV] Palma’s plan was very simple, to make Zoey embarrass herself at the party so everyone can hate and bully her. she already knew a few girls that hated her. Palma’s plan was simple, she was to have her team create an environment that was easy to humiliate Zoey, and after that she would be the new queen Bee. Meanwhile, Zoey’s parents were happy that she was finally going out, the boys had already started doing sleepovers with their friends whilst Zoey just preferred being with her grandmother, it was as if she knew their time was limited. “It is okay honey, you are 18 already, you can go to the party,” her mother says happily. “Yeah, it will help you relax,” her father reassured, “how about I take you shopping for the party?” With the help of her father and her friend Palma, Zoey was able to prepare for the party, it was her first party and she hoped it went well. Nathan’s home was quite beautiful, she liked the way he had decorated the home for the party. “This is n
[Third POV] Zoey Beckett, though she is the daughter of two of the most prominent figures in the country, she had never felt like truly a Beckett. She wasn’t as artistic as her mother, she did appreciate art, but a different form of art. She didn’t want to be a successor of her father too, yes, she was her father’s child, but she always felt like the family company was better suited for Kaiden, who was interested in the company. Kai was not really interested in the company, maybe it was because of the trauma he experienced 5 years ago, but he changed. She had hoped he would be a bit interested in long life and having fun, but he had become very dim. And now he she is contemplating if she should choose art school or business school, she knows her father would be like, “choose whatever you like’ but what she likes is not even on the roster. And the teachers could be so judgmental, they already have the mentality that given she is the oldest she will inherit the company, it makes h
[Third POV]Wayne had run straight home, he found both Kai’s parents’ home, luckily, he had briefed them on the possible of human trafficking, bother Clayton and Kaleah had decided to drive to where Kai was to help him.On their way there they had called the police, it was quite a busy time, there were police cars everywhere when they arrived.Wayne felt scared as he saw the little girl covered in blood crying, and there was a body covered the same location he left Kai.“Kai…...” he says scared, the police line had halted them from going further, but Clayton soon found a police officer to find out what was going on, only to find his son in handcuffs, covered in blood.“Father?” Kai says in a scared voice, “I didn’t mean…... It was a mistake; I didn’t mean to.”“Hey…” Clayton says trying to get to his son, but h was stopped by a police officer.“Sir, you are not allowed anywhere near the suspect,” the police officer says, getting attention from both Wayne and Kaleah.“What……” Kaleah sa
[Third POV]9 years, little Kai has been alive on this earth for nine years, he is turning ten soon but even nine years is a lot, so why does his parents not allow him to go out?“Ugh… come on Wayne,” Kai grumbles to his cousin, they have been sneaking out of the mansion to go to the park lately.Kai is thankful his big brother and sister were not snitches or they would have been grounded by now.Kia was what most call a problem child, he enjoyed skating in the park and though his mother would take him every once in a while, she had a mega-million art company to run.So, he had to go out to the park since they were ‘celebrities’ and they needed to keep a low profile, he had to do it behind his parents’ back.Wayne was just a perfect partner in crime, they were the same age, and they liked causing trouble.He tried convincing Kaiden, but Kaiden was much more focused on his studies and stuff. He tried convincing Zoey once, but she chose to stay at home with great-grandmother to paint th
And we close the chapter for Clayton and Kaleah, this is my very first completed series so, it might not be perfect, But it is my most precious work as it challenged me beyond my own imagination. I am thankful for all the love and support and criticism I received sharing this story, I strive to grow as I continue to share more stories with you. There will be an extra chapter coming after this mainly featuring the kids and their adventures, I hope your support continues even after this complete journey as it is one that inspires me to grow.
[Kaleah POV]Life has been very great lately, with being pregnant and all, along with my girls, it was good experiencing this with them, with her pregnancy, mainly because she hated the sickness that came with being pregnant.But our husbands were very patient with us, with Clayton having two kids already with Zoey already running around the house and Kaiden following suit.After long they finally gave me my green card, it took a lot of convincing but after our marriage still going strong for this long, they couldn’t deny us.All the kids were also legal residents, Clayton was not happy for them taking their time though, he chewed their head up for that.I have been waiting for Clayton to come home with the kids, their happy faces any time he opens the door was priceless.They are busy playing with their toys in the living room while I read a book on the chair.“Hello wife,” Clayton says opening the door, the two ran to him the moment he got in the house.“Dada, welcome home,” Zoey sa