(Anj’s POV)When my eyelids opened, I was surprised to be alone in the bed. I groaned, feeling my entire body sore from last night. Smiling, I got up and had a long bath before leaving the bedroom and looking for my children.I found them in the family room, sitting on the couch as if they were adults talking about the Insects documentary they were watching on the TV.“Good morning!” I sat on the couch and embraced my girls, but I could not help noticing the name tags pinned on their clothes. “Hmm… What’s with the name tags?”“You don’t expect me to know your girls’ names right away, Angela,” answered Elenita, coming to the room with another maid, bringing sandwiches and milk. “Here’s for Leyanne, Lyra Helene, and Selene.”I pursed my lips, raising my eyebrows at my daughters. “Girls,” I shook my head, showing them it was not good to confuse other people.“Sorry, Mommy. Sorry, Elenita,” Leyanne giggled, taking off the ‘Selene’ name tag on her shirt. The others followed, putting on the
(Anj’s POV)“Why can’t we go with you?” I asked again, following him in his seat, looking like my daughters wanting to get an answer from him right away.After I ignored Anya and Dylan, as if wanting to give me privacy but couldn’t leave, they went to the farthest part of the study room and pretended to be busy talking about the books stacked on the shelves.“Because this isn’t a leisure trip, Anj,” he answered without looking at me. “Frank, email me the file,” he said to his secretary.“Sure,” I heard him answer.I turned my back on him, not wanting to sound like a nagging wife, and returned to my seat and read the next part of my readings. If this business trip has something to do with the recalled automotive products, it would mean Leonard Johnsons would be there, and Steve told me last night in passing that Lalaine would sometimes represent her father in the meetings. Lalaine and Sky.My eyes darted to Sky, giving him a dagger look as jealousy hit me, but when he turned in my dir
(Anj’s POV)After Dylan saw me looking exhausted in the study room a while ago, he decided for him and Anya to leave early and promised to come later. Knowing him, I didn’t know how Sky convinced him to stay for a week with us, but I didn’t ask anymore. I have plenty on my plate now, but without Sky around, I was not in the mood to study, not even wanting to touch the folder.Sky just left to meet Dr. Greene, and when the kids came back from checking on the puppies and playing with Finn’s other dogs, Olivia asked her nieces if they wanted to join her swimming. I was sitting on the chaise lounge, watching them have fun on the water as Olivia patiently taught them how to swim, when Nina went to me.“Angela,” called Nina.I turned my head to her and smiled. “Yes, Nina?”“Umm… Someone’s looking for you, but the guards didn’t let her in. It was Mr. Mars’ order, but Miss Lalaine said she wanted to talk to you.”My eyebrows knitted, thinking for a while if it would be wise to meet Lalaine, b
(Sky’s POV)“Olivia, calm down!” I breathed out, feeling glad I was with a doctor, so I was sure somebody would help me immediately if I had a heart attack. My heart was perfectly fine until she started crying on the phone, telling me about Lalaine and Angela, and that was it. I could not understand a thing she said.“Anj is fine, Sky,” Finn took the phone from her. “I didn’t know what came into her big brain, letting her in. Now Olivia and Nina are crying.”“Nina?” My forehead creased, thinking if my brother was talking about the same Nina at home. “Nina? As in Olivia’s nanny?” I asked as I looked at David, kneeling and lighting a candle in front of Eve’s tombstone. I walked a few steps away to give him moments with her.Finn chuckled. “Elenita told Nina you’d fire her.” I heard Olivia crying hard. “It wasn’t entirely her fault. Anj said to let her in, but damn, brother! You should have seen her. Wow! Angela in action!”I wrinkled my nose, trying to hold my patience, but to whom I di
(Anj’s POV)My lips curved a smile, but I bet Sky found it creepy since what my eyes said differed from the smile plastered on my lips. If he did not come with Dr. Greene, I wanted to confront him about what Lalaine told me. Although I knew she was only bluffing, still, I could not help feeling mad and jealous about it.They came in time for dinner, and in this place, it seemed this meal was vital for them as they were all here unless any of Steve’s children had important tasks to do at work or school. At the dinner table, with Dr. Greene sitting across from Leyanne, my daughter was gaping at her.“Are you really a doctor?” she asked, causing Dr. Greene to smile. She only nodded and focused again on her food.“Why did you ask?” He threw a glance at her and then at me.“I want to be a doctor when I grow up, but not with pets and insects, but I want to help people, just like Grandma Jocelyn and mommy,” she explained.I leaned on my side. “Mommy’s not a doctor, baby,” I corrected, my fac
(Anj’s POV)“If I hear the truth, would I have the chance to debate with you about it?”Cracking a joke seemed a good way to calm my heart from thumping hard because my clenched fist-size organ inside my body was doing a jumping jack at this hour. My big brain was already making an invisible board to note the pros and cons of the truth he would tell me.Steve sighed and turned to Sky and Dr. Greene, giving them the signal to enter his bedroom.I breathed out, my lips quivering as I forced a smile at Sky. “You had it checked if I could produce five sons at once, hadn’t you?” I accused him, only teasing him because seeing them join us made me nervous.“Could you?” Sky pressed his lips, stopping himself from laughing at me, but like me, he looked unsure of what was happening.I sneered at him, almost wanting to tell him that I was able to carry four, so why not five? Yet this was not the right place to mention Cloud to Steve. He would feel heartbroken about it, and I have no intention of
(Anj’s POV)My hand flew to my mouth.“Eve came to me that night, crying and asking for help. I was so heartbroken and angry. My poor Eve… my beloved Eve. My friend. I encouraged her to sue Leonard, and I’d do everything in my power to help her, but your mother said no one would believe her. She said, ‘Who would believe a daughter of a servant?’”Feeling like fainting, I leaned to Sky’s shoulder. My body went cold, my heart stopped beating, and my eyes welled with tears, rolling down my cheeks without warning. I heard someone sobbing, only to realize the sound was coming from me.“Dad, enough,” Sky said as he wrapped his arms around me. “Enough…”I didn’t think he was pretending to be mad at his father because I could feel his muscles trembling, and like me, he was heartbroken, hearing the story for the first time.His dad has no plan of stopping. He wiped his tears and continued. “Eve got pregnant.”When I heard it, my eyes gaped at him, not believing I was a product of a sexual assa
(Sky’s POV)“Dad!” I uttered in anger, narrowing my eyes at them when Angela threw the DNA test result on the bed and sobbed. Although I knew it was not enough to ease her pain, I wrapped my arms around my wife. David stood up, pacing furiously, but I wasn’t sure to whom.“I didn’t know. Your mother kept you from me,” David cried, looking hurt.My mouth gaped open, and I stared at David, not expecting him to be Angela’s father.“If only I had known, I wouldn’t let this happen. Eve knew how much I loved her. She’s the only woman I loved, and she knew I didn’t care where she came from.”He sat down and lowered his head while his hands gripped his hair. “The first time I saw you, I had my suspicions because even with spots on your face, you looked exactly like her,” he gritted his teeth in anger but suppressed the pain. “I didn’t even know what happened to her. She was just gone.”Dad released a bitter laugh. “Ha! I didn’t expect that. The genius David and Eve.”David ignored him and